There are nine levels of road dust picking:

E，D，C，B，A，S，SS，SSS，X！

Targets range from common to rare.

The warning level is also divided into nine levels:

E，D，C……

Risks range from safe to dangerous.

Nine-level warning, roughly matching the nine-star level of various psionic classes.

Lu Chen, a three-star spiritual mechanic, can theoretically deal with a C-level warning event at the highest.

It's a pity that Lu Chen was only promoted to a three-star spiritual mechanic last month, and there is no supporting three-star combat armor, and with only two-star scavenger armor, the combat power can only be exerted by thirty percent.

The three-star battle armor also needs 1,000 spirit stones at the most, and the brand starts with 3,000 spirit stones...... It's not enough to sell the ship!

With only the 11 spirit stones left in Lu Chen's hand, and the sundries in the two cargo holds, he couldn't even make up a hundred spirit stones, and he couldn't even afford a two-star battle armor!

The standard spirit stone is the universal currency of the whole universe, similar to the gold on the earth, the currency is extremely valuable, and it is a cultivation resource.

In addition, there are Imperial Jinnar, which is worth one percent of the spirit stone, and the New Federation Wanzu Coin worth one-ten-thousandth.

In the past three years, all the money earned by Lu Chen's scavenging has been used to purchase and modify the expedition spaceship, the scavenging armor, and the marrow cleansing pill, the instrument spirit pill, and the necessary healing spirit pill required for the spiritual mechanic's cultivation.

His next goal: to use his eighteen-hand ship-borne spirit machine to create a three-star battle armor!

Previously, road dust could only easily cope with E-level warning events, or not so easily with D-level warning events.

He planned to set sail in two years with the superstar ship Bailu, which was under construction, and venture into the Pangea Interstellar Corridor in search of more and higher-level treasures.

"Two years is a little slower, but the victory is that you are well prepared, safe and steady, and you must not lose at the starting line of the Pangu Corridor!"

Thinking like this, Lu Chen reconfirmed the subtitles in front of him:

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

In fact, in the face of D-level warning events, because the waste picking guide has early warning prompts at any time, road dust safety is not a big problem, and the biggest problem is the cost of waste picking.

In the event of an emergency evacuation or fighting, even if he succeeds in harvesting the target, the cost he pays may be higher than the value of the target, which is a big loss.

Unless, it's a C+ pole target!

Lu Chen's irrepressible excitement rose.

"Speaking of which, this is the first time I've encountered a C+-level scavenging target!"

After thinking about it, Lu Chen still restrained the excitement in his heart, and decided to upgrade the engine first, and then contact the target.

When you're in danger, you run faster, don't you?

"Xiao Ai, looking for an unmanned planet with a suitable climate to land in the current star system, I want to upgrade the engine of the spacecraft."

"Yes, Captain!"

……

The Rogel star system has a very low concentration of aura, and it is a barren land.

Not to mention that there are no human beings left, there is probably no life.

If it weren't for the Dawn Star Field, which was located at the beginning of the Pangea Corridor, it wouldn't have a name, and a combination of letters and numbers would be enough to define it.

When flying at warp speed, the Dalyan ship is wrapped in a squeezed space bubble, and is not afraid of hitting ships, star beasts, and interstellar storms.

However, it is afraid of hitting a black hole or a star, so the spacecraft's jump destination will be on the outer side of the star system.

At the speed of the Dalyan, it would take twenty minutes to enter the nearest planet in the star system.

In the system, there are dozens of large and small solid planets for road dust to choose from.

An hour later.

The Dalyan began to slow down and slowly landed on the surface of a medium-sized rocky planet.

The planet's gravity is high, and the surface air is very viscous, but it has a low temperature of about zero degrees.

The climate is very stable, the temperature is cool, there is no wind, and it is very suitable for engine testing.

Lu Chen came to the rear compartment of the ship, controlled the armor, and moved the abandoned engine to the rear compartment.

Remove the engine casing first.

Lu Chen then turns on the detection function of the [Waste Pickup Guide] panel to check for dead pixels in the inner core.

In the era of the end of the interstellar law, the concentration of spiritual energy declined, and the cultivators were not only far inferior in combat power to the ancient era, but also far inferior in divine consciousness.

Below the five-star cultivators, there is no divine sense.

Fortunately, with the detection assistance of the [Waste Picking Guide], road dust can be handy.

