Chapter 34.2
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Character ListQiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.
The new week of classes started, and on Monday morning, Qiao Zhiya met Yun Xiachu in the training hall.
“Practice hard, you will grow taller soon.” Qiao Zhiya, who knew that the other party was struggling with his height, encouraged him very intimately. He then went to the gravity training room designated for him.
Yun Xiachu, who was currently pulling a ring, was so stimulated by Qiao Zhiya’s greeting that he fell off the instrument. Looking at his back, he punched the cushion angrily—what qualifications does a seventeen-year-old who is only 1.7 meters have to laugh at? He! He just develops more slowly! His family is like this! Bastard Recluse!!
After school, Qiao Zhiya didn’t go back to the dormitory after dinner. Instead, he went around to the college administrative area and rented a laboratory. He had to find a way to earn some money when he had run out of starnet coins.
The rented laboratory was not like the free laboratory provided by the school, which collects and records the experimental process and results of the students. The rented laboratory was completely closed, and outsiders couldn’t find out the situation inside. This was to protect the privacy of their experiments, so outsiders couldn’t easily steal anything.
After closing the door of the laboratory, Qiao Zhiya didn’t even look at the various tools in the laboratory. He took out his forging table and small hammer, and then searched for a piece of green ore that he bought from the school when identifying the materials. With determination in his eyes, he started the spalling1there’s a Mae’s nerd corner in the footnotes explaining about this process. process.
This time he learned his lesson. Instead of softening all the impurities and reincorporated them back to the material like when he first processed the mutated red tin ore, he immediately expelled all the impurities. He was trying to prevent the materials from being unrecognizable due to redundant processing. He still needed to keep the secondary mutated red tin ore a secret, so some process needed to be omitted.
The texture of the green ore was relatively soft, as it was only a medium-grade material. It was very quick to be processed. After finishing, he found that the color of the green ore has darkened slightly, but its innate properties have not changed. It’s quite resistant from secondary mutation2In this series, secondary mutation refers to “mutation” due to external human processing. Though honestly, mutation, by definition, could only be applicable to genetics. I guess mutated ore would be an ore with different crystallization structure?.
After finishing the ore, he drew various magic circles on the forging platform. With a carefully restrained magic power, he shaped the green ore into a soft whip. In the middle, the green ore was not shaped enough, so he added a little bit of the ink jade – the black magic stone – to stabilize it.
The finished whip was dark green in color, with diamond-shaped lines all over it. The handle was the darkest, almost black, and very beautiful. He played with it fondly for a while, then brought the testing machine in the laboratory and put the whip on it.
[Quality: Intermediate, Hardness: High…]
The machine began to report the data, and it made Qiao Zhiya flabbergasted. High hardness? He wanted to make a soft whip, so the hardness level should only reach intermediate at the most.
While he was wondering, he heard the data of [Activity: High]3no, I also don’t know what “activity” means. Spiritual? Magic??? Some-kind of cosmic energy activity?? Idk man, it’s fantasy. reported by the machine again, and his small face wrinkled.
The activity level of the giant sword he made last time was terribly high. He did not draw a magic circle on this soft whip, but just forged it according to the method of forging weapons in the Magic Continent. How could the activity be so high? Fortunately, it was only high-level, not super-high level like the giant sword last time, and the data was not too exaggerated, otherwise this whip would definitely not be able to be sold.
After the test, the machine gave him an “excellent” evaluation of his results.
He snapped out of his thoughts, took out the whip, cleared the usage data of the machine, put away the forging table and hammer, and left the laboratory.
The high level of hardness should be due to the addition of black magic stones. The activity might be affected by the magic circle on the forging platform, but fortunately it was not crazy high. Excellent spiritual power users could also properly improve certain characteristics of materials. Generally speaking, the data of the whip was still within the normal range.
In short, it could be sold!
It was completely dark outside, and the trade area was still brightly lit. Energetic students shuttled through it, enjoying the rare leisure time after a day of classes.
“Qiao!”
He heard Chu Yan’s voice as he walked past a mecha accessories store. When he heard the familiar voice, he looked up and saw Chu Yan standing on the railing on the store’s second floor, waving vigorously at him.
“Xiao Yan.” Qiao Zhiya also raised his hand to greet him, and then walked into the shop.
Ten meters away, Xiang Kun, who was also attracted by Chu Yan’s shout, turned his head to look. Just as he was about to rush over and continue the unfinished fight with Chu Yan during the day, he noticed Qiao Zhiya who was stepping in.
“Who is that man?” He frowned, and asked his friend, “It looks like a new face, did Chu Yan meet new friends recently?”
His friend shook his head and replied, “No, Chu Yan has been with Yuan Xiu everyday for a while. They stayed together to practice battles and prepare for the end-of-school competition, and it’s been a long time since I saw him go out to play.”
During the conversation, Qiao Zhiya had already gone up to the second floor and stood with Chu Yan, talking intimately. Xiang Kun became more and more unhappy as he watched. He gritted his teeth, and ordered, “Find it out for me! Dage punished me to death last time, so how can he still be happy every day? He even has the time to meet new friends! No fair!!”
