Chapter 31: White Tower LAN
Two minutester, Shen Qing dissipated the Spectral Energy that had gathered around his ears.
“What’s wrong?”
Noticing his visibly solemn expression, Song Chi took the initiative to ask.
“The people in the next private room should be from the ck Mountain Association. Someone just took a call, the voice on the other end was too soft, and I didn’t hear it very clearly, but I did catch two sensitive words.”
No sooner had he finished speaking than Shen Qing continued without waiting for Song Chi to ask further.
“Kidnapping, Titanium Crystal.”
Song Chi’s pupils sharply constricted. Kidnappings were nothing new in a society where everyone practiced cultivation, such incidents weremon. But Titanium Crystal was apletely different matter.
ording to textbooks from the past, Titanium Crystal is an extremely high-end resource for enhancing Torch Warships, far surpassing Mercury Crystal and Mithril.
It’s said that only high-levelponents of purple or higher quality require Titanium Crystal for enhancement upgrades after level 20, due to its extreme rarity.
Furthermore, there have been rumors that the upper echelons of Torch Human Civilization had long ssified Titanium Crystal as a strategic resource, coveted intensely by all major powers.
Upon hearing the words ‘Titanium Crystal’, Song Chi and Shen Qing understood that this matter was not something they could easily meddle with.
Moreover, Song Chi immediately thought of the incident half a month ago. During that mishap at the spicy hotpot restaurant on Minyuan Road, it was also the ck Mountain Association involved, and at that time, they were looking for two miners from Tianyu Mining. Connecting the two events, it was hard not to be suspicious.
Whether the information was true or false, they had to notify their superiors immediately.
After paying the bill downstairs, and not until they hadpletely left the street where the restaurant was located, did they elerate their kic cars to the limit and head straight for the Torch Bureau.
In Shen Wenjie’s office, upon hearing the words ‘Titanium Crystal’, the reactions of Shen Wenjie and Song Chao were not much different from those of Song Chi and Shen Qing. However, after Song Chi and Shen Qing recounted the details, the two were no longer involved. They were subsequently ushered out of the office.
Shen Wenjie and Song Chao would now fully mobilize their power to investigate the veracity of this information. As for Song Chi and Shen Qing, they were told to go about their business as usual and were strictly forbidden from getting involved in this matter any further. They were also not to disclose anything they had seen or heard that day.
Despite being somewhat prepared for this, both of them still felt ufortable deep down. The feeling of being too weak to lend a hand was unbearable.
Shen Qing drove Song Chi back to Dongjiang Community in the patrol airship and, after reminding him of a few things, departed.
Back in his bedroom, Song Chi immediately entered the Zhu Tian Ruins Market and continued practicing the Guidance Technique.
The next day, he interrupted his training once again because the Torchwork activated yesterday was now essible.
The thought that all the users on thiswork were Torch Warship Captains filled him with anticipation.
His spirit merged into the Ancestral Torch, gathering at the incandescent Seed of Torch. Soon, a small screen lit up on his retina.
[Would you like to connect to the Torch Network ? Huanbai Tower Local Network?]
“Confirm!”
Following his confirmation, the screen on his retina changed, and a video began to y slowly.
Within the vast Star River, over a dozen warships covered in scars were traveling at full speed. Trailing them, thousands of sinister, triangr airships were ruthlessly pursuing, one after another warship being blown apart by the gunfire from behind.
It wasn’t until they happened upon and passed through an unstable interster wormhole that this group of warships managed to escape the pursuit of the alien race civilization and avoid total annihtion. By that time, only six warships were left.
The video ended there, seemingly without a head or tail, but every citizen who had received orthodox Torch education couldn’t help but resonate with the scene.
Because thest six warships remaining in the footage were the pioneers of Torch Human Civilization, and also thest seeds of a low-level technological side human civilization that had almost been wiped out.
After passing through the wormhole, the human ancestors on these six warships discovered an ancient civilization’s relics, and from there they obtained the initial Source Seed of Torch, giving birth to Torch Human Civilization, which continued to grow and strengthen over the years, leading to the Torch Human Civilization we have today.
Long after the footage, Song Chi had yet toe back to his senses when another sixteen characters emerged on the light screen.
Starry Sea Expedition, a long and obstructed path.
The fire of civilization, evesting and never extinguished.
After that, it was considered apletending on one of the localworks under the Torchwork.
Huanbai Tower localwork, as one of the many localworks under the Torchwork, includes the entire White Tower Floating Land, as well as the surrounding asteroid belt, fragment belt, and all the awakened citizens of the Seed of Torch within the interster fortress, making it thergest information exchange area around the White Tower Floating Land.
Besides that, the localwork also contains systems for task assignment and reception, free trade, friends, and many other features.
The reason why it is only the Huanbai Tower Floating Land localwork, and not the entirework of Torch Human Civilization, naturally lies with the low level of Song Chi’s Fire Seed.
Although he had enhanced the quality of the Seed of Torch to white not long ago, quality and level arepletely different matters; quality only represents the upper limit of future Fire Seed enhancement, whereas level represents the current strength of the warship bound with the Seed of Torch.
The Cang Qiong had just been bound not long ago, and he had only used one special slot, which waspletely sufficient, so Song Chi had never enhanced the Torch ship, that is, the Seed of Torch, and its level had always been lv0.
Song Chi didn’t mind this detail but was instead contemting the various functions of his ount.
ording to what the Torchwork awakening assistant had said yesterday, his ount did have some special privileges, and it was these so-called special privileges that he was pondering now.
After about half an hour of tinkering, he had essentially figured out the various functions of his ount.
Compared to a regr Torch ount, his indeed had some privileges.
Overall, there were three points.
First, normal ounts on the Torchwork must chat under their real names, while he could choose to chat anonymously.
Second, his ount was exempt from transaction tax when trading on the Torchwork, whereas other ounts must pay a 5% transaction tax.
Third, normal ounts must pay extra in Floating Land Origin to feature or prioritize their task postings or eptances, while his ount came with these features included.
Having understood the special features of his own ount, Song Chi’s curiosity had not subsided, and he began to take an interested look at the various chat messages in the localwork.
“Jiangyuan City {Jianghai}: Clearing the fragment belt in the northern star space of Floating Land, any brothers for teaming up?”
“Changhe City {Chaotian}: 100 threads of First Rank Floating Land Origin in exchange for the coordinates of Blood Capital Star Thieves Group’s hideout.”
“Jiangyuan City {Tianma}: 100 threads of First Rank Origin for the Blood Capital Star Thieves Group’s hideout coordinates? Friend, are you dreaming? Would someone who can find the Blood Capital’s hideout be short of your 100 threads of First Rank Origin?”
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“Baita City {Changkong}: A Spectral Airship has gone missing from Viscount Yelen’s Mansion. Those who provide relevant clues will receive a handsome reward.”