He took matters into his own hands and planned to completely disassemble the engine core.

This can be done in the cabin of the ship.

Lu Chen cleaned up the surrounding items and covered a five-by-five-meter-wide magnetic white cloth blanket for spiritual mechanics, so that all kinds of machinery could be disassembled and assembled without missing a single part.

"A Fiondi commercial hybrid engine has tens of thousands of parts and hundreds of millions of spirit patterns inside.

Remove all the parts with your bare hands, replace the damaged parts, and clean the rusted parts without damaging the spirit pattern.

Even as a three-star mechanic, I need to be fully prepared and not distracted in the slightest. ”

Wearing a simple dust-free suit and holding tools, Lu Chen climbed into the engine and began to disassemble the work.

The outer parts of the engine have been rusted a lot, and the surface texture is difficult to identify, so it needs to be carefully disassembled.

"Hoo ......"

After a while, Lu Chen's hands and face were covered with rust stains, and his forehead and back were covered with sweat.

The maid Ai stays in the cockpit and is responsible for controlling the ship and receiving signals from nearby star fields.

After all, the Dalyan was so dilapidated that some of the parts didn't come from the same ship, or even all of them.

The shipwright's intelligence and voice control system are not as good as Xiao Ai's personal control.

Xiao Ai occasionally comes to the back cabin to bring tea and water to Lu Chen, and helps him wipe his sweat.

Seeing that Lu Chen seemed to be disassembling the nuclear-powered fuel rods, Xiao Ai hurriedly reminded Lu Chen:

"Watch out for radiation, Captain!"

Lu Chen was stunned, it was worthy of the Montachu smart chip, which could actually identify early nuclear fuel rods.

"Don't forget, the mechanic is a cultivator, I'm a three-star mechanic, my body is very good, and this level of nuclear radiation is negligible.

On the contrary, it's you, Xiao Ai, the smart chip may be affected by nuclear radiation and will become a monster.

The kind that chases the owner to bite. ”

Xiao Ai is very determined:

"At any time, Xiao Ai will not hurt the master!"

Lu Chen smiled, continued to twist his body, curled up in the engine and disassembled parts.

"Fiondy will really save costs, the commercial engine of a hundred years ago is completely the same as the core of the current engine, and the Xia and Zhou engines are also from the same platform, and the parts can be used."

As Lu Chen said, Feiondi's long-distance civil ships are known for their low price, durability and great potential for refit.

There are three types of civilian spacecraft for sale:

Large Voyage Ships: Summer.

Medium-sized long-distance vessels: business.

Small Voyage Ships: Weeks.

All three can be transformed into cargo ships, expedition ships, star thief ships, and military ships, and any spaceship transformation factory has a very mature plan...... Even Lu Chen's own can be modified.

What's even more exaggerated is that the Flying Dixia, Shang and Wednesday engines are products of the same platform, with the same dimensions, but the specifications of the parts are different from the tuning, which greatly improves the modification potential.

Dismantling the Feiondi engine, the road dust is familiar with the road.

After only half a day, he removed the 109 damaged parts and cleaned some of the corroded parts.

These damaged parts are the most common damage points of Feiondi, and there is a backup on the road dust spaceship, so there is no need to disassemble it in the spaceship engine, which saves a lot of time.

It's faster to reinstall the engine.

Two hours later, the engine core was successfully reassembled.

A second look at the scavenging guide revealed that there was no longer a single damaged place.

"Not bad!"

He then piloted the armor and dismantled the Tarian's Chow engine, placing its shell on the inner core of the commercial engine.

The new engine was then moved to the surface of the planet, and a hole was dug outside the rocky mountain to hold the engine firmly in place.

Pour a small amount of spiritual oil and nuclear material, and simply test the run.

"Perfect!"

In Lu Chen's view, this stems from the century-old quality of Fiondi, the huge potential for modification and the difficulty of simple modification.

Of course, it had to be done by him, a three-star spiritual mechanic, and with the assistance of the scavenging guide, to accomplish such a feat in such a short period of time!

Lu Chen was very satisfied with his modification.

The only pity is:

After the test run, Lu Chen took out the engine and found that there were many cracks in the shell.

"It seems that the strength of the shell of the Zhou-type engine is not strong enough, and it is difficult to match the core of the commercial engine."

