Daily Life in the Mecha Department and Dreams of Interstellar Travel

Lu Feng looked at Hong Kun and waited for him to continue.

"You can't tell anyone that the Shadow Leopard was tamed by you, and you can't let anyone know you have the ability to tame Exotic Beasts."

"Alright, I promise."

Lu Feng agreed almost without thinking.

He had never planned to reveal his abilities to outsiders anyway.

With Hong Kun, the Club owner, giving his approval, Lu Feng quickly completed the hiring procedures and became an official Club employee.

The next day, he and Fatty Shen were assigned to work in the Mecha Department, with a monthly salary of 6,000 Star Martial Coins.

The wage standards at Martial Artist Clubs were usually tied to an employee's Martial Realm.

Since most of the work involved manual labor, the higher one's realm, the higher the pay.

After all, dismantling and maintaining those enormous, heavy Mechas required a Warrior's formidable strength.

Lu Feng was currently at the Tenth Level of the first Warrior realm, the Copper Skin Realm. At full strength, he could exert 10,000 jin of force.

By the standards of most Clubs, someone at his level earned around 6,000 Star Martial Coins a month.

There were quite a few Second Realm Warriors in Skyfire Club, and their monthly salaries generally exceeded 10,000.

By comparison, Shen Yu was only at the Sixth Level of the Copper Skin Realm. His monthly pay was 4,000 Star Martial Coins, less than even some Ordinary Person workers in factories.

But he did not care.

If Warriors worked in ordinary factories, their salaries were usually double those of Ordinary People.

Yet most Warriors still chose to remain at Clubs, even if their income was temporarily lower.

There was only one reason: every Club provided employees with at least two hours of free cultivation time every day.

The Club's workday ran from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon.

From five to seven, employees could cultivate in the Club's training rooms. That was the real reason Warriors chose to work at Clubs.

At that moment, in the Mecha workshop, Shen Yu and Lu Feng were following a senior Warrior as they dismantled the mechanical leg of an Alloy Mecha.

"Xiaoyu! Crawl inside and unscrew the connecting locking ring."

The senior Warrior, Liu Yuan, handed Shen Yu a specially made wrench.

Although Shen Yu was fat, he was not tall, only around 1.6 meters. He crawled into the Mecha with his tools, and moving around inside was actually quite convenient.

The mechanical leg weighed 10,000 jin. Dismantling it required a special wrench to loosen the massive locking ring.

"Master Liu, don't call me Xiaoyu. It sounds like a Girl's name... Just call me Fatty."

"Alright, alright. I'll call you Fatty from now on." Liu Yuan smiled and nodded, motioning for him to get started.

Before long, the three of them successfully removed the 3.6-meter mechanical leg.

Next, they began a thorough cleaning and maintenance of its internal circuits.

More than three hours later, the cleaning was complete, and it was time to reinstall the leg.

"Quick! Lu Feng, tighten the screws outside! Fatty, close the locking ring from inside!"

Liu Yuan carried the heavy mechanical leg by himself and aligned it with the socket on the Mecha's body.

Lu Feng stood on a support platform over a meter high, responsible for securing the outside.

Shen Yu crawled back into the Mecha, preparing to fasten the locking ring.

The three worked together smoothly, but just as Liu Yuan carried the mechanical leg toward the socket, an accident happened.

His right foot accidentally stepped on a screw on the floor, and he slipped!

Seeing the mechanical leg about to topple toward Lu Feng, Liu Yuan urgently shouted, "Jump away!"

Lu Feng was standing on the support platform at the time. All he had to do was jump down to avoid it.

The other Warriors maintaining Mechas nearby heard the shout and turned to look.

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Some quick-reacting Warriors had already rushed over, but it was clearly too late.

At that critical moment, Lu Feng did not jump away.

He stretched out both hands, grabbed the mechanical leg, and used all his strength to brace it on his right shoulder.

