My sampan can be upgraded

Chapter 5 Binding
The old man Grant was still sitting on the recliner at the door smoking, with a pot of tea beside him. From time to time, he would pick up the tea pot and take a sip directly at the spout.

"Grandpa Grant, the humidity is heavy at night, lying outside is not good for your health!" Ling Qi reminded.

"Xiaoqi, have you finished watching the excitement? Grandpa is an old bone. He has experienced many ups and downs, so he doesn't care about this little moisture!" Even so, he got up and pulled the recliner into the room.

"It's already late tonight, so don't fix things, go back and rest early." The old man took the teapot from Ling Qi's hand and advised.

Ling Qi said that he is still very energetic and wants to go in and find something useful.Catwoman slept for a few hours in the afternoon, and was not sleepy at this time, and followed him energetically.

"Then look for it yourself, and close the door when you leave!" After the old man finished speaking, he went to the small room where he lived.

Ling Qi dragged Catwoman into the scrap yard, and skillfully turned on the lights.

This is a courtyard house of more than 200 square meters. In addition to the small bedroom of the old man, there is also a small facade next to the main entrance. The shelves inside are filled with repaired second-hand items.

Some confirmed items that can only be recycled as waste are piled up in the yard, and those that still have some repair value are piled up in the main house and wing rooms.

There is a small backyard behind the main house, Ling Qi went straight here, looking at the small sampan in the corner.

"Xiao Rou, play next to me, brother, please be busy for a while!" Ling Qi took a chair for the little cat girl to sit on, and then stepped forward to put his hands on the small sampan.

"The damaged sampan was found, the main body was damaged by 28%, the anti-gravity energy matrix was damaged by 35%, the energy output line was damaged by 19%, the control system was damaged by 37%, the thruster was missing, the energy tank was missing, and the energy block was missing. It belongs to the owner. Cannot be bound as the captain's car."

The small sampan is three meters long, with an upturned head, [-] meters at the widest point in the middle, and a tail about [-] meters wide.

This is similar to a small open-top motorboat on the water, with a simple control system. There is a windshield in front of the captain's seat, a steering wheel under it, and four passenger seats behind. Each seat has a small backrest, armrests, and safety belts.

The energy tank and two propellers at the tail have been disassembled, and the energy block is even more impossible to exist.

Ling Qi knew that according to the original setting, the captain's maintenance skills can be repaired by one level, and the damage degree of the device is less than 40%. This shows that he can completely repair this sampan. The propeller is installed.

But he knew that there were no damaged propellers and energy tanks in the scrap yard, so he needed to find another way, or buy a second-hand one online.

He trotted out to find Grant, and called through the door: "Grandpa Grant, can you give me the damaged sampan in the backyard? I can buy it with credits!"

"You don't need to buy it, just take it if you want it!" The old man responded in the room.

When Ling Qi returned to the backyard and reached out to touch the sampan again, the prompt he got had turned into an inquiry about whether to bind it as the captain's car.

"Binding!" Ling Qi confirmed in his consciousness.

A ray of light that only Ling Qi could see flowed between Sampan and him, and he felt the connection between himself and Sampan, and Sampan seemed to become a part of him, with the details and performance fully presented in his mind.

"The binding of the captain's car is successful. After binding, it can only be modified and upgraded, and cannot be changed. Important reminder: the ship is still alive, and the ship is destroyed. Please treat your car well!..."

Ling Qi was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat, the boat was destroyed and people were killed. This was not included in his original settings, so he really has to be careful to protect the car in the future!
"Turn on the captain's car upgrade mode, and awaken the only passive ship combat skill: evolution (automatic modification and upgrade)."

"Evolution: The car has been continuously modified to improve local performance. When the conditions are met, it can be upgraded to a higher-level car to achieve overall performance improvement and shape change."

"Obtain [-] cubic meters of shipboard space, which can be continuously expanded with the upgrade of the car. . . . "

Ship combat skill is a skill used when using a car to fight. This upgraded passive skill is a unified setting for all warships.Ling Qi was a little annoyed, he knew that he would travel like this, so he set up a few more passive skills against the sky.

"Repair the energy output system first!" Ling Qi issued an order, and the "repair" skill was activated.

The streamer on the energy output system of the sampan flickered, and then a progress bar was displayed, which quickly read from 0 to 100%, and a reminder of successful repair appeared: "The repair target is small, and the required energy can be output from the energy of the captain's body. The repair is successful !"

Ling Qi felt a sense of emptiness in his body, and only then did he realize that this kind of maintenance consumes energy, which was not clear in his original setting.

"In the future, we will try our best to carry out maintenance on the hull, and use the energy output of the ship itself to supply the maintenance needs." Ling Qi immediately figured out the trick.

The captain's space is ten cubic meters. It doesn't care about the shape of the objects to be stored, but only calculates the volume, and all objects are placed separately without confusion.

After Ling Qi cleaned up, he put the small sampan into the captain's space.He thought that even if he could put the sampan in the captain's space, it would fill up the space, but he found that after binding it as a car, the sampan in the captain's space did not lose any volume.

"Meow?"

Kitty Catwoman has been quietly watching Ling Qi's work, but when she sees the sampan disappear suddenly, she stares around in a daze.

"Shh!"

Ling Qi made a signal to her to keep quiet, and she realized that her brother had taken it away, so she couldn't help wagging her tail a few times.

