Morning star field.
The actual control area of the Empire's second-level alliance.
Blue Valley star system.
Rust Star.
The eighth abandoned spacecraft disposal site.
The gray-green sky is full of rain, hazy and never-ending.
A group of mountains made of spacecraft wreckage, covered with dark green moss, looks like a green forest.
Taking over the continuous acid rain, the gurgling water forms a stream, forming a splash-ink landscape painting.
"Stab it!"
The ridge suddenly burst open.
The cyan spiritual arc fire flew away, and along with a series of high-energy particle radiation, countless moss, dust and rusty metal parts spurted out, like a goddess scattering flowers and a group of demons dancing wildly.
The dark soul-eating insects poked their heads out from the corners of the garbage mountains. After looking around, they swarmed up.
In the rain curtain not far away, a semi-humanoid scavenger armor was slowly walking towards the explosion site...
A dozen mutated wolves that arrived at the same time, because they spotted the figure of the scavenger armor, did not dare to step forward. They stared at the armor and let out a low roar like an engine idling.
This is the graveyard of civilian-grade psychic voyage ships.
As advanced cultivation civilizations continue to expand and develop in the Milky Way, spaceships with psychic and nuclear hybrid engines have become affordable and can be found in thousands of households. They can achieve warp speed and have become a necessity for ordinary people to travel and explore. tool.
However, while spaceships bring convenience to ordinary people's lives, they also produce a large amount of scrapped hulls, parts with out-of-control spiritual patterns, and various types of radiation pollutants.
Even so, to scavengers, these shipwrecks contain many valuable parts or raw materials.
Whenever a cargo ship arrives and dumps the wreckage of the spacecraft, the scavengers rush forward and even fight over it...
In the interstellar post-apocalyptic era when the concentration of spiritual energy is declining, even picking up garbage has become a dangerous undertaking that involves countless people.
What’s interesting is that this scavenger armor in the rain curtain seems to specialize in off-season scavenging, which is a bit unique.
This is a spliced and modified iron-blue armor.
Three meters high.
Half humanoid.
No head.
Huge belly with perfect loading space.
The right hand is a giant palm with ten fingers, suitable for grasping; the thick left arm combines all-purpose tools such as artillery, electric saws, and electric drills.
In addition, the feet also integrate flight engines.
The scavenger armor came to the place where the explosion just occurred.
The mutated wolves roared and did not dare to attack, and retreated one after another.
The armor bent down, inserted his left hand into the explosion hole, and opened a larger gap.
Immediately, he jumped into the interior of the wreckage of the spacecraft.
Inside the spacious wreckage, the armor was at full power, and its left arm continued to cut through the hull and advance until it reached the deepest engine room.
A huge spaceship engine that had long since cracked and rusted appeared in front of the armor.
In the cramped armored cockpit, the handsome young man showed excitement.
A line of translucent subtitles slowly appeared in front of my eyes.
[A severely damaged hybrid warp engine from the Feondi circumnavigation ship fifty years ago. The engine casing is completely damaged, the inner core is partially damaged, and the spiritual patterns are severely corroded. 】
"The most valuable thing about a long-distance voyage ship is the warp engine. As long as I dismantle the wreckage of five such engines, I can piece together a complete warp engine!"
The young man said very confidently.
The boy's name is Lu Chen. He is nineteen years old and is not a native of this world.
Three years ago, I traveled to this universe from an Internet cafe on Earth in the 21st century.
He was extremely certain that the starry sky in front of him was the parallel world of the science fiction online game "Galaxy" that he was addicted to in his previous life.
"Galaxy" sets up an open universe with "spiritual energy" as the basis of spiritual practice and the main energy source. It has a vast and seamless super-large map, an unconstrained interstellar landscape, and a rich variety of races and professions that can be freely switched.
In his previous life, Lu Chen was a computer science college student who was addicted to "Galaxy". He was proficient in programming and secretly wrote a cheat device for himself in the game——
A small plug-in called [Treasure Hunting and Danger Avoidance].
As the name suggests, this plug-in can greatly improve the character's detection capabilities, automatically screen nearby safe treasure-picking targets, warn of dangers, and identify scavenged items.
