Chapter 82

Bai Yeming also knew that she had been emitting ultrasonic waves and thought she was trying to interfere with the operation.

… After all, normal people really can’t do things like sending snake language with beast core ultrasonic waves.

Ordinary mech pilots wouldn’t even think about installing devices on their mechs to recognize ultrasonic waves in animal language.

That’s why this situation occurred.

The Nocturnal Twin-Headed Serpent originally came for the incessant snake language, but it hadn’t even arrived before someone blew its head off with a shell, pushing it to the brink of madness.

And the appearance of this fierce beast also caused a huge stir.

The Alliance officials confirmed that this beast was not in the exam site, but they were indeed aware of powerful beasts lurking near the exam site.

Half of Lu Bingyun’s body was still stuck in the medical compartment. Listening to the officials arguing, she raised her voice directly, “What are you arguing about!?”

There was silence around her.

She looked impatient, “You’re choosing the content of the exam. When they get to the battlefield, are you going to let them choose for themselves?”

“The polluted area is full of unknowns and dangers. If you keep shielding them from everything, what’s the point of the exam? It’s better to just move everyone to the safe area and play house.”

“Clutching so many top-notch mechs, can’t even handle a snake, why bother with this exam? Get out of here early!”

The officials at the exam supervision office listened, their faces turning black.

But Lu Bingyun couldn’t care less about their opinions. Officially, she was still the overall supervisor of this joint exam. Others could have opinions, and she could choose not to listen.

The strength of that Nocturnal Twin-Headed Serpent was indeed somewhat beyond expectations, but the situation was still within control.

Zhou Xing turned around and said, “The First Legion’s fleet is near the exam site, so please rest assured.”

If the situation got out of hand, the legion’s fleet would directly kill the beasts.

But he also agreed with Lu Bingyun’s words.

Leaving aside other factors, the talents and mech skills of Bai Yeming and Zhou Xingyu inside were higher than those of the legion’s fleet. Even if their combat experience was lacking, they wouldn’t be completely powerless.

Compared to them, the mech in Bai Yeming’s hands was the one that truly exceeded expectations.

The commotion in the exam supervision office was unknown to those inside.

Ji Fu only hesitated for a moment after Bai Yeming confronted the Nocturnal Twin-Headed Serpent, then, together with Wei Lan, simultaneously made a judgment:

“Not Special Star Level.”

“Not at Special Star Level.”

Qin Chu Yue smiled. “You two are quite in sync.”

Wei Lan’s eyes were deep.

This mech was powerful, and its construction was very clever, but compared to a true Special Star Level mech, like the one in Fang Yan’s hands, there was still a huge gap.

He relied on intuition, while Ji Fu analyzed from the materials:

“From the construction perspective, the maker of this mech did indeed intend to make a Special Star Level mech.”

“Based on current data analysis, the engine and core of this mech also use Special Star Level materials.”

She had never seen Special Star Level materials before.

But they certainly existed, otherwise where did the Silencer, the mech Fang Yan had, come from?

She was certain that the reason Taihe used Special Star Level materials was because of the exaggerated values ​​shown during Bai Yeming and Zhou Luhai’s battle.

Data is truth.

An engine capable of instantly erupting to such values ​​must have used top-notch materials.

“However, it’s a pity that this mech still hasn’t reached Special Star Level, not even close, just Super Star Plus.”

But a Super Star Plus with added Special Star Level materials was vastly different from a regular Super Star Plus.

So this mech appeared so formidable.

But for Ji Fu, knowing this was enough.

Amidst the chaos of the battlefield, she opened the mech leaderboard again.

The important thing wasn’t Bai Yeming or this Taihe, but the person who made this mech.

Regardless of whether this mech succeeded in reaching the Special Star Level, as long as Special Star Level materials were used, it meant that the mech pilot’s talent had reached Special Star Level.

“Three years ago, there was no Special Star Level mech pilot in the Union.” Wei Lan’s dark eyes brewed up a huge storm.

This matter was easy to associate with. If there had been a Special Star Level mech pilot in the Union three years ago, Fang Yan would not have needed to go through such trouble to solve the Black Mech’s serial explosions.

He could have just used Silencer.

He would not have suffered such serious injuries because of protecting the mech.

But what couldn’t be done three years ago suddenly became achievable three years later.

