Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 4 Questions
Chen Ming took off his protective clothing and hung it next to the charging port in the captain's cabin.

Breathing the oxygen provided by the life support system on the spacecraft, all the stress caused by the environment in my heart is dissipating.

I was busy going back and forth in the space station for nearly two hours, and I even almost ended up here several times.

But luckily it's all worth it.

There are repair kits the size of suitcases at your feet, and fusion fuel that can support the operation of the spacecraft are stacked in the storage room.

As well as the small carts filled with packaged survival foods that I just casually placed in the central passage of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming now doesn't feel any discomfort except fatigue, which means that these packaged survival foods are completely edible.

These things that I have worked hard to obtain are the foundation and confidence for Chen Ming to live.

The only thing that I couldn't get in the space station just now was the materials for repairing the spacecraft equipment.

But the warehouse area where various materials are stored in the space station is on the level of the mining area. Chen Ming had no intention of going to such a dangerous place in the first place.

If he had gone, he would have become food for insects by now.

Chen Ming shook his head and shook away the terrible thoughts. He didn't think about what would happen if he did something.

I planned to take advantage of the time my body needs to rest after working non-stop for two hours.

Use your brain for your future planning.

He had just piloted the spacecraft to leave the mining space station. It could only be said that he had initially passed the most dangerous period of his life in this world.

But there are more problems and troubles waiting for Chen Ming later.

The spacecraft has limited fuel reserves, and the food it can obtain from the space station is also limited.

This means that Chen Ming cannot drift in space forever.

So no matter what, Chen Ming must return to the human world.

I am currently in the fringe star field, and there are basically no human colonies nearby.

Therefore, Chen Ming had to do the next best thing and choose to go to the nearest system with an open military outpost.

At that time, he can contact the military stationed there to ask for help, and use the military's stargate technology that can jump between galaxies to return to the human world.

As for why Chen Ming is so confident that the army will help him.

It's because in Chen Ming's memory, although the military outpost was called a military outpost, it was not just the military.

In edge galaxies lacking infrastructure, these military outposts are actually equivalent to large central space stations in bustling galaxies.

Provide all human beings with the convenience needed for navigation in various galaxies, and provide some logistical support for those who explore the territory of the universe.

After all, Chen Ming is a human being and a serious maintenance engineer with the status of a company employee. He has no problem asking for help when he is in danger.

As long as he gets there, Chen Ming's most basic survival will definitely be guaranteed.

So the biggest problem for Chen Ming now is.

The time it takes for him to get from the abandoned mining space station on the orbit of the small planet on the edge of the edge galaxy of this edge star field to the galaxy where the nearest military outpost is located.

Chen Ming opened the galaxy map near the mining space station on his personal terminal, and marked the galaxy where the space station is located and the galaxy where the nearest public military outpost is located on the screen.

Although the distance between the two points is not long on a cosmic scale, it is not short for Chen Ming.

In Chen Ming's memory, he arrived at the space station on the company's spaceship, which didn't take much time.

But the company's spaceship has a hyperspace channel system, and the words "hyperspace channel system (missing)" were clearly written on the spaceship that I found.

Since the Iron Ore does not have a hyperspace channel system, it would definitely take a lot of time to fly this distance.

Sufficient preparations must be made for a long-term space voyage before Chen Ming can set off there.So Chen Ming left the captain's cabin and pushed the trolley parked in the aisle into the storage cabin.

He ignored the corpses of bugs and insect eggs in the refrigerator for the time being, and instead took stock of the food piled on the trolley.

It turns out that these packaged survival foods can only last for three months at most.

Three months of food, three months of survival time.

Chen Ming didn't want to starve to death halfway through the flight.

So he couldn't just head to the military outpost without thinking.

Chen Ming returned to the captain's cabin again, sitting on a chair and thinking about ways to solve the food problem.

Chen Ming already has a general idea of ​​the method, and the planting cabin inside the spacecraft can be fully utilized.

But the idea is not the key, the key lies in the execution process and the possibility of execution.

But just when Chen Ming lowered his head slightly, his eyes suddenly saw the communication equipment on the control panel of the spacecraft bridge.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

If I want to return to the human world, there seems to be no need to drive the spaceship back by myself.

Find a way to connect the spacecraft's communication equipment to the space station's communication anchor point, so that you can contact the nearest military outpost.

They might be able to directly send a rescue ship to take them back.

Chen Ming touched his chin and began to think about whether his idea was feasible.

But when Chen Ming's eyes focused on the abandoned mining space station not far away.

In an instant he realized something was wrong.

After integrating the memory of maintenance engineer Chen Ming, Chen Ming became very clear about the brain circuits of those at the top of the company.

Even if the company is generous in paying wages during the dormant period, it cannot change their greedy nature.

He is an insignificant person, and he is given a salary that is not a sweet thing to them at all.

But although this mining space station is located in the edge of the star field, it can often obtain some rare minerals that even money can't buy. How could the company's upper management give up on it casually?

They bought the mineral mining rights of the planet, and the mining rights lasted for at least a hundred years.

It has only been 40 to [-] years since the completion of the space station. Is it possible that the company has not responded at all?
If they had, they should have taken themselves out of the dormant warehouse and taken them away as employees of the company.

what are they doing?
And even though the insect plague broke out on the space station in the middle of the night, some people should have been able to escape.

What about the people who escaped?

Is it possible that the news that a space station was occupied by Zerg did not spread at all?
Why, after all these years, is there still no one here?

No one even came to collect the bones.

Chen Ming's heart was full of doubts, and he seemed to be aware of the abnormality of the whole matter of the space station being abandoned.

No matter what the secret behind it is, it can make a space station that has brought a lot of benefits to the company no one care about since 30 years ago.

This matter is definitely not something that a small maintenance technician like me can get involved in.

Before confirming what is the hidden situation between the space station and the company, Chen Ming must not contact the very close military outpost through the space station's signal tower.

You must find a way to return to the human world by yourself.

The universe is so big, as long as I leave here, no matter what conspiracy is behind the abandoned space station, no one can find me.

(End of this chapter)