My sampan can be upgraded

Old Man Grant was still sitting on the couch at the door smoking, with a pot of tea beside him. From time to time he would pick up the teapot and take a sip directly at the spout.

"Grandpa Grant, it's very humid at night, so lying outside is not good for your health!" Ling Qi reminded.

"Xiao Qi, have you seen the excitement? Grandpa is an old man. He has been through many ups and downs. He doesn't care about this little moisture!" Having said that, he still got up and pulled the recliner into the room.

"It's already late tonight, so don't fix things. Go back and rest early." The old man took the teapot from Ling Qi's hand and advised.

Ling Qi said that he was still very energetic and wanted to go in and find something useful. Catgirl had slept for a few hours in the afternoon, and she wasn't sleepy at this time, and she was full of energy and was following him.

"Then you can find it yourself, and close the door when you leave!" After the old man said that, he went to the small room where he lived.

Ling Qi pulled Cat Girl into the scrap station and turned on the lights skillfully.

This is a courtyard house of more than 200 square meters. In addition to the old man's small bedroom, there is also a small facade next to the main entrance. There are repaired second-hand items on the shelves inside.

Some items that were confirmed to be recycled as scrap were piled in the yard, while items that still had some salvage value were piled in the main house and side rooms.

There was a small backyard behind the main house. Ling Qi went straight here and looked at the small sampan placed in the corner.

"Xiaorou, please play next to me. Brother, please be busy for a while!" Ling Qi took a chair for Kitten Girl to sit on, then stepped forward and put her hands on the small sampan.

"The damaged sampan was found to have 28% damage to the main body, 35% damage to the anti-gravity energy matrix, 19% damage to the energy output line, 37% damage to the control system, missing thrusters, missing energy bins, and missing energy blocks. It belongs to an owner. It cannot be bound as a captain's vehicle."

The small sampan is three meters long, with an upturned head, a width of 1.5 meters at the widest point in the middle, and a width of about 1.2 meters at the tail.

This is similar to an open-top motorboat on the water. It has a simple control system. There is a windshield in front of the captain's seat, a steering wheel below, and four passenger seats in the back. Each seat has a small backrest, armrests, and safety belts.

The energy bin and two thrusters at the tail have been disassembled, making it even more impossible for the energy block to exist.

Ling Qi knew that according to the original setting, the captain's repair skill could be repaired by one more level if the damage was less than 40%. This showed that he could completely repair the sampan as long as he found the energy warehouse, energy blocks and Install the propeller.

But he knew that there were no damaged propellers and energy bins in the scrap yard. He needed to find another way to do this, or buy a second-hand one online.

He trotted out to find Grant and called through the door: "Grandpa Grant, can you give me the damaged sampan in the backyard? I can buy it with credits!"

"No need to buy it, just take it if you want it!" the old man responded in the room.

When Ling Qi returned to the backyard and reached out to touch the sampan, the prompt he received changed to a question about whether to bind it to the captain's car.

"Bind!" Ling Qi confirmed in his consciousness.

A ray of light that only Ling Qi could see circulated between Sampan and him. He sensed the connection between himself and Sampan. Sampan seemed to become a part of him, and the details and performance were completely presented in his mind.

"The captain's car is successfully bound. After binding, it can only be modified and upgraded, and cannot be changed. Important note: The ship will be destroyed if the ship is destroyed, so please treat your car well!..."

Ling Qi was so frightened that the ship was destroyed and everyone was killed. This was not in his original setting. He would have to be careful to protect the car in the future!

"Enable the captain's vehicle upgrade mode and awaken the only passive ship combat skill: Evolution (automatic modification and upgrade)."

"Evolution: The vehicle is continuously modified to improve local performance. When conditions are met, it can be transformed and upgraded to a higher-level vehicle to achieve overall performance improvements and physical changes."

"Acquire twenty cubic meters of shipboard space, which can be continuously expanded as the vehicle is upgraded. ..."

Ship combat skills are skills used when fighting with vehicles. This upgraded passive skill is a unified setting for all warships. Ling Qi was a little annoyed. He had known that he would travel through time like this, so he set up a few more passive skills that defy the heavens.

"Repair the energy output system first!" Ling Qi issued an order and activated the "Repair" skill.

The streamer on the sampan's energy output system flashed, and then a progress bar was displayed, quickly reading from 0 to 100%, and a prompt that the repair was successful: "The repair target is small, and the energy required can be output from the captain's body energy. The repair was successful." !”

Ling Qi felt a sense of emptiness in his body, and then realized that this kind of maintenance consumes energy, which was not clear in his original setting.

"In the future, try to carry out repairs on the hull, and use the ship's own energy output to supply maintenance needs." Ling Qi immediately figured out the trick.

The captain's space is ten cubic meters, and it does not care about the shape of the objects being stored, only the volume, and all objects are placed separately without clutter.

After cleaning up, Ling Qi loaded the small sampan into the captain's space. He thought that even if he could put the sampan into the captain's space, it would fill up the space. However, he found that after binding it as a vehicle, the sampan would not take up much space when it was put into the captain's space.

"Meow?"

Cat Girl had been watching Ling Qi's work quietly, and when she saw the sampan suddenly disappearing, she looked around with wide eyes in confusion.

"Shh!"

Ling Qi made a silence signal to her, and then she realized that her brother had taken it away, and her tail couldn't help but wag a few times.

