novelraw Chapter 67 : White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain
Chapter 67 : White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain
Chen Sui organized his energy, and while the scars on the core crystal were irreversible and still frequently emitted energy fluctuations, she helped create an energy blockade on the periphery to reduce Zhou Chen's energy spillage.
After completing the healing process, Chen Sui turned to repair the mecha.
The topic in the barrage also shifted from the analyst's unusual spiritual healing to Chen Sui's ability to repair mechas.
[She's a legitimate repair technician, folks. I checked the Zhu Jing Fu forum, she seems to have a certification]
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[Seriously? An analyst with a repair technician certification?]
[Na Luo River's Xie You and Saint Laurent's Xie Yi both have them. Several teams in the league seem to have quite a few people who minored in mecha repair]
[That's different. Everyone's minor is about understanding the basics. Who can be like Chen Sui, grinding parts on-site, reassembling, and even making engine fluid on the spot? That's too outrageous!]
[I suspect that if the base station had enough materials and tools, she could modify the artillery too!]
[This is beyond the question of certification. This girl could take the test, the senior repair technician professional certificate—she could definitely get it]
[Laughing, tagging @Fourth Star Ring Repair Technician Association, don't let such talent slip away]
[Are you joking? She's still an analyst after all—where would she find the mental energy for mecha repair?]
[Wait, haven't you noticed something? Where does she resemble an analyst?]
[To be fair, Chen Sui is an interstellar nomad. Before entering school, she was an employee at a repair shop. I searched Talo Star news and found her commendation: she repaired a mecha that withstood three energy impacts, protecting the driver's successful escape]
[Something's not right—she's taken out pure blood. What's she planning?]
[She's really modifying the artillery?! Sis! Are you serious?!]
With Forest Envelopment's mecha damage mostly repaired, Chen Sui sat for a while. Finding herself with nothing to do, she inventoried the materials acquired from the island: fire nitrate, Tata stone, pure blood, and various mineral species unique to the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain.
As she took inventory, her eyes fixed on Forest Envelopment's ice bombs.
Then Chen Sui couldn't sit still anymore.
There was still one repair device left, perfect for disassembly.
Counting the tools inside, she figured they were barely sufficient for modifications.
So she dismantled Forest Envelopment's artillery.
The three school team members who were urgently recovering their strength—except for Xie Chunshi who was scanning the surrounding sea area in the base station—Gu Qinxue and Puluo were leaning in another corner of the repair room. This side faced the window, and in the afternoon, sunlight still bathed it. The two nestled there basking in the sun, now watching the sunset as the sun descended in the west.
Hearing the sound of artillery crashing down, Puluo looked back to see Chen Sui's thin arm lifting up an artillery tube larger than herself.
"What is Suisui doing?"
Gu Qinxue turned around, seeing her toss the artillery onto the operating table, and asked with curiosity: "Modifying the artillery?"
Puluo: "She brought an ice cannon—what's she changing it to?"
As he spoke, Puluo stood up to help Chen Sui stabilize the artillery. The thing was too big; Chen Sui hugging it alone looked somewhat bizarre.
It created a contrast like a small dwarf challenging a great demon lord.
"Suisui, what modifications are you making to the artillery?"
Chen Sui was working on the energy chamber structure, preparing to make a dilution device to incorporate the pure blood: "Yes, adding some attributes. Pure blood's confusion attribute is very useful. When there are many people, it will be convenient for us to do bad things."
She spoke so seriously that Puluo didn't see any problem at all and honestly nodded, helping Chen Sui fix the base.
Gu Qinxue, however, saw through Chen Sui's mischievous intent beneath her serious demeanor. As she approached, she said: "You want to snipe again?"
"Heh," Chen Sui laughed, imagining it and feeling eager, "The competition is almost halfway through. There are still 73 teams left, too many. Eventually, everyone will have to run to the West Sea Domain. With so many people, it's perfect for fishing in troubled waters."
Puluo's movements paused as he glanced lightly at her. Seeing Chen Sui's cunning smile, he had a vague sense of foreboding.
Teams encountering Zhu Jing Fu in the West Sea Domain would be blessed.
They would get to experience fresh, newly cut pure blood.
When Zhou Chen woke up, he heard this sentence and instinctively replied: "Fishing in troubled waters? Where are the fish? I really like fishing."
He wasn't fully awake yet. Opening his eyes, he saw the ceiling, suspended beams, and converging angles on all sides. Startled to realize he was lying down, Zhou Chen immediately sprang up into a sitting position.
Eyes wide, he looked at his hands, touched his head, shook it, and then looked at the three people gathered at the operating table.
