Chapter 14: Sky Mine

After the awakened star beast got the morning star, Chenping had already thought of applying for the Star Dragon Military Preparatory Academy. It wasn't that he had the confidence to be admitted to this elite academy, but because he found that Morning Star was different from ordinary star beasts, and could leave him to move freely at will. In this way, he saw a possibility, an opportunity to enter an elite academy with excellent grades. Chen Ping has military merits on his body, and his grades will not be a problem, so the only trouble now is the rank of star stripe energy. If you want to pass the enrollment of the Star Dragon Military Preparatory Academy, having third-order strength is the most basic condition, so Chenping must raise his star stripe energy to the third-order level before the entrance examination!

Star Stripe is upgraded by absorbing the host's energy, so new humans with abilities often have an advantage over ordinary people. When the ordinary people who had obtained the star stripe were still struggling with the first and second orders, those new humans with abilities had already been promoted to the third or even fourth order through their ability characteristics and energy, leaving them far behind. Just like Chenping and his sister Chen'an'an, both of whom are fifth-level star stripes, Chenping's elder brother is still at the level of the second order, but Chen'an has already reached the third order, waiting for the opportunity to break through the fourth order. In addition to the difference between the old and new humans, the real reason for such a huge difference is that ordinary people have no really effective way to exercise, and can only rely on natural ways to enhance the energy of the star stripe - that is, eating recklessly, exercising desperately, and supplying the excess energy in the body to the star stripe while burning calories in the body. Of course, there are more effective methods, such as using Star Stones to attract energy. But the high price of the Star Source Stone discouraged most people!

As long as you buy and sell a Star Source Stone above the C level, you will receive a simplified version of the Star Energy Extraction Method. This preferential treatment allowed the Star Source Stone to quickly popularize the Human Federation, and also made almost everyone know about the Star Energy Extraction Method in the past hundred years. Since then, the price of Star Source Stone has remained high, but even so, it is still in short supply. As long as the production process of the Star Source Stone is extremely difficult, and the mechanical production can only produce Star Source Stones below the E level, and the Star Source Stone above D level can only be mined by humans with star stripes, so people can see a way to extract Star Energy without money, and even make money - go to the Star Source Mine to become a miner!

The star source is divided into seven levels: F, E, D, C, B, A, and S, and the two levels of F and E can be mass-produced by machinery, thus slowly becoming the energy used in people's daily life. Because starlight is actually pure energy that is converted into other energies through the star-striped instrument, it has become the two major energy sources for daily use along with solar energy under the promotion of the Federation. Since the Star Source Stones above the D level are products that cannot be manufactured by machinery, they can only be produced manually, resulting in the extreme rarity of such high-grade power stones. However, the star source stones that can attract energy from the star stripes must be above D, so that the price of these high-grade energy stones is more precious than gold, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to consume!

In order to increase the production of Xingyuan Stone, basically every city will set up a Xingyuan Mine to use the idle manpower in the city. If you have a special talent for mining, you could soar to the top of the crowd at any time and become one of the high-paying people everyone desires. And in order to extract enough energy to reach the third order as soon as possible, Chenping also got the idea of mining and prepared to work as a miner in the Xingyuan Mine.

"Do the extraction tips you offer really work?" Chenping asked silently in his mind.

"Don't worry, my method was obtained from the star-striped ruins, and the skills verified by the 'expedition team' are definitely easy to use." Chenping's voice rang in Chenping's mind. Because the soul body of the star beast exists inside the star pattern, and what is revealed on the outside is only the energy body. So at this time, the morning star, who was far away on the other side of the city and was following Chen Haichao, could also talk to Chen Ping as usual through his soul body.

"Number 15062!" Just then, a trumpet sounded in front.

"Here!" Chenping glanced at his number plate and immediately ran forward to register in front of the workbench.

"Chenping, 15 years old, the energy level is second-order...... First time at work! When the staff checked the information of Chenping, they couldn't help frowning slightly. Too young, don't be too low in energy, too inexperienced...... In just an instant, he thought of several reasons to reject the kid in front of him and let him go home and sleep early.

"I brought my own Star Source Stone, brother help!" Chenping said this, naturally, not to bribe this staff member, but to tell him that he was just to experience mining. There are regulations in the Xingyuan Mine that no one is allowed to leave the mine with Xingyuan Stones, but there is no restriction on staff members entering the mine with Xingyuan Stones. Not to mention that there are no such fools, in fact there are quite a few such fools. Although the Xingyuan Mine is generally not refused, the more miners, the better. However, every factory has a capacity limit, when there are too many miners in the mine, the owners in the mine naturally have to choose the best, which makes it difficult for many novices to enter. In order to get this job, someone took advantage of this rule in the mine and brought D-grade star source stones into the mine as tuition fees. Generally, a skilled miner needs to pay three D-grade star stones for a month. Since someone is willing to pay 10 days of tuition, the owner of the mine is naturally happy to accept it.

