Chapter 642 - 314: Tycoon Seeking a Powerful Ally

Su Jiameng furrowed her brows in thought. She had indeed noticed it. Several times, the jumps were forcibly interrupted within minutes, leading to severe energy wastage... Now... have they truly reached the end of the road?

"And then?" Su Jiameng looked at the other person and asked, "What do you plan to do next?"

Yu Feng replied somewhat difficultly, "The warship still has a backup energy supply, which is enough for us to perform two space jumps, but... this energy was meant to sustain everyone’s hunger..."

In other words, if these two space jumps did not yield the expected results, nearly a million people on the warship would starve to death!

Su Jiameng sighed inwardly. It was indeed too risky, but if they didn’t take the risk, they would die just the same when the wormhole collapses and the warship hasn’t entered a safe star domain with energy... truly a dilemma, death either way!

"I think we might be the most pathetic plane merchants... to be forced to this extent."

Su Jiameng pursed her lips. Plane merchants were actually quite impressive, but the two of them ended up in a miserable state, so poor that they didn’t even have plane points to buy energy at the stingy plane store... truly two paupers...

She raised her hand to rub her forehead and asked, "How long is it until the next jump? If we miss this one, how long will we have to wait for the next?"

Yu Feng’s bloodshot eyes carried a trace of bitterness, "Only ten minutes left. If we miss this one, who knows when the next opportunity will come... I feel the need to make an early decision, take a gamble... better than waiting here to die."

Su Jiameng raised her hand to rub her brow and suddenly thought of something, her expression becoming quite odd... Speaking of energy, it seems she had some...

"Ximolai Ore... does the warship have any?" Although she was dirt poor, it seemed that when packing, she didn’t give all her things to her son. She had kept a box, and the things inside that box... were several Nascent Stones.

What was inside the Nascent Stones? Naturally, the energy of an entire seam of Ximolai Ore! And the energy from Ximolai Ore was famously high-grade, specifically used for advanced mechas, with even many military warships not qualified to use it because it was too precious.

"Ximolai Ore? The warship used to have some, but they were used up when establishing the base." Yu Feng answered honestly, and then he watched wide-eyed as Su Jiameng took out a small, exquisite thing akin to a giant diamond out of nowhere...

"This thing is called a Nascent Stone. I encountered a rich vein of Ximolai Ore by chance, but the energy of those ores was in a very active and dangerous state, with the potential to explode at any moment and engulf the entire planet. To save my life, I bought several things known as Nascent Stones from the plane store, specifically to hold the energy of the Ximolai Ore..."

The number of Nascent Stones was limited, and after they were loaded with energy, she had them appraised by the plane store, finding them extremely expensive!

At the time, she wanted to exchange them all for plane points, but after considering various aspects, she dismissed the idea. There were only about ten Nascent Stones total; two were given away to Changxi and Su Mo, two little buns were also given one, and she kept the remaining ones.

While preparing for the [afterlife], she forgot she still had these, so she didn’t leave them for her two kids. Now... she realized she wasn’t exactly penniless. At the very least, if she wanted to, she could sell a Nascent Stone and get a lot of plane points.

Seeing the Nascent Stone, Yu Feng felt deeply frustrated. It was like you and your partner scrimped and saved for years, and just when you finally managed to don expensive new clothes, you turn around to see your partner’s shoes are made of gold... that’s true wealth!

"Do you want to use it? The energy should be sufficient, right?" Su Jiameng also knew they were now grasshoppers on the same rope, sharing life and death. Even if not for others, she should consider her own life a little. So, she generously lent it.

Then Yu Feng watched, twitching at the mouth, as the warship, which had been starving for two years, was suddenly satiated the moment the Nascent Stone was placed into the energy center... Seeing the energy slot filled to the brim, his mood was like being trampled by a thousand alpacas.

"Follow my command, exit the artificial wormhole, everyone enter alert mode, proceed with the second wormhole tear!" With ample energy, Yu Feng felt like he held an unrestricted credit card, using it with abandon, after all, he wasn’t spending his own money.

Previously, due to energy concerns, the wormhole was opened, but the environment was far worse than expected, all because the energy used to tear it wasn’t up to par, barely managing to split open the wormhole. Now with sufficient energy, the wormhole stabilized as expected...

Su Jiameng watched the instantly revitalized Yu Feng, feeling as though he had exposed something...

Actually, even if Yu Feng didn’t actively exit the wormhole, this artificial wormhole wouldn’t be maintained much longer. Preparing thoroughly before tearing again, this time the newly opened wormhole was of a much higher grade than before, and the jump proceeded very smoothly...

The warship was heading towards its predetermined destination, expected to arrive in half a month. In the uninterrupted cycle of wormhole tearing, space jumping, wormhole collapsing, and tearing again... Originally, the plan was to seek help from the nearest star system, but now it was heading directly to Yu Feng’s main base, the Bosoya Star System, much safer there than anywhere else.

"Nascent Stone... sell me one?" Yu Feng looked at the energy slot, still full after a long time, with the energy fluctuation of the Nascent Stone unchanged, highlighting the terrifying amount of energy stored within. He secretly did the math: a single Nascent Stone’s energy, conservatively estimated, could allow this warship to fire extra-large energy cannons continuously for twenty-four hours as fireworks, destroying nearly a hundred planets...

Su Jiameng thought for a moment and posed a very practical question, "Can you afford it?"

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