"Holy shit!"
"Wasn't I having spiritual healing?" Zhou Chen asked in shock.
At this moment, the barrage was filled with [smoking] emojis. Viewers who had witnessed the entire process, no matter how prejudiced against Zhu Jing Fu, had to admit that Zhou Chen was one lucky guy.
To actually have no rejection to this analyst's energy.
The barrage didn't dare imagine that Chen Sui's energy was special—that was too hard to conceive—and simply assumed the analyst's energy fluctuations happened to have high similarity with the output. However, some clever people felt that the compatibility between wood and lightning attributes having high similarity was quite unlikely.
But they still didn't dare think in more outrageous directions.
Zhou Chen himself was bewildered and surprised, followed by delight: "It seems... I'm really not dizzy anymore."
He giggled foolishly: "Could it really be that my core crystal damage was causing such strong reactions to the Sky Pillar?"
Gu Qinxue leaned against the operating table, looking over calmly: "Isn't that obvious?"
Zhou Chen got up and stretched his muscles, suddenly feeling refreshed and energetic, his fatigue completely swept away. Both the heaviness in his body and the pressure in his mind had vanished without a trace.
There was none of the usual soreness after spiritual healing, nor the marks left by isolation chamber restraints, nor the agitation after rejection.
"This is my first spiritual healing like this," he walked quickly toward Gu Qinxue, his eyes shining brightly. Turning to look at Chen Sui, he patted her with some excitement: "You've got skills. I understand now, bro—you're really a treasure."
Chen Sui's hand trembled from his pat, causing a drop of pure blood to fall on the operating table. She didn't even furrow her brow, saying in a steady voice: "Puluo, pull this person away, he's disturbing my work."
Puluo made an "oh" sound, but before he could move, a clearly-jointed large hand flashed in Chen Sui's peripheral vision. The hand directly locked Zhou Chen's throat from behind, effortlessly dragging him away.
Chen Sui saw from the corner of her eye Xie Chunshi nodding at her, his wolf tail following his movement, the curly hair bouncing slightly, looking somewhat pettable.
Chen Sui returned her attention to the artillery, her thoughts wandering, wondering why Xie Chunshi didn't tie up his curly hair—didn't it irritate? Her short hair was already starting to chafe.
Xie Chunshi didn't know Chen Sui's thoughts. After inputting all the information from the base station, he calculated the time for the next Sky Pillar and prepared to leave the base station.
He watched Chen Sui complete the final step of the modification, handing the ice cannon to Puluo to carry and install on the mecha.
With everything completed, Zhu Jing Fu re-entered the cockpits.
Zhou Chen tested the mecha, "It feels different after repair."
He performed several high-difficulty movements, showing off excessively.
After the mecha repair, various parameters had improved significantly. Zhou Chen's joint fluidity increased, and with his energy spillage handled, he finally regained his arrogant spirit and was now quite excitable.
After leaving the base station, he immediately asked Xie Chunshi: "Leader, where are we going to fight now?"
Chen Sui, seeing him still full of vigor now but anticipating his upcoming limpness from the Sky Pillar's swaying, was somewhat looking forward to the show.
Seeing no one stepping up to be the bearer of bad news, Xie Chunshi had to shoulder the responsibility, cruelly telling Zhou Chen: "We're not fighting for now."
Zhou Chen was stunned: "Huh?"
"Then what are we doing?"
Xie Chunshi's words exploded in Zhou Chen's ears, "We're going to ride the Sky Pillar."
"Again?" Zhou Chen thought about the feeling of being controlled by the Sky Pillar. Despite having undergone spiritual healing, he still had trauma, "We're not going to keep riding the Sky Pillar, are we?"
Xie Chunshi nodded.
Zhou Chen felt his vision darkening, "Do we really have to suffer like this?"
Chen Sui didn't mention anything about his desensitization but only asked one question: "How much feeding agent does Zhou Xiaogui have left? How much energy does your mecha have? How many days of water-repellent material do you have?"
Zhou Xiaogui was the name of Zhou Chen's Black Arrow Hawk. Due to insufficient feeding agent, he hadn't summoned his spiritual body during the competition.
Zhou Chen was stumped by her three consecutive questions, unable to think of a reason, and finally obediently followed the school team, like a child unwilling to go to school waiting for the school bus by the roadside.
Chen Sui encircled him several times. When the Sky Pillar swept through, everyone closed their eyes, not wanting to experience the Sky Pillar's dizziness. Zhou Chen, however, sounded somewhat energetic on the team channel.
"I've discovered something."
"I'm really not dizzy anymore, so it was really a core crystal problem."
"It wasn't that I was weak."
