<h4>Chapter 208: My Life as a Spaceship Owner II</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Ye Chong began his tough task of handling these mountains of items he had purchased. Mu took over control as Shang could be killed by the boredom of the task.


    The 3rgest rooms were made into metal researchb, alchemy room and mod room respectively and the surrounding rooms around the main control room had been made as the storage, where the mountains of things had been transferred to.


    The metal researchb was not huge but was luxuriously facilitated. Ye Chong was not familiar with metallurgy. Mu made the choices of facilities, which all of them happened to be the most avant-garde models in the market. Well that came with a price, which remained unknown to Ye Chong as all he did was tap his identity card on the paying machine. Frankly speaking, he never checked out the price tag when he took them to the counter. He would be learning metallurgy here, since Mu was quite the expert in it.


    The alchemy room, also aboratory precisely speaking, was fully designed by Ye Chong himself. He had been learning the theoretical aspect of the study but never once he had been exposed to hand-on experience. Now with this new alchemistb, he could perform all sorts of alchemy experiments. And well, those apparatuses inside theb would be driving any alchemist mad on first sight. Self-controlled cultivation machine, thermostatic sma room, duo enzymic mixer… all these luxuries that could only be found in the topboratories were sitting right inside Ye Chong’sb.


    The modification room was thergest among them, which did not only contain a range of devices for mech modification, but also had a set of equipment for skeleton parts production. That was the tricky part however as there was no equipment dedicated for skeleton parts production in the market. Most of the time Ye Chong had to make them from scratch. Thankfully the devices sold in the market were of extreme variety that the mod room Ye Chong owned was way better than the top mod room he used to have at Blue Ocean Academy. As most devices were solely avable on pre-order basis, he had to bear with the standard procedure of pre-ordering and waiting. The arrival was still pretty far away from him.


    Finally, the 3 essential rooms were formed. A sigh of relief from Ye Chong, although he was probably a million light years away frompletion. These apparatuses he purchased from the market were not perfect in Mu’s eyes, as he provided a list of suggestion on modification to each apparatus. No doubt the list took a moment of discussion between Mu and Ye Chong and Ye Chong learned something from it.


    Apparatus modification was way more than a simple change of nut to bolt, as these machines were already densely circuited in the beginning. A slight inuracy, a slip of the hand could permanently damage the machine. The demand of cautious uracy was not something Ye Chong used to. But his learning capabilities helped him out. After destroying a few apparatuses, he mastered the unconventional method of operating them. Ye Chong was expected to have much refined technique in handling these machinespared to the times before. Of course, to make this kind of operation a habitual one, the cost he had to bear was unimaginable for most men.


    Okay… Phase 1pleted. The 3 rooms were furnished. Then… the mech training room, that would be easier. Ye Chong picked thergest storage and ced the training equipments in. Done. Ye Chong could no longer improve his piloting skills by merely striving for mastery. He got to take uracy.


    Ye Chong proceeded to Phase 2.


    Phase 1 felt so angelic and harmless the moment he began the Phase 2 of the modification. It involved modification on the weaponry itself, as Ye Chong stood before the offensive system of the spaceship. He staggered. Those matrixes were just the few of the simpler types of simtion of the offenses for ships Mu imed he could find inside the databank. He was obliged to build it since the Cob would be naturally a giant beeb if they were to encounter any foes who would fire at them. Ye Chong would have to sumb to piloting his mech to try fighting back, abandoning the spaceship in the end.


    Even though the 5 major gxies had clearly prohibited the research and development of space warship, Ye Chong did not seem to be bounded by the terms at all. MPA owned a Double Moon Corvette while ck Coves and Sanctuary also had their own warships. Probably even the Prometheus Group owned a handful of warships as well.


    Ye Chong would absolutely agree to any kind of modification as long as it would increase the chances of safety. I guard my own safety! And my safety guards my own fate!


    And then there Ye Chong was, stumbled upon the modification process, as he realized the process turned out to be the hardest part of the entire n.


