Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

What Old Wu said made the factory director hesitate suddenly, and asked: "Who is he?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know?"

"I really don't know, he's a new guy, I guess he has done something wrong and is hiding here."

"I don't know anything, I just helped him get an identity from Old Wu yesterday, his name is Mu Shuikong."

"Old Wu is also very interested in this new guy, it's obvious that he has the same old problem again."

The factory director saw that Old Wu was about to change the subject and interrupted him: "Don't worry about other people's interests and hobbies, just help me find a way to investigate him, so that he won't be a spy."

Old Wu looked indifferent The son said: "Why are you worried about us? Spies are spies, what can they steal from you?"

"With such good technology, he came to our remote place to find work. Do you believe it if I say it's okay?"

"It's really unnecessary. There are a few people who can come to our pirate space station, so there will be no problem?"

"I'll pay."

"Say it earlier."

Old Wu's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and his face was full of enthusiasm for work and he said: "How do you want me to investigate him?"

"Just confirm his purpose of coming to the space station. As long as it doesn't affect us, his identity and origin are actually not important."

"I don't plan to let him do any work , just help me teach people. If he can share one tenth of his good skills with the useless people under me, I don't have to wear this clothes every day. "

Old Wu looked at the factory director in his work clothes and smiled, and said: "Don't you think about where this place is? Who with skills is willing to come here to suffer?"

The factory director tutted a little unhappily, looked at Old Wu's face and said: "I think your skills are not bad. If you are willing to work harder and help me teach people, I don't have to rush to keep you now."

"Hehe, I don't have so much energy to use on this kind of thing, you should trouble the young people."

"In fact, if you ask me, don't wait for me to figure out what Xiao Mu is doing. "Since he is interested in Xiao Mu, just invite him here first." The factory manager was not angry because of what Lao Wu said. Instead, he seriously considered his suggestion and said, "What you said makes sense. What if I let you test him and he gets upset and runs away? It will be hard to find another person with such skills." Lao Wu followed the factory manager's words and said, "Yes, yes, by the way, aren't you going to ask me to work today? Just go to him directly." The factory manager turned his head and glared at Lao Wu when he heard this, and his arms were instantly around his neck. "Don't think about it, you can't escape."

"The task assigned by the superiors really can't be done by a newcomer."

"Anyway, I'll go and keep the person here first. You can help me check it later. I'll reimburse you for the money you spent."

Old Wu struggled twice and found that he couldn't get away. He put his arm on the factory director's shoulder and said, "Since you said so, I must help you figure it out, right?"

"Be careful, don't go too far."

"Don't worry."

After the two discussed, they let go of each other and walked off the spacecraft.

The factory director soon came to Chen Ming again, and asked with a very serious expression: "Mu Shuikong?"

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Yes."

"You performed very well. I think our maintenance plant needs people like you. Are you interested in staying?"

Chen Ming was not surprised by the factory director's invitation. As long as he agreed, he would get the job in the maintenance plant.

But a question suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind. Since there is a job, he has to sign a contract.

But for a repair shop of a pirate space station that walks on the edge of the law or even outside the law, does a contract that emphasizes legal validity really make sense?

Chen Ming glanced at Old Wu, who was whistling beside the factory manager, and saw that he showed a bright smile like when he cheated him out of 3,000 yuan before, and gave himself a thumbs up.

Chen Ming restrained the idea of ​​punching him in the face, and planned to trust Old Wu first, and then run away if there was really a problem.

After pretending to think for a moment, Chen Ming replied: "I am very interested in this."

After receiving Chen Ming's affirmative answer, the factory manager's mouth corners could not help but rise.

Although Chen Ming's identity is currently unknown, at least his skills are there, and the two people he knows are optimistic about him, so the probability of a car overturning is not too high.

The factory manager restrained his expression for a moment and continued to say to Chen Ming: "The maintenance plant is not here today, so you have to come back tomorrow. I'll pay you today's salary first."

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed casually, but immediately remembered that when he was chatting with the bald man just now, he seemed to say that this kind of maintenance work is paid weekly.

After all, the final payment will not be paid until the owner of the spacecraft, that is, the pirates, have inspected and accepted it.

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the bald man who was eavesdropping on the conversation here, and found that his expression was also very surprised.

However, the unexpected expression on the bald man's face quickly disappeared, because when he thought about Chen Ming's technology, he felt that everything was reasonable.

This performance made Chen Ming even more confused, but since others wanted to pay, he couldn't refuse.

Chen Ming took out the terminal, called up the payment interface, and showed it to the factory manager.

The factory manager quickly transferred the labor costs for repairing six spacecraft, totaling 200,000.

