Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chen Ming returned to the hotel he rented in the core city of the space station and rested for a few hours.

After dawn, I returned to the maintenance shop full of sleepiness.

When he first entered the maintenance shop, he saw Old Wu hurriedly ran into the repair area of ​​the maintenance shop with a surprised look on his face.

Old Wu didn't see Chen Ming, but Chen Ming was curious about what Old Wu was doing, so he immediately followed him.

Then he saw Old Wu staring at half of the Afterglow destroyers parked here after entering the maintenance area, and said in a shocked tone: "Fuck, really?"

"What really?"

Old Wu was suddenly excited when he heard Chen Ming's words. He quickly came up, followed the passage from the repair area to the dock, pointed at the Iron Ore in the dock and asked: "Xiao Mu, is that your ship?"

"right."

Chen Ming has nothing to deny. Anyway, the factory boss Wu must have investigated his situation.

It couldn't be easier to check and monitor something. It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not.

When Old Wu heard Chen Ming's affirmative reply, he pointed to the half of the Glory-class ship and asked, "Did your ship bring this thing back yesterday?"

"right."

Chen Ming glanced at the Afterglow Destroyer next to him that he had tried so hard to drag back last night, and did not deny it.

"But I remember that you should have been staying in the basement of the Administration yesterday, right?"

"really."

"Then look at this."

Lao Wu took out the terminal and played a sensor scanning video.

This video captures everything the Iron Ore did last night.

The recorded perspective is that of the ship that abandoned Chen Ming before the conflict with the caravan.

Old Wu waited for the video to finish playing, and said impatiently: "Since last night, news has spread on the forum. A civilian mining ship directly smashed four ships head-on, and they were all armed ships."

"I also saw the Sentinel when I came here just now. Don't you have anything to say?"

"say what?"

"Has your boat been stolen?"

Chen Ming actually had already thought of an excuse last night, but Lao Wu suddenly asked a strange question that made him a little nervous.

He really wanted to say that if his ship was really stolen, how could the thief bring it back, along with half a Glorious Class ship.

However, Chen Ming soon realized that Lao Wu might be setting himself up.

Because at some point, the factory director suddenly stood not far from Chen Ming. Although he did not disturb him, he could definitely hear the conversation between Chen Ming and Lao Wu.

Although Chen Ming had won the trust of some factory directors and Lao Wu before, trust was not blind faith.

If Chen Ming shows too many dangerous suspicions, then trust will naturally collapse.

But this is a pirate space station, and the pirate space station is not interested in finding out the secrets and origins of other people, so factory boss Wu and the others just need Chen Ming to give them a reasonable explanation.

Of course, it's possible that Old Wu's brain circuit is just like this, but this probability is a bit small to be honest.

So Chen Ming started talking about the reason he had thought up last night: "Actually, there is still a captain on my ship."

He gave Xiaoshi the position of captain before going to bed, and he himself was the chief maintenance engineer of the Iron Ore.

"The captain took the ship out yesterday when Sunset came to attack."

"Then someone tried to steal Yuhui's boat, and he immediately took action."

"In the end it left a sentry, and I went out with it last night and brought the two ships back."

After listening to Chen Ming's statement, Old Wu felt a little doubtful.

He was a little unsure whether Chen Ming was talking nonsense.

But when he thought about the videos that had been circulated on the forum, he could basically confirm that the people driving the spacecraft were definitely professionals, and the smoothness of the spacecraft was not something that ordinary pilots could drive.

Although Chen Ming also said yesterday that his driving skills are good, he has been staying at the Administration and has no chance to directly pilot the spacecraft.

Although remote spacecraft control on a cosmic scale can already be achieved through super-light communication technology, it can only be carried out next to the communication base station.

There is obviously no communication base station on the Pirate Space Station.

In addition, there are various interferences on the battlefield and electronic warfare between spacecrafts. It is very difficult to remotely control the spacecraft to drive and fight.

It can be ruled out that Chen Ming is flying the spaceship.

Then it can be confirmed that the weapons of the spacecraft are modified from the weapons of the mechanical clan, and they should be Chen Ming's own.

There seems to be no problem with the maintenance technician being paired with a driver and captain.

It's just that the captain Chen Ming didn't get off the ship at all after the spacecraft landed. He only asked Chen Ming to come down and be responsible for finding a job and making money.

What kind of person would make a maintenance technician like Chen Ming willing to do such a thing?

