Lu Chen carefully counted the spiritual stones in the bag.
One hundred and one, one more...
Maybe the woman counted wrongly.
Standard spirit stones are the universal currency of the galaxy, similar to gold on earth. They are extremely valuable and are a resource for cultivation.
In addition, there are Imperial Jinnar worth one percent of the currency value of the spirit stone, and New Federation Ten Thousand Race Coins worth one ten thousandth of the currency value.
Through modular design and production, the price of a Feiandi circumferential voyage ship can be reduced to one thousand spirit stones.
The woman's crashed eighteen-hand modified voyage ship is now worth only about one hundred spirit stones.
It can be seen that the maintenance and compensation costs for the hundred spirit stones given by Lu Chen are quite high.
He wanted to use this to dissuade women.
As a result, in just one and a half hours, the woman brought back a hundred spirit stones and even changed her clothes!
Lu Chen turned his head in surprise and looked at the woman's new clothes carefully.
Wearing a black tight-fitting knight costume, wearing fashionable goggles, and riding a yellow motorcycle airship with scavenger paint, he looked very sci-fi and full of wasteland flavor.
If he hadn't seen the long sword and wine bottle hanging on her waist, Lu Chen would have almost thought she was another woman.
The woman pulled her goggles up to her forehead, revealing her bright eyes, and the previous laziness and decadence disappeared.
"How's it going? Does it look good?"
Lu Chen thought to himself, could a succubus be bad-looking?
It must be said that with her plump and strong figure and her heroic appearance, she can control any cross-dressing.
No matter what you wear, you look beautiful, generous, decent, natural, and without any artificiality.
Even just looking at her makes you feel better.
Lu Chen understood, this was a high-level succubus.
As a time traveler, he is naturally not affected by the succubus.
At this moment, he didn’t comment on the woman’s clothing and asked directly:
"Where did you get these spiritual stones?"
The woman curled her lips and said unabashedly:
"You, the Star Master, lent it to me... The magnetic field of this shabby planet was too chaotic, causing my spacecraft to crash. Is it reasonable for me to ask for compensation?"
Lu Chen's eyes confirmed that it was the style of an interstellar pirate.
There is no problem with the style.
The question is, if this woman is so good at borrowing money, how did she become so poor?
Lu Chen guessed that the danger level of Pangu Corridor might be far beyond his imagination, and it would be impossible for one person to handle it.
After getting one hundred spiritual stones as he wished, Lu Chen couldn't refuse the woman's invitation to form a team, not to mention it was an opportunity for him.
Going to sea two years in advance, escorted by powerful swordsmen... If there is another orc loli to take care of logistics, it will be perfect.
"It's okay to form a team with you, but I want to be the captain, decide the course, decide whether to explore, attack or retreat, and the money earned from the adventure will be divided 50-50."
Lu Chen said.
The woman was startled, and suddenly she had the strange feeling of being taken over by someone else.
It's quite exciting.
"You are very confident, it doesn't matter, as long as you can help me make money, but if you are an idiot like me, there is no room for two idiots in the same boat."
There is no room for two idiots in one boat... Lu Chen understood, this was a succubus who had a clear understanding of himself.
"I just checked the damage to the spacecraft. I need to replace some parts that I don't have in the car and can't make. We also have to go to Kumho City."
Gloria especially liked Lu Chen's professional expression. She patted the back seat and said:
"Okay, get in the car and I'll take you. This one goes fast!"
Lu Chen shook his head, hung the armor on the roof of the RV, jumped down, clapped his hands and said:
"What's the point of being quick? It has to be able to haul goods. My RV is very big, so I'd better drive the RV into the city!"
Gloria got out of the car reluctantly.
This outfit of hers was specially prepared for riding a bicycle, and it would be worse than a dog in an RV.
The two were about to set off when suddenly!
The rumble of a large-displacement flying motorcycle could be heard in the distance.
A group of speedsters soon surrounded the entire mountain.
They all ride large-displacement flying motorcycles with different skull designs, heavy metal punk style, and are equipped with heavy machine guns and electromagnetic jammers.
