Chapter 10: Profiteers
The data engineer has an incomparable advantage in collecting information, Chen Fang uses a virtual network to consult a huge amount of data overnight, official, unofficial, public, and confidential, all of which are transmitted to his data terminal in digital form, and then, he sends out thousands of emails in one breath at lightning speed.
After all this was done, only waiting for good news, Chen Fang came to the place where the maintenance mecha was, he met the maintenance master last time, a large-scale task, representing a large business, and the old man was very busy.
"Is that you?" Chen Fang was a little surprised, this old man's original position was in the Mecha Association.
"Why can't it be me? The battle situation here is urgent, and the new hands are too busy, so I asked to be transferred to help. The old man was an acquaintance, and he coped with it in his busy schedule.
"Oh, I'm going to buy a mech." Chen Fang seemed to have an understanding.
"Oh, it's you, where is your wolf? Hung up? Still can't work? "I don't know why, when I saw Chen Fang, the old man actually rose to gloat, and deliberately put down the work he was doing, just to appreciate Chen Fang's face, maybe he thought that people who modified mecha indiscriminately should have this reward.
"That's not true, I just want to install another one." Choosing different mecha for different tasks seemed normal to Chen Fang, but the eyes of others widened.
"Whatever, what strange combination are you going to make this time?" The old man became interested in a blink of an eye, and began to do his job again, causing the waiting people to be helpless for a while, but they did not dare to speak out to offend him.
"Well, let me see it first, okay?" In his impression, Chen Fang couldn't think of a proper mecha, so he could only choose accessories as much as possible this time.
"Look at it as you like." The old man was surprisingly calm.
After entering the identity code, the screen immediately lists a huge menu, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of choices, just looking at the parameters of these parts is a huge project, ordinary people must be dazzled, let alone select.
The modification master is a different matter, in their opinion, in addition to chicken ribs and garbage, there are not many practical choices, Chen Fang, who is extremely sensitive to numbers, found the difference at the first time, and asked: "It seems that there are thirteen more options than last time." ”
The old man took the opportunity to sarcastically say: "The eyesight is not bad, there is a new type of mecha, and the remaining twelve options are due to the fact that you have accumulated merit points, and good accessories need merit points to buy, and your merit value was zero last time, so the system does not show it, as your merit value increases, and you upgrade, the menu you see will become more and more huge, could it be that you don't even know this common sense?" ”
Chen Fang was speechless, quietly looked through the menu, the known types of mecha skimmed, and found two new types of mecha in the new menu, one is a bionic mecha called Black Widow, the appearance is similar to a spider, the height is less than nine meters, only three-quarters of the ordinary attack mecha, with good concealment, when this guy appears on the Hall star, maybe it will be regarded as the same kind by the Zerg.
The flaw is the lack of speed, and there is nothing to be done, but you can guess from this appearance that Black Widow is a long-range mecha.
The other is a reconnaissance mecha, six meters high, when he stands, he looks like a guy with a cat's waist, his eyes are designed on both sides of his head, and his body is covered with fish scale-like reflectors, and his image is extremely shrunk, and the name is appropriate, the fish man, because of the scales, it is not clear whether it has gills.
This type of mech is known for its stealth, speed, and hand-to-hand combat, even if it is a sneak attack.
Undoubtedly, as an option to add a menu, the performance and material of the fishman are much better than that of the wolf warrior, and it belongs to the standard mecha that civilians can't get their hands on, but unfortunately the appearance is really poor, so that Chen Fang is reluctant to take a second look, and even reflexively stops breathing, as if he can really smell the fishy smell.
"This is it." Chen Fang had already looked away and turned to picking the right engine.
"Don't have such a painful expression, what about the weapon, and want to load two more shotguns?" The old man seemed to be very happy to see Chen Fang's unhappiness, and asked with a smile, as a reconnaissance mecha, the original configuration of the fishman was two curved daggers, although the style was not good-looking, but it was unusually sharp, called cutting throat.
"The Eye of Sauron." Chen Fang still locked his eyes on the addition menu, although he didn't know what the reputation of this proton sniper was, just looking at the description felt very tempting.
"Boy, looks like I'm going to warn you, it's a powerful ranged weapon." The smug smile disappeared in an instant.
"I'm looking for ranged weapons, can't I?" Chen Fang was puzzled.
"I didn't say no! The Eye of Sauron is eight meters long and powerful, and it is intended for ranged mechs. You chose a reconnaissance mech, what are you doing with a sniper cannon? Can you still run with it on your shoulders? The old man blew his beard and glared at him, and the feeling of sullenness finally subsided.
"I like it." Chen Fang has the virtue of being angry and not paying for his life.
"For the sake of money, you can pretend if you say it, I'm too lazy to find leisure." The old man scolded angrily.
"I want the engine to be heavenly." Chen Fang stops rummaging through the menu, this engine has mediocre power, the advantage is that the running sound is small, the heat emitted is also low, and it is also very economical in crystal oil.
"Don't say I won't remind you, this engine can't bring the reconnaissance mecha, don't come to me to return it when the time comes." Professional habits made the old man remind again.
"I like it." The exact same answer made the old man angry, reminding him what to do, isn't this a crime? Think of him as a dignified mecha maintenance master, how nourishing his life is, making a lot of money, and being respected, what is the strength of a rookie? People can install it how they like.
After patiently listening to the request, the old man glanced at the display screen and suddenly laughed again. "Sorry, you don't have enough money in your account."
