The First Analyst of the Interstellar Era

Chapter 24 : Seven Schools Training

The four-edged blade was rotated and spun, drawing a silver stream of light in the air, turning very smoothly.

Amid the bewildered and tense eyes around, the long spear was reversed, with the spearhead pointing behind Chen Sui.

She gripped the spear handle tightly, ramming the metal rod fiercely toward Puluo.

"Changed direction, to save you a few days in the medical pod."

Chen Sui's cheerful voice rang out.

Puluo was caught off guard, not expecting her to suddenly continue her previous attack with a different approach.

He was immediately knocked away, the tremendous force hitting his chest. For a moment, he felt his vision go dark, the surroundings spinning rapidly, his head blanking for just a second.

The next moment, he was thrown out.

Making an explosive crash with the ground.

Puluo felt his heartbeat seem to skip a beat.

"Boom------"

The mecha's silhouette was thrown several meters away, its mechanical tip carving an extremely long mark on the soil, continuing until it crashed into the tall woods, cutting the outer trees in half at the waist.

A layer of metallic external shell enveloped Puluo's mecha, and a golden umbrella-shaped object suddenly appeared at the mecha's head.

The metal mass stopped the mecha that had been continuously dragging along the ground.

The mechanical voice sounded simultaneously with the tall wood breaking.

"Elimination."

"Match over."

As the mechanical voice finished, the surrounding scene showed signs of dissipation.

The tall woods and red soil surface flickered for two seconds, then disappeared.

Revealing the original appearance of the combat platform, with traces of bombardment and various scratches remaining on the surface.

The spectators only erupted in thunderous applause two seconds after this scene.

"Holy shit!!"

"Student Chen Sui is amazing!"

Hemo'er was the most excited, jumping up from his seat, loudly whistling, then shouting: "Sister Sui is badass!!"

Just as he got up, he immediately began coughing violently, pressed back down by Zhang You and Tong Can.

Chen Sui retracted the long spear, swinging it to make the wind whistle.

She glanced around, with a barely noticeable smile in her eyes, then looked toward Puluo.

He was lying on his back, seemingly a bit dazed, only getting up from the ground when he heard the surrounding voices.

That golden umbrella-shaped object shrank to palm size, bouncing particularly bouncily on his shoulder. Chen Sui now noticed it was a mushroom.

Except... topped with a metal cap?

Puluo painfully flexed his joints while rubbing his chest, then noticed the spiritual body on his shoulder.

He let the mushroom fall into his palm, his mechanical fingers tapping on the mushroom's metal umbrella.

"How did you get knocked out too..."

Puluo sighed with a pained face.

The metal mushroom turned around, showing the expressive side of its umbrella stem to him, then the mouth on the stem moved back and forth, spitting out a string of incomprehensible characters.

At least Chen Sui didn't understand.

She approached, about to fist-bump with Puluo and inquire about his condition.

But the mushroom, seeing her approach, immediately bared its teeth and glared at her.

So Chen Sui didn't move forward.

Puluo, somewhat embarrassed, cupped his hands, soothing the spiritual body: "It's okay, it's okay, you go back now, go back and rest."

Spiritual bodies only appear outside energy fields in extremely urgent situations.

The spiritual body grumbled a few times in his palm, but eventually disappeared in a golden light.

"I'm sorry," Puluo scratched his head, looking apologetically at her, "Little Jin probably thinks you hurt me, so he's a bit emotional."

Puluo's spiritual body was an especially tiny metal mushroom.

Topped with a golden metal umbrella, with two small golden eyeballs on the white stem under the umbrella, the pure white umbrella stalk also reflected metallic light, looking especially magical.

"That's your spiritual body? It's very cute."

Chen Sui sincerely praised.

What a beautiful shiny gold.

Mentioning his spiritual body, Puluo smiled even more embarrassedly.

"You're very formidable," the two who had finished the battle exited their cockpits, Puluo wiping the sweat from his buzz cut, looking at Chen Sui.

Others didn't know, but Puluo had accompanied Chen Sui to the medical center, aware of her awakening situation.

Now, he finally synchronized with the regretful feelings Gu Qinxue and Tong Wei had at that time.

—She's this good without awakening, how amazing would Chen Sui be if she had awakened smoothly?

"You're not bad either."

Chen Sui rotated her wrist, thinking that shield was really hard to hammer, her hand was sore from hitting it.

If Puluo knew what she was thinking, he would definitely give her an exasperated look.