Old Wu really wanted to say what was in his heart, but he also knew what words were inappropriate to say at what time, so he just reminded him: "Then you have to ask your captain to pay attention. Being too conspicuous is not a good thing."

At this time, Chen Ming noticed from the corner of his eye that the factory director had already gone about his own business, nodded and said, "I will tell him."

Before Old Wu finished speaking and was about to leave, Chen Ming suddenly grabbed him and said, "Old Wu, do you have any plans to take back the half of the Afterglow Ship space station?"

Old Wu did not get bored because Chen Ming often asked him questions, and explained solemnly: "The Afterglow Ship Space Station has always been accepting."

"After all, Yuhui is also developing. Even if the technology used on their ships is different from ours because of the spaceship design ideas, there are still many things we can learn from."

"It's not a waste to collect it and use it for research, and the quantity is never too much."

"Actually, there are ships on Yuhui's side that are collecting humans in various ways. It's the same reason."

"It's just that the space station has just finished fighting Yuhui, so the recycling price will definitely be lower. You should talk to the factory director. He should be responsible for this aspect, but..."

Lao Wu suddenly lowered his voice and said, "You can go talk to Lao Wu. The price he gives will definitely be higher than that of the space station."

"The same goes for the Sentinel. The space station has no shortage of such things. It will definitely not be sold."

"As for Lao Wu... I really don't know if he will accept this thing. You can ask yourself when the time comes."

The lazy figure of the hardware store owner flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and he responded, "Okay, but I remember the boss said he was collecting it for others. Doesn't it matter if he is competing for business with the space station?"

"And I don't seem to have seen the space station's ship in the dock. Doesn't their ship need repairs?"

Lao Wu replied directly without thinking: "Lao Wu will definitely be able to solve his own problems. You don't have to worry about it."

"As for those ships...the one responsible for fighting is a separate department, and they have their own dock to park the ships."

"And even if their ships are broken, they don't need to be repaired, because they are not actually under the control of the space station. All combat ships are issued uniformly from above. If they are broken, they will be transported away together and a new batch will be issued. "

Old Wu knew that his words would make Chen Ming have questions to ask, so he explained directly: "So they are usually not qualified as maintenance technicians. In other words, each of them can more or less know simple maintenance techniques. Just use it when fighting."

"How can we let combatants do the hard work of cleaning the battlefield? So in the end this kind of errand has to fall on us."

Chen Ming digested what Old Wu said, and seemed to suddenly find a business opportunity in it, and asked: "What about these broken ships?"

"What are you thinking about? It doesn't matter if you order some spare parts or equipment or something floating around outside, Lao Lu will definitely turn a blind eye."

"But the ships that come back are all inventoried and have lists. It's not that easy to get benefits from them."

Lao Wu suddenly lowered his voice and said: "Even if someone pulls oil and water from inside, it won't be our turn. We can just pick up the junk outside. Although it is a bit troublesome, we can still make a lot of money."

Old Wu had warned himself like this, so naturally Chen Ming wouldn't say much.

"Okay, what about today's mission?"

Lao Wu directly opened his legs and said: "Come on, the ship has been approved and just taken out of the warehouse. Lao Lu just went over and started it."

"This cleanup task will probably take a few months. Once it is completed, we won't have to go out every day."

"Just go back and sit in the office. Then you may be asked to do some work like bringing in new people. In our situation, it shouldn't be too tiring."

Lao Wu suddenly smiled and said: "If you often sit in the office, I can go to many places even if I skip work."

Deep in the repair shop.

The factory director and the bald man had already put on their equipment and were waiting for Lao Wu and Chen Ming beside the engineering ship.

But after seeing the number of people present, Chen Ming couldn't help but ask: "Just the four of us?"

Lao Wu explained to Chen Ming: "The maintenance shop has to have someone on duty, so I left Xiao Wen first. Originally, I thought it would be better for you to go out and work more efficiently because of your skills, but if you want to keep him as a guard, you can do it." OK."

"Forget it then."

"Okay, let's get on the boat."

The four of them walked onto the spacecraft along the opened hatch of the spacecraft.

After boarding the ship, Chen Ming immediately took control of the ship in his own hands.

With the previous experience of controlling half of the Glory-class ship, controlling this engineering ship, which was probably between the level of destroyer and escort, did not have much impact on Chen Ming.

He quickly adapted to it and at the same time confirmed the situation of the engineering ship.

This engineering ship is a ship used internally by Xinda Company.

