Tianguanzhi

Chapter 108 Prince, Brahma Cup, Universe Excellence
"Master Shukaku, are you listening to me?"

Fu Lemei, who was sitting in the last row, looked up and saw that there were about twenty people present. These were certainly not all the candidates for the Level I exam, but those who were recommended by local martial arts associations and did not have to take the first round of exams.

The Tianguan exam is held once a year, with millions of candidates from all over the world, including many celestial beings. However, the number of candidates who pass the exam varies from a few thousand to tens of thousands. Considering that the standard for taking the exam is at least 20 standard ECGs, the exam standard is very strict. Many people fail the exam four or five times, and it is not impossible that they need more than 30 ECGs to barely pass the Level I exam.

At the same time, there is only one chance to be exempted from the test. If the recommended candidates fail to pass this time, they will not be exempted from the first round of test next time.

The two people who just spoke were Gu Yiqiu from the National Military Academy of Nanhua Prefecture and Monk Jieyan from Jiming Temple. They should be the two with the highest CET level among the students exempted from the entrance examination this time, both with CET of 29.

As for Master Shukaku, he was naturally the staff member of the Doumu Palace who received the students who were exempted from the entrance examination from the Eastern Martial Arts Association.

There hasn't been a genuine Tianguan coach in charge of Jiangning Martial Arts Street for ten years.

If it were Fu Lemei a few months ago, she would not actually expect to pass the Tianguan exam in one go. As long as she could get the recommendation qualification, it would be a success for her.

But now, Fu Lemei clenched her fists, and solid muscle lines were outlined on her pale arms.

She is more confident than ever.

The streams of light from several cable car tubes converged downward and finally entered a huge oval-shaped building.

"Alright." Shukaku patted his white and tender palms: "We can get off the bus now. Then we can take the elevator to the city area of ​​McDonald's."

The students who were exempted from the entrance examination came together and joined the flow of people in front.

"Is it here yet?"

Jin Gaoyin looked around.

Solong Gaowa was the first to jump off the cable car, her boots making a clattering sound as they landed on the ground. The three followed, and after a few steps, Solong Gaowa suddenly stopped and said, "Go to the bathroom, wait for me, here."

The three of them stopped and watched the crowd leave first. It was not until Solong Gaowa came out of the bathroom that the four of them entered the city together.

……

The man in the white suit looked Sorongova up and down, especially at her armband, and asked, "Do you have a Level II Celestial Official's license?"

There is no universally recognized rating standard and assessment for core welders. There is no better way to compare the level of core welders than to directly examine their work, so there are many people who are counterfeit. It is often a joke that there are three or four xx best welders or xx god welders in one area, but their level is no more than that.

However, the processing of advanced components and materials requires strong ECG output. People with too low ECG output cannot become good ECG welders.

The top welders are either combat heroes who have stood out in wars and received military medals, or competition stars who have stood out in the World War Welding Competition. They generally have a Level II or even Level III Tianguan license, so men have this question.

Solongova shook her head unhappily.

The man in the white suit frowned somewhat unhappily, but then he sighed. He really couldn't come up with a better solution now.

He glanced at the four people in front of him, muttered something, and then snapped his fingers. A dark-skinned Kapok-born security guard in a suit and sunglasses came over and respectfully handed Solongowa a black card.

"Take them to rest."

Then he said to Sorongova, "The first qualifying match will be held at 9 o'clock this afternoon. I will send someone to notify you in advance. Take this card. I will pay for all your expenses in this building. Have fun."

After saying that, he left without even introducing himself.

"Four of you please follow me."

On the way, Li Dongbao asked in a low voice: "Who is this person?"

He could tell that this man with a sinister face and flamboyant attire had a distinguished background. But he didn't expect that he didn't even bother to introduce himself.

"Zheng Yuanfu."

Kim Go-eun, who is usually slick, rarely showed a serious expression and explained softly to Lee Dong-bao.

"Who?" Li Dongbao didn't react.
"The most beloved youngest son of King Jin Moli IX and the twelfth in line to the throne of King Jin Moli."

Jin Gaoyin pointed to the Jin Jasmine royal emblem hanging above the hall and said, "Before Citibank acquired Jin Taihua, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was the king here. But now, he should be called an honorary director."

After a pause, he continued, "Although Jin Moli is only a tiny country with a population of less than 100 million, Zheng Yuanfu is still somewhat famous in the empire. He has close personal relationships with many high-ranking officials in the empire, and he is very business-minded. He has made many investments in his home planet. In recent years, he has also spent a lot of money on the research and development of longevity drugs, but I haven't heard of any results."

"So what was that game he was talking about?"

"This should be it."

Gu Jianqiu handed Li Dongbao a newspaper dated last week, which he had just picked up from the newspaper rack in the corridor.

