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Chapter 9: The Interstellar Domain Market Test
Chapter 9: The Interstellar Domain Market Test
As one of the five major cities of the White Tower Floating Land, Jiangyuan City has a population of over twenty million, with more than a hundred thousand students enrolling each year.
With such a large number of students, it's not surprising that there are multiple Flameheart Academies in the city, even though the First Flameheart Academy attracts the elite students from the entire city. It can't possibly accommodate all the awakened students in Jiangyuan City.
According to past trends, the number of successfully awakened students each year is typically around a thousand.
Half an hour later, at the outskirts of Jiangyuan City, the ultra-long-range star sea deployment platform.
More than five thousand citizens of Jiangyuan City have gathered here.
As one of the few major events in Jiangyuan City each year, the interstellar domain deployment ceremony attracts a significant number of spectators. Add to that the newly arrived students, teachers, and parents, and the crowd around the deployment platform now numbers in the tens of thousands.
After another twenty minutes, once the district chief of the White Tower Flameheart Bureau confirmed that all the current year's awakened students from Jiangyuan City were present, the interstellar domain deployment officially began.
The first to step onto the platform were not the students from the First Flameheart Academy. Instead, they were scheduled to go last.
Even from the center of Jiangyuan City, a massive pillar of light could be seen shooting into the sky every twenty minutes. Each pillar of light marked the deployment of 100 newly awakened students from Jiangyuan City to the unknown star seas, thousands of light-years away.
Song Chi and Sun Hao were in the same batch. They stepped onto the platform together and quickly summoned their dark energy shuttles. Once the 100 shuttles were aligned, a Flameheart Bureau officer gave the command.
A kilometer-wide beam of light shot straight into the sky.
As the 100 dark energy shuttles disappeared from the platform, the parents and guardians of the students, including Song Chi's parents, did not leave. Instead, they began to set up outdoor tents, preparing to wait for the night.
The initial exploration of the interstellar domain lasted 24 hours, and in case of emergencies, students could choose to return early. However, due to their concern for their children, no parent was willing to go home, opting to wait here overnight.
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A strong sensation of weightlessness made Song Chi instinctively close his eyes. The intense vibrations made the shuttle's hull creak and groan. If he hadn't already fastened his seatbelt, he couldn't imagine what state he would be in.
As the weightlessness and dizziness subsided, he didn't have time to wait for his body to fully recover. Ignoring the extreme discomfort, he forced himself to open his eyes and quickly activated the shuttle's dark energy shield.
Song Chi fully agreed with the often-repeated advice from his old teacher: "The alien races in the star sea won't wait for you to recover. You need to always be one step ahead of them, whether you're attacking or fleeing."
The dark energy shield, enhanced to Level 7, had a charging time of 23 seconds. After more than twenty seconds, when the black shield on the shuttle's surface was fully activated, Song Chi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did he have the time to adjust his body and check the environment outside the shuttle.
As for why he didn't activate the dark energy shield before deployment, this is another common knowledge in Flameheart human civilization.
During ultra-long-range deployment, the shuttle's hull must withstand immense spatial pressure. If the energy shield were activated prematurely, the spatial forces would inevitably overload the shield. After all, no matter how strong the energy shield, it can't match the power of the void.
The overload of the energy shield on an ember fleet ship is a critical issue that doesn't need much elaboration.
As Song Chi knows, once an energy shield overloads, it requires at least half an hour to reset, and sometimes it can take up to an hour. During this period, the ship's defenses, though not completely compromised, are reduced by at least 70%, making it extremely vulnerable.
Therefore, activating the energy shield before deployment is a cardinal sin for all ember fleet captains.
Song Chi's gaze fell on the display screen, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly. The screen showed a pitch-black void, indicating that there were no star-like bodies or floating lands in the vicinity. Checking the radar results, he found that there were no large celestial bodies or floating lands within the detection range, not even small asteroid belts.
This realization filled Song Chi with a sense of unease, but he didn't dwell on it immediately. There was another matter that had been weighing heavily on his mind.
After confirming that there were no immediate dangers around the shuttle, he took out the Star Sea Marketplace Token that was still attached to his chest and quickly directed his mystic energy toward it.
He needed to access the marketplace to retrieve the Raging Tiger Model Star Sea Floating Land Mining Vehicle and the specialized exploration equipment he had left there.
"Please, let me be able to enter!"
Song Chi's heart was pounding with urgency. The ability to open the Star Sea Marketplace in a foreign star domain was crucial, as it would significantly impact his future achievements. How could he not be worried?
As he continued to channel his mystic energy, his heart sank with each passing second, as the token remained unresponsive.
Just as he was about to give up, a familiar pulling force suddenly gripped his body.
Feeling this force, Song Chi couldn't hide his excitement. His joy was evident, and in the next moment, he vanished from inside the mystic energy shuttle.
At the same time, his form reappeared within the Star Sea Marketplace.
Once he confirmed that he could indeed enter the marketplace, he didn't linger. With a thought, he exited the marketplace and returned to the mystic energy shuttle.
Sitting at the control console, Song Chi, having resolved the most pressing issue, could now focus entirely on exploring this unknown star domain.
The initial stages of an ember fleet mission in a foreign star domain typically last only 24 hours. Time is of the essence, and there's little room for waste if one hopes to gather resources.
While the Broken Star Sea is incredibly rich in resources, it doesn't mean that every star domain is brimming with valuable materials. To find valuable resources, one must first locate asteroid belts, small shattered zones, or floating lands, where the resource concentration is high.
The Broken Star Sea is vast, stretching for countless light-years. A single ember fleet ship is nothing more than a grain of sand in a vast ocean, so the challenge of finding such resource points within a single day is far greater than one might imagine.
This is why the ember human civilization repeatedly emphasizes the importance of a good sky-scanning radar over anything else.
With the Level 7 mystic energy engine running at full capacity, the Firmament sailed at its standard light-speed cruise, heading in one direction. Song Chi's eyes scanned the sky-scanning radar repeatedly, filled with anticipation.
(End of Chapter)
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