From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 109 Tempering Assessment, SOS Signal

It’s the fifth month since the Abyss arrived, and the temperature is a bit cold.

Although people with special abilities have strong constitutions and are more resistant to cold, Lu Heng still put on a down jacket at the strong request of his mother.

After a few days of accumulation, I have collected ten orders for weapon quenching.

Lu Heng came to Quenching Castle today, ready to complete this business order and earn some crystal cores.

I was a little surprised when I entered the Quenching Fort from the No. 9 bridge tunnel carrying two boxes.

Because there were a lot of people in Quenching Castle today, a group of psychics gathered in the castle's front yard, surrounding Gollum and doing something unknown.

The main reason is that Gollum is relatively short, and you can’t see him at all if you stand far away.

However, his voice can be heard.

"Taste it, taste it."

Lu Heng walked over curiously, took a look at the crowd, and then his whole body went numb.

Guru was holding a basin in his hand, which was full of fried cockroaches.

A group of psychics were stretching out their hands with struggling expressions, trying to take the cockroaches in the basin and slowly putting them into their mouths. Their movements were so slow that it seemed as if they were under the influence of advanced stasis magic.

When Lu Heng saw this scene, he got goose bumps all over his body.

However, there is one thing to say.

The living environment of the Dark Iron Dwarves in the Abyss is relatively harsh, and they do have the habit of eating insects, of course, the insects they eat are from the Abyss world.

When Lu Heng saw what was going on, his stomach churned and he almost vomited. He quickly quickened his pace and walked into the castle.

As you walk through the front yard.

A superpower held a fried cockroach in his hand for a long time and couldn't put it into his mouth. Then he found that someone was about to eat the cockroach and was about to go in. He immediately pointed at Lu Heng and asked, "Why doesn't he eat it?"

Gulu turned around and saw that it was Lu Heng, holding the pot of "delicious food", and asked happily: "Would you like to try it? I added some delicious seasonings."

"No." Lu Heng waved his hand firmly to refuse, then continued to walk inside.

Guru didn't force it and continued to persuade others to try more.

When the superpowers saw Lu Heng go in without eating, they immediately felt unbalanced: "Why can he go in without eating? Then I won't eat either."

When Guru heard the psychic being so arrogant, his face darkened and he drove him away: "Then get out!"

Hu Biao hurriedly explained to the psychic: "Mr. He, that person has special privileges in the Quenching Castle, so hurry up and eat."

The person who raised the question was none other than He Shangyong, the "quenching master" promoted by Chunshang Group.

Hu Biao waited under the Century Bridge for three days, finally waiting for the Quenching Fort to open, and successfully led his men into the Quenching Fort.

However, I don’t know who made this rule, but you have to taste some “delicacies” at the door before entering Quenching Castle.

Lu Heng didn't expect that after playing a joke on Guru, he would actually take it seriously.

This must be because of the huge cultural differences and there was a small problem.

……

Lu Heng entered the forging room and began to temper the weapons.

Ten quenching orders were completed, eight were successful and two were unsuccessful.

It must be the acid in the stomach that affected my performance. Today's quenching success rate is only 80%.

After ten quenching processes, the quencher's professional experience increased by a total of 120 points.

The experience of the Tempering Master profession has increased to (750/2000), and it will take some time before the secondary profession can be upgraded.

So far, we haven't received any orders from Zhuling. I guess we need to negotiate face to face for any orders.

When quenching.

Someone was wandering outside the forge door, and kept asking Guru if he could go in and observe.

Lu Heng closed the door directly from the inside.

Gollum was busy showing people around Quenching Castle and ignored the man.

After quenching, Lu Heng cleaned up the smelting residue in the quenching furnace and put the various components of the quenching furnace in place.

Then, he came out of the forging room and returned to the front hall, ready to settle the share of the quenching order with Guru.

Since we have to use Quenching Castle’s quenching furnace, we have to give Quenching Castle a share of the business orders we receive.

However, Guru never urged him, it all depended on Lu Heng's self-awareness.

When I returned to the front hall, the psychics who came to visit the Quenching Castle today had already walked around the castle and were now all gathered in the front hall drinking tea.

Fortunately, the tea was normal and there was nothing strange in it, which made the tense nerves of these psychics relax a little.

Gollum was very happy today because Quenching Castle had not been so lively for a long time.

He Shangyong came here with a mission from Chunshang Group, so while Guru was happy, he made a request:
"Master Guru, I am also a quencher. May I use the quenching furnace of the Quenching Fort? The Quenching Fort will share a portion of the crystal cores I earn."

Guru is actually very easy to talk to, as long as you don't violate some of his habits and principles.

