Chapter 15: Spark Rush Forward
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Another month passed.
When Jiang Ning woke up in the morning, she found that another small sun was hanging on the first sunflower.
She collected the small sun.
Her body instantly felt as if it had been bathed in the warm spring sun, extremely comfortable.
It seemed the time it took to produce a sun was one month.
This time, she didn’t choose to use the psychic energy of this sun immediately. Instead, she carefully observed the phantom image of the first sunflower in her mind.
This sunflower had been parasitic in her world of consciousness for four months, and she could gradually sense its state.
There were two sunflowers in her sea of consciousness.
One was planted four months ago and was now in bloom. The other had suddenly appeared a month ago along with the sunflower she had summoned and was just now budding.
Jiang Ning carefully sensed the state of the two sunflowers. The mature sunflower was in full bloom, showing no signs of withering.
Logically, a one-month flowering period was the limit for a sunflower.
How could this be…?
Jiang Ning withdrew from her sea of consciousness and went to the small farm next to her house to take a look.
The number one plant, which was tied to her mind, was also blooming very vigorously.
The state of its leaves and petals was very healthy, and it also showed no signs of withering.
A ridiculous thought suddenly arose in Jiang Ning’s mind: the sunflowers she summoned seemed to never wither!
She was somewhat delighted. If the sunflowers didn’t wither and could stably produce one sun a month, in a few years, the psychic energy in her body would be a continuous supply for her to use.
Currently, it was known that the psychic energy of one sun was only enough to summon one sunflower seedling.
Other than that, could her psychic energy do anything else?
Jiang Ning wanted to experiment.
She had previously complained that the cost of planting soil was too high. Perhaps she should first try to see if she could summon it.
Jiang Ning returned to her desk, closed her eyes, and chanted silently.
Planting soil, planting soil.
Give me planting soil…
She opened her eyes again.
Nothing.
The desk was empty; nothing had happened.
Planting soil didn’t work?
Could it be that she couldn’t summon anything other than plants?
Jiang Ning frowned and randomly pulled out a book containing interstellar plants from her desk and opened it.
Referring to the plant she had randomly opened to, she chanted again.
After a while.
Still nothing.
Jiang Ning’s hands flipped through the book with increasing urgency. In her mind, she tried every plant in the book she could name, including those from her previous world.
It seemed that except for sunflowers, no other plants would work.
She closed the book and sighed heavily.
The psychic energy of one sun was, after all, a bit too little.
Jiang Ning put away the book, turned, and went into the bathroom to wash up.
She didn’t plan to use this sun to summon a new sunflower seedling for the time being.
Her twelfth birthday was in a month, and she still had to go to the detection center to test her ability. Ever since she learned that the sun represented her psychic energy, she also understood that the number of suns represented the level of her psychic energy.
The more suns she accumulated in her body, the higher the rank she could be assessed at during the ability test.
She couldn’t guarantee that the number one plant would stably produce a sun next month.
If she used up the sun in her body now, and her psychic energy couldn’t be detected during the ability test, it would be a huge loss.
Suns were common, but she only had one ability test every twelve years.
The urban area where Jiang Ning lived only had one ability test on the 7th of each month. If she missed it, she would have to wait another month.
Fortunately, her birthday on her resident ID card was on the 29th of this month.
She could just make it for the ability test on the 7th of next month.
With one month left, Jiang Ning had originally planned to ask Auntie Li to go hunt mutated beasts with her, but she was rejected by Li Xiang on the grounds that he was in the ‘final sprint stage of his awakening’.
Last time, after eating the Qingmen Green Jade Melon that Jiang Ning had sent over, he felt a gradual change in his body, so he cried and pestered his parents to use their family’s savings to buy him several more.
He believed he could definitely stimulate his ability before next month’s ability test.
Jiang Ning shrugged and had to give up the idea of going to hunt mutated beasts with Auntie Li’s family.
But a month was still a long time, and the waiting period was really a bit hard to endure.
Jiang Ning was bored, scrolling through her Star Brain on the internet.
Suddenly, an advertisement caught her attention.
【Spark Rush Forward, Rush If You Dare!】
The winner gets a prize of 5000 star coins!
Jiang Ning’s pupils widened at this.
Before she could even see the content of the competition, her hand had already clicked into the registration interface.
There was no age limit for registration.
After Jiang Ning entered her identity information, a pop-up window on the website system displayed: 【You have successfully registered. Please set your contestant ID.】
ID?
Jiang Ning thought for a moment and slowly entered the words 【Little Jiang Loves Farming】 on the system interface.
Click confirm.
The webpage then jumped to the competition details interface.
Only after registering did Jiang Ning stop to carefully read the introduction of the 【Spark Rush Forward】 competition.
