There was nothing but dead silence in the Maintenance Department.
Although the room was quite spacious, everybody still felt that their chests were so heavy that their breath and heartbeat were almost frozen.
In the chilly silence, Chu Chongjiu finally understood what was going on.
"Shua!"
Cold sweat the size of soybeans was popping up on his forehead, which could not be stopped at all.
As an experienced refiner himself, he knew the horror of a refiner very well.
If he pissed off a battle-type Cultivator, he would only piss off a sect or a family behind him at best.
But if he pissed off a seasoned refiner, especially an Armadominus who could craft an advanced Crystal Suit on his own, as long as the refiner offered a tailor-made Crystal Suit as a reward, thousands of battle-type Cultivators might be attracted to work for him!
If there was really a terrifying refiner who could complete such an unbelievable adjustment right under his nose and Miss Tang's nose, such an expert was definitely not someone they would want to mess with!
"Exactly."
Chu Chongjiu took a deep breath and nodded solemnly. "You do have a point, Brother Nie. We can't fix the problem of the Crystal Suit. Let's send it back to the original factory and ask Wu Yaxuan to maintain and adjust it in person."
Nie Siyuan sighed and said, "I'm afraid that even Wu Yaxuan himself may not be able to move it back. Perhaps, Master Jiang Shaoyang and Master Xie Anan will have to work together … But it has nothing to do with us now. Please leave!"
Nie Siyuan made a gesture of seeing them off.
Chu Chongjiu knew that it was not because he was being rude but because he was trying to protect them. He hoped that the two of them would stay out of the trouble as soon as possible and not get involved in a mysterious and dangerous swirl. Nie Siyuan would certainly express his gratitude and apology later.
Therefore, he nodded at Nie Siyuan and was about to leave with Miss Tang.
Miss Tang was not entirely ignorant, but she was still young and reckless after all. She was not convinced and asked in a low voice, "Uncle Chu, is it … over just like that?"
"What else can we do?"
Chu Chongjiu smiled bitterly at her. "Right now, we are in a foreign land and living under someone else's roof. The less trouble, the better. As long as one tenth of your deduction is true, we'd better stay away from such a fiendish refiner!"
"But …"
Miss Tang thought for a moment and said, "Why would he do that? Is he trying to show off to us by tampering with the Crystal Suit in front of us?"
"I don't think so."
Chu Chongjiu pondered for a moment and said, "It is impossible for us to have pissed off such a mysterious expert. If we are talking about 'demonstration', we are probably demonstrating to Wu Yaxuan, the designer of the Crystal Suit, as well as the masters of refining in the Federation such as Jiang Shaoyang and Xie Anan. The grudges involved are certainly not something that we can participate in. We'd better ask less about it, in case we are caught in the mess and torn into pieces. After all, you still have a mission to fulfill!"
Ms. Tang was slightly taken aback. She remembered that she was going to participate in the "Election Investigation Team" to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Xing Yao Federation. She also had to negotiate cooperation with the higher-ups of the Federation. There was indeed no need for her to be involved in this inexplicable dispute.
Therefore, she held back her curiosity and managed to nod her head. "Alright, Uncle Chu. Let's go."
"Brother Nie, I'll take my leave now. Later at night, if the 'Ace Game' is not busy, why don't we have dinner together? I'll introduce the expert of refining on Firefly, this … Miss Tang, to you."
Chu Chongjiu bade farewell to Nie Siyuan and was about to leave the Maintenance Department with Miss Tang when the mini crystal processor on his wrist buzzed softly again.
Glancing at the light beam casually, Chu Chongjiu's face was even weirder than before.
He showed the content displayed on the light beam to Miss Tang. "Weird things happen every day, but there are a lot of them today. More than half of the secondhand units and materials that we put on sale in the magical equipment center of the Four Sectors have been sold. All of them have been sold!"
Not only did the Four Sectors Magical Equipment Center boast its own sales platform for magical equipment and materials, it also had secondhand recycling, magical equipment pawning, and consignment services.
It was especially so after Firefly was docked near the Dragon Snake Space Zone. In order to purchase abundant resources, materials, and crystals, Firefly, which had drifted in the wind and rain for a thousand years, had undergone a comprehensive overhaul. Left with no choice, the Cultivators on Firefly all sold a lot of magical equipment to the outside world.
The major magical equipment was naturally sold in other ways, but some of the disordered, eccentric, and worn-out magical equipment and rare materials were also consigned in the magical equipment stores everywhere.
Chu Chongjiu had once brought a large batch of magical equipment and materials to be sold in this place.
However, in the first few years, the magical equipment and materials that were of higher value and easier to be refined and applied had all been sold out.
To this day, several years later, the items that had not been sold were either the materials that were too difficult to refine or even the people at the edge of the cosmos had never seen before, or the worn-out units that had been refined with the advanced technologies from the center of the cosmos and were extremely difficult to repair and operate.
