Ten minutes later, a small ship docked towards Sam's cargo ship, and after the two ships were connected, a lame one-eyed old man with brown-red hair walked up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as he entered the cargo hold, he slapped his hand in front of his nose: "Sam, your ship is still as stinky as ever, you should really find a woman." ”

Sam smiled, not annoyed, nor distinguished, pulled Zhang Yuan and said: "This is Zhang Yuan, a native of the Crimson Empire, who was smuggled in the academy, don't look at his young age, but his level is this." ”

Sam gave a thumbs up, turned to Zhang Yuan and said, "This is Horton, he found someone to help repair my spaceship, call uncle." ”

"Hello uncle."

Horton looked Zhang Yuan up and down, a little puzzled: "I'm a little younger, and I don't look a little reliable, Sam, don't you fool me?" ”

"Am I that kind of person? Do you want it? Don't you want me to recommend me to Michael's repair company? ”

As soon as he heard this, Horton immediately glared: "You dare!" Of course I want it! Come with me, young man. ”

Horton also has his own abacus in his heart, this young man looks very stable, very spiritual, should be a smart and clever person, even if it can't be now, but give him more practice, it will definitely not be bad.

Sam also began to say good things for Holden: "Don't look at Holden is fierce, but it was made by a three-eyed white badger, he is a good man, you follow him, he will not treat you badly." ”

Zhang Yuan naturally would not object, this was the first step for him to integrate into the Aum Empire: "I will do a good job." ”

He turned to Sam and bowed, "Thank you, uncle." ”

Then he walked up to Horton, and his action made Horton feel a little good: "Yes, the young man still knows some politeness, come with me, I'll take you to the workshop in the city, and then you let me see what you're capable of." ”

"No problem, you test me, I will not let you down." Zhang Yuan looked confident.

Horton laughed out loud and patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder: "Haha, I just like a young and vigorous young man like you"

The two entered Horton's small spaceship, and after the small spaceship was activated, they flew all the way to the surface of the planet Dalimon.

Zhang Yuan asked strangely: "Uncle Horton, aren't you doing spaceship maintenance?" How cost-effective is it to maintain the dockyard on the ground? ”

A large spacecraft taking off and landing in the planet's gravitational sphere once consumes a lot of energy, which is an additional cost from a commercial point of view, and it really makes sense to build a dock in outer space and repair it directly in space.

Horton smiled: "How much money can you make from spaceship maintenance?" Sam is my friend, so I did me a favor, in fact, my main business is mecha maintenance, and those mercenaries are the most willing to spend money. The beast tide is coming, and business is even better. ”

Zhang Yuan said in a timely manner: "Is the mecha repaired?" That's great, I'm majoring in mechs at the academy. ”

Horton laughed: "Oh haha, that's better, haha!" ”

Soon, the spaceship rushed into the atmosphere and flew towards the artificial city known as the Darimon Light.

The altitude of the spaceship decreased rapidly, until it reached an altitude of 40,000 meters, Zhang Yuan suddenly saw a sudden explosion on the crimson plain outside the artificial city, a dazzling flash of light, followed by a mushroom cloud flying from the ground.

Looking at the location, it is just over 100 kilometers away from the city.

Zhang Yuan was surprised to see that such a flash can usually only be exploded by nuclear weapons, he pointed to the flash and asked, "What's wrong with that?" ”

There was no surprise on Horton's face at all, he seemed to be accustomed to this, and said flatly: "It's a small cold fusion tactical nuclear bomb, this thing is powerful, and it can blow up the energy beasts outside the city, either to break the rear or to die together." Don't be surprised, a few rounds come every day on the plains outside the city, and it's not unusual. ”

"Energy Beasts?" Zhang Yuan grabbed another word that Uncle Sam didn't explain clearly.

"Most of them are hatchlings of space monsters, a small number of monsters escaped from the lab, and some are hybrids of lab and space monsters. These things can directly absorb energy, which is very powerful, but they are all good things, and they can be sold for a good price. This beast tide, the Mondel family is going to make money again. ”

Zhang Yuan asked again: "How powerful?" ”

Horton looked at Zhang Yuan and said with a smile: "Why do you ask so many questions from an engineer?" Why, you also want to make money like this with a belt on your head? ”

"I'm just curious."

Horton shook his head, a glimmer of memory in one eye: "There are many kinds of energy beasts, some strong and some weak. Most of the energy beasts on the planet Darimon can be dealt with with ordinary level mechas. The strongest attack power will not exceed the upper stage of the berserk, so as long as the berserk level mecha warrior does not take the initiative to seek death, he can freely travel on the planet Dalimon, but this is none of our civilians' business, we can't get the berserk mecha, and even if we get the city lord, they won't let you drive it. ”

"Oh~" Zhang Yuan secretly sighed in his heart about the monopoly of force in the starlit land.

As he spoke, the small spacecraft had already arrived at the docking platform on the outskirts of Dalimon City, and the spacecraft entered the city from a one-way force field membrane, and flew for more than ten minutes on the expressway extending in all directions in the city, and finally stopped at the docking port at the mouth of a street at the far edge of the city.

"This is the mecha street, and the whole street is a mecha business. Let's go, boy, and keep up with me, and don't get lost. ”

Zhang Yuan followed closely behind Horton and walked along the street, which was very spacious and long, more than 50 meters wide and at least five kilometers long, and there were many mecha walking around on the road. At the end of the street is the transparent façade of the city, with a large crimson plain.

Zhang Yuan took a look and found that most of these mecha were ordinary level mechas, a small part were elite level, most of the mecha surfaces were mottled, and obvious damage could be seen on the surface of many mechas.

