Chapter 973 Prepare for transformation
Hall's ability must be trustworthy, because Alyssa knew Perla, and there was no way she would let a rookie be her chief pilot.
As for loyalty?
Recyclers do not require loyalty, only dedication. As long as you can complete the tasks I give you.
So Alyssa nodded and agreed without much hesitation.
She is indeed lacking someone right now.
Li Chengqi, who was watching the whole process, was a little bit happy. He didn't expect that I actually had a crush on a girl.
But having said that, I wonder what the expression on Hall's face was when she found out that the pilot she was looking for was Li Chengqi...
In short, even if this matter is settled, the Swan needs to stay at the Royalist base for repairs, which will take a few days anyway.
Especially when the royalists showed Alyssa a repair list, they felt that it would definitely not be done in a day or two.
After the Swan is repaired, they can continue to chase the starship. During this time, everyone can only squat in the royalist base and move around freely.
Li Chengqi looked at the situation of Viola and Yang Yiyi, made sure there was nothing else, and went back to catch up on his sleep while yawning.
Everyone started taking action at midnight, which was four o'clock in the morning for Li Chengqi. He had to get up early. Now that he had nothing to do, he went back to sleep.
After all, he doesn't go to work.
When he opened his eyes again, it was almost noon. He went to the bathroom to wash up, and then came back and sat on the sofa to figure out what takeout to order for breakfast and lunch.
Just then Gan Xiaoyan called.
In fact, it's not a big deal. It means that the organization behind Rachel, who was caught by Li Chengqi before, seems to have sent people from Starlight Academy, saying that they are negotiating with Jiuke and trying to redeem Rachel.
Jiu Ke, as the national representative, must be in charge of handling this matter, but it was Li Chengqi who arrested him to show respect. Of course, you have to ask Li Chengqi what he means and see if he wants to be present during the negotiations.
Of course, Li Chengqi is not interested in this kind of trivial matter at all. He can just tell me the result after telling Gan Xiaoyan.
The matter of going to Lei's house last time has been settled, but it seems that the aftermath has not subsided yet. Anyway, nine departments are following up, and Li Chengqi just wants to hear the results.
After hanging up Gan Xiaoyan's call, Leilei called again immediately.
Similarly, it’s not a big deal, just a simple chat, by the way, about the Lingbao Heavenly Palace.
It is said that the restoration of Lingbao Heavenly Palace is going very smoothly, but it will have to wait until at least the end of the year for the repair to be completed. Therefore, Leilei cannot come back for the time being and can only squat in her hometown and help repair Lingbao Heavenly Palace very hard.
It’s really hard. Lei’s house doesn’t even have electricity, let alone the Internet. Leilei has to run out first before calling Li Chengqi. In this environment, Li Chengqi, who has adapted to modern life, may not even need three days. He has to go crazy.
At the end of the phone call, Lei Lei told Li Chengqi to be careful. Lei Lei had also heard about Rachel. Compared to official organizations like Jiu Ke, Lei Lei looked at problems from a more personal perspective. She was more worried about Rachel. Will the Starlight Academy behind the scenes find Li Chengqi because of this? Even if they don't know, it would still be a headache to do it secretly.
Li Chengqi promised happily, but in fact he didn't agree.
Just come if you come. At worst, I will fly to Europe physically and give him my hometown of Starlight Academy.
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After hurriedly eating some takeaway, Li Chengqi sat back in the space capsule. Since the computer was not turned off when I went back to sleep, the screen still showed the secret base of the royalists. A group of people had just moved the Swan to the dock of the ship repair yard. They were now performing a ceremony to appease the machine spirit and were preparing to start work on dismantling the engine. repair.
I have to say, it feels weird every time I see them holding a censer, burning incense, and praying to appease the machine spirits...
Alyssa helped the royalists find the princess, which was the most important honor for the royalists. Although the princess was not awake yet, she just needed to be there.
This was quite important, and the royalists were extremely grateful to Alyssa for it.
Of course, this kind of gratitude doesn't just stop at words.
At first, the royalists wanted to pay Alyssa a large sum of money, but then they thought about it. The large flow of funds might make the rebels in the Red Maple Republic aware of it. After all, the royalists were in a latent state and were not yet revived. Royal time.
Since funds are not available, we can directly express our gratitude in terms of materials.
All the supplies in the entire base, Alyssa can get whatever she wants, and there will never be a single word of "no".
And they also came up with a detailed plan for the maintenance of the Swan.
After the engine is repaired, the royalists plan to replace the Swan with lighter armor plates with better defensive effects, and then install a suspension device.
This is a special device that allows battleships to fly within the atmosphere.
Originally, the Swan had the ability to fly in a gravity-free environment. It is said that after the transformation, it can directly break through the atmosphere as a single ship, turning it from a light cruiser into an assault landing ship.
It's just that after entering the atmosphere, it's more troublesome to return to the void, and you need a boost to break away from the constraints of gravity.
In addition to these two most obvious transformations, the royalist engineers also listed dozens of upgrade and transformation plans, large and small, which Alyssa was stunned to see.
The Swan is a second-hand ship that has not been in service for long, but it is a retired warship after all. It is normal to have a performance gap with the current warships, let alone compared with top warships of the same tonnage.
But warships are not just random bicycles. A type of warship is likely to be in service for decades. In order to facilitate upgrades and transformations during service, all regular army warships have a very large space for upgrades reserved at the beginning of their design. Swan No. is no exception.
It's just that this battleship is used as a reward for the champion of the magic mecha competition, and it has not been upgraded along with other Storm Kingdom battleships.
Now, the royalists said that we will install the latest, most stable and most useful technologies on you.
This exaggerated transformation regardless of cost will greatly improve performance. It is expected that after the transformation is completed, the Swan will be able to fight against high-speed destroyers two levels higher than itself with the tonnage of a light cruiser.
At the same time, the royalist engineers were also very discerning.
They opened the hangar and saw that the hangar could hold six aircraft, but only the Manta Ray and the Silver Cyclone (Zaku 2 exploded), and they immediately brought in four space fighters for their own use.
And one of them is still a powerful model in the experimental stage.
Test machines are also built regardless of cost. Generally, space fighters are stable and mass-produced models of test machines whose performance has been trimmed to reduce costs.
Directly put all the cutting-edge technology to the test.
The cost of this set of modifications alone, plus the value of the space fighter, is definitely not a small amount of money. It is more than enough to build another Swan, not to mention that many of the things in it are not something you can buy with money.
The only thing Alyssa is dissatisfied about is that after this modification, when can we leave the port...
(End of chapter)