The friend silently glanced at him and nodded—this Young Master of the Xiang family was weird. He usually was quite calm and competent, but whenever he saw Chu Yan, some wiring on his brain short-circuited and he became hot-headed so suddenly. They obviously majored in different studies, but he somehow caught up with every gossip of Chu Yan. He really couldn’t understand.
On the second floor of the store, after hearing Qiao Zhiya’s plan, Chu Yan thought for a while and replied, “It’s true that you can open a store on the Starnet and Internet4in case you forgot: Starnet = think of it as our Internet; Internet = VR World, but you need money to rent a storefront, and you need to pay money to entrust the store to the system management. I suggest you take the whip to an auction. It’s far easier and less costly. Don’t worry, the items auctioned online like this are more secretive than in reality. Besides, your helmet is specially made, and it’s not bound to an ID card, so others can’t find it if they want to.”
Qiao Zhiya was completely relieved when he heard the words, and dismissed his worry. He then looked around the shop and asked curiously, “What are you doing here, where is Yuan Xiu?”
“Yuan Xiu went to the school infirmary. He has diarrhea.” Chu Yan cringed when he remembered his best friend’s pale face this morning. But then, he continued answering Qiao Zhiya’s question, “I’m here to buy mecha maintenance materials. Two months from now is my end-of-the-year assessment. We have to participate in a tournament-style mecha driving competition. And as a good mecha pilot, I need to maintain my mecha’s function.”
All the things listed were expensive. Just by looking at it made Qiao Zhiya’s heart skip a beat. He hurriedly motioned Chu Yan to put the list away, and at the same time, a vague idea rose in his mind. He glanced at Chu Yan with a smile on his face. With his face full of baby-fat, he pursed his lips and smiled.
After returning to his dormitory, he used the scanning function of his helmet to scan all the data of the whip. He immediately logged on, avoiding famous products, and directly chose the comprehensive shopping mall that comes with the Internet. In the mecha model weapon area, there was a rule for all merchandise – it had three days to be sold, in which people could put a bid on it. If after three days no bid was offered, it would be removed from the shelves automatically.
It was getting late after all this was done. He hurriedly got off the starnet cabin, waited until ten o’clock on the communicator after washing up. Once it was ten o’clock, he dialed Chu Rong for a video call, hurriedly said good night once it connected, then hung up immediately. After that, he obediently went to bed early.
Ancestor Chu who felt that he was being tricked: “…”
On the afternoon of the second day after the product was put up for sale, the whip was put up for bidding, which meant that the product had been sold. Qiao Zhiya hurriedly followed the system prompts and deliberately sent the whip to a system warehouse – as a means to remain anonymous – and sent it to the courier system. After the closing time of the transaction, the warehouse would directly send the goods to the buyer, and at the same time his account would also receive the payment. This method used the system as a middleman, so the privacy of both parties were guaranteed.
With this money, the study on the Internet could continue. Qiao Zhiya’s mood improved, and he became more involved in his studies. He didn’t notice the change in the atmosphere in the class at all.
“I wonder how he got in here. It turned out that he hugged the Chu family’s thigh5depends on. He looks very innocent and honest. I didn’t expect him to be such a scheming person.”
“Well, now the mystery is answered. He is an Exoplanet Native, but he could go directly to an Intermediate College after a few short months. Didn’t this mean the Chu family used their big name to take a short-cut? It’s not that unusual, right? It’s one of the Four Great Families, after all.”
“Who knows, he looks really good… so maybe… you know…”
“Bang ——!”
Yun Xiachu forcefully pushed open the bathroom door. With a gloomy eyes, he cynically stared at them, “Huh, so your mouth can only spread baseless rumors? So this is the quality of the childrens from wealthy families. Only at the level as a bumpkin from marginal planets. Disgusting and hypocritical!”
When they were caught saying bad things, the little carrot heads turned red. After all, they were too guilty to argue. In the end, they could only leave after saying one thing, “What do you know!”
Yun Xiachu watched them go away with a sullen face. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and cursed, “You bastard Exoplanet Native, such a trouble-magnet!”
In the blink of an eye, it was Friday, and Qiao Zhiya welcomed his most anticipated mecha manufacturing class happily. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the classroom, he was stopped by the teacher who was waiting at the door in advance.
“Are you Qiao Zhiya?” the teacher asked.
Qiao Zhiya was puzzled. He nodded, and politely replied, “It’s me, is there anything I can do for you?”
The teacher glanced at the spiritual power simulator in his ear. He then took out his communicator and contacted someone else, and then motioned Qiao Zhiya to follow him.
Seeing this, Qiao Zhiya became more and more puzzled. He glanced at the students who were already seated and waiting for class, and followed the teacher away in confusion.
The students started whispering, and Yun Xiachu side-eyed at the carrot heads sitting in the middle who were happily watching the scene, his expression darkened—a group of trash who pretended to be smart and liked to do dirty tricks!
After arriving at the office, the teacher motioned for Qiao Zhiya to sit down on the sofa, and then said gently: “It’s like this, we knew that you have a special physical condition. And since you must have spiritual power to learn mecha manufacturing, in order to help students grow more reasonably, the school doesn’t want the students wasting their time on useless courses. We did some research and decided to cancel your mecha manufacturing class and replace it with a corresponding mechanical research course. We also arrange for you to get in touch with an advanced mechanical design class and a senior student to guide you. Don’t you think this is reasonable?”