His energy shield could withstand attacks from S-class or even 2S-class energy bodies.

Shattering it with a few punches, what more was there to say?

After the exhilarating fight, Chen Sui felt lighter, her energy reinvigorated.

She checked her energy bracelet, confirmed there were no abnormalities, then returned to the library to continue her unfinished research.

Cheng Wei had just returned to the academy, heard about Puluo and Chen Sui's combat arrangement, and immediately ran excitedly to the school team building to ask about the details of their combat. Coincidentally, Chen Sui had completed his weapon and sent him a message.

So the two found a nearby venue, borrowing the school team's training room to try out the weapon.

Xie Chunshi agreed, seeing Chen Sui deliver the weapon, and curiously asked:

"Is Student Chen Sui now designing mecha weapons?"

Gu Qinxue nodded: "Suisui said she learned before, she's from Talo Star, worked in a repair shop."

Xie Chunshi nodded lightly, feeling her experience was indeed rich.

The hammer chain Chen Sui designed for Cheng Wei, modeled after a meteor hammer, had some modifications made to the sphere.

Cheng Wei excitedly received the weapon, immediately practiced a few moves with Puluo, finding it had an excellent feel. After coming down, he couldn't stop praising.

"This is great, Suisui. I feel like after repairing the mecha and changing a weapon, it's incredibly smooth. Didn't expect your craftsmanship to be so good."

Chen Sui was always confident in her professional field, immediately showing a slight smile, a small dimple appearing on her slightly fuller cheek, looking very cute: "Master Chen's craftsmanship is absolutely reliable."

Seeing the effect of Cheng Wei's weapon, Puluo couldn't help but be tempted.

He had always used defensive shield types, but occasionally wanted to use offensive close combat weapons.

He glanced at Xie Chunshi, facing his calm, indifferent gaze, Puluo quietly requested: "Team Leader, the idea for my mecha's new weapon before, could I try it with Student Chen Sui?"

Xie Chunshi was contacting the Repair Technician Association for the school team's mechas. The five people's mecha weapons were varied, making coordination difficult. The several design drafts provided by repair technicians were all unsatisfactory to the school team, so the progress had been shelved. Unexpectedly, Puluo brought it up.

"If you think it's suitable, you can try. The most important thing about a weapon is whether it suits the person using it."

Xie Chunshi said softly.

Hearing this voice, Chen Sui instinctively looked at him, and Puluo stepped forward to ask: "Student Chen Sui, are you still taking weapon production orders?"

Chen Sui raised her eyebrows in surprise, but nodded: "Yes, but I'd need to see the mecha first, then understand your requirements, to see if I can do it."

Puluo's mecha was also a personalized custom mecha, and judging by the materials used, it wasn't cheap, one of the more expensive models in custom designs.

He briefly explained his requirements.

Hearing about a weapon with both offensive and defensive capabilities, an image flashed through Chen Sui's mind, and considering the shield-type feature, she nodded.

"It should be no problem, I can do it. I'll first create a weapon draft, and after you confirm it's acceptable, I'll produce it."

She explained the process to Puluo, ending with one issue: "After looking at your mecha materials, I would need to use Liujin Sand. As it happens, I'm going to Karma Star, where I should be able to find it, though it might take a bit longer to complete."

Puluo nodded, having no objections to this.

But when Gu Qinxue heard she was going to Karma Star, she asked: "You're also going to Karma Star, when?"

Chen Sui: "Also?"

Xie Chunshi nodded: "Tomorrow there's training, going to Karma Star for the Fourth Star Ring training."

"What a coincidence?" Chen Sui sighed, "I couldn't even buy a jump ticket, as Karma Star is hosting a materials exhibition these days, making jump flights hard to get."

"You could catch a ride," Xie Chunshi suggested.

Chen Sui looked at his increasingly fluffy curly hair, her eyes twitching with eagerness for a moment, then returning to composure: "Is that possible?"

If she could catch a ride, that would be great; she could also check out the materials exhibition, maybe find some bargains.

The school team had applied in advance for their own independent jump flight.

This Fourth Star Ring training match was jointly organized by seven academies, conveniently at the Western Wood Crater energy field on Karma Star.

After hitching a ride, Chen Sui and Cheng Wei didn't stay at the school team building, as Xie Chunshi seemed to want to discuss the training match with the school team members.

As she left, she looked back: "Where's Tong Wei?"

Cheng Wei sighed: "Don't mention it, she was seconded."

