Chapter 77 Star Region Tournament First Game (Part 3)
"What are you daydreaming about!" Ming Yan shouted impatiently, "Did you see the treasure chest, Feren?"
He hadn't been in a good mood recently. The loss of the Firebird Crystal Core had left him feeling like a thorn in his throat, a sense of frustration that something he had was being taken away by someone else.
What's more, he was also threatened by LUCE's warning, and the Third Legion and the Ming family had never found the mineral crystals that could help him improve his mental power level!
Mingyan was anxious.
He needs to get enough points in this competition to advance, and also find the colorful...
Shoot down their starships a few times! Show them some real power!
Time cannot be wasted, every second is precious!
Feren came to his senses at Mingyan's shout and saw crimson giant-eyed bats swarming out of the cave.
Their eyes are also red, resembling two large red lightbulbs embedded in their bodies, occupying almost 90 percent of their heads. Unlike ordinary bats, they use their eyes to see in the dark, and the sharp sound waves they emit are weapons of attack.
Amidst the swarms of red bats, Feren, guided by Mingyan's spiritual power, saw a bit of silver.
The small silver treasure chest is made to be tied to the back of a bat, shining brightly in the reflection of the sunlight.
"How did the tournament organizing committee do this?" a white plush rabbit exclaimed in astonishment in the livestream. "These star beasts... I'm afraid they're not native to the resource planet, but were deliberately sent there by the tournament organizing committee! Let's see! Among this swarm of giant-eyed bats, there are at least one, two, three, four, five... five bats carrying treasure chests on their backs! But alas! They were startled by Faerun's artillery fire and fled in different directions..."
"The giant-eyed bats' attack power isn't very high! Their only weapon is their sharp sound waves! But they fly very fast and are very agile! Ah! Even Mingyan's spiritual power flames can't catch up with their evasive movements..."
The fiery red mental power that permeated the air was clearly trying to stop a bat that wanted to escape. The slender mental power thread was flexible enough, but it still couldn't catch up with the bat's movements, allowing the bat to find a gap in the rock and drill in.
"Hurry up!" Mingyan shouted, "shoot them down!"
Feren fired at the swarm of bats.
Despite being in a bad mood, he still retained a bit of rationality and did not overuse his mental strength to avoid blowing the treasure chest into pieces.
With a series of loud bangs, a large number of big-eyed bats turned into charcoal in the artillery fire and fell to the ground.
Three silver treasure chests stand out among the corpses of bats.
Feren flew the starship to the height of Jiangxia, and the palm-sized treasure chest was picked up by the starship's mechanical arm and thrown into the cabin.
Mingyan's expression finally brightened a little, and he suggested, "Let's check the treasure chest's score."
"What good could a group of giant-eyed bats possibly hold?" he muttered, but deep down he was eager to see the value of his recent loot. So, operating the robotic arm, with a touch of impatience, he dropped the silver treasure chests one by one into the treasure chest collection pods assigned to each team for the tournament.
“Ding—ding ding—”
As the treasure chest fell into the cabin, a crisp sound came from the light screen in the center of the cockpit.
Ming Yan glanced at the Star Navigation Competition screen, thinking it was just a system prompt for points increase, but his face changed after seeing the prompt clearly.
"Ding—all-channel broadcast." A new notification flashed on the screen. "Congratulations to the Lieyang Team! You've won 1 silver treasure chest and a score of +200."
"Congratulations to the Lieyang Team for obtaining 2 small silver treasure chests and a score of +400."
"The current points of the Lieyang team: 600."
"Please don't let this opportunity slip away!"
Feren and Akihiko: "..."
"Damn it!" Feren cursed, "Are the Star Navigation Competition Organizing Committee idiots?"
"Oh!" the plush rabbit exclaimed in surprise in the livestream. "The organizing committee actually set up a full-channel broadcast! They announced to all participating teams the points awarded to the team that opened the treasure chest! This last line is a blatant provocation... reminding all teams that destroying a team's starship will inherit their points!"
"I wonder if the final treasure chest winner will also have this kind of broadcasting service!"
At the same time, prompts appeared again on the light screens of all participating teams.
"The Blue Sky and White Cloud team chose to give up the treasure chest after holding it for twenty minutes! The treasure chest location has been refreshed! What a pity!"
