The First Interstellar Energy Gambler - Chapter 3
Translator: Skull_InA_Rose
Chapter 3: Xing Mo
Lin Luo again poured water on the cut surface where the broken jade had been ground away. This time the exposed window surface was already very large, and the crystal clear jade was exposed, making it hard to look away.
“Hibiscus jade! It’s a hibiscus jade!”
Hibiscus pattern jade has a fine texture, and the energy distribution contained in it is very even, and more convenient to refine. As such it was a very popular one on the market, not to mention that the piece that was being worked on was a very pure sunny green color.
When the consultants saw this, they hurriedly took the small piece of jadeite and looked at it carefully. Although the part that showed wasn’t very big, judging from the first side that showed jade they estimated that they should be able to dig a lot more jade out of the jadeite.
“Old Li, work harder!” The old man patted Li Jun’s shoulder with a big smile.
Sure enough, his previous judgment wasn’t wrong, the piece of jadeite could produce good quality jade! He was right!
Li Jun nodded, the outline of the jade had emerged, and when Li Jun made the cuts he was both quick and accurate. With three or four cuts he took out the whole jade, then used the grinding wheel to finely grind it out. After polishing the jade, it was the size of a child’s fist and was finally finished.
Li Jun’s cutting technique was very good. This jadeite could be said to have been cut without any waste. For a jade with such good clarity and color, if even a little was lost it would have been a huge waste.
When the beautiful green stone was carefully held in Li Jun’s hand, huge cheers erupted around him, and almost everyone was discussing this priceless jade enthusiastically.
There were only two people who were incompatible with this lively scene, and that was Lin Luo and the conspicuous tall man.
That man was too eye-catching. He stood straight aside and kept his usual silence. He seemed indifferent to what was happening around him, which made Lin Luo have a hard time not looking at him curiously.
Lin Luo himself was calm because he was unable to distinguish the color. That beautiful green stone was just like ordinary sandstone on the ground. There was no difference. At best, it was more translucent than sandstone. So no matter what other people boasted of that stone, he couldn’t understand it.
But what about that man?
At this moment, the man seemed to feel his probing scrutiny and quickly swept his gaze over with acuity. Faced with those deep and unwavering eyes, Lin Luo was taken aback for a moment, then showed a slightly apologetic and shy smile.
The boy had a big pair of round and clear brown eyes with cat-slit pupils. When he smiled, his small face was like a blooming flower bud, which was dazzling.
The smile was fleeting. Xing Mo turned his face and withdrew his gaze.
At that point, some hunched old man had already taken the precious piece of jade from Li Jun. After carefully admiring it for a while, he turned and walked towards Xing Mo.
“Young master Mo, this piece of hibiscus sun green jade can have at least 100 milliliters of element liquid extracted and 5 milliliters of energy liquid.” The old man handed the jade into Xing Mo’s hands.
Xing Mo nodded, and said solemnly, “Old Gao has worked hard.”
“Nonsense, nonsense.” Old Gao waved his hand again and again, but he couldn’t help showing a joyful smile. It wasn’t easy to get a compliment from Xing Mo.
As it turns out, Xing Mo was the eldest young master of the Xing family. He was admitted to the Imperial First Military Academy with excellent results and had served as the top of the academy for three consecutive years. Both the actual combat and theoretical results had been ranked ahead of second by more than a few points. After he took advanced gene enhancement liquid, he even awakened his abilities and he had no small amount of limelight for a while.
If he had kept on following that momentum, whether he joined the army or inherited the family he would have had unlimited prospects waiting for him.
It’s a pity… After his power was awakened for some unknown reason it stagnated. No matter how many elemental liquids he took, he couldn’t improve his power.
It was like a white and flawless canvas with an ink mark that couldn’t be washed away.
Xing Mo’s ability couldn’t be promoted, and even if he entered the army after graduation he wouldn’t be able to achieve anything in a short period of time. As such, he finally chose to return to his family and take over the family business.