"Let's go inside!" The staff member nodded lightly when he heard this, and let Chenping enter.

Although the Xingyuan Mine is called a mine, it is actually a skyscraper, and the mining work is not carried out underground, but above the sky, so the Xingyuan Mine is also called the "Sky Mine". Chenping followed the arrow on the ground into an elevator and ascended all the way to the top floor. And the top floor is crowded, and one by one the miners are talking to each other, waiting in line for their turn to be ejected into the sky.

“15061、15062!” After a while, Chenping heard the staff call his number, so he strode over. After receiving the "Starlight Trigger" handed over by the staff, he walked towards the launch pad. Because one sky platform can accommodate two people, there is another miner with Chenping. But that guy obviously didn't look down on Chenping, and walked onto the launch pad first without looking at him. Chenping didn't care when he saw this, after all, mining was operated by one person, and he didn't need to look at other people's faces. The Starlight Trigger is actually a simplified version of the "Starlight Starter Starter", which is a necessary instrument for using the Starlight in the Star Stripe, and belongs to the military strategic material. If you go out wearing this thing, you will be imprisoned as soon as you are caught, and you don't have to tell you any feelings. Therefore, the mine's monitoring of this thing is still on the Star Source Stone, and it is absolutely not allowed to be taken out of the mine by the miners.

"Stand still, don't panic!" Seeing that Chenping was so young, the staff kindly reminded him, and then shouted: "Launch!" ”

With a "bang", Chenping felt himself turn into a rocket, shooting towards the sky like lightning, and the air pressure under the high speed blew the skin on his face rippled. Looking at the scenery below rapidly becoming smaller, he was already in the air thousands of meters in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, due to the fact that star stripes can improve physical fitness, Chenping can barely adapt to high air pressure, otherwise, he will not be far from death at this time! The speed slowly slowed down, and a transparent platform suddenly opened under their feet, intercepting the two of them in the air at a height of more than 10,000 meters.

As soon as he stood firm, another miner who was with Chenping lightly pressed the light curtain under his feet, and a T-shaped horizontal bar was immediately erected, sending the guy to a higher place. Then the guy sat on the horizontal bar and raised his hands to condense the star energy in the air through the star pattern, slowly condensing the star source stone. Chenping learned from the book that the existence of starlight is connected to multiple satellites in outer space through the central equipment in the mine building, condensing and converting other energy such as solar energy into starenergy, and then condensing it into star source stones with machinery or human hands. Therefore, the higher the position in the mine, the higher the quality of the condensed star source stone, and the miners are also used to placing themselves in a higher position to mine. However, Chenping knew that in the altitude of 10,000 meters, the effect of raising more than ten meters was not obvious at all, and the miner who insisted on putting himself in a higher place was just comforting himself!

During his outer space expedition some time ago, Chenping had done high-altitude training, but he was still a little uncomfortable until now - that is to say, he was still a little afraid of heights. Seeing that the distance of tens of thousands of meters below was only separated by a transparent light curtain, it was really nonsense to say that he was not afraid. Trying to soothe his little heart, Chenping sat down in the center of the platform, put on the "Star Energy Trigger Instrument", and stretched out his hands in front of his chest to guide the Star Energy out. It was the first time Chenping had channeled Starlight, and he felt a faint energy emanating from the Starlight Trigger, he felt both amused and curious, and it took him a while to really calm down and begin to control the channeled Starlight. And the miner above saw Chenping's appearance, and couldn't help but sneer with disdain, no longer paying attention to this idiot, and continued his work.

In fact, the simplified version of the Starlight Trigger Launcher has great shortcomings, and a large part of the reason why the production of high-grade Star Source Stones cannot be increased is due to it. If you use the full version of the Starlight Starter Starter Starter, the current production of high-grade Star Source Stones will definitely increase by more than ten times. However, this is too risky, and several proposals submitted by business associations have been suppressed by the federal government and simply rejected them. However, none of this had anything to do with Chenping, he just quietly let the star energy spread all over his body, and first protected himself from being injured by the ultraviolet rays in the sky. Working at height is extremely dangerous, if you are not well prepared, you are likely to die from the high-altitude platform, and with the protection of star energy, this danger will be reduced, so the first lesson of miners is to learn to use star energy all over the body to protect themselves!

Half a day later, Chenping was finally able to spread the star energy all over his body, protecting himself at 360 degrees without dead ends. And at this point, the mining work can be considered to be officially started. Little by little, he channeled the starlight on the trigger to the surroundings, condensing all the nearby starlight to his side. However, when channeling Starlight, Chenping deliberately avoided the location of the other miner, after all, everyone was working, and there was no need to cause unpleasantness over such a trivial matter. It was only a quarter of an hour before the star energy he had just channeled paused slightly, and spread out in all directions again. This attempt was undoubtedly a failure! Chenping sighed helplessly, calmed down for a while, and then began to try again.