Walk alone in the abyss

"This energy defense shield really consumes dark energy batteries."

On a medium-sized transport ship with a full load.

Yang Ming fondly played with the light shield gloves, the lightsaber flashlight, and the dark gray high-level combat uniform, and kept admiring.

Kolev sat in the driver's seat, humming a little tune and observing the various operation panels, feeling very happy.

In the back seat, the two middle-aged uncles stared at Yang Ming who was sitting in the passenger seat.

The corners of the back row, the corners of her mouth and the corners of her eyes were all swollen, and Mimily was admiring the photos projected on the watch, laughing from time to time, and completely lost her ladylike appearance when they first met.

"Oh, Hunton!"

A middle-aged uncle couldn't help admiring: "How did you do it, there are more than a dozen of them, only a few times hit you!"

Yang Ming smiled without saying a word.

Because he couldn't act too shocking, he deliberately used his back to carry a few tickling attacks.

The two unimportant uncles kept admiring:

"Your fighting skills are too strong! I don't know how perverted you can be with a lightsaber!"

"I saw Mimily being beaten by them. Hanton, you just pulled a steel pipe and rushed up! Oh yes, Mimily, how is your injury?"

Mimi Li covered half of her swollen face and asked innocently, "Am I hurt?"

The three in the back row laughed together.

Kolev scolded with a smile: "Come on, you guys are vulgar and vulgar. You don't have the elegance and calmness that professional pirates should have at all. It's extremely irrational to fight hand-to-hand on the street at any age! Think about it, some How many great captains have died in ordinary streets! Are these lessons not enough?"

Mimi Li's eyes were full of fire, she stared at Yang Ming and said, "Can you teach me fighting skills, Uncle Hanton?"

"this……"

Yang Ming looked at Kolev.

This is another price.

"What a good regiment leader needs is not to charge into the battle, but to preside over the overall situation," Kolev said in a persuasive manner, "You have to remember Mimily, there will be no real gains in showing off your verbal quickness. When facing the enemy, You have to be calm, sensible, and graceful, so that your partner can think of you as reliable."

Mimily nodded thoughtfully.

Really, if Yang Ming hadn't seen the following scene on the bridge of his own pirate ship half an hour later, he would have almost believed the old man's words.

Kolev rolled up his sleeves and held a big wrench in his hand. His face was flushed and his beard was flying. He pointed at the projection screen in front of him and cursed:

"Take care of your lamb Leoton! She insulted my daughter first! I really want to stick your big nose up your asshole! When I robbed the New Federation merchant ship, you were still doing errands on my ship! Fuck you! If you want to hit, hit it!"

The burly man in the projection screen did not give in too much:

"Kolev, you old bastard! You must have fallen in love with the big hips of the prisoners in Cole Harbor! Hahaha! This is not your era, Kolev! Kimo is ten times stronger than you! Ten times!"

"Main gun storage!"

"Full cannon charge!"

"Damn it! Fucked them!"

The toothless old sailor quickly opened the protective cover.

"Kill these shameless people! They should learn a lesson! Let them know who my old lady is!"

The granny in the apron lights up the fire control button.

The bridges on both sides were suddenly busy.

Yang Ming grabbed the lightsaber hanging from his waist, and said in a deep voice, "Give me an assault boat, two sets of space breathing devices, and you will give all the energy to the protective shield!"

The bustling bridge was quiet for two seconds.

Then it became noisy again, with vulgar language everywhere.

Kolev cursed for a while, and took a picture of the communication with the other ship.

The two pirate ships confronted each other for a while, wrapped in protective shields, and then began to retreat slowly, with their gun barrels aimed at each other, and then gradually accelerated out of the effective range of the opponent's ion main guns and ultra-high-speed missiles.

Yang Ming: ...

The only feeling is that he really wants to kill the other party?

"This captain has been in the starry sky for decades, and he has never lost a fight with scolding!"

Kolev blew his beard proudly, then looked at the expressionless Yang Ming, and spread his hands in a little embarrassment: "This is the way pirates get along, you have to get used to it."

Yang Ming turned his head and walked away: "I have requisitioned the gymnasium on the ship, please try to avoid it when I am here, thank you."

Kolev's old face continued to beam brightly, and he began to talk about the thrilling scolding battles over the years.

Mimi Li looked at the back of Yang Ming leaving, and suppressed the urge to catch up.

She needs to think about how to make this powerful uncle get closer to her.

...

"I didn't expect that in the real galactic civilization, it would be so expensive to get a ship."

Yang Ming continued to sigh.

He fiddled with the weightlifting pole casually, the two ends of the weightlifting pole were bent downwards, and the metal cakes were piled up to the brim, but Yang Ming's arms didn't sweat at all.

He locked the door of the gym and covered the two cameras, otherwise he wouldn't dare to play like this directly.

'It is necessary to strengthen the exercise. '

The Valkyrie might appear in front of him at some point with a sword in his hand, and no matter how powerful he can build behind him, personal strength will always be the most solid guarantee.

Yang Ming continued to recall the expensive black market offers for those medium-sized pirate ships.

A new ship that could meet his needs cost four million federal credits.

Even if it is to buy a second-hand boat, the boat in better condition will cost more than three million New Federal Credit Coins. The black market does not accept loans and mortgages.

