Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 52 Fake Identity

Chen Ming followed the middle-aged maintenance worker into the No. 2 Space Arm next to the shipyard.

Compared with the city in the central area of ​​the space station, this place is not so life-like.

There are large factories equipped with various industrial facilities everywhere. The huge noise from the operation of various equipment fills the space arm. I don’t know what is being produced.

Although there are not many people in this space arm, it cannot be regarded as a hidden corner and will not encounter any danger.

However, Chen Ming's hand was still pressed on the pistol at his waist.

The middle-aged maintenance engineer didn't know whether he didn't notice it or whether he noticed it but didn't care.

He quickly took Chen Ming to the small house in front of one of the factories.

From the outside, it looks like a hardware store, with various tools displayed inside.

When you walk in, you can clearly feel that the sound insulation effect of the small house is good.

The boss sitting in front of the counter perked up as soon as he saw the middle-aged maintenance man coming in and asked, "Old Wu? What brought you here?"

The middle-aged maintenance technician known as Lao Wu chuckled.

He reached out to pat Chen Ming on the shoulder, but Chen Ming dodged it.

Old Wu didn't care and said, "I'll apply for a card for this new kid, and the money will be credited to my account."

The boss was obviously very familiar with Lao Wu's style, and asked with some confusion: "Are you so kind?"

"Don't worry about it."

Old Wu choked the boss back, stretched out his hand to Chen Ming and said, "Give me the terminal. If you don't have it, buy a second-hand one. Tell me your name by the way."

Chen Ming handed over the doctor's terminal and gave a pseudonym, Mu Shuikong.

Old Wu took the terminal and looked at it twice, only to see the scratched-out mark on the back of the terminal.

He didn't say anything, took out the tool from his pocket, and took apart the terminal.

"Has the data card been removed?"

Chen Ming didn't say anything, and Old Wu didn't ask any more questions. He handed the terminal directly to the boss.

The boss operated the terminal behind the counter for a while, then quickly handed back a new data storage card and terminal, and said to Chen Ming: "Try it."

Chen Ming inserted the memory card and opened the terminal.

Everything works normally when using the terminal. Personal files and debit cards that were originally unusable because the card was pulled out can now be viewed by clicking on them.

Mu Shuikong's personal information was displayed in the personal file.

The avatar is that of an ordinary person, so ordinary that you wouldn’t be able to tell if you were thrown into a crowd.

The resume information on the file looked like it was made up casually. He was a civilian spaceship pilot from a marginal colony.

Chen Ming looked at the terminal in his hand, then at Old Wu and his boss, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this really useful?"

Old Wu put his hand on the boss's shoulder again, and said while patting: "You can use the Edge Star Territory as you like. As long as you are in the Edge Star Territory, even if you go to the military outpost and are found to have problems, just put some money and you will be gone. .”

"The same applies to the prosperous star field as long as you don't go to important official and military places to commit suicide."

"If you don't believe me, go out and ask around. How many people in the entire space station are working here."

Chen Ming turned around and looked around the deserted shop and said, "I don't think there are many people here."

Lao Wu said matter-of-factly: "This is not nonsense, why come here after all the people's cards have been processed, and don't look at the number of people there yet, you will know in a few days."

Chen Ming stared at Lao Wu's face for a few seconds, and did not continue to struggle. Instead, he clicked on the savings card on the terminal and said, "Then this card..."

"Just treat it as a legitimate card and tie it to your identity one-to-one. If your identity is no problem, your card will be no problem and you won't be checked."

"Cali left you fifty. There are restaurants everywhere in the city. Just go and try them and you will know."

"If you really have a problem, come to me. It's not like you don't know where I work. Who doesn't know Wu Ping'an, the leader of my maintenance shop?"

Chen Ming looked at Lao Wu, who was upright and not afraid of the shadow, and really wanted to say that what they just did seemed not a good thing.

However, Chen Ming restrained this idea, put away the terminal, and prepared to test whether what Old Wu said was true.

Even if he is cheated, all he loses is the gold in a piece of slag, which is not very high in gold content.

I had no clue when I first arrived, and I couldn't find any relevant information on the Internet. I could only use this method to officially get started.

If you lose something, you lose something. Anyway, they are things that you can’t use.

"so be it."

Chen Ming threw the gold he had been holding in his hand to Lao Wu and said, "But I remember that I didn't ask you to apply for the card for me at the beginning."

Old Wu quickly put away the gold and said with a smile: "Hey, sooner or later, even if I don't bring you here now, when you make money later, don't you still have to apply for the card here?"

"But, since you want to make money, I'll tell you."

