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lue work uniform, and his hands were filthy.

“Hello, I’m from Ship Service and Repair.” The man saw Xia Fan and handed over his card.
“This ship of yours is no good.
The engine thrusters need a new protective coating, and while the shell is usable, the electronics and internals are a mess.
It’s very troublesome to get everything and will cost you at least 15 million.
Eighty percent of the parts have to be switched out.”

Xia Fan was startled.
He had looked at the 3D view of the ship before; the ship certainly hadn’t been in as bad of a state as this guy claimed.

But Xia Fan quickly realized that repair companies relied on repairing ships to make money.
Thus, they would over-emphasize a ship’s problems to make more money.

Alas, the repair company had no idea that Xia Fan wasn’t planning to use them, instead wanting to do the work himself.

“Do it yourself? Don’t joke around.
This is an imported frigate.
How could you do the work yourself?”

“That’s not your concern.”

“Hmph!” The engineer raised his big oily head and said in an ambiguous tone, “Fine, but don’t blame me for not warning you.
Once you can’t fix it and find me again, it won’t be as cheap as it is today!”

The fat engineer stalked off, ready to see Xia Fan make a joke of himself.

—

Traveling Buddha walked around the Mauler and rapped on its dark alloy shell.
He cocked his head and said, “Look at what you bought.
It’s an old ship that no one wants to buy.
It’s a big oaf, looking like a big triangle, so ugly.”

Traveling Buddha didn’t understand warships, but he had managed to accurately describe the Mauler.

Yes, the first impression the Mauler gave was that of an unwieldy oaf.
With a rare triangular structure, it had sharp lines.
If those sleek frigate popular in the market could be compared to elegant swords, the Mauler was a dumb hammer.

Imperial Shipyards loved to use the golden hue symbolic of the Imperial household, so the Mauler was dark gold, making it look quite gaudy.

The gaudy gold exterior and its crude appearance made Traveling Buddha think the ship was quite ugly.

As the saying went, amateurs looked at what was popular, while professionals knew what to actually look for.
Xia Fan didn’t care about the shape or color.
His concern was the seams in the deck, the layout of the wiring, and the material quality of the machinery.

This ship’s quality was incredible!

S-grade trititanium alloy was normally only used in carriers, and a Kelley Alloy superstructure was both expensive and extremely difficult to work with.
Only top-class shipyards like Blue Moon had the technology and equipment to use Keller Alloy in ships.

“Just wait a few days and look again.
I’ll perform a magic trick for you!” Xia Fan said to Traveling Buddha confidently.

Although he didn’t plan on requestings the services of a repair company, he needed their tools and equipment.

Large equipment could be leased on a daily basis from the spaceport’s logistics department.
As for the Mauler’s equipment, Xia Fan could just buy it, as it wasn’t expensive and he would only need a set of tools that could be stored on the ship.

Xia Fan didn’t have many other abilities, but he was very fast!

—

Once the repair work started, he became a blur.
One moment, he would be at the bottom of the ship inspecting the connectors, and in the blink of an eye, he would be in the engine room, testing the fusion reactor.

Traveling Buddha found a table and chair.
Brewing a pot of tea for himself, he watched Xia Fan work.

He didn’t particularly like the ship, but he loved to see Xia Fan work.

After all, he was a super-speedster, working so fast that it looked like he was in a movie, and his cadence really made things exciting.
As Xia Fan dismantled the fire control radar, he found that the internal structures were perfectly fine.
Xia Fan worked efficiently, needing only a few minutes to reinstall the massive fire control radar.

Traveling Buddha had a lazy nature, only moving his mouth and never his hands.
After watching for a while, he found the entire thing boring.
Dismantling this and that was so annoying, and it made one all dirty.

—

Traveling Buddha didn’t come the next day, so Xia Fan worked in the hangar from early morning until late night, when he returned to the dorm.

Xia Fan truly was very tired after working all day, but this was his own ship, and once it was repaired, he could freely travel the stars.
This thought filled his body with energy once more.

As it was an imported ship, some parts couldn’t be found locally, so he had to order them online and have them shipped over.

When ordering parts, Xia Fan did some pre-planning and ordered extra things like air filters and force nozzles, which broke more easily, putting them in the storage as a reserve.

—

Xia Fan finally finished repairing the Mauler after a full week of work.
Part of the week had been wasted waiting for the needed parts to be sent over, or else he could have been done faster.

“Isn’t it just a single ship? What’s there to look at? I have plenty at home,” Traveling Buddha grumbled impatiently as Xia Fan dragged him to the public spaceport.

Outside the hangar, Xia Fan activated the automatic door, which slowly opened with an electric hum.

Traveling Buddha’s eyes flew open when he saw the newly-repaired Mauler.

One week ago, this old ship had been covered in dust and oil, its airlock had been pried open when the Anti-Smuggling Bureau had seized it.

But now, the Mauler was flashing gold, so clean that it could be used as a mirror, and its surface was also as smooth as one, with not even the smallest speck of dust on it.

“You did this all by yourself!?” a shocked voice came from outside the hangar.

The speaker was the chubby engineer.
He had waited for a week and felt like it was about time to come over and laugh at Xia Fan, and at the same time take his business.

He had already thought about what he was going to do, and for Xia Fan’s stubbornness, he had decided to charge Xia Fan at least three times the price, squeezing money from this kid who didn’t know his limits.
In any case, people from the Special Bureau had money, so he might as well make some profit off him.

But in the end, what he saw was a frigate that seemed to be brand new parked in the hangar.

This efficiency was far too terrifying.
Even if he had brought twenty experienced engineers with him and had them spend a whole week in the hangar, they still wouldn’t have finished such a complicated job.

It was absurd! How did such a young man do it?

“Do you want to go in and take a look?” Xia Fan extended his hand and made an inviting gesture to them both.

Traveling Buddha nodded and shamelessly said, “Mm, mm, I suppose I can bring myself to take a look!”

The chubby engineer quietly tiptoed onto the ship after them.
When he stepped inside the hull, the engineer was filled with utmost admiration.
Everything was sparkling clean.
When he opened the wiring, he found that the tens of thousands of different wires had all been neatly organized into a pleasing sight.

A repair company’s employees would never have done that.
At most, they might bundle up all the wires together and stuff them back into the cable housing.
But Xia Fan had done these minor tasks as a matter of course.

The captain’s chair had been given new leather upholstery and a highly flexible sponge cushion.
Traveling Buddha sat on it and nodded.
“Mm, pretty good.
It’s got the feel, and it’s rather comfortable.

“Right, what do you plan to name this ship?”

Xia Fan smiled and replied, “I’ve had a name in mind for a while.
Come out and take a look.”

Sticky paper had been applied to the sides of the ship.
Xia Fan gave it a hard pull and tore the paper off.

“Puh!” When Traveling Buddha saw the name printed on the hull of the ship, he immediately did a spit-take.

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