Qiao Zhiya’s heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He quickly shook his head, and replied, “Thank you teacher for your kindness, but I want to continue learning mecha manufacturing, and I’m very interested in this.” From the standpoint of the school, the teacher who gave this arrangement was very considerate and took care of his own situation, but in his original intention, the arrangement was too bad.
The teacher didn’t expect him to refuse directly. He frowned, and continued to persuade, “Student Qiao Zhiya, I advise you to think twice. In your situation, it is very difficult to get a passing grade at the mecha manufacturing course’s final. And if you keep failing the course, you may be expelled from the school.”
Qiao Zhiya also knew this. On top of that, any respectable Advanced Colleges wouldn’t accept students who failed too many courses. The grades of the mecha manufacturing course were divided into two parts, theory and practice, each of which accounted for 50% of the total grade. Even if he got full marks in the theory class, as long as he did not have the spiritual strength to complete the practical exam, his total grade will be 50%. It was a failing grade. And he was thinking of skipping grades, which required excellent grades in all subjects. Just passing grades was not enough.
Before last weekend, in order to cope with this, he planned to use the special mechanical structure of the Magic Continent to modify the mecha parts, improve the performance of current mechas, obtain new patents, and find a way to skip grades.
The premise of this method was that he must be able to understand the world’s mechanical manufacturing system and the theoretical knowledge of mechas in a short period of time. Plus, he needed to learn how to integrate the mechanical design methods of the Magic Continent into the mechas. So before that, he had been working hard to supplement his lacking theoretical knowledge.
And after the inspection last weekend, he had a new choice – use magic power to simulate spiritual power. With this method, he could pretend that his spiritual power “miraculously” recovered, and he could skip grades normally.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that an accident would come so quickly. He was still able to attend the mecha manufacturing class last week, and the teachers didn’t have any special consideration for him, a student wearing a spiritual power simulator.
“Laoshi, I’ll stick to my choice.” Qiao Zhiya still shook his head, and then asked, “Thank you teacher for your suggestion. Class is about to begin. Can I go back to the classroom?” The teacher was helpless. He was told to persuade Qiao Zhiya to drop the class willingly, but now, he had no choice. He could only speak clearly.
“Student Qiao Zhiya, why didn’t you say that you were a student sent by the Chu family?”
Why did the teacher suddenly mention the Chu family?
Qiao Zhiya was taken aback, his expression slowly became tense, and his eyes became defensive. With a firm tone, he replied, “Laoshi, I was admitted through the normal school application process. I am not “sent” by the Chu family. You misunderstood.”
The teacher took a deep look at him, shook his head, and said meaningfully, “Qiao Zhiya, I checked your admission information this morning. I know about ‘your’ patents, but everyone is not a fool. You… In short, replace the mecha manufacturing course with my arrangements. Think about this well. You are welcome to change your mind at any time.” After speaking, he got up and opened the door, indicating that he could go back to class.
Qiao Zhiya didn’t quite understand what he meant, but he knew that he and the Chu family were underestimated and suspected. So he was very breathless, and said forcefully, “No need.”
He walked out the door quickly.
Ore/mineral processing is called metallurgy, and in general it’s divided into these parts: (if you actually know metallurgy, please help in confirming this! Thank you~)
Of course, there’s also hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy, which use water and fire (plasma/high heat) to help in the purification process.
You can think of Qiao Zhiya using his magic power to purify any ores from its gangue.
If you can, please support me by donating on my ko-fi~ For every 2 ko-fis, I’ll release an additional chapter ^^
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Character ListQiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.
The new week of classes started, and on Monday morning, Qiao Zhiya met Yun Xiachu in the training hall.
“Practice hard, you will grow taller soon.” Qiao Zhiya, who knew that the other party was struggling with his height, encouraged him very intimately. He then went to the gravity training room designated for him.
Yun Xiachu, who was currently pulling a ring, was so stimulated by Qiao Zhiya’s greeting that he fell off the instrument. Looking at his back, he punched the cushion angrily—what qualifications does a seventeen-year-old who is only 1.7 meters have to laugh at? He! He just develops more slowly! His family is like this! Bastard Recluse!!
After school, Qiao Zhiya didn’t go back to the dormitory after dinner. Instead, he went around to the college administrative area and rented a laboratory. He had to find a way to earn some money when he had run out of starnet coins.
The rented laboratory was not like the free laboratory provided by the school, which collects and records the experimental process and results of the students. The rented laboratory was completely closed, and outsiders couldn’t find out the situation inside. This was to protect the privacy of their experiments, so outsiders couldn’t easily steal anything.
After closing the door of the laboratory, Qiao Zhiya didn’t even look at the various tools in the laboratory. He took out his forging table and small hammer, and then searched for a piece of green ore that he bought from the school when identifying the materials. With determination in his eyes, he started the spalling1there’s a Mae’s nerd corner in the footnotes explaining about this process. process.
This time he learned his lesson. Instead of softening all the impurities and reincorporated them back to the material like when he first processed the mutated red tin ore, he immediately expelled all the impurities. He was trying to prevent the materials from being unrecognizable due to redundant processing. He still needed to keep the secondary mutated red tin ore a secret, so some process needed to be omitted.
