Chapter 52: Preliminary Round 3 (Part 5)
"It's Lieyang!" Rabbit commentator shouted excitedly in the live broadcast room. "Colorful and Lieyang have met!! On the Rotating Energy Field Star Map No. 2!! Lieyang is as good as ever! Upon entering the map, they began to charge up—their long-range cannons have caught countless teams off guard in previous matches—many teams misjudged their range and were directly blasted through from the start..."
Ming Yu: "Dodge! Brother Mu! The enemy's artillery fire has a range of at least two and a half stars! The diameter is at least half a star...!"
The silver starship veered to the left, out of the way of Lieyang's dark, rotating cannon fire.
The young man narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I sold the Lambda cannon blueprints to Lieyang," he said quickly. "The barrel's original charge rate was under five seconds. Their charge time just now was six to seven seconds, which means they've expanded the energy tube capacity based on the Lambda cannon. That shot just now wasn't their maximum power output..."
"Try not to engage him head-on, Brother Mu." Mingyu turned and said, "Fei Lun's mental power has a 'superposition' property. When it's fired continuously in a short period of time, its strength doubles. You'll easily suffer."
Mu Baixing turned his head and looked at Mingyu.
The black starship used by Lieyang was not special in appearance or color. The black and red spiritual powers were not unique either.
The designer, however, recognized the opposing team without hesitation. He also knew the psychic properties of Lieyang's pilots and, perhaps, their observers, intimately.
"You know them well," the man said calmly. "Do they have a grudge?"
Those who can do this are either die-hard fans or sworn enemies.
Mingyu thought about it carefully.
"Not really." Mingyu shook his head and said matter-of-factly, "It's just that their relationship is bad. The kind where they just dislike each other."
The man has turned his gaze back to the light screen in front of him.
He operated the starship, moving along the tangent of the energy line, creating distance from the scorching sun, with smooth movements.
"They're all surnamed Ming." His voice dropped slightly. "Family?"
Mingyu was stunned.
The two sides are exchanging fire.
The silver and black starship engines roared. In the energy field that was being drawn towards the center, any evasive action to increase distance would require the engines to operate at maximum power.
The cab was filled with the noise of the engine and the muffled sound of the gun barrel charging and firing. Mu Baixing's voice was mixed in with it, and it was suppressed and unclear, and his tone could not be heard.
In the pitch-black universe, black and golden artillery fire alternated. Red and blue threads of mental force, belonging to observers on both sides, spread from their respective starships into the opposing area, monitoring the movements of the other starship.
Mingyu doesn't like to mention his relationship with Mingyan to strangers.
Because I don't want to be in the control group of the recognized chosen ones, I can't suppress the surprise and disappointment in the eyes of those people even if they don't have any obvious malice.
"Why are you and your brother so different?" Even if they didn't ask out of politeness, there was a hint of this in their eyes.
Even though Mingyu didn't like Mingyan, he couldn't avoid the difference in strength. Even now.
"Ming Yan is my brother," he replied to Mu Baixing, "His mental power is at the peak of S-level and has the property of burning..."
Mingyu gazed at the universe ahead.
Black cannon fire whizzed past the silver starship's portside window. Mingyu's mental threads quickly spread out to the sides, then zigzagged forward.
The battleship burning with red flames was extremely clear on the black star map.
As the distance between the starships was forced to shorten along the energy field lines, the artillery fire from both sides became more and more intense, and the space for dodging became smaller and smaller.
"They'll open fire again in five seconds at most," Ming Yu said calmly. "Lie Yang wants to block our escape space... My mental threads can't get close to their starship. Ming Yan's burning ability is too strong, and my devouring speed can't match the lengthening of his mental threads..."
"Mingyu." Mu Baixing interrupted him and said calmly, "Do you think they are very strong?"
His voice was calm and his mood was bad.
Mingyu has a bad relationship with his brother, and his relationship with his parents is probably not much better.
The Ming family is a famous family in the Central Star Domain. Because they are related to Ming Zhuofeng, the hero of the Dawn War, even though Mu Baixing is in the Free Star Domain, he has heard news about the Ming family.
It's just that he didn't care much about these things, so it was only just now that he connected all this with Mingyu.
Mu Baixing vaguely remembered some vague rumors about Mingyu, but he thought more about Mingyu's devouring mental power.
The designer's limited understanding of his own mental power, his attitude towards mental nutritional supplements... and Mingyu's almost imperceptible mental power fluctuations in the first qualifying match, which were too weak to be detected by instruments.
This undoubtedly shows that the Ming family does not care about him.
What kind of parents could allow their child to fall into crisis when his spiritual power awakens, and even not pay him the slightest attention after his spiritual power awakens?
Ming Yan's bright red spiritual power spread outward, as if it could ignite all nearby beings, dazzling and ostentatious.
Mu Baixing seemed to see a large shadow under the sea of fire, and in the shadow stood Mingyu, who was ignored and forgotten by his relatives.
"They are indeed very strong." Ming Yu didn't hear the coldness in his tone and just said honestly, "But the starships and gun barrels they used in this battle are not the most suitable configuration. As long as we are careful not to be hit by Feren's laser cannons, we are not without a chance."
As long as he could gain enough space under Mingyan's spiritual fire.
Mingyu stared closely at the starship belonging to Mingyan and Feren.
The fire created by Mingyan's mental force field burned silently outward, recklessly expanding its territory and hindering Mingyu's entry and exploration. The blazing flames reflected in Mingyu's eyes. The bright blue mental power connected with the fiery red, making a continuous crackling sound.
"Devourable spiritual power." Ming Yan frowned slightly in the Lieyang starship. "The starship across from me is colorful? That's the team that designer LUCE belongs to."