To this day, the worn-out magical equipment and materials that they had consigned in this place for sale could barely be sold in a couple of days. Chu Chongjiu had long been used to it.
But out of his expectation, the Magical Equipment Center had just sent him a message stating that dozens of magical equipment and materials had been sold at the same time. All of them were units of poor quality that required full maintenance, as well as materials that were so rare that even the refiners on Firefly might not be able to handle them properly!
Miss Tang glanced at the light beam quickly and soon put on an expression of disbelief. "Even the 'Moon Soft Glue' has been sold?"
The Moon Soft Glue was a very special soft material that had been refined repeatedly with the cartilage and nerves of dozens of different animals. Together with more than fifty different metal powders, it could only be made after a hundred days of refining.
Such a soft material had two main purposes when applied to the Crystal Suit.
Firstly, it could serve as a cushion between the joints to increase the agility of the Crystal Suit and reduce the wear and tear of the components.
Secondly, it could be used to seal the crystal reactor so that the odds of spiritual energy escaping would be greatly reduced.
To be fair, the Moon Soft Glue was a very remarkable material. It was not an exaggeration to call it a 'Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures'.
However, it had two major shortcomings that led to its low sales.
Firstly, after hundreds of years of development in materials science, it was now possible to produce a new type of synthetic glue that could replace the functions of the Moon Soft Glue. It could achieve 97% of the performance of the natural Moon Soft Glue, but its price was only one tenth of the natural Moon Soft Glue.
The natural Moon Soft Glue was certainly not a cheap material. The Moon Soft Glue of the same weight was even more expensive than 'marrow crystals'.
Secondly, which was also the most fatal, the Moon Glue was refined from it. As long as it was not used for a period of time, it would solidify into a solid, hard rubber.
It was not easy to melt the Moon Soft Glue again. Very special techniques and techniques were required. One moment of carelessness and the internal components of the Moon Soft Glue would be damaged, and its performance would be lowered. It would be even worse than the synthetic glue!
Ever since the big explosion more than a hundred years ago, there had been no refiners on Firefly who had grasped the ancient technique of 'reprocessing' the Moon Soft Glue.
That was why they had put the Moon Soft Glue on sale.
However, in the remote area at the edge of the sea of stars, there was obviously no refiner who could process the Moon Soft Glue perfectly, either.
The Moon Soft Glue had been left here for years, and nobody was interested in it.
Perhaps everybody felt that it was not worthwhile to increase the performance of the cushion by three percent at a high risk and ten times the price, right?
But today, the Moon Soft Glue and more than ten other materials that had their own problems and were difficult to process had all been sold, including dozens of broken units that even Miss Tang was not confident that they could be repaired and were consigned for sale as pure garbage.
Miss Tang could not help but be curious about the buyer of the rare materials and the shabby units.
Thinking of something, she stepped forward and asked Nie Siyuan, "Manager Nie, I wonder, can you tell us who the buyer of the materials and the magical equipment is?"
"About that …"
Nie Siyuan frowned hard.
The information of the buyers of the materials and magical equipment in the Four Sectors Magical Equipment Center had never been disclosed. After all, the production and utilization of magical equipment were highly sensitive industries. Many people did not want their life-saving magical equipment to be exposed to the public, especially in such a perilous place as the Dragon Snake Space Zone.
It was the signature of the magical equipment store. If the information of the buyer was disclosed today, there would not be any business tomorrow.
"Miss Tang?"
Chu Chongjiu coughed and felt that Miss Tang's request was rather reckless, too.
"Manager Nie, please don't misunderstand me."
Miss Tang thought for a moment and said, "I don't mean anything else. I just feel that it is rare to see such a knowledgeable buyer. I have a batch of rare materials that I have never presented before, and I want to negotiate a deal with the buyer."
"Let's do this.
"I know that the buyer probably hasn't left this place yet because one of the materials he purchased is' Water Spiritual Gel ', which must be produced as soon as possible after leaving the special cryogenic protective cabin.
"Therefore, he should still be processing the 'Water Spiritual Gel' in one of the refining workshops here, right?
"If possible, I would like to ask Manager Nie to communicate with the buyer first. I can make a list of the materials here. If he is interested in the materials on the list, he is certainly welcome to meet us. If he is not, we can forget about it!"
"Manager Nie, is that alright?"
Firefly was a big customer of the Four Sectors Magical Equipment Center. Miss Tang's request was not too outrageous. After all, it was still up to the buyer whether or not to meet the buyer. Pondering for a moment, Nie Siyuan found the route of the materials just now through the management interface and the refining workshop where the buyer was. He communicated with the buyer and sent Miss Tang's list of materials to him.
A moment later, Nie Siyuan raised his head and looked at Miss Tang weirdly.
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