First Arrival on Konstruk Star
Konstruk Star is one of the oldest planets in the entire Long Teng Universe Country, having existed for over 20 billion years.
As early as the Middle Ancient Era, this planet possessed a highly advanced civilization, and was once the core of the entire universe. The advanced Mechanical Civilization quickly led to conflict between intelligent machines and humans, and the final result was the annihilation of the entire civilization by war.
The resurgence of Konstruk Star occurred over three thousand years ago. This abandoned planet was redeveloped by the Federal Government, which unearthed a wealth of Mechanical Civilization relics and rebuilt cities based on that foundation. For over three thousand years, this planet has remained the largest manufacturing planet in the entire Long Teng Universe Country.
The thriving manufacturing industry has led to the presence of numerous large-scale shipyards and dock repair shops here.
After docking their spaceship at the port, Gu Ding and Liliath stepped out and were greeted by a truly spectacular scene. The vast majority of ships in the port were larger than Gu Ding's Grey Eagle; various White Falcon Class and Silver Eagle Class ships were docked, obscuring other smaller vessels. What excited Gu Ding most was that he also spotted a Golden Eagle in the distance, a spaceship more than seventy times the size of the Grey Eagle, attracting the attention of countless passersby in the port.
"I wonder what kind of important person lives on this planet," Liliath muttered to herself. "The person who can afford the Golden Eagle is no ordinary person."
"What an impressive spaceship!" Gu Ding's eyes lit up. "One day I'll get my hands on one!"
"Do you know the price of the Golden Eagle?" Liliath retorted mercilessly. "Even a damaged, secondhand one, it'll fetch at least 800 million Universe Coin on the black market. Listen carefully, not Star Coin, but Universe Coin!"
"Why don't you just say 800 billion Star Coin?" Gu Ding grinned. In the Long Teng Universe Country, the exchange rate between Star Coin and Universe Coin is 1000:1. This exchange rate may fluctuate occasionally, but not by much.
"Star Coin are only a currency circulating within Universe Country. Different Universe Country use different types of Star Coin, and the exchange rate with Universe Coin also varies. On this kind of spaceship, people will only sell Universe Coin, not Star Coin," Liliath explained very seriously. Star Coin are not circulated between different Universe Country. To use them, you either need to exchange them for Universe Coin, or first exchange them for Universe Coin and then exchange them for the Star Coin of the corresponding Universe Country.
After leaving the port, guided by the Sea Emperor, Gu Ding and Liliath found a highly-rated restaurant.
After three days, not only Liliath, but also Gu Ding had grown tired of fried rice. They found a nice restaurant and quickly ordered their food.
They didn't notice that a diner in the restaurant, after noticing the two of them, checked the two photos on his watch.
The Sea Emperor found four or five repair shops for Gu Ding that offered reasonable prices and had good reputations. Gu Ding and Liliath planned to visit them starting early the next morning, hoping to get their spaceship repaired as soon as possible and leave. After all, since their bombardment of the Onassis mansion had not only resulted in a hefty bounty on their heads from the Onassis Family, the Federal Government had also significantly increased their bounty.
Gu Ding was increased from 8 million Star Coin to 80 million, while Liliath's net worth was increased from 6 million to 60 million Star Coin, making their net worth ten times greater.
But what's even more intriguing is the bounty offered by the Onassis Family. After three days without any news about Gu Ding, the Onassis Family doubled the private bounty again, making it 600 million for Gu Ding and 400 million for Liliath.
Such a high bounty amount is completely inconsistent with the combat strength of Gu Ding and Liliath. Gu Ding's combat strength is at most comparable to that of Interstellar Pirate with a bounty of around 200 million Star Coin, and even that would require the help of the Sea Emperor. As for Liliath, even with Armor-Piercing Bullet, she can at most deal with Sixth-Order Gene Body, and her attack power is at most equivalent to a bounty criminal with a bounty of around 100 million Star Coin.
The Onassis Family set the bounty so high for a simple reason: they wanted the two men dead.
Just as the two were enjoying a sumptuous dinner, a bespectacled man outside the restaurant announced, "I'm Bendi from the Konstruk Star branch. I've spotted Gu Ding and Liliath..."
A moment later, a deep male voice came from the other end of the communicator, "Send photos of the two men to the owners of all the ship manufacturing plants and repair companies on Konstruk Star and tell them to refuse all the demands made by the two men."
"Understood!" After hanging up, Bendi dialed another number...
Early the next morning, Gu Ding and Liliath took the spaceship blueprints to the first repair shop.
The repair shop owner was a Bald Head man with a full beard, and his expression became slightly unnatural when he saw the two of them.
"Mr. Kalil, we found your repair shop in the sky. It has a very good reputation, and we hope you can help us repair our spaceship." Gu Ding noticed the change in the other party's expression, but didn't think too much about it.
"Sorry, our schedule is already full this month. We can't take on any new orders until the 1st of next month at the earliest. Can you wait that long?" Bald Head Kalil directly rejected the business.
"But last night I saw that your repair shop was still accepting orders?" Gu Ding asked, somewhat puzzled.
"It must be that guy Inte forgot to update the order status again this week. I'm really sorry to have made you come all this way. You should try asking other repair shops instead."
"Okay, thank you!" Gu Ding and Liliath had no choice but to go to the second repair shop.
"I felt like that Bald Head guy was a bit strange. He didn't seem very welcoming to us from the start," Liliath said, noticing something amiss.
Gu Ding nodded. "I think so too. It's possible he saw the video of the two of us in the sky."
"That's possible," Liliath thought about how the media portrayed her and Gu Ding in the video as two wicked troublemakers, and anyone who watched the video would instinctively stay away from them.
The two quickly arrived at the second repair shop, where the owner was a tall, thin young man with a pale face. Upon seeing Gu Ding, he visibly frowned, a subtle movement that Gu Ding and Liliath noticed.
"Adam Mr. Adam, we saw from the sky that your repair shop has a good reputation and is still accepting orders, so we came directly here today." Gu Ding directly mentioned the other party's online order status to avoid the previous incident from happening again.
"Let me take a look at your spaceship blueprints," Adam nodded.
Sea Emperor immediately projected the ship's structural diagram and a damage analysis report in front of the three.
Adam glanced at it briefly, then forced a smile. "A very beautiful spaceship, and also very valuable to collectors. However... I can't repair it for you here."
"Why?" Gu Ding couldn't help but ask.
"This is the first generation Grey Eagle, which is over a hundred years old now. This generation of spaceships has been out of production for over ninety years, and there's simply no way to find the corresponding parts. I'm really sorry, I can't help you with that," Adam explained.
"Can't we use other spare parts instead?" Gu Ding then asked.
"Many parts are custom-made, unique, and rarely replaceable. Even if you could find replacement parts, the spaceship's performance would be affected. I absolutely do not allow compromises here, and I will not take on business that would damage my reputation." Adam directly gave them the boot. "I suggest you look for other repair shops."
"Okay, thank you for your explanation." Gu Ding nodded and turned to leave with Liliath.
"This guy is clearly more wary of us; his tone is impatient." Liliath noticed something amiss again.
"Let's go check out two more places." Gu Ding said expressionlessly, offering no further opinion.
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