    This was the first time Ye Chong was exposed to the firepower aspect of the system, and he realized that he could not understand the simtion at all. He was familiar with the firepower, of the mech that is. The weaponry of a spaceship was grander and moreplicated than the one on mech. It would be unrealistic for Ye Chong to master the working behind spaceship weaponry. The vastness of knowledge behind the simple-looking system would be something one would take forever to capture and be unable to see the end.


    But, one does not understand the weaponry would not mean one is unable to make it, especially when one has Mu by the side.


    The whole operation was broken down into several hundred steps by Mu, in which the detailed instructions were specified. Ye Chong only had to follow the steps exactly the way they were written. Mu would be supervising at the side. So for thepletion of this phase, Ye Chong was totally confident.


    The vitalponent of the entire system would be the instation of electromaic cannon, specifically the tubes. Electromaic cannons would fire up after a very brief moment of charging immense energy. So the tubes would be essential for they must be able to withstand the density of the forces without transmutation urring during the process. Any ordinary metal would have melted before the ammo got fired.


    The metalb had a storage which kept countless premium ores and Ye Chong suddenly remembered that, Mu seemed to know form of multiple kinds of strange alloys. As expected, Mu took out a piece of ck gold ore, with a diameter about half a meter. Ye Chong had once collected a massive amount of ck gold ores at the asteroid belt surrounding the ck Coves, since those ores were the specialty of the, with excellent stats and were used in the masks of the ck Covers and their mechs.


    The ores were convincingly heavy. It took a moment for Ye Chong to lift it up, carried it a few steps unsteadily and tossed it into the Maron-based metal separator that he had bought. He turned back and looked at Mu, who was standing there and did not intend to take out another piece apparently.


    "Mu, that’s it?" Asked Ye Chong in peculiarity, "Is one piece enough?"


    "Mhm, it''s more than sufficient. Producing tubes for an electromaic cannon using ck gold is already considered as a form of resources wastage itself. It is a shame that we do not have lightning stone or extracted crystal reactance in possession, while we would run out of material assuming we are making tubes for nanowave cannon instead." Mu seemed rather helpless when he was unable to carry out the optimal route avable.


    Ye Chong simply did not recognize the rarity of ck gold to understand the context. The war machine of the ck Coves, like Cosmic re for example, contained only a little amount of ck gold. Simrly the amount of ck gold in the masks was hardly noticeable. If it was not that strange space whirlpool which dragged Ye Chong to the depth of the asteroid belt, he would never be able to collect ck gold this much.


    Zink! Zink! Zink! Ye Chong could feel the slight vibration from the little window on the separating machine. Shush! And there he saw the piece of ck gold being fully transformed into a pile of ck powder, which veiled the inside of the machine in ck mist. Very quickly after droplets of ck liquid sshed over the window and flowed downwards to form a ck glossy stream. The inside of the machine was rather bizarre for it was hardly tainted by the liquid.


    The liquid flowed smoothly over the surface and collected at one point, eventually condensed into a piece of metallic cube. Ye Chong opened the window and held it in his hand. It was hefty… strangely hefty, glossing in dark.


    Ye Chong, under the further instruction of Mu, ced the crystallized ck gold into the other alloys he bought from the market. Theb was of minimalist design, so he had to make the tubes one by one. He was a little clumsy at first but he managed to keep up several tubester and he started to feel really easy with the apparatuses in theb. Although he had no idea how most of them worked theoretically, at least he knew how to operate them.


    52 electromaic tubes piled at one corner. Their darkness would chill one from both the outside and the inside. The polished body felt cold in the hands. Compared to those tubes popping out from the factory every few seconds, these tubes were the handmade superior products from theb. Inevitably, the cost would also be a few times of the mass-manufactured products. That was never the 3 musketeers’ concern however.


    Next up, theuncher production, then the tter for electromaic system, the connection of the circuits… Pant… Ye Chong was half dead. Those tasks were not for humans! Really! One could tell the tediousness of the tasks seeing how a superman like Ye Chong copsed.


    Pant… Pant… Relieved Ye Chong. Now, onest step. The instation. Mu had already set up an instation n for this as well. ording to his calction, the 52 tubes could cover up the entire body of the ship. There would not be blind spot opened for vulnerabilities. Mu could not be one strength to lift the tubes this time. Ye Chong hopped onto an engineering mech and set his work running. Installing the tubes was nothing after all the things he had been through producing the tubes.


