novelraw Chapter 77 : Rest Period
Chapter 77 : Rest Period
Chen Sui dramatically covered her wide-open mouth with her hand, feigning surprise: "Oh!"
"How does the Border Army accept someone like you?"
She blinked, asking with a sincere expression.
Lu Cuining choked, seeing her deliberate expression, about to force a laugh.
Beside them, Jian Run heard this, suddenly looked at Chen Sui, then at Lu Cuining, before raising his hand and slapping the man's crew cut: "You two know each other?"
"Lu Cuining, what nonsense have you been telling children again?"
Chen Sui obediently clasped her hands, blinked, and looked at the two elders.
Having suddenly received a slap, Lu Cuining immediately grabbed Jian Run's hand: "You dare hit me? Want to go to the combat platform? I see all these years of wine and luxury on the Main Star haven't made you forget all your combat skills, have they?"
Jian Run, completely disregarding his image, started scuffling with Lu Cuining in front of Chen Sui: "Forget? You might forget but I never would. Combat platform! Don't forget who was the one pinned down and pummeled on the combat platform before!"
"Was it you? You're just boasting," Lu Cuining exchanged hooks with him. "It was Miss Vina, not you. Look how proud you are!"
Hearing this name, Chen Sui, who had been watching the show, shifted her gaze slightly. Then she heard Jian Run say: "If my wife did it, it's the same as me doing it."
Lu Cuining's lips moved, but he swallowed the words he was about to say.
Is she really your wife? You haven't even gotten married.
Thinking of this, Lu Cuining couldn't bear to say it out loud.
Forget it. He's been a widower for these years; what harm is there in letting him have this?
But on second thought, he felt Jian Run was still luckier than him.
At least everyone knew he and Vina were a couple.
Unlike him.
"You two," Chen Sui watched them frozen in one position and couldn't help reminding them, "if you want to fight, why not go to the combat room?"
"Or I could move past, and then you can continue fighting?"
Jian Run suddenly realized there was still a student watching and quickly pushed Lu Cuining away: "What fighting? Showing no respect. Ahem."
He cleared his throat, straightened his collar, resuming the demeanor of an elder: "Student Chen Sui, you just finished competing, and you're already rushing off to train again? Didn't Yan Mingyu give you a break?"
Chen Sui raised her eyes to look at him: "Teacher Yan said we'd get a break when we return to Yuguang Star. There's nothing fun to do in the Dawn Star Cluster anyway."
"How can there be nothing?" Jian Run objected. "Dawn Star has many seas. What's that... Na Luo River and Xitisi arranged to go sea fishing together."
Chen Sui saw him poke Lu Cuining as he mentioned Na Luo River.
Lu Cuining appeared thoughtful, then suddenly remembered: "No, Xiao Er went to the training room this morning."
"Your son isn't sociable, don't mention it," Jian Run was merciless in striking at the heart.
Lu Cuining couldn't stand anyone criticizing his kid and immediately retorted: "What do you mean 'not sociable'? You really have a way with words."
"Sea fishing?" Chen Sui raised an eyebrow, then glanced at her light brain. "Saint Laurent didn't go either. Perfect chance for us to overtake on the curve."
She said sincerely.
Jian Run looked at her speaking nonsense with a serious face. What kind of overtaking could be done in one day? A scooter?
Chen Sui's trip to the training room wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision but because she had received a message from Xue Yaoyao.
This analyst from Saint Laurent was indeed a sincere and straightforward person.
When Chen Sui first saw her, with her perpetual expression of disdain for everyone, she wondered if this person would be difficult to get along with.
But after arriving at the training room and interacting with her, she discovered that Xue Yaoyao, like Liao Ruyi, was an open and forthright person.
She arrived a step late; Xue Yaoyao had already prepared all the materials. As Chen Sui entered, she first apologized softly: "I met two seniors on the way and greeted them."
"No problem," Xue Yaoyao peered out from behind the operating console. Seeing Chen Sui approach, she suddenly paused in front of the energy simulation device. The slender girl bent down, raised the simulation device level, then exhaled: "It's safer to set it a few levels higher."
Thinking of the explosion she had triggered, Xue Yaoyao nodded somewhat fearfully: "Indeed."
Chen Sui sat at the edge of the console, looking at the books and materials handed to her.
"I wanted to ask for your advice," Xue Yaoyao spoke very formally, so formally that Chen Sui couldn't help but become serious too. "About making analysis instruments, I can never manage it."
Chen Sui listened to her describe her problem, somewhat moved by Xue Yaoyao's honesty.
Come to think of it, because of being an interstellar nomad and her spiritual body level, she had been discussed too much on the StarNet. Suddenly meeting someone with such a normal attitude as Xue Yaoyao, she felt a bit uncomfortable.
But Chen Sui quickly adjusted.
Xue Yaoyao simply explained her problem, and finally spread her hands in resignation: "That's it. So I always fail at making analysis instruments, not once successful."
"So, I've come to ask for your advice. How did you break through the bottleneck of analysis instruments?"
Chen Sui flipped through the books and materials she had brought, pointing to a sentence. Her cheeks puffed slightly. From Xue Yaoyao's angle, she looked somewhat cute, making Xue Yaoyao's fingers below the table twitch involuntarily.
