Chapter 79 Delivery and New Renovation Ideas

It was almost evening.

The boss must have just got off work and was very idle. He picked up the phone immediately after Chen Ming called and asked with a slightly surprised tone: "Xiao Mu, what's the matter?"

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the Mule class that was heading to the space station in the galaxy and said: "I brought the person back."

"So soon? Where is it? I'll arrange for someone to pick it up right away."

"It's still on the way. It will take about ten minutes to reach the space station. It's just that there are a little too many people."

The boss didn't understand what Chen Ming meant at once and asked: "What do you mean by a little too many people?"

"Well... I just brought The entire pirate ship was brought back, with about 30 people on board, all alive. ”

“?”

The boss on the other end of the phone was even more confused and asked: "What did you do?"

"It's a trick, and I have some skills. Not only is their spaceship under my control. . . "

"The pirate leader now thinks that I'm looking for him because you want him to do something special, and thinks that I brought him here to discuss something serious."

As Chen Ming said, he sent the photos taken by the Iron Ore of the Mule-class in the internal environment of the galaxy where the pirate space station is located.

Looking at the lonely Mule-class ship in the photo, the boss couldn't help but praise: "You can do it. Tell me how you fooled people like this when you have time."

Chen Ming didn't wait, and said directly on the phone: "Beat him up and break his legs first, then tell him that I could have killed you but didn't, which shows that I am very special to you. Finally, connect his legs, and he will believe what I say."

"..."

The boss was silent for a moment and changed the topic that sounded a bit wrong: "Let's not talk about this. When the time comes, you can go directly to the patrol team's dock to enter the space station. Tell me the type of ship and I will let you go."

"Wasn't that dock dismantled last time? Has it been repaired?"

"Not so fast, we just reconnected the broken part with a frame, and built a small thing inside that can temporarily stop the ship. You can just park the ship there, and I will arrange the rest."

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed, and suddenly remembered the Mule The cargo mounted on the sub-class said: "The batch of materials they robbed is now hanging outside, and some are on another cargo ship. Do you want me to wait a while..."

Before Chen Ming finished speaking, the boss said directly: "No, if you can take it, just take it."

"That batch of materials is used to supply small colonies. If it was robbed, the colony would have prepared a new batch of materials for transportation."

"There is no need to send this batch of materials over. It is useless for me to take it now. If you can take it, take it. If you can't take it, I will have someone send it to the repair factory for you. You can sell it to others or keep it for yourself."

"This is considered an extra thing, and it does not count with the other benefits I promised you before."

"Wait until I finish the things at hand, and I will come to you in two days."

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed again, and directly controlled the separation of the cargo hold mounted on the mule class through the panel, and handed it over to another mule class of his own.

Then Chen Ming followed the boss' instructions and took only the pirate Mule-class into the small temporary dock belonging to the patrol team in the space station.

The layout of the temporary dock looked a bit messy. Not only were there many combat ships docked, but there were also a lot of materials piled up to be used to repair the space arm later.

However, it seemed that an empty space was barely cleared here for the Mule-class to dock.

Chen Ming did not let the Iron Ore go down, but only controlled the Mule-class to land on it.

Then he saw several people near the Mule-class waving at his Iron Ore, which should be the people arranged by the boss.

Chen Ming opened the hatch of the Mule-class and returned the control authority to the spacecraft itself.

The boss should have contacted the pirate leader in advance through the pirate communication code given by Chen Ming, following the nonsense that Chen Ming had said before.

The professional military ships around made the pirate leader believe Chen Ming's words, so the boss's people took most of the pirates on the ship away from the temporary dock smoothly.

There were still a few guards on the ship, and Chen Ming estimated that they would die first.

But this had nothing to do with him.

Chen Ming had to go somewhere else next.

The pirate's Mule-class ship could be left here, because the boss would never be interested in such things, and he could just come back to get them later.

Chen Ming quickly controlled the Iron Ore, and took the Centurion and another Mule-class ship into the open dock of the Space Arm No. 15 of the Space Station.

At the same time, Chen Ming was also checking the things that the Mule-class ship brought.

The Mule-class ship was equipped with three external cargo holds robbed by pirates, two destroyer-class ships, and one escort-class ship, plus the supplies in the cargo hold of Chen Ming's Mule-class ship itself, which was a considerable amount.

Basically, they are all kinds of daily necessities and packaged foods, and some supplies for spacecraft, which account for a relatively small proportion.

