CH 27.1

Chapter 27: Feili

The next day, Xing Mo and Lin Luo got up early, took the shuttlecraft, and went to Feili Star.

Before coming, Lin Luo went to StarNet to do some homework and learned some basic common sense about planet Feili.

Feili is a relatively small planet. It rains all year round and there are a lot of rivers and lakes. The weather is relatively cold and humid. The air quality cannot be compared with Kipola Star, but this planet produces a very unique kind of jadeite called half-mountain half-water jadeite.

This half-mountain half-water jadeite is usually from the mountains, and then washed by rain into the river. Because of the different lengths of time these jadeites are soaked in river water, the skins of jadeite have different appearances. Like those jadeites that have been fully tempered in river water, they have a thin matrix and a smooth appearance, which makes it easier to produce better quality jade.

After getting off the shuttle, there was a hovercar that they had reserved waiting.

After ten minutes, they arrived at Feili’s Gambling Stone Market. Different from the orderly shops on the Stone Gambling Street in Kipola Star, this big market was built in an antique big shed. All the jadeite sellers set up stalls in each corner in twos and threes. It looked rather messy.

The owners of the stalls here are all natives of Feili. These raw materials are gathered by themselves in the mountains or in the water. Each person may not sell many jadeites, but all the profit is for themselves.

Because half-mountain and half-water jadeite easily produces good jade, the price is very high. There are also many shop owners who are bored and will even try to cut them by themselves. Therefore, there are also many stalls that sell cut jade.

“Look! It’s an energy engineer!” said a passer-by, pointing to a man wearing a black coat and a badge of thorns on his chest not far away.

Because some very good jade materials occasionally appear here, no matter if it’s a speculator, an ability user or an energy engineer, they will come here to try their luck.

The energy engineer was bargaining with a stall owner for a piece of hibiscus green jade. Energy engineers need to constantly exercise their mental power to make progress.

Energy engineers are generally not bad for money as they can sell energy liquids and elemental liquids as needed. Therefore, they are not willing to waste time betting on stones, and prefer to directly buy jade at a good price.

The two did not pay much attention to this energy engineer. The energy engineers who will appear in the gambling market by themselves are generally junior energy engineers. Intermediate and senior energy engineers are very popular. Almost all of them are vying for employment by major forces, so there is no need for them to worry about their source of jade. Only these newcomers who have just obtained the qualification of energy engineers will come here to buy jade on their own.

Lin Luo didn’t need to waste time wandering around in the gambling market. He squatted down in front of a stall and began to carefully check the jadeite on the floor.

It’s just that he didn’t seem to be very lucky today, he touched it piece by piece, but he didn’t find a piece of jadeite that was satisfactory.

It’s not that the jadeite in this stall was so bad that not even a single piece of jade was would brake even or come out a little bit ahead, but none of them meet Lin Luo’s expectations.

After these last few days, Lin Luo had mastered his special ability to see through jadeite, and he can see the energy light emitted by the jade inside. The darker the color, the stronger the elemental energy and the brighter the light, the better the general energy.

The light in the jadeite from this booth was relatively dim, indicating that the quality of the jade inside is not very good, and there is very little energy that can be extracted.

The jadeite he chose today was to be cut and sent to the Yin auction house for the auction the day after tomorrow. Therefore, he didn’t consider those of poor quality. Only good quality jade will cut it.

He moved on to the second booth, still feeling a little disappointed. This one had one or two pieces of jadeite that emit light with good brightness, but the colors were very light so the value would not be not high.

It wasn’t until the third booth that Lin Luo saw a piece of olive-shaped jadeite that was very unique. This piece of jadeite is quite big, at least 10 to 20 kilograms [1] in appearance.

This piece of jadeite has an exterior like potato skin, with a slightly yellowish color and uneven texture.

Lin Luo didn’t reach out to touch it right away, but observed it with the naked eye. He found that this piece of jadeite looked good on the surface. Although there are a few pockmarks, these kind of cracks are usually superficial and have little effect on the jade inside.

At the bottom of the jadeite, there was also a gray-white python-like belt. It was difficult to see this python belt on the yellowish skin jadeite. But Lin Luo has beast genes and all five senses are stronger than ordinary humans. So he soon found this unobtrusive python belt.

Lin Luo remembered the video saying that the appearance of this kind of python band probably indicated that it was colored inside. If there are pine flower shaped marks appearing at the same time, the chance of colored jadeite appearing inside is even greater.

Lin Luo looked for it carefully, and he really found a few dotted pine flowers. He felt that this piece of jadeite was worth a bet. Lin Luo put his hand on the jadeite and began to try to sense the energy in the jadeite.

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 10 to 20 kilo = 22 to 44.1 lbs = 16.6 to 33 catties