Plush rabbit: "..."
He pursed his lips and shook his head, "It seems Lieyang wasn't the first team to find the treasure chest. Hmm... this reminder to abandon the treasure chest... seems to be because Lantian Baiyun didn't put the treasure chest into the special collection chamber within the specified time, but only placed it in the starship's ordinary storage compartment."
He scratched his ear and said, "It seems that the location of the treasure chest is conditional. I just don't know how long the effective collection time is!"
"Ah! We see that Lieyang's starship has taken off again!"
"I wonder what Lieyang, who was the first to receive the treasure chest score announcement, is thinking right now! But one thing is for sure, most teams in the competition must be rethinking their strategies. I wonder if any team will give up the treasure hunt and wait for the fat sheep to be robbed in the hope of getting something for nothing—"
The rabbit commentator paused and said, "No matter what! In this treasure hunt game! Everyone is racing against time! Nothing can distract their attention from chasing the treasure chest!... Uh..." The plush rabbit was halfway through his words when his eyes swept across a light screen on the left and suddenly got stuck.
"Maybe, besides... colorful?"
"A colorful starship... What is LUCE...doing?"
The mountain that was pierced by Mu Boxing turned into a brown suspended droplet, floating in the air.
The pale sunlight from the sky shone through the hollow onto the underground lake below. The weak light was blocked by the spray, leaving only a nearly dim layer of light and shadow on the lake's surface.
Ming Yu's bright blue mental threads condensed in the air and climbed upwards, entering the hole left by the gerbil when it fled in panic. He chased the fleeing gerbil, tying the little creature's legs with mental threads to slow it down.
"Robbery!" Mingyu lifted the little gerbil upside down and shook it, making the little mouse dizzy. It spat out a bunch of colorful small energy minerals and plant crystal cores that it had collected to decorate its nest from its mouth, but they were all swept away by Mingyu.
Mingyu: How can you miss this mobile resource station when you pass by! This is a virtual mining area!
Mingyu’s future new life and the gold-eating bird egg...all need money!
The young man was thrifty and frugal. Since he was on the way to find a treasure chest, he didn't have to worry. He threw all the small energy ores collected by the gerbil into the starship collection cabin, but paused slightly at the end.
Mingyu operated the mechanical arm and picked out a round bead wrapped in earth color from the various energy stones.
"Brother Mu! This doesn't look like a good thing." The young man threw the round bead out of the starship. A golden thread of mental force attacked straight at it, and with a light bang, it shattered the round bead from the center.
The earth-colored shell shattered, and the black internal energy inside turned into fragments and fell out, emitting a foul stench, and fell out an extremely tiny nematode that was cut in two from the middle.
"The dormant eggs left behind by the Black Tideworm queen." Mu Baixing said coldly, "A fish that slipped through the net."
Mingyu clicked his tongue.
"Why are there still some?" He complained quietly, "The cleanup on Labyrinth Planet is too unreasonable."
If the gerbil continues to carry Kuroshio worm eggs, it may be eaten one day and become the first food for the growing Kuroshio worm.
This gerbil didn't like to attack humans, but rather wandered around the planet's underground in search of treasure. Mingyu simply released it, letting it scurry away, and said righteously, "That little bit of ore is your reward for saving your life!"
“Squeak, squeak, squeak—”
The little gerbil had no idea what Mingyu was talking about. He only knew that a mechanical arm had swept away all the collection he was planning to take home. After being let go by Mingyu, the arm fell to the ground, roaring angrily.
"Oh! Luce stole quite a few energy crystals!" the rabbit commentator said in disbelief. "It seems Colorful's mentality is the complete opposite of Lieyang's! He's completely relaxed! Luce even noticed the gerbil's stash near the passage!"
"However, the one that was initially shattered by Mu Baixing seems to be the egg of a black tide creature..."
"Is this a remnant of the Kuroshio Day from over ten days ago?" He couldn't help but ask with some worry. "The Kuroshio energy wave on that Kuroshio Day was incredibly intense. It's not hard to imagine that Kuroshio creatures would take advantage of that opportunity to enter the Labyrinth Planet... but..."
