My Endless Life.

Chapter 489 Mechanical Girl
Shen Cong and Li Qi sat at the two ends of the tram respectively.

She secretly glanced at Li Qi's profile, her hands clenched restlessly, not knowing how to start the conversation.

In fact, she recognized this quiet boy with dark skin when Li Qi was assigned to this class.

This was the same young man who had kicked her and her companions out of the examination room during the practical assessment.

Because of this, Shen Cong actually didn't want to face him.

After all, although she was lucky enough to get a substitute spot to enter the academy, her companion had to leave regretfully and had to go to another mecha academy to study.

But it was impossible for Shen Cong to be really angry with the boy.

Practical assessments are based on each person's ability. They picked the wrong opponents, so Li Qi cannot be blamed. Besides... in order to get more credits, those trivial grudges can be completely put aside.

What Shen Cong needs to consider now is how to form a team with the boy.

However, what made Shen Cong despair was that when she called Li Qi at the school just now, she had already used up all her courage.

Now she didn't know how to start.

Oh...if it doesn't work, just go find teammates online...

With a sigh, Shen Cong was about to give up, but Li Qi suddenly said:
"I remember you."

"Ok?"

"In the actual combat assessment, you asked me to recognize you as my master."

"..."

Li Qi's voice was calm, and his tone did not fluctuate, as if he was stating a very ordinary matter.

But when Shen Cong heard Li Qi's words, his face turned from pale to red, and finally to his ears.

To be honest, she was just saying it casually at the time.

Isn't it normal to say some harsh words during a fight? Why did the boy remember it until now?
Shen Cong, who originally didn't know what to say, was even more speechless after hearing Li Qi's words.

But what Shen Cong didn't see was that when she blushed and didn't dare to look at Li Qi, Li Qi was actually looking at her out of the corner of his eye, as if he was evaluating something.

Li Qi is not a petty person.

Eliminating Shen Cong in the practical assessment would be his revenge on her.

Now I bring this up again because I want to see what kind of person Shen Cong is.

Is she as arrogant and proud as she was in the examination room? Is she the kind of person who appears to be submissive on the surface but actually refuses to submit to anyone?

Now it seems that the arrogance in the examination room was just an act, and now she is her true self.

Of course, it may also be that he met too many geniuses here, which impacted his character, so his character changed.

But no matter what, Shen Cong is easier to control than Lana and Zoe.

Li Qi’s idea is actually very simple.

He will definitely participate in the college activities. After all, he needs to earn credits. If he doesn't earn credits, he won't be able to exchange them for high-level materials, and he won't be able to build his own mechanical army.

But there has to be an explanation for how to make money.

The school requires them to form a team, but Li Qi doesn't want to team up with Zoe and Lana, who are both difficult to control, especially Zoe. Li Qi can guess what she wants to do by teaming up with him.

So if possible, Li Qi would rather find someone who listens to him to form a team.

Shen Cong is a good candidate right now.

Now that Li Qi has confirmed Shen Cong's character, he doesn't waste any more words.

After getting off the train, Li Qi gave her his contact information:

"If you want to form a team, you need to find another person. You can choose this person. I only have one request, that you listen to me, that's all."

"...?"

Shen Cong stupidly exchanged contact information with Li Qi, stupidly added Li Qi as a friend, and stupidly sent Li Qi back to the dormitory.

It was not until she returned to her room that she realized what had just happened.

"This...is the team formed successfully?"

Shen Cong had a strange expression on his face. He raised his hand and pinched his cheek subconsciously: "…It hurts."

It's not a dream, nor is it an illusion.

Li Qi really just casually exchanged contact information with her and asked her to help find new teammates without saying a single word.

This made Shen Cong not know what to say. She sat on the sofa in the dormitory for a long time without recovering from the shock.

After a while, Shen Cong remembered something, and quickly connected the consciousness chip to log into the campus network, and began to look for teammates in the machinery and mecha areas of the freshman page of the campus network.

Although Li Qi seemed to casually assign her the task of finding teammates, she really didn't dare to look for teammates so casually.

After finally clinging to the monitor's thigh, Shen Cong insisted that she hug him tighter, otherwise she would be kicked away by the monitor and she would have no place to cry.

……

Li Qi, the hands-off boss, gave the task of finding teammates to Shen Cong and no longer paid attention to it.

The first thing Li Qi did after returning home was to log into the campus network. However, he did not log into the page to look for teammates. Li Qi first downloaded the necessary information for freshmen.

Then the first things he paid attention to were the three methods of consciousness cultivation passed down by the school.

This is different from the Tiangong Soul Transfer created by Li Qi, which is considered the most basic practice method in this world.

The orthodox method of cultivation in this world is to use the spirit to draw special patterns on the soul, thereby raising the level of consciousness.

Therefore, the higher the level of consciousness, the more lines there are on the soul.

But generally speaking, the spiritual lines of the first four levels do not need to be actually engraved on the soul. The cultivation method of the first four levels is more about repeatedly describing the special lines on the soul body in the form of depiction, so that the soul body gets used to the shape after depiction.

When you reach the fifth stage and truly begin to forge your own legion and mecha, you will actually carve the corresponding patterns on your spiritual body.

It is at this stage that the method of consciousness cultivation becomes very difficult to change.

