Chapter 505 - Ten Tons Of Star Iron (2/2)
Xu Lizhi goraned. “Man, I feel bad with how little I'm doing compared to you guys. I really gotta put in effort into mecha piloting. Well, it'll be fine if you don't learn, Xie Xie. A mecha can seat two people anyway.”
Xie Xie smirked. “Huh? You're gonna carry me? What a good friend!”
Xu Lizhi shook his head, smirking. “As if. I'll take Big Sis Xinglan. I don't think she's gonna learn how to pilot either.”
“Wow! I can't believe you're putting girls before bros!”
Xu Lizhi chuckled. “Well, I'm not the one sweeping the floor, wiping the windows, and drawing water for a girl everyday. A fatty like me has gotta be a bit lazy. Can't be acting so whipped like a certain someone!”
“You d.a.m.n fatty! You trying to start s.h.i.+t? I'll whoop your a.s.s!” Xie Xie said, shaking his fist.
Tang Wulin couldn't help but crack a wry smile. “Don't bully Lizhi. It's not like anything he said was a lie! And since we're talking about it, how are things going with you and Yuanen?”
Xie Xie instantly deflated like a balloon. “Nothing is going. She still hasn't responded to my confession. Jeez. Do you think it's easy for me to do all those ch.o.r.es for her everyday? I'm working myself to death here.”
Tang Wulin patted Xie Xie on the shoulder. “Just persevere. Who knows what rewards your efforts will bring?”
Xie Xie balled his hands into fists. “That's not enough. She's way too strong. There's no way I've got a chance unless I can surpa.s.s her. I have to devote myself to getting stronger than her.”
At Xie Xie's serious expression, Tang Wulin couldn't help but snicker. “Good luck then.” The gap between Xie XIe and Yuanen Yehui was by no means small.
With the matter settled, Tang Wulin ran off to clear the rest of his daily objectives. His schedule really left no wiggle room. After morning cla.s.ses, he thousand refined star iron for three hours. Then came dinner and a night of cultivation in a specialized cultivation s.p.a.ce. When morning came, he would cultivate his Purple Demon Eyes. Rinse and repeat. It was only natural that his friends rarely saw him.
But Tang Wulin wasn't the only one in such a rush. The rest of his team were hard at work cultivating and studying too. The first three years at Shrek Academy were always the most stressful.
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“What? Why do you need more money?” Tang Wulin asked Zhang Yang, his face sour.
“Junior Brother, you're too great. You're actually bring out a pile of thousand refined metal just for a yellow mecha? Don't you know this is harder to craft with than normal metal? The Mecha a.s.sociation will be taking a loss if we don't charge you more. Well, it'll be fine to build the frame like this, but the most important part are the circuit cores. You're giving us thousand refined heavy silver to make those. In order to do that, we need to carve inscriptions and whatnot into the metal. But you know that this heavy silver is five times harder than ordinary metals, right? All you need to pay is an extra three hundred thousand points. It's not that much more,” Zhang Yang said earnestly.
Zhang Yang had been dumbstruck when Tang Wulin took out several tons of thousand refined metals. The armor wouldn't have to be that thick when constructed from thousand refined star iron, which was among the toughest of metals. A top-tier mecha was guaranteed to be made from such high-quality materials. In fact, such materials would be luxurious even for a purple-grade mecha.
Zhang Yang couldn't comprehend why Tang Wulin was using such expensive metals just for a yellow-grade mecha. But Tang Wulin's reasoning was simple: he wanted a durable mecha.
“You really should go for a purple-grade mecha instead,” urged Zhang Yang.
Yet Tang Wulin just laughed. “You're joking right?” It cost nine million points to commission a purple-grade mecha. Even if he supplied the raw materials, it would still be at least four million. No way he could afford that! To begin with, he didn't need this mecha for combat. He only planned on using it for practice and getting around. The extra functionality of a purple mecha would be useless to him, and he'd rather just skip to buying a black-grade mecha in the future when he had the money.
A yellow-grade mecha would do in the meantime.
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