The texture of the green ore was relatively soft, as it was only a medium-grade material. It was very quick to be processed. After finishing, he found that the color of the green ore has darkened slightly, but its innate properties have not changed. It’s quite resistant from secondary mutation2In this series, secondary mutation refers to “mutation” due to external human processing. Though honestly, mutation, by definition, could only be applicable to genetics. I guess mutated ore would be an ore with different crystallization structure?.
After finishing the ore, he drew various magic circles on the forging platform. With a carefully restrained magic power, he shaped the green ore into a soft whip. In the middle, the green ore was not shaped enough, so he added a little bit of the ink jade – the black magic stone – to stabilize it.
The finished whip was dark green in color, with diamond-shaped lines all over it. The handle was the darkest, almost black, and very beautiful. He played with it fondly for a while, then brought the testing machine in the laboratory and put the whip on it.
[Quality: Intermediate, Hardness: High…]
The machine began to report the data, and it made Qiao Zhiya flabbergasted. High hardness? He wanted to make a soft whip, so the hardness level should only reach intermediate at the most.
While he was wondering, he heard the data of [Activity: High]3no, I also don’t know what “activity” means. Spiritual? Magic??? Some-kind of cosmic energy activity?? Idk man, it’s fantasy. reported by the machine again, and his small face wrinkled.
The activity level of the giant sword he made last time was terribly high. He did not draw a magic circle on this soft whip, but just forged it according to the method of forging weapons in the Magic Continent. How could the activity be so high? Fortunately, it was only high-level, not super-high level like the giant sword last time, and the data was not too exaggerated, otherwise this whip would definitely not be able to be sold.
After the test, the machine gave him an “excellent” evaluation of his results.
He snapped out of his thoughts, took out the whip, cleared the usage data of the machine, put away the forging table and hammer, and left the laboratory.
The high level of hardness should be due to the addition of black magic stones. The activity might be affected by the magic circle on the forging platform, but fortunately it was not crazy high. Excellent spiritual power users could also properly improve certain characteristics of materials. Generally speaking, the data of the whip was still within the normal range.
In short, it could be sold!
It was completely dark outside, and the trade area was still brightly lit. Energetic students shuttled through it, enjoying the rare leisure time after a day of classes.
“Qiao!”
He heard Chu Yan’s voice as he walked past a mecha accessories store. When he heard the familiar voice, he looked up and saw Chu Yan standing on the railing on the store’s second floor, waving vigorously at him.
“Xiao Yan.” Qiao Zhiya also raised his hand to greet him, and then walked into the shop.
Ten meters away, Xiang Kun, who was also attracted by Chu Yan’s shout, turned his head to look. Just as he was about to rush over and continue the unfinished fight with Chu Yan during the day, he noticed Qiao Zhiya who was stepping in.
“Who is that man?” He frowned, and asked his friend, “It looks like a new face, did Chu Yan meet new friends recently?”
His friend shook his head and replied, “No, Chu Yan has been with Yuan Xiu everyday for a while. They stayed together to practice battles and prepare for the end-of-school competition, and it’s been a long time since I saw him go out to play.”
During the conversation, Qiao Zhiya had already gone up to the second floor and stood with Chu Yan, talking intimately. Xiang Kun became more and more unhappy as he watched. He gritted his teeth, and ordered, “Find it out for me! Dage punished me to death last time, so how can he still be happy every day? He even has the time to meet new friends! No fair!!”
The friend silently glanced at him and nodded—this Young Master of the Xiang family was weird. He usually was quite calm and competent, but whenever he saw Chu Yan, some wiring on his brain short-circuited and he became hot-headed so suddenly. They obviously majored in different studies, but he somehow caught up with every gossip of Chu Yan. He really couldn’t understand.
On the second floor of the store, after hearing Qiao Zhiya’s plan, Chu Yan thought for a while and replied, “It’s true that you can open a store on the Starnet and Internet4in case you forgot: Starnet = think of it as our Internet; Internet = VR World, but you need money to rent a storefront, and you need to pay money to entrust the store to the system management. I suggest you take the whip to an auction. It’s far easier and less costly. Don’t worry, the items auctioned online like this are more secretive than in reality. Besides, your helmet is specially made, and it’s not bound to an ID card, so others can’t find it if they want to.”
Qiao Zhiya was completely relieved when he heard the words, and dismissed his worry. He then looked around the shop and asked curiously, “What are you doing here, where is Yuan Xiu?”
“Yuan Xiu went to the school infirmary. He has diarrhea.” Chu Yan cringed when he remembered his best friend’s pale face this morning. But then, he continued answering Qiao Zhiya’s question, “I’m here to buy mecha maintenance materials. Two months from now is my end-of-the-year assessment. We have to participate in a tournament-style mecha driving competition. And as a good mecha pilot, I need to maintain my mecha’s function.”
All the things listed were expensive. Just by looking at it made Qiao Zhiya’s heart skip a beat. He hurriedly motioned Chu Yan to put the list away, and at the same time, a vague idea rose in his mind. He glanced at Chu Yan with a smile on his face. With his face full of baby-fat, he pursed his lips and smiled.
