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“What kind of Rank is this Queen Insect essence meat? Pure and I have been stuck at lv2 for almost two years with our Guidance Technique, and we thought it was impossible to break through before the awakening this year. Now, all three of us have broken through lv3, and Ran Ran, you even reached lv4. This couldn’t be Second Rank, or even Third Rank Queen Insect essence meat, could it?”
“Ran Ran, this time all of us benefited from your good fortune. If there’s a chance in the future, we must personally thank Mr. Chi from your family.”
“I feel the same!”
In the pink bedroom, Shen Youran had her hands propped on her knees. Whether it was the lingering energy from the Queen Insect essence meat or just having bathed, her fair arms and cheeks were tinged with a healthy flush, looking especially beautiful.
Furthermore, given her eyes that had already curved into crescents, if an outsider were to witness this scene, they would undoubtedly be astounded.
(ps: I’m not very skilled at writing female characters; hope it doesn’t feel too awkward? I’ll try to write less of them in the future.)
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Torch Online Network, White Tower LAN.
Under a post by a Torch Ship Captain named “Solo Brave,” Song Chi made a post with a click.
“Do you still have this ‘Sky Eye Patrolling Radar’? Can we talk in detail?”
After two hours of visualizing the Mythical Mech Projection Imprint Blueprint, Song Chi was quite exhausted and stopped the visualization. He then connected to the Torch Online Network and began searching purposefully for trade posts related to the patrolling radars.
He hadn’t found any suitable ones in the Torch Online Market, so he was trying his luck in the posting area.
Now that the Cang Qiong had been fitted with the “Purple River Translocation Device,” a special component, as long as he slightly enhanced it, the maximum distance of its spatial jumps should be at least ten light-years. However, such long-distance spatial jumps required detailed star charts.
Although most of the Shattered Starry Sea is empty space, if one jumps through space haphazardly without a detailed star chart, the jump could end up in a Starry Sea Floating Land, a fragment belt, an asteroid belt, or densely packed spatial rifts, black hole absorption areas, and the like.
If that happened to a Torch Warship, the likely outcome would be the destruction of the ship and the loss of all hands.
When a warship performs a spatial jump, it uses spatial technology. The force of space envelops the warship during the jump, and the kinetic energy produced in that moment is unimaginable. A collision would most likely lead to catastrophic results.
Therefore, Song Chi had to be cautious, as it was a matter of life and death.
Currently, the “Sky Eye Patrolling Radar” installed on the Cang Qiong is just a colorless standard radar, with a pitiful precision level of 20 and a detection range of only 20 light-seconds. In contrast to the tens of light-years span of spatial jumps, the effectiveness of the standard patrolling radar is quite insignificant.
The poster of the message at hand had listed an attribute chart of a patrolling radar part, which was what successfully caught Song Chi’s attention.
Sky Eye Patrolling Radar lv0
Quality: Blue
Feature: Star Chart Collector
Consumption: 5/s (Spectral Energy Points)
Detection Range: 10 light-seconds
Precision: 25
UpRank Requirement: 5 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin, 500 Spectral Energy Points.
Judging from the attribute chart, this Blue Quality Sky Eye Patrolling Radar is undoubtedly a Top Rank Blue radar. Not only does its initial attributes surpass that of a standard radar enhanced to lv9, but it also includes the “Star Chart Collector” feature.
Star Chart Collector: After entering a new Star Domain, the patrolling radar can generate a detailed star chart 10 times its detection range after an hour of collection.
This feature might not increase the radar’s precision or extend its detection range and it seems quite ordinary, but it’s actually far more significant than other features for a Torch Warship equipped with a translocation device, especially when exploring Alien Star Domains.
If it were within the Torch Human Civilization domain, every time a Torch Ship Captain reached a new Star Domain, they could obtain local star charts through various means. These charts have larger scopes, so there’s no need for the star charts produced by the patrolling radars. But in Alien Territories, it’s a completely different situation.
In Alien Territories, no entities will actively provide you with local star charts, and it’s difficult to obtain accurate ones even at a high price. In this situation, the value of the star chart that the patrolling radar can generate becomes evident.
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However, this “Sky Eye Patrol Radar” also has a significant drawback: its quality is still somewhat low. Even if enhanced to Second Rank, its detection range would probably not be very large, so it could only form a small area of the star chart, which isn’t very useful.
During his contemplation, a series of beeps came from the Torch Network, indicating that the poster named Lonely Bravery had replied to him.
“This blue radar is still in my possession. If you’re serious about buying, let’s chat privately,” they said.
Just after reading this message, it wasn’t long before Song Chi received a friend request.
He chose not to accept, because he didn’t plan to use the identity of Cang Qiong. Instead, he used his account’s incognito feature and opened a temporary chat window. The two of them began discussing the details of the Sky Eye Patrol Radar.
“How about this: 1200 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin. That’s all the Floating Land Origin I have left. If this won’t work, I’ll have to look for other patrol radars for sale.”
After he typed out this message, the other party seemed hesitant and did not reply immediately. Just when Song Chi was preparing himself for a rejection, the other party’s response came through.
“Okay, let’s agree on a time and place for an offline transaction,” they agreed.
Since the transaction was not completed through the Blaze Market, there were no dedicated delivery personnel, so they had to conduct an offline trade themselves. Naturally, the advantage was that there was no transaction tax.
“Then let’s meet today at 2 p.m. at the gates of East Mountain Park on the northern outskirts of Jiangyuan City.”
“Good!”
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At half-past two in the afternoon, Song Chi returned home. The transaction process went smoothly without any hitches, and after paying 1200 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin, he successfully acquired the Sky Eye Patrol Radar.
Zhu Tian Ruins Market, the free stall area.
Cang Qiong was summoned once again, and before heading to East Mountain Park for the transaction, he had visited the Torch Market in East Jiang to buy a batch of Soul Crystals required for enhancement. Now, along with the Sky Eye Patrol Radar and the Purple River Translocation Device components, the Brainwave Remote Control System component also needed to be enhanced.
Phew!
He took a deep breath, uncertain how much of his remaining resources would be left after this round of enhancements.
Inside Cang Qiong, Song Chi took down the standard patrol radar and began enhancing the Sky Eye Patrol Radar.
He spent 203 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin, 221 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin, and 180 strands of Second Rank Floating Land Origin, directly enhancing the top-rank blue radar to lv29
Sky Eye Patrol Radar lv29
Quality: Blue
Feature: Star Chart Collector
Consumption: 40/s (Spectral Energy Points)
Detection Range: 240 Light-Hours
Precision: 260
UpRank Requirement: 50 strands of Floating Land Origin (Second Rank), 20,000 Spectral Energy Points.
Note: The current enhancement level has reached the structural limit of the warship itself and cannot be further upgraded.
As expected, after enhancing it to lv29, its attributes greatly improved, the detection range reached 10 light-days, and the range of the Star Chart Collector, previously ten times the detection range, increased to fifty times, meaning the star charts this Sky Eye Patrol Radar could generate had a diameter of 1000 light-days (500×2).
A star chart range of nearly 3 light-years still pales in comparison to the jumping distance of the Purple River Translocation Device but far exceeds the previous standard radar.
After the patrol radar came the enhancement of the Purple River Translocation Device. He had wanted to enhance this component for quite some time.
Once its enhancement level was raised, Cang Qiong could completely jump to other Floating Lands within the duchy. If he wanted to sell or buy something in the future, he could simply go to other Floating Lands. With the translocation device on hand, it wouldn’t take long, and it would furthermore help ensure his identity remained concealed.