Chapter 321: Evening Glow Warship
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Half a month later and the unprecedentedly splendid Magical Equipnt Exposition was still underway.
The Flying Crystal race, in which Li Yao exceled, was played and replayed to hundreds of thousands of visitors every day on the giant light beam floating in the air.
Discussions as to whether Mystic Skeleton was stronger than Tiger King or the other way around continued unabated on the Nexus, too.
Many people insisted that Tiger King was the best MP crystal suit model whose specifications were far higher than any of its competitor's. Li Yao's victory in the Flying Crystal race boiled down to his cheating. If the race were to be held one more ti, the Tiger King Battlesuit, driven by Zuo Feijing, would certainly beat it to ash.
But more people believed that since one of the two crystal suits was three tis as expensive as the other one, it would be too unfair to simply compare their specifications.
Li Yao may have resorted to tricks in the final period of the Flying Crystal race. But before that, Mystic Skeleton and Tiger King had confronted each other face-to-face multiple tis. It even blew Tiger King to the ground twice, which was evident enough of its toughness.
After all, moneywise, three Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit equaled one Tiger King Battlesuit.
What would the outco be if three Mystic Skeleton Battlesuits had fought the Tiger King Battlesuit in the race just now?
Every netizen, especially those who were interested in crystal suits, took part in the furious quarrels regarding these trending topics.
But Li Yao, the center of the discussion, had vanished yet again from public attention.
Right now, he was on an unmarked crystal airship which was flying to the base of the Fifth Fleet of the federal army deep inside the mountains.
"Your Refining Departnt finally got its day. I'm told that you've received almost a hundred orders of Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit from major sects of the federation in the past ten days. Well well well. After all of them are refined and shipped out, the profit will be more than ten billion. Such a big fortune!"
Ding Lingdang exclaid joyfully in the spiritual crane ssenger.
"Not that much."
Li Yao counted his fingers as he was running the calculations. "As you know, our Refining Departnt does not have a magical equipnt factory. We can refine three to five pieces by ourselves. But the hundred orders are too much a workload for us and will have to be outsourced to eligible sects. Our profit will plunge because of that.
"Besides, to increase our sales, we quoted a low price for the hundred orders with a lot of complintary post-sales service. Taking that into consideration, there's barely any profit now."
"But it's great that the brand is finally out. You're not in the school these days. But the Refining Departnt has been getting more and more attention. Every corner of the school is discussing the news about the Refining Departnt. I also heard that leaders of the school were planning to further increase the budget for the Refining Departnt to build it into a special major of our school. There was a floating mountain that was supposed to belong to the Combat Departnt upon refinent, but it is going to be transferred to the Refining Departnt after modification. Our dean Old Xia nearly choked himself out of anger."
Ding Lingdang smiled. "Besides, you were quite bold in the Flying Crystal race. Many girls in the school regard you as their idol now. They know that we are very close to each other and you've been calling
sister. A few days ago, a lovely girl even ca to
asking whether or not you had a girlfriend."
Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "Then what did you say to her?"
"I was quite in a dilemma, since I'd never been in such a situation before. After pondering for a long ti—"
Ding Lingdang said, as if it were nothing, "I brought all of the girls that were interested in you to the front of a giant rock, blew the rock into pieces with a single punch, and told them that you are, in fact, my boyfriend and whoever hits on you will end like that rock."
"Okay."
Li Yao scratched his head. It was truly as expected of a tyrannosaur.
While they were talking, the crystal airship slowed down after a bump.
Brightness shined in Li Yao's eyes. He stood up suddenly.
"I've arrived!"
"Go for it! Be they crystal warships or star fortresses, blow 'em to pieces!"
Ding Lingdang waved her fists and cheered for him.
Li Yao smiled. He turned off the spiritual crane ssenger and walked out of the cabin to the front deck.
The scenery in front of him stopped him from breathing for a mont.
In the middle of the lofty mountains, against the bloody sunset, dozens of ragged warships were floating in the air. They did not seem to be made of tal, but rather looked like pupas billions of tis larger. Bones and flesh could be found through the holes on their surface which was full of dreadful warts and scars.
They were the remnants of the devil warships of the demon clan.
Different from the crystal warship of the human beings, every devil warship was a gargantuan living creature and an ultimate biological weapon that ca into being after thousands of years of crazy evolution.
Such warship creatures possessed enormous brains whose computational ability was as good as the mainfra crystal processor of human beings.
By telekinesis, they could be connected to the brain of the high-level demons who then could control them at will and make best use of their firepower.
The devil warships had been wrecked by the federal army and towed to this airborne graveyard as a presentation of the might of human beings.
Passing by the devil warship graveyard, there were dozens of crystal warships in the front that were equally dilapidated and full of rust.
