Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 56 Professional Maintenance Technician

Chen Ming almost wanted to choose yes directly at this moment.

But before doing so, Chen Ming still controlled this idea.

The reason is also very simple.

Although there should be no limit to the number of times you can replace a spacecraft connected to a brain-controlled signal, replacing a connected spacecraft may require mental energy.

Chen Ming is still in the repair shop and still working. Most of the things Chen Ming does through the panel require mental energy.

If you want to try out new functions of your abilities, you should at least wait until you have some time to do so.

But as he said this, the thoughts in Chen Ming's mind were growing uncontrollably.

From the moment he saw the prompt that the connection could be replaced, Chen Ming had already thought of many ways to use the panel to gain benefits from other people's spaceships.

There is even the idea of ​​​​driving other people's spacecraft away directly through the connection.

It's a pity that it would be difficult for him to go directly to the dock to contact other people's spaceships.

There are strict surveillances everywhere in the dock. If Chen Ming touches someone else's spaceship and then the other person's spaceship escapes inexplicably, everyone will definitely doubt himself.

Although Chen Ming could also choose to wait for someone to drive the ship out of the space station and directly remotely control the spacecraft to remove the engine and life support system, allowing people to freeze to death and starve to death in space.

But Chen Ming doesn’t want to use this method on people who are completely unfamiliar to him and who don’t know the situation at all.

Chen Ming was not sure which of the people in the shipyard were really vicious pirates, and which of them only came to the space station for some forced reasons.

Chen Ming's conscience is a bit hard to find a way to deceive others.

At least he had to make sure that the owner of the boat was really a villain, so that Chen Ming could proceed with confidence.

For example, the current owner of the ship he is repairing.

Chen Ming cheated without blinking an eye.

In addition to what he can do by controlling other people's spaceships, the second sentence in Chen Ming's mind [Number of currently connected spaceships: 1/1] also attracted his attention.

This should be a limitation of his mental strength, but it is also the direction in which he can develop in the future.

Chen Ming was very clear about the advantages of a spaceship that could be completely controlled by himself. The three frigates that sank in the dark cemetery were the best evidence.

So more spaceships naturally means that Chen Ming can do more things.

Chen Ming firmly believes that there are ways to increase this number.

Because in the past six months, especially when I was on Ruimu, the number of times I used the panel gradually increased.

Chen Ming can clearly feel that the consumption of mental energy he can support is increasing.

At first, Chen Ming could feel obvious fatigue just by repairing two machine guns.

Later, Chen Ming could even modify the heavy armor on the bottom of the spacecraft in the morning and fight against the mechanical tribe.

During the process, they continued to repair weapons and damaged armor. In the end, they even removed an electromagnetic javelin from the battle machine clan and repaired it.

This all happened within a day. If I had just received the panel explanation at the beginning, I would never have been able to resist it.

This can clearly prove that Chen Ming's mental power is growing.

As long as Chen Ming continues to consume mental energy through the panel and exercise, so that his mental energy exceeds a certain limit, then the number above will definitely become 1/2.

In fact, Chen Ming also thought of another possible way to increase mental power.

People with psychic abilities are said to influence their mental will and thinking, so they must also be able to exercise these aspects of themselves.

But this is really too far away from Chen Ming's current life circle.

But Chen Ming felt that he could wait until he became familiar with Lao Wu or his boss and knew whether they were worthy of trust.

Try using the Whispering Stone hidden in your engine room as an excuse to ask them if they have any news related to psykers.

After all, Chen Ming is still not sure whether his ability to control the spacecraft through the panel is a type of psychic ability.

If you talk about people with psychic abilities for no reason, it will be written on your face that there is no silver in this place.

Although the Whispering Stone is a good reason, its value makes it impossible for Chen Ming to simply say it out before he can trust others.

So Chen Ming can only take his time in this regard.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking.

The sound of a wrench hitting metal came from inside the spacecraft along with the bald maintenance man's urging: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"coming."

Chen Ming responded, temporarily suppressing all kinds of thoughts in his heart.

After entering the spacecraft, he cooperated with the bald maintenance technician to complete the detailed repair tasks inside the spacecraft.

When leaving the spacecraft, the bald man stared at Chen Ming for a few times, his eyes seeming to flicker with confusion.