It was more than Chen Ming originally estimated.

Generally speaking, the cost of repairing a spacecraft only includes labor costs, not excluding replacement parts, which is about 100,000.

The maintenance shop takes half of the fee, and then two maintenance engineers usually work together to repair a spacecraft, and each person can only get more than 20,000 yuan.

Chen Ming's original 15% should be 15,000 for one ship, and 90,000 for six ships.

Now it seems that the factory director has figured out the specific situation of the maintenance task just now, so he directly gave Chen Ming 30%, and also chipped in the whole amount. In the end, it was only this 200,000.

Chen Ming estimated that the repair shop would not have many opportunities to repair so many ships at once, so the two hundred thousand was not bad.

After confirming that the money was received, Chen Ming nodded to the factory director and prepared to leave.

But before leaving, Chen Ming didn't forget why he came to the maintenance shop today.

Chen Ming bypassed the factory director and said to Old Wu, "Old Wu, I have something to ask you. Are you free now?"

As if there was no place to put his hand, Lao Wu suddenly put it on the factory director's shoulder.

"Hey, not yet. Lao Lu asked me to do some work. I will definitely be free after get off work."

"Okay, then I'll find you later."

Old Wu waved his hand and walked deeper into the maintenance factory with Director Lu.

Chen Ming watched the two people's backs gradually disappear, and it was no pity.

It just so happened that he could take this opportunity to confirm whether his abilities could be used on other people's spaceships.

And just now, Chen Ming had almost made the choice of the spacecraft he wanted to control.

The most suitable among them was the Sentinel-class ship that he first repaired.

Sentinel-class ships with relatively strong maneuverability are very suitable for playing the role of forward or reconnaissance.

A ship undertaking such a mission is likely to leave the fleet alone, maintaining only communication contact.

Chen Ming can monitor the Sentinel as soon as it breaks away from the main force.

Then he can forcefully control the Sentinel and run to an unknown place before others can react.

Turn off the life support and engines, and when the pirates above freeze to death due to lack of oxygen or cold, the spacecraft will be completely yours.

At that time, Chen Ming drove the ship back to the space station before the pirates could react.

Dismantle what you need outside the space station, and sell the remaining spacecraft directly to the repair shop.

If there is no proof, why would the pirates steal meat from the repair shop?

Chen Ming quickly put on the equipment he had used when repairing the spacecraft.

It just so happened that everyone else was going to eat at this time, and no one came to stop Chen Ming.

Even if someone saw his actions on the surveillance camera, he would have a bunch of reasons to explain.

Chen Ming came to the Sentinel class again and reached out to press on its hatch.

[New spacecraft signal detected, whether to change the brain control signal connection]

[Number of currently connected spaceships: 1/1]

"replace."

With the choice confirmed, Chen Ming could clearly feel that he was losing control of the Iron Mine.

The Sentinel-class in front of it is gradually becoming an extended limb of itself, just like the Iron Ore before it. .

And changing the spacecraft does not consume much mental energy.

Soon, a new spacecraft panel appeared in front of Chen Ming.

[Spaceship Panel]

[Ship name: Sentinel]

[Type: Sentinel-class civilian escort armed ship]

[Fuel Reserve: 10%]

[Port side weapon: none, none]

[Small missile mounting points: None]

[Armor: Reinforced titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Civilian Guard Grade Engine]

[Built-in cabins: captain's cabin, engine cabin, missile auxiliary operation cabin, living cabin, storage cabin]

[Important equipment: bridge control system module (in operation), stance traction module (in operation), life support system module (in operation), missile attachment module (in operation), simulated gravity module (in operation), landing module ( In operation), hyperspace channel system module (in operation)]

There are some differences between the Sentinel-class panels and those of the Iron Ore.

The most obvious place is in weapons.

The Sentinel-class's asymmetric design is similar to that of the Cerberus-class, so there are no ordinary weapons on the starboard side. There is only a missile mount point fixed on the right front of the spacecraft.

It seems strange, but the fact that this design has been preserved shows that it must have merit.

At least that missile hardpoint gives the Sentinel more tactical options.

But these are not important to Chen Ming, because what is really important is that he can now indeed control this Sentinel-class ship like he controls the Iron Ore.

At this time, from the perspective of the maintenance shop surveillance, you can see Chen Ming's hand pressing on the hatch, and then moving his hand slightly, the hatch opens.

But in fact, the operation of opening the hatch is carried out through Chen Ming's consciousness controlling the spacecraft.

Chen Ming's control of the Sentinel was no different from his control of the Iron Ore.

This means that all his previous ideas are possible.

