Can My Battleship Be Upgraded?

Time passed quickly.

This observation from the forward base is still accurate.

The window period came on time.

There is no need to issue an order. As soon as the window appears, both Wang Dong's Mine Overlord Type 2 and Lao Shi's Near Air Overlord Generation start their engines.

Controlling the spacecraft, he resolutely crossed the turbulent layer and entered the mining area with a skillful flying attitude.

In the cockpit of the Mine Master II, the magnetic restraint straps firmly fixed Wang Dong to the seat in front of the operating console.

Before entering the mining area, Wang Dong turned off the self-gravity generation system on the spacecraft and allocated the saved power to the eight lateral azimuth adjustment engines on the side of the Mine Master II hull.

Hold the eight-axis rudder in front of you and push the engine power to one-third.

Wang Dong felt sincerely happy.

The feeling of driving it with your own hands is always so fulfilling.

The only regret is that the one on board is not the battleship from the previous life, but only a Mine Master II near-air mining spacecraft.

The near-air mining spacecraft is only slightly better than the space shuttle.

Compared with the deep space mining spacecraft that has formal level armor and can even compete with ordinary armed spacecraft, the near-space mining spacecraft is really just a younger brother.

Compared with the Tomahawk destroyer that Wang Dong piloted in his previous life, the Mine Master II was really lackluster in terms of propulsion, acceleration performance, and even maneuverability such as direction-changing flight attitude control.

But it also has advantages.

The Mine Master Type 2, which does not need to consider confrontational factors such as battleship protection, has eight azimuth adjustment engines spread across the hull, which is twice as many as the four of ordinary battleships.

Even among close-altitude mining spacecraft that pay more attention to flight attitude adjustment, this advantage of the Mine Master II is quite prominent.

Like the close-air overlord driven by Lao Shi, there are only six positions to adjust the engine.

And as the time spent driving the Mine Master II increased, Wang Dong quickly retrieved all the memories of this type of mining spacecraft from his memory.

Very easily, the Mine Overlord Type 2, at a speed visible to the naked eye, left behind Lao Shi's close-air overlord generation and took the lead in the competition.

Wang Dong fully utilized the advantages brought by the eight-axis adjustment engine.

In the asteroid belt with complex airspace conditions, Wang Dong's Mine Master II relies on its eight azimuth adjustment engines to flexibly adjust the Mine Master II to make various subtle turns in a small space.

Without reducing the thrust of the main engine and maintaining a higher speed, it can travel in the asteroid belt mining area.

Lao Shi gritted his teeth and followed Wang Dong closely.

As for driving skills, with nearly twenty years of experience, he is considered quite good among the miners.

Usually, in the competition between him and Wang Dong, although he basically loses, the gap is only a small amount.

There is no qualitative difference.

But this time something is different.

Wang Dong in front, the Mine Master II, seems to be more agile than before.

The control of certain details is inconspicuous at first glance, just a hint of roundness.

But when hundreds of such details are superimposed together, the gap becomes apparent.

Originally, at the edge of this mining area, Lao Shi's level was enough to fight Wang Dong to death.

But in fact, after entering the mining area, in less than ten minutes, Wang Dong's Mine Master II took an absolute lead, leaving Lao Shi struggling to catch up.

This is far from reaching Wang Dong's limit.

He still had time to organize the memories in his mind.

"How did you deal with it last time? It seems that you were annoyed to death, so you just got angry and tried to drain the firepower."

Wang Dong frowned and thought for a moment, remembering the specific tricks he performed before his rebirth.

The No. 3 azimuth adjustment engine on the lower side of the hull of the close-air overlord that Lao Shi chose today has not been properly maintained.

The scanning function of the auxiliary system resident in Wang Dong's field of view has already discovered this.

This part, in the scanning interface, is displayed in yellow instead of green with full performance.

Represents poor condition.

Then entering the mining area, Wang Dong took the lead and firmly controlled the rhythm, making multiple flight route choices that suddenly changed direction.

Throughout the process, the hidden dangers of adjusting the engine's position on Lao Shi's close-air Overlord were deliberately induced.

After just half an hour, the overloaded operation overloaded the already poor azimuth adjustment engine and paralyzed its performance.

Under normal circumstances, just an overload paralysis of the azimuth adjustment engine will not lead to too serious consequences.

The remaining five azimuth adjustment engines can compensate for this.

At best, the adjustment of the flight attitude becomes a bit sluggish.

But where is this?

Asteroid belt mining area!

Moreover, under the leadership of Wang Dong, they have already reached a certain level!

In the extremely complex and changeable airspace conditions, even if the performance is intact, you must be careful and focused, and there is no room for such a sudden failure.

Lao Shi's generation of near-space overlords adjusted the engine in that direction and overloaded it and paralyzed it. As a result, the flight attitude was out of control and it collided sideways with an asteroid that was supposed to pass by!

The impact was not serious, it was just a side collision that damaged a few armor plates.

But the next chain reaction was not so easy.

The first impact was just an introduction. It directly caused the near-air overlord generation to completely lose its stable flight attitude.

In normal space, the flight attitude can be slowly readjusted.

But in the asteroid belt mining area, this is a fatal mistake.

After Lao Shi's generation of near-air hegemons lost its flying attitude, it was instantly involved in a turbulent flow.

Under the complex gravitational environment, it constantly collided with small celestial bodies around it, and finally crashed directly into an asteroid with a diameter of more than a kilometer.

The experienced veteran Shi himself started the separation process of the rescue capsule immediately after the impact, and luckily avoided the fate of the near-air overlord generation.

Wang Dong had an opportunity to lend a helping hand.

He did take action.

Although he was annoyed by Lao Shi, it was not to the point where he would not save him.

An accident was enough for Lao Shi to have a good drink, and it also made Wang Dong angry.

It's a pity that Lao Shi's rescue capsule did not last his good luck until the end.

More than one space meteorite was thrown out of the turbulence at high speed in the chaos caused by the Near-Sky Overlord One, and directly hit Lao Shi's rescue capsule.

The cabin was destroyed on the spot and everyone died.

Wang Dong had no choice but to let the wreckage of Lao Shi's life capsule get lost in the asteroid belt.

It was the interstellar miner's funeral.

It was originally a clever setup to solve a problem, and it was quite perfect.

It's not Wang Dong who caused Lao Shi's death.

Both the black box on Wang Dong's ship and the black box on Lao Shi's ship can prove this.