Behind the speeding party was a heavily modified flying tank, which was a heavily armed fortress.
Lu Chen was no stranger to this.
This is the largest gang on Rust Planet, the Wasteland Knights, who specialize in collecting protection fees from scavengers.
Lu Chen never paid protection fees and relied on the danger guide to escape the pursuit of the wasteland knights many times.
He has a three-level risk avoidance system: initial warning prompt, second warning prompt, warning countdown...
Of course, this time is an exception.
Everyone was surrounded by speeding gangs, and he didn't receive the first danger warning.
Obviously, with Gloria around, the danger guide didn't think he was in any danger.
The speedsters were extremely excited to catch the legendary ghost scavenger for the first time.
Their attention was entirely on Lu Chen's RV, and they paid no attention to the spaceship on the top of the mountain.
The roof of the flying tank opened, and a tall man jumped out. Half of his body was a mechanical modification.
"RV boy, I finally caught you!"
Seeing Lu Chen's RV, half of the machine's face turned green.
"A tenth-level engine, a rusty iron casing, and tattered scavenger armor...You relied on this equipment to hide from me for three years?"
But after thinking about it carefully, this kid is probably the kind of psychic genius that the Wasteland Knights desperately lack.
The sturdy man then invited:
"I am the second-in-command of the Wasteland Knights, Max. I can see that your boy is a rare psychic talent. If you join our Wasteland Knights, you won't have to run away in the future."
When Gloria heard this, she said, What, you dare to steal my people?
Without any explanation, he drew his sword and cut.
With a sword strike from the air, the main gun of the flying tank was sliced off.
However, the shell of the flying tank was too hard and could not be chopped.
With just one sword strike, the tank clanked, causing the fuselage to become unbalanced and fall into the valley.
Max was dumbfounded.
Is this a level 18 sword spirit warrior?
He didn't dare to confirm the woman's identity and strength, so he abandoned the car and ran away, leading the speedsters to choose a different road to escape.
Gloria was not satisfied with her sword energy, so she jumped up to the top of the tank, plunged her sword in, and opened the tank.
Seeing this situation, Lu Chen quickly shouted to Gloria:
"Don't dismantle it - this tank performs well. Let me see if there are any usable parts inside."
Gloria then stopped her hand, pinched her waist to catch her breath, took off the wine bottle from her waist, opened the lid and drank a lot, and then regained some strength.
Lu Chen could tell that in order to suppress the demonic nature in her body, this woman's strength had been compromised a lot.
The sword is so handsome that it consumes too much physical strength.
Fortunately, no matter what, the woman is more than one dimension better than him, and she is quite reliable as a teammate.
Next.
Lu Chen blasted away several tank crew members.
Drive the scavenger armor, dismantle the tank into eight pieces, and remove all valuable parts and high-end materials.
After collecting the materials needed for forging parts, Lu Chen turned around and entered the RV and started his Shibashou Lingji Machine Tool.
Wash away the spiritual patterns of the material and start to forge the spiritual pieces again.
Gloria was slightly drunk, and her slightly pale face regained its blushing look.
The chaotic alcohol in his eyes combined with a little sword energy, giving rise to the succubus' pupils.
"You're not going to the city?"
Lu Chen nodded and patiently explained:
"When I talk about a lack of parts, I actually mean a lack of special materials. As long as there are enough materials, we can forge any spacecraft spiritual parts that do not exceed the energy level of the machine tool."
Lu Chen didn't brag.
High-end machine tools are the mother of industry in the age of spiritual machines!
Although many civilian spiritual weapons are now injection molded, truly high-end armor still requires high-precision machine tools.
Some are even cut and forged by hand.
There is nothing we can do about it. Real high-level spiritual materials, such as ancient animal bones, animal elixirs, ancient wood, and a small number of raw ores... Once they are forcibly decomposed, it will be difficult to maintain their previous strength and spiritual stability. They can only be refined by machine tools. Cut, or hand forged.
Lu Chen's eighteen-handed Qihar machine tool, although it is a few years old and the high-precision calibrator has long been out of accuracy, it is a mid-level machine tool of level 30, which can just process spacecraft parts.
