Pan Wenqiang couldn't bear not to think about the money in his pocket, so he took his assistants and the appraiser to follow the blonde woman on the boat to look around.

Space warships are no different from civilian products, whether they are fighters or patrol ships, they must consider space radiation, pay attention to defense and power, and the range of personnel movement inside them is very small. Corvettes have a great advantage in this regard and have larger hangars, but the crew's activities outside of work are still limited to dormitories, canteens, and one or several relaxation cabins.

Once on the Seeker, the space occupied by weapons, protection, and energy systems is further reduced, and the integrity of the facilities inside is almost equivalent to that of a self-sufficient miniature city. 00863E has an independent library, a panoramic simulation scenic spot, a separate tavern and a coffee/tea house, etc., and a special prison, tactical simulation room, tactical training room, an independent internal management organization of the whole ship, and a fighter/mecha maintenance platform separate from the hangar.

After spending a few hours visiting, Pan Wen was left with one impression...... No matter how much you bargain, you can't seem to use this boat.

As far as the ship itself is concerned, the value of the warship mainly comes from its own direct combat effectiveness, armor and power system -- most of the valuable facilities are here, and the size of the hangar has little to do with the price, that is, the material and labor costs of the support structure and the mobile platform. This 00863E is an old ship, and the cruiser's larger combat cross-section and heavier mass make it more difficult to dodge at high speeds, and its price is likely to be not much more expensive than the Cam X-VI without a significant enhancement of the weapon system, and Pan Wen's Heavy Hammer only cost 22,000 Star Coins when he bought it at his house.

The problem is with the ship's members...... The current Pan Wen is simply sentenced to death. A light cruiser with many institutions, even if it does not carry any sub-ships, carries at least three hundred people according to the shift system, and the entire elite level will need a signing fee of more than 7,000 star coins, and it is impossible for Pan Wen to make up this money after taking the ship.

But even so, Pan Wen did not ask the appraisers to stop valuing the ship, in any case, 00863E also has two main guns, and when attacking at an ultra-long range, it is equivalent to the firepower of two frigates of the conventional model, and it will not be a loss to win.

Pan Wen and his assistants disembarked with the blonde and her two assistants, drinking tea and chatting in the corner of the dock, waiting for the results of the assessment.

Taking this opportunity, Pan Wen also learned about the god behind the blonde girl who could even sell the cruiser. This is a giant of pirates with a fleet of more than 10 million tons, and many targets that can be bluffed by momentum alone surrender and take prisoners. But everything has two sides, such a huge fleet needs to be maintained by people alone, there are too many ships sailing, and the fuel cost of a round-trip jump alone can top the price of a second-hand corvette, and it is difficult to get a complete ship if there is less. Therefore, the great pirate wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the player to disrupt the pirates and start to strengthen their forces, and adjust the structure of his fleet in order to greatly reduce the cost of maintaining the fleet.

Pan Wen can understand this mysterious pirate very well, and he can calculate it by looking at his own family, if this guy is dispatched by the whole fleet, the monthly supply cost will be close to 40,000 star coins, not counting the salaries of 10,000 crew members or something. High-value ships like Cam X-VI are not all over the place, and not every captain will choose to surrender, whether they can intercept ships with a total value exceeding the operating cost after wandering in space for more than 20 days is a problem, and what kind of business must be done to return to the cost!

Through him, Pan Wen can see his future, if you want to develop a fleet that will not be intimidated by players, it is impossible to do it without a piece of industry support. However, it is not easy for a pirate who has been bounty by many countries to have a long-term business, and if Karedati's thing does not work out, he can only find a collaborator to make a small extra money by making a shipyard in Segeis.

A bunch of people waited in the corner of the dock for another three hours, and in the middle of the process, they called a batch of takeaways to eat, and finally waited for the appraisers to finish their work.

Scardragon's appraisers are very good at doing things, and in the end, when Pan Wen is informed of the results, they deliberately avoid the blonde.

After getting the assessed figures, Pan Wen transferred half a star coin to each of the appraisers to let them go, and then returned to the corner and began to talk to the blonde girl. Half a star coin seems a bit shabby, and it is not a small amount of money as a hard fee for a few hours, mainly because Pan Wen himself does not have the habit of carrying mercury, the local currency of Segeis, and he uses a small tube to pay for public expenses such as taxi fares, and the tip expenditure is not very convenient.

"It's not easy to find a suitable buyer for such a large ship in a short period of time, I don't know what your psychological price is?" With the appraiser's offer, Pan Wen didn't rush to shout out, the money in his pocket is really a little less, so he can save a little.

"It's only been out of the factory for ten years, and I haven't had any structural repairs in five years, so it's a lot better than the retired things outside."

The blonde woman stuck to him and spoke directly in his ear, which made people very unaccustomed, but Pan Wen did not rudely push people away. He had contact before, and he knew that this girl was this kind of negotiation style, and even his body was part of the price.

Seeing Pan Wen nodding, the woman continued: "Lord Pan is an old customer of the family, and my lord hopes that you can also buy the boat in the future, so the price of it will definitely not disappoint you - 25,000 star coins, and everything that exists on the ship will not be taken down." ”

This price really surprised Pan Wen, and it was even 2,000 Star Coins lower than the lowest price given by the appraiser!

