Chapter 83

Ji Fu’s nameplate concealed her true talent, and the only ones who could hear this announcement were Qin Chu Yue and Wei Lan.

Qin Chu Yue, upon hearing the announcement, suddenly stood up, extremely excited: “Promoted! Fu’er! Superstar+!!!”

Wei Lan also raised his gaze to look at her in the live broadcast.

Under the impact of tremendous energy, Ji Fu’s complexion was faintly pale, but her eyes were exceptionally bright.

All the certainty and impossibility in the world, before her, could not pose a fatal threat.

She named him Wei Lan, but in reality, she was the only sun in his life.

No matter how difficult and perilous the journey, no matter how dark the dawn, the rising sun would face the storm, break through the horizon, rise slowly, and cast its scorching light upon the whole world.

It was the blazing vitality, as well as the sun that made his heart beat, lively and clear.

The violent impact and rapid increase in talent made Ji Fu pause for a moment.

She closed her eyes lightly.

When she opened them again, her expression was calm, and she directly began assembling the parts of the Superstar+.

In the eyes of those unaware of the situation, it seemed like she was taking a brief rest and then directly reaching out to touch the higher-level materials after using the Superstar+ material fusion potion.

The whole scene was in an uproar.

Under everyone’s astonishment, Ji Fu, slow but extremely steady, assembled the first component.

“Damn?! Can a star-level mechanic really achieve this level?”

“Is it possible that her talent has already advanced? “

Making a Superstar+ weapon, repairing a Superstar+ mech, and even assembling Superstar+ materials to upgrade the mech was indeed beyond belief.

In a way, this was illogical, and it was impossible for a star-level to achieve.

The viewers’ judgment was not wrong.

The difference between star-level and Superstar+ was already huge. It was impossible to make weapons and repair mechs across levels unless Ji Fu’s situation was special and her talent threshold was extremely high.

Touching Superstar+ was simply a daydream.

“If I remember correctly, didn’t she just get promoted to star-level? Talent isn’t like radishes in the ground, you can’t just pull one out.”

“The speed is indeed like riding a rocket, but it’s also a promotion. It gives everyone a misunderstanding. She has a defective talent, so for her, it’s not a talent upgrade, but just recovery.”

Rapid recovery and rapid promotion were not the same thing.

If her talent was originally low, it would be even more unreasonable for her to soar in such a short time.

Talent was called talent because it was innate and unchangeable. If it was so easy to advance, where would the discrimination against talent come from?

But recovery was different; it was a level she had naturally, an occasional defect.

Strictly speaking, it was a kind of trauma, and wounds could heal. The speed of recovery depended on one’s willpower and the doctor’s level.

It was obvious that Ji Fu was a high-level pharmacist with strong willpower.

The universe was so vast, and there were many intelligent netizens.

And everyone had common sense.

Compared to the incredible ability to control Superstar+ materials at the star level, the latter possibility was obviously more reasonable.

Amidst the lively discussions, Ji Fu assembled the first Superstar+ component.

She shook her stiff arm and glanced at the number in the lower right corner.

The change in talent value was extremely huge. After completing this component, her talent value was almost completely depleted.

But fortunately, the value was still steadily skyrocketing.

The soaring number drove the speed of recovery.

But it also proved the saying: there was a huge difference between every level of talent beyond Superstar+.

If it hadn’t reached Superstar+, perhaps the mech would have been successfully upgraded today, but what would be overdrawn at that time would be her spirit and vital signs.

“At this rate, does she currently have Superstar+ talent as well? This is interesting. Now the audience knows that her talent is skyrocketing, but her teammates and the Empire’s people are completely unaware.”

After completing the first component, Ji Fu’s speed increased significantly.

By the end, the speed of making Superstar+ components was only slightly slower than that of Superstar.

This was almost an incredible performance, giving this joint examination a very high level of heat.

On the Star Network platform, Ji Fu’s figure was already everywhere.

Unlike the lively atmosphere online.

Inside the Alliance Research Institute.

Qin Ye Bai sat quietly in the senior office.

There were two light screens open in front of him. One showed the battle scene of Bai Yeming, and the other showed Ji Fu’s face.