With his skills as a spiritual weapon master and the detection aid of an external plug-in, any low-level spiritual weapon can be created as long as the raw materials are sufficient.
Soon, Lu Chen forged the new spacecraft spiritual parts.
"Here, help me."
Lu Chen drove the armor again, came to the top of the mountain, and cleared away all the mountain soil around the spacecraft.
With Gloria's help, the spacecraft was straightened out.
The two cargo bays are gone and cannot be restored. It is also difficult to buy cargo bay materials on the Rust Planet that can withstand the intensity of warp flight.
Lu Chen then welded and sealed the cargo hold interfaces on both sides.
The lack of a cargo compartment does not affect flight, and can even fly faster.
When you make money later, you can add a cargo hold, or simply buy a new spaceship.
Inside the spacecraft, the problems were with the engine and gyroscope.
The gyroscope is located in the center of the spacecraft, directly below the living cabin. It is a device that maintains the attitude of the spacecraft.
"The core part of the gyroscope was damaged, which was the trigger for the crash of the Gloria spacecraft. In order to compensate for the unbalanced attitude of the spacecraft, the engine could only be forcibly boosted. As a result, the spiritual patterns in the spacecraft quickly heated up and short-circuited, making the emergency landing impossible and crashing."
After finding out the cause, Lu Chen replaced it with the core recast parts of the flying tank and quickly solved the gyroscope problem.
On the side, Gloria, who was drinking and watching Lu Chen repair the spaceship, excitedly patted Lu Chen on the shoulder and said:
"It's repaired so quickly? Let's set sail now!"
Lu Chen looked like a fool.
"Not that fast...the engine is the big problem."
"oh."
Later, Lu Chen drove the armor to the engine room at the rear of the spacecraft.
Remove the engine casing, turn on the item identification function of the treasure hunting plug-in, and check the engine core for bad pixels.
In the interstellar age of Dharma End, the concentration of spiritual energy is declining. Not only is the combat effectiveness of practitioners far inferior to that of ancient times, but their spiritual consciousness is also far behind.
Lu Chen's item detection ability is a super advantage!
Next, he plans to personally dismantle the inner core of the engine in the back cabin of the spacecraft.
Lu Chen already knew the Fianti hybrid engine very well.
Clean up the surrounding items and lay a layer of white cloth blanket four by four meters wide, specially designed for spiritual mechanics, to facilitate the disassembly and assembly of various machines without missing parts.
"A Fianti weekly hybrid engine has thousands of parts and tens of thousands of spiritual patterns inside.
All parts must be removed with bare hands, damaged parts replaced, and rusted parts cleaned without damaging the spiritual patterns.
Even I need to be fully prepared and not be distracted at all. "
On the side, Gloria nodded her head like a chicken pecking.
"Okay, okay, I won't disturb you!"
Lu Chen put on a simple dust-free suit, held a disassembly tool, climbed into the engine, and began to disassemble the engine with his bare hands.
The outer parts in the engine were corroded a lot, and the spiritual patterns on the surface were difficult to identify, so they needed to be dismantled carefully.
"call……"
After some dismantling, Lu Chen's hands and face were covered with rust stains, and his forehead and back were wet with sweat.
"Fiondi will really save costs. The commercial engine of a hundred years ago has the same core as the current engine. It is also from the same platform as the Xia and Zhou engines, and the parts can be used in common."
Warp drive, planetary formation, and wide-area spiritual network are the three greatest basic technologies in the interstellar era.
Fianti's long-distance civilian ships are famous for their low price, durability, and huge modification potential. They can be transformed into cargo ships, exploration ships, star pirate ships, military ships, etc...
Lu Chen can modify it alone.
Half a day later.
Lu Chen removed one hundred and nine damaged parts and cleaned some of the rusted parts.
The spacecraft parts picked up last night can replace eighty-seven of the one hundred and nine damaged parts.
The rest, to be reforged.
After being busy until dark, Lu Chen reinstalled the complete warp engine.
