Chapter 736 A Few Nuts

The flash of explosion in the distance was reflected on the mask from time to time. Fang Lanyin had no time to take care of these, and she didn't even have time to see how far the explosion was from her. She focused on checking the hole torn by the ion beam on the Manta.

"How is it? Can it be repaired?"

Li Chengxi's voice came from the communicator, and Fang Lanyin nodded seriously:

"No problem, the Manta is very strong, this is not a fatal injury."

She opened the toolbox floating beside her, reached out and pressed the button on her chest, and the lights on both sides of the mask turned on, allowing her to observe more clearly.

However, in addition to being strong, the Manta really has no shortcomings.

After all, this is a shuttle from more than a thousand years ago, and it is not an exaggeration to call it an antique.

Its performance is not as good as that of a space fighter, and it is even inferior to the shuttle modified by pirates. It can fight purely because of Li Chengxi's technical hard top.

This is like driving a World War II propeller in the room of the first generation of jet fighters. Although it is not completely impossible to fight, the difference in the performance of the body is visible to the naked eye.

Li Chengxi really wanted to change the vehicle at this time, but then again, can it be changed? How to change it?

In this script, Li Chengxi controls the Manta from the beginning, but he can't interfere with anything except the Manta, and he still needs to study how to change the vehicle.

Besides, even if it can be changed, does Alyssa have the money to buy it?

Li Chengxi looked at the model placed under the screen as a decoration, and thought to himself that it would be great if it could be used. It would be so fun to drive the Gundam and play Gundam Warriors directly.

—— His addiction has not passed.

Turning his head and looking at the screen again, Li Chengxi said:

"Why are you crying? Can't it be repaired? We can go back."

In a zero-gravity environment, tears will accumulate in the eyes. It is impossible to rub the eyes with a mask. Fang Lanyin can only shake her head to get rid of the tears from her eyes.

"It's all because of me. If I hadn't dismantled the attitude controller..."

"I thought you were crying for something. That's it? Don't worry. It's not your fault. It's mainly because I was too anxious."

Seeing the opportunity to get involved, Li Chengxi started the engine directly. If he had waited a little longer, Fang Lanyin would have had enough time to check the situation of the Manta Ray and would not have forgotten the attitude controller.

Li Chengxi didn't care about this at all. He knew how important the ground crew was.

For example, when playing a flight simulation game, after a fierce battle, only half of the plane was left at the airport, and the ground crew could fix it for you.

——Or maybe a new one was towed out.

In Li Chengxi's view, Fang Lanyin was the ground crew. He was in a hurry to take off. Could he blame the ground crew for not fixing it?

"But..."

"If you blame yourself again, I will let Alyssa leave without you."

"Don't!"

"Instead of self-reflection, it is better to blame others and enjoy a bad life. Isn't that good? Be happier."

Fang Lanyin was amused by this:

"Your perverse logic actually sounds a bit reasonable."

"Perverse logic is also reasonable, so it is naturally reasonable."

Looking at the emoji bubbles that popped up next to Fang Lanyin's head, I felt that the girl's mood should be better.

People with more integrity are like this. When encountering things, the first reaction is what they did wrong. Although having integrity is a good thing, blaming yourself too much is also a kind of psychological deformity.

Fang Lanyin wanted to leave Alan Starlink too much. It may be this desire that made her cautious.

The person with the opposite personality to Fang Lanyin is Orday. Her self-confidence is broadcasting every moment, saying that I am the only one in the world. I will make mistakes, but I made them, so what.

So it can be found that Aoerdai has no psychological problems at all. Even the carefree Yang Yiyi has had troubles before, but Aoerdai has none at all.

——Although this is also another form of shit.

Just thinking about this, Li Chengxi saw the words "I don't have enough nuts" in the dialog box.

"Is it necessary? It's enough to ensure that the Manta flies smoothly."

"It's okay to fly back, but without nuts, it will affect the magic power transmission pipeline, the ion beam on the left will not be used, and the engine output will be reduced to a quarter of the original. Even if I just installed the attitude stabilizer, it will be difficult to control the shuttle to fly smoothly in this case."

One engine has a large output and the other engine has a small output. In this case, the machine will tilt to one side. Li Chengxi used this trick to drift.

But that is a controllable situation. When it is uncontrollable, it will seriously affect the flight stability. In serious cases, it will fall into a spin that cannot be corrected, and then cause the plane to crash and die.

Similar things have happened many times in the history of air crashes, and of course there are corresponding methods.

For example, if the output of the engine on the other side is adjusted to be equal to that of the side with smaller output, the output of the engines on both sides will naturally not be distorted.

But if this is done, the speed of the Manta will drop significantly.

The Planetary Defense Force has already pushed the front line over. Now there are pirate shuttles and Planetary Defense Force space fighters everywhere outside the wreckage. Losing speed in such a chaotic battle is obviously very dangerous. It is better to stay in the wreckage and hide.

Moreover, if the engine output is too low, it cannot land in a gravity environment and will hit the ground directly.

The Manta needs maintenance, and the only starship that can provide maintenance recently is the Planetary Defense Force.

However, they will definitely not let the Manta board the ship.

It's like an aircraft carrier battle group is performing combat missions, busy launching and recovering aircraft. If you, a civilian aircraft, say I want to land, you see if the aircraft carrier will pay attention to you.

This will seriously affect the efficiency of attendance, and it is not ruled out that the enemy will sneak in and self-destruct. The enemy identification signal is just to prevent the planetary defense team from attacking the Manta.

In summary, either go find a few nuts that Fang Lanyin needs and temporarily repair the Manta to the extent that it can fly, or squat in the wreckage and wait for the war to end.

Li Chengxi scratched his head. He didn't have nuts at home. If he ran to the hardware store to buy them now, he would not know whether he could catch up. People would not open the door in the middle of the night.

Then he changed his mind and thought, no, it seems that there really is.

Li Chengxi jumped off the space capsule, ran to the drawer under the coffee table in the living room, and found a small bag of screws, nuts, gaskets and so on.

This is what was left when the space capsule was installed in the morning. In order to have a spare, this kind of home appliance that needs to be installed before it can be used will come with many more screws and nuts than needed.

Just not knowing whether the size can be used, Li Chengxi stuffed the bag of nuts into the screen.

"Can you see if this can be used?"

This operation is similar to when he handed Yang Yiyi some instant food, and it has almost become muscle memory.

But when the nuts were thrown into the screen, Li Chengxi saw that Fang Lanyin's side suddenly lit up.

Fang Lanyin also saw the light, turned around and saw a handful of screws and nuts floating in the air.

"There are a few that can be used, so let's make do with them first."

Fang Lanyin thought that Li Chengxi threw them out of the cabin, so she didn't pay much attention to it. She grabbed a few nuts and continued to work.

But Li Chengxi saw clearly that those nuts were not thrown in by Li Chengxi, but more like they were created...