The red and white winged divine machines were seen on both sides of the painting. In the middle, the words "Fanqi Cup" Welding Competition were written in two languages ​​with explosive special effects, in the form of Ji Li letters and Haitang square characters, as well as the sponsors with various logos.

The biggest sponsor among them is a silver Big Dipper logo, which is Doumu Palace.

Li Dongbao read the words and couldn't help but be amazed: "The first prize is 500 yuan? Doesn't that mean 5 million Haitang coins?! The prize is really generous."

Gu Jianqiu's eyes turned to the line of small words at the end of the rules, which read "The winner will be given the right to use the high-slot equipment of an unknown civilization for ten years."

He couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

The organizer of this Fanqi Cup must have purchased an alien component that ordinary heart welders are completely unable to make, and they couldn't afford to hire those top heart welding masters, so they took it out and used it as the topic and prize for this competition.

After the advent of the era of great development, all kinds of strange and bizarre components from alien civilizations have had a huge impact on human industry; many celestial officials have begun to use alien components to carry out secondary modifications to their own divine machines, which indirectly promoted the development of heart welding technology and made the already popular heart welders even more popular.

However, welding and modification of alien components is extremely dangerous and difficult, especially for newly excavated alien components. There is no precedent for welding and modification, and there is also the possibility of infection by unknown cosmic spirituality.

On the other hand, the value of welding and modifying alien components is also extremely high, with a starting price of one thousand U.S. In comparison, the prize money of the Brahma Cup is not so good. As for the ten-year right of use, it looks good, but the harm and sequelae that many alien components may cause to Shenji and Tianguan will not be noticed for a while. The organizers also have the intention of using the winners of the competition as guinea pigs. Despite this, Gu Jianqiu believes that the contestants are also eager to participate in this Brahma Cup. You know, a complete alien component starts at tens of thousands of U.S. and there is no upper limit. All countries are scrambling to purchase it; the research value contained in it may even change the direction of human technological development. Being able to complete the welding and modification of an alien component is not without the possibility of leaving a name in history. This temptation is great enough to make many idiots give up their lives.

The Kapok security guard ignored the discussion and quietly left after arranging the rooms for the four people.

Suolong Gaowa yawned. She had stayed up all night last night. When she was about to rest, Jiao En called her away. Now she just wanted to have a good sleep. So she handed over the procurement task and the purchase money of Wu Yuzhou that Jiao En entrusted to her to Gu Jianqiu, closed the door and went to rest.

Gu Jianqiu was playing with the five bright red coins in his hand, while Jin and Li were staring at him in amazement.

Cosmic You is a high-value currency commonly used by humans. It can also be said to be a currency exclusively used by celestial officials. Most alien creatures also recognize the value of Cosmic You. You coins are obtained by purifying and processing You stone ore. The weight of each You coin is less than 2 grams.

The original ore of the superior stone may appear in any mineral vein as a companion ore. The superior ore is light in weight, high in hardness, and difficult to smelt. However, once the superior stone is purified and processed into the finished superior currency, this superior currency can be assimilated with the electrocardiogram as long as it is slightly stimulated by the electrocardiogram, and can be taken into the body of the celestial official, and only a very small share of the electrocardiogram can be restored by cooling the electrocardiogram.

And once a living thing dies, the excellent currency in its body will be extinguished along with the electrocardiogram and disappear.

The greatest use of the element is as a heart protector, which can prevent and treat most viral cosmic spiritual infections. When traveling through a wormhole, cosmic eu is a must for the celestial officials to protect themselves from infection. Without eu coins to protect the heart, traveling through a wormhole is no different from suicide.

Because of this, Yuzhouyou has the nickname "ticket" among the celestial officials.

A blue arc of electricity flashed between Gu Jianqiu's fingers, and the five coins melted rapidly under the effect of electrocardiography, and finally turned into a blood-red electric current and disappeared.

"Brother Gu, give me the bag. I'll help you carry it."

Li Dongbao reached out to take the beige backpack from Gu Jianqiu's back, but was rejected by Gu Jianqiu.

He smiled at Jin and Li and said, "No need, let's go."

……

Despite the change to such a nondescript name as McDonald's, the interior structure of this space station still has a strong old Begonia flavor.

The Chinese characters of Haitang can be seen everywhere, the magnificent Buddhist temples, the girl wearing wooden clogs, cheongsam, and pearl and jade hairpins leaning on the door frame; the red-capped military police blowing whistles to drive away the crowd, the cable car whizzing by, and the young man wearing power arm armor unloading goods and sweating profusely...

These scenes are exactly the same as the daily scenes in the provincial capitals of the empire.

This is not surprising. Not to mention that Jin Moli has been a vassal state of the Haitang Empire for a thousand years and their cultures are closely integrated, the launch and construction of this satellite fortress alone were the work of the Imperial Ministry of Industry.

Jin Moli does not have the ability to build and launch a satellite fortress.

