Galaxy.

Dawn Star Field.

The actual control area of the second-level alliance of the empire.

Blue Valley Galaxy.

Rust Star.

Blue Valley Eighth Abandoned Spaceship Disposal Site.

The gray-green sky is obscene and hazy, and it never stops.

A mountain of spaceship wreckage, covered in dark green moss, resembles a green forest.

Undertaking the continuous acid rain, the flowing water murmurs, forming a stream, constituting a landscape painting splashed with ink.

"Sting!"

The ridge suddenly burst open.

The cyan spirit arc flame flew away, accompanied by a series of high-energy particle radiation, and countless moss, dust, and rusty metal parts erupted, like a goddess scattering flowers, and a group of demons danced wildly.

One by one, the black soul devouring insects poked their heads out of the corners of the garbage mountains, looked around, and swarmed up.

Not far away, in the rain curtain, a half-human scavenger armor slowly walked towards the explosion......

At the same time, more than a dozen mutant wolves rushed over, because they found the figure of the scavenger armor, they didn't dare to step forward, stared at the armor, and let out a low roar like an engine idling.

This is the grave of a civilian psionic spaceship.

With the continuous expansion and development of advanced cultivation civilizations in the galaxy, psionic spaceships have long entered thousands of households and become an essential tool for ordinary people to travel and explore.

However, while spaceships bring convenience to ordinary people's lives, they also produce a large number of scrapped ship hulls, spiritual garbage, and high-energy radiation.

Most of the spaceships are hybrid engines of psionic energy and nuclear energy, and the wreckage of the spacecraft is still a radiation spirit, and the rune array that controls the engine is unstable for a long time, so there is a risk of radiation leakage and explosion.

Therefore, in the star system inhabited by humans, people will set up abandoned spaceship treatment plants on marginal planets, and then use poisonous rain, rust-eating fungi and soul eaters to slowly degrade the shipwreckage.

In addition, there is also a group of wanderers called [Interstellar Scavengers], driving dilapidated spaceships, roaming the edges of major star systems, scavenging for all psionic resources.

For the impoverished interstellar scavengers, there are many valuable parts or raw materials in the wreckage of a freshly discarded spaceship.

As a result, many waste picker ships will stay around the disposal site in advance, and rush up whenever they see a garbage boat coming......

He will even fight for the first-hand garbage, and once he dies, he will become a brand new garbage in the hands of the enemy.

In the era of interstellar end-of-the-world law where the concentration of spiritual energy is declining, even picking up garbage has become a dangerous cause for countless people to roll up.

Fortunately, it is the off-season for Rusty Star to take over the wreckage of the system's spacecraft.

In the entire planet, there is only one armor scavenging.

In the dim rain and moss-covered ruins, scavenger armor slowly walked towards the blast.

This is a spliced modified Iron Cyan armor.

More than one zhang high.

Half-humanoid.

Headless.

A huge belly with perfect loading space.

The right arm is a ten-fingered giant hand, and the left arm is a fusion of cannons, chainsaws, electric drills and other universal tools.

It can be walked on both feet and can also be transformed into a flying engine.

Come to the place where the explosion just happened.

The scavenger armor bent down and stuck his left arm into the blast, tearing a larger gap.

Immediately, armor burrowed into the interior of the ship's wreckage.

Inside the wreckage of the ship, the armor was at full power, and the left arm continued to cut through the hull to the deepest engine room.

It found a huge engine that had long since crumbled and rusted, as well as a burnt puppet in the corner of the engine room.

In the cockpit with cramped armor, a young man with a delicate face showed surprise, and two lines of subtitles slowly appeared in front of him.

[The hybrid engine with a broken shell comes from a 100-year-old Phiondi commercial spacecraft.] 】

[The smart chip burned by the runes comes from the Spiritual Puppet of the Beginning of Montale twelve years ago. 】

"Only the shell part of the engine is seriously damaged, the internal parts and spirit patterns are very damaged, and they can be easily repaired, which can be used to upgrade the engine of my Zhou-shaped spaceship, and the speed will be tripled, so that I can have the capital to step into the Pangu interstellar corridor."

"Twelve years ago, the Montachu chip...... What a bonus! Re-wash and burn, upgrade the chip for Xiaoai, and you can do something you love to do. ”

The boy's name is Lu Chen.

Three years ago, I traveled to this universe from an Internet café on Earth in the 21st century.

He was extremely sure that the starry sky in front of him was the parallel world of the sci-fi online game "Galaxy" that he was obsessed with in his previous life.