The secretary stood behind Qin Ye Bai and said in a deep voice, “The Alliance intends to call out the Fourth Talents.”

After the incident with the Shen family, the Alliance was still able to sit still.

But after all the management personnel of the prison of the Si family were slaughtered, even the attitude of the highest commander of the Alliance changed.

The current strength of the Si family is indeed low, but as one of the three major families, they have a lot of information in their hands.

The high-level of the Alliance would be uneasy, which was normal.

The attitude of the slaughterhouse was also very strange. Usually, there would be a live broadcast after the action, but this time, there was nothing.

After receiving the news later, Qin Ye Bai went to the interstellar prison once.

Everything was handled very cleanly, and only one unopened cell was left.

During the high-level meeting, he advocated that this matter was a private feud between Wei Lan and the Si family.

But obviously, the continuous destruction of the slaughterhouse had made everyone in the other families uneasy.

Of course, those who had always had opinions on him over the past few years were taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

The Si family’s grievances were false, and what they really wanted was the Fourth Talents in his hands.

But who could have thought that he didn’t have any Fourth Talents in his hands at all.

Qin Ye Bai looked at Ji Fu, who was now proficient in controlling Superstar+ materials, with a cold expression. “Notify the main family and all the senior staff. A meeting will be held at 9:00 tomorrow morning.”

After the fall of the Qin family, he became the main person in charge of executing the Pig and Rascal Plan.

In his hands, he held not only the personnel and specific information involved in the Pig and Rascal Plan over the years, but also information on the use of Lie Russell, as well as the potion formula of Lan Russell.

At the beginning, Russell and the Qionghai Huashi were the main research directions of the Qin family.

The Qin family also had a list of top-level resources.

These so-called top-level resources were the Pigs and Rascals above Superstar+.

After the incident in the Qin family, only Qin Ye Bai still held control over these things.

So the other families had no choice but to cooperate with him.

After Yun Chi’s trio was captured, he also found his playboy and willful fourth uncle, and a illegitimate child born to a low-ranking race.

That was Bai Yeming.

All the Qin family members were killed by Yun Chi.

Qin Ye Bai wanted to rebuild the family, but relying solely on him was difficult.

So he brought Bai Yeming back and gave them both new names: Qin Ye Bai and Qin Ming, respectively.

Then he sent Bai Yeming to the Imperial Military Academy for study.

Perhaps because his living environment was so poor since childhood, Bai Yeming listened to him very much.

And according to Qin Ye Bai’s plan, after the joint examination, Bai Yeming would surpass all the young people of this generation in the family and become a shining new star.

So Qin Ye Bai only glanced at the light screen and then withdrew his gaze.

No matter how much Zhou Lu Hai’s mech upgraded, it could not surpass Taihe, which possessed a special star-level core. Moreover, there were no real special star-level alien beasts or plants in the area near the examination site.

Even if there were, these students wouldn’t be able to handle them.

There would only be one champion of the joint examination.

That would be Bai Yeming.

Qin Ye Bai got up and went into the laboratory.

And shortly after he left.

Ji Fu had assembled all the Superstar+ components and started replacing the components for Fission.

Unlike assembling the components just now, her way of replacing the components was extremely violent.

She made Zhou Lu Hai leave the cockpit of the mech, and before the upgrade was completed, she drove his Deep Sea.

The circulation system of an S-class mech was fine against pollutants in heavily polluted areas.

After Zhou Lu Hai left, she entered the cockpit and connected to Fission.

There was no mech experimental base here, and rebuilding one would take too long, so she simply released Devourer.

Under the gaze of everyone in the live broadcast room, she used Devourer to dismantle all the components that needed to be replaced in Fission.

Then, using Devourer, she stepped on those mech components and lifted all the new components that needed to be replaced with the mech arm.

A total of 63 components.

She controlled Devourer while connecting to Fission. The components lifted by the mech arm were directly aligned in the air.

Click, swish.

After a series of loud noises, all the new components were in place.

The operation page of Fission was flashing red crazily, and the abnormal operation sounds of “beep beep beep” echoed throughout the entire broadcast room.

Ji Fu quickly operated the system with her hands while performing mechanical calibration at the same time.