It's hard to get dirty!

He also has an eighteen-hand Qihar Spiritual Parts machine.

The high elf machine tool is the mother of the spirit industry!

Although many civilian spiritual weapons are now 3D printed, the real high-end armor still requires high-precision machine tools, and some are even cut and forged by hand.

No way, real high-level psionic materials, such as ancient beast bones, beast pills, ancient trees, and some raw ores...... Once forcibly decomposed, it is difficult to have the previous strength and spiritual stability, and can only be finely cut by machine tools, or forged by hand.

Generally speaking, high-precision machine tools are almost enough for raw materials below five stars, and manual forging by high-level spiritual mechanics is required for more than five stars.

Although Lu Chen's eighteen-hand Qihar spirit parts machine tool can hardly be said to be high-precision, Lu Chen is good at manual calibration.

With his psychic skills and panel assistance, as long as the raw materials are enough, any low-level spiritual weapon can be created.

The engine shell is just a large volume, the two-star raw materials are enough to do the job, and there are many more in the road dust cargo hold.

A day later.

Lu Chen finally forged a new engine shell.

Although it is still an ancient structure of rivet splicing, its strength is no weaker than that of modern shell technology.

When you knock your hand, it makes a pleasant buzzing sound.

A good sound is a good shell!

He immediately loaded the core of the commercial engine into the freshly forged engine shell and tested it on the surface of a rocky planet for several hours.

Scavenging panel detection identification: no problems!

Lu Chen immediately loaded the complete commercial engine into the engine room of the Dalyan's spaceship.

The shape has not changed, and it fits perfectly.

Although the Dalyan is an eighteen-hand Zhou-type spacecraft, the hull shell has been modified by road dust, which is enough to resist the ship's stall and crash into a rocky planet without collapsing, and its strength is far greater than that of ordinary civilian spacecraft, and it can easily withstand the full speed flight of commercial engines.

"Fill up the fuel and set sail at low speed!"

The Dalyan slowly took off into the air, and the tail flame turned from orange to red, slowly flying out of the atmosphere.

"Try to speed up, step by step."

The Dalyan's high-speed flight was also exceptionally smooth, even quieter than before.

Lu Chen was very satisfied, and immediately called Xiao Ai and made him a cup of black tea with bamboo leaf green.

Then he brought tea into the armored belly of the scavenger, and called Xiao Ai to come in together.

Use the bracelet to connect to the ship's intranet, control the spaceship, and start a short warp flight.

If the warp test fails, the scavengers' armored airbags will protect them from death.

"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!"

Lu Chen's body trembled slightly.

In a flash, the spacecraft had flown to a brand new star sector, and the Rogel system was no longer visible on the radar.

In fact, he only set a one-minute warp tempo time.

This kind of jump speed is three times faster than the previous spacecraft!

And the tea cup in Lu Chen's hand did not spill a drop of tea juice.

Xiao Ai confirmed the success of the jump, and congratulated Lu Chen as soon as possible:

"The new engine has succeeded, congratulations Captain!"

Lu Chen excitedly opened the abdominal door.

Step out of the scavenger armor with Ai and carefully inspect the ship's indicators.

Everything works!

In fact, there have been great improvements in areas such as top speed, fuel consumption and ship shocks.

Lu Chen took a leisurely sip of tea and said seriously:

"Next, return to the Rogel system."

Xiao Ai has a question mark on her face.

"Why?"

"There's new babes waiting for me to dig into."

……

With the warp engine at full capacity, Dalyan made another short jump, instantly returning to the edge of the Rogel system.

Lu Chen once again received the previous panel prompt message.

[Ding - Discover a new scavenging target, it is expected to arrive at the scene in 45 minutes, adventure level D-, scavenging level C+!] 】

"Good, the goal is still there!"

It's just that the location of the return is different, and the distance has become a little farther away.

Lu Chen put down the teacup, immediately determined the target position on the panel radar, and then entered the destination coordinates on the spacecraft radar.

Dalyan adjusted course and flew at full speed to the third planet of the Rogel system.

After completing the course of the spaceship, Lu Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, and then he felt a little tired.

He hadn't slept for almost forty-eight hours!

Coming to the leisure area next to the porthole on the right, Lu Chen sat on a recliner.

Looking at the endless starry sky outside the window, he slowly closed his eyes and only said softly:

"Xiao Ai, turn off the music and play the aggregate news."

