That being said, Mouse Bai's talents in piloting a starship were not fake at all.
After three months of preliminary training in the 'Burning Prairie Military Academy' in Heavenly Saints City, the plain-looking boy soon distinguished himself and was qualified to train on the starship.
Ji Wende intentionally arranged for him to work in the engine compartment, which was the toughest part of the starship, not because he was angry that he had been tricked by the boy but because he wanted to polish the boy's temperament.
The engine compartment was the hottest, dirtiest, noisiest place on a crystal warship, where the radiation of all kinds of magical equipment was everywhere. Even the descendants of noble families and Training geniuses considered it a daunting place.
But Mouse Bai, as a child of the grassroots on the street, was like a fish in water. He soon won the approval of everybody in the engine compartment.
Ji Wende knew how difficult it was.
As a super warship dozens of kilometers long and weighing almost a hundred million tons, to rush at a high speed in a cosmic storm or to resist the strong gravity on a planet such as the Heaven's Origin Sector and dodge the lightning, lightning, and space cracks as agilely as a snake, the engine compartment itself could almost be called a 'planetary magical equipment' system!
Inside the engine compartment that was as enormous as a palace, eighteen groups of super power units that were as magnificent as mountains had been arranged. Together with eight anti-gravity units that had been installed to adapt to the gravity of the planet, each 'unit' weighed tens of thousands of tons and was made of millions of components. They could swallow almost a hundred tons of crystals at a time and transform them into powerful impetus and anti-gravity through thousands of rune arrays!
It was not hard to imagine how difficult it was to ensure that the entire system was functioning normally or even overloaded.
The captain and the navigator in the bridge only needed to click 'activate', 'power increase', 'turn on protective shield', and 'prepare for space jump' on the light beam. Then, they would be able to issue an order.
But getting to the bottom of it, in order to transmit the commander's orders to every capillary of the iron beast that was dozens of kilometers long and make it fully functional, the unremitting efforts of the 'dynamo' and the refiners in the engine compartment had to be counted on.
In the Flying Star Sector, such dynamos had a special name — sea wolves.
They were like wolves that were galloping in the sea of stars. They boasted the keenest noses, the strongest mobility, and the most tenacious willpower.
The experienced captains all knew that it was not hard to find a martial arts expert who could blow up a meteorite with one punch, but an old sea wolf who could exploit all the potential of the power units of a crystal warship while he was half drunk while humming a tune was definitely one of the rarest of them all!
If possible, all the captains would rather trade ten 'martial arts experts' for such an old sea wolf!
When they were in critical times, not just ten of them, even a hundred martial arts experts would be useless, when they were trapped in the deepest part of the cosmic storm.
However, such an old sea wolf who could tame the power unit obediently was very likely to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on the starship!
Burning Prairie was the strongest warship in the Flying Star Sector. Naturally, the most renowned sea wolves of the Flying Star Sector were gathered in the engine compartment.
Those old men had spent almost their entire lives in the engine compartment. They could hear the deformation of a tiny component deep inside a certain power unit in the middle of the deafening noises, and they could make a crystal warship that was riddled with holes and had run out of fuel perform another short-distance space jump in a cosmic storm.
In the eyes of those who did not know them, they were a bunch of unattractive old men, but in the eyes of the professionals, every one of them was a thunderous name and a monster.
However, even those old monsters were amazed by the little monster named Mouse Bai. Some old monsters of different fields even competed for Mouse Bai to be their disciple.
"I've traveled in the sea of stars for two hundred years, but I've never seen a guy as talented as him in starships!"
"The boy was definitely born for crystal warships!"
"Damn it. He is like a black hole that is about to suck up all my unique skills!"
Today, Mouse Bai had created a moderate miracle. He had been in the Burning Prairie Fleet for only one year, but he was already responsible for all the work of a certain post in the engine compartment on his own!
That was only because he was a 'student scout'. According to the old monsters in the engine compartment, it was not a big deal that the little monster could be responsible for the coordination of almost ten posts or even a power unit on his own.
Therefore, when the boy called him 'Uncle Ji' with a smile, Ji Wende, as the deputy chief tutor, had to accept it. The boy was indeed a rare talent!
However …
The boy was as talented as he was in crystal warships as he was in other aspects. He was so much of a jerk that Ji Wende was gnashing his teeth in fury and more than once had the urge to grab his neck, kick his ass, and kick him out of Burning Prairie.
"Mr. … Bai Xinghe!"
Taking a deep breath, Ji Wende managed to hold back his fury and tried to reason with him. "Look at yourself. At first, you sent the game of 'Ten Square Victory' to Burning Prairie. That's not a big deal!
"Then, you instigated internal strife between the student scouts from the Cross Wind Space Zone and the student scouts from the Swooping Eagle Space Zone. Both parties thought that they had found a flawless counselor who had made a flawless plan. But it turned out that their counselor was the same person after they fought each other hard. It was you!