When Gollum heard the request made by this human, he did not agree immediately, but began to consider it seriously.

At this time, Lu Heng walked in from outside.

Guru asked directly: "Lu Heng, what do you think? This quencher also wants to use the quenching furnace. I don't have to do anything, and I can just take a share. What do you think?"

This model is similar to Lu Heng's.

The psychics present were already shocked when they saw that Lu Heng didn't have to eat that kind of "delicacies" when he entered the Quenching Castle.

Now, he was even more surprised to hear Guru actually asking Lu Heng for advice.

Some people even asked themselves: Who among you is the master of Quenching Castle?
He Shangyong's expression suddenly turned ugly because he knew who Lu Heng was.

As the "Quenching Master" promoted by Chunshang Group, he has always known that there is a competitor, and this competitor is Lu Heng.

So, when he heard Guru asking Lu Heng for his opinion, he thought it was all over.

Since the other party is a competitor, he will definitely prevent him from using the quenching furnace.

However, Lu Heng's answer was beyond his expectations.

Lu Heng thought about it for a moment and replied, "As long as the crystal cores earned can offset the loss of the quenching furnace, I think there is no problem."

The reason why Lu Heng did not block the other party's opportunity to use the quenching furnace on the spot was not because he was magnanimous, but because it was unnecessary.

The Quenching Castle will come into contact with more and more people with special powers in the future, and it is impossible for there to be only one human temperer forever.

In other words, even if He Shangyong is stopped now, there will be Chen Shangyong and Wang Shangyong in the future.

Instead of standing in the way of these people, it is better to improve the relationship with Guru.

Therefore, Lu Heng’s suggestion is to start from the interests of Quenching Castle and think for Gollum from his perspective. This is the correct way to enhance feelings.

After thinking carefully, Guru asked, "That makes sense, but how do we know if it is worth the loss of the quenching furnace?"

When He Shangyong heard that there was still room for improvement, he quickly said, "It will definitely be enough to cover the loss."

It was impossible for Guru to trust someone he was not familiar with, so he looked at Lu Heng, wanting to hear his advice.

"It's simple, just test it. Carry out a quenching and give it a score, then you will know, right?" Lu Heng gave a very fair suggestion.

"Yes, let's test it."

Guru stood up, pointed at He Shangyong and said, "Did you bring the quenching materials? If so, come with me and do some quenching. I'll see what you can do."

He Shangyong quickly agreed when he heard it: "Yes, I will do my best." Guru pointed at Lu Heng and said, "You come too and give him a score."

When the supernatural beings present heard this, they were surprised again, thinking: What is the relationship between this person and the Quenching Castle? How can we assess the Quenching Master and ask him to give the score?

Even Hu Biao was surprised, because he knew clearly what the relationship between Lu Heng and Quenching Fort was.

It was clearly that time when they were together in the Abyss Battlefield, helping Quenching Castle escape from the abyss.

All in all, only four months had passed, and Lu Heng was already half the master of Quenching Castle.

He Shangyong's face turned pale. He originally regarded Lu Heng as his competitor, but now his opponent has become the mentor who gives him grades.

How is this still playing?
However, he still had to go ahead.

Because this is the only chance. If you give up now, it will be difficult to get another chance in the future.

Guru did not stop others from watching, so all the psychics present followed into the forging room.

Lu Heng and Guru found a seat and sat down, ready to watch the performance of this new trainee tempering master.

He Shangyong gritted his teeth and started working. He heated the furnace, put in the quenching material, melted it, and quenched it...

A series of processes are completed.

Lu Heng looked at him expressionlessly and didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Gulu stood up from his seat several times and wanted to speak out to remind them, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back because this was an assessment, and if he reminded them out loud, the assessment would be inaccurate.

At last.

When He Shangyong completed the quenching process, a relatively rare situation occurred.

Quenching is only half successful, and only half of the quenching properties are increased.

This situation does exist and should be considered an unfinished state.

Usually when encountering this situation, the solution is to continue adding some quenching material, repeat the second half of the process, and complete the quenching.

Reflected in the data, this unfinished quenching state requires 50% more quenching material to be successful.

After He Shangyong discovered this situation, he quickly glanced at Guru behind him, then gritted his teeth, took out another portion of quenching material, put it into the quenching furnace, and repeated the second half of the process, and finally completed the quenching.

Quenching is complete.

He Shangyong turned around and glanced at Lu Heng, then looked at Guru and bowed respectfully, "Master, please give me your comments."

Guru didn't give any advice directly, but turned to ask Lu Heng: "What do you think?"

Lu Heng replied casually: "It's OK, so-so."

This evaluation is not intentionally derogatory, it is just a relatively casual one.