Ling Qi checked the materials that might be used in the sampan, then rummaged through a lot and stored them in the shipboard space. He knew that when the ship was undergoing some major repairs and upgrades, a variety of raw materials would be needed.

Based on the quantity and price of materials collected, he transferred a credit to Grant.

After several experiences, he has figured out some clues. Owner's items cannot be used in the car without purchase or permission.

By the time all this was done, an hour had passed. Ling Qi saw that the lights in Grant's room had been turned off. Knowing that he was resting, Ling Qi did not disturb him. After turning off the door light of the scrapyard, he took Catgirl home.

It was about a kilometer from the scrap station to the small wooden house where he lived. Further in, there was the center of the town, where some wealthy families had large estates.

Minglan Star is a new star of remote immigrants, with a primitive landscape and a backward economy, but the technology in this world is very advanced, the town's infrastructure is very good, the asphalt road is wide and flat, and the solar lamps on the lampposts on both sides illuminate the road brightly.

When Ling Qi passed by a restaurant, he took Cat Girl and had another late-night snack to make up for the consumption of using the maintenance skills just now. He also negotiated with the boss and packed up all the leftover food sold that day at a very low price, weighing at least thirty kilograms in his hand. After returning home, he put the food into the captain's space, where it would not go bad for a long time.

The wooden house they rented is located among a group of wooden houses. It is a low-cost public rental housing. Of course, it is still a big burden for Ling Qi in the past.

Although it is only a small one-story house, the roof and walls are covered with solar photovoltaic panels. The town centrally collects and supplies energy, so the temperature in the house is very suitable and the basic living conditions are not bad.

"It's even infinitely better than the basement cubicle I lived in in my previous life when I was drifting to the north." Ling Qi suddenly had such an idea.

After they washed up, Kitten Girl went to bed first. Ling Qi raised her wrist and turned on the Internet function of the communicator. A virtual touch screen was projected in front of her, automatically detecting and adjusting the distance and orientation, always fifty centimeters in front of Ling Qi's eyes.

He started browsing online second-hand shops in some nearby counties.

After keyword search, a large amount of product information is listed below:

"Sampan specializes in second-hand energy warehouses, 70% new, with 60 standard units of energy blocks, 900 credit points, and delivery within the same city."

"Sampan specializes in second-hand energy warehouses, 50% new, with 90 standard unit energy blocks, 750 credit points, and delivery within the same city."

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"Sampan specializes in second-hand energy warehouses, 30% new, free 100 standard unit energy blocks, 500 credit points, and delivery within the same city."

Energy blocks are equivalent to super batteries, but they cannot be recharged by themselves and need to be recycled and operated by professional manufacturers. They are consumables. The energy warehouse is a device that extracts and outputs the energy from the energy block, such as an engine.

Energy blocks are only suitable for small facilities. Large things like spaceships and battleships require mid-to-high-level energy warehouses with their own charging devices and reactors.

Ling Qi decided to buy the 30% new one. Anyway, he could repair it if it was damaged, and he believed that the ship would be upgraded soon, so there was no need to buy something too good.

The price of an energy block is generally one credit point corresponding to two standard units of energy. For a sampan, one hundred standard units of energy can theoretically drive 10,000 kilometers without load. But as the weight increases and the energy output increases, it naturally won’t last that long.

After Ling Qi placed the order, the store owner said that the distance was only more than a hundred kilometers away, and he could immediately arrange for someone to drive a sampan to deliver the goods. The goods would arrive in two hours at most. He asked him if there was anything he needed to buy on the way.

Ling Qi was stunned. The service is so good? It's already ten o'clock now. It must be around twelve o'clock when we get here. Most people go to bed early. But since the other party is so active, it's hard for him to hit him.

"I need two second-hand propellers for sampans, even slightly damaged ones. I can repair them myself!"

"There are no sampans, but I happen to have two sets of air speedboats. They are 20% new. The maximum speed output is 2.5 times that of the sampan. They can be retrofitted to the sampan. The conscience price is 1,900 credits. Do you want them?"

"Yes, give me a link!" Ling Qi took action decisively.

The top speed of the sampan is only about 80 kilometers per hour, but the air speedboat can reach 200 kilometers. The sampan is modified to be so high-speed that it is not useful under normal circumstances because the wind resistance is too great, but it is very important when you encounter a crisis and use it to escape.

Place an order and pay in advance. The three thousand credits I just bought have almost bottomed out, and I am waiting for the other party to deliver the goods.

Ling Qi glanced at Cat Girl and saw that she was already asleep, so she opened the door gently and walked out of the room, locked the door again, and checked the surroundings carefully.

That guy Ling Fei will definitely start to cause trouble tonight. There has been no movement yet, and he probably won't come until later at night. He returned to his room to figure out how to further modify his car.

"After the repair is completed, the system should prompt the requirements for the upgrade." Ling Qi thought for a while and simply gave up thinking. It would not make much sense to modify such a basic car.

Two hours later, the purchased goods were delivered to the coordinates reserved by Ling Qi, and Ling Fei and others had not come to trouble yet. Ling Qi receives the goods and confirms payment.

After he noticed that there was nothing unusual around him, he moved his things back into the house, cleared a space, and then eagerly took out the sampan.

"We found the secondary thruster, are you equipped with it?"

"We found the secondary thruster, are you equipped with it?"

"We found the sampan energy warehouse. Is it equipped?"

"I found the Sampan energy block. Do you want to equip it?"