But he didn't say anything, he just greeted Chen Ming to continue to the next spacecraft to be repaired.

He and Chen Ming need to handle all the internal repairs of the spacecraft first, and then control the large maintenance equipment in the repair shop to carry out the remaining external armor maintenance tasks.

Although Chen Ming's body was following the bald head, his mind was filled with the two sentences that just appeared in his mind.

Although it is quite unreliable to go directly to the dock to contact other people's spaceships in front of a bunch of surveillance cameras.

But it's different in the repair shop. Although the repair shop also has monitoring, Chen Ming can touch the spacecraft that needs repair as he wants.

As long as someone dares to drive a boat controlled by Chen Ming out alone in the future, then the boat will already belong to Chen Ming.

Everything on the ship is naturally included, and among them is the hyperspace channel system that Chen Ming needs most now.

In fact, Chen Ming had the idea of ​​dismantling the hyperspace channel system on other ships of the space station and using it for his own use half a year ago.

But there were two reasons that prevented Chen Ming from doing so.

One is because the damage to several spacecraft parked in the dock is very serious.

The Iron Ore, which Chen Mingchao chose as the most complete one, all lacked the hyperspace channel system, and the other ones couldn't be guaranteed.

So Chen Ming didn't think too much about those ships until he collected the food needed for the voyage.

The second reason is because of the bugs on the space station.

When Chen Ming returned to the space station for the first time, if he had free time, he would definitely stop by and take a look at the other two spacecrafts.

But the perception ability of insects is too exaggerated. As soon as Chen Ming killed a larva that hatched from an insect egg, all the insects in the space station came to hunt him down.

If you run a little slower, you may become food for insects, and there is no chance of getting close to the spacecraft.

When Chen Ming returned for the second time, vesicle insects with long-range attack capabilities had already appeared among the insects on the space station.

There is a high probability that there is no hyperspace station channel system on those damaged spaceships. It is impossible for Chen Ming to take great risks to confirm it.

However, Chen Ming also considered using a mining laser to cut off part of the dock and disconnect the dock from the space station, so that he could go over and confirm whether there was a hyperspace channel system on the spacecraft.

But although the space station is not big, it is still compared to other space stations.

If you really want to cut the dock, it will consume a lot of fuel.

Moreover, the spaceships parked in the docks are visibly fragile, and if you are not careful when cutting, the spacecraft may be completely destroyed.

The benefits are low, the cost is high, and it is difficult to realize.

It is impossible for Chen Ming to do such a thing.If we look at it now, why not use a panel as an easier way to stably obtain other people's hyperspace channel systems?

Even without the help of the panel, as long as Chen Ming can join the repair shop, it shouldn't be difficult to get the damaged hyperspace channel system back.

After some repairs and modifications, it will be a brand new hyperspace channel system suitable for the Iron Ore.

If it really doesn't work, then Chen Ming still has two alternatives.

Buy the materials to make it yourself, or buy the finished product directly.

Which of these methods is not better than taking the risk of searching a few abandoned ships?

In short, Chen Ming does not regret his original decision.

Assuming that he had actually obtained the hyperspace channel system, it would have taken less than half a year to reach the pirate space station.

At the same time, it also means that I will not have the goods worth more than 100 million, and my maintenance technology will never be as advanced as it is now.

Calculate the gains and losses and you will know what kind of decision is right.

But for now, controlling the spacecraft to obtain the hyperspace channel system will have to wait a little longer.

Chen Ming needs to wait for a suitable opportunity, and this opportunity should not take too long.

Chen Ming refocused his attention on the work at hand.

Looking at the weird eyes of the bald man, it didn't take long for him to help him complete the repair of the second spaceship.

When entering the third ship that needed repair, Chen Ming suddenly asked: "I heard that the repair shop usually does not have a good business. Why are there so many ships that need to be repaired today?"

The bald repairman was obviously very happy to have someone chatting with him while working, and immediately said: "There is a fleet of ships that have done a lot of work, and the ships that will be repaired in a few days are their trophies."

"Do they use the boats themselves?"

"How is it possible? After repairing it, it must be used by other people under their command. Pirates, the most indispensable thing is people who are not afraid of death."

Chen Ming nodded and continued chatting with the bald head about pirates, trying to get more information, and at the same time completed the repair of the second spaceship.