After calibration, all the components were automatically locked.

“Beep! Right arm locked.”

“Beep! Weapon box locked.”

…

Within three minutes, all the components that needed to be replaced on Fission were locked in place.

At this point, only the most crucial and easily mistaken step remained—the upgrade of the mech engine.

The engine was the most important component of a mech and had always been referred to as the mech’s heart.

Among all mech upgrades, upgrading the engine was the most difficult.

Not to mention that Fission itself was already a top-level mech, and upgrading from Superstar to Superstar+ made the upgrade difficulty beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

But this last step that troubled many mech engineers was done by Ji Fu smoothly as flowing clouds and flowing water.

The core modification of the mech engine was a very meticulous task.

So she didn’t control the mech to do it again.

Instead, she put on the mech suit, isolated herself from pollutants, put on her helmet, and the whole person entered the open engine of Fission.

The live broadcast couldn’t see her specific operating process.

They could only see her standing upright inside the Fission engine, holding the familiar spray gun in her hand.

When the blue flame lit up in the engine, many people sweated for her.

The engine structure was complex, and if the spray gun was used directly, even a slight negligence could cause the entire engine to explode.

This worry arose only when Ji Fu had already put away the spray gun.

From the red-hot engine, she pulled out a crackling and burning connecting wire. As soon as this connecting wire appeared, the surrounding temperature rose sharply. However, Ji Fu immersed the entire connecting wire in the broken Ailian gold.

Then, one by one, she pulled out more and more connecting wires from inside the engine.

The audience was in an uproar.

“Damn?! This is the first time I’ve seen such a core installation.”

“Is it done in liquid?”

“Yes… there are dozens or even hundreds of connecting wires in the entire engine. She’s really bold.”

With this kind of connection, if there was any mistake, all the connecting wires would be damaged. By then, it wouldn’t just be the engine that exploded, but the entire mech…

But with such a violent and unreasonable operation, Ji Fu completed the modification of the entire engine in 15 minutes.

“The mech core has been connected.”

Ji Fu pressed the light brain, and all the connecting wires she pulled out instantly returned to their original positions.

At the same time, she slid out of the engine position, wearing the mech suit, closed the engine cover with gravity, jumped lightly from a high place, and landed on the ground.

Simultaneously, there was a hint sound echoing, accompanied by the fusion of the entire mech’s parts after the fission, and the mechanical core operated perfectly for one week, giving off the prompt:

“Mech fission upgrade completed.”

“Mech rank upgraded to: Superstar+.”

Accompanying this prompt was also the sound of the elimination of the Polar Night Hydra on the nearby planet.

“Test Field Report: Superstar+ Polar Night Hydra has been slain.”

Although this alien beast did not belong to the creatures within the test field, any alien creature slain by students within the test field would count towards the total score.

Ji Fu opened the scoreboard, seeing the scores of Bai Yeming and Zhou Xing Yu skyrocketing synchronously.

It was about the time she had expected.

That Polar Night Hydra was not an ordinary Superstar+. It was already approaching the level of a Special Star+.

Although Bai Yeming’s mech strength was sufficient, his combat ability was average, and Zhou Xing Yu’s combat ability was adequate, but his body had never fully recovered.

Moreover…

Ji Fu’s lips curled up with a hint of unknown meaning.

The Polar Night Hydra was different from ordinary alien beasts; this creature had two heads, violating the natural growth laws by itself.

So few people knew about it.

This beast had two hearts.

In other words, it had “two lives,” as commonly said.

After the first heart died suddenly, the second heart would absorb all the energy from the body and counterattack.

The counterattack of an alien creature approaching the level of a Special Star+… was probably enough to give those two a tough time.

Beside them, Zhou Lu Hai entered the mech cabin. Just as he settled down, he saw a huge gap burned in the sky above the distant planet.

“Let’s go!” The person beside him had already opened their wings and slid towards there.

Ji Fu told Zhou Lu Hai, “Go try out your mech.”

The upgraded fission had dramatically increased in strength.

The two of them quickly arrived at the previous battlefield.

As Ji Fu had anticipated.

