Sky-cracking Rider

Little Bird tried again more than a dozen times, but ultimately failed to succeed. It chose to lie flat, squatting on Chen Fei's shoulder, refusing to cast the "Light Mirror Spell" no matter what.

The continuous failures had probably dealt a serious blow to its confidence.

Chen Fei had no solution, after all, innate magic for Magical Beasts was a matter of fate, unlike human Spellcasters who could master their spells as long as their magic power and spiritual power were up to par with practice.

"Emmm...got it!"

A light bulb went off in Chen Fei's mind, and he snapped his fingers.

Xiao Jiu couldn't help, but he still had "Adam".

He went to a garbage heap, casually grabbed an aluminum alloy product weighing at least a hundred pounds, and then scraped out a batch of usable rubber-coated cables. The skill "Metal Shaping|Replication|Material Simulation" was activated, and very soon, a quadcopter drone designed on the spot took shape.

This aircraft wasn't fast to begin with, but what it had going for it was stability; it didn't need to consider any aerodynamic shape, as long as it could maintain balance, that was enough.

Chen Fei shoved the Crystalline Block, originally placed on the Mobile Base Vehicle, into the drone's energy slot. Tsk tsk, a drone powered by a Crystalline Block was luxurious beyond measure.

"'Adam', remote control this drone and search for the Crystal Jet."

He didn't have any other high-capacity batteries on hand, so he had to make do with this Crystalline Block for now.

Hum...

The quadcopter's six-blade propellers spun rapidly, the strong wind blowing toward the ground, and "Adam" took over the drone without much effort.

As soon as Chen Fei let go, the drone soared straight up to a height of one hundred meters above ground. Several slender beams of light were cast downwards, scanning back and forth repeatedly.

Truth be told, the drone controlled by "Adam" was even more useful than Xiao Jiu's "Light Mirror Spell". The former could automatically scan for the location of the Crystal Jet, whereas the latter required manual identification.

Chen Fei only needed to tease Little Bird.

The quadcopter ascended for less than thirty seconds, circled over the temporary pile of old machinery, and quickly located the Crystal Jet "Skyhawk", half-buried in a pile of rubbish in a sprawled position.

The rest was easy.

Chen Xiao'er reached out his malicious hand towards the Crystal Jet "Skyhawk" that was cut off in the middle.

System: Ding! Magic Array "Repulsion Shield" acquired!

System: Ding! Magic Array "Blazing Flame Bullet" acquired!

System: Ding! Absorbed one Crystal Jet (Integrity 71%), gained Energy Points +22!

Energy Points: 17121/20000!

In addition to the previously acquired "Repulsion Shield" Magic Array, he unexpectedly received a new and quite practical Magic Array, a Second Rank Fire System magic "Blazing Flame Bullet," whose power was almost comparable to a small hand grenade.

Even though the Crystal Jet "Skyhawk" was split in two, not much different from being bisected, and had lost some aerodynamic control surfaces, its integrity was much higher than the Crystal Jet "Holy Grail" Chen Fei had initially found. Enjoy new stories from My Virtual Library Empire

Probably, the person who dumped this wreckage here never expected that some Magic Arrays could still be preserved on it. Although one of the arrays was a duplicate, the other was an unexpected pleasant surprise.

However, just based on this wreckage, the likelihood of replicating a brand new Crystal Jet was still not possible.

After all, many core modules were removed before being tossed here, firstly to protect technical secrets, and secondly for recycling. In the end, there was only a big empty shell left; apart from obtaining a few Magic Arrays, the only thing that could be gleaned was the aerodynamic design.

Combat Aircraft pursuing high maneuverability often use an inherently unstable design, utterly incapable of powerless gliding; if you let go, they could crash right in front of you. Once the important avionics and flight control systems were lost, having just an aerodynamic shape was utterly useless.

Chen Fei alone had no solutions. Having "Adam" re-engineer a complete set of avionics and flight control systems matching it would have been impossible without crashing seventeen or eighteen prototype Aircraft to gather data.