    He ran through the locations marked by Mu. Those cements were all designed as a concealed gun chamber by nature, so Cob did not look particrly different post instation. Any passerby would have assumed this being an ordinary, harmless Zika spaceship upon first nce.


    The electromaic cannons were the importantponent, one of the importantponents that is. What scattered throughout the corners of the warship was the 180ser firing devices, which operated at a high reaction speed, with agile movements, forming arge coverage of Cob’s firepower about 50 km. This design was aimed to attack any approaching mech detected. At least thesers were easily avable in the market, as most mechs would use them. When Ye Chong ced the order at the counter in his usual nonchnce, the shopkeeper really assumed him being a staff of some major mech manufacturer.


    If Shang was known for his creativity, Mu would be known for his great attention to details. His ns were well connected, with one point supporting the other, like a that would raid anybody in his aim. It would be horrible if Mu ever turned his firearm over you. Mu’s characteristic was demonstrated clearly over his design on the offenses of the ship.


    There were also countless grenadeunchers paired with theser firing devices, as inspired by the vase-shaped grenadeuncher of Yu Di. Those waves of supplementary explosives were exceptionally helpful in a battle. Combining with theser firers, It would surely be a deadly pool if any mech were to approach the Cob.


    The process of installing the firearms was rather boring, since most of the things did not make sense to Ye Chong. The one joy he got to experience was to prepare these colorful supplementary explosives. Fred was great. He saluted. Despite his age, he was still that resourceful and creative.


    So, we finally finished the offensive system! The interior of the Cob had undergone an overhaul, transforming into a real warship, a fearsome warship! Ye Chong spent literally a month on the building, which was beyond his estimation. He looked at the pile of junks, the remnants from his renovation. It was a headache as those were an absolute failure. He then tossed all of them into the crucible and made them into alloy cubes. That would be easier for storage. He had to keep the ce clean since Shang had been nagging at it.


    He oncemented that, "The Cob is the butcher disguised in his handsome look!"


    Phase 3 of the modification… well Ye Chong felt the need to take a break temporarily. Cob was too strong at his offenses while having nearly zero defenses, as his armor was never meant for warring, one could imagine the ship sinking in a few bombardments. But Zika spaceship was known for its size, changing the armor of the ship would be a astronomical operation to work on. Ye Chong could neverplete it only by himself. The second astronomical thing would be amount of rare materials Mu required to match the standard. Ye Chong was not a member of the three forces, he did have a storage of them but those were not going to be sufficient to even te the tip of the ship. Most of the materials were non-existent in the market as well, even though these materials were considered the lettuce and cucumbers if Ye Chong was still at Nine Gates City.


    Regarding the possession of resources, Ye Chong was a beggarpared to those forces in 5 major gxies.


    But whether the three forces being filthy richer than him in resources, why would he care? Not like he would get a share.


    Anyway, save the talking, the ship was finally done. For the engines of the Cobs, they were not that bad, even though Mu had several ns on modification, it would be unrealistic to perform it right now. So Mu, the rational one who foresaw the unequal cost and effect behind this, scrapped the n.


    Ye Chong nned to leave Windstar and make a direct travel to Rainbow after this. It took him way too long to do the basic modification on his giant whale. He felt the time was well spent nevertheless, since being well prepared would mean being likelier to seed. And he believed that Cob was no longer a warship, it had evolved into a space base. Ye Chong even imagined his life wandering on the warship if he never could find a that was good enough to stay. It was not that bad.


    Based on the gctic map… Oh! Ye Chong surprisingly found out the Rainbow being rather close to the Trash, which further convinced him the fact that this Gao Shichang from Prometheus Group could truly be his papa. He was excited. Well, it is natural for humans to lose their calmness and rationality over their beloved.


    And he remembered the fact that his papa was also quite a prodigy in mechs. Then probably Gao Shichang from the corp could very much be his papa.


    Well, those were just spections. If he wanted to verify his spection, he had to pursue it.