In this way, he turned a dangerous space adventure game into a relaxing game of sightseeing and treasure picking.
It focuses on lying down and relieving stress.
However, on the day he tested the plug-in, he accidentally traveled to a parallel universe in the game world.
Travel back to the game character you created with your own hands, and travel back to the birthplace of the most miserable player——
Rust Star.
This is a broken planet that is almost a wasteland.
Looking around, he was the only player around.
This world is similar to the background setting of the game, but it is a real universe, and everyone is a living being.
Even the character he created with his own hands has become a real person with only a pitiful life.
There might be many lives, but he didn't dare to try.
The only good news is that the plug-in he wrote came through with him!
Automatic treasure hunting and danger avoidance guide!
Lu Chen was ecstatic. With the help of plug-ins, he no longer had to get involved with powerful adventurers from all walks of life. He specialized in attacking uninhabited spaceship tombs, ancient battlefields or strange planets that humans had never set foot on. , the spacecraft’s detection capabilities find treasures lost to time.
The more time has worn away the parts that have not broken down or degraded, the more timeless they will be, the treasures among treasures.
In this way, Lu Chen can drive a long-distance ship and travel around the hidden corners of the universe just like in the game, searching for treasures that have been hidden for many years.
Such as ancient cultivators' caves, ancient battlefield sites, ancient jungles, the remains of battleships, animal bone remains, the remains of ancient magic weapons, deep-hidden minerals, rare spiritual beasts or spiritual plants...
Occasionally, he would even encounter a perfect alien pond, so Lu Chen would take out his fishing rod and spend the afternoon fishing beautifully.
Lu Chen's thoughts were different from those of ordinary time travellers.
In this world, as long as ordinary people have money, they can easily live to be 200 years old through organ transplantation and nanomedicine.
Not to mention practitioners.
Lu Chen didn't want to pursue immortality arduously, and he didn't have to worry about being killed. Even before he died of old age, the danger guide would remind him that he was about to ascend to immortality, and it would be too late if he didn't practice.
He likes taking risks, traveling, and picking up treasures, but he doesn’t like being too dangerous. In his previous life, he wrote such a lying-down treasure-picking plug-in, focusing on a relaxing and enjoyable interstellar adventure.
But now that we have traveled to the real universe, there are many more practical problems.
For example——
How to get out of Novice Village?
Rust Star is too remote and its economy is very backward.
The largest industries are mining and waste management.
The environmental pollution is extremely serious, and the surface is almost a wasteland.
The population is only a few tens of millions.
The only big city, Kumho City, is firmly controlled by a mining company with extremely backward production capacity and almost a large amount of manpower. Positions in the company are hereditary, and newcomers have little chance.
In the game, players can buy a voyage ship with krypton gold in the game mall, recruit teammates, join the Adventurers Association, and then enter the Pangu Corridor to start a wonderful adventure career.
In the real world, Lu Chen can only start by scavenging.
Over the past three years, with the help of treasure hunting plug-ins, Lu Chen used the items he picked up to gradually assemble a flying RV and a scavenging armor, collecting treasures all over the planet.
Repair and reorganize second-hand spiritual weapons, sell money to support personal practice at Kumho College, save money to buy parts for voyage ships...
If nothing unexpected happens, in another two years, he will be able to assemble a complete voyage spaceship, and his physical fitness will reach the minimum voyage standard recommended by the Adventurer Association.
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[Host Name]: Lu Chen.
[Host Race]: Human.
[Psionic Level]: Level nine.
[Psychic Occupation]: Psychic Mechanic.
[Treasure Hunting Map]: View attentively (Note: Only search for targets that have no sovereignty disputes nearby, can be obtained with low risk based on the current host's abilities and resources, and have generous rewards).
[Danger Avoidance Guide]: There is no risk at the moment (Note: If you encounter danger, you can give an early warning to leave enough time for the host to avoid it).
[Item Identification]: A severely damaged hybrid warp engine from... (Note: You must get close to the target to identify the details)
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In the era of interstellar cultivation, physical cultivation and professional skills are separate from each other but complement each other.
The psychic level of a normal adult is level one.
The minimum voyage fitness recommended by the Interstellar Adventurers Association is level 10, which means you can survive in a vacuum or various harsh planetary environments for ten minutes without relying on any equipment, waiting for rescue.
