Chapter 739: Make do with it

For Alan Starlink, pirates coming to plunder is basically like a holiday. They certainly don't come every day, but it's not surprising to come seven or eight times a year.

At most, there are a lot of pirates this time, but the pirates completely retreated after an hour of fighting.

The specific loss figures of both sides have not been counted yet. Judging from the number of wreckage in the airspace of the battle, it is estimated that it is not a small number.

Cleaning up the wreckage, capturing prisoners, rescuing friendly forces in the escape pods, etc., these follow-up work are done by the planetary defense team and civilian shuttles together, and the Manta Ray can't help but help. Li Chengxi personally got several people from the planetary defense team out of several capsule-shaped escape pods.

So Li Chengxi, who was too excited, stayed up late as expected.

When Li Chengxi opened his eyes again, it was already the afternoon of the next day. He was woken up by the hungry Aidas. After all, if Li Chengxi didn't show up, Aidas couldn't order takeout alone...

The Manta Ray had returned to the open space outside the farm, and Fang Lanyin was busy repairing it.

I don't know if she took a break, but she looked very energetic.

The Manta Ray should have been overhauled a long time ago, but it participated in a high-intensity battle during the overhaul, which made many parts of the Manta Ray reach the limit of their life.

Replacing these parts, plus replenishing ammunition and energy, is a lot of money.

I guess Alyssa won't be in a good mood when she sees the bill.

But the good news is that maybe the Manta Ray performed too well, and the Planetary Defense Force specially sent someone to say that the maintenance costs of the Manta Ray were all reported to the Planetary Defense Force's account, and sent a commendation and a considerable bonus as a reward, and even implicitly said that even if Fang Lanyin needed some military parts, it would not be impossible to accommodate.

Alan Starlink encourages residents to take up arms to protect themselves, which can greatly reduce the pressure on the planetary defense team, so they are willing to give the green light.

In the end, not only did they not lose money in this battle, they even made a small profit, which is not bad. The most important thing is that the maintenance problem of the Manta Ray was solved.

Military parts are definitely better than civilian parts, but Fang Lanyin didn't want them, mainly because the Manta Ray couldn't use them.

This shuttle is too old. Except for some common parts, many parts can't be used as military parts, and can only be repaired by hand.

Of course, the Manta Ray can also be modified and most of the parts can be replaced.

But doing so will not be done in a day or two.

For example, replace the engine of the Manta Ray with a military space fighter engine.

If the engine is replaced, your energy supply pipeline must also be replaced, otherwise the current pipeline cannot withstand the high output of the military engine.

And if the pipeline is replaced, the flight control must also be replaced, otherwise it cannot control the new engine.

If the flight control is replaced, should the transmission and variable wing components be replaced? If it is not replaced, the engine cannot withstand it.

The same is true for the fuselage. The sudden increase in speed will exceed the design strength of the fuselage, and the fuselage must be strengthened.

In other words, even if it is just to replace the engine, it is better to replace the entire Manta Ray directly, which is at least more convenient.

It is like you install a Ferrari engine on an Alto. It does run faster, but if you step on the accelerator, the body will probably fall apart.

After all, the Manta Ray is just a shuttle, and its performance is not high even if it is pulled to the limit. This kind of transformation is meaningless.

Fang Lanyin is very rational and did not ask the military for parts casually. Her maintenance goal is just to restore the Manta Ray to its peak state.

Of course, this is not an easy task.

Probably wanting to show off in front of her future boss, Fang Lanyin did not ask others to help, but repaired the Manta Ray alone.

This is also thanks to her being a half-orc, and her physical strength is much higher than that of ordinary people. Otherwise, even with the help of tools and engineering machinery, it would not be an easy task to repair the Manta Ray alone.

Speaking of Alyssa, the expression on her face these past two days was basically "fucked".

Originally, she was only scheduled to stay in Alan Starlink for two days, but because of the maintenance of the Manta Ray, she had to stay longer. No wonder she was in a bad mood.

During the time when the Manta Ray was being repaired, Li Chengxi was not idle. He focused on testing the use of creativity.

First of all, simply stuffing things in is useless. Unlike Viola and Yang Yiyi, Li Chengxi's stuffing into the science fiction script will be blocked by the screen and cannot be stuffed in.

So if Alyssa and Fang Lanyin have no food to eat, Li Chengxi's stuffing of instant food in it will not work.

The premise of stuffing things in is that there must be materials.

For example, stuffing the model of the beam rifle in, this thing actually only serves as a blueprint. There must be materials around the Manta Ray that can form a beam rifle, only in this way can it work.

For example, when Li Chengxi first discovered this, he stuffed nuts into the screen, which actually decomposed the debris next to the Manta Ray and reassembled it into nuts.

So this is not a simple creation, but more like a special manufacturing.

In the same way, if Li Chengxi wants to put the Gundam model in, he needs all the materials that can make up the Gundam around the Manta.

Secondly, it needs to consume the energy of the Manta itself.

On Viola's side, the faith value is the divine power, but it can only be used on Viola's side.

The same is true for Yang Yiyi. The true energy value is the energy that Li Chengxi can use to interfere with the mortal world. Naturally, he can no longer interfere after it is consumed.

In a science fiction scenario, each interference will consume energy, and it cannot appear completely out of thin air. The only difference is that it consumes the compressed magic power in the fuel tank of the Manta.

According to Li Chengxi's test, a beam rifle consumes about 40% of the energy of the Manta. As for making a Gundam directly, let alone whether the materials are sufficient, the energy of the Manta is completely insufficient, and it can only produce some parts-level things.

If the Manta can be replaced with a larger battleship in the future, it may be possible to build a Gundam, but it is definitely not possible now.

Besides, as far as the current situation is concerned, making a Gundam is really not as good as the Manta.

The advantage of the universal shuttle is that it is all-round. It can carry fuel tanks and ammunition supplies on its own, and it can also make jumps. There are still a few people living in the living area. Isn't this better than the Gundam?

But then again, Li Chengxi still asked Fang Lanyin for something from the planetary defense team.

For example, he asked for two void torpedoes.

This kind of weapon that can threaten ships is absolutely a military product and cannot be bought by the public.

Just like you can buy a rifle from a gun store, but you can't buy a rocket launcher, unless you go to the black market, but the price is not cheap.

After hearing Fang Lanyin's request, the planetary defense team wrote two more torpedoes on the loss report without saying a word, anyway, the government paid for it.

——This is probably how the torpedoes on the black market come from.