His voice sounded intermittently. Chen Sui was busy marking energy fluctuations, and Xie Chunshi was recording the map, so no one had time to respond to him.
But as the Sky Pillar rotated, landing at resource points one after another, even though Zhou Chen wasn't dizzy, he was still made dizzy by the swaying, finally losing the energy to speak.
Zhu Jing Fu's trajectory followed the Sky Pillar, going clockwise from the North Sea Domain through the East and South Sea Domains.
Finally determining that resources were concentrated in the West Sea Domain, they entered the West Sea Domain area just as the sixth day ended, connecting to the West Sea Domain base station.
And well before this, Ink Hills, having already visited the North Sea Domain base station, guessed they were one step behind when they saw that drop of pure blood in the repair room.
After collecting enough information at the North Base Station, Zhang Yingjie finally abandoned the ship and entered the sea, crashing into the Sky Pillar and learning about its roaming information.
At this moment, on the map in the main control room, the energy shield of the West Sea Domain base station could be seen clearly disappearing.
Ji Qing, looking at the dozens of team signals converging on the West Sea Domain map, couldn't help but nod: "With the West Sea Domain shield removed, the Sky Pillar can now roam to the supply points. In the remaining sea areas, most supply points have been acquired by Zhu Jing Fu. Only the West Sea Domain has enough resources. The coming days won't be quiet."
Today's duty in the main control room wasn't Jian Run and Zhao Loulan, but Mo Qiu'an, the head of Energy Management, and Ibis, the head of the Star Alliance Medical Department.
Hearing Ji Qing's words, both looked up.
Mo Qiu'an was a woman with gentle features. As the head of Energy Field Management, she was very familiar with every energy field. Seeing Zhu Jing Fu heading to the West Sea Domain, she instinctively recalled the "inventory" in the West Sea Domain.
"The West Sea Domain has special energy bodies. White Sand Island and Real Island have the highest distribution density, with many materials and mining areas. Zhu Jing Fu should like it very much."
Saying this, Mo Qiu'an thought of the islands in the North Sea Domain with some relief: "Fortunately, they didn't land in the West Sea Domain from the start. Otherwise, I wouldn't want the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain to look completely looted after the competition."
She made a joke, and the barrage, having witnessed Zhu Jing Fu's three-day plundering spree, all expressed agreement.
Meanwhile, Zhu Jing Fu, having detached from the Sky Pillar, was advancing along the direction of the West Sea Domain base station.
Through the Sky Pillar, Zhu Jing Fu had found five supply points and eight random treasure boxes in the North, East, and South Sea Domains, replenishing their resource consumption.
Now, Zhou Chen could say he wasn't envious of Ink Hills' energy pipe reserves at all.
As soon as they entered the West Sea Domain, Chen Sui sensed a completely different energy fluctuation. She keenly discovered the Competition Committee's design.
"The energy in the West Sea Domain has been processed. Could this be the Competition Committee's work?"
Hearing this, Xie Chunshi looked at the map. Chen Sui was modifying the energy fluctuation levels. These markers resolved his doubts about the Sky Pillar: "No wonder."
"No wonder the position judgment of the Sky Pillar was wrong several times. The Committee's energy interference forces the Sky Pillar to dissipate."
Xie Chunshi fully understood now.
Chen Sui raised an eyebrow, "Oh ho, so many tricks. Now in the West Sea Domain, the Sky Pillar probably won't roam widely anymore."
After saying this, she looked at Xie Chunshi, suddenly thinking of something, "If other teams discover the pattern of the Sky Pillar later, they'll probably crash into it intentionally like we did to find resource supplies, right?"
Xie Chunshi nodded, "There are too many surviving teams now. With three days left, over 20 teams need to be eliminated. Weak teams wanting to survive must find enough resources. In the last three days, many will be fishing for law enforcement."
At this point, a glint of interest flashed in Chen Sui's eyes: "Then let's fish for law enforcement and see who does it better."
Xie Chunshi smiled, marking the base station coordinates: "Let's go to the base station first, get the West Sea Domain distribution map, convenient for fishing."
Zhou Chen caught up just in time to hear this sentence and immediately asked: "Fishing? Where? Take me with you!"
He boasted: "I'm super good at fishing." Looking at the West Sea Domain, the sea water was mixed with blackness, and objects were only visible with the mecha's lights. But he could see there weren't many creatures swimming. Zhou Chen found it strange, "Is the water quality in the West Sea Domain not good? How come there aren't even small fish?"
Chen Sui's light swept around, and indeed, she didn't see any other creatures, not even aquatic life running out from the reefs and seaweed clusters.