"Right now, I want them to find an analyst more than the school team does," Cheng Wei cried.

"I see," Chen Sui nodded, seeing his reluctant expression, offering pale comfort: "It's okay, it's just a secondment."

Cheng Wei smiled sinisterly: "Yeah, hopefully just a secondment. If the league competition takes my analyst away, I'll go fight Instructor Yan."

Chen Sui laughed: "At that time, they'd probably find someone from the analyst system to take the position, right? But the league competition seems to be coming soon, and the school team still hasn't found suitable people, making training difficult."

The Star League Competition starts every year in July, and it was already mid-March now.

Cheng Wei sighed, inadvertently revealing more: "Analysts are rare treasures, it's difficult. You don't know, before Commander Xie came to Star Academy Seven as Team Leader, he made two demands to the school, one of which was to have an analyst with a high mental threshold value."

"He won't settle for less."

Chen Sui didn't quite understand these school team matters, just nodded as if she had heard some juicy gossip.

After returning, she first settled the analyst assignment orders in her hands, then checked her shopping list, adding several materials that needed to be purchased on Karma Star.

Finally, Chen Sui solemnly wrote down in her light brain's recording interface, the thoughts she had after studying the analyst course these days.

"On the Possibility of Offensive-Type Analysts"

Mainly an analysis of Weina and Song Xingzhang.

After recording her learning reflections, she entered dreamland at the urging of her life steward.

The next day, when she went to the jump flight with the school team, she saw the school team's instructor.

She wore a black coat, her lips somewhat chapped, facing the biting sea wind, discussing something with Xie Chunshi.

Chen Sui faintly heard words like "Third Academy," "Zhang Yingjie," and such. She hugged her school uniform jacket, looking at the rolling Flashing Golden Sea, finding a passenger cabin to sit in.

Xie Chunshi and Yan Mingyu entered a step later. Once everyone was present, the starship started.

The starship departed from the starport, entered the jump channel, climbing higher and higher, the Flashing Golden Sea gradually shrinking, finally converging to a point in view.

Chen Sui glanced over, just as Yan Mingyu sat down beside her. Seeing this new face, she smiled kindly at Chen Sui.

Yan Mingyu herself had a very gentle face, but because she often had no expression, she carried an inherent sense of majesty.

The usually rebellious and arrogant Zhou Chen, apart from being somewhat cowed before Xie Chunshi, only shrank his head and shoulders before Yan Mingyu.

"I heard from Commander Xie earlier that there's a first-year infantry who beat our school team's infantry, that's you, right?"

Yan Mingyu lay down, days of jumping and rushing had exhausted her body and mind, but the vacant analyst position still stuck in her heart like a thorn, only relaxing slightly during casual conversation.

Chen Sui couldn't gauge her likes and dislikes, but didn't care much either, nodding frankly as if stating a fact: "Yes."

"That's good, I heard you're also in the awakening period. If you awaken, I'll let you knock Puluo down and replace him."

Yan Mingyu made a joke, to which Puluo himself responded good-naturedly:

"That won't do, although Student Chen Sui is better at combat than me, I'm definitely the infantry who can best protect an analyst."

Tong Wei also joked, asking Chen Sui: "Really? I don't believe it, Suisui can definitely protect me well, right?"

Chen Sui wasn't one to balance waters, so she simply nodded to all: "Yes, yes, yes, I guarantee whoever touches the analyst, I'll beat them."

Everyone laughed.

During the jump, Yan Mingyu looked through the transparent window of the passenger cabin, at the floor-to-ceiling window outside.

The league competition was about to open, the other military direct schools' teams had assembled as early as January, and even at the slowest, they should be fully confirmed by March.

But Zhu Jing Fu still hadn't found a suitable analyst.

Analysts with high mental threshold values were hard to find, this wasn't just Xie Chunshi's requirement, but also Zhu Jing Fu's need.

This Star League Competition would be the most noteworthy in a decade, with a qualitative improvement in overall level compared to previous ones, with no analyst having a mental threshold value below 85.

An analyst with such a high threshold, how hard to find.

Yan Mingyu sighed, also wondering in her heart, where did these old foxes find these little freaks, without leaking any news at all.

At this moment, Xie Chunshi looked at the message on his light brain, his gaze profound.

The Main Star Prison Tower had sent a communication, his imprisoned father, the former Star Council Executive Director Mr. Xie Liuyun, was requesting to communicate with him.

Xie Chunshi unhesitatingly clicked reject.