But when he got off the spacecraft, the bald man suddenly said to Chen Ming hesitantly: "You..."

Chen Ming turned to look at him, but the bald man seemed to have given up on his previous idea and said, "Forget it...it's okay."

Chen Ming knew exactly what the reason was.

After all, he is a maintenance engineer under the Xinda Company, responsible for the long-term and regular maintenance of a high-value mining space station.

Even during cryo-dormant period, the company will pay a lot of salary, at least compared to other positions, it is a lot of salary.

If the skills he mastered were not comparable to those of the maintenance technicians of pirate space stations in this fringe star field, Chen Ming might as well have crashed into the outer wall of the space station to death.

Although his mind was occupied by those two sentences just now, the movements of his hands were not unfamiliar at all.

A lot of work that originally only required the assistance of the bald maintenance technician was completed by Chen Ming alone.

It would be strange if the bald maintenance technician didn't feel it.

During the maintenance of the third spaceship, Bald Head obviously focused more on Chen Ming, unconsciously letting Chen Ming, his underling, do even more work than he did.

So after the internal repairs of the third spacecraft were completed, the bald maintenance engineer took Chen Ming to the door of the fourth spacecraft to be repaired.

He did not go in directly, but looked at Chen Ming beside him with a troubled face, and asked tentatively: "How about you come?"

"Row."

Chen Ming's performance just now was that he was waiting for this moment.

It just so happened that I had already thought about most of the things I should be thinking about now, so I could focus all my attention on maintenance work.

Chen Ming directly acted as he remembered, commanding the bald maintenance engineer as his deputy to start the remaining maintenance work on the spacecraft.

A few hours later, it was close to lunch time.

The factory director took Lao Wu back to the spacecraft maintenance area of ​​the maintenance factory.

He found the bald maintenance man who was sorting his tools and asked, "How much do you still have to do?"

The bald man said with a hint of confusion in his eyes: "It's done, everything."

"So soon? How long has it been? You haven't had lunch yet, right? Wait, all of them? We were supposed to do it tomorrow?"

The bald man glanced at Chen Ming, who was observing the repaired spacecraft not far away, and said, "It's all done. It's very efficient today."

The factory director followed the bald head's gaze and immediately locked his eyes on Chen Ming.

He is very clear about the abilities of his eight employees, and absolutely no one can complete all tasks in one day.

Moreover, the bald factory director also knew very well that he would not lie about work matters.

Since he said that all maintenance tasks have been completed, there is only one possibility.

In less than half a day with his bald head, Chen Ming finished the work that was supposed to be done by two people in two days.

When the factory director thought of this possibility, his first reaction was disbelief, but the facts seemed to be right in front of him.

But he decided to confirm it himself.

"Give me the equipment and I'll go up and check it."

The bald man obediently took off his equipment and handed it to the factory director.

At this time, Lao Wu also came over with great interest and said: "Then I will go up and have a look."

He also saw the problem by following the eyes of the bald head and the factory director.

Lao Wu was also full of curiosity about Chen Ming.

The two quickly entered the sixth spacecraft that was ranked last according to the plan.

In fact, when they got closer, the factory director had to admit that the maintenance of the spacecraft was indeed completed in this half day.

Because the external armor of several spacecraft on the mission list has been completely repaired.

The acceptance of the interior of the spacecraft does not take much time.

So after confirming that there were no problems with the internal repairs of the sixth spacecraft, the factory director directly called up the recorder of the auxiliary mobile equipment on his body.

Start viewing the entire video of the repair process.

Although the perspective was from a bald head, he was basically watching Chen Ming's operations throughout the whole process.

Therefore, the video just allowed the factory director to see Chen Ming's extremely professional maintenance techniques and terrifyingly skilled operating techniques.

The director even felt that there was a significant gap between the skills of all maintenance technicians on the entire space station compared with Chen Ming.

At this time, the factory director finally couldn't help but asked Lao Wu beside him: "Is this person a friend of mine? Where did he come from? Can you invite him in?"

"I think he has a pretty good relationship with you. He knew you were skipping work and he helped you pick up the slack. You should be able to ask him to do it, right?"

Old Wu also looked a little dazed, and subconsciously touched his head and said: "A friend is a friend, but there is no need to invite him. He just talked to me yesterday and said he wanted to join our repair shop."

"what?"

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(End of this chapter)