Ling Qi checked the materials that the sampan might use, and then rummaged through a lot, and collected them into the shipboard space.He knows that when the ship undergoes some major repairs and upgrades, various raw materials will need to be provided.

According to the quantity and price of the materials collected, he transferred a credit to Grant.

After several experiences, he has already figured out some context. If the owner's item is not purchased or approved, it cannot be used on the car.

An hour had passed by the time all this was done.Ling Qi saw that the lights in Grant's room had been turned off, and knew that he was resting, so he didn't bother him. After turning off the door light of the scrap yard, he took the catwoman home.

It was about one kilometer from the waste station to the small wooden house where he lived, and further inside was the center of the town, some big manors of rich people.

Minglanxing is a new star of remote immigrants. The primitive economy of the landform is backward, but the technology in this world is very advanced, the infrastructure of the town is very good, the asphalt road is wide and flat, and the solar lamps on the lampposts on both sides illuminate the road brightly.

When Ling Qi passed by a restaurant, he took the little cat girl to have another supper to make up for the consumption of using the maintenance skills just now.He also bargained with the boss and packed away all the leftover food that day at a very low price. He carried at least 30 catties in his hand.After returning home, he put the food into the captain's space, where it would not go bad for a long time.

The wooden house they rented was located among a group of wooden houses, and it was a piece of cheap public rental housing. Of course, it was still not a small burden for Ling Qi in the past.

Although it is only a one-story small wooden house, the roof and walls are covered with solar photovoltaic panels, and the energy is collected and supplied by the town, so the temperature control in the house is very suitable, and the most basic living conditions are actually not bad.

"It's even better than the basement compartment I lived in in my previous life, Bei Piao." Ling Qi suddenly had such an idea.

After they washed, Catwoman went to bed first. Ling Qi raised his wrist and turned on the Internet access function of the communicator. A virtual touch screen was projected in front of him, automatically detecting and adjusting the distance and orientation, and it was always [-] centimeters in front of Ling Qi.

He started browsing the online second-hand stores in some nearby county towns.

After keyword search, a large amount of product information is listed below:
"Sampan special second-hand energy warehouse, 60% new, with [-] standard units of energy blocks, [-] credit points, and delivery within the same city."

"Sampan special second-hand energy warehouse, 90% new, with 750 standard unit energy blocks, [-] credit points, and delivery within the same city."

……

"Sampan's special second-hand energy warehouse, 100% new, free [-] standard units of energy blocks, [-] credits, and delivery within the same city."

The energy block is equivalent to a super battery, but this energy block cannot be recharged by itself, it needs to be recycled and operated by a professional manufacturer, and it is a consumable.The energy bin is a device that extracts and outputs the energy of the energy block, such as an engine.

Energy blocks are only suitable for small facilities. Large-scale gadgets like spaceships and battleships need to use mid-to-high-level energy bins with their own charging devices and self-reactors.

Ling Qi decided to buy a [-]% new one. Anyway, he can repair it if it is damaged, and he believes that the ship will be upgraded soon, so there is no need to buy it too good.

The price of an energy block is generally one credit point corresponding to two standard units of energy. For a sampan with one hundred standard units of energy, it can theoretically drive [-] kilometers without a load.But the weight has increased and the energy output is also large, so naturally it won't take that long.

After Ling Qi placed the order, the shopkeeper said that the distance was only more than 100 kilometers, and he could arrange for someone to drive a sampan to deliver the goods immediately, and the goods would arrive within two hours at most, and asked him if there was anything he needed to buy by the way.

Ling Qi was taken aback, the service is so good?It is already ten o'clock now, and it will be more than twelve o'clock when it is delivered here. Most people go to bed early.But the other party is so active, he is not good at attacking others.

"I need two used propellers for sampans, even if they are slightly damaged, I can repair them myself!"

"No sampan, but I happen to have two sets of air speedboats, [-]% new, the maximum speed output is [-] times that of the sampan, and can be refitted to the sampan. The price of conscience is [-] credits, do you want it?"

"Yes, give me a link!" Ling Qi shot decisively.

The top speed of the sampan is only about 80 kilometers per hour, but the air speedboat can reach 200 kilometers.The sampan is modified to such a high speed that it is generally not used, and the wind resistance is too large, but it is very important for escaping in a crisis.

Place an order and pay in advance.The [-] credits I just bought have almost bottomed out, so I'm waiting for the other party to deliver the goods.

Ling Qi glanced at Catwoman and saw that she was asleep, so she gently opened the door and walked out of the room, locked the door again, and carefully checked the surroundings.

That guy Ling Fei will definitely do something tonight, but he hasn't seen any movement yet, so he probably won't come until late at night.He returned to the room, thinking about how to further modify his car.

"After the repair is completed, the system should prompt you with the requirements for the upgrade." Ling Qi thought for a while, and then simply gave up thinking about it. It doesn't make much sense to modify such a rudimentary car.

Two hours later, the purchased goods were delivered to the coordinates reserved by Ling Qi, and Ling Fei and others have not yet come to make trouble.Ling Qi receives the goods and confirms the payment.

After noticing that there were no abnormalities in the surroundings, he moved the things back into the house, tidied up a space, and then impatiently took out the sampan.

"Found the second-stage thruster, is it equipped?"

"Found the second-stage thruster, is it equipped?"

"I found the sampan energy warehouse, is it equipped?"

"I found the sampan energy block, is it equipped?"

(End of this chapter)