Moreover, looking at this situation, this person had already begun to create Special Star Level mechs.

In just three years, even if the Purple Star descended, it would not be possible to be born and start making Special Star Level mechs in three years.

Since it wasn’t the Purple Star, what other way could there be to quickly upgrade talent?

The answer was obvious.

Combined with Ji Fu’s experiences over the past three years, Wei Lan could almost be sure that the person who made this Taihe was the beneficiary of Ji Fu’s talent.

The veins on Wei Lan’s arm bulged, and the fierce emotion that had dissipated upon seeing Ji Fu resurfaced.

Qin Chu Yue’s face also looked unsightly. She repeatedly looked at the column “Mech Pilot: Bai Yinming” displayed on the Light Brain.

After a long silence, she said, “But the Bai family isn’t a big clan. People from the Empire have always looked down on Bai Yeming.”

Bai Yeming’s performance in all aspects didn’t seem like that of a scion.

Because of this, before this Taihe appeared, she hadn’t paid much attention to this person.

Originally, she thought he was just an ordinary person with good talent.

“If all our speculations are true, would these aristocrats from big families really be willing to give such great benefits to someone from a small family?”

Of course, this Bai Yinming might have extremely high achievements in mechs.

But among the many young successors in the three major families and four minor families, wouldn’t there be at least one person who could surpass Bai Yinming?

From the evidence they had in hand, it was not difficult to see that these aristocratic families had done so much just to maintain their own interests.

Even if Bai Yinming’s genes could completely match Ji Fu’s, they might not necessarily be willing to give the extracted talent to a commoner.

If they really wanted to do that, why bother going through such a big circle, extracting talent from someone like Ji Fu, and training her directly?

What was the reason for choosing Bai Yinming?

Ji Fu’s eyes lifted slightly in the exam room, and her gaze fell on Bai Yeming, who was fighting the Nocturnal Twin-Headed Serpent.

Mechs could temporarily use pseudonyms.

And people could, too.

At that moment, all the information she had received, including the mouth shape and the breath when the trainer died this morning, merged together.

Ji Fu lowered her eyes and said slowly, “Wei Lan.”

Wei Lan in the base immediately looked up at her, released his clenched hand, and said softly, “I’m here.”

“Search for information from the Trainer’s Light Brain.”

In the midst of the bombardment sounds in the world, Ji Fu slowly but firmly typed out a line:

“Check if there are any survivors from the Qin family, one of the former Four Minors.”

Qin.

Qin Chu Yue’s eyebrows lifted slightly, partly because her surname was also Qin, but there were countless people with the same surname in the galaxy. She had no relationship with the former Four Minors Qin family.

The other reason…

It was because the Qin family, which had exploited the remote star where Ji Fu’s family lived and mined for Qionghai Flower Stone, was the same family that sent her to the purgatory star after she resurfaced.

The Qin family was also their first target when they targeted the Union three years ago.

At that time, because of the business involving Flower Stone, the Qin family was at odds with the other Four Minors, the Wang family, which gave them the opportunity.

The downfall of the Qin family was also brought about by Ji Fu herself.

Qin Chu Yue’s heart sank.

But if Bai Yinming was not Bai Yinming, but a surviving descendant of the Qin family, then everything could be connected.

Only the Qin family knew Ji Fu’s physical condition the best, and only the descendants of the Qin family could use what they held to exchange benefits with the current aristocrats.

Ji Fu left in a hurry, leaving the Trainer’s Light Brain in Wei Lan’s hands.

Wei Lan connected the system left by Ji Fu to the Light Brain, and many pieces of information appeared on the screen.

He opened the operation page, selected the character ‘Qin’, and then blocked the option of ‘[Qin Chu Yue]’ in the key words.

The system’s search limit synchronized with Ji Fu’s side.

Two seconds later, key information was directly captured.

A red prompt box popped up, displaying a name — ‘Qin Yebai’.

Bai Yeming, Bai Yeming.

Both were new names formed by disassembling the three characters of Qin Yebai and reassembling them.

Beside him, Qin Chu Yue also opened the system tools for searching information for the first time and began to search for information about Qin Yebai on the entire star network.

Unlike the blank name of Bai Yinming, there were still quite a few pieces of information about Qin Yebai, even after undergoing special processing.