After the Polar Night Hydra went berserk, the flames it spat out roasted the entire right side of Taihe’s fuselage, deforming it.

Zhou Xingyu’s Rose also suffered severe burns, prompting a red warning box.

After the Polar Night Hydra went berserk, he activated the frenzy of the Rose and used its heavy weapons, the Interstellar Cruise Heavy Cannon, firing three shots in a row, directly blasting the sudden rise of the giant snake’s head into pieces.

But similarly, before Zhou Xingyu had fully recovered, using such a high-intensity attack directly caused him to suffer backlash, and his vital signs plummeted rapidly.

Han Si Yi, standing nearby, only managed to hand Zhou Xingyu a support medicine, then looked up to see Ji Fu and Zhou Lu Hai returning.

After they arrived, they heard Bai Yeming say that Zhou Lu Hai was injured and his mech damaged.

The two of them headed for the highly contaminated area.

But they had been fighting here for so long, and they hadn’t seen these two.

Han Si Yi speculated that they had gone to the other few test fields.

But she never expected that these two would actually come back.

Even more strangely…

Han Si Yi’s expression turned ugly as she pressed the communication button to inform Bai Yeming, “Zhou Lu Hai’s mech has been upgraded!”

Everyone present was surprised.

Zhou Xingyu’s gaze was heavy as he looked at the mech interface displaying the Superstar+ prompt, remaining silent.

Hearing this, Fang Yuan, who was searching for Zhou Lu Hai’s figure in the other test fields, stopped his mech directly, his voice heavy: “How is that possible!?”

Fission was already a Superstar-level mech, and the upgrade could only be to Superstar+.

In the entire test field, apart from Bai Yeming himself, there was another Superstar+ mech pilot?

But Han Si Yi’s judgment couldn’t be wrong.

Zhou Lu Hai didn’t even give them time to discuss.

He directly activated the frenzy, took out the Whispering Sword, and simultaneously attacked Zhou Xingyu and Bai Yeming.

The sword produced countless afterimages in the air, its speed several times faster than before.

Amidst the intense rumbling, it seemed as if millions of swords were simultaneously descending upon Bai Yeming and Zhou Xing Yu.

The sky was filled with light waves, directly pulverizing all the remaining pollutants on the battlefield into powder.

Bai Yeming’s expression changed slightly, raising his hand to release a golden blasting cannon.

Due to his injuries, Zhou Xing Yu’s reaction was delayed by half a beat, and just within that half-second of his reaction, a prompt from the Heavenly Ranking suddenly appeared.

But the content of the Heavenly Ranking’s prompt changed the complexion of everyone present.

“Heavenly Ranking Information Update:

Mech Ranking: Superstar+ Mech Fission, ranking replaced: Fifth place.

Mech Pilot Ranking: Ji Fu, ranking changed to: Fifth place.”

The massive amount of information shook everyone’s understanding.

For the fission to upgrade from its original Superstar level to Superstar+, it was already extraordinary.

The latter statement was enough to make everyone in the test field take notice.

“Who? Ji Fu!?” Fang Yuan turned back, looking towards the direction of Test Field Number One. “Did she upgrade Zhou Lu Hai’s mech?”

Considering the previous statement, this was the only possibility.

But upgrading a mech of this level required a mech pilot beyond Superstar level, right?

Wasn’t Ji Fu only a Star rank!?

The appearance of this heavyweight news caught everyone off guard.

Zhou Xingyu’s face changed drastically, suddenly realizing, he shouted, “Xiao Bai, stop Ji Fu!”

What mech upgrade, what information update, and the sudden appearance of these two people.

None of it mattered now!

He suddenly realized that regardless of what method Ji Fu used to upgrade Zhou Lu Hai’s mech, their return at this moment had only one purpose!

In a rare moment, since the beginning of the joint examination, Zhou Xingyu, who had always maintained a calm and composed demeanor, showed his first sign of losing control.

He shouted angrily, “She’s after the Polar Night Hydra!”

Yes.

From the beginning, leading out the Polar Night Hydra, then leaving with Zhou Lu Hai, upgrading the mech, and returning to the battlefield.

All these series of actions.

They were all to time it just right, to come back and compete for resources.

