Free Web Novel"Zhao Chen, you were too impulsive just now. I know you really hate Zhang Haoran; he took away... Jiang Shasha... but you can't challenge him to a Starship Duel.
The application for the Starship Duel has already been submitted... it can't be canceled...
If it really comes down to it, I'll lend you my T2 Hyena." Li Wei walked beside Zhao Chen, his anxious expression making it seem as if he, not Zhao Chen, was the one participating in the duel.
"No need, I have a Starship." Zhao Chen felt a warmth in his heart as he saw Li Wei's anxious look for him.
Li Wei truly treated him like a brother, simply because from the day they entered school, Zhao Chen had helped this second-generation rich kid from a merchant family, tutoring him and assisting him with his assignments.
Otherwise, he would never have passed the exams for all subjects in the previous three years.
From then on, their relationship had been very good.
"You have a Starship? How come I don't know?" Li Wei looked at Zhao Chen in surprise.
Zhao Chen was with him almost twenty-four hours a day, except when he was sleeping or using the restroom. How could he not know if Zhao Chen had a Starship?
"Well, we're going to exchange for one now," Zhao Chen said with a slight smile.
"What? Going to exchange for one now?" Li Wei froze, then clutched his head: "My Baron Young Master, that's too big of a joke. You're going to use a Starship from the academy's Starship warehouse to duel Zhang Haoran?"
Half an hour later.
Zhao Chen and Li Wei arrived at the academy's Starship warehouse.
This place was different from a Starport. A Starport housed Starships ready for immediate departure.
A Starship warehouse, however, was used for storing Starships. Some Starships here could even be described as covered in dust, having been stored for who knows how many years.
"Hello, teacher. I'm here to exchange for a Starship." Zhao Chen approached the warehouse manager's counter.
The warehouse manager glanced at Zhao Chen. Perhaps because it was already the end of the semester, he knew that third-year students were starting to prepare the Starships they would need for the next semester, and he was used to students coming here to exchange for Starships.
"Take a look yourself, here's the list. It has data on each Starship model, as well as the required student points." The warehouse manager opened the inquiry window, letting Zhao Chen browse.
The list was filled with Starships.
There were nearly three hundred of them.
However, the vast majority were T1 Starships, and most of them were second-hand Starships.
After all, who would park a new Starship here?
"Zhao Chen, you've always done well in your studies. You should have about 30,000 academy points after three semesters.
Then exchanging for this T2 Hyena-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer is perfect. It's a Starship from twenty years ago, with slight damage to its hull.
Although the model is a bit old, the core technology is quite comprehensive." Li Wei knew that the Starship Duel was a done deal, and now they could only figure out how to deal with it.
Zhao Chen shook his head, continuing to look.
Li Wei then introduced several more T2 Starships, all quite cost-effective, but Zhao Chen shook his head at each one.
"Young Master, how long are you going to take to choose? Although there are over three hundred Starships here, only these few are the most suitable." Li Wei looked at Zhao Chen, who had still not made a decision.
"I've already chosen," Zhao Chen said.
"Chosen? Which one?" Li Wei looked curious.
Zhao Chen looked at the manager teacher: "Teacher, as long as I have enough points, can I exchange for multiple Starships?"
"Indeed, there's no limit on the number of exchanges," the manager teacher nodded.
Zhao Chen checked off several Starships in the inquiry window: "Then I'll take these three."
Three?
Li Wei and the manager teacher were both stunned.
They both simultaneously checked the three Starships.
T2 Hyena-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer: Has been in service for fifty-nine years, hull was severely damaged, three main guns were severely damaged, now repaired... requires 9000 points.
T2 Gray Wolf-class Light Star Cruiser: Has been in service for sixty-five years... requires 7000 points.
T2 Devil Crocodile-class Medium Interstellar Battleship: Has been in service for eighty years... requires 11000 points.
Upon seeing the data for these three Starships, Li Wei and the manager teacher were both dumbfounded.