"Galaxy" is set in a universe with psionic energy as the main body of cultivation and energy, with a seamless, infinite super-large map, an imaginative interstellar style, and a rich variety of races and classes that can be freely converted.

And Lu Chen, who was in his previous life, was a college student who was addicted to "Galaxy", and he was proficient in programming, so he wrote a plug-in for himself that could avoid the firewall-

A small plug-in called [Scavenging Guide].

As the name suggests, the hang-up can greatly improve the character's detection ability, automatically screen for nearby safe scavenging targets, and warn of dangers to identify scavenging items.

In this way, he can not involute with others, travel alone in the deep space of the universe, explore the starry sky, scavenge resources, slowly upgrade, and enjoy the solitude and vastness of the universe on the basis of safety.

However, on the day he tested the plug-in, he traveled into the game world.

Travel back to the game character you have made yourself and become a real interstellar scavenger!

This world is just similar to the setting of the game, but it is a real universe, there are no players, and everyone is a living being.

The real universe is full of dangers, and Lu Chen has only one life.

Fortunately, the plug-in he wrote came through with him!

Lu Chen was ecstatic, with the assistance of the [Scavenging Guide], he didn't have to roll up with the rest of the scavengers, and he picked the off-season of the spaceship processing field, the deserted ancient battlefield, and the strange planet that humans had never set foot on, with the detection power far beyond ordinary people, far beyond armor and even spaceships, to find out the treasures left by time.

And the more the parts have been worn by time, and have not yet collapsed or degraded, the more timeless they are, the treasures of treasures.

In this way, Lu Chen wandered in all the hidden corners of the universe, searching for treasures in the dusty underground all over the universe.

Such as the ancient cultivator's cave, ancient battlefield ruins, ancient jungles, there are battleship wrecks, animal bone remains, ancient magic weapon remains, deep minerals, rare spirit beasts or spirit plants......

Even, once in a while, you can come across the perfect alien wild pool, and Lu Chen will take out the fishing rod and fish beautifully for an afternoon.

Soon, Lu Chen realized that compared to the one-click scavenging in the game, under the condition of ensuring safety, he could personally go to the ground to pick up treasures and experience the terroir, air, gravity and scenery of different planets...... What a lot of fun!

In the past three years, Lu Chen has used the items he found to transform spaceships and armor to sell them to improve his life, or in exchange for cultivation resources to support the cultivation of the spiritual mechanic.

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[Host Name]: Lu Chen.

[Psionic Profession]: Three-star Spiritual Mechanic (full-level skills, three-star cultivation).

[Scavenging Target]: Blue Valley Star System, Rust Star, Abandoned Spaceship Disposal Field.

[Warning level]: E.

[Item Detection]: A hybrid engine with a broken shell, from a 100-year-old Fiondi commercial spaceship; The smart chip burned by the outer control rune came from the Soul Puppet of the Beginning of Montame twelve years ago.

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Staring at the abandoned engines and puppets in front of him, Lu Chen was extremely excited.

"Today's harvest is not bad, it's not in vain for me to go all the way!"

He immediately manipulated the Scavenger Armor, and with his left hand, he reached out with a blade-like robotic arm to remove the burnt smart chip from the puppet's body and stuff it into the armored storage compartment.

Then, with a chainsaw with his left arm, he cut through the four walls of the engine room and violently dismantled the entire spaceship engine!

Carrying a hybrid engine of similar armor size on his head, Lu Chen raised his hand and blasted the shipwreck above his head with a cannon.

Climb carefully out of the ground through the hole.

Then with both hands, the huge engine carried above the head is firmly fixed.

Finally, start the bipedal flight engine.

In the wild bark of a group of mutant wolves, it roared into the air and soon flew out of the atmosphere.

Outside the atmosphere.

A small, dilapidated long-distance cargo ship painted yellow, suspended in the synchronous orbit of a rusty star.

It's the dusty scavenging spaceship of the road dust, the Dalyan!

Due to the acid rain and corrosive atmosphere of Rust Star, his spacecraft had to be anchored outside the atmosphere to be on the safe side.

The Dalyan is the name of the ship he gave in the game in his previous life, and it comes from a fishing terrier in his previous life.

After the crossing, no one knew, so he didn't bother to change it, it sounded quite high-end.

The Dalyan is the most classic longship configuration, with a length of thirty-three meters, a height of eight meters, and a width of six meters.

The spaceship itself is a scavenging ship that he transformed from the eighteen-handed Feiondi Zhou-type civilian spaceship.