The upgraded fission was extremely powerful. If Zhou Lu Hai were to confront Zhou Xingyu at this moment, Ji Fu believed he could win.

Even if his recovery progress was less than 70%, even in his prime state, Zhou Xingyu might not be Zhou Lu Hai’s match.

But with Bai Yeming added, it was different.

Especially driving that oversized mech like Bai Yeming.

Even if his mech was damaged, it would still be difficult for them to defeat Bai Yeming and Zhou Xingyu.

Ji Fu didn’t intend to confront them at this moment.

What she wanted from beginning to end was the Polar Night Hydra.

Having survived for nearly three hundred years, it tended toward a Special Star+ grade material!

It was hard to find another creature like it in the entire galaxy.

Every part of this creature was precious.

She brought it over, let Bai Yeming and Zhou Xingyu act as her minions for a while, and then…

In front of their eyes, she directly collected all the Polar Night Hydra.

After Zhou Xingyu’s angry shout, Bai Yeming reacted.

He immediately activated Taihe’s frenzy.

Hum!

The engine of the top-grade mech, nearing Special Star+ level, emitted a loud roar.

Taihe was like a condensed huge shadow, shooting out violently.

… But it was too late.

Normally, whether it’s a mech pilot or a mech soldier, they wouldn’t directly store unprocessed alien carcasses into the light brain storage space.

Because once the high-grade alien materials were placed into the light brain storage space, the air would be sucked dry, which might directly lead to material damage.

Let alone they had just killed the Polar Night Hydra for the second time, they didn’t even have time to deal with the alien carcass.

This gave Ji Fu an opportunity.

When Zhou Lu Hai acted, she immediately activated the mech’s frenzy, folded up the huge wings behind her with Yuezhi, and crashed down to the ground.

Under the gaze of Bai Yeming and Zhou Xingyu, Ji Fu operated the light brain and directly stored the massive body of the Polar Night Hydra into the original location for storing mechs.

She didn’t leave them even a hair, let alone the materials.

Aren’t the aristocrats and nobles the ones who love snatching things from others the most?

Then let them taste what it’s like to have their resources snatched away.

The moment she got the thing, Ji Fu informed Zhou Lu Hai, “Hai Zi, retreat.”

She herself faced the pursuit of Taihe and left swiftly from Test Field Number One.

Hum—

The mech shuttle intensely across the entire outer space, leaving a trail of light.

During the rush, in order to increase speed, she even directly discarded unnecessary mech parts, reduced weight with Yuezhi’s disassembly, and then activated the extreme rampage mode of the mech, rushing towards Test Field Number Three at the fastest speed currently possible.

Behind her, Bai Yeming was stopped by Zhou Lu Hai, and his pursuit was slightly slower.

But due to the advantage of the mech, he still effortlessly closed in on Ji Fu.

The audience in the live broadcast was on the edge of their seats.

“Bai Yeming’s mech is so powerful. Despite being stopped by Zhou Lu Hai three times, he can still catch up?”

“What should we do? There’s nowhere to run!”

As long as they were still in the exam, Ji Fu wouldn’t be able to shake off the pursuit of Taihe.

When the mech’s strength was too strong, it wouldn’t reason with people.

But in this situation, Ji Fu was still running desperately.

Within the limit of speed, she and Bai Yeming directly shuttled from Test Field Number One to Test Field Number Three.

After entering Test Field Number Three, Taihe was only an arm’s length away from her.

At such a close distance, as long as Bai Yeming reached a little further forward, he could directly catch her.

However, amidst countless gazes, Ji Fu suddenly turned around.

During the rush, she had disassembled most of Yuezhi’s parts, and at this point, the weight of the mech had been reduced to almost nothing. In theory, there was no possibility of escaping again.

But in this situation, she turned around, shut down all the operation interfaces of the mech in front of Bai Yeming, and instantly disconnected.

The instantaneous disconnection caused her mech to fall directly from mid-air, crashing down below.

Below…

Was an endless black sea.

Ji Fu opened her eyes underwater.

She looked straight at the Taihe outside.

She was betting that Bai Yeming wouldn’t, and dared not, enter the black sea.