These three Starships were undoubtedly old models among all the Starships in the warehouse.
"Are you sure you want to exchange for these three Starships? Aren't you going to reconsider? Although these three Starships were excellent models in their time, over time, their Starship modules have severely aged," the manager teacher advised.
Li Wei also quickly said, "Zhao Chen, don't joke around. A Starship Duel is one-on-one. It's useless even if you choose three."
"I'm sure, just these three. Please exchange them for me," Zhao Chen said firmly. freёwebnoѵel.com
After repeated confirmation from the manager teacher, he finally exchanged these three Starships for Zhao Chen.
Li Wei covered his face beside him. He felt like he was dreaming; he simply couldn't understand what Zhao Chen was doing today.
"These three Starships have been transferred to your name. You can retrieve them at any time.
If you wish to continue storing them in the warehouse, it's free for one month, and after one month, a storage fee will be charged." The manager teacher was now looking at Zhao Chen with the gaze one would give an idiot.
"Teacher, points can also be used to exchange for some Starship parts, right? And each student has free access to the Starship modification and repair dry dock. I haven't used mine for three semesters, so I should have thirty days of free access," Zhao Chen added.
"Yes," the manager teacher nodded.
"Then I'll write down a list of Starship parts here. Also, please trouble the teacher to arrange a Starship dry dock for me and send all three of these Starships and the Starship parts on this list over," Zhao Chen requested.
The manager teacher glanced at the list of parts; they were all very common.
And the academy points Zhao Chen had left after exchanging for the Starships were just enough to exchange for these.
"Do you need to hire Starship engineers or repairmen? They can repair and modify the Starship according to your requirements," the manager teacher asked.
"No need," Zhao Chen shook his head.
The manager teacher didn't press further: "I'll have it done for you within half an hour. You'll receive the Starship dry dock number then, and you can go directly."
"Thank you, teacher," Zhao Chen said.
After finishing their business, Zhao Chen and Li Wei left the area.
"What a strange student," the manager teacher muttered.
Walking out of the Starship warehouse, Li Wei couldn't hold back any longer. He grabbed Zhao Chen's shoulder: "Zhao Chen, what exactly are you trying to do?
What use can those three dilapidated Starships be?
You're joking with your future!"
Zhao Chen still calmly said, "Li Wei, trust me. I'll handle this matter."
"You... forget it, I don't care about you anymore." Li Wei was a bit angry, waving his hand as if he couldn't be bothered with Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen felt helpless. What he was about to do, even if he explained it to Li Wei now, Li Wei wouldn't believe him. freēwēbnovel.com
Instead of wasting time, it was better to prove everything with facts when the time came!
'Ding · Third-year student Zhao Chen has obtained usage rights for medium-small Starship dry dock number 017. Entry to the Starship dry dock is permitted with a student ID card during the usage period.'
Upon receiving the message, Zhao Chen temporarily parted ways with Li Wei and headed to the Starship dry dock.
Arriving at the entrance of the Starship dry dock, he swiped his student ID card, and the large door automatically opened. Inside was a very large space, at least the size of three to five football fields.
A pungent smell of rust and Starship oil wafted towards him.
Zhao Chen walked inside and saw three Starships, as if waiting for his arrival.
Their rusty hulls testified to their age and history of past battles. Although the academy had repaired and maintained them, they had, after all, been in service for so many years.
Zhao Chen first walked to the workshop's main control panel, brought up holographic screens one by one, and quickly tapped on the holographic keyboard, inputting data one after another.
Finally, the data for the three Starship models was clearly displayed, and Zhao Chen even edited three-dimensional models.
If one looked closely, they would find that the three-dimensional models of the Starships were divided into gray and red areas.
"Combining these areas together will do it!" Zhao Chen enthusiastically overlapped the red areas, forming a blurry Starship prototype that looked mismatched.
Then Zhao Chen retrieved a data file from a top-secret document on his handheld terminal.
That was also a Starship model.
It was precisely the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser!
