The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 477: Chapter 477: Black Market

Throughout the Combat Department, only Ji You attended class with a pig face, thankfully, Mu Jianling, the Mecha operation class teacher did not change the rules, still following the usual training method. This time, Ji You wasn’t injured anymore and she found that after her spiritual power improved, the difficulty of piloting the Mecha significantly reduced.

Previously, an hour of piloting a Mecha would exhaust her, but now she didn’t feel fatigued throughout the afternoon. The enhancement of spiritual power isn’t just this minor change; there were other significant improvements.

However—

Because her Spiritual Level was unexpectedly increased in a short period of time, Ji You was unable to master her current strength well, often making mistakes.

This would take some time to adjust.

...

Ji You’s current Talent Level is: Spiritual Power B-level, Physical Strength D-level.

A clear contrast shows that the Physical Strength is two levels lower than Spiritual Power. Ji You hadn’t known the disadvantages of this discrepancy before, but the moment she stepped onto the Mecha, she understood.

Every time her spiritual power sent a command, her body couldn’t keep up, failing to meet the requirements.

For instance, even though her spiritual power could disrupt an opponent for 5 seconds, enabling her to inflict severe damage and secure a victory within that span, her physical strength couldn’t keep up, only allowing her to attack for 2 seconds, and after 3 seconds, the opponent would start counterattacking...

Not to mention...

...

In essence, Ji You began to understand why Mu Jianling had her battle a Little Robot alone in the morning; it was specifically to train her Physical Strength, to try to enhance it to match her Spiritual Power.

...

After class.

Ji You finally received a message from Senior Shi Ya: [Received the gift, thank you.]

Huh?

Received?

For a moment, Ji You was very pleased, but also felt a bit of inexplicable disappointment, Senior Shi Ya’s reply was very polite, very formal, only saying thanks and not if she liked it or not...

Sigh!

Elsewhere.

After a skirmish with an attacker and a lucky escape, Shi Ya, without caring for her broken elbow, sent a message back to Ji You who was far away on Lanyue Star.

After sending it, Shi Ya looked up at the sky full of stars, her expression dark.

Leave?

Stay?

Faced with two choices, Shi Ya’s initially firm resolve to stay wavered slightly in this moment. Was the person who attacked her really hired by Dina?

Or was it some other underground lab?

Confronting Dina didn’t scare Shi Ya; this woman, at best, was just a beauty relying on a temporary favor from Professor McKin to act recklessly.

As long as Professor McKin tired of her, everything would be resolved.

But—

After taking a buyout fee of 20 million, Shi Ya didn’t want to stay in the Macken Laboratory, so she saw no need to entangle with Dina anymore.

The plan now was to enhance her spiritual power as soon as possible.

The only way was to buy a Soul Device.

million was more than enough to purchase a Mid-level Soul Device and even have some left over. The only trouble was how and where to buy...

Shi Ya took out a small Medical Repair Device from her Space Button, repaired her broken elbow, then entered the Star Network, starting her search for a suitable Soul Device.

Unfortunately—

All night, she found nothing.

Shi Ya raised her hand and rubbed her brow.

At this time, for some unknown reason, as her gaze fell on the Clover Ring between her fingers, memories of the girl who gave her the gift surfaced, and a cooling sensation suddenly flowed into her previously agitated heart.

This coolness, like gentle streams, slowly flowed and grew...

In less than a few minutes, it had dispersed the irritation in Shi Ya’s heart.

Shi Ya regained her composure, and as to why she could dispel her agitation so quickly, she didn’t think too much about it because each time she thought of the girl named Ji You, her heart would naturally calm down.

She had experienced this feeling many times before.

So, she didn’t delve deeper into it.

Following that—

Shi Ya lowered her gaze to think for a moment, since she couldn’t purchase a Soul Device through official channels, then—there was only one quick method left, and that was the black market.

The geographical location of Yunding Star happened to be in the triangle area of the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Star Systems, and it also bordered three countries, where frictions occasionally occurred between regions.

Thus—

This place not only hid many interstellar pirates but also harbored a large amount of black market deep within.

In fact, this trip to Macken Laboratory wasn’t Shi Ya’s first visit to Yunding Star; she had been here once before, and she had nearly fallen into the hands of interstellar pirates. Knowing about interstellar pirates and the black market, after escaping from the pirates, she even took a round in the black market and managed to purchase a Mecha at a low price. Afterward, she modified it herself before leaving Yunding Star.

So, she decided to visit the black market once again.

After a brief rest, Shi Ya was ready to set out when suddenly she heard a message prompt. She initially didn’t want to pay attention, but, after a moment’s thought, she solemnly opened the message.

He Bi: [Yaya, you went to Yunding Star, right?]

Shi Ya’s face darkened.

She raised her hand, intending to close the message.

He Bi: [I know you can see this, and I also know what you are planning to do, but your approach should not be so aggressive. There’s still time, you should come back to school.]

Shi Ya saw this and, without a word, deleted the message.

Following that.

She raised her hand, about to block He Bi.

At this moment, another message came through.

Shi Ya’s hand trembled, almost deleting the new message, but upon seeing the sender’s name, she suddenly paused and stopped her hand.

—It was that girl.

Ji You: [Senior, senior, senior~~~ Did you receive the gift? Do you like it?]

Shi Ya’s expression slightly froze.

A few seconds later.

Ji You: [If you like it, please reply with 1; if not, please reply with 2; if you do not reply, I will assume you liked it~~]

Shi Ya pursed her lips, her finger inexplicably pressed ’1’.

After the message was sent, it was too late for her to retract it.

Very soon.

Ji You: [Hahaha... I knew Senior would like it... I’m so happy~~~]

Shi Ya’s tense lips slightly relaxed.

Then—

He Bi, who hadn’t been blocked earlier, sent another message: [Shi Ya, I was somewhat wrong in my tone just now, I hope you don’t mind it, but I think your risky actions are inappropriate, so, I will explain the situation to the teachers.]

Shi Ya’s brow furrowed again.

After thinking for a moment, she replied, still furrowed: [He Bi, I hope you will stop meddling in my affairs, thank you. Also, I won’t respond to your messages anymore.]

As the message was sent, regardless of what He Bi might think or do, Shi Ya decided not to care anymore; however, her heart, which had grown cold and hard, somehow felt somewhat uneasy.