Chapter 5: A Mysterious Pearl

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  Xia Xingxiao's father, Xia Qianfeng, founded the Chá Duō Miàn Gǔ Shì Mǎo Yì Yǒu Xiàn Gōng Sī (Tea Bud Copper Mine Trade Co., Ltd.), which mainly deals with various copper mine trades. The crimson copper mines from all over the galaxy are all trading targets of Tea Bud Copper Mine Trade Co., Ltd. Unfortunately, the high-purity crimson copper mine of Aiyewei was already depleted decades ago. If needed, it must be mined on more distant planets, which has increased a lot in terms of cost and safety.

  Aiyexing is currently mining vanadium-potassium-uranium ore. This is a radioactive mineral with high purity and value, but also very dangerous. If ordinary people come into close contact with it, they are likely to develop cancer or other diseases. The distance referred to here is generally around 3 kilometers. Beyond this distance, there is a risk to life.

  However, vanadium potassium uranium ore is also a mineral that cannot be lacking in military terms. A large part of the high-grade EC315 material is extracted from vanadium potassium uranium ore. Uranium, vanadium, radium and other substances are even more indispensable. Therefore, deep underground on Planet Aylee, there are still special personnel from the Federation Army's Equipment Department and Logistics Department mining vanadium potassium uranium ore.

  In fact, even if the scenery of the Miao Luo military base is more beautiful than that of Silver Maple City, every cultivator who enters the Miao Luo military base will not have the mood to appreciate the scenery. They will seize every second to cultivate.

  Become stronger, become even stronger, become an extraordinary strong, this is the eternal pursuit of cultivators. Wasting even one second of time, in the eyes of cultivators, is shameful.

  Because, perhaps just because of this one-second difference, others have already surpassed you. The strength and weakness of the force, on the battlefield, is related to one's own life at all times. Unless one does not cherish his own life, no one will be willing to waste time.

  The time to graduate from the new recruit training camp is not fixed. New recruits join the army, cultivate to the fifth level, and are awarded the rank of corporal, which means they have officially graduated from the new recruit training camp. They can be assigned to combat troops and perform real combat missions. If you don't reach this level, just stay inside and work hard to cultivate honestly.

  The main force of the army fighting in outer space, the lowest rank is an officer. Because without the combat effectiveness of an officer, even if they appear on the battlefield, they can only be slaughtered. It seems that the five officers of the fifth squad may appear in outer space when needed. However, in outer space, they are all the lowest-level warriors.

  The Federal Manpower Act stipulates that the term of service for conscripts is five years, after which they can apply to leave the army. However, in the history of the federal armed forces, it seems that no soldier has left the army after completing his five-year term of service. After the end of their conscript service, they all become professional soldiers and continue to serve in the army.

  Of course, if you can't even reach the fifth level in twenty years, you can also leave from the new recruit training camp. Spending twenty years and still unable to meet the standards of a fifth-level cultivator means that the cultivation effect is indeed too poor. Even if you continue to cultivate, it will only be a waste of time. Therefore, changing places is inevitable.

  However, after leaving the recruit training camp, they did not go to combat troops, but went to police stations or education bureaus, or continued to serve in the reserve. In these positions, they are no longer considered federal soldiers. However, they also receive unified management.

  Due to the special identity of practitioners, they cannot be allowed to indulge in self-will. They must be subject to certain restrictions and constraints. Otherwise, it is very likely that they will harm ordinary people who are not practitioners, resulting in serious consequences.

  In recent decades, due to the instability of the federal government, the number of deserters in the military has increased. As a result, cases of cultivators infringing on ordinary citizens within the Starlight Federation have occurred from time to time, causing great distress among high-ranking military officials. The military and police were forced to strengthen their cooperation and jointly crack down on deserters.

  To curb the phenomenon of desertion in the federal army, the military court's legal treatment of deserters has been increasingly severe. In the past, it was basically a fixed-term imprisonment. Now, it is very likely to be sentenced to life imprisonment or even death penalty. Therefore, Xia Xingxiao wants to leave the army and must find reasonable and legitimate reasons. Otherwise, once treated as a deserter, the consequences will be serious. At least 50 years in prison are inevitable.

  In addition, cultivators also have a place to go, which is the Mechanized Division.

  For human armies, the biggest weakness of mech troops is not that the mechs themselves are not strong enough, but rather that the physical strength of their operators is not sufficient. Although there is a certain gap in technological level with non-humans, the mechs developed by human scientists will not lose to those of non-humans in terms of technology and quality. The only weakness is the human operator.

