While Nie Chang was pondering where best to install the defensive shield, Liu Qiying was already on his way to the capital aboard Little Flying Ball.
Little Flying Ball glided smoothly through the clouds.
Liu Qiying carefully guarded the box and biscuit tin in his hands.
"These are all treasures," he murmured to himself, his fingers tightening unconsciously.
Thinking back to what had just happened in Lin Yi's office, Liu Qiying still found it hard to believe.
Any one of these crystals would cause a sensation if it hit the market, yet Lin Yi had handed them over to him so casually.
A little over an hour later, Little Flying Ball arrived at the building where the Equipment Logistics Department was located.
Liu Qiying took a deep breath, composed himself, and walked inside with the box and biscuit tin in his arms.
The next morning, sunlight streamed through the windows onto the corridors of East Blade Military Academy, but the atmosphere was completely different from usual.
Chen Yu rubbed his bleary eyes. He'd been thoroughly thrashed in the Virtual Training Room last night, and today he'd planned to skip breakfast and sleep in a little. Instead, Zhou Yuxuan had woken him with a phone call.
"Check the website! Something huge has happened!"
Zhou Yuxuan's voice on the other end of the line trembled with excitement.
"What could've happened? It's not like someone cleared the whole thing."
Chen Yu replied dismissively, then reached for the phone on his bedside table and opened the military academy forum.
At once, an all-new link at the most prominent spot on the homepage caught his eye—"Integrated Merit Management Platform."
"What the heck is this?"
Chen Yu muttered as he tapped it.
The next second, his eyes flew open, and his sleepiness vanished.
The interface