The platform Qin Chu Yue searched on was complicated, mainly targeting anonymous forums used by more netizens.

Before the Qin family had trouble, the Qin family members did not deliberately conceal information about their lives.

As long as there were traces of life, information could be excavated.

The information online was not much, but when integrated piece by piece, the basic personal information could still be sorted out.

Qin Chu Yue exclaimed, “Qin Yebai did not study at the three major military academies, but entered the Union Research Institute at a very early age.”

This corresponded.

The Union Research Institute was a confidential place, and Qin Yebai’s work was highly confidential. That was why he rarely appeared in public.

When the Qin family fell, Qin Yebai was likely not at the Qin family.

Ji Fu began to invade the Union’s system after the fall of the Qin family. At that time, Qin Yebai was probably already protected.

So she didn’t know about this.

It was probably also at that time that Qin Yebai changed his name information and lived under another person’s identity.

…The Union could do this much more easily.

They still needed to impersonate identities, or like Ji Fu, hold information about two truly surviving people’s identities.

People inside the Union, as long as they wanted to, could change all their information content at any time.

“That day,” Wei Lan said coldly, “the one who released the Seven Flame Wolves to track us was from the Union Research Institute.”

The coating of that super starship indeed obscured his vision.

But before he tore apart the Seven Flame Wolves, under the claws of that beast, he saw a string of codes.

After returning, he and Qin Chu Yue both checked the code, but they didn’t get any accurate information.

But after the words ‘Union Research Institute’ appeared, Wei Lan suddenly remembered that everything used in the Research Institute had a unique code.

The Seven Flame Wolf was the exotic beast Qin Yebai raised in the Research Institute.

Because it appeared in the Research Institute, it had a unique code.

The base quieted down.

Qin Chu Yue’s face looked unsightly.

After searching for so long, she finally found the profiteer.

Originally, it was a good thing.

But along with the news that the beneficiary had reached the Special Star Level along with the mech today, and according to Wei Lan’s description, it was evident that this person was not only a mech pilot but also a powerful mech warrior.

Up to now, among them, only Wei Lan was beyond the Super Star Level.

Now, in front of them, it was not just Fang Yan, but also Qin Yebai.

In the past, one Fang Yan was enough to seriously injure Wei Lan and capture Ji Fu.

And now, they had to face… two Special Star Levels.

In the live broadcast, Ji Fu lifted her head lightly.

She was playing with a piece of candy in her hand, unwrapped the candy paper, and ate the candy.

The bursting nutrients exploded in her mouth, and she pressed the communication button, saying to Zhou Lu Hai, “Follow me.”

In her world, there had never been a gap that couldn’t be crossed.

Otherwise, Ji Fu, who was weak and had no talent at all, would have been buried on the purgatory star long ago.

Zhou Lu Hai breathed lightly and looked at Bai Yeming’s side. “Can he handle it alone?”

The Nocturnal Twin-Headed Serpent, for some unknown reason, went berserk more than a mech and was even more outrageous, rotating its two heads to bite people.

When Bai Yeming’s bombardment hit it, it desperately sprayed venom on Bai Yeming’s body. After a few rounds, cracks appeared in the indestructible mech shell of Taihe.

Mentioning Bai Yeming, Ji Fu was also unusually calm, saying only, “Fang Yuan is going to get reinforcements.”

The person who ran the fastest, after she appeared, was bombarded with attacks like sparks, and then disappeared.

Ji Fu guessed that he should have gone to find Zhou Xingyu.

As for Zhou Xingyu, Ji Fu couldn’t be sure before, but now she knew he would definitely not stand idly by regarding Baiyeming’s matters.

After all,

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

With Taiguai present, Zhou Lu Hai was also injured, and most of the fusion was destroyed. Even if they teamed up now, with an indistinguishable enemy and a friend like the polar night double-headed snake, they would still not be a match for Baiyeming and Zhou Xingyu.

So Ji Fu hesitated for no more than a moment, and together with Zhou Lu Hai, plunged directly into the highly contaminated area.

From the highly contaminated area, they sped all the way to a secluded asteroid within Exam Room No.1.

As soon as the two mechas landed, Fusion once again displayed a red damage warning.

[This is bad, Fusion seems unable to start directly.]

To avoid the polar night double-headed snake’s attack range, they entered the highly contaminated area, which directly increased Fusion’s damage level.

