After leaving the Energy R&D Department, Ding Meng was in a rare state of idleness. He did not want to use the Inverse Source Crystal for the time being. The school and the police had not informed him yet, so Ding Meng went straight to Li Yu's office.
He had a good impression of Li Yu. Li Yu was warm and polite, and she was quite nice to him.
However, Li Yu's impression of Ding Meng was even deeper. She now knew that this person was not only the boyfriend of Miss Dai, but also an honored guest of several families. He was also an honored guest of Star Rainbow. Therefore, when Ding Meng entered the office, Li Yu warmly greeted him and even took care to get him a drink.
Ding Meng smiled and stopped her. "Don't be so polite, Miss Li. I came here to ask you a question. Mr. Cuttle said that he had something for me to pass to him. He did not say what it was or where it was. He just asked me to come to you."
Li Yu's smile suddenly became a bit unnatural.
Ding Meng stared at her. "Is there a problem?"
Li Yu sighed softly. "It's a living material. The location is on Planet Thorn in Linda's system."
Ding Meng was stunned. Linda's system was the system he wanted to go to, but now the military was under martial law. How could he go there?
His hometown is Planet Thorn. His family is too poor. When he was admitted to Starlight University many years ago, he couldn't even afford the travel expenses. His family had to raise the money for him. Later, Mr. Catell came to work in Starlight Group. In the past, he used to send his income to his family in his hometown. But in the past half a year, the planets in Linda System have been rioting, so there are no more resources to buy. The military doesn't allow ships to enter, so Mr. Catell bought the resources and asked someone to send them back. I've been handling this matter all this time … "
Ding Meng said, "I see. Then what can I do for him?"
Li Yu smiled. "Mr. Ting, since you are going to Linda's system anyway, you can take Major Du's fleet to visit Mr. Cuttle's family on his behalf."
Ding Meng nodded. "Well, I'll do my best to help him."
Li Yu smiled and said, "If Mr Ting needs anything, just let me know. You don't have to worry too much about Mr Cuttle. The headquarters has informed us that while you are using the Inverse Source Crystal, we will try our best to satisfy all your requirements. I will be the contact person."
Ding Meng also smiled. "Thank you so much."
Li Yu smiled even more happily. "You're too polite."
At this time, Ding Meng's wristwatch began to glow green again. This time, the person who appeared on the screen was not Du Mo, but Dai Yi's smiling face. "Cousin Ding Meng, we went to the No. 2 Training Center to look for you, but Du Mo said you went to the Xinhong Group."
Ding Meng said with a smile, "Mr. Hua and the others asked me to wait for their notice. I haven't officially enrolled yet."
Dai Yi's face was a little red from laughing. "Ding Meng, are you free this afternoon and evening?"
Ding Meng nodded and said, "I'm free."
Dai Yi looked a little shy. Someone probably snatched the wristwatch from him. Eirinn appeared on the screen with a smile. "Little Mengmeng."
Ding Meng scratched his head embarrassedly. "Hello, Miss Eirinn. I received the Bluesky ore. Thank you very much for your help this time."
Eirinn smiled slyly. "Little Mengmeng, if you really want to thank me, you can stay at the Xinhong Group. We are coming to pick you up now."
Ding Meng wondered. "Pick me up for what?"
Eirinn smiled even more happily. "Qianqian, Yi, and I are together. We are going shopping. Since you are free, why don't you come with us?"
"This …" Ding Meng was a straight man. The word "shopping" did not exist in his mind. Why would he waste his precious time on shopping?
However, Little Rascal was excited when he heard this. "Ayaya, shopping is great! Ding Meng, hurry up and say yes. I haven't seen the real Blue Pole City yet. We have worked so hard for so long. Shouldn't we relax a little?"
Xiao Ai was obviously interested in shopping as well. "That's right, ACT5570. You accepted a gift worth hundreds of millions of star coins, and you don't even want to spend half a day shopping with her. How can you justify that?"
Alright, Ding Meng felt that Xiao Ai's words made more sense, so he decided to accept them. "Miss Eirinn, you don't have to come all the way here to pick me up. Just tell me where to go and I will be there immediately. I have a car!"
Eirinn smiled and said, "Then hurry up. The location is at the Southern District's Golden Seven Stars shopping center. I'll send you the coordinates in a bit. Hurry up. You can't expect three girls to wait for a guy like you, right?"
Ding Meng nodded. "Okay, I will set off right away!"
Blue Pole City was divided into four major districts: north, south, east, and west. The Eastern District was mainly occupied by large corporations and companies. The Western District was the logistics center. The Northern District was mainly occupied by government affairs, exhibition areas, schools, public affairs, and other organizations. The Southern District was the standard business district and consumer district. As for the residential district, the rich lived along the coast and in the suburbs. They had their own private houses. The rest of the people lived in the Buried City. To put it bluntly, the people who lived on the surface were the rich. The poor citizens' biggest wish was to move to the surface.
