ccnovels Chapter 687 - 210: Tea Talk After the Movie
Chapter 687 - 210: Tea Talk After the Movie
The Empire’s territory is broader than Ten Stars; they annexed surrounding countries large and small, possessing as many as thirty star systems.Fortunately, after they occupy a territory, they prefer enslavement rather than indoctrination and assimilation.
With oppression comes resistance, so there are many small-scale wars every day.
Under the wear and tear of such small wars, many insidious weapons emerged.
This thing is a product of such a grand environment.
The captured noble people have soft backs, spilling everything they can divulge, but ask them if they understand spatial instruments.
They only understand eating, drinking, and entertainment.
If they understood, they wouldn’t be here digging soil with hoes; they’d be at the prison, using their brains with the professors to reduce suffering.
Because of this, Su Xiaocai almost got into a fight with Admiral Bai.
A monthly salary of three thousand for work worth ten thousand? Who’s being mocked?
Admiral Bai didn’t take the bait, but Su Xiaocai took the opportunity to vent, engaging with Colonel Yuan. Colonel Yuan was beaten so badly for the first time that when checked with medical instruments later, even his hand bone cracked, and he was limping.
"Why did you really fight with her? If you were going to fight, you didn’t have to hold back." Admiral Bai watched the show, sipping tea, pretending to care for his subordinate.
"I didn’t hold back; she’s too strong." Couldn’t understand why such a small girl has such strength.
The saying "concentration is essence," Colonel Yuan almost believed it.
Admiral Bai said, "I remember she didn’t have that much strength before."
"Su Xiaocai has the strength of an Admiral, stronger than you." The obedient Colonel Yuan might have been stirred by anger, trying to provoke his superior.
Admiral Bai chuckled, "I don’t compare with her; she’s inherently an Admiral." The provocation seemed ineffective, but Admiral Bai secretly devised ways that night to find Su Xiaocai, using a new simulation pod to spar in the New World.
If it wasn’t known that the fully functional simulation pod couldn’t alter character attributes, he would have thought Su Xiaocai had become an Insect Man.
Su Xiaocai’s abnormal strength was especially troublesome; even though his agility was extremely high, and the strength considerable, he managed to draw twice, lose once, and win twice.
In exchanges not involving life and death, he still had a slight advantage, diminishing the impact of Colonel Yuan’s words.
A life and death battle might be different; Su Xiaocai has relentlessness and an unpredictable fighting style. In complex cosmic or terrain scenarios, Admiral Bai estimated he’d lose more than win.
Su Xiaocai’s knowledge in her mind exceeded his by far.
Afterward, Admiral Bai directly asked, "Why is your strength so great, unusually so?"
"I drink a lot of sensitive fruit juice."
"..." How awful must that taste be.
Someone once described it, drinking sensitive fruit juice; its flavor was so heavenly moving, tears would fall naturally, crying and saying never again.
"Does it have the power-increasing effect?" Admiral Bai asked.
With so many plants in the world, something so hard to consume, few would want to research it.
Besides, what Su Xiaocai found interesting was that the substance enhancing strength in sensitive fruit juice weakened once extracted into medicine.
For some patients with muscle weakness, the medicinal effect is mild and suitable for long-term consumption.
For someone like Su Xiaocai needing it to enhance strength, it requires drinking in large gulps.
The harder it is to swallow, the stronger the effect.
This might be the price to pay; anyway, after drinking it each day, Su Xiaocai would experience half an hour of decreased appetite.
Su Xiaocai replied, "Yes, that’s correct."
Admiral Bai suspected Su Xiaocai was tricking him, but he had no evidence. After that day, he also drank sensitive fruit juice, unwilling to admit defeat. He drank it daily on holiday; if it’s ineffective, he’d have nowhere else to enquire but her.
Colonel Yuan almost thought he was to blame, watching Admiral Bai sadly gulping down sensitive fruit juice every day, leading Admiral Bai astray.
At this rate, Admiral Bai’s daily activities were filled with "folk remedies."
Ji Li and Su Xiaocai’s research proceeded as usual, but life is not just research.
The cinema debut is starting, Su Xiaocai put down her work to watch the starring little celebrities she sponsored.
As she took time off to go see the movie, Ji Li came from the manor, "The company’s invested movie is premiering; interested to go to the cinema together?"
Going to the cinema to watch a movie is different in atmosphere than watching alone in the New World.
Su Xiaocai: "..."
She secretly felt glad she didn’t tell Ji Li she had bought a ticket.
If the future boyfriend wants to go to the cinema for the premiere, then she’ll go.
The ticket for the New World would automatically expire, and the ten coins wasted would just be wasted.
When she disguised herself to come to the cinema, seated in the cinema’s best position on the semi-transparent chairs, Ji Li was on her left side, but to her right was Yu Haoming.