After all, the marks engraved on the soul will basically not change unless you take the initiative to erase them bit by bit.

Compared to the feelinglessness when leaving the mark, the process of erasing the mark is painful.

To modify the method of consciousness cultivation, one must repeat this pain over and over again until the soul imprint is changed to a new one.

Therefore, before reaching the fifth level, one must find a suitable method of cultivating consciousness.

Li Qi's current practice method was learned from Art. It was an exclusive practice method left by the family to the side branches. However, because it was given to the side branches to practice, many key points were missing.

The highest level you can cultivate is only the eighth level.

But even so, it is countless times stronger than the consciousness cultivation methods in school that can only be cultivated to the seventh level.

It’s not that the academy’s training method is too bad.

As the largest academy in the Federation, even its branches have core training methods that far surpass the inheritance of some ordinary aristocratic families.

But the Sarnak family is, after all, one of the three inherited ducal families in the empire. They can firmly hold the three major noble titles in the empire because their family practice method is the best in the universe.

Even if it is just the cultivation method given to the branch family, it is still a first-class treasure in the universe.

To be honest, if the family hadn't forbidden Li Qi to practice, he would have been a fool to run away.

The Ninth Princess likes him, and his family is so prominent, anyone who runs away would be a fool.

But they didn't let Li Qi practice...

"Well... never mind, it's fine to go up to the eighth level... I hope my talent for creating techniques will help me."

Li Qi used his few credits to exchange for three books on the cultivation process of levels one to four of consciousness cultivation. He integrated them with his own cultivation method and spent several days to successfully transform the Tiangong Soul Transferring Technique, creating a consciousness cultivation method that best suits him.

The talent acquired from the world of martial arts was quite strong. At least in creating the first four levels of martial arts, Li Qi was just a little bit reluctant at best, but he was not completely unable to create anything.

But Li Qi was not so confident about the later levels.

After all, it is a talent from a small world. Even if the talent has been slightly enhanced after several reincarnations, it may not be a big deal in this world.

There will definitely be no problem with the first four levels, and the fifth level should be about the same, but Li Qi is a little unsure whether he can create his own unique skills after that.

Therefore, the martial arts created by Li Qi are based on the practice method of the Sarnak family. Even if he is unable to create more advanced martial arts in the future, he can continue to improve on the Sarnak family's consciousness practice method.

This is the escape route Li Qi gave himself.

Kung Fu is the trunk, and skills are the branches and leaves.

While the tree trunk was growing vigorously, Li Qi did not forget to learn some skills in using consciousness.

However, when he logged into the academy website to redeem the credits, Li Qi found that his remaining credits were only enough to redeem two level three skills, and he already knew these two.

Therefore, after hesitating for a while, Li Qi gave up the exchange and contacted Shen Cong instead, asking her if she had found teammates.

Fortunately, although Shen Cong is not very strong, he is quite efficient in doing things.

Shen Cong found his teammates two days ago, but since Li Qi didn't go to class much, he didn't bother him.

Yes, after Li Qi got the mechanic-related textbooks back, he began to study on his own under the guidance of Art.

After all, what one learns in the first year of college is not very important, and with Art's guidance, Li Qi can easily learn by himself.

If it weren't for earning credits, Li Qi probably wouldn't go out.

But now, in order to obtain more credits to exchange for more advanced training methods, Li Qi had no choice but to "come out of retreat" and go find Shen Cong and another teammate to carry out the mission.

……

"Kiri-san, over here!"

On the weekend, next to the berthing port of the spaceship leaving Academy Star, Shen Cong waved to Li Qi who had just got off the train.

After looking at the short-haired girl in the distance, Li Qi pushed up the decorative glasses on his nose and walked over there.

Before coming to the port, Li Qi and his team had already accepted a mission online, which was a mission to expel planetary mechanical beasts from a nearby mining planet.

This planet is within the Academy Star system, and a round trip by spacecraft takes less than half an hour, making it very suitable for novices like them.

It was because Li Qi took on the task that Shen Cong brought another person to wait for him here.

"Awaited."

Coming in front of Shen Cong, Li Qi nodded slightly to Shen Cong, then his eyes fell on the cyborg girl next to Shen Cong: "Is this our new teammate?"

"Oh, let me introduce you. I'm the first-year student in the Mecha Department and the vice-class monitor of Class D05. I'm Milia Frost... Milia, this is..."

Shen Cong was about to introduce Li Qi to the short-haired girl whose body was generally mechanical and whose eyes were slightly glowing, when she stretched out her hand to Li Qi and said:
"I know you, the monitor of Class F03 of the Department of Mechanical Engineering."

"Kiri Weber." Li Qi shook hands with her briefly and said his name in passing, then began to carefully observe the cyborg girl in front of him.

To be honest, Li Qi has seen modified humans before.

It is not uncommon to see people among the lower classes who transform their internal organs into high-powered machines or their limbs into dangerous prosthetics.

But it was the first time that Li Qi saw a modified human of this level in school.

You should know that as long as the consciousness practitioners are a little bit talented, they will not make large-scale modifications to their bodies.

Implanting an optical computer chip and an artificial eye in the brain is already the limit.

Therefore, Li Qi couldn't help but feel a little curious about the half-mechanical girl in front of him.

(End of this chapter)