These things are basically worthless in the prosperous star field, but in the marginal star field, this amount can still be sold at a relatively good price.

Chen Ming originally planned to find a place to sell them, but he suddenly hesitated before he really planned to do so.

The image of Yuhui Colony flashed through his mind, and at the same time, he somehow associated it with the small colony related to the boss.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Ming suddenly didn't want to sell this batch of goods, so he simply stored them in the repair factory.

Anyway, the repair factory has a lot of extra space, so it’s not a big problem to temporarily store these supplies.

Although Chen Ming didn’t know what specific use he would have for keeping these things, he just wanted to keep them, always thinking that he might need them later.

This strange premonition was just like the panic he felt in the space arm before.

At that time, this premonition saved his life, and now this premonition is not so strong, but Chen Ming thinks it’s always right to believe it.

After parking the Centurion at the dock, Chen Ming continued to control the Iron Ore and the Mule to drive deep into the repair plant.

Through the special unloading equipment in the repair plant, the cargo in the several cargo holds mounted on the Mule and its own cargo hold were all removed and piled up in the open space on the side.

After the cargo was unloaded, Chen Ming suddenly felt that the fatigue accumulated during the day surged into his brain.

He had been repairing and dismantling ships since the afternoon, and the mental fatigue had begun to affect his thinking.

After all, the six frigates he dismantled were comparable to many destroyers in terms of size, and the mental energy consumption of dismantling a destroyer was twice that of completely modifying a destroyer.

So Chen Ming was not in a hurry to continue with the next thing, but went to the restaurant inside the space station and opened a private room to solve the problem of dinner.

Now that he has money, he must prepare something good for food.

After finishing the work, he returned to the Iron Ore and lay on the bed in the living cabin.

Before falling asleep, Chen Ming habitually began to think and summarize his situation today.

Doing so can help him find out the omissions and problems in his work, so as to avoid committing them again in the future.

Thinking about it, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the situation when he first came to the Pirate Space Station.

And his thoughts at that time.

Return to the prosperous star field with a new identity and start a new life.

Chen Ming seems to have been able to do this a long time ago, but this idea has faded a little for him now.

There are many reasons.

The most important thing is that Chen Ming's new life actually started when he set foot on the Pirate Space Station.

He never said that his new life must start from the prosperous star field.

It's just because Chen Ming was on Raymu before, which was not even a wilderness, but a pure primitive world.

So Chen Ming's first thought at the time was to return to the prosperous star field that he was familiar with in his memory.

But for Chen Ming now, staying in the marginal star field would be more comfortable than going to the prosperous star field.

After all, he couldn't accept that all the hard work he put into modifying the spacecraft during this period was scrapped.

He couldn't accept the situation that the human empire had completely banned the Yuhui AI core.

You should know that the management environment of the prosperous star field is much more stringent than that of the marginal star field. The patrol team patrolling in the galaxy may suddenly investigate any spacecraft at any time.

Chen Ming couldn't resist yet, so he could only passively accept their scanning. Once the problem was found, the AI ​​core in Chen Ming's hand would definitely not be saved.

The two AI cores are Chen Ming's most important helpers now. Without them, his ability in spacecraft would at least regress by half.

So Chen Ming thought it would be best to get an armed ship license first, to ensure that his identity was not just a civilian, and no one would come to check him out.

Only in this way could he have the basis to take the Yuhui AI core back.

And there are many ways to obtain an armed ship license, and there is even a way to climb up all the way.

This way can not only meet Chen Ming's needs to improve himself, but should also meet Chen Ming's idea of ​​taking the Yuhui AI core back.

Xinda Company has also been acquiring the Afterglow AI core. Since the official has not investigated them, there is no need to guess what it means.

Although Chen Ming is not sure whether this road can be taken, its existence does make him less willing to go back.

And if Chen Ming really chooses to return to the prosperous star field and stay away from the marginal star field.

Then he will lose the source of new Afterglow AI cores.

Many of his abilities to control spacecraft are not easy to play in the prosperous star field.

Just the point of contacting Afterglow's ship is basically impossible to do.

But for Chen Ming, he has deeply experienced the convenience of owning and controlling two Afterglow AI cores.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

It is impossible to really let Chen Ming give up the idea of ​​obtaining a new Yuhui AI core.

And it is not only Chen Ming's own idea, but also the limitations of the reality that force him to obtain a new AI core to a certain extent.

With the increase in the number of ships Chen Ming currently has, and the change in the types of ships.