00863E seems to be the combat effectiveness of the two medium-sized frigates, and even because of the larger positive cross-section, the evasion ability is reduced, and in some cases, it may not be able to achieve the effect of the two medium-sized frigates fighting independently, but that does not mean that its price can be compared with the sum of the two second-hand frigates. Pan Wenming admitted that its price would not be much higher than that of the Heavy Hammer, because it was also a ship that had been used for several years, but he didn't expect the other party to give such a good price.

"What a surprising price, and it looks like I'm going to have to accept your kindness anyway. But you know I'm going to have to wait for the crew to come on board and inspect the ship before I complete the payment, and I don't want to end up with the deal for some reason. ”

The price is too low, Pan Wen is most worried about the fatal defects in any important equipment, fortunately, the second world is a data world, and the hidden dangers of the equipment can also be found out through professional crew testing, as long as he is not in a hurry, there will be no problems when he uses them.

"As long as you've signed the pre-order agreement, you can check it at any time you like. Of course, people don't want to continue to pay for the dock, so don't drag it too much. ”

The pre-purchase agreement was used when purchasing the Hammer, and this time Pan Wen asked the financial representatives to help confirm the terms of the agreement before signing the agreement and paying 30% of the advance payment.

"Lord Pan is really a noble person, next time you want to buy a boat, you have to be the first to think of my family."

"There's a chance."

The agreement has been signed, if nothing else, Pan Wen will have an unexpected cruiser in his hands!

Entrusting the blonde to send the missile patrol ship purchased earlier to the connection area near the Heavy Hammer, Pan Wen and his assistants got into an unmanned taxi and continued to move.

In the car, Pan Wen had a sad face.

25,000 Star Coins to buy a Cruiser is very cost-effective, but when all the loot is sold, and then the purchase fee is excluded, he will only have 3,800 Star Coins in his hand. It's enough to get a frigate crew, not to mention that the captain, first mate and other positions may need better personnel.

After thinking about it, Pan Wen canceled the next action, let the financial representatives move freely, and took the three sisters of Elsa to the museum in a car.

Spent five star coins to get a 404 shipyard information set, this 404 shipyard is of course the manufacturer of 00863E.

Naturally, the confidential information that can be left in the museum for a fee is not the same as the public shipyard brochure, which details the materials and workmanship standards of the 404 shipyard, the basic exploded view of classic ships, and the troubleshooting and maintenance of equipment configuration.

Pan Wen needed this information to calculate the minimum number of people required for 00863E to complete the combat maneuver - not just to fire, but to be able to choose a target to aim and fire. Of course, this work can be done back to the dock and on the ship, and the statistics of each department can be done, but the total length of the light channel inside that thing is more than 20 kilometers, and Pan Wen is afraid that he will not finish it until the meeting is done.

After going around the museum, before returning to the suite, Pan Wen had already considered the possible situation, and it was really impossible to reach the minimum configuration, so he first found a dock for the Kuroshio to be sealed, there were more than 120 crew members on it, and there were ready-made captains, and then dozens of crew members were enough to open 00863E, and there was still some money left to get the supply work done. Or take another way, and sell the fleet's existing patrol ships Allen-class and the missile patrol ships that have just arrived for sundries, and you can also make up nearly 4,000 star coins for turnover, and then have the opportunity to find a shipyard to build a missile patrol ship in the future.

With the bottom in his heart, Pan Wen was no longer entangled, and spent a night carefully studying the information of the 404 shipyard and counted a list of personnel. 115 people, which is the minimum number of people that can start the battle for 00863E, and aside from all the hangar technicians, non-essential crew, marines, and rotating personnel, there is only one radarman on duty in the control room when cruising at this number, and at most a first mate or captain can be added.

When the results came out, Pan Wen no longer hesitated, and directly contacted Scardragon in the port area early the next morning, asking him to ask his men to tow the Allen-class patrol ship in the Heavy Hammer hangar and sell it, and by the way, he sent a mass message to all the crew members of the Heavy Hammer to inform him of the situation, so as not to make a fuss about thinking that the sub-ship was stolen.

Watching Scarron's engineering ship tow away the Allen-class patrol ship from the observation window of the port, Pan Wen sighed and took the three sisters to the Friendly People Interaction Center.

Because the money was too scarce, and there were still a lot of them that had not been recorded for the time being, Pan Wen was worried that there would be some moths in the back, so he spent half a day hiring more than 40 technicians, so he notified the blonde girl and asked the technicians to get on the ship and start the whole ship inspection. It would take more than forty technicians to inspect a cruiser in detail, which also happened to leave time for Pan Wen's capital flow to turn around. Of course, these technicians are also elite-level, and the ordinary level crew Pan Wen never thought about it, although the basic technician and crew positions of the ordinary level are not much lower than the efficiency of the elite level, but the AI of those guys is really a bit low, and it is easy to divide the class and evolve into a small group of contradictions with the senior crew, maybe there will be no major internal conflicts, and it will also cause trouble to management, he is not willing to spend extra money to hire more management personnel who could have been omitted.

After taking care of the messy bits and pieces, it was finally the turn of the next trip and dialed the communication of Curly Bruckner:

"I'm back in Hong Kong, let's talk about the business you mentioned."