"How's it going, Xia Yu, are you feeling better?" A loud voice rang out from outside the house.
"It's Uncle Li." Xia Chen hurriedly greeted him outside and was seeing Li Quan walk in with his hands behind his back, scrambling to bring tea and pour water.
"Ha, Xia Yu, you do have a good son." Li Quan laughed and took out a few small dishes from behind him, as well as a bottle of white wine, a specialty of Manna Star - Iron Stone Brew, made from an ore that is a specialty of Manna Star, spicy in the mouth and very strong in alcohol.
"My father's injuries haven't completely healed yet, so he can't drink." Xia Chen frowned and reminded Uncle Li.
"Ha, silly boy, drinking helps blood circulation, your father lies in bed every day. Lying down all the time, the blood doesn't circulate." Li Quan patted Xia Chen's shoulder straight happy.
Xia Yu does not have any other hobbies, just like to drink, because of the injury for a long time did not touch the wine, at the moment the wine bug has been hooked up, two eyes show a strange glow.
"Forget it, my father is such a hobby, a little wine is nothing." Looking at his father's face, Xia Chen directly compromised and took the dishes from Uncle Li's hand and took them to the kitchen to heat them and bring them over.
The atmosphere in the house was good, and Xia Yu laughed out loud for the first time in a long time.
"Kid, there are good things tonight, want to go with me to see the world?" Li Quan said mysteriously.
"You less teach children to learn badly." Xia Yu's face was slightly stagnant.
"Nonsense, how can mecha fighting be considered learning bad, Uncle Li took a tournament game, ten days later, do you want to go to see?" Uncle Li looked at Xia Chen and said with a smile.
Mecha fighting!
Xia Chen's two eyes shone up.
As the name implies, mech fighting is a simple matter of driving a mech to fight, not using any weapons, and not attacking the mech's cab.
The Galaxy Empire has a special tournament for mecha fighters, and those who can achieve a ranking in the tournament are national idols that everyone admires, and their popularity is similar to that of sports stars in the past.
In the top mech fighting competitions, the protection measures and event mechanisms are perfect, the mech master is generally not in danger, but the mech is bound to break down.
Sometimes to mobilize the desire of the audience, the contestants will blast the opponent's mecha into slag, completely scrapped.
A top mech, is worth a lot of money, even waiting for the same original planet.
For those aristocratic tycoons who invest in sponsoring the competition, every match means a lot of money burned out of thin air.
Although not necessarily blood and flesh, the magic of money, but also make people's blood, adrenaline a lot of secretion, and get great pleasure from it.
This is gambling!
Luxury gambling!
It is a game that only the rich are entitled to enjoy.
In fact, behind every official mecha fighting competition, there is the shadow of the major powers' peripheral casinos.
The amount of assets circulating in the casinos is so large that even the Empire's finance minister was dumbfounded, exclaiming that if these assets were brought to the surface, they could even shake the foundation of the Empire.
This situation is not unlike the formerly popular gambling ball.
Therefore, mecha fighting often means large amounts of gambling. That's why Xia Yu said that he would not let Li Quan bring down Xia Chen.
"Don't worry, Xia Yu, leave Xia Chen to me, I will not let him learn badly, with my character guarantee, besides he has no money." Li Quan patted his chest and laughed.
"Dad, let me go." Xia Chen also begged his father, the attraction of mecha fighting was too big.
"Okay." Xia Yu on the strength of his drink to finally agree.
"Thank you, Dad." Xia Chen pounced on his father, a surprised smile on his face.
Li Quan secretly winked at Xia Chen.
Xia Chen understood that if his father hadn't been slightly drunk by Uncle Li, he wouldn't have agreed at all.
"Hahaha. It was a painful day of drinking. I'm leaving." Li Quan squinted his eyes and laughed.
"Xia Chen, send your Uncle Li off quickly." Xia Yu struggled to sit up.
"Okay." Xia Chen was very well behaved and sent Li Quan out the door, all the way out a long way, not meaning to go back yet.
Under the dim street light, Li Quan looked back at Xia Chen with a smile, "Xia Chen, do you have something to tell me."
"Uncle Li, I want you to introduce me to a job." Xia Chen said in a low voice.
"A job? It's for your father, right?" Li Quan sighed and said, "You are a filial child. Now that the Beishan Mine is being reorganized, you can't work inside the mine anymore. And other places, such as construction sites, the wages are too low if you don't drive a mech."
Xia Chen nodded vigorously, "Uncle Li, I can drive a mech."
Li Quan's eyes flashed with a surprise: "I've seen you drive an engineering mech with my own eyes. However, that might be your sudden burst of potential under a life crisis. This kind of state is impossible to last. Moreover, I heard your father say that your current mental power level is only 3. At this level, it is not possible to pilot a mech yet."
Xia Chen smiled faintly, "Uncle Li, my mental power level is already at 4."
"What!"
Li Quan's face was filled with a look of shock as he looked at Xia Chen incredulously.
He clearly remembered that Xia Chen's spiritual power level was only a mere 2 a few days ago, and was at the bottom of the class. Only a few days had passed, how could Xia Chen's spiritual power level have already reached level 4?
This is incredible.
However, for a high school student, mental power level 4 is not outstanding, it can only be described as a medium level.
Li Quan didn't think much about it, patted Xia Chen's shoulder, and promised to help him find a job.