For the sake of safety, Lu Chen also specially marked the words "waste scavenging boat" on the six sides of the hull and the signals scanned by the radar of other ships.

After all, the Chaoxi Star Field, where he is currently frequently scavenging, is located near the beginning of the Pangu Interstellar Corridor, "Haixia Harbor", and interstellar pirates are quite rampant.

Generally speaking, interstellar pirates will not attack the scavenger spaceship, and the high-performance engine used by the star pirate ship is generally equipped with high elf oil, and grabbing a small scavenger ship is not enough for fuel.

Ships that support warp flight are usually a hybrid of psionic and fusion engines, and the nuclear fuel does not need to be replaced, and the main consumption is the spiritual oil added to the spiritual pool.

In addition, Lu Chen has installed simple naval cannons and rebound systems on the six sides of the spaceship, which can also deal with low-level star thieves.

On both sides of the longship-style hull of the Dalyan, two additional external cargo compartments were installed to load the equipment obtained from scavenging.

If he really wants to meet a poor and crazy interstellar pirate, he can still abandon his position to save his life and prevent the spaceship or spirit oil from falling into the hands of the star thief.

Coming to the bottom of the ship's belly, Lu Chen used the black bracelet on his right wrist to give instructions to the spaceship.

"Open the cabin!"

The hatch in the belly of the ship slowly opened, and two soft mechanical arms like snakes protruded from it.

One rolls up the discarded engine, the other secures the waist of the scavenger armor, and carefully sends the two into the belly.

After vacuum sanitizing and confirming that it was sterile and non-toxic, the engine was sent to the cargo compartment and the armor was sent into the rear compartment of the spacecraft.

Lu Chen stepped out of the armored abdomen and stretched out.

The under-sounding shipboard radio is playing Lu Chen's favorite classical music, Devor's "Deep Blue".

The cello solo, low and slow, suppressed the blood and energy in Lu Chen's heart, making him feel like water at all times, remembering that as long as he had one life, he must not risk attacking.

Passing by the three-dimensional projector outside the door of the rest cabin, Lu Chen subconsciously stood on the miniature scanning table and looked at his own shape.

He has a tall figure, handsome facial features, loose white short sleeves with Dalyan graffiti on them, black pants, and slightly yellowed white sneakers...... Surprisingly spotless.

The shape that I pinched by myself back then has hardly changed.

"It's been three years, and I've just completed a hundred scavenging, and when I finish upgrading the ship's engine and building a pair of battle armor, I'll soon be able to go to the Pangu Interstellar Corridor!"

Lu Chen couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and walked quickly through the rest cabin in the middle of the spaceship to the cockpit in the front section.

……

The Dalyan is dilapidated from the outside in.

However, the cabin is spotless, with a faint scent of bamboo leaves and daisies all year round.

After all, there is also a hostess on the ship......

Certitude!

The head of the ship, in the semi-open cockpit.

Rows of quaint mechanical control panels.

A white-haired girl wearing thin-rimmed glasses, with several red wildflower hairpins on her head, and a white maid outfit like a wedding dress, sits in the driver's seat to control the spaceship.

The perfect figure and appearance, the crystal eyes are a combination of romantic girlish feelings and gentle wife attributes.

Seeing Lu Chen come back, the white-haired girl stood up, with a standard sweet smile on her face, and her tone was extremely gentle:

"Captain, where are we going now?"

The soft and hoarse timbre came into Lu Chen's ears, as if it was the sound of snowflakes falling into his ears and slowly melting.

The only pity is that the girl's expression and tone are slightly mechanical, and it can be seen at a glance that she is a mechanical puppet.

That indifference to human isolation cannot be concealed.

Lu Chen doesn't like to be called the captain very much, it's too formal, and he doesn't like to be called the master, it's too kitsch.

He reached out and pinched the maid's delicate silicone face, deliberately put on a straight face, and said seriously:

"How many times? Call me Daddy! ”

The puppet girl immediately changed her words and asked:

"Daddy, where are we going now?"

Lu Chen's heart was suddenly relaxed.

That's what makes me feel at home.

The puppet girl was originally a puzzle robot that taught children to play Go, with a high IQ and zero EQ.

After Lu Chen picked it up, he named her Xiao Ai, and transformed her body into the type he liked.

White hair, glasses, teenage wife...... Qi lived.

and constantly training and tuning Xiaoai's smart chip, so that she has a little emotional intelligence...... But not much.

It's not working, and it's very confused.

At present, Xiao Ai is responsible for the daily flight of the Dalyan, and in her spare time, she will also take care of Lu Chen's diet and daily life.

