Chapter 555: Damaged Energy Modules! Return!

"Good stuff? Where?" Xu Jingming's sword-like brows rose.

To be honest, there were quite a few good things on this list, but they were just too expensive.

"That one, that one! The energy modules!"

Under Eva's telepathic guidance, Xu Jingming found the item she mentioned on the list.

'Damaged Energy Module (Required: 50,000 Battle Merit)

Note: An energy module excavated from an ancient civilization relic, in a damaged state beyond repair.'

"Damaged energy modules? What's the use of these things?" Xu Jingming asked doubtfully in his heart.

Any item connected to ancient civilization relics would never be cheap.

This energy module was no exception — its uses were extremely varied.

His Chi Mang Liu Jin guards needed these things to replenish energy.

However, repairing energy modules was extremely difficult — damaged-state energy modules.

Apart from a few scientists willing to buy them, ability-users found them utterly useless.

"I can repair them, though."

Eva giggled: "A complete energy module can not only provide energy for the Chi Mang Liu Jin guards.

It can also open up some Second Civilization era bases.

I have several unopened civilization bases in my memories. Once you've gathered enough energy modules, S-rank,

we can try to open the bases and get the resources inside."

"Oh?"

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly spoke aloud to the virtual orb before him:

"Smart Brain, how many damaged energy modules are in the military supply depot?"

"43 units," the Smart Brain replied.

"Fine, convert all my battle merit into energy modules."

Xu Jingming waved his hand grandly and said directly.

There were also intact energy modules on the list, but they required 150,000 battle merit.

Since Eva possessed the means to repair them, this round trip meant a threefold value gap!

Even if they couldn't be used later, they could still be resold.

Moreover, these things could also be used to open civilization relics — truly rare treasures hard to come by.

"Too bad my battle merit is still too little, otherwise I could have exchanged for more."

"If only there were some way to get more battle merit... oh, I've got an idea......"

Xu Jingming's gaze shifted as he looked at Captain Zhou Yan and the others:

"Captain, can you use your battle merit to help me buy some things? I'll trade you with Great Xia currency."

Battle merit couldn't be privately transferred within the military, but helping with purchases like this wasn't prohibited.

For Zhou Yan and the others, Great Xia currency and battle merit didn't really make much difference.

Although they didn't quite understand why an ability-user like Xu Jingming was so keen on buying damaged energy modules,

the few of them still agreed quite generously.

In the end, at an exchange rate of 100 million Great Xia currency for 10,000 battle merit,

Xu Jingming used 8 billion Great Xia currency to exchange for 800,000 battle merit, having Zhou Yan and the others buy an extra 18 energy modules.

Adding the 15 he exchanged himself, he had exchanged for a total of 33 energy modules.

"Nicely done!"

Eva's excited voice rang out in his heart: "There's a civilization relic that only needs 50 energy modules to open.

S-rank, find a way to get 17 more energy modules. Once the Genius Tournament is over, we'll go on an adventure together!"

Xu Jingming was also somewhat expectant upon hearing this.

The value brought by opening a completely unexplored civilization relic was simply incalculable.

For example, the elemental essence he and Leng Yuechan obtained in the civilization relic last time was a priceless treasure.

"Greetings, officers of the Vanguard Team. Here are the orders you placed at the military supply depot."

Not long after placing the order through the Smart Brain, a man in military uniform with a burly build came over.

The spatial ring's light flickered slightly, and a total of six silver-white password cases appeared on the ground.

"The password cases can only be opened via fingerprint. Please carefully confirm and verify, officers."

After speaking, the burly military man stood respectfully to the side.

And Xu Jingming also found the password case addressed to him.

This password case was about two meters long and one meter wide, looking very sturdy.

After Xu Jingming pressed his finger to the sensor, a 'click' sounded, and the password case opened in response.

What greeted his eyes were 15 brick-sized, entirely pitch-black metal blocks.

These metal blocks were covered in mysterious pale-blue patterns, seemingly containing faint energy fluctuations.

The only pity was that every metal block had damage, big or small.

"How about it? Can all of these be repaired?" Xu Jingming asked in his heart.

"No problem, leave it to me. These are all just minor damages."

Eva's confident voice rang out, and Xu Jingming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If these energy modules were damaged too severely, even Eva couldn't repair them.

Then all that battle merit would have been wasted.

"Jingming, come, these are all yours." Zhou Yan and the others also opened their respective lockboxes.

They took out the energy modules and handed them over.

A total of 33 energy modules—Xu Jingming swept them all into his spatial ring in one go.

"The capacity in the spatial ring seems a bit insufficient." Xu Jingming frowned.

A hundred cubic meters of space was actually not small.

But once he packed in the fierce beast corpses collected on the battlefield during this period, there was barely any capacity left.

"Once we're back at the martial hall headquarters, let's have Teacher Ling Shuang take a look and see if the space can be expanded."

Xu Jingming thought silently to himself.

A hundred cubic meters of capacity was indeed too small for the current him.

Casually killing a seventh-tier fierce beast alone was enough to fill up nearly half the space.

"Ring ring~~~"

Suddenly, his phone rang—it was a call from Su Qingli.

The moment Xu Jingming chose to answer, Su Qingli's gentle, melodious voice came through from the other end:

"Jingming, are you done over there?"

"Almost—I've just finished exchanging the battle merits."

"Alright, we'll gather in front of the military district building in half an hour and head back to martial hall headquarters."

"Understood."

Xu Jingming nodded and hung up.

"Jingming, you're leaving already?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised.

"I came here with my teacher. The war is over, her mission is complete, and I need to head back with her too."

Xu Jingming nodded and said with a smile:

"Besides, the Genius Tournament Round of 32 to Round of 16 matches begin tomorrow night.

I need to head back early to prepare."

This afternoon, the Genius Tournament resurrection matches wrapped up, confirming the other sixteen spots in the Round of 32.

Tomorrow night at nine, the matches will enter the final peak showdown.

"That's true."

Zhou Yan also caught on and said regretfully:

"I was originally planning to take you around Zhen'an City and have some fun, but looks like there's no chance."

"No chance this time, then we'll wait for the next."

Xu Jingming said with a smile, "When another war breaks out on the southern border, I'll come back again."

Three days—frenziedly racking up 560,000 ability points!

That was an efficiency simply impossible to achieve in the wilderness zones.

Of course,

he also knew that although fierce beasts had powerful reproductive ability,

to launch an attack of this scale again would take at least four or five months, or even half a year.

"Good, then when the time comes you come back to our Fourth Vanguard Squad, and we'll drink and chat to our hearts' content!"

Seeing Xu Jingming's sincere expression, a smile also surfaced on Zhou Yan's rock-hard, rugged face.

"We'll be at tomorrow night's Genius Tournament too, cheering you on from the audience."

A bright, sunny smile spread across Sha Ke's pretty face as well.

"Sure, but you'll have to shout a little louder.

Otherwise, with over a hundred million viewers on-site, I won't be able to hear your voices."

Xu Jingming said half-jokingly.

After spending time together during this period, he found that Zhou Yan's group all had pretty good personalities, worth deepening the friendship.

So, before leaving, Xu Jingming added everyone's contact info, as well as their friend list in the virtual world.

Then he boarded Teacher Su Qingli's Obsidian-grade fighter jet and flew toward Lei Ting Wu Guan headquarters.