Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 18 Another Way

Chen Ming stood on solid ground.

The world in front of him is full of unknown but extremely new things to him.

Not just those purple plants that look similar to the green plants on the planet, but are different in color.

Chen Ming could see several new creatures that he had never seen before just by turning his eyes.

There were so many new things here that Chen Ming suddenly felt a little confused.

If you want to obtain crops that can be grown with high yield and short growth cycle, where do you start?Where are suitable crops most likely to grow?
Chen Ming's eyes unconsciously diverged and he fell into thinking.

However, Chen Ming did not dwell on this issue for too long, nor did he dwell on where to start looking.

Instead, he directly chose the stupidest, but also the most direct and practical method.

Start with your feet.

Chen Ming squatted on the ground and pulled up a handful of purple grass blades under his feet.

After taking photos using the built-in shooting function of the advanced plant analyzer, a small section was taken as a sample and put into the analyzer.

A line of small characters appeared on the analyzer's display.

【Analyzing……】

Then it turned into a dozen lines of densely packed small characters.

Contains various properties of this purple grass blade.

However, most of the analyzed results have no practical significance to Chen Ming.

Because for Chen Ming now, it is enough to only read the first two lines.

[Name: Purple Orchid Grass]

[Edibility: Not edible]

The results of this analysis were within Chen Ming's expectations.

Chen Ming didn't expect to find suitable crops as soon as he landed on the planet, so he had more patience now.

After throwing away the clump of grass, Chen Ming noticed that a small insect flew out of the discarded clump of grass and settled on another blade of grass.

Chen Ming stared at the chubby little bug and suddenly realized something.

Meat is also a kind of food.

If Chen Ming wants to survive half a year in space, he can't just rely on the cultivation cabin.

Hunting can also yield large amounts of food.

If you can fill an entire freezer with meat, it shouldn't be a problem even if it lasts for another three months.

Chen Ming's thinking was restricted because of the planting cabin.

Now I suddenly saw an active creature and reacted immediately.

And Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about whether some animals on Ramu are poisonous.

Since the existence of empty jellyfish could be retrieved in the terminal before, other animals must also be retrieved.

Even if you do encounter an unknown animal, you don’t know if you can eat it.

It's not that Chen Ming doesn't have a solution.

He found several handy tools left behind by previous crew members in the living quarters.

Among them is something called an edibility analyzer.

Can be used to help tell whether something is edible.

If it really doesn't work, it's the worst thing you can do if you don't eat.

Chen Ming followed the idea of ​​hunting and thought of something.

That is, you can observe the behavior of those animals during hunting. If they are herbivorous animals, then they may also eat the plants they eat.

If you can eat it, that's the best. If you can't eat it, you still have the animals you're targeting as a guarantee.

Chen Ming's train of thought suddenly became clear.

After watching the little bug disappear into the grass, Chen Ming stood up and returned to the spacecraft.

Not to fly the spaceship, but to make other preparations.Preparation for the hunt.

Although the terrain where I landed was relatively flat, the surrounding area was basically still woods with lush foliage.

The low-altitude flight of the spacecraft is likely to scare them and cause them to hide.

When the spacecraft's field of view is limited by the woods, it is easy to miss animals hiding in them.
Therefore, you cannot directly use a spaceship to hunt animals, you can only rely on Chen Ming himself.

Therefore, Chen Ming planned to modify the pistol he picked up from the space station to use it as a hunting tool and a guarantee for his own safety.

Although this pistol is not part of the spacecraft, Chen Ming only needs to place the pistol in any cabin of the spacecraft, and the object column on the panel of that cabin will show its existence.

Then the faceplate of the pistol can be displayed in front of Chen Ming.

[9mm semi-electromagnetic excitation pistol]

[Manufacturer: Cinda Rockwell Arms Company]

[Ammunition preparation: 5/7]

[Durability: 79%]

[Available operations: repair/renovation]

As Chen Ming expected, the pistol also has two options: repair and modification.

When Chen Ming pressed the repair button, the pistol's bullets were filled up just like when the machine gun was being repaired.

As long as Chen Ming brings enough repair materials when he travels later, and as long as his spirit can hold on, then it is equivalent to a pistol with unlimited bullets.

Then there's the makeover.

Although Chen Ming had basically been looking at the modification manuals for ship weapons and the spacecraft itself.

But Chen Ming has also read some firearm modification manuals, and many times the modification of firearms is common to ship weapons.

Therefore, there are many ways to modify firearms, including various accessories, various external devices, various modifications to the gun body itself, etc.

Similar options like this make the modified panel of the pistol much larger than the panels of other equipment that Chen Ming has modified.

Chen Ming took a final look and chose six of the transformation options.

The first is [Caliber modification (.45)]. As this pistol will be used as a hunting and self-defense weapon in the future, Chen Ming only needs its caliber to be moderate, not too small, and not too big.

The second is [Extended Magazine (20)]. When Chen Ming first saw this modification option, he was a little surprised and didn’t quite understand it.

Because Chen Ming thought that the expanded magazine was actually just an accessory of the pistol that could be replaced at any time.

But since it is placed on the modification panel, Chen Ming will naturally not miss the opportunity to improve the capabilities of firearms.

Although you can refill the gun by relying on the panel, repairing it always takes time, and a larger magazine means greater error tolerance.

Of course, being too big is not good either. The excessive weight of the firearm may cause some problems that are not good for people like Chen Ming who are purely relying on exploration and have no experience in using guns.

For example, the gun is not held steadily, and the physical strength is not enough to wear it for a long time.

Chen Ming thought that a 20-round magazine would be more suitable.

Then there is the [armor-piercing warhead]. When Chen Ming saw this modification, the same thought flashed through his mind as when he saw the expanded magazine.

This was even more extreme. It was just a modification of the consumables of the pistol, and Chen Ming didn't even know how to include it.

But Chen Ming didn't hesitate. No matter what the transformation was, it just needed to be easy to use.

Although Chen Ming has never hunted himself, he once heard someone say that to hunt animals, it is enough to let the bullet pass through the animal's fatal organ.

So the penetrating power of the bullet is very important.

The remaining three modifications are also accessories. [Flashlight] and [Red Dot Sight] have nothing to say.

The last [muffler] was specially found by Chen Ming when he saw other accessories.

Chen Ming felt that this thing was the most important thing for him to hunt in the future.

However, after these six choices were determined, Chen Ming got off the spaceship again.

At least today, after repairing the spacecraft's armor, Chen Ming has no extra energy to modify the pistol and spaceship weapons.

However, Chen Ming is not without things to do. He can still search for the kind of strange plants he needs within the protection range of the spacecraft.

(End of this chapter)