At that moment, this high school graduate had forcibly shouldered a mechanical leg nearly two meters tall and weighing 10,000 jin.

Veins bulged all over his body, and his face turned bright red.

Liu Yuan had thought a workshop accident was inevitable, but the mechanical leg had not crushed Lu Feng.

He froze for a moment, then quickly steadied himself, kicked away the damned screw, and took back the mechanical leg with all his strength, resolving the crisis.

The other Warriors who had rushed over also breathed sighs of relief, staring at the newly arrived high schooler in astonishment.

"This Kid is incredibly strong..."

"Has he already reached the Tenth Level of the Copper Skin Realm?"

Only someone at the Tenth Level of the Copper Skin Realm, with the strength of 10,000 jin, could carry the mechanical leg alone.

But a high school student like that should have been able to get into a Martial Arts University. Why was he working at a Club instead?

Once the mechanical leg had been installed, Liu Yuan finally relaxed.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Lu Feng in surprise. "I really couldn't tell. You're actually at the Tenth Level of the Copper Skin Realm! With strength like yours, how did you fail to get into a Martial University?"

"My academic grades were too poor." Lu Feng casually made up an excuse.

"What a pity. Reaching this realm in high school means you definitely count as a Martial Arts Genius."

At that moment, Fatty Shen crawled out of the Mecha and immediately chimed in, "He fought his way there! Back in school, he tempered his body day and night without rest. But I'm really jealous of A Feng now. His salary is so much higher than mine."

"Of course. The starting monthly salary for the Tenth Level of the Copper Skin Realm is at least 6,000."

Liu Yuan nodded and said with emotion, "When I graduated, I was only at the Seventh Level of the Copper Skin Realm. The further you go, the harder breakthroughs become. I worked at the Club for five or six years, and only reached Lu Feng's realm at the end of last year."

Liu Yuan was currently also a Warrior at the Tenth Level of the Copper Skin Realm.

His monthly salary was more than 7,000 Star Martial Coins.

That was because every full year worked at the Club added 200 Star Martial Coins in seniority pay.

After five or six years, his seniority pay had risen to more than 1,000.

"But once I break through to the Second Realm, I won't work here anymore."

"Why?" Lu Feng was somewhat puzzled.

After all, if one could break through to the Second Realm, their monthly salary would immediately exceed 10,000.

"At a factory, a Second Realm Warrior can earn twenty to thirty thousand a month."

Liu Yuan explained, "As long as you work steadily for eight or ten years and save up a large sum of money, your whole family can live a good life."

Fatty Shen hurriedly cut in from the side. "Master Liu, I'm thinking almost the same way! Once I reach the Second Realm, I also plan to work at an ordinary factory."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. "Once I earn enough money, I'll go on Interstellar Travel and see other planets—especially the Mother Star."

The Morning Star System, where humanity lived, had a diameter of 130,000 Light Years. More than three hundred planets within it had been conquered by humanity, each home to at least a billion people.

Tianlan Star was merely a secondary planet of Human Civilization and was not originally suitable for habitation.

Only Tens of Thousands of Years ago, when the Stronger ones of the Martial Politics Alliance deployed the Star River Energy Shield, was it transformed into a habitable planet.

In fact, more than ninety percent of the several hundred secondary planets inhabited by humans had been artificially modified.

Most people grew up on secondary planets that simulated the Main Star environment, hearing countless legends about the "Mother Star."

However, Interstellar Travel had always been a privilege reserved for wealthy and powerful members of the upper class.

For Ordinary People, even a single such trip would almost require them to spend their entire fortunes.

The "Mother Star" Shen Yu spoke of was called Blue Star.

It was the cradle and birthplace of Human Civilization. Legend said it possessed vast oceans, towering mountain ranges, and distinct seasons. It was the homeland cherished by countless interstellar migrants.

But for people like Lu Feng and Shen Yu, who had been born in artificial environments like Tianlan Star, Blue Star was more like a distant, expensive dream!