Lu Chen relied on the danger avoidance guide. In just three years, adhering to the spirit of not being afraid of death, "As long as you can't cultivate to death, you will cultivate to death." With insufficient resources, he went from level one to level nine. The voyage standard is only one step away.
Unfortunately, the physical fitness from level nine to level ten is just like the peak of Qi refining to the early stage of foundation building. It requires a breakthrough to break through the bottleneck. Lu Chen also needs to prepare more resources to break through the barrier.
Among the many psychic professions, Lu Chen chose the psychic mechanic for three reasons—
First, he was a hacker in his previous life, and the programming he was good at was not fundamentally different from the rune logic on spiritual weapons.
What's more, before writing the plug-in in his previous life, he had browsed the game database and knew the rune logic very well. Even if the details were different, the underlying logic was the same.
As a result, as soon as he traveled through time, his attainments in rune programming were close to full level.
Second, the item recognition function of the treasure hunting plug-in helps spiritual mechanics assemble, modify and repair machinery.
Third, the psychic mechanic can upgrade and modify the spaceship and combat armor, and drive it skillfully to ensure his own safety to the greatest extent, and at the same time, he can also quickly improve the efficiency of picking up treasures.
Fourth, the social status of a psychic mechanic is high.
Hey, cross this one out!
Back then, humans did rely on advanced spiritual technology to escape from their home planet and conquer the galaxy.
Today, within the empire, spiritual mechanics are only high-level demographic dividends. If you want to make money, it is better to engage in finance.
Even so, Lu Chen's application for this year's unified examination, the Rust Star Spiritual Weapons Bureau, was still rejected.
Obviously, not every planet wants industrial upgrading.
Using backward production capacity to feed more industrial workers, increasing the population, and receiving high imperial subsidies is also the way to go.
The universe is very big, and everyone has his own way of living.
Lu Chen didn't care either.
Staring at the abandoned warp engine in front of me, I was particularly excited.
"Today's harvest is not bad. It's not worth my while to go all the way to the acid rain area on the back of the planet!"
He immediately controlled the scavenger armor and removed the damaged engine casing and outer parts.
Then jumped out of the armor.
Holding a universal wrench, completely dismantle the engine core, select engine parts that are intact or can be easily repaired, and put them into the armor.
After finishing the work with a full load, Lu Chen jumped onto the armor, opened the top hatch, and returned to the cockpit.
Driving the scavenger armor, quickly left the wreckage of the spacecraft and carefully climbed out of the hole.
Start the bipedal flight engine, and the scavenger armor roars into the sky amidst the barking of a group of mutant wolves.
He retracted his legs in the air, leaving only the engine nozzle, then spread his arms, extended his sweeping wings, and flew eastward.
The shape is stupid, but the victory is that the bricks fly.
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Not long after flying, the bracelet on his right hand vibrated.
Lu Chen turned on the video phone and projected it onto the scavenger armor's driving light screen.
In the light curtain, the figure of a tall, muscular boy appeared.
He looks innocent, but there is a hint of cunning in his eyes.
This is Lu Chen's classmate and best friend at Kumho College, Wang Tianlin.
Wang Tianlin is one year older than Lu Chen, but his cultivation level is one level lower. His family has an ecological farm in the northwest of Kumhu City.
Wang Tianlin looked extremely excited after receiving the notice.
"Lu Chen, I finally passed the exam for the Star Defense Force!"
Lu Chen was also happy for him.
"You should have passed the exam long ago."
Wang Tianlin felt a little guilty.
"Luck, and some extra tricks... What about you? Even a half-hearted person like me can get into the Star Defense Force, but you, a top student, can get into the Spiritual Weapon Bureau, and you can't do it?"
Lu Chen filled in the report to the Spiritual Weapons Bureau because the resources of the Rust Star on the treasure hunt map were getting less and less.
He wanted to work in the Bureau of Spiritual Weapons, earn more money, and buy all the missing parts for the voyage ship as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, things backfired and he had to continue scavenging.
"I didn't pass the exam and was transferred to the fifth goldsmithing field."
"What?"
"This is normal."
"Damn, someone must have taken your place!"