【Spark Rush Forward is the first survival competition in the entire interstellar space for all amateurs. The competition has been approved by the Federation government, and all interstellar citizens can participate (regardless of age, occupation, or ability restrictions). The event will last for one month, and the competition venue is located on Mount Dora. The site covers three areas: wetlands, rainforest, and desert. Contestants need to pass through the three areas in sequence, collect 9 Spark Stamps, and successfully reach the finish line to pass. The contestant with the shortest time will be the winner of this competition and will receive a reward of 5000 star coins provided by the organizing committee.】
【The Spark Organizing Committee would like to remind all contestants: There are mutated beasts in the competition area. If you encounter a life-threatening situation during the competition, please immediately crush the tinder in your hand, and staff will come to your side to help you.】
【In addition: Once the tinder is crushed, it means you are out of the competition.】
An outdoor survival competition, interesting.
Jiang Ning looked at the address on the competition event: Mount Dora, on Planet Aurora.
Planet Aurora was not close to Planet M412, where Jiang Ning was. Jiang Ning was worried about the travel expenses.
The next second, she saw a statement from the organizing committee in the Spark Rush Forward forum.
The Spark Organizing Committee was quite generous and had covered the round-trip airline tickets for all contestants.
It’s good to be rich.
With no worries, Jiang Ning clicked into her personal interface, filled in her personal information, and bound her airline station information.
The next morning, Jiang Ning packed her luggage and went to the interstellar airline station on Planet M412.
She opened the personal interface of Spark Rush Forward, downloaded the airline ticket provided by the organizing committee, and printed it out at a self-service kiosk.
Referring to the flight information she had filled in yesterday, she found the corresponding number and sat down.
【Interstellar Airline Station reminds you that the interstellar flight you are taking from Planet M412 to Planet Aurora will take off in 30 minutes. Please board in an orderly manner.】
The broadcast announcement sounded, and Jiang Ning got up and went to the corresponding flight.
After Jiang Ning found her seat and sat down, she saw a familiar person walking towards her.
Jiang Ning: “?”
Ke Lai had changed into a low-key outfit, wearing a mask and sunglasses, with no sign of her parents following behind.
The next second, Ke Lai, carrying large and small bags of luggage, plopped down in the seat next to Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning: “???”
She silently shifted her gaze to the window.
At this moment, Ke Lai hadn’t noticed Jiang Ning beside her and was looking back from time to time.
It wasn’t until the broadcast announced that the spacecraft had officially taken off that Ke Lai let out a long sigh of relief.
Ke Lai felt that the person next to her looked familiar. She tentatively called out, “Jiang Ning!?”
Jiang Ning lifted her eyelids.
“It’s really you? Where are you going?” Ke Lai’s eyes held a hint of joy.
“Planet Aurora,” Jiang Ning said slowly.
“What a coincidence! Me too!” Ke Lai became even more excited.
Jiang Ning: “…”
Jiang Ning: “Don’t tell me you’re also going to Mount Dora to participate in Spark Rush Forward?”
“How did you know!” Ke Lai said. After a moment, she shook her head. Why did Jiang Ning say ‘also’?
“You’re also going to participate in Spark Rush Forward?” A look of realization appeared on Ke Lai’s face. No wonder a scavenger like Jiang Ning could afford to take an interstellar flight.
Their fate was too coincidental.
Ke Lai said, “I ran away from home without my parents knowing.”
Jiang Ning nodded. She had guessed as much.
The Spark Rush Forward competition sounded very dangerous. For a pampered little princess like Ke Lai, her parents would definitely not agree to her participating in such a competition.
“After spending so much on spirit tools, I still couldn’t stimulate my ability. This time, I want to pursue something exciting, so I signed up for Spark Rush Forward. I want to stimulate my potential this way. Maybe I’ll awaken by chance,” Ke Lai confessed.
She had guaranteed all the customers who came to buy spirit tools that her family’s spirit tools could definitely enhance psychic energy, but she had used so many herself and still couldn’t awaken an ability.
Seeing that the ability test was next month, if she still hadn’t awakened, wouldn’t she be tarnishing her family’s shop’s reputation?
Her parents told her it was okay, but in reality, they were so anxious their hair had turned white.
Hearing this, Jiang Ning blinked. She had originally wanted to buy a spirit tool to try, but now it seemed that spirit tools were just a gimmick promoted by merchants to make money and didn’t actually help much in enhancing abilities.
Jiang Ning suddenly remembered the melon she had bought a month ago. “So the Qingmen Green Jade Melon that can enhance psychic energy is also a lie?”
“I think so,” Ke Lai nodded in agreement.
After absorbing dozens of spirit tools with no effect, her parents had bought her several Qingmen Green Jade Melons to eat, but there was still no effect.
Jiang Ning’s fists clenched. Her 200 star coins!
And its advertisements were all over the interstellar space.
Jiang Ning and Ke Lai lamented for a while. Damn liars!
Jiang Ning suddenly had a second thought and felt something was wrong.
Ke Lai was also a little liar!
Ke Lai felt a pang of guilt under Jiang Ning’s gaze. She scratched her head awkwardly and changed the subject, “Spark Rush Forward’s organizing committee has a training camp called Spark. This competition is to build momentum for the Spark training camp and to advertise it. The winner has already been decided internally.”
Ke Lai had a lot of inside information. She had already found out in advance.