Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 1 Maintenance Engineer

"Maintenance Engineer No. 519, Chen Ming, welcome to wake up."

"Today is March 5601, 3 AD. Please go to the maintenance staff's office at Office Area No. 12 as soon as possible to receive your personal terminal and work kit."

Chen Ming moved his hands stiffly and climbed up from the cryo-sleep chamber where he was.

His somewhat confused brain only took in what the voice said into his brain, but did not digest it, making Chen Ming completely unable to understand what happened to him.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming finally gathered his scattered energy.

However, when Chen Ming observed the environment around him, his breathing suddenly stagnated.

"Where am I?"

Chen Ming looked around nervously. He seemed to be in a very shabby place.

A room made entirely of metal materials, with four devices similar to the one he just stood up on each of the four corners.

In the corner next to the door near the exit, something appeared that made Chen Ming even more nervous.

A scattered human skeleton, and a corpse of some kind of super-large insect that had completely rotted inside, leaving only the carapace.

The two corpses were close together, as if telling Chen Ming what happened before they died.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were really just corpses, and quickly confirmed his own situation.

The last memory I had before I woke up from here was the speeding truck.

If it hadn't been like this in the hospital, it would have been basically a possibility for me now.

Through.

Chen Ming took a few deep breaths to force himself to calm down.

This kind of experience is actually quite good for me.

I have no father or mother, so my normal life is not life, it can only be called survival.

Having a new beginning is undoubtedly God’s blessing for me.

But now, Chen Ming had to at least find a way to figure out where he was.

Chen Ming quickly rummaged around on his body, but found nothing.

But just when Chen Ming woke up, the voice in the broadcast seemed to have said his identity.

Maintenance engineer No. 519 also asked himself to go to that office to pick up things.

Chen Ming moved his limbs a little harder and felt that his physical condition was pretty good.

Although it seemed that it had been frozen for a long time in the nearby freezer, there was no discomfort when moving.

That office shouldn't be a problem in the past.

Moreover, the environment Chen Ming is currently in always makes him feel uncomfortable. It is best not to stay here.

But before that, Chen Ming suddenly noticed that there was a pistol that looked very sci-fi under the human skeleton.

Chen Ming hurriedly picked it up and held it in his hand.

Half groping, half imitating the videos of gun use that I had seen online, I turned off the safety, removed the magazine, then reinstalled it, and adjusted the safety to a firing state.

Although I don't know if the pistol that has been lying here for a long time can still be used, it at least gave Chen Ming some confidence to deal with unknown dangers.

Next to the skeleton is the only closed metal door in this room, which should lead to the outside world.

There is an eye-catching button on the wall next to the door.

Seeing that there was nothing else around that could open the metal door, Chen Ming reached out and pressed it.

A mechanical female voice then sounded.

"A vacuum environment is detected, please press the button again to confirm opening the buffer compartment, and pay attention to wearing protective clothing completely."

"A vacuum environment? Am I in space?"

Chen Ming frowned and stepped on the solid metal floor, without any sign that he was in space.

But he didn't dare to bet that the sound was wrong, so he could only turn his head and start searching the room for anything that could help him.

Chen Ming was so panicked after waking up that he didn't notice that many places in the room actually hid mysteries.

Underneath the cryo-sleep compartment where you wake up, there is a compartment that can be opened.

Inside was a set of clothing that covered the whole body, similar to a space suit, but it looked very lightweight.

This should be protective clothing.

In the compartments under several other unmanned freezers, Chen Ming did not find a space suit similar to this protective suit.

But Chen Ming found a personal terminal often seen in science fiction movies on the ground next to the freezer.What Chen Ming didn't expect was that the terminal actually opened under his own random operation.

Although the battery shown is not much left, it should be enough for Chen Ming to figure out something.

Just before Chen Ming was about to study its usage.

A string of familiar and unfamiliar memories suddenly appeared in Chen Ming's mind, as if they had been stimulated.

This is Chen Ming's past memory. As a maintenance engineer, Chen Ming's past memories are constantly emerging.

Let Chen Ming understand his current situation.

Chen Ming's current location is a mining space station belonging to the Human Empire.

Located on the asteroid ring of an edge planet in the edge galaxy where humans have expanded their territory.

The existence of planetary rings makes the habitable planet below even though the climate is very suitable for human habitation, the meteorites that fall from time to time make people have no idea of ​​settling on it.

However, these asteroids rich in various rare minerals in the asteroid ring attracted a commercial company to buy the mineral mining rights of this planet.

They built a mining space station here and made it open to all humans.

Chen Ming, on the other hand, is a professional maintenance engineer for the company that owns the mineral mining rights of this planet.

I got this job that required me to freeze for a long time and only come out to work when necessary.

During the cryo-dormant period, the commercial company will still calculate Chen Ming's salary.

So Chen Ming, who had no parents or friends, successfully applied for this job.

My main memory from this world ends the moment I lie down in the cryo-sleep chamber.

Although more detailed memories are still emerging in Chen Ming's mind, they are all scattered fragments.

Chen Ming still doesn't know what happened in the mining space station.

However, I relied on my memory to teach me how to use some tools, including the terminal.

Chen Ming quickly retrieved a log record from the terminal.

Based on the contents of the log, Chen Ming could roughly deduce that this terminal and the recorded log should belong to the skeleton in the room. He seemed to be a doctor.

Most of the contents of the log are about regularly checking the health of the people inside the frozen dormant warehouse every day.

In the last few pages of the diary, around April 5569 AD, about 30 years ago, the content recorded in the diary changed.

As usual, the mining space station captured an asteroid in the asteroid ring that may contain rare mineral resources.

When the first rare mineral is mined, everyone celebrates.

However, the very next day, a sudden riot broke out from the area where mining equipment was housed.

Countless bugs poured out from here and spread throughout the space station, killing the personnel on the space station.

The interior of that asteroid is not only filled with rare minerals, but also contains nests of these terrifying bugs.

They hibernated inside the asteroid for a long time and woke up after receiving extreme stimulation.

Chen Ming also wanted to know what happened next, but the content in the log stopped abruptly.

The doctor has died here with the bug.

The final result of this incident is obvious.

Everyone in the mining space station was wiped out and the space station was abandoned. It has been 30 years now.

In other words, Chen Ming is now on an abandoned mining space station full of Zerg.

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the white bones and insect carapace next to him.

An insect of this size could easily kill itself if it pounces on it.

Although the bugs were scary, Chen Ming felt that he was more likely to starve to death.

He didn't find any food in the room.

so……

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the rusty door next to him, hesitating whether to go out like this.

Those Zerg can sleep inside the asteroid for so long, will they still be waiting for him outside the door of this mining space station?
While he was still hesitating, the last memory fragments belonging to maintenance engineer Chen Ming were completely integrated into Chen Ming's mind.

Then, two lines of words suddenly appeared in his mind.

[No spacecraft signal access detected]

[Please connect as soon as possible to complete the brain control signal connection and initialization]

(End of this chapter)