"My shop is there, see...... It's not there, it's Mike's bastard's shop. Mine is the one next to it, and the sign is Freedom Fighters. ”

Zhang Yuan looked over, next to a mecha shop with a shiny signboard, he saw a small single-door storefront that could not be smaller, and a piece of dilapidated composite material hung on the door, and the material was written in crooked four Aum Empire characters: 'Freedom Fighters'.

Sensing Zhang Yuan's surprise, Horton touched his hair and said slightly embarrassedly: "I admit that the store is a little small, but this thing is just a façade, and the mercenaries don't value this, so there is no need to be too gorgeous." The place where you guys really work is in the backyard, and I'll take you there. ”

Horton took Zhang Yuan into the mecha shop, there was a wooden cabinet in the narrow shop, and there were some messy mecha parts piled up next to the cabinet, and a listless young man standing behind the cabinet looked up, called out to the boss, glanced at Zhang Yuan with a pair of blank eyes, and then lowered his head again.

"Spirit point, is anyone going to order a mecha today?"

"One came in the morning, went around, and finally went to Mike's shop."

"Mike, bastard." Horton cursed hatefully, and took Zhang Yuan into the backyard.

The backyard is a warehouse, the area is quite large, there are more than 300 square meters, in the middle of the shop there is a dismantled mecha, Zhang Yuan recognized this is a very popular ordinary long-range attack mecha in the Aum Empire 'Elf Shooter', in the four walls of the room are placed 6 3D printers, there are some special steel piles in the corner, and some old mecha parts and tools are scattered on the ground.

There were 3 young people working in the warehouse, 2 men and 1 woman, all busy operating the printer, and when they heard the movement behind them, they only turned their heads to look at them and turned back, not even curious.

Horton pointed to an old 3D printer and asked Zhang Yuan, "Thunderbolt printer, do you know how to use it?" ”

Zhang Yuan carefully observed this model of printer, and at the same time flipped through the memories in his mind, and said: "When I was in the academy, I used the three models of Flame, Creation Furnace, and Blacksmith Table, and I never used thunder and lightning, but I have studied the operation of thunder and lightning on the virtual network, and I am familiar with it. ”

Thunderbolt printer is a very backward printer type, it has long been eliminated by the mainstream society, its smallest printing unit is 123 nanometers, and the stability is also very average, Zhang Yuan has never practiced this thing, so he didn't say anything to death.

Horton frowned slightly when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he raised his voice and shouted: "I have a half-skilled hand here, who will take it down from you?" Before he left the school, half of the money he earned went to you. ”

No one answered, and the three of them were busy with the things at hand, all sweating like rain.

Houghton shouted again, and only then did a half-shaved blond young man speak: "Old lame, what a half-skilled hand, at his age, he is completely here to be an apprentice." We're all as busy as dogs at this time, who has the time to teach apprentices? ”

Horton smiled on his face: "Derek, this young man's spaceship is very well repaired, he helped Sam repair the spaceship, I have seen it, the repair is quite good, and he has mechanical skills." ”

"A spaceship is a spaceship, and a mech is a mech. The kind of stupid and black stuff that the spaceship can be repaired by everyone. The mecha can't do it, this one part parameter is wrong, and the machine will destroy and kill people, so it's a sign smashing...... Don't talk about it, I'm too busy, and that elf shooter will be shipped the day after tomorrow. The blonde young man, Derek, turned around and continued to operate the printer.

When Derek spoke, the other three didn't say a word, and they didn't even blink their eyes.

Horton's face was a little unbearable, he looked left and right, and shouted to the female technician: "Lin Ke, he is under your control, and before he left the school, 60% of his income belonged to you." ”

The female technician who was called Lin Ke turned her head, and her freckled face was full of grievances: "Old blind, why do you come to me whenever you have trouble, see that I am a bully, right?" ”

Horton suddenly smiled on his face: "Hey, good niece, you should do me a favor, your father and I were also comrades-in-arms back then, and I was still your uncle." You see, there are 6 printers in the store, just 3 masters, but they can't be used, this guy is very good, really, I don't lie to you. ”

"100% of the income belongs to me, and I will take care of this kid's food and shelter." Lin Ke opened his mouth.

Horton looked at Zhang Yuan: "Young man, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Yuan didn't think so, he didn't want to be an apprentice for some reason, he had been observing the operation of these three engineers just now, and it was average, far worse than Yu Linglong, even worse than him, and it was estimated that he could only build ordinary mecha parts.

He watched it for so many minutes, and he didn't look at it in vain, he basically understood the specific operation details of the thunderbolt, combined with the mechanical heart and the memory in his mind, he already had the bottom in his heart.

After thinking about it, he said, "Uncle Houghton, I'm just a little handy, just practice a few more times." Do you think if that's the case, I'll operate this thunderbolt first and print a part? ”

Horton was stunned: "Didn't you say you hadn't operated it?" ”

"But I know how to operate, and when you are talking, I also see that they operate it, and the principle is similar to that of these printers."

Derek laughed when he heard this: "Come on, young man, don't be reckless, although this thunderbolt is old, it is worth 30,000 star shields, and you can't afford to pay for it." ”

Horton didn't rush to deny it, he looked at Zhang Yuan and said, "Are you sure?" ”

If it were another sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, he would definitely oppose it directly, but this young man in front of him was a little different, he looked much more stable than his peers.

"No problem."

"That's good. Lin Ke, you put down the things at hand first, and come over to help me take a look, so as not to really break the printer. ”

Lin Ke was very dissatisfied and muttered: "It's me again, it's a waste of time." ”

Having said that, she walked over anyway.