In my ears, there was a gentle and considerate suggestion from Xiao Ai:

"If the captain feels tired, you might as well go back to your room to rest first, and when the spaceship arrives at its destination, Xiao Ai will wake up the captain."

Lu Chen's brows frowned slightly.

You must know that Xiao Ai would not mention this kind of opinion in the past, and she would implement any order 100%.

It seems that she wants to adjust her little hobby well, so as not to face an emergency, so she put this suggestion aside.

"I need boring interstellar news to help me sleep."

Lu Chen's shipboard aggregation news is collected by his crawler program from major mainstream news networks.

In order not to be located, he usually downloads in a star area with a spiritual network signal, and then listens and watches in a safe network star area.

Xiao Ai then turned on the news broadcast.

Right now, Lu Chen slowly closed his eyes.

On-board radio began scrolling with recent news headlines.

When encountering the content of interest, Lu Chen can pause and expand at any time by voice control, and listen to the detailed content.

The universe is too big, and most of the news, Lu Chen, is of no interest.

That was until a piece of news from Science Pravda caught his attention.

"Princess Yinlan's black heart was revealed, and a generation of imperial idols collapsed! —Imperial Science Pravda. ”

Princess Yinlan is not only a princess, but also an imperial star who is only nineteen years old and has starred in nineteen movies.

Black heart exposed? Lu Chen shook his head when he heard this.

"These media want to make a big news every day, deliberately headline the party to attract traffic, click on it to see, it's just some harmless small problems, in order to contrast the princess's truth and cuteness...... It's all the same old routine. ”

However, Princess Yinlan's appearance is indeed the type that Lu Chen likes, which can also be glimpsed from Xiao Ai's appearance.

Maybe influenced by the thoughts of female boxing in his previous life, or his mother's violent temper, he just doesn't like human women very much.

In a flash, more than a dozen pieces of news passed.

Until another headline, which caught the attention of Lu Chen.

"Congratulations to the Narga Interstellar Beast Troupe, who have been named one of the 100,000 New Generations! - The New Federation, Stars of Liberty. ”

Lu Chen was slightly startled.

"I didn't expect that the New Federation's "Stars of Freedom" would publish the news of star thieves, the name Narga...... I seem to have heard it somewhere, playing the details of the news! ”

Immediately, the ship's radio broadcast detailed news content.

"The genius of the Federation who set out to conquer the Pangu Corridor three years ago, the Phoenix Girl Beast Master Nalga, led by the Narga Beast Troupe, has recently been included in the latest issue of the Pangu Star Thieves List, becoming one of the 100,000 glorious new generation star thieves group......"

Lu Chen then remembered that "Stars of Freedom" once published beautiful photos of Narga.

Narga is a tall, plump and beautiful phoenix girl with a free-spirited personality, a descendant of the ancient phoenix merger, belonging to the humanoid race.

However, I heard that she is bent in private, and the Naga Royal Beast Regiment is all female Beast Master, almost her harem group.

So far, the three media that Lu Chen pays the most attention to, and the three media with the largest traffic in the galaxy, have all appeared.

Imperial Science Pravda.

The New Federation "Stars of Freedom".

Pangu Corridor "Navigation".

In Lu Chen's view, among these three websites, only the "Navigation Journal" run by the Star Thieves is a serious media, publishing cutting-edge exploration news of the Pangu Corridor, and a documentary of the war between the Star Thieves and the Empire and the Federation.

The "Stars of Freedom" of the New Federation originally published the history of the struggle of various human races for freedom, but unfortunately the sales were dismal, and the editorial office was almost closed.

So he quickly changed his thinking and changed it to publish nude photos of female stars of various races, and turned it into an interstellar "Men's Wear".

Free-spirited crowd-like star ...... Lu Chen loves to watch.

Seeing that "Stars of Freedom" made a lot of money, the Imperial "Science Pravda" soon began to publish some imperial court secrets, such as the collapsed imperial idols, the debauched imperial saintess, and the lonely and beautiful imperial concubine in the cold palace......

In Lu Chen's view, this is by no means the degeneration of the media!

In today's new era, the concentration of aura in the whole universe is declining, all walks of life are rolling in, and those political propaganda media that can only brainwash their own families have no way out.