Racing all the way here, continuously receiving error prompts.

This asteroid was still within the range of heavy contamination, so Zhou Lu Hai couldn’t retract his mecha.

The Fusion’s operation interface directly displayed the percentage of damage.

[Current damage level: 65%]

With such a high damage level, Fusion would almost be unusable without repairs.

Ji Fu disengaged the mecha fusion and switched to the more convenient Jiaoyue for control.

She approached Fusion, looked around, and directly asked Zhou Lu Hai, “Do you have the upgrade materials for Superstar+ in your hand?”

Zhou Lu Hai hesitated slightly, “Yes.”

Originally, Fusion was intended for Superstar+ upgrade, but due to various reasons, the mecha upgrade was delayed.

Ji Fu said directly, “Give me the materials.”

[What is she going to do?]

[She wouldn’t be upgrading Zhou Lu Hai’s mecha, would she? Is she crazy? She’s just a Star-level.]

Not to mention that the mecha in front of them was Superstar-level.

Even if she were Star-level, using Superstar+ materials for upgrades would still be beyond her capacity.

After entering the Star level, the nameplate inside the exam room could hide the true talent information, so the viewers of the live stream did not know.

Ji Fu’s current talent was Star+.

But even with Star+, using Superstar+ materials for upgrades still carried a certain risk.

Qin Chu Yue sat quietly, not daring to look at the person beside her, and asked Ji Fu softly, “Fuer, are you confident?”

As she lifted her head, she saw Ji Fu in the picture take out the unused Sound Silent Lotus from her backpack.

In front of the live broadcast, Ji Fu mixed the Sound Silent Lotus in the water, then took off her optical brain, covered her right hand with the white veil, and submerged it in the water.

The restorative ability of the ointment was too strong, and the wound on her wrist was almost healed.

However, after immersing her right wrist in the water, she still felt a stinging sensation.

The position of the talent mark quickly ignited, like a fireball.

Time was running out, and with the scarce materials she had, she couldn’t make a higher-level healing potion.

The Sound Silent Lotus was of a lower level, and she had already consumed it before, resulting in a certain resistance.

It was unlikely to break through from Star+ to Superstar+, but increasing the talent’s upper limit by mobilizing its value was possible.

Ji Fu looked up and saw the values on the operation panel rolling violently.

At the same time, Zhou Lu Hai handed over the Fusion’s upgrade materials to her.

As Ji Fu expected, the Fusion’s upgrade materials were all prepared.

She only needed to complete two operations.

Assemble the parts and replace the mecha components.

But before that, the mecha in front of her needed to be repaired.

She placed her hand in the water and soaked it for five minutes.

When the five minutes were up, she withdrew her hand and directly activated Jiaoyue.

Zhou Lu Hai hesitated slightly, “Is everything okay?”

Using materials of a higher level posed too much risk.

But in the current situation, they really had no other choice.

If Fusion wasn’t repaired, they would have even less chance of winning.

However, Ji Fu said, “I promised you before that I would help you upgrade your mecha once.”

This was the agreement they made after obtaining the Broken Dwarf Liquid Core.

But for some reason, when Ji Fu mentioned it now, Zhou Lu Hai didn’t seem as happy.

It was as if… after this time, she would draw a line between them.

The viewers in the live broadcast room also remembered this agreement.

[Originally thought she was just comforting Zhou Lu Hai, didn’t expect her to actually do it.]

[Repairing a mecha is very complicated and requires full concentration. It’s better to leave the heavily contaminated area first and then take it slowly.]

With Ji Fu creating a Superstar-level weapon, no one doubted her ability to repair mechas.

The environment in the contaminated area was indeed not suitable for such delicate work.

But no one had expected Ji Fu to take this approach.

She directly controlled the mecha to repair the mecha.

[???]

[Ah?]

The viewers in the live broadcast room were stunned.

They had never seen such a violent repair process before.

Ji Fu somehow got hold of a spray gun filled with medicine. She first asked Zhou Lu Hai to disconnect Fusion from the connection and shut down the entire mecha.

Then, she opened the spray gun, and within five minutes, she used the burning blue flames to destroy all the pollutants on Fusion.

The areas scorched by the flames all showed burn marks.

Ji Fu, driving Jiaoyue, acted very quickly. Wherever there were burn marks on Fusion, she applied Broken Dwarf Gilding.