The more critical the time, the more one shouldn't heed rumors.

Moreover, Xie Liuyun was a true madman.

In the quiet environment of the passenger cabin, Chen Sui slowly sank into her seat, lying down comfortably, calculating her assets in her mind.

If this weapon maintenance order was done well, she wouldn't have to worry about living issues in the short term.

Afterward, she wouldn't need to take so many assignment orders, earning slightly less but having more time, could consider designing her own mecha, and could also polish some parts from original embryos for sale.

Chen Sui was planning her entrepreneurial plan in her head, probably the happiest person on the entire starship.

Karma Star is located at the edge of the Fourth Star Ring.

Because the planet is covered with mines of various sizes and sits on jump routes to other star rings, it's not only an important transportation hub but also a very bustling mineral trading area.

Star Academy Seven's training match, along with six other academies from the Fourth Star Ring, had just arrived at the accommodation prepared by the Energy Body Management Office when Team Leader Yan Mingyu ran into another team.

The leader was a middle-aged man who, seeing Zhu Jing Fu's arrival, showed some wariness in his eyes.

"Teacher Yan, fashionably late, eh?"

The instructor from Fourth Ring First Academy greeted with a smile.

Yan Mingyu just coldly glanced, nodded, then turned to instruct the school team.

"Rest tonight first, before the training match, don't cause trouble."

The last sentence was said while looking at Zhou Chen. Yan Mingyu exchanged a glance with Xie Chunshi before leaving, seeing the calm Team Leader nod, she left reassured.

"What does Teacher Yan mean, pointing at me? Am I that unreliable?"

As soon as she left, Zhou Chen pointed at himself, asking somewhat resentfully.

Their rooms were connected, and Chen Sui, benefiting from the school team, not only hitched a ride on the jump flight but also had accommodation.

The training match would last about three days, just enough time to wait for other material merchants to arrive. Chen Sui planned to go with the school team then. Yan Mingyu suggested she could watch the training match, to understand spiritual body resonance in advance.

Chen Sui was also curious, so she moved with the school team.

When tapping the room card, Zhou Chen was still hung up on Yan Mingyu's look. Xie Chunshi gave him a cold glance, replying: "The things you've done since coming to Yuguang Star, is there any issue with Teacher Yan watching you closely?"

Zhou Chen pouted: "It's not like I just went to the Modification Bureau with Chun Fan a few times. If he didn't ask for a beating in front of me, would I slap his face?"

Chen Sui found it amusing.

Zhou Chen heard the sound and turned around, rarely without his sarcastic tone toward her: "What are you laughing at? That guy is really despicable, you'd know when you hear him talk, it makes your hand itch to hit him."

After speaking, he thought of how he would always be infuriated by Chen Sui, immediately showing a better expression to her:

"Hey? I've found that you're also quite good at mocking people. Why don't you join me next time? I won't hit him, I'll just curse, that should be fine, right?"

Chen Sui felt this was a false accusation: "I've never mocked anyone."

She was just being very sincere, earnestly answering every question.

Zhou Chen choked, looking at her disbelievingly, then tapped his room card, "I believe you, my ass."

On the other side, Fourth Ring First Academy had encountered Zhu Jing Fu, and Team Leader Chun Fan knocked on the teacher's door.

The two entered the room and began plotting.

Chun Fan noticed that Zhu Jing Fu had two extra people today, asking puzzledly: "Didn't Star Academy Seven still not find an analyst? Those two who came today?"

Team Leader Teacher He looked up Star Academy Seven's information: "Don't worry, they've seconded an analyst from another team, as for the other one, probably an infantry."

"Should we still use that energy crystal?" Chun Fan's eyes turned cold.

"Continue using it. Zhu Jing Fu entered the official competition last session, this session's school team won't participate in the star ring selection again, but if the original team of that analyst wants to go to the league competition, they must participate in the selection. If we take out the analyst, the selection will also have one less Zhu Jing Fu sub-team, and our academy might get an extra spot."

Chun Fan nodded.

He originally wanted to deal with Zhou Chen, but on second thought, an analyst alone would be easier to succeed against, and if Fourth Ring First Academy got another sub-team in, perhaps this year's two teams could cooperate to enter the official competition.

At that time, if Star Academy Seven didn't enter the official competition, that would really be something to see.

If Star Academy Seven dropped from the military direct position, Yuguang Star would definitely support another school to go up.

Why couldn't it be their Fourth Ring First Academy?