Moreover, the bulk of the cost of a ship lies in its use and maintenance.

The jump technology includes four steps—determining the coordinates, coating into the subspace, opening the transition pathway, and performing space jumps. The energy required for coating and opening the transition pathway is very large, and the requirements for energy density are also quite stringent.

This determines that a spaceship with a leap function must be at least 65 meters in size.

(Distinguishing ships by length is for convenience and intuition. In fact, many factors should be considered in the function and value of ships.)

The problem of energy is easy to solve. There are many "Dyson Cloud" charging stations on the busy star roads of the Milky Way. The travel expenses required for a normal commercial voyage are about 1% of the overall price of the ship.

But the purpose of Yang Ming's ship is to find the omnic Twilight, which is remote and not on a busy commercial road. This requires that the spaceship driven by Yang Ming must have enough volume to load more and better dark energy reaction batteries. , and an ultra-high-speed engine suitable for direct sailing.

Ideally, Yang Ming would like to drive the spaceship there by himself, which requires a set of valuable auxiliary driving systems and a certain number of hull maintenance robots.

And because of the limitations of the various agreements of the Galaxy omnic, ordinary ship-borne robots are limited in their own capabilities, and the premium for a system of ship-borne maintenance robots is quite high.

Yang Ming now understands why most of the difficulty of operation and acquisition is simplified in the "Abyss" game. Battleships and legions also require large capital and large groups to play well.

A spaceship is a money shredder!

Yang Ming needs to prepare at least 10 million new federal credit coins!

‘I, the lesser ancient god life form, am very short of money. '

Of course, Yang Ming could recruit a group of cheap crew members and slaughter them after finding the omnic Twilight; but Yang Ming felt that such behavior was not acceptable to him.

There is always a bottom line in being a human being.

"Let's find a way to make money."

Yang Ming handed the 'dumbbell' to the other hand, and continued to think about making money.

In fact, I also have many advantages:

He is helping a broken pirate group, and the old leader Kolev is worth a lot;

He has a ready-made team to use, although half of the members are in their 70s and 80s.

‘I’m going to be a pirate next time? '

Yang Ming frowned and kept thinking.

When he went to the black market this time, Kolev bought two boxes of gene stabilization fluid for him, and he also harvested three pieces of individual equipment, which can be regarded as possessing a certain combat effectiveness.

Kolev talked to him about the cooperation intention before, and Kolev will make a plan, and after Yang Ming helps them, he will get a considerable reward.

Moreover, Yang Ming had already set his sights on a fat sheep, and he would not feel any guilt if he went to chop off this fat sheep.

"Hendon, is it convenient for me to come in?"

Kolev's voice came from the horn in the corner.

"Hold on!"

Yang Ming glanced at the large barbell in his hand, quickly put it down gently, and rolled down most of the discus on it, and then replied calmly:

"Come in, my wise mate!"

"What are you doing here?"

Kolev appeared behind the door with Mimily, looked around suspiciously, and immediately got down to business:

"According to my information, Kimo is on his way here. He brought two ships, a 300-meter-class main gunboat, which I converted from a retired warship into the Black Dragon. There is also a ship that will A 100-meter-class integrated combat ship."

"Oh," Yang Ming laughed, "Then we should run away quickly."

"Yes," Kolev said, "Kimo is a full-fledged pirate, and I admire this villainous thug. Since he only brought two ships this time, then these two ships should be his confidantes."

Mimily's bruised pretty face was full of depression.

Yang Ming smiled and said, "Four years can really change a lot of things."

Kolev said seriously: "No, pirates are like this in their bones. They obey the strong and fear the strong. The others should be waiting for me and Kimo to decide the outcome, just like the replacement of the old and new lion kings."

"Then what are you going to do? Don't worry, my elderly first mate, for the sake of those two boxes of gene stabilization fluid, I will help you solve some troubles."

"I had a plan in my mind just now," Kolev said, "I have an excellent hiding place, and that is the retreat I have prepared for many years. I have to get some accessories to upgrade this ship, so that I can talk to them It’s a decisive battle head-on, but it will take a certain amount of time.”

Yang Ming thought for a few seconds: "Is there a way to drag them to the ground battlefield?"

"This is not a good idea," Kolev said, "A main gunship suspended in the low-earth orbit of a planet has a strong dominant force. Although the ion cannon will wear out in the atmosphere, as long as the atmosphere is softened first, it will still Can exert a good power, we can only escape temporarily."

Yang Ming folded his arms, frowned and asked, "Then what's the problem now?"

"Before making the leap, I need to have a conversation with Kimo."

Kolev said:

"They all followed me, and the ships they drove were all rebuilt by me. I have to declare this and gain the moral upper hand. Many pedantic pirates will care about this, so that they can pry open their not close relationship.

"Can you help me be the new face, Hutton interim first mate.

"You just need to put on a metal mask and let them know that I'm cultivating fresh blood, and that's enough."

Yang Ming rubbed the tip of his nose, and pointed to the fitness equipment-shaped metal block beside him.

"Need me to hold these things up behind you? How about some visual demonstrations and intimidation?"

Kolev's forehead was covered with black lines.

Oh these stupid tall muscular men!

"Don't dress up too conspicuously, the first mate who always steals the captain's limelight is unqualified!"