While there was an abundance of discarded metal everywhere, he decided to fill up his Energy Points.

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Energy Points: 20000/20000

He glanced once more at the "Skill Shop," a place he hadn't paid attention to for quite some time.

This time, his gaze faltered, eh? The Dog System was still producing duds, seemingly intent on cheating him out of all his Energy Points with trashy skills.

Not even an "Energy Points Storage Upgrade" was available; otherwise, he could have at least squeezed out a bit more capacity.

To hell with you!

He flipped the page, switching to the "My Skills" list.

Energy Points -400!

"Basic Optical Observer (Level 4)" → "Basic Optical Observer (Level 8)"

The additional features included four more, now totaling seven: low-light enhancement, infrared thermal imaging, full spectrum imaging, micro vision, ultra-long vision, macroscopic perspective, and visual assistance. Quite practical, though the last feature, "visual assistance," seemed somewhat redundant.

The Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam" could customize programming visual interfaces, effectively replacing "visual assistance," but since "Adam" could potentially be destroyed, resulting in dysfunction, the Dog System's built-in feature, while somewhat underwhelming, was guaranteed to be reliable.

Energy Points -1100!

"Basic Laser Emitter (Level 9)" → "Basic Laser Emitter (Level 20)"

Although not often used and less powerful than the Xiao Jiu Laser Cannon, this skill upgrade was justifiable given the ample Energy Points at his disposal, and since there might not be another chance, he rounded it off nicely, doubling the output power of the original.

Energy Points -10000!

"Basic Particle Beam (Level 0)" → "Basic Particle Beam (Level 10)"

He had never used the Particle Beam Weapon skill before, but as a trump card kept for emergency situations, it was well worth having. He just waited for the day when he could light up some unlucky soul, hoping its power justified the huge investment of ten thousand Energy Points.

If it weren't for the temporary scrapyard, Chen Fei wouldn't be investing so grandly.

Energy Points -5000

"Armor Plugin Module (Level 1)" → "Armor Plugin Module (Level 10)"

Since the "Personal Armor Basic Body (Level 5)" couldn't be upgraded any further for now, Chen Fei decided to invest Energy Points into the corresponding "Armor Plugin Module," ending up with 11 plugins. But what exactly "plugins" were, only the Dog System knew.

Next, he began to fervently dump Energy Points into "Super Capacitor."

This skill, by now, was Chen Fei's greatest weakness in combat, necessitating reliance on Crystalline Blocks to compensate.

A large number of Energy Points were thrown into it, depleting as they were replenished.

Almost fifty thousand Energy Points were spent, causing two "small mountains" of scrap in the temporary scrapyard to vanish completely, before "Super Capacitor (Level 50)" was upgraded to "Super Capacitor (Larval Form MAX)," reaching the peak with no further upgrades possible.

"Super Capacitor (Larval Form MAX)" momentarily reached a maximum capacity of one million degrees, but it still couldn't hold a charge for more than 24 hours. The skill leaked energy fiercely, hence it was named a capacitor rather than a battery.

Due to the limited electricity converted by the "Light/Electric/Magnetic/Crystal Energy Universal Converter and Management Component," it wasn't enough to fully charge a "Super Capacitor" in the Larval Form MAX state. The actual efficiency was only about 10 percent, which was one hundred thousand degrees. The rest simply leaked away naturally.

He then refilled his Energy Points reserve, and though the temporary scrapyard still contained plenty of "small mountains," Chen Fei restrained his greed and left with regret.

Habulav City needed a vast amount of material for its reconstruction, and the metal waste in the temporary scrapyard was bound to be recycled. If Chen Fei had taken some of the scrap before, no one would have minded or even noticed.

But now, with the efficiency of recycling greatly increased, it would eventually become apparent that Chen Fei was responsible for any shortfall. What he had ingested, he would have to regurgitate, and if he couldn't... that would mean more debt.

So, he chose to stop while he was ahead, to avoid accountability.

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