If you want to brainwash the people of the whole universe, you have to put down some content that the people like to see.

However, Lu Chen didn't have much interest in Narga.

He was interested in the Pangea Corridor.

The Pangea Interstellar Corridor is an inverse cantilever stellar belt spanning dozens of star fields, a land that has not yet been conquered by mankind, and the only unowned starry sky in the Milky Way.

It is filled with interstellar storms, black holes colliding, radioactive particles flowing backwards, and star beasts raging...... The environment is extremely harsh and the aura concentration is low, but it is said to be the origin of the revival of the aura in the universe, and there are countless ancient treasures hidden in the depths.

Therefore, the Pangea Corridor is a paradise for interstellar pirates and a paradise for interstellar scavengers.

"I didn't expect that such a month has passed, and the Pangu Star Thief List has been updated again!"

The Pangu Star Thief List is a list released monthly by the editorial department of the Star Thief Group's "Navigation Journal".

Choose the big star thieves or star thieves who stand at the top of the galaxy's pyramid, as well as some potential players.

Mainly selected from the active Star Thieves in the Pangea Corridor:

One saint.

The Seven Emperors.

One hundred and eight days gang.

Three thousand stars.

and the potential list: 100,000 new generations!

Every group of Star Thieves who set foot in the starry sky is proud to be on the Pangu Star Thieves List, and has always scoffed at the bounties offered by the Empire or the New Federation.

It looks very hot-blooded, but it's a pity that it's all exchanged for life.

Lu Chen just wants to be under the dazzling figure of the star thieves and be an unknown scavenger until he becomes the first in the universe!

On-board broadcasts to continue broadcasting the news.

"Xingzhou Company, the fifteenth interstellar giant ship Bailu departed two years ahead of schedule today, and the stock price skyrocketed! - Pangu Corridor, "Navigation". ”

Lu Chen woke up violently and opened his eyes.

"Why did the White Dew set off so quickly!"

You know, it was said that it would be two years later.

Lu Chen suddenly had a sense of urgency, and immediately opened the detailed news content.

"The Xingzhou Company, one of the Seven Emperors, completed the manufacture of its fifteenth interstellar giant ship [Bailu] two years ahead of schedule, and this morning set off from Haixia Harbor and officially entered the Pangu Interstellar Corridor, heading towards the final place, escorting the major star thieves of the new generation......"

Xingzhou Company, a transstellar business company that roams the universe, has the business licenses of the Empire and the Federation, but there is a large amount of gray trade, mostly wandering in the Pangu Corridor, and is defined as the Star Thief Group, which ranks among the Seven Emperors because of its size.

However, compared with the traditional Star Thief Group, Xingzhou Company is the most formal business organization, which can be called the White Lotus.

The White Dew is its fifteenth escort-type interstellar ship, which is said to be an interstellar ship, but it is actually a wandering planet.

In the giant ship, it integrates manufacturing, energy, repair and modification, banking, catering, gambling, entertainment, express transportation, ...... It is a super complex that provides one-stop service for star thieves.

What's more, the Star Ship can provide a spirit net signal to a nearby Star Pirate Ship within ten light-light years!

Lu Chen's trip to the White Dew had been planned.

Synchronize with the interstellar giant ship to adventure scavenging, you can sell items at any time, replenish supplies, greatly save time and fuel costs, and can also keep abreast of the latest information through high-definition spirit network signals.

"Unexpectedly, the Bailu will set sail this year, and once it misses the first voyage of this giant ship, it will take another twenty years.

Luckily, I've just become a three-star mechanic, and I've upgraded my engine to reach the entry level of Pangu Corridor sailing! ”

Lu Chen glanced at the time, this was already the news five days ago, and he was delayed for several days due to warp speed.

"The giant ship that can enter the Xingzhou Company needs to verify the capital, and there must be a minimum of one hundred spirit stones in cash or deposit before it can pass."

Even if he sold all the items he picked up on the ship, Lu Chen would not be able to collect a hundred spirit stones...... Unless the ship is sold.

Suddenly!

Lu Chen remembered something and stood up.

"Wait......"

According to past experience, the E-level target value is around 1 spirit stone, the D-level target value is about 10 spirit stones, and the C-level target value is about 100 spirit stones.

"The goal of Scavenging Level C+ is definitely worth more than a hundred spirit stones...... I still have a chance! ”