They were the retired warships of the Fifth Fleet of the federal army during the five hundred years of bloody battles. Floating in the air, they were ineffaceable monunts.
Behind the monunts were two steep mountains which pierced into the sky like two sharp swords. A narrow and thin valley lay between the two mountains.
This place was nad Monunt Valley, which was where the Fifth Fleet of the federal army was stationed.
The Fifth Fleet was one of the best troops in the federal army.
Against the spectacular sunset, dozens of crystal warships were emitting blazing brilliance that was hundreds of ters long. But they were as agile as shuttles while they danced in the sky knitting nets in sophisticated and unpredictable patterns.
Above the Monunt Valley, a titanic floating fortress the size of a small city was floating in the air. Countless ard shuttles were flying in and out, humming like busy bees.
Enjoying the view in front him, Li Yao's understanding of 'war machine' grew much deeper.
He felt very proud that he belonged to such a great species.
However, when he realized that his opponent might be one of the crystal warships flying over his head, Li Yao's head imdiately started aching.
"Crystal warships have been the main forces of the federal army all the ti."
Yuan Manqiu walked to his side and watched the magnificent parade of the crystal warships for a while with her hands behind her back. Then she observed, "For five hundred years, the military has been focusing on warship technology and has developed countless formidable crystal warships. When a beast tide breaks out, the crystal warships will be deployed to extinguish it.
"As for high-level demons and the scattered demons hiding in forests, underground, or city ruins, they will be dealt with by Cultivators whose individual combat ability is much higher.
"The military are in charge of clearing the 'sphere', while the Cultivators are responsible for clearing the 'spot'. That's how battles have been fought in the Star Glory Federation traditionally.
"Therefore, there are many warship advocates in the military who insist that railguns and warships can solve all our problems.
"If the problems can't be fixed, that's because the railguns and the warships are not large enough.
"Now that the military is planning to endorse standard crystal suits in the federal army, the resources of the warship advocates will, of course, be greatly diminished. The budget that goes to warships will shrink, too.
"So, it's easy to conceive how much pressure there will be.
"That's also exactly why this special bidding eting is being held. Frankly speaking, this is more about the debate of war thodologies in the military and the quarrels between crystal suit advocates and warship advocates.
"In the bidding eting, not only do we need to prove that the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit is the best MP crystal suit model, we also need to prove that crystal suits boast irreplaceable advantages compared with crystal warships.
"How about it? Are you confident?
"According to the bidding rules provided by the military, Exos of the crystal suits in the bidding eting are not necessarily our own candidates. The military can arrange skilled and experienced Exos to drive the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit for the final test. If you feel that there's too much pressure, we can still change you to soone else."
Li Yao turned to the side and looked at Yuan Manqiu. Then he smiled.
"Professor, that's a very strange way of encouragent."
Yuan Manqiu smiled, too. She handed over a jade slip to Li Yao.
"The military ca by this morning, stating that they can arrange a super Exo who has been wearing crystal suits for more than thirty years for the final test of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. But we declined it right then.
"All the participants of the Project Mystic Skeleton agreed unanimously that you will always be the priority Exo for the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
"We believe in you no matter what.
"This jade slip contains detailed docunts regarding the final test. There is still so ti before we land. You'd better take a look at it carefully. The test will be different from what we imagined.
"This ti, the military is getting serious!"
Li Yao took over the jade slip and took a deep breath when he noticed that his nose had been clogged.
This was going to be the final test!
Passing the test, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit would be able to secure the big order of the military and beco the standard crystal suit for thousands of soldiers of the federal army. Maybe it would even beco the most manufactured crystal suit model!
One day, thousands of soldiers and Cultivators would congregate into an impregnable steel torrent which would rage through the wormholes into the Blood Demon Sector and crush everything inside into pieces.
For the day to co sooner, not just one crystal warship, even if he were to be faced with the entire Fifth Fleet, he would still break out of the siege and tread over them all like a deadly vulture.
…
Inside the cabin, Li Yao connected the jade slip to the mini crystal processor, which imdiately projected a vivid 3D warship model.
'Evening Glow' was a dium crystal warship model refined 80 years ago by the federal army.
It was 214 ters long and 36 ters wide. The main gun of the warship model, 'Heaven Splitters', after charging for half an hour, could fire spiritual energy as furious as a full-strength attack of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.
The sub-cannons below the body of the warship model that were used to attack the targets on the ground had been upgraded to 12 Taiyi Lightning Railguns five years ago.
Li Yao was no stranger to such heavy magical equipnt.
Two years ago, on the train north to Wild Waves City, it was with a Taiyi Lightning Railgun that Li Yao managed to cope with the beast tide.
One Taiyi Lightning Railgun had attracted enough thunderstorms to annihilate half of the Ghost Jellyfish beast tide.
But right now, Li Yao was going to be faced with twelve of them.
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