His business talents gradually became apparent, and the industry he took over was quickly managed. Almost everyone believed that he would be the next patriarch of the Xing family.
However, good things are hard to come by. Just three years ago, Xing Mo’s cousin Xing Shang also awakened his supernatural powers, which was even a rare mental power. Only people with mental powers would be able to extract the energy liquid and elemental energy that can help people with powers advance from jade, so people with mental powers were also called energy engineers.
Among the tens of billions of people in the empire, the number of energy engineers was only tens of millions. At this time, mechas, spaceships, weapons, and equipment are all inseparable from energy. Energy had become the scarcest resource in the interstellar era. Ability users who awakened mental abilities were also inseparable from the replenishment of energy liquid. It was understandable how important the energy engineers were in the interstellar empire.
After Xing Shang awakened his mental power, his position in the family rose, and the family’s resources began to tilt towards Xing Shang.
After thousands of years of inheritance, the Xing family was a huge family consisting of thousands of people, not including those employed by the Xing family. Although Xing Mo’s father was the current head of the family, it didn’t mean that Xing Mo would definitely be his successor.
In order to keep the family prosperous, the head of the family was not hereditary, but inherited by the most capable person. All the direct bloodlines of the Xing family had the right to compete for the family inheritance.
Xing Shang’s father and Xing Mo’s father were brothers, and Xing Shang naturally had the right to inherit.
Therefore, when Xing Mo’s abilities couldn’t be promoted and Xing Shang awakened his mental abilities, some of the elders in the family who had the right to speak began to support Xing Shang.
In recent years, Xing Mo’s position in the family had become more and more embarrassing.
Just yesterday, he was forced to hand over most of the industries that he originally controlled. Now he only had planet Kulta left in his hands.
But Kulta was the most valuable part of all the assets of the Xing family.
Xing Mo’s parents were actually married for business, and Xing Mo’s mother was born in the Gu family, who belonged to the same four families as the Xing family. Kulta was actually the private property of Xing Mo’s mother. After Xing Mo’s mother married Xing Mo’s father, Xing Mo’s mother handed over the planet to Xing Mo’s father to take care of so others would think that Kulta was an asset of the Xing family.
Yesterday, the behavior of the members of the Xing family such as forcing Xing Mo to hand over power angered Xing Mo’s mother. She transferred Kulta to Xing Mo’s name through her light brain on the spot. Thus, Kulta had become Xing Mo’s property, which was how he had appeared there.
He took advantage of the consultant group to come to Kulta to inspect his own property.
Of course, the expressions on the faces of those in the Xing family were also quite wonderful when they learned that the priceless planet Kulta was divided out and given to Xing Mo.
Since Xing Mo became the master of Kulta, the person who paid the commission to the consultant group was naturally Xing Mo. In other words, Xing Mo is the new boss of the consultant group, so members of the consultant group such as Mr. Gao treat him with the utmost respect, and eagerly hope to make a good impression on the new boss.
They didn’t care about Xing Mo’s status in the Xing family. As long as Xing Mo still held this mineral-rich resource planet, no one dared to look down upon him. What’s more, no one could guarantee that Xing Mo’s abilities would never be improved in his lifetime.
===========Author’s Notes===========
The author has something to say: the physically disabled cutie meets the fallen master, the two right people meet at the right time~~~=v=
Hey… There are so few comments, I have been under 100… QAQ
But I’m still the second watch, who made me love you~~~
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===========Small Theater===========
I only did a face-to-face attack: Wife-to-be, look at me, look at me, am I handsome?
Lin Luo: I’m sorry, my eyesight is not so good, what do you look like?
The gong chasing his wife: Wife-to-be, give you some flowers!
Lin Luo: Sorry, my eyesight is not so good. What kind of flower is this? Can it make tea?
Prepare to use the beauty trick: this bathrobe perfectly shows my figure, this head-up angle perfectly shows my handsome face, the drops of water fall just right. The wife-to-be is not responding, is it wrong? Change a few stylish postures.
Lin Luo: Why is there a tuft of humanoid objects…dancing?