At this point, Chen Ming finally had a look of satisfaction on his face.

The next thing he has to do is simple, just wait.

When the pirates take the ship out again, the rest will be completed as if it were a matter of course.

So now, it's almost time to go have lunch.

Just when Chen Ming left the maintenance shop.

The factory director and Lao Wu happened to arrive at the deepest part of the maintenance plant, a maintenance area that was smaller than the outside.

In the gravityless area here, the wreckage of a ship is floating.

If Chen Ming were here, he would definitely be able to tell that this wreckage was the ship that hit the dock yesterday.

After all, the repair shop is run by the space station, and the task of investigating the damaged spacecraft naturally fell on the repair shop in the end.

The factory director quickly put on his equipment next to the spacecraft.

But Lao Wu was dawdling beside him at this time, unable to put on a simple set of auxiliary mobility equipment for a long time.

The factory director knew what Lao Wu was thinking when he saw this look. He sighed and said, "If you finish the work for me conscientiously, your perfect attendance this month will be counted towards you."

Lao Wu didn't say anything, but suddenly yawned, and the half-dressed equipment slipped off again.

The factory director could only continue: "There will be a bonus after the work is done."

"You should have told me earlier."

Lao Wu suddenly became more agile and put on his equipment immediately.

We walked into the gravity-free area and started working with the assistance of the factory director.

They need to sort out and confirm the cause of the spacecraft crash.

The fastest way is naturally to extract the black box and the records in the recording equipment that have not been completely damaged.

For Lao Wu, this task is not too difficult.

He cooperated with the factory director who operated the external heavy maintenance machinery, and quickly removed the wreckage of the spacecraft piece by piece, cleaned and dismantled it, and it didn't take long to find the black box.

However, neither of them was in a hurry to see the contents of the black box, but continued to dismantle the wreckage.

The plan is to clean up all the wreckage, collect all valuable things, integrate them together, and quickly and accurately confirm the cause of the spacecraft accident.

The work of dismantling the wreckage was soon in its final stages.

At this moment, the director suddenly discovered that something seemed to be flickering in the last piece of debris, which was probably the engine of the spacecraft.

The factory director immediately reminded Lao Wu, who was working in the gravity-free zone: "Old Wu, look at your right hand."

Old Wu looked in the direction the director said and found a needle-like object as thick as Old Wu's little finger that had penetrated into the interior of the spacecraft.

There is a signal light at the end of the needle, which is constantly flashing light blue light.

The explosion of the spacecraft did not leave any traces on it, and it looked very solid.

At this time, the factory director came directly to the edge of the gravity-free zone, looked at the needle-like object in Lao Wu's hand and asked, "What is this?"

Old Wu said with some uncertainty; "This looks like an afterglow, it shouldn't be a weapon."

He picked up a tool, placed it next to the object, scanned it, and continued: "Its internal structure is very simple, there is nothing dangerous, wait, this thing..."

Old Wu paused and continued: "This seems to be a locator. They may be attacking the space station."

When the director heard what Lao Wu said, his brows suddenly came together. He asked with confusion: "What is this? What's the reason? Is there any benefit to Afterglow attacking the space station?"

"I'm not Yuhui, how do I know?"

"You can't think that Yuhui determines the location of the space station to avoid the space station, right? Or do you think that they just want to confirm the location and do nothing? Is that possible?"

"Since Yuhui and the others are doing this kind of thing, they must have ideas about the space station."

As Old Wu said, he left the gravity-free area, stood on the ground of the space station, and took off his equipment.

"Anyway, let's take a look at the black box first."

The director did not object, and together with Lao Wu, they relied on a bunch of recording equipment that had not been completely damaged and the well-preserved black boxes to restore the previous encounters of the spacecraft.

This spacecraft had a companion spacecraft before, and together they jumped out of the hyperspace channel to the edge of the galaxy where the space station is located.

When they just came out of the channel, they were attacked by a small afterglow fleet that had been crouching for a long time.

Another ship was destroyed on the spot, but this one had weird luck.

Although the attacks of all Afterglow ships were on target, they all avoided fatal positions that could lead to the direct sinking of the spacecraft.

And it seems that out of vigilance against the armed forces of the space station inside the galaxy, this small afterglow fleet only operated on the edge of the galaxy, and did not go deep into the galaxy. It hunted down the spacecraft and allowed it to successfully escape back to the space station.

Now it seems that Yuhui obviously let the water fall on purpose.

First, a beacon was left on the ship, and then the ship was put back to lock the location of the space station.

Sunset must have expected that the beacon would be discovered, but they did it anyway.

In other words, there is a high possibility that Yuhui's assault force is already on the way.