Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 51

Leaving the maintenance shop, Chen Ming came to the central area of ​​the space station.

Corresponding to the huge shipyard is a small city located on the space station.

The entire city is illuminated by a large number of light-emitting tubes placed on the top of the space station.

Chen Ming could see a dozen-story high-rise building in the center of the city from the edge of the core area.

There is the Space Station Administration.

Buildings of different importance are distributed one by one starting from the Administration Bureau.

The area where Chen Ming was standing close to the space arm was basically shops and residences.

From the daily clothes of the people who walked here, Chen Ming could indeed confirm that many people settled here.

Although Chen Ming is curious about what the people who live here do for a living and what they need to do on a daily basis, now is not the time to do this.

Chen Ming looked around.

The streets that are visible to the naked eye, including the main roads, are all shops selling daily necessities and food, and there is no place for yourself.

So Chen Ming opened the map sent by the administration when he connected to the Internet and located his position on the map.

You can see that there are many marked locations around you.

But Chen Ming scanned it roughly, and the things marked on the map were basically such-and-such restaurants, such-and-such supermarkets and the like.

As Chen Ming saw with his own eyes, it was very lifelike, and there was no place where he could take over the goods he snatched from the pirates.

It's as if the city in the center of the space station is really just a city for people to live.

Chen Ming couldn't help but have a headache. Apart from his basic understanding of the space station, he knew nothing about it. It was very troublesome to do many things with just a map.

Just like now.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming thought that maybe he could go to the other space arm and have a look.

After all, the shipyard and repair shop are located on Space Arm No. 1, so there should be some similar and more specialized places on the other 29 Space Arms.

Chen Ming's fingers moved across the terminal.

I want to open the map of the No. 2 space arm closest to me on the map.

But at this time.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something extremely troublesome.

It seems that not only the money in my salary card cannot be used, but also the salary card itself cannot be touched.

In other words, even if you successfully sell the goods, you will not be able to receive the money you deserve from others.

Sure enough, I still have to find a job first and let the person who pays my salary handle this matter for me.

After all, this space station is also a pirate space station. It is impossible for pirates to use empire savings cards honestly for transactions between pirates.

Otherwise, if the identity information is directly exposed, it will not cause a big problem.

People who can pay people wages should also be able to help themselves solve payroll card problems.

Even if you can't get a job by then, it's better to chat with the locals than running around with your head covered.

Many things in the pirate space station that belong to the gray area cannot be directly stated in the open.

If you don’t understand anything, asking with a shy face is obviously the quickest way.

As for who to ask this question, Chen Ming already had the answer in his mind.

Just think about where in the space station people have come into contact with the most people and paths and it will become clear.

So Chen Ming put away the terminal and turned around and returned to the maintenance shop.

Two maintenance technicians in staff uniforms were found smoking cigarettes next to the structural pillars of the maintenance shop.

People who can work in the maintenance factory run by the forces funded by the space station are unlikely to know anything about some gray area things.

The older, middle-aged maintenance man subconsciously looked around after noticing Chen Ming walking towards them.

It was found that only the two maintenance engineers were left nearby, and the other colleagues had no idea where they were.

He couldn't help but clicked his tongue and asked Chen Ming, who was already standing in front of them: "Do you want to repair the spacecraft? Or do you need an introduction?"

"Maybe both, let's talk?"

"Huh?" The middle-aged maintenance man looked Chen Ming up and down, suddenly sneered, turned around and continued chatting with the younger maintenance man next to him.

Completely ignoring Chen Ming's existence.

He seemed to have figured out that Chen Ming was not a customer.

But at the next moment, he seemed to see something flicker out of the corner of his eye.

The middle-aged maintenance man turned his head back and saw Chen Mingzheng spreading his hands, with a small ball of gold placed in the center of his palm.

The purity of this small piece of gold is not too high. It was emptied out by Chen Ming when he was cleaning up the remaining slag in the furnace.

It should be that the smelting equipment has been running for too long, resulting in insufficient heat in some places, resulting in incomplete smelting of the waste products.

Because Chen Ming had already left the asteroid belt, and he didn't have time to mine after passing through the dark cemetery, there was no need to start the furnace for this small piece of low-purity gold.

So Chen Ming took it with him casually.

I originally planned to use it as a stepping stone to make money, but since I can't even get in now, I might as well use it here.

Chen Ming closed his palms, slightly deformed the small piece of gold, handed it to the middle-aged repairman and said, "Let's talk?"

A gleam seemed to flash in the middle-aged maintenance man's eyes, and he immediately responded with a warm smile: "Of course, no problem, what do you want to talk about."

Chen Ming didn't waste any time and asked directly: "Is there any way to get money?"

The middle-aged maintenance man smiled, looked at the gold in Chen Ming's hand and said, "Isn't this how you get the money?"

"That's not what I said."

"But the way to get money here is because of other people's ability to make a living. What's the point of asking us? If you don't have the ability to work here, you can only work as a porter."

"What if I have the ability?"

"If I had the ability, I wouldn't ask here."

Chen Ming shook his head. It was better not to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf. He said directly: "I just came here and I am not familiar with anything."

The younger maintenance man next to him suddenly interrupted: "What a fool."

Then a slap hit him on the forehead.

"Stop talking nonsense."

The middle-aged maintenance man waved his hands. The expression on his face did not change at all after hearing what Chen Ming said. He still had the same enthusiastic smile.

After all, Chen Ming's performance is really obvious.

A veteran like him has definitely seen many people like Chen Ming who came to the pirate space station for the first time.

The middle-aged maintenance man looked Chen Ming up and down, suddenly laughed twice and said, "Hey, you are interesting, come with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took the initiative to lead the way to the core area of ​​the space station.

Chen Ming did not refuse and quickly followed.

When the young maintenance technician next to him saw this, he had no intention of continuing on duty and followed him.

The middle-aged maintenance man did not look back, but raised his finger and pointed at his feet and said: "How to get money, to be honest, you should know that there are ways to get money everywhere here."

"The key is that the money must have a way to flow into your stomach."

Chen Ming's eyes lit up, this was what he needed.

"Be specific."

"Do you have a card that can collect money?"

"No."

"Look, isn't this troublesome? Even if you can make money, can you get the money?"

Chen Ming didn't speak.

The maintenance man suddenly turned around and smiled at Chen Ming.

Although his face still had the same enthusiastic smile as before, for some reason, Chen Ming seemed to see a hint of cunning.

The middle-aged maintenance engineer suddenly turned his head back and continued to lead Chen Ming to Space Arm No. 2.

(End of this chapter)