Her body has not yet been installed with any special functions, so to Lu Chen, she is still pure and flawless.

Lu Chen's goal is to raise her into a true soul and then let her repay her kindness...... Isn't this more fragrant than a human woman?

"Find an uninhabited planet with a suitable climate nearby, and I'm going to test and replace the ship with a brand new engine!

After upgrading the engine, we will have enough motivation to set foot in the Pangea Interstellar Corridor and pick up higher-level treasures.

At the same time, the new engine will also be more fuel-efficient, perhaps only once every six months, saving a lot of round-trip costs. ”

When Xiao Ai heard this, she nodded respectfully:

"Yes, Captain!"

Road Dust:

“……”

Xiao Ai operated in front of the steering panel and quickly set the destination.

Then, she turned around and went to the rest cabin and made Lu Chen a cup of black tea with bamboo leaf green.

Lu Chen held the teacup, was in a good mood, and subconsciously replied politely:

"Thank you, Xiao Ai!"

Drinking tea, tea mixed with wine, is a ritual before every warp flight of road dust.

"Confirm End Coordinates."

"Confirm the safety of the route."

"The warp engine is full."

"Speed up the countdown – ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!"

"Jump!"

With an explosive roar, the thrust of the spaceship's hybrid engine was stretched to its maximum in an instant.

The hull shook violently.

The Dalyan instantly squeezed the space ahead.

The hull of the ship became extremely smooth, as if wrapped in a bubble of space, gliding through the vast starry sky.

This means that the spacecraft has entered a warp flight state.

Lu Chen stood firm in advance and held firmly, his expression slightly nervous.

As a result, the teacup in his hand was still scattered on the ground......

That's why he was in a hurry to change the engine!

For Lu Chen, warp speed flight is almost a jump, almost a momentary thing.

In the blink of an eye.

The ship has left the Blue Valley galaxy and is ten light-years away in another starry sky.

Ten days have passed despite the fact that the actual time, or the time of this star field.

The theory of relativity or something, Lu Chen doesn't understand it very well.

All he knows is:

"It took me ten days just to cross two adjacent star systems...... This broken engine must be replaced! ”

It's rare to pick up a good baby, Lu Chen can't stand his engine anymore, and his tone is much harder.

The withered yellow longship scavenger sails quietly in the blue sky like an abyss.

Outside the porthole, the Pangu Corridor arches the towering and continuous Interstellar Great Wall, and it is like a river splashed with oil paint, the waves are magnificent, and the canopy runs through the sky, like a god's pen.

Lu Chen stared at the boundless deep space, his face was calm, he took a sip of tea, and sighed:

"After every jump, we are greeted by a different starry sky, which is the charm of the universe."

Xiao Ai stood aside respectfully and said:

"Captain, this is a slight error caused by different viewing angles, we have always lived in the same starry sky."

“……”

Lu Chen was speechless, he shouldn't have discussed philosophy and poetry with a Go intelligence.

"Perhaps, it's time for me to upgrade Xiao Ai."

Thinking so, he immediately put down the teacup.

From the secret compartment under the driver's seat, he took out the toolbox engraved with the spirit pattern.

Come to the left corner of the cockpit.

This is the daily work area of road dust.

Next to the porthole on the left, there is a carved table.

Lu Chen likes to carve spiritual patterns against the starry sky outside the porthole.

He sat down at the carved table.

Take out a bottle of Soul Erosion Liquid, and remove the burned spirit pattern from the chip plate you just found.

Through the identification of the items on the scavenging panel, the inner layer of the chip is still intact.

Only the outer layer controls the spirit pattern, which needs to be re-etched by the road dust in order to fit Xiao Ai's body.

For a three-star mechanic like Lu Chen, this is the most basic operation.

In the era of interstellar cultivation, the spirit mechanic is not only a profession, but also a real cultivator!

The spiritual mechanic has spiritual power in his body, his physique can prolong his life, and his skills can engrave, forge, assemble, skillfully use and maintain all kinds of modern spiritual weapons.

After crossing over, Lu Chen chose the profession of spiritual mechanic for three reasons-

First, he was a hacker in his previous life, and there is no essential difference between programming and the spirit pattern logic that a psychic mechanic must master.

What's more, his [Scavenging Guide] plug-in searched through the game database in his previous life, so that Lu Chen had just crossed over, and he was already at the full level in terms of spirit mechanic skills.

What he lacks is cultivation.

For example, you need high-level spiritual power to drive the seal, you need enough cultivation and strength to forge high-level raw materials, and you need your own spiritual power to drive the spiritual weapon when the spiritual pool of the spiritual weapon is at the bottom......