  Mechas are purely combat units, and once on the battlefield, intense fighting is inevitable. In order to strike or avoid being struck, various high-intensity movements are unavoidable. Especially when a mecha receives a severe impact or continuous rolls, the first thing that goes wrong is often not the mecha itself, but its operator.

  Unlike human enemies, mechanized troops do not have such shortcomings. Because they are integrated with the mecha itself. Their consciousness is the consciousness of the mecha. Humans cannot achieve this. Humans must control the mecha through operators. If the operator link cannot meet the requirements of the mecha, combat effectiveness cannot be improved.

  To be honest, with the physical strength of a human being, it is indeed more difficult to manipulate those high-tech mechs that can perform intense exercises. Continuous impact, continuous rolling, can easily make the operator faint. To solve this weakness is to cultivate martial arts.

  The manipulator of the mecha, before formally learning to operate the mecha, must cultivate a certain level of martial arts skills and increase their physical strength. Only by increasing one's physical strength to a certain value can they meet the requirements for mecha combat. Therefore, it is inevitable that some people from the cultivators will be separated to operate the mecha.

  ……

  Xia Xingxiao returned to her dormitory, took a stroll around and felt that it was still okay. It was better than she had imagined. Although the cave was dug out of rock, after being renovated, its surface looked like a palace, very luxurious and comfortable. The light inside the cave also simulated day and night automatically, so there was no problem with time disorder.

  The only bad thing is that the place is too big and there are too few things, making it look very empty. In this emptiness, there is a faint sense of unease. The cave extends deep into the underground of Aiyuewei, and no one knows where it leads to. Xia Xingxiao was worried, if a monster suddenly rushed out from inside, what should she do?

  Xia Xingxiao wanted to keep going deeper, to explore the depths of the cave. As a human being, he had curiosity too. But in the end, he didn't make it happen. No way, he didn't have that kind of courage. From a rational perspective, at this point, he was just an ordinary person. No matter what kind of monster he encountered, he would only become its prey.

  After wandering around for half a day, Xia Xingxiao felt more and more bored. He thought about doing something else, but didn't know what to do. It seemed that apart from cultivating, there was nothing else to do. He wasn't planning on cultivating anyway. His cultivation index was zero, so what's the point of cultivating? However, it was really too boring, so he could only pass the time by cultivating.

  As a result, just as Xia Xingxiao had begun to cultivate, she discovered that something was amiss.

  He suddenly realized that he didn't have any consciousness, but the Easy Muscle Scripture had been running silently. To be precise, it should have been when the light brain poured the Easy Muscle Scripture into his mind, the Easy Muscle Scripture was already in an automatic cultivation state. It's just that he himself didn't feel it. Sometimes, his nerves were indeed a bit thicker.

  "What's going on?" Xia Xingxiao couldn't help but jump in fright.

  Can Yi Jin Jing be automatically cultivated? That's impossible! I've never heard of martial arts skills being automatically cultivated. The technological level of the Xingyao Federation has not yet reached such an advanced stage. If all martial arts skills can be automatically cultivated, what would cultivators do? Just grab people and run them directly.

  What's going on? What's wrong with it?

  He repeatedly checked his body and finally found the crux of the problem.

  In his Dantian position, there was a very small bead that was constantly flashing green light.

  "Was everything before this just its mischief?" Xia Xingxiao carefully "looked" at the small bead, suspiciously muttering to herself, as if she had understood something.

  This bead with unknown name, origin and use was left when he was accidentally hit by a meteor two years ago on the ancient earth. At that time, after he woke up, he found that there was such a bead in his body. And on his forehead, there was a shallow scar, like a diamond shape.

  This mysterious bead is only the size of a soybean, inlaid in its own dantian position, as if it were born there, and completely fused with his body. If you don't pay special attention to find it, you won't notice its existence at all.

  At that time, Xia Xingxiao was worried that the pearl would harm her body and often thought of ways to test it. As a result, the pearl had no reaction. Later, Xia Xingxiao found that the pearl had almost no effect on her body, so she gradually became less concerned about it. In the end, she completely forgot about it.

  But today, this pearl finally showed abnormality.

  If it's said that there's something strange inside one's body, which can cause the light brain to be unable to make a judgment about oneself, leading to a cultivation index of zero, and also causing the Easy Muscle Scripture to run automatically for no reason, Xia Xingxiao's only explanation is this bead.