Chapter 19 Snow

The snow fell heavier and heavier. Mingmei stared blankly at the snowflakes piling up on the starship's glass window, lost in thought.

"This snow feels a bit gray..."

Lu Xiaoyao plastered her entire face against the window. At that moment, some people were closing their eyes to rest, some were playing with their optical computers like nocturnal creatures, and others, like her and Mingmei, were staring at the window, gazing at the dark outside, watching the snowflakes hit the glass in a daze.

"Gray. Is it because the climate here has changed? There are too many impurities in the air. Staying here is not a long-term solution. We need to find a way to leave."

Hu Yue heard Lu Xiaoyao's words and moved her head from Li Yuan's shoulder, looking in Lu Xiaoyao's direction as she spoke.

"I know, otherwise, if they just dumped us here, we might as well just build houses and go on vacation here."

They had played in primitive star copies in escape games before, starting from scratch as savages. If this was just a simple primitive star, they could stay for a while.

However, this was ultimately a planet heading for destruction. All the energy was being lost, and the situation would only get worse and worse. Staying here was not a long-term plan for them.

Lu Xiaoyao rested her head against the window, looking at her reflection in the glass, and sighed.

"What to do?"

"Rest well, and think about it later."

On the other side, Mu Chen had already helped Mingmei lay out her sleeping bag, but Mingmei was still listening to Lu Xiaoyao and the others, and didn't seem to want to sleep.

"Okay."

Mingmei looked at the two sleeping bags lined up in the corner, feeling a little embarrassed.

Lu Xiaoyao nodded obediently, and didn't forget to give Mingmei a little nudge with her mouth, telling her to go to sleep quickly.

If she didn't sleep, the big boss might jump up and beat her up ＿(._.)＿

Once Mingmei was settled, Lu Xiaoyao also threw herself into her sleeping bag and lay down.

But as soon as she lay down, she wasn't sleepy anymore, and just had to play with her optical computer for a while to pass the time.

Therefore, when Lu Xiaoyao opened her eyes the next day, she was almost blinded by the bright light after the snow.

After her eyes teared up, she realized that many people were already up...

"There's really nothing desolate outside."

Mingmei and Mu Chen, along with some other early-rising players, went down from the starship and patrolled the surrounding area.

They wanted to see if there was really nothing left.

Mu Chen didn't sense any life forms, and Mingmei, using Guigui's cheating abilities, also didn't find anything.

They originally thought that the veterans who had abandoned them here might have left some food, drink, and energy, and maybe dug a hole to bury it in, waiting for them to find it.

Unfortunately, they had thought too highly of them.

After they brought their discoveries back to the starship, the others were equally disappointed.

"No way?"

Lu Xiaoyao opened her mouth, and after a long while, she finally organized her thoughts and said, "They really didn't leave anything behind. How are we going to get out? We don't have enough energy stones!"

Speaking of energy stones, Mingmei remembered what Lu Xiaoyao's character had done in "Blood Battle."

"The energy stones for mecha and starships aren't compatible..." Mingmei said, and the others looked at her, not understanding what she meant.

"Before—during Blood Battle, didn't the mecha mechanic cut and polish the zerg nucleus with spiritual power, eventually turning it into an energy stone that the mecha could use?"

"Are you saying to take out the mecha's energy stone and transform it into one that the starship can use?"

As soon as Mingmei finished speaking, Lu Xiaoyao immediately understood what she meant. Seeing Mingmei nod, Lu Xiaoyao quickly waved her hands and said,

"Ah, no way, I only had that ability in the game because a senior possessed me! I really don't have that ability myself!"

Lu Xiaoyao had developed a new interest in mecha repair because of that game. Although it was really tiring in the game, she really had the ability to do it!

After the game ended, she tried to replicate her actions in the game, but reality gave her a harsh lesson.

Not to mention cutting zerg nuclei, her spiritual power almost made ordinary energy stones explode when she tried to polish them. At that time, her grandfather took away all of her live-streaming income for the year.

Was it necessary?

She didn't even blow up the house, okay?

She only blew up half of the warehouse in the backyard, okay?

Of course, Lu Xiaoyao didn't dare to tell her grandfather this, after all, half of the warehouse that exploded contained his things ＿(：3」∠)_

Mingmei watched Lu Xiaoyao's face, which was sometimes embarrassed and sometimes angry when she mentioned this, and immediately judged that Lu Xiaoyao must have done something stupid that she didn't know about.

"I'm not saying you should do it." Mingmei felt that she still needed to stop Lu Xiaoyao from being presumptuous. "Is there anyone here who specializes in mecha or starship repair?"

Lu Xiaoyao certainly couldn't do it. Her suggestion was to find a professional.

As it turned out, there was a student in the crowd who majored in this. Guderian had been thinking about whether Mingmei's method was feasible when Mingmei made her suggestion. When he was sure that it could be tried, Mingmei clearly asked if there was anyone here who could really do it.

Guderian took a deep breath and mustered his courage to raise his hand.

"I think I can try."

Mingmei and the others looked in the direction of the slightly immature male voice, and a boy with a mushroom haircut and a baby face appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone: He looks so young =.=

"I'm Guderian, a freshman in the mechanical repair department. I'm eighteen years old."

"Wow, you're too young, aren't you?"

Military academy students usually enter school between the ages of twenty and twenty-two. Guderian was only eighteen after studying for a year. Wouldn't he have been seventeen when he entered school?

"Well... I got in through the entrance exam." Regardless of whether others were surprised by his age, Guderian's answer was that he got in through the entrance exam.

Someone next to him laughed and said,

"You say that, but didn't everyone here get in through the entrance exam?"

Mingmei, Mu Chen, Lu Xiaoyao, Li Yuan, and Qi Hai Kui from the special recruitment class: =.=

That's true~ They really didn't get in through the entrance exam.

"Then you're really promising at a young age." Hu Yue laughed and broke the awkward atmosphere, looking at Guderian and asking, "Are you confident?"

"Let's go take a look at the starship's energy stone slot first. The model of this starship looks like a new one. We haven't updated the information about this starship, so I need to understand it better."

Guderian answered seriously. Then, a large group of people went to watch Guderian's inspection. After Guderian finished his inspection, he also marveled.

"This starship model is really the newest, and the energy slot is very small."

"Ah? Small?"

"What's so good about it being small?"

"Yeah, after all, it's such a big starship."

Some people already didn't understand. According to their thinking, the larger the energy stone, the better, and the more energy it would store.

"In the past, starship energy slots were indeed very large, because the energy stones used were C-grade to A-grade. The higher the grade of the energy stone, the greater the energy density. At the same volume, the higher the grade of the energy stone, the more energy it stores and accumulates."

Guderian said, pointing to the energy slot behind him, and added:

"So small, it means that this starship uses A or A+ grade energy stones, or even S-grade energy stones if there are any."

"Mecha energy stones are always A-grade as a base. If we really want to reshape the mecha's nucleus into a suitable starship energy stone, at least, it can't be too big, right?"

Guderian had previously imagined that if the energy slot was too large, would he have to disassemble several more mecha nuclei?