"Ahh Chen Fang was unexpected, with an embarrassed face, the original plan was to buy a mecha, join the mercenary, and spend a year, the money was more than enough, not to mention that there was always some income as a mercenary, and now to buy a second mecha, of course the money is not enough to spend.
"The last time I did the task, didn't I get a bonus?" With the ability of the data master, he instantly saw that the bonus had been added to the account, but not as much as he imagined, but unfortunately he did not have the ability to look at the balance as many zeros.
The old man got up from his seat excitedly, and said arrogantly: "Boy, it's not for me to teach you, if you do this and change the mecha back to the mission, how much money is not enough!" Do you know how much it costs to do a task? Crystal oil consumption, ammunition consumption, mecha maintenance, seeing that your virtue has not strengthened your physique, you have finished the bonus here, don't you need to learn skills? Don't you have to live? To be a mercenary, you must first learn to calculate the cost. ”
The words are not unreasonable, but it seems to be rushed, Chen Fang frowned, and asked, "Don't others change mecha when they do tasks?" ”
"At least not as diligent as you, to be honest, is the wolf warrior unusable? Take it out, I'll help you repair it, wouldn't it be nice to replace it with a weapon? You can save a lot of money, don't save face. It turned out that the old man was still worried about the wolf warrior, so he didn't believe that the strong mecha could still charge with two shotguns.
Of course, mercenaries don't often change mechas, but it's not entirely out of lack of money, usually every mercenary has a field to be good at, those who are good at strong mecha use strong mechas, and the main thing to play remote is to buy firearms.
"If you are really short of money, you might as well consider selling Wolf Warrior and buying this fish-man mecha, what do you think?" Listening to this suggestion, you can understand that the old man is determined to let Chen release his ugliness.
"What are you doing with your second-hand armor? Do you want to replace the old with the new, and take it out as a new mecha after refurbishment? Chen Fang was thoughtful.
The puzzled eyes made the old man jump like thunder: "You actually dare to doubt my Mengqi's professional ethics, who doesn't know that the Mercenary Association has a second-hand mobile phone armor business, do you sell wolf warriors or not?" Don't sell people. ”
"The Mercenary Association has a second-hand mobile armor deal, why didn't you tell me last time?" Chen Fang finally found the crux of the problem, the trade of second-hand mobile armor is strictly prohibited in the outside world, which is one of the privileges of the mercenary association, mainly considering the huge number of mercenaries and the staggering loss of mechas, selling each other can save a lot of money and reduce the financial burden of mercenaries.
"That's because you didn't ask me." The old man argued.
"So, what if I sell the Wolf Warrior to you and wait for the next time I want to use it?" Chen Fang was a little embarrassed.
"It's easy to do, you can buy it back as a second-hand mobile phone armor, if it hasn't been bought by someone else." There are some things that need not be said, and buying is not the selling price.
What is this called second-hand trading? This is clearly a pawn, as a mecha maintenance master, Meng Qi is taking advantage of the mercenaries' financial crisis to make a fortune, he came to the space station, of course, he is not here to help, he is here to make money.
At the same time, Chen Fang also opened his mouth, mercenaries do have to calculate the cost, and there is also that in this kind of place, if you don't learn to be smart, you will be deceived as a fool.
Helpless, in order to complete the task, you must replace the mecha, Chen Fang had no choice, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I will sell the wolf warrior, and you will calculate whether the money is enough." ”
"Of course it's enough." When it comes to the wolf warrior, the old man is like using ****, his eyes are bright, and money is not so important.
The state of the wolf warrior made him a little surprised, because the wolf warrior has not turned into scrap metal, it has obviously been used, except for some damage on the surface, there is nothing wrong, and Chen Fang's merit value shows that it has also completed a small task.
The old man couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and asked the apprentice to install the fish man.
"Wait." Chen Fang interrupted suddenly.
"What, changed your mind?" The old man asked with a smile.
Chen Fang asked seriously: "That's not true, I just want to ask if there are any second-hand accessories I just wanted." ”
The old man showed a sly smile: "Okay, boy, I learned quite quickly, there are no fishmen and Sauron's eyes, and there is one Tianrun engine, wait, I'll show it to you right away." ”
It was an antique machine, with an untreated dirty surface and a strange noise when it was running, as loud as the Thunder series engine that propelled the heavy mechs. Chen Fang immediately told the old man to let him keep it for himself.
The old man is still righteous, in addition to assembling a fish man for Chen Fang, he also has some surplus for him, and boldly allows him to remove the new seat, in fact, even if the seat is left in the wolf warrior, no one is willing to pay for it, of course, he will not forget to lose Chen Fang.
"Boy, hurry up and take a shower, buy a leather coat to change into, you are all moldy, and you can smell a bad smell from afar."
However, as soon as Chen let go, he immediately threw away the outside business, rushed to the operation room and shouted: "This kid is really stupid, he actually sold me ninety percent of the new wolf warriors, if I remember correctly, there is still a brand new original engine in the space in my chest, let's see if it's still there?" Quickly dismantle it and push the wolf outside to ensure that it is in demand. ”
"That, there is indeed an engine in the chest ~ chest ~ chest space, but it is not brand new, both engines are ninety percent new." The apprentice is an honest young relative, and when he is nervous, he speaks a little idiotically.
"What!" The old man was dumbfounded, not because he overpaid, but because he was puzzled, even if Chen Fang had the ability to replace the engine, he didn't need to change the engine when it was ninety percent new, not to mention, both engines were ninety percent new, could it be that he used two engines at the same time?
"Wait, don't tear it down yet, wait for me to come and see." The old man changed his usual laziness and jumped onto the console, and his movements were a little more agile than the cheetah.
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