Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 739: Let’s Make Do With It
For Alan Starlink, pirates coming to plunder is basically like a holiday. They certainly don't come every day, but it's not surprising if they come seven or eight times a year.

At most, the number of pirates coming this time was a little too large, but the pirates retreated completely after an hour of fighting.

The specific loss figures of both sides have not yet been counted, but judging from the amount of wreckage in the airspace of the battle, it is estimated to be a not small number.

Cleaning up the wreckage, capturing prisoners, rescuing friendly forces in the escape pods, etc., these post-processing tasks were all done by the Planetary Defense Force and civilian shuttles. The Manta Ray was also inevitably asked to help. Li Chengxi personally rescued several Planetary Defense Force members from several capsule-type escape pods.

As expected, Li Chengxi, who was overly excited, stayed up late.

When Li Chengxi opened his eyes again, it was already the afternoon of the next day. He was woken up by the hungry Aidas. After all, Aidas couldn't order takeout alone without Li Chengxi showing up...

The Manta Ray has returned to the open space outside the farm, and Fang Lanyin is busy repairing it.

I don’t know whether she had a rest or not, but she seemed very energetic.

The Manta was due for an overhaul a long time ago, but during the overhaul it took part in a high-intensity battle, which caused many of its parts to reach the limit of their lifespan.

Replacing these parts, plus replenishing ammunition and energy, costs a lot of money.

I guess Alyssa won't be in a very good mood when she sees the bill.

However, the good news is that perhaps the Manta's performance was too outstanding, and the Planetary Defense Force sent someone over to say that the Manta's maintenance costs would be charged to the Planetary Defense Force's account, and sent a commendation and a generous bonus as a reward, and even hinted that even if Fang Lanyin needed some military parts, it would be possible to make some concessions.

Alan Starlink encourages residents to take up arms to protect themselves, which can greatly reduce the pressure on the planetary defense force, so they are willing to give the green light.

All in all, not only did we not lose money in this battle, we even made a small profit, which is not bad. The most important thing is that the maintenance problem of the Manta Ray was solved.

Military parts are definitely better than civilian ones, but Fang Lanyin didn’t want them, mainly because they couldn’t be used on the Manta Ray.

This shuttle is too old. Except for some common parts, many parts cannot be replaced by military products and can only be repaired by hand.

Of course, the Manta can also be modified by replacing most of the parts.

But doing this will not be accomplished in a day or two.

For example, replacing the Manta's engine with a military space fighter engine.

When the engine is replaced, your energy supply pipeline must also be replaced, otherwise the current pipeline will not be able to withstand the high output of the military engine.

If the pipelines are replaced, the flight control must also be replaced, otherwise the new engine cannot be controlled.

The flight control has been replaced, should the transmission and variable wing parts be replaced? If not, the engine will not be able to withstand it.

The same is true for the fuselage. A sudden increase in speed will exceed the design strength of the fuselage, and the fuselage will have to be strengthened.

In other words, even if it is just a matter of replacing an engine, it would be better to just replace the entire Manta, which would at least be more convenient.

It's like installing a Ferrari engine on an Alto. It will indeed run faster, but if you step on the accelerator, the car will probably fall apart.

After all, the Manta is just a shuttle, and its performance is not very high even if it is pushed to the limit, so this kind of transformation is meaningless.

Fang Lanyin was very rational. She did not ask the military for parts casually. Her maintenance goal was only to restore the Manta to its peak condition.

Of course, this is not an easy task.

Perhaps she wanted to show off in front of her future boss, so Fang Lanyin did not ask anyone else for help, but repaired the Manta Ray by herself. This was also thanks to her being a half-orc, with much higher physical strength than the average person. Otherwise, even with the help of tools and engineering machinery, it would not be an easy task to repair the Manta Ray by herself.

Speaking of Alyssa, the expression on her face these past two days was basically "Fuck you".

Originally, I was only planning to stay in Alan Starlink for two days, but due to the maintenance of the Manta, I had to stay longer. No wonder I was in a bad mood.

During the time when the Manta was under repair, Li Chengxi was not idle either. He focused on testing the use of creativity.

First of all, it is useless to simply stuff things in. Unlike Viola and Yang Yiyi, when Li Chengxi tries to stuff things into the science fiction script, they will be blocked by the screen and cannot be stuffed in.

Therefore, if Alyssa and Fang Lanyin have no food to eat, it won’t work even if Li Chengxi stuffs them with instant food.

The prerequisite for stuffing things in is to have materials.

For example, if you stuff the model of a beam rifle in there, it actually only serves as a blueprint. There must be materials around the Manta that can form a beam rifle, only then will it be effective.

For example, when he first discovered this, Li Chengxi stuffed nuts into the screen, but in fact he decomposed the wreckage next to the Manta and reassembled it into nuts.

So this is not just a simple creation, but more like a special kind of manufacturing.

By the same token, if Li Chengxi wants to stuff the Gundam model in, he needs all the materials that can build the Gundam around the Manta.

Secondly, it is necessary to consume the energy of the Manta itself.

On Viola's side, faith value is divine power, but it can only be used on Viola's side.

The same goes for Yang Yiyi. The true qi value is the energy that Li Chengxi uses to interfere in the mortal world. Once it is consumed, he naturally can no longer interfere.

In a science fiction script, each interference would consume energy and could not appear out of thin air. The only difference was that it consumed the compressed magic power in the Manta's fuel tank.

According to Li Chengxi's test, a beam rifle consumes about 40% of the energy of the Manta. As for directly making the Gundam, let alone whether there are enough materials, the energy of the Manta is completely insufficient and can only produce some parts-level things.

If we can replace the Manta with a larger battleship in the future, perhaps we can really build a Gundam, but that is definitely not possible now.

Besides, given the current situation, something like the Gundam is not as useful as the Manta.

The advantage of the universal shuttle is that it is an all-rounder. It can carry its own fuel tanks and ammunition supplies, perform jumps, and the living area can accommodate several people. Isn't this better than the Gundam?

But having said that, Li Chengxi still asked the Planetary Defense Force for some things through Fang Lanyin.

For example, requesting two void torpedoes.

This kind of weapon that can threaten ships is absolutely a military product and cannot be purchased by civilians.

Just like you can buy a rifle from a gun store, but you can't buy a bazooka unless you go to the black market, but the price there is not cheap.

After hearing Fang Lanyin's request, the planetary defense team wrote two more torpedoes on the damage report without saying a word, since the government was paying for it anyway.

——This is probably how the torpedoes on the black market come from.

(End of this chapter)