Although there are numerous satellite fortresses in the solar system, there are only six countries that are truly capable of independently launching satellite fortresses, including Jili, Dongxi Qiangwei, Huaqi, Haitang, and Jinju. As for regions and organizations, there are more. Including Doumu Palace, there are a total of 54 regions and organizations that have registered satellite fortresses, but they are all inextricably linked to these six countries.

As for those poor countries and regions that do not have the ability to launch satellite fortresses to the ancient star of Mars, in the arrogant words of the Ji Li people, they are no longer qualified to sit at the table...

"Two and a half million baht, and three packs of Happy Buddha."

Under the wall of weird metal parts, a woman with a toothpick in her mouth and colorful hairpins on her head had huge bags under her eyes. She used an abacus quickly with one hand and threw out three packages of weirdly packaged candies with the other hand. For some reason, Gu Jianqiu saw a little bit of Tom Chen in this woman.

Gu Jianqiu carefully read the list of prices listed by the other party. He didn't have much money. Apart from the flying backpack and the phantom thulium knife in his hands, most of the remaining money from Lu Bohong was used to buy various materials and equipment, which were sealed in a space warehouse on the ancient star Mars. The last small amount of cash was left by him to his eldest sister and Juliet.

Therefore, these five coins were actually all the money he had, and it was public funds.

"Is there any discount if I pay with Ucoin? We are Haitang's Sequence Army."

Gu Jianqiu said softly.

The woman looked Gu Jianqiu up and down, reached out to take out the toothpick in her mouth, thought for a moment, and then said, "Two coins, but I need to sign the bill."

Gu Jianqiu signed as he was told, and suddenly asked, "What are the cheapest rechargeable weapons you have? They must be easy to carry."

After a pause, Gu Jianqiu added: "It doesn't matter if it's scrapped."

The woman looked at Gu Jianqiu with a strange look, then turned and went up to the attic. After a while, she pulled down a large bag with a clang, and spread out everything for Gu Jianqiu to see.

Gu Jianqiu had no intention of buying any magical weapons from her. Rechargeable weapons were cheap and wore out quickly. He just wanted to buy a few suitable swords and sticks to deal with some ordinary conflicts. He couldn't always be like the last time with Liu Erhu, where he had to fight with only a wrench picked up from anywhere. Even if there was some damage, as long as it was not too serious, Gu Jianqiu could fix it himself.

Gu Jianqiu picked up two rechargeable daggers that were about 70% new and handed them to Jin Gaoyin and Li Dongbao. After carefully examining them for a while, he finally picked up a half-broken short stick with a chain and tried to ask, "Madam boss, how much are these?"

The proprietress took a closer look at the short stick in Gu Jianqiu's hand, then looked up at the three people in front of the counter, and shook her head with a somewhat tangled look on her face: "Don't charge me, I'll give it all to you."

Gu Jianqiu didn't seem surprised. He just returned the three packages of candy with naked women printed on them and said, "We don't want these."

The boss lady's face seemed to look a little better.

After leaving the store, the three of them purchased some miscellaneous household appliances according to the list. In a blink of an eye, the hands of the large copper clock on the street had pointed to after five o'clock in the afternoon.

Because there were too many things and they were so messy, Gu Jianqiu rented an old pickup truck and prepared to transport these things back to the Tianbing machine first.

Jin Gaoyin was sweating profusely. He gritted his teeth and carried an octagonal turbine that two people could hold together onto the dirty rental pickup truck. He sat down on the open truck bed and patted the front of the truck: "Okay, Jianqiu, let's go."

Upon hearing this, Gu Jianqiu turned the key, and a circle of black smoke spewed out of the pickup truck's tailpipe. After two harsh sounds of turbine friction, the fully loaded pickup truck slowly started up.

Jin Gaoyin wiped his face and put a layer of plaster on his hands. Just then, a black space truck sped past. The driver glanced at the old pickup truck below and drove away. Old Jin smiled bitterly and half-jokingly complained to Gu Jianqiu who was slowly stepping on the accelerator in the car shell: "Jianqiu, don't you have a lot of spare money? You can rent a decent truck. You can still sit in the front."

"It's all the same, save as much as you can."

"You really..."

Jin Gaoyin took a deep breath, and a gust of industrial hot air mixed with a fishy smell blew towards him. He smacked his lips and said nothing more.

Gu Jianqiu drove the pickup truck all the way into the docking port. In front of the many steel behemoths flying in the sky, the pickup truck was like an inconspicuous reptile, moving up along the undulating acceleration belt until it reached the hangar where the Tianbing aircraft was parked. The towing compartment at the bottom of the Tianbing aircraft opened, and a flat gangway extended out.

Gu Jianqiu stepped on the accelerator and drove the pickup truck into the warehouse, but unexpectedly found that Zhu Shao, dressed in combat gear, had been guarding there with his arms folded.