After returning to his dormitory, he used the scanning function of his helmet to scan all the data of the whip. He immediately logged on, avoiding famous products, and directly chose the comprehensive shopping mall that comes with the Internet. In the mecha model weapon area, there was a rule for all merchandise – it had three days to be sold, in which people could put a bid on it. If after three days no bid was offered, it would be removed from the shelves automatically.
It was getting late after all this was done. He hurriedly got off the starnet cabin, waited until ten o’clock on the communicator after washing up. Once it was ten o’clock, he dialed Chu Rong for a video call, hurriedly said good night once it connected, then hung up immediately. After that, he obediently went to bed early.
Ancestor Chu who felt that he was being tricked: “…”
On the afternoon of the second day after the product was put up for sale, the whip was put up for bidding, which meant that the product had been sold. Qiao Zhiya hurriedly followed the system prompts and deliberately sent the whip to a system warehouse – as a means to remain anonymous – and sent it to the courier system. After the closing time of the transaction, the warehouse would directly send the goods to the buyer, and at the same time his account would also receive the payment. This method used the system as a middleman, so the privacy of both parties were guaranteed.
With this money, the study on the Internet could continue. Qiao Zhiya’s mood improved, and he became more involved in his studies. He didn’t notice the change in the atmosphere in the class at all.
“I wonder how he got in here. It turned out that he hugged the Chu family’s thigh5depends on. He looks very innocent and honest. I didn’t expect him to be such a scheming person.”
“Well, now the mystery is answered. He is an Exoplanet Native, but he could go directly to an Intermediate College after a few short months. Didn’t this mean the Chu family used their big name to take a short-cut? It’s not that unusual, right? It’s one of the Four Great Families, after all.”
“Who knows, he looks really good… so maybe… you know…”
“Bang ——!”
Yun Xiachu forcefully pushed open the bathroom door. With a gloomy eyes, he cynically stared at them, “Huh, so your mouth can only spread baseless rumors? So this is the quality of the childrens from wealthy families. Only at the level as a bumpkin from marginal planets. Disgusting and hypocritical!”
When they were caught saying bad things, the little carrot heads turned red. After all, they were too guilty to argue. In the end, they could only leave after saying one thing, “What do you know!”
Yun Xiachu watched them go away with a sullen face. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and cursed, “You bastard Exoplanet Native, such a trouble-magnet!”
In the blink of an eye, it was Friday, and Qiao Zhiya welcomed his most anticipated mecha manufacturing class happily. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the classroom, he was stopped by the teacher who was waiting at the door in advance.
“Are you Qiao Zhiya?” the teacher asked.
Qiao Zhiya was puzzled. He nodded, and politely replied, “It’s me, is there anything I can do for you?”
The teacher glanced at the spiritual power simulator in his ear. He then took out his communicator and contacted someone else, and then motioned Qiao Zhiya to follow him.
Seeing this, Qiao Zhiya became more and more puzzled. He glanced at the students who were already seated and waiting for class, and followed the teacher away in confusion.
The students started whispering, and Yun Xiachu side-eyed at the carrot heads sitting in the middle who were happily watching the scene, his expression darkened—a group of trash who pretended to be smart and liked to do dirty tricks!
After arriving at the office, the teacher motioned for Qiao Zhiya to sit down on the sofa, and then said gently: “It’s like this, we knew that you have a special physical condition. And since you must have spiritual power to learn mecha manufacturing, in order to help students grow more reasonably, the school doesn’t want the students wasting their time on useless courses. We did some research and decided to cancel your mecha manufacturing class and replace it with a corresponding mechanical research course. We also arrange for you to get in touch with an advanced mechanical design class and a senior student to guide you. Don’t you think this is reasonable?”
Qiao Zhiya’s heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He quickly shook his head, and replied, “Thank you teacher for your kindness, but I want to continue learning mecha manufacturing, and I’m very interested in this.” From the standpoint of the school, the teacher who gave this arrangement was very considerate and took care of his own situation, but in his original intention, the arrangement was too bad.
The teacher didn’t expect him to refuse directly. He frowned, and continued to persuade, “Student Qiao Zhiya, I advise you to think twice. In your situation, it is very difficult to get a passing grade at the mecha manufacturing course’s final. And if you keep failing the course, you may be expelled from the school.”
Qiao Zhiya also knew this. On top of that, any respectable Advanced Colleges wouldn’t accept students who failed too many courses. The grades of the mecha manufacturing course were divided into two parts, theory and practice, each of which accounted for 50% of the total grade. Even if he got full marks in the theory class, as long as he did not have the spiritual strength to complete the practical exam, his total grade will be 50%. It was a failing grade. And he was thinking of skipping grades, which required excellent grades in all subjects. Just passing grades was not enough.
Before last weekend, in order to cope with this, he planned to use the special mechanical structure of the Magic Continent to modify the mecha parts, improve the performance of current mechas, obtain new patents, and find a way to skip grades.
The premise of this method was that he must be able to understand the world’s mechanical manufacturing system and the theoretical knowledge of mechas in a short period of time. Plus, he needed to learn how to integrate the mechanical design methods of the Magic Continent into the mechas. So before that, he had been working hard to supplement his lacking theoretical knowledge.