The Golden Seven Star Shopping Center was located at the core of the Southern District. There were all kinds of luxurious shopping centers here. The Golden Seven Star Shopping Center was built on the surface. It was a dazzling seven-story shopping center, like a giant Easter egg that rotated on the surface.
Food, clothing, housing, transportation, and entertainment were all in one place. The products sold were also of high quality. There were also quite a lot of people going in and out of the entrance on the first floor. From afar, Ding Meng saw Dai Yi and the other two waiting for him on the pedestrian street. Elegant beauties were always a unique sight in the city.
As for Ding Meng, he belonged to the category that was not very eye-catching. However, when Dai Yi happily held his arm as soon as he came up, the eyes of the passersby immediately locked onto him. Ding Meng felt a little helpless because he had already sensed that many of the gazes were filled with anger. Bastard, what a pile of cow dung. What a pity for this flower …
The four of them entered the shopping center together. Dai Yi and the other two looked very happy. They talked and laughed along the way. Ding Meng was a little puzzled. "What are you guys buying?
You guys look very happy. "
Dai Yi smiled. "Of course we are happy. We are going to buy men's clothes."
Ding Meng's eyes widened. Are you guys bored out of your minds?
Men's clothes?
Seeing his comical expression, Xu Qianqian could not help but say, "Little Meng Meng, do you think we are the ones who want to wear clothes?
We are buying them for you. "
Ding Meng was even more puzzled. "Don't I have clothes here?"
Dai Yi clearly understood him. In Ding Meng's savage mind, it did not matter if he did not have clothes. As long as his Origin Energy was running normally, everything would be fine. However, she still took the initiative to explain with a red face, "Ding Meng, my mother wants to see you. She also wants Linlin and Qianqian to go to her place for dinner …"
This time, Ding Meng understood. This was the first time he was going to see Dai Yi's mother. Of course, he had to wear something more formal. The Starlight University uniform he was wearing was obviously not good enough. At the very least, it was not stable enough. However, with his aesthetic standards, he could not appreciate any galactic fashion. He might even think that he looked the most handsome in battle armor. Thus, Dai Yi was quite thoughtful. "We will help you choose your clothes."
This selection made Ding Meng's head spin. This was because on the third floor of the shopping center, Dai Yi and the other two had shopped for a full four hours. They carefully consulted, selected, and compared the clothes in each shop before letting Ding Meng try them on. Ding Meng took off his school uniform and put it on again and again. He felt more tired than cultivating.
Moreover, the third floor was extremely large. After four hours of shopping, they had not even finished a third of it. Fortunately, Dai Yi finally chose a black hoodie, a pair of light gray pants, and a pair of white sneakers for Ding Meng. This outfit suited Ding Meng. After all, he was too young. Wearing a suit always gave people an indescribable feeling of awkwardness. At this moment, Ding Meng no longer had the mature and steady feeling he had when he was in Black Gold Base. His whole body was brimming with the youthful vitality of a young man.
Moreover, he was carrying four stacked purple gift boxes in his hands. These were the sour plums that he had specially gone to the fourth floor to buy when Dai Yi and the others were choosing clothes. It was his first time visiting an elder, so he could not possibly be empty-handed, right?
Moreover, this was the only gift he knew of.
The set of clothes had cost him more than thirty thousand Star Credits. The four boxes of sour plums had cost him nearly ninety thousand Star Credits. This trip to the shopping center had cost him a total of one hundred and twenty thousand Star Credits. Now, he finally had an intuitive understanding of money. It would be a lie if he said that he did not feel the pinch. This was because he roughly calculated that this was about a hundred boxes of special-grade polymerized nutrient solutions.
Now that Ding Meng and Dai Yi were walking side by side, they really did look like a good match. At least, Ding Meng was no longer ugly. It was just that the belt around his waist was a little eye-catching. Xu Qianqian expressed her dissatisfaction. "Little Meng Meng, isn't this belt inappropriate for you to wear outside?"
Ding Meng smiled. "It's just a habit. Don't mind it."
Of course, he would not tell these beauties that this was not a belt, but a weapon of mass destruction that had to be worn at all times.
The sky had gradually darkened when they came out of Jindi Shopping Center. The four of them flew towards the western district. Dai Yi's mother did not live in the city, but in the suburbs.
The shuttle stopped at the foot of a mountain in the suburbs. This place was definitely not as good as the Lang family's seaside villa, because there was a four-story retro building in the open space. It looked a little like the old spaceport in Green Arrow Base, but it was very different from the spaceport. There were many spacious platforms extending from the second, third, and fourth floors, and all kinds of strange things were placed on them.
Ding Meng did not expect Dai Yi's home to look like this. Eirinn smiled and explained, "Ha, I had the same expression as Little Meng Meng when I first came here. I forgot to tell you, Auntie Yao's hobby is machinery. She's a very authoritative expert in machinery. She's usually here. This is her research center …"
Ding Meng sighed. "No wonder this place looks so familiar."
He had never been here before, but this place was very similar to Mr. Cuttle's energy research center.