Student Chen Sui looks so cute; pinching her once would probably make her eyes widen.
Xue Yaoyao's mind wandered with this thought.
Chen Sui cleared her throat, recalling her attention: "It's probably here. I followed these steps, first making a supplementary crystal, then a suppression lock."
Xue Yaoyao looked at the analysis instrument making steps familiar to all analysts. To be honest, everyone could recite this theoretical text, just like the words 'solve as follows' on a complex theoretical math problem—abstract and vague.
"You just looked at this section and made a supplementary crystal?"
Xue Yaoyao struggled to understand Chen Sui's meaning.
Chen Sui nodded, looking at her honestly: "That's right. The supplementary crystal is quite simple. The suppression lock... has some difficulty."
Chen Sui pondered.
Xue Yaoyao took a breath: "Didn't your teacher teach you how to compress energy?"
Chen Sui thought for a moment, then said calmly: "I don't have a specific teacher. All the teachers in the Analyst Department have taught me. Which one are you asking about?"
Xue Yaoyao choked for a moment. She understood—with so many teachers and the school team rushing progress, probably no one would specifically teach the content of analysis instruments.
"So, how did you learn to make analysis instruments?" Xue Yaoyao was really curious.
She studied under Master Zhao Rui, renowned in the analyst world, but when she encountered bottlenecks, her teacher clearly told her that analysis instruments were a threshold for selecting analysts. Only when one's energy control and energy compatibility reached a certain level could one complete this task.
No one could help her cross this threshold prematurely.
Xue Yaoyao also wanted to understand from Chen Sui how she had crossed this threshold, after all, she had only been learning for three months, perhaps she had some unique theoretical thinking.
But unexpectedly... she didn't need any of this, because she had no threshold at all.
Xue Yaoyao's eyes momentarily lost focus.
"I, may I ask, your mental threshold value..." Halfway through, Xue Yaoyao stopped herself, saying apologetically: "Sorry, I didn't mean to pry into your school team's situation."
Chen Sui smiled, showing understanding. She didn't answer Xue Yaoyao's question but continued flipping through her materials.
Xue Yaoyao's efforts were evident in every word she wrote, every insight, every reflection after attempts.
Chen Sui had heard about her—she also came from a distant star ring, had lost her family and home due to an energy field, and was later selected by her teacher and taken as a disciple.
"Actually," Chen Sui finished reading her trial records and roughly understood where the problem was, "the success of analysis instruments depends on many aspects: the analyst's mental threshold storage, energy control precision, compatibility degree, and so on. These are all foundations. The process of compressing energy is a challenge; delivering the compressed energy into the instrument without dispersal is also a challenge; and the instrument working in the mental threshold is equally challenging. All these test an analyst's control over energy."
"If you find analysis instruments difficult, you might try energy precision training."
Chen Sui shared with her a set of methods she had discovered for training an analyst's energy control.
These were methods she had summarized from Zhu Jing Fu's holographic classroom and the experiences of several analysts, the set most suitable for herself.
Xue Yaoyao was taken aback, seeing Chen Sui open her light brain, a trace of awkwardness flashing across her face: "Um, shall we add each other on light brain for contact?"
Xue Yaoyao was overjoyed: "Sure!"
After receiving Chen Sui's contact, Xue Yaoyao saw the materials sent over and couldn't help laughing: "You, you're just giving this to me?"
Chen Sui blinked: "Huh? Is there something else?"
She thought for a moment. Since the practice here required many energy crystals, she reminded: "You can collect the energy crystals here according to your own situation; you don't need to follow exactly."
The energy crystal list was drafted by Chen Sui based on her own circumstances.
Xue Yaoyao felt like she had found a treasure. Holding the materials, her palms grew hot. Feeling she had taken advantage of Chen Sui, she became somewhat embarrassed: "You've helped me a lot. How about if there's anything I can do for you, I'll help you too!"
Chen Sui didn't think this was a big deal.
In fact, as the league match progressed, analysts gradually learning to control energy was the most normal thing.
Moreover, she clearly recognized that the main competition in the league match, or rather the formal league match, was not between the various academies, but between each academy and the energy bodies.
They had common enemies, and helping Xue Yaoyao didn't make her feel like she was cultivating an opponent.
Because in a sense, they weren't completely opponents, but teammates.
"It's nothing," Chen Sui said. Seeing Xue Yaoyao's face turning red, she thought for a second: "If there's a chance in the future, I'll ask for your help."
Xue Yaoyao nodded decisively, urging: "Don't be polite with me at all!"
Chen Sui laughed: "Alright."
As Xue Yaoyao and Chen Sui were leaving the training room, the girl's wrist vibrated. A pair of eyes with distinctly downward outer corners looked at the light brain, then turned to Chen Sui: "Oh, Xie Yi sent me a message."
Chen Sui suddenly remembered: "Oh, right, she said she had a collector's album to give me!"
Xie Yi had come looking for Chen Sui after leaving the competition venue, but she had just finished her check-up and was about to go see Cheng Wei, so she could only nod in agreement, saying she would come get it later.
Chen Sui was very interested in Xie Yi's mecha collector's album.
It was said to cover all the famous mechas in the Star Alliance.