Old Wu patted his pocket that held the gold that Chen Ming gave him and said, "Go to Space Arm No. 13. There is a company over there that collects this kind of stuff. It's called Eryang Recycling. Tell me my name and I'll give you a discount."

Chen Ming wrote down the name, but continued: "Actually, I would rather know if there is any way to make money in the repair shop."

Old Wu stared at Chen Ming's opaque protective suit and helmet with some disbelief and said, "Are you really capable?"

"Then you have to ask our leader. He only comes to the maintenance shop every few days. Usually I don't know where he is. If you want to find a job, just go to him. There's no point in looking for me. .”

Chen Ming nodded, turned around and left the hardware store.

Not long after Chen Ming left, the boss slapped Lao Wu's hand off his shoulder and said to him: "I finally understand why you are so generous. How much did you earn?"

"Hey, take a scale and check it out."

The boss quickly took an electronic scale from the counter at the back, looked at the reading of the gold that Lao Wu put on it, and said, "Almost 24 grams. For gold of this purity, we can directly sell it for about [-] yuan per gram. You can get a higher price if you sell it elsewhere.”

"About five to six thousand."

Old Wu's forehead was full of wrinkles squeezed out by his smile. He put the gold away and said, "I don't know where this kid comes from? He's so generous."

The boss glanced at the computer, then looked at the street outside and said: "The terminal he just used is the terminal used internally by Xinda Company. It is an old model. He thought it would be enough to scratch off the company logo. It would be obvious at a glance. This is company equipment and cannot be hidden."

The young maintenance man who had been staying quietly next to him suddenly asked: "Did he kill someone from the company, or is he from the company?"

Old Wu said angrily to him: "It's none of my business and yours. Maybe he picked this thing up? As long as it makes money, it doesn't matter to me even if he kills the company boss."

Old Wu shook a small ball of gold in his pocket again.

If you sell this thing later, it should be enough to cover your expenses for a while.

However, the young maintenance man had other ideas and whispered: "Do you think he still has..."

With a snap, Old Wu slapped him on the forehead.

"Forgot the rules? Conflicts are prohibited from Space Arm No. 1 to No. 20 of the Dockyard, so as not to scare people away. If you cause trouble here, you will slap the big shots in the face and smash their eating bowls! I don't want to mess around!"

"I'm just saying."

"Let's talk, it doesn't matter."

Old Wu's face changed back to its original appearance as if he had changed his face. He subconsciously put his hand on the young maintenance man's shoulder and said, "Let's go have a drink."

"Can't go to class?"

"What the hell, don't think about it. How many brainless people come to us every day to repair the spaceship without bringing repairmen. Are you really afraid of leaving some treasures on their spaceship?"

"If you think about how bad the repair shop's repair business is, are there ten people in total who can repair spaceships?" "Making money depends on selling equipment, and repairing ships is all about supplements. It's very difficult for us to get such a small salary." Are you going to waste your time?"

"Anyway, if you really want to have work, why don't you come to us? If there is less work, how about we just stare at it for fun?"

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm just asking you if you want to go?"

"go."

The hardware store fell silent.

Chen Ming, who had listened silently to the whole process at the door of the store, turned around and prepared to leave until then.

But before leaving, he nodded to the well-hidden camera high on the wall outside the hardware store.

When Chen Ming first walked out of the store, he stopped walking out, intending to eavesdrop on what Lao Wu would talk to the boss later.

So much so that he didn't notice the camera at first.

Although Chen Ming found out later and immediately changed his hiding position, the boss must have noticed his actions.

It's just that the boss didn't seem to care, and still directly told him that Chen Ming's terminal was used internally by Xinda Company.

This is a reminder to Chen Ming and a friendly signal to him.

Chen Ming doesn't really believe in unprovoked friendship, but since others have shown it, it's just a matter of course for him to nod his head.

Waiting for Lao Wu and his assistant to disappear together at the gate of Space Arm 2.

Chen Ming walked out from the back of the hardware store and soon left Space Arm 2 as well.

On the way to Space Arm 13.

Chen Ming was still thinking about Lao Wu's last words.

What Lao Wu said was just as he thought before, there were not many maintenance technicians in the maintenance shop.

It shouldn't be too difficult to join in when there are still people who miss work every day.

Since it wouldn't be too difficult, Chen Ming had already made up his mind to join the maintenance shop.

Because he actually had another idea when he was thinking about ways to make money.

He makes money through his ability to recycle discarded weapons, quickly refurbish them and then sell them.

However, this idea was rejected by me at that time, or postponed.