Wang Tianlin looked even angrier than Lu Chen.
"I told you a long time ago that I asked you to pay some money and ask my mother to help you connect with people. How could this happen? How do you think I got the notice from the Star Defense Force? This society is like this, Good positions are passed down from generation to generation.”
Wang Tianlin's mother was a widow and an eighteenth-level spiritual warrior. Before she was injured, she had served in the Star Defense Force with Wang Tianlin's father.
Because she was her son's classmate, Wang Tianlin's mother often asked Lu Chen to repair spiritual spaceships, air conditioners, and water pipes...
In short, her spiritual weapons often break down.
With it in hand, Lu Chen didn't panic at all and said calmly:
"It doesn't matter. The goldsmithing field is also very good. When I get enough money to buy a voyage ship, I will become an adventurer."
Wang Tianlin was shocked. He had never heard Lu Chen say that before.
"Are you kidding? I have wanted to adventure in the Pangu Corridor since I was a child. I heard that there are treasures everywhere there.
But now that you have grown up, thinking and doing are two different things.
Even if your psychic talent is very high and your physique has reached the ninth level of psychic ability, which is one level higher than mine, the mortality rate in interstellar adventure is too high. Only desperate people will venture out to sea, even if they live on the Rust Star. Live longer than adventurers.
You're not at the point of desperation, are you? Why don't you come to my house? My mother actually likes you, you know the kind.
She definitely has a way to get you into the Spiritual Weapon Bureau... It's a pity that I don't have a sister to marry you. It's really not possible. I'll give you a hard time. You call me brother and I call you dad. We can have our own affairs. "
Lu Chen was speechless and thought about it subconsciously.
Auntie should have been quite good-looking when she was young, but unfortunately she is now almost fat. In addition, she has been working on the farm all year round, and her figure is extremely strong and her force value is fully increased, which makes people feel safe.
But what Lu Chen lacks most is a sense of security.
"You really don't treat me as an outsider!"
Wang Tianlin also grinned and said half-jokingly:
"It's hard for my mother to be alone. You are handsome, have good physique and talent for spiritual weapons. You are a real potential stock, but you have no background and are a bit poor...My mother and I have always been optimistic about you."
How could Lu Chen not know that he was half joking and half comforting him, so he smiled and said:
"It's more profitable to pick up trash than you think. I'm almost building a long-distance ship."
Wang Tianlin felt that Lu Chen was not joking.
"Don't say goodbye. Interstellar adventure is a team sport. If you want to be safe, you must join the Adventurers Association. Even so, you can't definitely save your life. You'd better come to my house. If you don't want to accompany my mother, my mother will help you."
Lu Chen thought to himself, I finally wrote a plug-in and paid the price of time travel. Isn't it a waste not to take risks?
His journey is not to women, but to the stars and the sea!
"Well, I'll think about it. Say hello to Auntie."
"Okay, see you later!"
After hanging up the phone, Lu Chen had already flown out of the acid rain area.
It also crossed the dusk and flew gently into the good night.
For the Rust Star, tonight is a rare clear sky.
Lu Chen immediately opened the back hatch.
Rotate the cockpit one hundred and eighty degrees.
In this way, Lu Chen could look up at the stars and face the Milky Way while lying in the cockpit.
This reminded him of his previous life when he was a child, lying on the mat on the roof of the building on a summer night and watching the stars...
Starlight is like colored sand, covering the entire night sky.
The Pangu Corridor that traverses the sky is a towering interstellar Great Wall, and it is like oil paint splashed into a river, with magnificent waves, like the writing of a god.
At this moment!
A shooting star streaked across the sky...
Want to make a wish?
While Lu Chen was hesitating, he saw the meteor getting bigger and bigger, quickly revealing the burning outline of the spacecraft.
With a rumble, it fell diagonally towards the Rust Star.
"A runaway spaceship?"
The more Lu Chen looked at it, the more something seemed wrong.
He soon discovered that the direction in which the spacecraft was falling was almost the same as the direction in which his armor was flying.
Heading towards the valley where he hides his flying RV!
What's worse is that the hazard avoidance guide only gave advance warning about his life safety and didn't care about the safety of his property at all.
The Star Defense Forces also showed no response...
"It's over!"