It is not enough for a Refraction-class ship to carry three frigates.

After all, two Mule-class ships must at least occupy a stable control position of Chen Ming's spaceship. If two Mules are taken, then Chen Ming will not be able to control other spaceships.

Even if there are more ships, he can't take them out.

Even if the Refraction is really transformed into a mobile small dock, at most four spaceships can be parked in it stably, and some of the combat effectiveness of the Refraction will be lost.

So Chen Ming thought about it and simply delayed the transformation of the Refraction.

While ensuring his own combat capability, first solve the problem of the growing overall number of spaceships and the backward number of ship controls.

And the best way to solve this problem is to find Yuhui and let Yuhui's AI assist him in the control of his ships.

Chen Ming didn't expect to get the more advanced Beta core or even Alpha core that could control destroyers, but he had to get a few more Gamma-class AI cores, so that he could control all the spacecrafts he had.

Chen Ming had specifically asked Gamma A before whether there were any cases of afterglow individuals going to explore planets together.

Gamma A said that there were.

Then on the afterglow information exchange platform, those afterglow individuals who summoned similar afterglows to explore were the best targets for Chen Ming to capture.

It seemed that he would have to prepare a robot that could explore the planet and use the name of Gamma AB to sneak in and cause trouble.

And this robot could have another use.

It was to help Chen Ming deal with some work that he couldn't do personally at risk.

For example, recently, when controlling the pirate ship.

If Chen Ming had one or more powerful combat robots at that time.

After the pirate ship was paralyzed, he could directly jump on board and kill almost all the pirates. At least it could save Chen Ming a lot of time, plus a lot of nonsense with the pirate leader.

Chen Ming was already preparing to do the first thing, not only through the Xinda Company, but also through his own ability, both sides are going forward.

As for the second thing, Chen Ming will have to wait until he finishes what he needs to do now before he can have time to do it.

However, the preliminary preparations, such as preparing robots, can actually be done now.

It shouldn't take too much time to do it later.

Chen Ming gradually fell into a deep sleep while thinking constantly.

When he woke up, it was the next day.

The outside of the Iron Ore was already full of weapons that needed to be refurbished, which the factory director had sent over late at night.

After Chen Ming moved them onto the ship, it took five minutes to complete the batch repair of weapons.

After putting the refurbished goods back to their original positions, Chen Ming went straight to the side of the Mule-class that was parked in the repair shop yesterday.

He planned to repair and modify the Mule-class.

Because he had to transport people back as soon as possible at the Dark Cemetery, and because he had dismantled several ships before, Chen Ming didn't have the time and energy to do modification and repair.

So it can only be left until now.

Chen Ming opened the panel of the Mule class.

[Spaceship panel]

[Ship name: None]

[Type: Mule-class armed merchant ship]

[Radiation capacity: 0/600]

[Radiation dissipation: 50]

[Fuel reserve: 37%]

[Port side weapon: Light assault gun (small) * 2]

[Starboard side weapon: Light assault gun (small) * 2]

[Top weapon: Assault chain gun (medium)]

[Tail weapon: Vulcan point defense gun (small)]

[Armor: Titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Civilian customized destroyer engine]

[Built-in Cabins: Captain's cabin, engine cabin, bridge control cabin, weapon control cabin, living cabin*4, small cargo storage cabin*2]

[Important equipment: control system module (operating), landing module (operating), hyperspace channel system module (operating), imitation gravity module (operating), escort-level radiation energy system (operating), escort-level full-width shield module (operating)]

On the panel, Chen Ming immediately noticed the change in the weapon display, which appeared with the emergence of the disassembly function.

It looks more convenient, but it has little impact on Chen Ming.

Anyway, it is enough to open the panel with more detailed information when there is a problem.

And looking at the overall panel of this mule-class ship, Chen Ming feels that this is just an ordinary merchant ship that has been roughly modified by military forces.

The most obvious place of the ship's rough modification is its radiation energy system.

Although it is also a frigate-level radiation energy system, its radiation energy capacity and radiation energy dissipation are even worse than the Centurion with a relatively poor shield.

So much so that Chen Ming even wanted to directly dismantle this radiation energy system and replace it with a destroyer-level radiation energy system.

However, no matter how much he thought about it or complained about it, he still had to use this frigate-level radiation energy system.

After all, Chen Ming couldn't afford a more advanced radiation energy system at the moment.

So he should think about how to repair the Mule-class as much as possible.