And after the inspection last weekend, he had a new choice – use magic power to simulate spiritual power. With this method, he could pretend that his spiritual power “miraculously” recovered, and he could skip grades normally.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that an accident would come so quickly. He was still able to attend the mecha manufacturing class last week, and the teachers didn’t have any special consideration for him, a student wearing a spiritual power simulator.
“Laoshi, I’ll stick to my choice.” Qiao Zhiya still shook his head, and then asked, “Thank you teacher for your suggestion. Class is about to begin. Can I go back to the classroom?” The teacher was helpless. He was told to persuade Qiao Zhiya to drop the class willingly, but now, he had no choice. He could only speak clearly.
“Student Qiao Zhiya, why didn’t you say that you were a student sent by the Chu family?”
Why did the teacher suddenly mention the Chu family?
Qiao Zhiya was taken aback, his expression slowly became tense, and his eyes became defensive. With a firm tone, he replied, “Laoshi, I was admitted through the normal school application process. I am not “sent” by the Chu family. You misunderstood.”
The teacher took a deep look at him, shook his head, and said meaningfully, “Qiao Zhiya, I checked your admission information this morning. I know about ‘your’ patents, but everyone is not a fool. You… In short, replace the mecha manufacturing course with my arrangements. Think about this well. You are welcome to change your mind at any time.” After speaking, he got up and opened the door, indicating that he could go back to class.
Qiao Zhiya didn’t quite understand what he meant, but he knew that he and the Chu family were underestimated and suspected. So he was very breathless, and said forcefully, “No need.”
He walked out the door quickly.
Ore/mineral processing is called metallurgy, and in general it’s divided into these parts: (if you actually know metallurgy, please help in confirming this! Thank you~)
Of course, there’s also hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy, which use water and fire (plasma/high heat) to help in the purification process.
You can think of Qiao Zhiya using his magic power to purify any ores from its gangue.
If you can, please support me by donating on my ko-fi~ For every 2 ko-fis, I’ll release an additional chapter ^^
Character ListQiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.The new week of classes started, and on Monday morning, Qiao Zhiya met Yun Xiachu in the training hall.Practice hard, you will grow taller soon. Qiao Zhiya, who knew that the other party was struggling with his height, encouraged him very intimately. He then went to the gravity training room designated for him.Yun Xiachu, who was currently pulling a ring, was so stimulated by Qiao Zhiya's greeting that he fell off the instrument. Looking at his back, he punched the cushion angrilywhat qualifications does a seventeen-year-old who is only 1.7 meters have to laugh at? He! He just develops more slowly! His family is like this! Bastard Recluse!!After school, Qiao Zhiya didn't go back to the dormitory after dinner. Instead, he went around to the college administrative area and rented a laboratory. He had to find a way to earn some money when he had run out of starnet coins.The rented laboratory was not like the free laboratory provided by the school, which collects and records the experimental process and results of the students. The rented laboratory was completely closed, and outsiders couldn't find out the situation inside. This was to protect the privacy of their experiments, so outsiders couldn't easily steal anything.After closing the door of the laboratory, Qiao Zhiya didn't even look at the various tools in the laboratory. He took out his forging table and small hammer, and then searched for a piece of green ore that he bought from the school when identifying the materials. With determination in his eyes, he started the spalling1there's a Mae's nerd corner in the footnotes explaining about this process. process.This time he learned his lesson. Instead of softening all the impurities and reincorporated them back to the material like when he first processed the mutated red tin ore, he immediately expelled all the impurities. He was trying to prevent the materials from being unrecognizable due to redundant processing. He still needed to keep the secondary mutated red tin ore a secret, so some process needed to be omitted. The texture of the green ore was relatively soft, as it was only a medium-grade material. It was very quick to be processed. After finishing, he found that the color of the green ore has darkened slightly, but its innate properties have not changed. It's quite resistant from secondary mutation2In this series, secondary mutation refers to mutation due to external human processing. Though honestly, mutation, by definition, could only be applicable to genetics. I guess mutated ore would be an ore with different crystallization structure?.After finishing the ore, he drew various magic circles on the forging platform. With a carefully restrained magic power, he shaped the green ore into a soft whip. In the middle, the green ore was not shaped enough, so he added a little bit of the ink jade the black magic stone to stabilize it.The finished whip was dark green in color, with diamond-shaped lines all over it. The handle was the darkest, almost black, and very beautiful. He played with it fondly for a while, then brought the testing machine in the laboratory and put the whip on it.Quality: Intermediate, Hardness: HighThe machine began to report the data, and it made Qiao Zhiya flabbergasted. High hardness? He wanted to make a soft whip, so the hardness level should only reach intermediate at the most.While he was wondering, he heard the data of Activity: High3no, I also don't know what activity means. Spiritual? Magic??? Some-kind of cosmic energy activity?? Idk man, it's fantasy. reported by the machine again, and his small face wrinkled.The activity level of the giant sword he made last time was terribly high. He did not draw a magic circle on this soft whip, but just forged it according to the method of forging weapons in the Magic Continent. How could the activity be so high? Fortunately, it was only high-level, not super-high level like the giant