Feren snorted through his nose.
"How is it?" he asked. "What's your mental strength level? Is it really A-level?"
Mingyan nodded.
"A-level Devouring Spiritual Power." He laughed. "It's indeed rare. With proper training, it can be a significant boost to the Legion's development."
"His gun barrel blueprint is ingeniously designed. If we can dig it up, it will definitely be more useful than Song Lan's." Fei Lun said casually, completely ignoring the fact that Song Lan was sitting behind him, "Has the Ming family not discovered his identity yet?"
"The Star Navigation Competition did a fantastic job keeping their identities confidential. Starship design is a registered system at headquarters, and there are many designer codenames. Ten of them are named LUCE, numbered one to ten, and five of them, like him, use the most basic Star Network design." Ming Yan frowned at this. "We spent that million, and we haven't seen them come back to us."
"Don't tell me I'm going to give them a leg up in the Star Navigation Tournament." Feren said angrily, "I won't do anything so humiliating!"
"Of course not," Ming Yan said with a smile, "Faster! How come after firing so many shots, the colorful starship only managed to scratch its hull? Seriously! Show them the strength of the Ming family."
Black laser cannons were fired from Lieyang's starship one after another, and the speed increased suddenly.
Inside the Human Resources Office of the Star Navigation Department, the troublemaker stared at the screen, muttering, "Sun Nian, watch this carefully! Don't just stand there and brag about all sorts of things..."
Inside the Third Legion's small banquet hall, a live broadcast of Lieyang's competition was playing on the screen. Ming's mother, Zhao Ying, sat behind a round table, exchanging warm greetings with the visiting Deputy Minister of Resources. "Today is the day of the Star Navigation Competition," she said. "It's a major event watched by the entire Star Navigation community. I thought it would be better to watch the live broadcast of the competition instead of watching the art troupe's performance."
The Third Legion wants to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Resources to join in the development of the new resource star sea.
The deputy minister glanced at the prompt "Liyang Team Live Screen" at the top of the screen.
He knew that Ming Yan would definitely be the future successor of the Third Legion and would graduate from the military academy and join the Third Legion in a year.
This was Zhao Ying's disguised way of showing him her strength, telling him that in addition to the small-scale military exercise he had seen before, the Third Corps also had a promising future, and cooperation between the two sides was a mutually beneficial thing.
"Of course, of course." The deputy minister hadn't yet made up his mind about whether to cooperate with the Third Legion, but he still spoke sweetly, "I've heard of your son's abilities for a long time! Today is a good opportunity to see Lieyang!"
"The two sides are still in a stalemate!" In the official live broadcast room, commentator Rabbit stared at the screen, slightly nervously saying, "Even though neither Lieyang nor Wucaibianlan has hit the other yet! Just now, Lieyang increased his firing rate again! Mingyan's mental fire is burning even more fiercely... It seems he's trying to force Luce's mental power back again!"
"They seem to find Luc's sharp mental power troublesome and intend to deprive Mu Boxing of Luc's guidance! However, Luc's devouring mental power won't give in so easily!"
Mingyu was highly concentrated.
The flame belonging to Ming Yan burned even more vigorously, flowing outward, passing through lines of energy, and spreading out into the boundless universe.
He swallowed Ming Yan's spiritual power, and it felt like he had actually opened his mouth and swallowed a ball of boiling fire. His throat and stomach tube were all burned, and from time to time the ends were dissolved and dissipated, causing a burst of pain.
Despite this, the bright blue thread continued to pull outward.
There was no way he would back down from that.
"They're about to fire again." Ming Yu kept testing the mental bomb he had just come up with while keeping a close eye on Lie Yang's energy cannon. "This time it should be fully charged... Brother Mu, you have to be careful not to get hit."
Mu Baixing snorted and laughed: "Are you so afraid of them?"
Mingyu: “…”
"What are you talking about!" Even though the situation was tense, Mingyu couldn't help but glare at him and said in a raised voice, "I told you about the characteristics of Feren's mental power..."
"The first qualifying match is over," Mu Baixing stated. "You asked me about my mental strength level and weren't very satisfied with my A-. Was it because of Lieyang's pilot?"
Mingyu: “…”
"I'm not dissatisfied!" Mingyu clarified again, "I am a little bit competitive..."
There was a slight pause in his words.
"...I was wrong." The young man said sincerely, "I shouldn't have compared you with others. I apologize... Don't look at me, Brother Mu! Look ahead! I apologize to you, but you can't be distracted! Such an intense game-"
"To the right!--"
The silver starship quickly pulled to the right, but there was no panic in Mu Baixing's movements.
"It's okay to compare," he said casually, "Me and Feren, or you and Akihiko."
"You have to believe that your potential is unlimited, Mingyu." There was a faint smile in his tone, "But today I will help you vent your anger first."
"It's not a big deal." He repeated again, his smile disappearing as he turned his gaze forward, a hint of coldness in his voice.
“It doesn’t matter if you get hit.”
The golden mental power flowed into the mechanical heart along the starship lines, emitting a dazzling bright light, and then flowed into the gun barrel.
The red, orange, green and blue brothers felt the temperature drop in the cockpit. They glanced at each other hurriedly and quickly rechecked the buckles of the fixing devices to make sure that no matter how bumpy the starship was, they would be able to sit in their seats intact.
Mingyu still didn't know what Mu Baixing's expression meant at the moment. He looked at him with a bit of confusion and asked, "What?"
Mu Baixing looked ahead.
"Next time, you'll take revenge yourself." His tone seemed calm, yet a chilling sharpness lurked deep within. "Just watch this time."
"Look at me, watch carefully."
"I will destroy the blazing sun."
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