"Then, you disguised yourself as an experienced officer in his eighties and wandered around the magical equipment warehouse blatantly, raising a huge fuss! Don't deny it! Although the truth of the matter has not been found out yet, and it may never be found out, I know that it was you! Nobody else could have done it except you!
"Also, today, you intentionally hooked more than a hundred student scouts and put them in confinement!
"Tell me. What are you up to exactly? Don't you know that you will become a target for everybody if you do that?
"Mr. Bai Xingjian, you are truly talented in crystal warships. Why do you always waste your talents by doing such things?"
Mouse Bai, who was lying on the sickbed, was slightly dazed by his solemn words. Brilliance that nobody else knew beamed out of his eyes that had been covered by his smile. He lay on the sickbed heavily and rested his head on his hands, before he said casually, "Because … it's too boring."
"Boring?"
Ji Wende did not expect such an answer at all. He was amused. "You are working as an assistant for seven masters in the engine compartment at the same time. Your training subjects are more than ten times those of the common student scouts. If other people were in your position, they would've been too busy to do anything. Do you think that it's boring? Why? Do you have to be the captain of Burning Prairie so that you won't be bored? "
Mouse Bai yawned and said slowly, "It's quite boring to be the captain of Burning Prairie."
"What?"
Ji Wende burst into fury. "Young man, you think you can fly to the sky just because of some insignificant achievements? Then, why don't you tell me how you won't be bored? Mouse Bai, what are you up to exactly? "
"I don't know. I'm thinking about it, too."
Mouse Bai scratched his nose and smiled. "Maybe one day, our technology will be advanced enough to produce a super warship the size of a planet …"
Ji Wende sneered. "Then, you will be the captain, won't you?"
"No." Mouse Bai shook his head.
"No. If we have ten such planetary warships and make a fleet, and I'm the commander of the fleet … it will be interesting, won't it?"
"…" Ji Wende.
Right then, devastating alarms echoed deep inside Burning Prairie. Ominous red lights were flashing even around the medical cabins.
"Level one alert, everyone on board! All the personnel who are on leave or on leave, return to their posts immediately! Activate the defense rune arrays of the highest level in the living quarters. Distribute the personal magical equipment and the lifesaving magical equipment to everyone! "
Ji Wende and Mouse Bai both changed their expressions.
"I'm going back to the bridge immediately. Stop playing dead and return to the engine compartment. Something must've happened. Perhaps we've run into a beast tide outbreak!"
Ji Wende put his military cap on his head hard and said in a hurry.
Mouse Bai, however, narrowed his eyes and extended his nose. He sniffed stealthily, as if he had smelled something ominous. He tilted his head and asked, "Uncle Ji, are we still unable to reach out to the rear?"
Ji Wende was dazed for a moment. Then he nodded and said, "The surface of a planet is different from the vacuum of the universe. It is full of all kinds of interferences. It is especially so in the Dark Desolate Domain, where there is a super thunderstorm. The spiritual energy here is highly disordered. It is perfectly normal that we cannot reach out to the rear."
Mouse Bai nodded and asked, "Uncle Ji, when we were in the capital city a few days ago, it was said that the Speaker of the Xing Yao Federation was assassinated. Almost ten thousand citizens were killed, too. The public was so agitated that the drill was held in advance. What happened exactly?"
"How would I know?"
Ji Wende glared at him. "It's none of your business. Just mind your own business!"
Mouse Bai scratched his nose habitually. He narrowed his eyes and said solemnly, "Uncle Ji, I think we should leave the Dark Desolate Domain as soon as possible and fly out of the atmosphere!
"As long as we fly out of the atmosphere and enter the orbit of the home planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector, we will not be affected by the weather, and we will be able to reach out to the rear, right?"
"You've got to be kidding!"
Ji Wende sneered. "One of the main purposes of the drill is to train Burning Prairie's combat abilities in the harsh weather and environment. We can quit now, but what if we encounter bad weather when we have a battle with the fleet of the Imperium of True Human Beings on the surface of an important planet? Can we quit now?
"Besides, we have more than ten friendly legions and the best super warships of the three Sectors. Do you think that you will be intimidated by a little storm? Even if we encounter a large-scale beast tide, there is no reason for us to back off! Let's show the demons the toughness of the Flying Star Sector!
"Cut the crap and get back to your post! This is an order! Let me tell you, boy, I can turn a blind eye to other things, but if you back off in the middle of a battle, I will kill you in person! "
Ji Wende snorted heavily, flicked his sleeves and left.
"Friendly forces?"
Watching him stride away, Mouse Bai wiped the saliva on his face and said with a bitter smile, "It's not the demons that I'm scared of, but our allies!"
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