And the transformation and modification of the ship has actually become Chen Ming's standard procedure before he officially uses the ship.

As for the final transformation direction of the ship, it is determined by its use.

The use of the Mule-class cargo ship is very simple.

Carrying cargo.

A 120-meter Mule-class ship has two small cargo storage compartments on its hull.

Although it sounds small, the actual capacity of this special small cargo storage compartment is as large as 30*30*30.

The interior is divided into three layers, upper, middle and lower. The capacity of the first layer alone is dozens of times larger than that of the 5*5*5 storage compartment of the Iron Ore.

Moreover, the size of the Iron Ore at the beginning was 33 meters long, 15 meters wide and 7 meters high, and it was even smaller after the transformation.

In other words, six Iron Ores can be directly stuffed into this complete cargo hold.

The actual amount that can be carried is more than that of the larger Refraction Class.

But think about it, after all, one is an electromagnetic ship for auxiliary combat, with a large number of electromagnetic or other types of equipment loaded inside.

And the other is a special cargo ship, it would be strange if it could exceed it.

Then in this case, Chen Ming's choice of transformation for the Mule Class has actually been determined.

If it is based on the content displayed on the panel, it is a few additional [expanded cargo compartments].

By removing the cabins that are redundant for Chen Ming, such as the captain's cabin and the living cabin, even the bridge control cabin and the weapon control cabin can be removed.

Separate the equipment inside and place them in the corners of the hull, saving a lot of space in exchange for a larger cargo capacity.

Chen Ming is not worried at all that he may not be able to use it in the future. After all, with Chen Ming's disassembly ability, as long as he can touch other people's spaceships, there is no chance that he will not be able to fill the storage compartment.

Of course, to modify the spaceship on such a scale, the engine must also be modified in a matching way.

So Chen Ming took out the professional book of Lude that was updated thirty years later.

Although after Chen Ming knew what Lude's left path was, he found that the content of the book seemed to be a little deleted.

But there are still many useful technologies on it.

For example, the modification technology of the engine used by the self-destructing ship can definitely be adapted to the mule-class with more cargo compartments.

In addition, there are many technologies in the Lude technical book that exchange certain risks for more powerful performance of the spaceship, and Chen Ming is also very happy to learn.

After all, Chen Ming often does not need to take that risk personally.

After thinking about the modification plan, Chen Ming directly began to operate various large-scale maintenance equipment in the repair shop.

Although he was not able to use the panel in the repair shop, he could still use the engineering equipment in the repair shop at will.

Chen Ming was not without experience in using these equipment, so it was not too difficult to modify them.

In addition, there were several cargo holds unloaded by pirates from the caravan that could be used as a base, so the modification of [expanded cargo hold] did not take Chen Ming too much time.

On the contrary, the [reinforced bulkhead] that Chen Ming prepared to modify in order to enhance the survivability of the Mule Class, and his favorite [heavy armor], these two modifications took him a lot of effort.

Although the finished product still needed a few days to complete, Chen Ming had already drawn the entire Mule Class on the design drawing in advance.

The Mule Class, which originally had a more layered design, became a lot fatter in Chen Ming's design, but its maneuverability did not decrease but increased.

After all, this [flame drive] belonging to Lude Technology was at least paid for at the cost of the unstable temperature control system inside the spacecraft.

At this point, the transformation ideas of the Mule class have been completely planned.

Once the ideas are planned, then the rest is just mechanical labor.

Therefore, during the few days it takes to actually transform the Mule class, Chen Ming is still thinking about the modification plan for another ship.

Although he left a lot of materials in the dark cemetery, there are still many ordinary materials in the remaining materials that cannot be used up.

So Chen Ming thought about completely transforming a spaceship based on the ideas of Lude technology.

Transform a self-destructing ship belonging to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming never had this idea before.

But after seeing Lude's self-destructing ship, Chen Ming suddenly found that Lude technology is very suitable for him in many cases.

Spaceships that do not require human control can undergo quite a lot of dangerous transformations.

This naturally includes self-destructing spaceships.

And as for the self-destructing ship, he only needs to figure out how to detonate all the fuel stored in different locations inside the ship at once, and how to maximize the power of the explosion.

The rest of the technology for the self-destructing ship is in Lude's technical book.

However, it is a bit of a loss to buy a fuel ship to modify it just to try this idea.

So the object that Chen Ming is going to transform into a self-destructing ship is the Sentinel-class ship that is gathering dust in the repair shop.

After the mule is modified, it will be the Sentinel's turn.