Li Quan then took Xia Chen to a construction site and took him directly to the foreman.
The foreman, Qian Sen, a meticulous middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses, looked Xia Chen up and down: "You're Xia Chen, Xia Yu's son."
Xia Chen hurriedly said, "Uncle Qian."
Qian Sen nodded: "Your Uncle Li has already said hello to me. You work here with me, 500 star coins a day, any questions?"
Xia Chen froze: "How come it's only 500-star coins a day. I heard that the job of driving engineering mechs costs at least 2000 star coins a day."
Qian Sen grinned and turned his head to Li Quan and said, "This kid doesn't know what to do, he wants to drive an engineering mech as soon as he comes."
Li Quan pulled Xia Chen aside: "Xia Chen, it's all Uncle Li's fault for not making it clear to you. You are now at Spiritual Power Level 4, you should know that this level is not high, just barely able to pilot an engineering mech. Besides, you just arrived, the first day to drive engineering mecha, your Uncle Qian is not much, but I am afraid that those under his hands are not willing. I'll let your Uncle Qian arrange it for you slowly, and one day, you'll be able to drive an engineering mech. Or, I'll find another easier job for you, but the salary won't be as high."
Li Quan's words, Xia Chen understood, is that people do not trust their strength.
The corner of Xia Chen's mouth emerged a bitter smile, he is a high school student, and a miner and the spiritual power is only a district 4, why should the other party look up to him.
"Uncle Li, I do." Xia Chen whispered.
The corners of Li Quan's mouth bloomed into a smile, patting Xia Chen's shoulder: "Good boy, do a good job, ask your father to compete."
That day, Xia Chen received a helmet, civilian clothes to work on the site.
The work he did was not easy, it was a stone hauling job.
Xia Chen heard that on other planets, robots are used to build houses, which is fast, good, and low cost.
But not on Manna.
The minerals of Manna planet, there are traces of radiation, robots such as precision machinery can not work here. Therefore, only rely on human and engineering mechs.
All the money in the family was used to pay for his father's medical treatment. Xia Chen ate poorly, his body was weak, and he was so tired and sweaty after moving several carts of rocks that he was panting.
When the other workers saw Xia Chen's appearance, they all snickered and said he was not the material to do the job.
Xia Chen pretended not to hear and groped for the rocks.
At lunchtime, everyone else went to eat, but Xia Chen's work was not yet finished. When he arrived at the canteen, the food was already gone.
Xia Chen could only go on with his afternoon work on a hungry stomach.
The heavy stones were like a small mountain. Xia Chen couldn't help but fantasize in his heart that it would be good if his mental power was level 7.
There is not much difference between level 4 and level 6 of mental power. But when it comes to level 7, there is a world of difference.
Because, after a person's spiritual power reaches level 7, it can control the hormone secretion of the pituitary gland. Not only is the brain more flexible, but the physical body can also be improved through hormones, more powerful and tougher.
If Xia Chen's spiritual power level reaches level 7, his strength will be greatly improved, and carrying these stones will be a breeze.
Then again, if his mental power reaches level 7, he can naturally go, pilot, an engineering mech, who would do the hard work?
"Hey, it would be nice if these stones were a little lighter." Xia Chen sighed and couldn't help but think.
Suddenly.
I don't know if it was Xia Chen's illusion, but he felt that the stones were quite lighter.
Xia Chen was amazed, but the stone down, and when he moved it again, he found that it was still as heavy.
"What's going on?"
Xia Chen thought for half a day, recalling the state he was in just now, with his eyes fixed on the stone, thinking in his mind, "Lighter, lighter."
The stone became lighter.
Xia Chen was stunned, staring at the spot, unable to come back to his senses for half a day.
Suddenly, Xia Chen found a smaller stone on the ground, actually flew up, floating in mid-air.
Xia Chen a shake of the kung fu, the stone fell to the ground again and did not move.
Xia Chen thought to himself, "Fly up!"
The stone flew up again and arrived in front of Xia Chen.
Xia Chen twisted himself a little.
It hurt, it was not a dream.
"This is ...... spiritual numinous power!"
Xia Chen's brain went blank and muttered under his breath.
Xia Chen had read about it in a book.
When a person's spiritual power level is above 20, it is possible to awaken special abilities, that is, superpowers.
Spiritual thought power is a kind of superpower, and extremely rare, extremely rare.
Spiritual power, the ability to control objects with the mind, as if there is an invisible hand to grasp the object. As the level of spiritual power increases, the power of the idea will become greater and greater.
Spiritual power level 20, already a C-class mech master, is a rare thing in the entire Galactic Empire. What's more, is that not every C-level mech master can awaken superpowers.
The probability of a C-class mech master awakening superpowers is only 1 in 10,000.
It's just an extremely low value.
Every mecha master who awakens his ability will become the ace mecha master of the empire.
Xia Chen only had a level 4 mental power, so why did he awaken a spiritual mind power that could only be awakened at level 20 or higher?
Xia Chen shook his head, he couldn't figure it out, the biggest possibility, was the mysterious crystal pyramid.
In any case, with Xia Chen's spiritual power, he could carry the stones much easier than before.
This alone is enough to make Xia Chen happy.
Xiao Chen did not know at this moment, how rare and important the ability of spiritual power is.
Every spiritual thinker will be protected by the empire, focus on training, and even have the opportunity to enter the high level of the empire, to become a real power, a nobleman of the galactic empire.