Chapter 10: Overall Quality: Rare!

The keel.

Is the foundation of every spaceship and warship.

Just like a car’s chassis or a house’s foundation.

It also determines the size of the starship.

The importance of the keel is definitely in the first tier.

After the keel was integrated, it didn't mean the evolution regarding the keel was over.

One still had to integrate corresponding metals and materials based on the direction of evolution!

While improving its quality, it could better fit with other components.

There was even more to learn here.

Before fusing the metals and materials.

Xu Zi'an first looked at the current parameters of the *Cui Can*.

Other parameters remained unchanged, but the keel’s parameters had changed from [Inferior] to [Common] quality.

Spaceship quality, from low to high, is—

Inferior; Common; Fine; Rare; Excellent; Perfect.

The higher the quality, the stronger the attributes in all aspects!

And once it reached Fine quality, it would gain additional traits.

Such as increased strength, and so on.

What Xu Zi'an had to do now.

Was to see what the highest quality he could evolve the *Cui Can*’s keel to!

Several hours later.

As piece after piece of metal, alloy, and composite material was integrated.

The quality of the keel had reached the Rare level!

However, before Xu Zi'an could be excited for even a second—

Suddenly, a crack appeared on the keel. ===== CHAPTER 21 =====

A line of data appeared above it:

[Fluorescent Radium Gold has ultra-high strength but lacks toughness; the starship keel itself has high strength, but it is brittle and prone to snapping. Please integrate materials that can improve toughness!]

This prompt from the system let Xu Zi'an know where the problem lay.

Not only that, it also listed a lot of data, such as many metals that didn't need to be integrated, which not only failed to increase the keel’s quality but actually lowered it.

"This is too powerful!"

Xu Zi'an was incredulous: "With this kind of teaching method...

Wouldn't anyone be able to become an Evolutionist?"

Xu Zi'an was excited.

He suddenly felt that the path of the Evolutionist had completely opened its arms to him!

He took a deep breath.

He noted down where he had made mistakes and thought about what method of evolution could achieve better results.

For a time, he was completely immersed in the vast and profound ocean of knowledge regarding starship evolution.

He had no sense of the passage of time.

After days of selfless study.

Xu Zi'an’s improvement was as fast as a rocket!

In his eighth month of study.

A *Cui Can* that had truly transformed into a starship, having undergone a super makeover, was fresh out of the oven.

Overall quality—

Inferior!

Estimated cost: 540,000!

Evolution value consumption: 135!

Xu Zi'an chose to start over immediately.

A truly great Evolutionist.

Uses fewer resources to build the most powerful starship!

His skill was still far from enough.

The ninth month.

The *Cui Can* looked different again.

It looked even more ferocious.

Overall quality: Common!

Estimated cost: 490,000!

Evolution value consumption: 128!

Start over again!

Twenty days later.

Overall quality: Fine!

Estimated cost: 530,000!

Evolution value consumption: 131!

Another twenty days...

Time and time again.

Xu Zi'an kept trying, and also crazily absorbed the massive knowledge of the Dao of Evolution.

Finally!

On the last day of the twelfth month!

A brand-new starship, 52 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 4 meters high, sat quietly before him.

From this starship, one could no longer see its original appearance at all.

Or rather.

There wasn't a trace left of the Wuling Interstellar Mini Little Ball.

A huge main cannon barrel stood at the bow, its 88cm caliber displaying its terrifying lethality.

This was a pulse cannon, powered by a pulse propulsion engine, firing pulse projectiles.

On both sides of the starship were two thermal-dynamic secondary cannons each...

So-called thermal-dynamic weapons are similar to firearms among thermal weapons.

Even in the interstellar era, thermal weapons have not exited the historical stage.

One cannot deny that laser weapons, pulse weapons, photon weapons, ion weapons, plasma weapons, and even antimatter weapons and dark matter weapons... are indeed fierce and powerful.

But!

They each have their own pros and cons.

These weapons are all affected by a series of cosmic phenomena, sometimes resulting in failure or decreased power.

While thermal weapons...

Use thermal explosion energy to propel the warhead for attack, making them more stable.

Although the power is much smaller, and the capacity is also much smaller.

They win on stability!

There was another reason for choosing thermal weapons for the secondary cannons.

The starship space was truly limited; after careful consideration, he used the nuclear thermal energy of the super-light-speed propulsion engine to trigger the warheads.

This way, the main cannon’s kinetic energy came from the pulse engine, and the secondary cannons’ kinetic energy came from the super-light-speed propulsion engine...

Directly reducing the area occupied by the main and secondary cannons’ separate power sources, allowing for more ammunition storage.

Of course, the disadvantages were also very obvious: once in combat, the burden on the engine was greater, and the consumption of fuel energy was higher.

The starship’s travel distance was greatly limited.

And once the engine was attacked and stalled, the main and secondary cannons would be equivalent to fire pokers.

Even if only one of the two super-light-speed engines failed, it would cause the two secondary cannons to become fire pokers.

Furthermore, the main and secondary cannons occupied part of the engine’s kinetic energy, which had a certain impact on the starship’s flexibility and speed.

These could be considered the biggest weaknesses of this starship.

But it didn't matter!

Xu Zi'an had reinforced the armor for both the super-light-speed engines and the pulse jump engines, so it wasn't a particularly big problem.

The consumption of fuel energy wasn't a problem either, as Xu Zi'an didn't plan on going too far anyway.

Within a radius of fifteen light-years, he believed there would be no problem at all!

As for the final flexibility and speed...

That wasn't a big problem either.

The engines he bought were mid-to-high-end entry-level models, and since he had specifically evolved their attributes, the speed and flexibility wouldn't be worse than average!

They might even be stronger!

Because the quality of both the super-light-speed engine and the pulse jump engine had reached the Rare level!

Finally, there were the two anti-aircraft guns, located at the front and back of the starship.

The anti-aircraft guns used separate photon cannon bases; the characteristic of photon cannons is their extremely fast firing rate, making them most appropriate for anti-aircraft and interception.

The reason the anti-aircraft guns were set up on separate bases... one couldn't rely entirely on the engine’s kinetic energy, right?

Once the engine had a problem, the anti-aircraft guns had separate bases, so at least he wouldn't just sit there and get beaten up!

Looking at the overall quality of the starship again—

Overall quality: Rare

Estimated cost: 520,000

Evolution value consumption: 132!

This.

Was the result of Xu Zi'an’s crazy efforts for a year!

... ===== CHAPTER 22 =====