As long as the cultivation is improved, the spiritual mechanic can prolong his life, and he doesn't know if he can live forever.

Second, the item identification and detection capabilities of the waste picking guide facilitate the assembly, modification and maintenance of machinery.

Third, the Mechanic profession can continuously upgrade and transform the spaceship and combat armor to ensure its own safety to the greatest extent, and at the same time, it can also quickly improve the efficiency of scavenging.

The Mechanic has a nine-star level.

One-star entry, nine-star peak.

Lu Chen's crossing comes with a nine-star spiritual weapon skill, but his cultivation has to be slowly upgraded from one star.

After three years of penance and countless resources, he was just promoted to a three-star spiritual mechanic last month!

Back then, human beings walked out of their home planet, stepped into the starry sky, conquered all races step by step, and ruled the entire galaxy, not by cultivation, but by ancient martial arts and spiritual technology.

In the Galactic Empire, the status of the Psychic is very high.

A three-star mechanic like Lu Chen is enough to serve as a ship-accompanying mechanic in a warship in the Empire or the New Federation.

It's a pity that in the past hundred years, most of the Empire's psychics have been handed over to artificial intelligence, and humans are generally engaged in the financial industry that is easier to make money, harvesting the second-level alliance and the third-level alliance, and the psychic dividend's dividends have gradually disappeared.

For Lu Chen, this is a good thing, reducing involution and highlighting his scarcity.

Outside the porthole, the stars are shining.

Inside the porthole, in front of the workbench.

Lu Chen lit up the wall-hung bright shadowless lamp, put on high-magnification glasses, and held a sharp carving knife.

Breathe evenly.

Condense the sea of air.

Run the three-star spiritual power to penetrate the spiritual veins.

The soft spiritual power passed from the spiritual veins to the fingertips, slowly lighting up the spiritual patterns on the blade, and manually engraved the patterns on the outer layer of the puppet chip.

Time passes minute by minute.

Seeing Lu Chen engraved a new spirit pattern on a puppet smart chip, Xiao Ai's expression stiffened slightly, as if she had noticed something.

"Captain, don't you want me?"

Lu Chen said in his heart, oh no, could it be that Xiao Ai really trained him to think beyond the cold data?

With a straight face, he said tentatively:

"That's right, your EQ is basically zero, I'm going to change to a more interesting maid, the kind that will call my dad every day."

Xiao Ai:

“……”

Lu Chen specially glanced at Xiao Ai's expression at the moment, as confused as usual, and there was no obvious reaction.

It seems that he is thinking too much......

Two hours later.

Lu Chen finished the outer layer of the control spirit pattern and sealed it simply, and came to Xiao Ai's back.

Untie the white maid outfit like a wedding dress with a light hand.

Unlock the back door of her spinal fossa, force it to shut down, and open Xiao Ai's body along the spinal line.

Remove her original chip located in her abdomen, and then install the new Montachu smart chip into it, which fits perfectly.

Rebooted, Xiao Ai turned around, and her expression and demeanor instantly became much more natural.

"Hello, master, please confirm the administrator status and the scope of the highest authority."

"Please set my name."

"Please set my character."

"Please set ......"

Lu Chen looked at the new version of Xiao Ai.

Although her tone and expression were no longer stiff, they became more natural, and her bright eyes flashed with the electronic light driven by the spirit pattern, more like a real maid.

Lu Chen felt a little strange.

He sighed lightly and handed the old control chip in his hand to the new Xiao Ai.

"Read the memory data on this chip and overlay your personality algorithm...... Also, remember to call Daddy. ”

"Yes, master!"

The new Xiaoai immediately did so, overwriting the old data with the new chip, and setting the sole owner and administrator Lu Chen.

Lu Chen asked Xiao Ai tentatively:

"Who are you and who am I?"

Xiao Ai glanced at Lu Chen, and said with a serious face:

"I'm Xiao Ai...... Captain! ”

Lu Chen smiled at ease, reached out again, and pinched Xiao Ai's tender silicone face.

"You forgot to call Daddy."

Turned around and picked up the teacup, took a sip of the black tea with wine that Xiao Ai had brewed before, and suddenly felt clear and mellow, very comfortable.

Suddenly!

With a crisp and pleasant prompt sound, a line of translucent subtitles appeared in front of his eyes.

[Ding - Discover a new scavenging target, it is expected to arrive at the scene in 35 minutes, adventure level D-, scavenging level C+!] 】