Gulu asked again: "Then do you think we should use the quenching furnace for him?"

Everyone looked at Lu Heng, wondering what Lu Heng would say.

Lu Heng spread his hands and said, "It's a ambivalent situation. Let the master decide."

Gulu was not very satisfied with this evaluation. He jumped down from his chair, walked over to close the door of the quenching furnace, and began to lecture him:

"Let's not talk about quenching skills. There's nothing to brag about your skills. Let's talk about attitude. Every time Lu Heng uses the quenching furnace, he will clean up the residue in the furnace and put the quenching furnace parts in order.

“You didn’t do any cleaning at all. Don’t you know that if the material residue is not cleaned in time and deposited in the quenching furnace, it will cause the temperature inside the furnace to change?
"And your quenching skills are not good. You are not comparable to Lu Heng at all. You are not suitable to be a quencher. I give you a failing grade."

After hearing Gulu's teachings, the supernatural beings present all widened their eyes and thought: You are the legendary dream destroyer, right? Too cruel.

He Shangyong stood there frozen. If it was Lu Heng who belittled him, he could still say that it was malicious suppression by his competitor.

However, Lu Heng didn't say anything from beginning to end, but Guru spoke very badly of him.

It's not that he didn't know that the quenching furnace needed to be cleaned after use, but this work was usually done by the quencher's assistant, and he didn't need to do it before.

However, if I use this to defend myself now, I will be asking for trouble.

He Shangyong failed the quenching test, resulting in the complete failure of Chunshang Group's plan to infiltrate the Quenching Fort.

……

After coming out of the Quenching Fort, Hu Biao and He Shangyong had to report to Ono Kenji.

Hu Biao was not nervous because he had accomplished everything that Chunshang Group asked him to do.

He was only responsible for leading people into the Quenching Fort, and they did go in.

As for He Shangyong's failure to gain the recognition of the owner of Quenching Castle, that was none of his business.

Chunshang Group's layout on quenching engineers failed, but Lu Heng's quenching skills have become more valuable.

During this period, the Harukami Group's plans in Binhai suffered a series of setbacks, which made the chaebol behind the Harukami Group very dissatisfied, and Ono Kenji was under a lot of pressure.

……

After Lu Heng came out of the Quenching Castle, he had to hand over the quenching order to Lin Zeyu first, so he sent him a message.

Not long after, Lin Zeyu's message came back: "I just paid the auction money this afternoon. I have to go get the team contract now. You can go to the company to hand it over. I don't need to be there."

It's dark now. Why are you going to get the team contract so late?

Lu Heng didn't think much about it, and went to Huanyu Company first to hand over the two weapons from the quenching order.

Huanyu Company's guaranteed success rate for quenching business is 70%, so even if Lu Heng did not perform well today, his success rate is higher than the guaranteed success rate.

After the handover, Lu Heng prepared to go home.

at this time.

The Huanyu Security Company was suddenly alarmed, and a group of supernatural bodyguards rushed out of the company.

Lu Heng stopped the Huanyu security manager who was in charge of the handover and asked in confusion, "What's going on?"

"The boss sent out a distress signal." The manager's tone was a little panicked.

"A distress signal?" Lu Heng frowned suddenly, and immediately thought that there was indeed something wrong with Lin Zeyu going to get the team contract so late at night.

"Can we contact him?" Lu Heng asked immediately.

The manager of Huanyu Security immediately took an ear-hook communicator and said, "This is the company's emergency communicator. The boss has sent a distress signal, and all the security personnel in the company will be notified. Mr. Lu, please help me as well."

Lu Heng took the communicator, put it on his ear, and asked, "What's the situation now?"

The voice of Huanyu's commander came from the communication channel: "The boss was shot. The car he was driving was parked on Hedi Road, near Jiangbin Park. We have not been able to contact him yet."

Lu Heng walked out while listening to the information.

All staff of the Global Security Company were mobilized, and more than a dozen vehicles started one after another.

Lu Heng got into one of the cars and asked in the communication channel: "Mu Yu, can you hear me?"

The original purpose of establishing Huanyu Security Company was to provide bodyguards for Lin Zeyu.

Lin Zeyu sent out a distress signal, and all Huanyu’s security personnel received the message.

Su Muyu had signed a contract with Huanyu a few days ago, so naturally he also received the distress signal.

"I can hear you. I'm on my way over. The scout eagle is expected to arrive in two minutes, near Jiangbin Park." Su Muyu's voice came from the communication channel.

"Okay, keep in touch."

As he was speaking, the car had already started, with the engine roaring rapidly as it rushed towards the direction of the Riverside Park on Hedi Road.

(End of this chapter)