sword last time, and the data was not too exaggerated, otherwise this whip would definitely not be able to be sold.After the test, the machine gave him an excellent evaluation of his results.He snapped out of his thoughts, took out the whip, cleared the usage data of the machine, put away the forging table and hammer, and left the laboratory.The high level of hardness should be due to the addition of black magic stones. The activity might be affected by the magic circle on the forging platform, but fortunately it was not crazy high. Excellent spiritual power users could also properly improve certain characteristics of materials. Generally speaking, the data of the whip was still within the normal range.In short, it could be sold!It was completely dark outside, and the trade area was still brightly lit. Energetic students shuttled through it, enjoying the rare leisure time after a day of classes.Qiao!He heard Chu Yan's voice as he walked past a mecha accessories store. When he heard the familiar voice, he looked up and saw Chu Yan standing on the railing on the store's second floor, waving vigorously at him.Xiao Yan. Qiao Zhiya also raised his hand to greet him, and then walked into the shop.Ten meters away, Xiang Kun, who was also attracted by Chu Yan's shout, turned his head to look. Just as he was about to rush over and continue the unfinished fight with Chu Yan during the day, he noticed Qiao Zhiya who was stepping in.Who is that man? He frowned, and asked his friend, It looks like a new face, did Chu Yan meet new friends recently?His friend shook his head and replied, No, Chu Yan has been with Yuan Xiu everyday for a while. They stayed together to practice battles and prepare for the end-of-school competition, and it's been a long time since I saw him go out to play.During the conversation, Qiao Zhiya had already gone up to the second floor and stood with Chu Yan, talking intimately. Xiang Kun became more and more unhappy as he watched. He gritted his teeth, and ordered, Find it out for me! Dage punished me to death last time, so how can he still be happy every day? He even has the time to meet new friends! No fair!!The friend silently glanced at him and noddedthis Young Master of the Xiang family was weird. He usually was quite calm and competent, but whenever he saw Chu Yan, some wiring on his brain short-circuited and he became hot-headed so suddenly. They obviously majored in different studies, but he somehow caught up with every gossip of Chu Yan. He really couldn't understand.On the second floor of the store, after hearing Qiao Zhiya's plan, Chu Yan thought for a while and replied, It's true that you can open a store on the Starnet and Internet4in case you forgot: Starnet = think of it as our Internet; Internet = VR World, but you need money to rent a storefront, and you need to pay money to entrust the store to the system management. I suggest you take the whip to an auction. It's far easier and less costly. Don't worry, the items auctioned online like this are more secretive than in reality. Besides, your helmet is specially made, and it's not bound to an ID card, so others can't find it if they want to.Qiao Zhiya was completely relieved when he heard the words, and dismissed his worry. He then looked around the shop and asked curiously, What are you doing here, where is Yuan Xiu?Yuan Xiu went to the school infirmary. He has diarrhea. Chu Yan cringed when he remembered his best friend's pale face this morning. But then, he continued answering Qiao Zhiya's question, I'm here to buy mecha maintenance materials. Two months from now is my end-of-the-year assessment. We have to participate in a tournament-style mecha driving competition. And as a good mecha pilot, I need to maintain my mecha's function.All the things listed were expensive. Just by looking at it made Qiao Zhiya's heart skip a beat. He hurriedly motioned Chu Yan to put the list away, and at the same time, a vague idea rose in his mind. He glanced at Chu Yan with a smile on his face. With his face full of baby-fat, he pursed his lips and smiled.After returning to his dormitory, he used the scanning function of his helmet to scan all the data of the whip. He immediately logged on, avoiding famous products, and directly chose the comprehensive shopping mall that comes with the Internet. In the mecha model weapon area, there was a rule for all merchandise it had three days to be sold, in which people could put a bid on it. If after three days no bid was offered, it would be removed from the shelves automatically.It was getting late after all this was done. He hurriedly got off the starnet cabin, waited until ten o'clock on the communicator after washing up. Once it was ten o'clock, he dialed Chu Rong for a video call, hurriedly said good night once it connected, then hung up immediately. After that, he obediently went to bed early.Ancestor Chu who felt that he was being tricked: On the afternoon of the second day after the product was put up for sale, the whip was put up for bidding, which meant that the product had been sold. Qiao Zhiya hurriedly followed the system prompts and deliberately sent the whip to a system warehouse as a means to remain anonymous and sent it to the courier system. After the closing time of the transaction, the warehouse would directly send the goods to the buyer, and at the same time his account would also receive the payment. This method used the system as a middleman, so the privacy of both parties were guaranteed.With this money, the study on the Internet could continue. Qiao Zhiya's mood improved, and he became more involved in his studies. He didn't notice the change in the atmosphere in the class at all.I wonder how he got in here. It turned out that he hugged the Chu family's thigh5depends on. He looks very innocent and honest. I didn't expect him to be such a scheming person.Well, now the mystery is answered. He is an Exoplanet Native, but he could go directly to an Intermediate College after a few short months. Didn't this mean the Chu family used their big name to take a short-cut? It's not that unusual, right? It's one of the Four Great Families, after all.Who knows, he looks really good so maybe you knowBang !Yun Xiachu forcefully pushed open the bathroom door. With a gloomy eyes, he cynically stared at them, Huh, so your mouth can only spread baseless rumors? So this is the quality of the childrens from wealthy families. Only at the level as a bumpkin from marginal planets. Disgusting and hypocritical!When they were caught saying bad things, the little carrot heads turned red. After all, they were too guilty to argue. In the end, they could only leave after saying one thing, What do you know!Yun Xiachu watched them go away with a sullen face. