Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Unlike the uniform decoration of Holy Spring Village, Dawn Village was orderly. As for Motorcycle Village, it was the first human settlement Lin Feng had ever seen, and it was just as it was when he first saw it... chaotic, noisy, and full of passion.

The banging and clanging of metal echoed from the village as Lin Feng and the others approached, never ceasing.

At the end of the Forward Convoy, at the entrance of Motorcycle Village.

Four guards armed with short-barreled submachine guns pointed their guns at the approaching tricycle.

Chen Shanshan took out the transaction order and explained their purpose. The guard captain, lying in the car, flipped through the recently reported orders, confirmed it, and waved out the window, signaling to let them pass.

Then, he pulled up the curtains and continued to rest.

One of the guards put away his gun, got on an electric scooter, and led the group into the village.

This was Lin Feng's first time here. Through the crack in the armor of the tricycle, he observed the outside.

Motorcycle Village, with its thousands of vehicles of various types, was more like a mobile auto repair and modification factory than a village or convoy.

There were platforms specifically for dismantling, as well as electrified hydraulic cranes, and a large group of welders with welding torches, cutting and welding newly arrived car frames.

In the outermost area, a pile of heavy trucks was driving, dragging dozens of empty car shells with only the frames, chassis, and tires remaining, while photovoltaic panels stretched from the truck heads to the tops of the empty car shells.

From a distance, it looked like a hundred-meter-long train dedicated to transporting cars.

There were no less than twenty such heavy trucks.

Therefore, more than half of the thousand vehicles in Motorcycle Village were modification materials and platforms, providing travel services to the other four major villages of Oasis Town.

And when the Oasis Battleship had needs, it would also have Motorcycle Village serve it. For example, the pilgrimage convoy that went to the big city to trade supplies every Holy Spring Day was created by these vehicle repair masters.

Soon, led by the guard, the group arrived at the location where their order was produced.

Lin Feng was worried about piling the carcasses of wild beasts in the car, which had a bloody, fishy, and urine-soaked smell that no one could stand.

Now, he could directly hang the beast corpses on the back and sides of the car, dissecting them while moving, and then put a blood trough underneath to automatically drain and collect the blood, solving the preservation problem without causing the slightest waste.

It was really convenient and useful.

Lin Feng was very satisfied with this modification.

The assembly master opened the side door and invited Lin Feng and his companions to go inside for a tour.

After entering, the inside of the car was nearly one meter eight high, and the raised chassis was forty centimeters off the ground. Calculating it, the height of the entire car exceeded two meters two, which was much higher than the original version that Lin Feng had driven.

The row of seats in the driver's seat and the front passenger seat was nearly one meter five wide. Putting down the seat back could be used as a recliner for sleeping directly.

The second row of seat space was also one meter five, and there was no problem in straightening the legs after sitting down.

Moreover, the backrests of the three seats could be laid flat directly, turning into a small bed one meter five long and one meter seven wide, which was more than enough to sleep two people sideways.

Secondly, there was the rear compartment in the last row.

According to the requirements of Lin Feng and his companions, the remaining three meters of space had been modified into a sleeper area.

Two iron plate beds, seventy centimeters wide and two meters long, on the left and right, with more than half a meter of space remaining in the middle aisle.

There was also thirty centimeters of space under the lower bunk bed, which could be used to stuff things. The one-meter-five-high space above was evenly divided between the upper and lower bunks, with a seventy-centimeter interval, which could barely straighten the upper body.

Of course, these living areas were not the focus.

The focus was on checking the car's power system and the central control system in the front driving position, whether the power was sufficient, and whether the button conduction was smooth and silky.

These were the key to the long-term driving of the car.

Fortunately, ordinary electric cars without energy storage systems directly used photovoltaic panels to generate electricity to power the motor. The structure was not complicated, so it could last for more than ten years.

Only the aging photovoltaic panels needed to be replaced.

Lin Feng didn't have much driving experience, and Chen Shanshan was even worse. She was only twelve years old during the Old Earth period and had never touched the steering wheel a few times.

Therefore, the test drive and inspection tasks were assigned to Liu Mingfei, the professional player among the three.

As a professional old driver with more than ten years of experience, he was extremely familiar with the car's performance after driving a taxi for so many years. In addition, the newly learned auto repair knowledge supplemented the theoretical shortcomings...

Now, Liu Mingfei was already considered half an insider. As long as he took a test drive, he could see many problems.

As he sat in the driver's seat and asked the repair master to unlock the tow chain of the car head, he then stepped on the accelerator and turned the steering wheel sharply to the left.

The engineer from Dawn Village in the car took the order paper and began to explain the photovoltaic panel and motor power system:

"What you have chosen is the ordinary档 package, twenty square meters of ordinary photovoltaic panels, on the frame on the roof, according to the six-meter length of the car body, six by three configuration, the last two extending out of the tail of the car, can be used as a sunshade for the iron plate walkway."

"According to the pushing force of one hundred kilograms per square meter, it can push a total of two tons of objects, moving at a speed of two kilometers per hour."

"This electric car weighs one point five tons, and the entire power system of photovoltaic panels and motors also weighs three hundred kilograms, so it can carry up to two hundred kilograms of cargo."

Inside the vehicle, Lin Feng and the others frowned upon hearing this.

It seemed the store manager at Dawn Company had played a word game, failing to include the weight of the solar panels and motor when calculating the maximum thrust.