"Maze Star isn't at the outermost edge of the human star domain," the plush rabbit said. "I wonder if the Free Star Domain, which is closer to the Black Tide Belt, has also been affected? Although the Free Star Domain isn't under the jurisdiction of the three major star domains, no one will see it. This could be a sign of the Black Tide expanding again... Ugh, Ugh, Ugh!"
The rabbit commentator quickly said, "Don't say these unlucky things!"
"Still more colorful! They finally landed on the surface of the underground lake after confiscating the gerbil's stash! I'm curious, what kind of star beast did Luce see in this lake...?"
Mingyu's blue mental power was hanging down from the starship into the lake, like a bait line released by a fisherman, which spread out instantly after touching the surface of the lake, stirring up gentle ripples in the dark water.
However, among the gentle ripples, waves suddenly appeared!
“Kacha! —!”
An underwater creature, almost the same size as a small starship, suddenly poked its head out, and two large gray claws shot up from the lake, clamping down from both sides towards the center!
The starship was prepared and pulled up in an instant. The big pincers clicked, but only caught air.
The underwater creature missed the attack and surfaced in frustration.
It has a slender purple-black body with a sharp tail hook on its back. A silver treasure chest is tied to its head, like a small treasure chest crown, shining and conspicuous.
This is an underwater beast with a violent temperament and a strong sense of territory.
They don't like any strange energy invading their waters!
The water scorpion, angered by the blue mental power, turned around, and its tail hooks stretched outwards one by one when attacking, aiming at the silver starship floating in the air, and ejected a series of purple energy light balls.
Mu Baixing: "Hold on tight."
At Mingyu's request, after being unable to drive the starship for a few days, Mu Baixing was finally able to relax his muscles.
In this underground space that should have been narrow, the silver starship moved flexibly and smoothly, dodging the energy balls as easily as if it were dancing underground.
Mu Baixing controlled the golden mental power artillery fire precisely to prevent the cave from collapsing, and gathered it into a slender beam of light, weaving layers of light and shadow on the water surface.
Under the cover of the golden artillery fire, a bright blue mist spread out and quickly floated to the side of the water scorpion.
"I don't think this kind of attack will work on Colorful!" The plush rabbit explained leisurely in the commentary room. "Look at the shape of the starship in the air! It's like a flying toy stick for Scorpion to play with. Mu Boxing is obviously covering for Luce! Luce's mental power is taking advantage of the Scorpion's attention to get closer..."
At the last moment, the blue mental mist suddenly turned into a thin sharp blade and slashed towards the scorpion's head.
"The observer's mental strength isn't strong enough to break the water scorpion's shell." In the Killer's Lounge, Momonga wondered, "Even if Luce launches a sneak attack..."
"Oh! LUCE cut the silver string that tied the treasure chest!"
Mingyu's target was not the water scorpion's thick shell.
A small silver treasure chest fell from the top of the scorpion's head under Mingyu's attack.
At the same time, the silver starship that was originally hovering high in the sky suddenly swooped down, stretched out its mechanical arm, and grabbed the treasure chest into its hand.
The robotic arm quickly dropped the treasure chest into the starship's collection bay.
"There aren't many groups nearby, so it shouldn't be easy to rob," Mingyu said. "Let's first see how many points this treasure chest has! Water scorpions are social creatures, so if the treasure chests on them have high points, we can even go down to the bottom of the lake to take a look!"
While the young man was speaking, a prompt message indicating that the treasure chest was successfully collected popped up on the light screen.
"Ding—All-channel broadcast. Congratulations to the Colorful Team for receiving 1 Silver Treasure Chest and +200 points."
At the same time, another prompt light screen popped up in the starship cockpit.
"Ding—Team broadcast. Congratulations to Colorful for finishing the battle within ten seconds and getting a chance to draw a hint."
"Ding—the extraction is successful. Congratulations, Colorful, you have obtained 1 fragment of the golden treasure chest treasure map."
Mingyu: “……!”
Mingyu quickly looked at the light screen.
What is displayed on this light screen is indeed a star map.
However, the star map was mostly blank, with only a central section depicting the mining area. The words "1/15" were displayed on the right side, and a title was located directly above the center.
Ming Yu was slightly startled, then looked up excitedly: "It's the fragment of the treasure map of the competition venue!"
"If it fits together neatly, we can follow it to find the golden treasure with the highest score!"
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