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and cursed, You bastard Exoplanet Native, such a trouble-magnet!In the blink of an eye, it was Friday, and Qiao Zhiya welcomed his most anticipated mecha manufacturing class happily. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the classroom, he was stopped by the teacher who was waiting at the door in advance.Are you Qiao Zhiya? the teacher asked.Qiao Zhiya was puzzled. He nodded, and politely replied, It's me, is there anything I can do for you?The teacher glanced at the spiritual power simulator in his ear. He then took out his communicator and contacted someone else, and then motioned Qiao Zhiya to follow him.Seeing this, Qiao Zhiya became more and more puzzled. He glanced at the students who were already seated and waiting for class, and followed the teacher away in confusion.The students started whispering, and Yun Xiachu side-eyed at the carrot heads sitting in the middle who were happily watching the scene, his expression darkeneda group of trash who pretended to be smart and liked to do dirty tricks!After arriving at the office, the teacher motioned for Qiao Zhiya to sit down on the sofa, and then said gently: It's like this, we knew that you have a special physical condition. And since you must have spiritual power to learn mecha manufacturing, in order to help students grow more reasonably, the school doesn't want the students wasting their time on useless courses. We did some research and decided to cancel your mecha manufacturing class and replace it with a corresponding mechanical research course. We also arrange for you to get in touch with an advanced mechanical design class and a senior student to guide you. Don't you think this is reasonable?Qiao Zhiya's heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He quickly shook his head, and replied, Thank you teacher for your kindness, but I want to continue learning mecha manufacturing, and I'm very interested in this. From the standpoint of the school, the teacher who gave this arrangement was very considerate and took care of his own situation, but in his original intention, the arrangement was too bad.The teacher didn't expect him to refuse directly. He frowned, and continued to persuade, Student Qiao Zhiya, I advise you to think twice. In your situation, it is very difficult to get a passing grade at the mecha manufacturing course's final. And if you keep failing the course, you may be expelled from the school.Qiao Zhiya also knew this. On top of that, any respectable Advanced Colleges wouldn't accept students who failed too many courses. The grades of the mecha manufacturing course were divided into two parts, theory and practice, each of which accounted for 50% of the total grade. Even if he got full marks in the theory class, as long as he did not have the spiritual strength to complete the practical exam, his total grade will be 50%. It was a failing grade. And he was thinking of skipping grades, which required excellent grades in all subjects. Just passing grades was not enough.Before last weekend, in order to cope with this, he planned to use the special mechanical structure of the Magic Continent to modify the mecha parts, improve the performance of current mechas, obtain new patents, and find a way to skip grades.The premise of this method was that he must be able to understand the world's mechanical manufacturing system and the theoretical knowledge of mechas in a short period of time. Plus, he needed to learn how to integrate the mechanical design methods of the Magic Continent into the mechas. So before that, he had been working hard to supplement his lacking theoretical knowledge.And after the inspection last weekend, he had a new choice use magic power to simulate spiritual power. With this method, he could pretend that his spiritual power miraculously recovered, and he could skip grades normally.It's just that he didn't expect that an accident would come so quickly. He was still able to attend the mecha manufacturing class last week, and the teachers didn't have any special consideration for him, a student wearing a spiritual power simulator.Laoshi, I'll stick to my choice. Qiao Zhiya still shook his head, and then asked, Thank you teacher for your suggestion. Class is about to begin. Can I go back to the classroom? The teacher was helpless. He was told to persuade Qiao Zhiya to drop the class willingly, but now, he had no choice. He could only speak clearly.Student Qiao Zhiya, why didn't you say that you were a student sent by the Chu family?Why did the teacher suddenly mention the Chu family?Qiao Zhiya was taken aback, his expression slowly became tense, and his eyes became defensive. With a firm tone, he replied, Laoshi, I was admitted through the normal school application process. I am not sent by the Chu family. You misunderstood.The teacher took a deep look at him, shook his head, and said meaningfully, Qiao Zhiya, I checked your admission information this morning. I know about your' patents, but everyone is not a fool. You In short, replace the mecha manufacturing course with my arrangements. Think about this well. You are welcome to change your mind at any time. After speaking, he got up and opened the door, indicating that he could go back to class.Qiao Zhiya didn't quite understand what he meant, but he knew that he and the Chu family were underestimated and suspected. So he was very breathless, and said forcefully, No need.He walked out the door quickly.Ore/mineral processing is called metallurgy, and in general it's divided into these parts: if you actually know metallurgy, please help in confirming this! Thank you~Of course, there's also hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy, which use water and fire plasma/high heat to help in the purification process.You can think of Qiao Zhiya using his magic power to purify any ores from its gangue.If you can, please support me by donating on my ko-fi~ For every 2 ko-fis, I'll release an additional chapter ^^