Because there are two problems that need to be solved in this way, the purchase of abandoned weapons and the sale of refurbished weapons.

The biggest source of abandoned weapons is naturally the owners of the spacecraft docked in the dock.

So how should I recover the abandoned and damaged weapons from their hands?Go to the dock and ask each spaceship?
The efficiency and possibility are simply nonsense.

Therefore, the first step in my idea is that the source of weapons can only be repair factories and purchased in batches from them.

At that time, Chen Ming did not consider the acquisition price and why the repair shop should directly sell the weapons he acquired.

Because even if the source of the weapon is really figured out, the problem of how to sell the repaired weapon in the next step is still bothering Chen Ming.

The weapons from the repair shop must be from specialized suppliers. Why should I sell refurbished weapons back to them?
Is it possible to go to the dock and ask everyone?I'm not afraid of being thought of as a fool.

Who would buy weapons refurbished by themselves instead of weapons from a repair shop?

Moreover.

As far as Chen Ming knows, many spaceships bring several maintenance technicians with them when traveling.

Responsible for the daily maintenance and emergency repairs of the spacecraft, as well as the maintenance and upkeep of weapons.

A ship has its own repairman. If it can be repaired, it can be repaired by itself. If it can't be repaired, wouldn't it be better to just replace it with a new one than buy a second-hand one?
Besides, when running in dangerous space, how can you buy second-hand something as critical as a weapon? If something goes wrong at a critical moment, you don't know how you will die.

Chen Ming remembered that most of the discarded weapons replaced at the mining space station were directly recycled and smelted, and they were rarely refurbished and sold.

After all, the consumption of resources and manpower in the process of renovating and selling, compared with the price after renovating and selling, is really not as good as directly recycling the materials.

Although Chen Ming doesn't have this problem, after all, he only needs to consume mental energy and a minimum amount of materials to repair it, there will be no loss, and he can make a profit even if he sells it at a discount.

And it is true that some people are greedy for cheap and buy second-hand or scrapped weapons.

But they usually buy them back and have them inspected and repaired by their own repairmen to make sure they are usable and then used as backup weapons.

So even if you repair the weapon yourself, there is absolutely no guarantee of how much it will sell in the end.

Even if everything above is taken care of, the way to acquire discarded weapons and sell refurbished weapons has already been determined.

There was still a question before Chen Ming.

Even if Chen Ming is just one person, no matter how good and fast the repairs are, he will never be able to compare with a space station maintenance shop with a mature operation system.

Even if Chen Ming can really overcome so many problems and make the best business in weapon refurbishment and maintenance.

What will happen next will inevitably be a conflict of interest between him and the space station maintenance factory.

Chen Ming definitely can't handle it alone.

Since there are insurmountable difficulties everywhere, Chen Ming feels that it is better to join in directly and rely on his own ability to climb on the shoulders of others to share other people's cakes.

What's more, if I can really join a repair shop, many of the problems I face with this idea can be easily solved.

If Chen Ming is a member of the repair shop, he can rely on the repair shop to purchase discarded weapons and sell refurbished weapons.

Isn't it much more efficient than going to the dock to ask about each ship?

That's why Chen Mingcai said that he was just postponing, not giving up on the idea.

He feels that his ability to cooperate with this idea is actually very promising.

Weapons in repair shops are generally only sold when they are new. Even if someone buys second-hand and refurbished weapons, they are still very cheap.

However, it would be different if the person who refurbished the weapons was Chen Ming.

Each of the weapons that Chen Ming repaired through the panel was brand new before leaving the factory, and there was no discernible difference from the original ones.

In this way, top repair technology can completely sell some second-hand weapons as first-hand.

Originally, the weapons acquired by the repair shop could only be refurbished and sold at low prices, or even used to recycle materials.

But after Chen Ming's move, the price suddenly rose again.

If you can really do it, it will definitely be very profitable.

As long as the maintenance shop can discover its own technology and give itself the opportunity to really do it, it will be a win-win cooperation for both Chen Ming and the maintenance shop.

As long as the management of the repair shop is smart, they will not reject people like Chen Ming and this way of making money.

But Chen Ming is not in a hurry for the time being.

Because the premise of everything I imagined was that I could join the repair shop.

Since Old Wu said that his boss only showed up once in a few days, he skipped work and went to drink. He made it clear that he would not be caught today, so he was not in a hurry to go to the maintenance shop.

It is better to go to Space Arm No. 13 to see if Lao Wu lied to himself and if there is any chance to sell the previous batch of goods.

Get your own first pot of gold.

　This chapter is not easy to divide, so I just posted it in 4k. It will not be available tonight.

　　
　
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