Wearable mechas were best suited not for combat, but for repair.

Before this, many people had never properly seen Ji Fu repairing mechas.

Moreover, this time she didn’t conceal her speed.

Within a few minutes, Fusion’s damage level decreased by 30%, and the people in the live stream hadn’t even reacted yet.

The other damaged parts of Fusion were caused by Taihe.

Ji Fu didn’t repair this part but chose to replace it directly.

After she finished repairing, she once again submerged her hand in the water.

After staying for five minutes, her talent value skyrocketed to a certain extent.

Ji Fu withdrew her hand directly and began to replace the components.

All the materials given by Zhou Lu Hai were finished products, and they were all top-notch.

She started assembling from the Superstar+ level. At the beginning, the speed was relatively slow.

It took about five to six minutes to assemble one component.

After each assembly, she would stop and rest for a few minutes before soaking her right hand in the water again.

Later on, her speed became faster and faster.

It only took 30 seconds for one mecha part. She could continuously assemble dozens of parts and then rest once.

This smooth operation amazed not only the netizens on the Star Network but also all the family leaders responsible for the examination hall.

Normally, even a Superstar-level mecha technician would take at least half an hour to assemble one part in their eyes.

The subsequent operations were equivalent to going berserk.

What was even more incredible was that many people found out that during the assembly process, it seemed like her talent was gradually advancing.

The drug she used to soak in seemed to play a role in promoting talent.

The principle was unclear, but the scene was truly breathtaking.

[Having lived for so long, it’s the first time I’ve seen someone ascending their talent while repairing a mecha.]

[It’s hard to imagine… how strong her talent would be if it weren’t impaired.]

What they didn’t know was that Ji Fu was calculating her talent threshold while assembling the components.

During the rapid calculation process, she calculated a precise number.

Eighteen million, six hundred and seventy thousand.

This was… the total energy that a top-level Superstar+ material could contain.

Fortunately, all the Superstar-level materials that could be used had been assembled.

The remaining ones were all Superstar+ materials.

Ji Fu stopped her movements.

[In fact, by replacing these components, Fusion’s state can be completely restored.]

At this point, most people thought it was enough.

A Star-level mecha technician repairing a Superstar-level mecha was something that normal people wouldn’t even dare to think about.

As for facing Bai Yeming and Zhou Xingyu… they had to admit defeat.

Some things couldn’t be changed by being stubborn.

However, in such an atmosphere.

Ji Fu took out a bright pearl from her backpack.

This thing was the core she had extracted from the Sawtooth Foxtail Grass before.

Due to repeated soaking, the medicinal properties of the Sound Silent Lotus had spread throughout her body.

Even her talent mark had gradually adapted to this overbearing medicinal property, and the burning sensation had faded away.

Under such circumstances, Ji Fu directly used mechanical means to crush the Superstar+ core into powder, and then, in one go, sprinkled all the powder into the water.

The powder dissolved in the water, mixed with the potion, and produced a colorful and dazzling color.

While many people were marveling at the beautiful and colorful color, Ji Fu directly put her hand into the water.

The next moment, the intense pain transmitted from the talent mark on her wrist almost engulfed her whole person.

In fact, she had calculated it repeatedly.

Based on the dosage and properties of the potion, as well as the Black Sea Linxi she had used yesterday.

She was sure that the residual medicinal properties in her body could activate this top-grade material.

But countless calculations and expectations were no match for the trepidation during the actual experiment.

This was something every experimenter knew well. Hypothesizing was not equal to perfect practice.

Each hypothesis was accompanied by a huge probability of failure.

And this time, she didn’t give herself any margin of error.

The base was extremely quiet.

Wei Lan had already stood up.

Once Ji Fu’s experiment revealed any flaws, he would ignore everything, including physical constraints, and the so-called two special Star-levels, and immediately rush to the scene.

He was Ji Fu’s margin of error.

As time slid by, after a long minute…

Wei Lan and Qin Chu Yue noticed at the same time that in the lower right corner, Ji Fu’s talent, after being stagnant for a full 60 seconds, began to surge violently.

[Beep, beep, beep] The talent surged into overload, causing the entire base to flash red.

In the quiet base, a loud notification suddenly sounded.

[Talent upgraded to: Superstar+]