"Joan!?"

David's reminder brought Li Qiong's divergent thoughts back to the present, she cleared her throat to relieve the embarrassment, and then said to the second mate, Nick: "The letter of intent for the complete renovation of the Constantine still lacks your signature. ”

"Completely refurbished?"

"That's right! Before the ship was torn apart, there was at least one complete overhaul. ”

David helped: "Li Qiong said this, the problem must be very serious, her professional skills, Captain Victor is full of praise." ”

Nick glanced at David and said earnestly, "Both, I've been on the big bottle longer than both of you, and it's much cheaper to overhaul this old spaceship and appease a few widows, that's the truth that the company agrees with." ”

The four of them got on the elevator, and Nick used the classic violent means in European and American films and television to solve the problem of poor internal contact in the control panel, and continued while taking advantage of the time to take the elevator: "Besides, the scar is the merit of a ship, and it is a badge of experience, do you know what I mean?" ”

Li Qiong said: "Are you saying that ignoring safety issues and letting the people working in the port area of the Alpha Space Station witness this pile of rags go out and drive back again and again, so as to write a legend comparable to that of the Mayflower?" ”

Xu Changqing interjected: "What Nick means is that instead of struggling with the plan that the company is unwilling to pass, it is better to hold this pile of rags and dangle in front of the company, so that even those who do the office have no conscience, they have to relax each material supplement application to appease people." In this way, not only your mechanic team can make some extra money, but other departments can also benefit somewhat. ”

Nick echoed with a smile: "Believe me, if you really want to overhaul it, it's not the turn of the machine repair team to intervene, the Alpha space station has this kind of work, not to mention how to repair it, the price is absolutely low, everyone has no reason to enjoy leniency, and you will have an opinion." ”

Li Qiong is not stupid, and immediately realized that some people in the mechanic repair team, including David, pushed her to propose a plan, but it was not out of public interest, but they used her as a gunman, and they didn't know what kind of interests were planned behind it.

She glanced at David, who scratched the back of his head with an incomprehensible smile.

Xu Changqing looked at this scene and felt bored. Intrigues triggered by interests occur everywhere in human society, including on this ship.

On the one hand, in order to make a little more money, the crew doesn't mind letting the safety drop a few more percentage points; On the other hand, it is also a kind of helplessness, and when the capitalists wield the sharp blade of exploitation, there is never a human touch to speak of.

Some people will say that when people start charity, the scale is also quite large.

In fact, that kind of large amount of charitable investment, even if it is not for tax avoidance, is also in the dotting, welfare, and charity employees, often the relatives of some targets who need to be bribed, and the real spending on charity is never too much, and there are too many tricks inside, and there are many shady scenes, which are not the flat information channels and most of the information that can only be seen by hearsay.

The renovation plan came to an end, and after the elevator stopped, Li Qiong and David parted ways with the two, Nick was going to the driver's hall, and Xu Changqing was going to the infirmary, and the two could still stop by the way.

On the way, Nick mentioned to Xu Changqing about the depression of the first mate.

Xu Changqing coped with a few words, and the two separated.

There's not much to say about Wayne's injuries, not only is the severed limb part missing, but also the problem of frostbite necrosis. An upward amputation is inevitable.

The medical equipment is advanced enough, local anesthesia, and after cutting, it is packed with nano bandages, and the wound cell tissue is directly sealed and repaired, and there is no continuous pain.

The amputated limbs, together with the lower legs that were previously smashed by ice cubes, are put into a special petri dish for repair, mainly to repair the cell wall that has been punctured due to freezing, this process is somewhat slow but not laborious, and the future prosthetic limbs will also rely on it to repair the broken parts, and then complete the active connection, which is essentially different from the modern metal prosthetics in the origin world, which can be regarded as a benefit of advanced biotechnology.

As a medical officer on board, Zahid usually deals with the most professional problems in fact, electrotherapy and psychotherapy.

Electrotherapy stimulates the muscles of the human body through long needles with electricity, and it exists to assist muscle training, the reason is naturally the need to maintain physical fitness in low gravity.

This kind of thing that looks like an acupuncture method, but in fact it is not like that at all, Xu Changqing naturally has to complain secretly.

Psychotherapy needless to say, most people who need psychotherapy, in addition to not being good at self-regulating emotions, the most important thing is the lack of good listeners, no one can let him talk freely, over time, it will be depressed into depression, and if it is more serious, there will be insomnia, and even auditory hallucinations, and then it will not be far from playing to break down.

Zahid used to behave very ordinarily professionally, even teasing female patients, not for the sake of a shot, but for his bad taste and relaxation methods of self-decompression.

Xu Changqing doesn't have these problems, professional work is easy for him, although those alloy long needles are not as good as the gold needles refined by the fairy way, they can also be used, he has always been fast and accurate in the needle, not productive, once in place, I don't dare to be any part, even if it is on the head, a few inches long A section is pierced along the bone seam.

This kind of scene always makes the medical assistant who assists on the side be careful, and in his eyes, Xu Changqing is simply killing someone. It's a pity that not a single case of injury or death happened, on the contrary, the effect was just right, the crew became able to eat, sleep and love to exercise, and if they didn't exercise for a day, they felt like they were rusty.

The psychotherapy aspect is also simple. Xu Changqing is not interested in listening to these guys pour bitter water, and he is not interested in mastering their privacy secrets, and directly uses hypnotic techniques to hypnotize, often after a strange and absurd long dream, his psychological state will be greatly improved, and many people are amazed by this, even the captain heard the wind and ran to relieve pressure, and the result was naturally extremely satisfied.