It has more complex functions than the ones he has driven before, and is more like a small mobile repair shop.

But having said that, the new engineering ship only has more functions than the engineering ship of thirty years ago that a repair shop should have.

It took Chen Ming ten minutes to fully understand this engineering ship.

So much so that what happened next made the other three people on the boat feel very magical.

After the engineering ship set off, the four people were supposed to work together to complete the task of cleaning the battlefield.

But as they continued to work, the others found that there were fewer and fewer tasks at hand.

Almost all the tasks were solved by Chen Ming alone. Chen Ming didn't even feel any rush, as if the projects they needed to work on seriously were just things that Chen Ming could complete easily.

Lao Wu had no objection at all to this and was happily fishing while hiding in the corner of the engineering boat.

The factory director and the bald man basically stared at Chen Ming all the time.

They all have professional maintenance skills, and they all start from the most basic knowledge and complete the company's education and training step by step.

But when they saw Chen Ming working, they always felt that they and Chen Ming didn't seem to be doing the same kind of work.

Even if they can do what Chen Ming is doing, and they can do it well, but to achieve Chen Ming's smoothness to a frightening level and in such a short time, it really seems that it is not something that ordinary people can do.

It didn't take long.

Suddenly finding that he had nothing to do, the factory director also took out his terminal, avoided Chen Ming's sight, and chatted with Lao Wu about Chen Ming's origins.

At present, they can confirm that Chen Ming is definitely a senior maintenance engineer who has received elite education, and talent and hard work are indispensable.

So now they are discussing whether Chen Ming is from Xinda Company or whether he came from another company.

Just a terminal within Xinda Company couldn't completely explain anything, so they couldn't come up with a result after discussing it for a while.

Chen Ming didn't know what the factory director and Lao Wu were talking about.

But one thing he knew clearly was that on the next day, there was another engineering ship in the repair shop, which he could pilot alone.

Without the interference of other people, Chen Ming can even directly use the panel to assist driving and work, making the task easier to complete.

He could even take the time to consider how to use the Afterglow AI core.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully in the past two days and checked a lot of information.

I found that so many years have passed since the AI ​​awakened its consciousness and launched the rebellion. It seems that I have only seen the Afterglow AI entering the human empire, and I have never seen any AI running out again.

Although it may be due to good management, it may also be due to good message blocking.

But it’s also possible that individuals who are indeed Afterglow AI don’t care where they work.

Chen Ming felt that he could try to trust Gamma AI. The Sentinel-class ship was not for sale for the time being. When he had time later, he would repair it, castrate some dangerous functions, and give it a try.

After get off work.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to repair the Sentinel-class. Instead, he went to the boss and delivered the previous batch of tobacco and alcohol.

We talked about the recovery of the half of the Glory class ship.

Chen Ming had determined after get off work the day before that there was nothing else on the Glory level that was of special value to him. Taking action as soon as possible would save him a lot of long nights and long dreams and worries about others.

The Tejas-class recycling price was agreed upon, and the boss said that half of the ship could only be recycled at a 30% discount.

But even a 30% discount is already much more profitable than dismantling and selling the materials.

And generally speaking, the price of destroyers is measured in tens of millions, and the price of afterglow ships is definitely higher than other ships.

So in the end, the boss directly gave the payment to Chen Ming like last time, totaling 45 million.

Receiving such money made Chen Ming experience an unreal feeling again, and after confirming that he had received the money, his hands trembled slightly.

Fortunately, this time the boss directly sent two people to follow Chen Ming to the repair shop to confirm. After the acceptance, the money and goods were cleared, which made Chen Ming calm down a little.

This much money is definitely enough for Chen Ming to buy a very high-end frigate.

Chen Ming was still struggling with whether he should make a major overhaul of the Iron Ore from the outside to the inside, or buy a new spaceship.

No need to think about it now.

He wants them all.

A backup option is better than nothing.

It's just that the current situation in the repair shop is not enough to support Chen Ming's major modifications to the Iron Ore, and it seems that there are no spaceships for sale in the repair shop for the time being.

So in the end, things went full circle and it came back to modifying the Sentinel class so that Chen Ming could understand the effects of gamma AI.

However, after the transaction with the boss, it was already a little late, so Chen Ming just roughly planned the transformation ideas and lay on the bed of the Iron Mine.

But late that night.

Chen Ming was suddenly awakened by a piercing alarm while he was sleeping.

"The Sunset Fleet is about to attack the space station, please take shelter."