While the extra three hundred kilograms might not make much difference to the high-end model's two hundred kilograms and the top-tier model's five hundred kilograms of thrust per square meter,

it was quite detrimental to the standard model.

The original half-ton payload surplus was now drastically reduced, leaving only two hundred kilograms, enough to carry a maximum of three people, not counting other supplies.

Seeing the customer's displeased expression and furrowed brows…

The engineer from Dawn Village quickly explained:

"Of course, this is at a speed of two kilometers per hour. After connecting with the mechanics from Motorcycle Village, we've set up two speed settings. The low-speed setting is one kilometer per hour, keeping pace with Oasis Town's speed."

"At low speed, combined with a high-end motor, this electric vehicle's thrust can be increased by 50%, giving it a maximum payload of three tons!"

"Deducting the vehicle's and power system's weight, there's still 1.2 tons left, which is 1,200 kilograms. Forget about the four of us; it can easily carry ten people!"

After explaining, the engineer added:

"It's just that the two-kilometer-per-hour setting might feel a bit underpowered, only reaching a maximum speed of 1.5 kilometers per hour. But for driving in Fifth Village and keeping up with Oasis Town, it's more than enough!"

Lin Feng wasn't too interested in these details. As long as he confirmed there were no issues with the vehicle's condition, he could leave the rest to the item upgrade system.

He had Liu Mingfei, who was in the driver's seat, open the iron plate walkways on both sides and the rear of the vehicle. Lin Feng stepped outside and began checking the properties and status of the solar panels.

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In the corner of his eye, the results appeared one after another:

「Inferior Solar Panel lv6, White Quality」

「Basic Attributes: Power Generation Efficiency 10%, 24-Hour Power Generation 1.5 kWh; Durability: 7/10, Can Consume One Point of Life Value to Upgrade」

「Note: Remaining Lifespan 3 Years」

It was consistent with the sample he saw in the store, but the durability was a bit lower, and the lifespan wasn't as they claimed, a full wasteland year, which is six years.

Moreover, it was only half, leaving three years.

Lin Feng felt it was necessary to address this point.

The payload issue could be considered a textual ambiguity in the order contract, but this lifespan was clearly written in black and white.

After checking everything, although they were all level six inferior solar panels, at least half had a lifespan of less than five years, not meeting the guaranteed six years stated in the order.

At this time, Liu Mingfei, who was driving the electric vehicle around Motorcycle Village with difficulty, also discovered many problems.

One was the severe lack of power. The second gear felt the same as not having it on, only less than half of the low-speed gear. Accelerating was like a turtle crawling.

The engineer had already explained this.

It wasn't the fault of the Motorcycle Village modification mechanics.

The second problem was that the front wheels weren't equipped with suspension, making any bumps very jarring, and the ordered package specifically stated that both front and rear would be installed.

Another major problem was that the steering transmission between the steering wheel and the axle was somewhat sluggish, as was the foot pedal. The gears in the chassis needed fine-tuning and more lubricant to ensure smoothness.

As for other minor issues, Liu Mingfei pointed them all out without missing a single one.

Back at the repair shop, Liu Mingfei discussed the electric vehicle's inherent problems, while Lin Feng focused on the quality of the solar panels, pointing out the issue of aging lifespan.

In the end, Motorcycle Village agreed to return the vehicle for rework.

On Dawn Village's side, for the engineer, this batch of goods had already been selected from the pile of dusty, semi-defective products in the warehouse.

They had already been reported as scrap. No matter how much they sold for, it would all go into the department's slush fund…

They thought that no one among the wasteland residents would recognize the goods, but they didn't expect Lin Feng to be so sharp-eyed, accurately picking out so many defective products.

But a full return was impossible. Replacing everything with inferior products again would be even more costly and would be recorded in the books.

So, the engineer used the excuse of assembly completion to reject Lin Feng's request for replacement, instead offering a discount as compensation.

They were willing to offer an additional two hundred points of discount, so after deducting the deposit, only seven hundred points were needed.

Calculating this way, the entire power system only cost a thousand points.

This saved a lot.

Lin Feng immediately agreed.

Anyway, as long as it wasn't a scrapped state, the durability related to lifespan didn't matter to him.

And so, when the Motorcycle Village repair mechanics completed the rework at ten o'clock in the morning,

they ultimately gave an additional fifty points of integration as compensation.

Because some minor issues were caused by welding problems, it wasn't realistic to disassemble and re-weld for a product that had already been driven on the road.

Anyway, it didn't affect the vehicle's performance. Losing one or two pieces of iron skin wasn't a big deal for driving.

Liu Mingfei, seeing the problems he had pointed out and the unexpected surprise, suddenly felt that those few automotive repair books hadn't been a waste of time.

Lin Feng and Chen Shanshan also looked at him with new respect.

They praised him repeatedly.

And so, when Liu Mingfei drove the modified Jinbei Haishi electric vehicle out of Fifth Village after the handover…

The team actually gained an extra two hundred and fifty points of integration.

After braking all the way, upon arriving at the Hunter's Guild in Fifth Village, Liu Mingfei parked the car next to the guild.

Lin Feng, in a great mood, got out of the car, patted the hood, and in the corner of his eye, the attribute data appeared:

「Light Passenger Vehicle lv10, Red Quality」

「Basic Attributes: Defense 60; Durability 7/10; Max Speed 2km」

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