Chapter 12

Finally.

The afternoon of the third day!

Evolution, all complete.

Looking at this biological starship that had transformed from an ugly duckling, Xu Zi'an revealed a satisfied smile.

He could even feel the power of the biological starship through the mysterious connection between them!

He pulled up the evolved starship’s optical brain, which displayed the detailed information of the *Cui Can* as it was now.

Most eye-catching was the blue name in the first line, and the lines of red text below it.

*Cui Can*: Tier 1 Scout Ship (Blue Rare)

Keel: Red Excellent;

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Different qualities were displayed in different colored fonts.

For example, the words *Cui Can* displayed on the optical brain information.

Were displayed in blue font.

And blue was the color of Rare quality!

Inferior: Gray; Common: White; Fine: Green; Rare: Blue; Excellent: Red; Perfect: Pink!

Besides the *Cui Can*’s overall quality being Blue Rare.

The component parameters below showed multiple Red Excellent qualities!

*Cui Can*: Tier 1 Scout Ship (Blue Rare)

Keel: Red Excellent;

Super-light-speed engine: Red Excellent;

Pulse jump engine: Blue Rare;

Main cannon: Red Excellent;

Secondary cannons: Blue Rare;

Anti-aircraft guns: Red Excellent;

Locking radar: Green Fine;

Detection radar: White Common...

The lines of red and blue text represented the high-end quality of these modules, making Xu Zi'an grin from ear to ear.

Although it was a bit lopsided, what did that matter!

The overall quality reached Blue Rare, so he had made a huge profit!

He felt that with a cost of 520,000, he had made 20 million!

He was even more confident about the college entrance exam in three months!

He would strive to get a good ranking and enter a top-tier university!

The *Cui Can*’s evolution was complete.

Xu Zi'an immediately began to replenish fuel, ammunition, and supplies!

Even the captain’s cabin module was only 4 square meters, just to save as much storage space as possible.

The fuel for the super-light-speed propulsion engine was dihydrogen.

He couldn't afford good dihydrogen fuel, but the lowest-grade dihydrogen polymer would suffice.

He bought 100 units of dihydrogen polymer.

One unit of dihydrogen polymer could travel 0.5 light-years normally; 100 units could travel 50 light-years!

If he used the secondary cannons frequently, maintaining a range of 10-20 light-years was definitely no problem.

The fuel for the pulse jump was tritium.

He bought 70 units of the lowest-grade tritium fuel, a tritium mixture.

1 unit of tritium mixture was enough for the main cannon to fire twice, and a pulse space jump of one light-year only required 1 unit of tritium mixture.

In short...

It was about enough.

The fuel tank could hold a total of 200 units; the remaining 30 units of space were all used to buy photon energy.

To provide for the anti-aircraft guns.

Then there was the ammunition bay.

The anti-aircraft guns used photon energy and didn't need warheads.

Only the main and secondary cannons needed warheads; he prepared 100 units to hold ammunition.

One unit could hold 2 pulse-penetrating warheads, or 100 high-explosive secondary cannon warheads.

The main cannon got 70 units, enough for 140 shots.

The secondary cannons got 30 units, which was 3,000 shots!

Finally, the living supplies bay had a total of 10 units of space.

Loading a month’s worth of food and water, as well as enough miscellaneous daily supplies for a month, was more than enough.

With this.

Another 29,000 credits were spent.

Now, Xu Zi'an had only a pitiful 3,000 credits left in his hand.

The key was that he still had to buy a medical gun and weapons with these 3,000 credits!

He was completely tapped out.

Even his evolution value was down to a pitiful 2 points.

Fortunately.

Everything was done.

Finally, he could go make money.

Actually, even if Xu Zi'an had money now, he couldn't evolve anymore.

Evolution value...

Was too little, too little.

Unless he converted wealth value into biological energy.

There were two ways to obtain evolution value.

One was normal cultivation; for every 1 point of biological energy gained, you gained 1 point of evolution value.

The other was destroying enemy biological starships!

You would gain varying amounts of evolution value based on the opponent’s strength level.

Other than that, there were no other ways to obtain evolution value; it could not be traded or gifted.

Furthermore, besides evolving starships, evolution value could be used in emergencies to directly repair the starship, or if a person was in a near-death state, to directly restore injuries!

It could be said that evolution value was the most important resource for every biological starship captain, bar none.

With the remaining 3,000 credits, he first bought a medical gun.

Even if evolution value was sufficient, for general injuries, one would choose to use a medical gun or medical bed to treat them.

Unless it was a last resort, one wouldn't use evolution value to restore them directly; that was too extravagant.

Besides, Xu Zi'an only had 2 points of evolution value left, which wasn't enough to restore any injuries at all.

The cheapest medical gun came with one bottle of hemostatic, one bottle of anti-inflammatory, and one bottle of painkiller.

He didn't buy the other medicine bottles, and one bottle would determine the number of uses based on your injury.

As for the efficacy...

It was the cheapest kind anyway, so don't expect any particularly powerful effects.

Weapons: a knife and a gun.

The knife was an alloy combat knife, and the gun was a standard thermal rifle—

That is, the kind of gunpowder-bullet gun from the 21st century; buying this was very simple and cheap enough.

One rifle, equipped with three magazines, each magazine holding 30 bullets.

With this.

Xu Zi'an had only 23 credits left on him. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====

He had never been this poor.

Five minutes later.

Xu Zi'an piloted the brand-new *Cui Can* for the first time.

It had to be said...

The *Cui Can*, which had reached an overall Blue Rare quality, felt completely different in terms of control and tactile sensation compared to the old Little Ball.

Or rather, it wasn't even on the same level!

Even though the driving area inside the captain’s cabin was still narrow, and even though it used the cheapest control system.

The starship’s overall power and flexibility had been completely sublimated.

With just a light press of the light-speed propulsion engine’s power pedal, unparalleled surging power burst forth, easily pushing the *Cui Can*, which weighed a full 778 tons when fully loaded.

Effortlessly.

Super-light-speed engine: Red Excellent

Trait 1: Acceleration increased by 15%;

Trait 2: Flexibility increased by 11%;

Trait 3: Energy consumption reduced by 9%;

This.

Was the three traits that came with these two Red Excellent quality light-speed propulsion engines!

Fine quality had only one trait.

Rare quality had two traits.

Excellent quality had three traits!

The higher the quality, the more traits!

And the higher the percentage of increase or decrease!

This time, flying the *Cui Can* again, he received quite a few looks of attention.

But this time, they weren't mocking gazes, but looks of astonishment and envy.

When people on the ground saw that the *Cui Can*’s appearance was different from any starship model in their memory, they knew—

This was an evolved biological starship!

Although they didn't know what level of scout ship it was, nor what quality.

But judging from the overall look of this starship... it shouldn't be too low.

At the very least, it couldn't be Inferior.

But what was the meaning of the Wuling Spaceship Group lettering on the starship’s body, and the Wuling LOGO paint job?

Could it be that this starship used a hull from the Wuling Spaceship Group?

Or was this a starship newly developed by the Wuling Spaceship Group?

But he had never heard that Wuling could build starships!

And what the hell was the [Mini Little Ball] lettering on the hull paint job???

Such a ferocious starship... what are you "Mini-ing" here? And what the hell does it have to do with a Little Ball?

Amidst the confused gazes of the people looking up from below.

The mighty and domineering *Cui Can*, bearing the Wuling Little Ball paint job, slowly disappeared from the spot. ===== CHAPTER 27 =====