After another inspection using scavenged object identification, no bad spots could be found.
"good!"
At this moment.
Gloria was already so drunk that she fell asleep on the lounge chair next to the cockpit window.
Lu Chen refilled the spaceship's spiritual pool with spare spiritual oil.
Then the spacecraft engine was started, idling, and the test run began.
The blood orange tail flame is like sunset, very beautiful.
What looks good means a good engine!
The sound of the whistling nozzle is also very nice.
What sounds good means a good engine!
Lu Chen tested the car continuously for five hours.
Use a voice recorder and an infrared imager to record the engine's sound and temperature respectively.
For five hours, there was no change in the sound or temperature of the engine.
Even Gloria didn't wake up.
"Perfect!"
Lu Chen did not wake up Gloria immediately, but physically dismantled the spacecraft's control system.
Rewrite some of the control spirit patterns and set the highest authority to himself, including remote control of his bracelet.
The second authority is set to shipboard artificial intelligence.
It was Gloria's turn as the third authority.
This is for her own good, and also for the good of the spaceship.
After everything was settled, Lu Chen drove the armor off the ship and carried all the important parts in the RV, the spare spiritual pool, drinking water, food and a change of clothes into the cabin.
As for the RV, it’s too big to take with you.
He could only reluctantly part with it and leave it to the Wasteland Knight as a souvenir.
It's midnight.
"The test drive has been going on for so long and no one has come to the Rust Planet. Not even the second-level Alliance Imperial Army from the first planet has come... It seems to be unprofitable."
Lu Chen came to the cockpit.
It was confirmed that the spacecraft's reserve of spiritual oil was enough for one month of continuous flight and ten warp flights.
Then, open the light curtain, call up the map of the star field, and set the course for the warp flight test.
"Start sailing at low speed!"
The engine's vector nozzle rotated downward, spitting out blood-orange tail flames.
The spacecraft then slowly took off, slowly flying out of the atmosphere of the Rust Star.
…
There was no grand ceremony, no thrilling escape from the home star, just a simple setting sail.
Lu Chen didn't even wake up Gloria who was sleeping soundly.
Even though it was his first time sailing on a long voyage, waking her up did not make him feel more at ease.
Looking at the light screen overlooking the gray wasteland planet, Lu Chen had mixed feelings.
Then, I wrote a farewell email to Wang Tianlin, which will be automatically sent out in an hour.
At that time, he was no longer in the Blue Valley star system.
Leaving the rusty star's dim atmosphere, the starry sky suddenly became clear and meandering, like the light of a sparkling lake.
After traveling through three years, I left the Rust Planet for the first time and embarked on an interstellar adventure.
Lu Chen was very excited, but he was more worried.
"Try to speed up, gradually, until you reach full throttle!"
The spacecraft continued to fly at high speed and its flight was extremely smooth.
Half an hour later.
The spacecraft has flown out of the Blue Valley star system and arrived at the vast interstellar space.
Lu Chen prepared to enter warp flight.
Warp flight is commonly known as jump, although the two are essentially different.
Lu Chen took a long breath and was about to start the first leap in his life.
It could also be the second time...if time travel can be considered a certain kind of jump.
When warp flight starts, it will leave a large area of space ripples at the starting point, which will last for hours or even days, affecting the flight safety of passing spacecraft.
Therefore, the Imperial Interstellar Traffic Law stipulates that voyage ships are prohibited from initiating warp flight within the star system.
During the warp flight, the spacecraft will be wrapped in a squeezed space bubble, which can squeeze out foreign objects and is not afraid of collisions with ships, star beasts, or interstellar storms...
But it is afraid of hitting a massive star or black hole.
Therefore, the destination of the spacecraft's warp flight is usually strictly selected in the outer reaches of the star system.
Before setting off, Lu Chen repeatedly opened the treasure hunt panel and confirmed again and again that he had not received any danger avoidance prompts.
"Confirm the end point coordinates."
"Confirm the route is safe."
"Warp drive full."
"Accelerate the countdown - ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!"
"Leap!"
The spaceship suddenly disappeared.