After a period of lackluster days, Constantine returned to the Alpha space station, followed by a two-week paid vacation.

For people like Xu Changqing, who love to do things, these two weeks are the real busy period.

He first returned to the rented house, picked up all his personal belongings, and then jumped up and down to carry out the operation, such as bribes, to make a complete exchange for the medicine and equipment on the ship.

This exchange not only filled the original hole, but also made a lot of foreign money, so that the person who accepted the bribe half-jokingly said: "The next time you sail, are you going to rely on your mouth all the way to appease up and down, so that the crew can survive smoothly for a few months?" ”

"Don't worry, I learned a few things from psychics, and it turned out to be very effective."

"The doctor is a part-time god, you are not reassuring me, but worrying me."

"The formalities are complete, there are no loopholes, and if something goes wrong, it's just that I'm being put in a body bag and launched into space, Ann!"

Together with the pawn luxury goods, and counting the savings, the purse finally seems to be a little bulging, and the money can barely support him to carry out a series of luxury hobbies.

The first is the spacesuit.

The spacesuits of this era are uneven, with some bloated spacesuits similar to those of the Origin World, which look stupid and stupid like mascots.

The good ones are the power armor suits. Of course, it cannot be compared with the fourth era of the polar world, this era has not yet solved the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion, and the packaging technology of high-energy batteries is not very good.

In Xu Changqing's eyes, the power armor suit of this era is more like adding an exoskeleton system to the Milan armor of the peak era of cold weapons.

People with more strength can win in a wrist wrestler, and you can imagine how high the output of such a power armor suit is.

Due to the constraints of the law, he can't get the super energy source of Energy Treasure and the like, and his status and wealth don't allow him to play high-end handmade DIY sets, so his relevant choice is black market smuggled goods.

The space suit made of polymer material, which looks like a wet diving suit, has unique features in the glove part and helmet, and is the standard equipment of the Space Special Legion of the Earth-Moon Federation.

You have to buy it if it's expensive, and in comparison, the ones used on the Constantine are simply typical cannon fodder suits, with poor performance and not fitting enough. He doesn't care what kind of mentality others have when facing this kind of problem, he is desperate for his life anyway.

After buying a spacesuit, he bought a batch of materials, and then built a set of full-body armor for himself with the help of some equipment from a private ship modification factory.

In other words, he used the close-fitting spacesuit as a lining armor, relying on this set of full-body armor to improve protection. As for almost 50 kilograms out of thin air, this is really a problem for Zahid in the past, not for him.

In terms of weapons, it is a pistol and two knives, one long and one short.

Along with the armor, these can be put on board in the name of decorative collectibles, and he is a Damascus steel suit in his own right, and it does look like it has the magnificent texture of Damascus steel, but those who are a little knowledgeable will find that the craftsmanship is not right at all, for example, the two knives are obviously the style of katana, and there is the manufacturing process of Tang knives in it.

To this end, Xu Changqing also specially ordered a light and sturdy long box, and packed the equipment in the form of parts, so that anyone who opens and inspects it will first be attracted by its elegant and gorgeous artistry, and dilute or even ignore its practical value.

For a person with a heart like him, these equipment alone are far from enough, knowledge and information are the first weapon, and he has never neglected to look for clues.

So during the break, he walked all over the streets of the Alpha space station with a pair of feet, just soaking in the Internet to grasp the information of this era, including the content of professional items such as ship knowledge.

His brain domain is highly developed enough, and his thinking efficiency is far higher than that of ordinary people, who may not be able to get the theoretical knowledge that others need in four years, and he can get an A+ evaluation in two days at most.

However, he did not make any good progress in finding variables, but only appreciated the daily life of people living in the asteroid belt in this era.

In Xu Changqing's view, the most interesting thing about this era is that Europe and the United States have finally won, at least within the scope of the Earth-Moon Federation.

Socialism is gone, capitalism dominates the world.

The Celestial Empire fell in a model similar to that of the Soviet Union at the beginning, kneeling and licking those traitors, leading the way party, and cents in Europe and the United States, ushering in the democracy and freedom they have been longing for, and then basically taking the province as a unit, it was dismembered into many pieces, several ethnic minority areas were independent, and the places where the Han people were dense were also separated from you, me and him, not only the river was divided, but the northeast and Sichuan also flew.

At the same time, some people did get what they wanted, and the vast majority got outright disappointment, just like the disappointment that the people of Libya and Syria overthrew their regimes, or even worse.

The new country, with its promises to its citizens as beautiful as it was written in the American Declaration of Independence, did not turn the country into America, but into Mexico, Brazil, Panama, etc., and everyone was not happy that everyone had the legal right to own a gun and defend their rights, on the contrary, situations like those in Juárez and El Salvador were happening every day.

Isn't it a kind of prince and general Xiangning, kill, kill hard, the super old boy series and the super Infernal Affairs series happen around everyone, you don't need to watch a movie, take a mobile phone to go shopping, there is a high probability of shooting wonderful shots, which is much more exaggerated than the film and television.

Corresponding to the Earth-Moon Federation, the main body of the Martian Republic is the original Celestial Empire. When they first migrated, they called themselves a long march in the space age.

In comparison, it is indeed difficult and difficult. Moreover, the land plot of the people of the Celestial Empire is very heavy, and it is really a lot of work to be uprooted from their homeland and reborn in a foreign land, not only materially, but also spiritually.

Moreover, as the leader of the Great Migration, this part of the Celestial Empire showed an open mind, and the leader said: "In the past, 56 people united and fraternized. Now, like-minded people are from 560 nationalities, and we can still be like brothers and sisters to create brilliance together. ”

So did it create brilliance?

(End of chapter)