With the main engine and attitude engine of the light cruiser, the power of the Exploding Sawtooth Dinner Knife has reached a new level. After calculations, Chu Jungui planned a 70-meter new hull, which still maintains close to fighter-level power.
After mobilizing all the computing power and two full days of research, the new generation of grain power furnace was finally completed. The basic principle of the power furnace has not changed, but the energy output has been optimized according to the purpose, resulting in two different models.
One is a small power furnace with a length, width and height of no more than 50 centimeters, with an output power of only 10,000 kilowatts. The other version is a large power furnace with an output of more than 500,000 kilowatts, and the detonation device has been redesigned to greatly increase the power if necessary. If it detonates inside a light cruiser like last time, a power furnace can blow a light cruiser into two pieces.
At this moment, the daily production capacity of the two bases has exceeded 60,000, and can produce 40 large power furnaces. Chu Jungui filled up the production capacity in one go, and then flew into the orbital station with all the newly produced power furnaces the next day.
At this time, a transport ship was parked near the track assembly point, and hundreds of engineers were busy splicing together the prefabricated substrates. As soon as Chu Jungui's transport ship arrived, dozens of people came over, took out the power furnaces on the transport ship one by one, and installed them on the base plate. In less than half a day, 30 large power furnaces were installed, and then the engineers began to modify the Explosive Sawtooth Dinner Knife according to the newly obtained tasks.
One day later, a starship painted in silver gray quietly appeared on the outer edge of Planet No. 4. After signaling with a flashing beam, it slowly approached the stealth point.
The Exploding Jagged Dinner Knife took off, approached the starship, and completed the docking. Everyone entered the new starship and saw Lin Xi.
Li Ruobai immediately rushed over and said, "Sister Xi! Are you already a general? So fast!"
"It's just a new starship. Well, actually it's not new anymore. It has been used for almost 50 years. But now there is no inventory in the fleet at all. The original captain of this starship had another appointment, so he gave it to me. .”
"Then you should be quick, this is a light cruiser."
"The captain of the light cruiser is not necessarily a general." Lin Xi smiled.
"Most of them are, or in other words, they will be sooner or later. By the way, has the application been sent in?"
"It has been submitted. It will probably take some time for approval."
Lin Xi walked up to Chu Jungui, looked at him, and said, "Thank you for your military contribution."
Chu Jungui suddenly felt a little embarrassed and said, "It seems, not much."
Lin Xi smiled and said: "It's enough for me to apply for major general as an exception. Isn't this much?"
"There can be more, do you need it?" Chu Jungui looked very serious.
Lin Xi smiled and shook his head, "No, that's enough for now. If I say more, I'm afraid the old generals' hearts will be bad. Besides, there's no point in increasing the military rank. There will be no new ships and no new positions here. On the contrary, You need to improve yourself, and our Lightyear Legion also needs to improve its organization. There are still many places where military merit is needed."
Chu Jun returned to look around and said, "Show me your starship!"
"Okay." As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, someone suddenly shouted "No!"
Lin Xi was also stunned. She turned around and saw a very young lieutenant retreating with a red face.
Lin Xi asked gently: "Why not?"
The young lieutenant looked at Chu Jungui, then at Lin Xi, and finally plucked up the courage and said loudly: "He just visited the bridge a few times before, and he dismantled our main guns and evacuated our torpedoes! This time he actually wants to visit the entire ship, wouldn’t it be more outrageous? Does he want to dismantle even the bed?”
Lin Xi laughed and said, "Okay, I understand."
She led Chu Jungui through the crowd and started visiting each place. Chu Jungui looked very carefully. As long as he could see it, he would go and see it with his own eyes, no matter how small or remote the cabin was.
The hull of a light cruiser is already quite large. Taking the one Lin Xi is riding on as an example, the length of the ship is 350 meters, and the height and width are each over 70 meters. If you look at it in such detail, you might not be able to finish it all in a whole day.
After watching this for several hours, Lin Xi asked, "Are you really going to see every place?"
Chu Jungui nodded, "Yes. This is your first real starship. I'm afraid it will be used until the end of this battle, so I want to take a good look and see where there may be hidden dangers."
Lin Xi sighed softly: "You are not a student of starship design. What's the use of just looking at it like this? There are many places that cannot be seen without taking them apart."
"Let's look at what's visible on the surface first before talking." Chu Jungui was unusually insistent.
Lin Xi chuckled and said, "Okay, then I will watch it with you all day."
The two of them walked through the forest of steel and energy, as if all the war and hardship were out of reach.
Lin Xi and Chu Jungui visited the starship, and the others were not idle. Li Ruobai and the first mate started a new round of transactions. The four energy capsules left by Lin Xi last time were all destroyed, so the price of each was 2.5 million, which was converted into 10 million. This time Lin Xi brought a total of 40 energy capsules, and the cost of filling them once was 250,000. After deducting the cost of the last 4 energy capsules, there is still 10 million in income.
During this period, almost all of the base's production capacity was used to expand production and build starships, so the crystalline hydrogen was only intermittently produced at half a ton, plus some leftover composite materials, which amounted to a total of 20 million. But Lightyear still needs to purchase space torpedoes and high-energy particle cannon shells from the Ninth Fleet. One space torpedo costs 2 million. So after buying ammunition, there is nothing left.
When the goods for the transaction were moved, Chu Jungui and Lin Xi roughly saw the same thing. Lin Xi simply sent a copy of the starship's layout structure diagram and instruction manual to Chu Jungui.
After meeting up with Li Ruobai and the girl, it was time to separate. Lin Xi just looked at Chu Jungui without saying goodbye. Chu Jungui didn't know why, so he just stood there. In the end, Li Ruobai couldn't stand it anymore, pushed Chu Jungui on the back, and said, "Go and give him a hug!"
Chu Jungui thought for a while, then walked forward and gave Lin Xi a formal and standard hug.
Lin Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She didn't know whether to be happy or sigh after receiving such a brotherly hug. She pushed Chu Jungui out of the hatch, waved her hand, and the connecting channel was automatically disconnected and slowly retracted. Then the hatch closed, separating the two people again.
