Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 63 Resentment and Harvest

It didn't take long for the Iron Ore to catch up with the Sentinel-class that was sent away by the towing device.

Its engine was completely damaged, and even with professional maintenance personnel and repair tools, it was impossible to repair the engine within a few hours.

Especially when the engine fails and the entire ship loses its life support system, it can only rely on marine protective suits that can barely last two or three hours for repairs.

In fact, all the people on the boat can do is wait for death.

So Chen Ming simply limited its speed and let it stay in place, then continued forward and caught up with the half of the afterglow destroyers.

Also relying on the traction equipment, it gradually slowed down, reversed its forward direction, and brought it back to the Sentinel.

The next step is to use a mining laser to cut through the Sentinel-class hull armor to expose the Sentinel-class's interior.

After cutting off a piece of the spacecraft armor, the first thing Chen Ming saw was the bodies of the crew members.

Most of them wore ordinary temporary protective suits, lost their temperature and oxygen in just a few hours, and died in space.

The only person wearing a heavy-duty protective suit that could maintain activities in a vacuum environment for a long time had a bloody hole on his chest. He was killed not by an electromagnetic javelin, but by one of his own guns.

This is the best thing for Chen Ming. He happens to plan to keep the Sentinel class intact, so he doesn't have to worry about dealing with it after the person dies.

All he has left to do is to let the Iron Ore continue to take his loot to the hidden corners of space and hide them for the time being.

After all, the dock of the space station is damaged and we don’t know when it will be opened again. Even if the things are shipped back, there is no safe place to put them, so we have to devote our energy to taking care of them.

So it is better to find a place to settle in space first, and then bring it back after the space station can receive foreign spacecraft.

It's just that you have to be a little more careful about where you hide things so that they can't be discovered by other passing spacecraft.

After being busy controlling the Iron Mine for a while, Chen Ming suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He immediately gave the order to return to the Iron Ore, which had dragged the loot to a safe location. He got up and came to the locked workshop door and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's from the Personnel Department."

"Oh."

Hearing some familiar voices, Chen Ming immediately opened the door.

The person at the door was a person Chen Ming had just met in the personnel department in the morning.

He was a little surprised to see Chen Ming wearing a protective suit in the management office, but he immediately remembered what happened during the day and asked, "You just joined the job today, right?"

"Correct."

The person from the HR department entered the studio and looked around, confirming that Chen Ming was the only one here. He waved to Chen Ming and said, "Follow me, your maintenance shop has big work to do."

Chen Ming did not refuse and followed him and asked, "What big job is it?"

"Recover the remains of the recent battle."

Chen Ming immediately became energetic. The job of recovering the wreckage was definitely a good job. He might have a chance to get something he urgently needed.

However, Chen Ming definitely couldn't show it, so he continued to look like he had been hiding underground and asked: "Has the fight been finished?"

The people from the administration nodded and said, "The fight is over. Our side has won. Afterglow will definitely not be able to come back in a short time, so the battlefield must be cleaned as soon as possible."

"Is that using the space station's ship?"

"Yes, the administration will have a construction ship allocated to you. Also, if you know the location of your other colleagues, please contact us and we can discuss it with your factory director then."

"Row."

Chen Ming agreed casually, but he did not have the contact information of anyone other than Lao Wu and the factory director. They certainly did not need to worry about Chen Ming, so he, Chen Ming, did not move.

The people from the administration didn't say anything when they saw this, and continued to take him to Space Arm No. 30 of the space station, opposite Space Arm No. 1.

This is the backup dock of the space station. It is always closed and will only be used in emergencies.

At this time, there are already a few scattered ships docked at the newly launched dock.

In the maintenance shop at the same location, Chen Ming could see the factory boss Wu and two other people there, starting up the equipment of the backup maintenance shop.

As soon as Chen Minggang approached, he saw the factory director's face was dark, and the face of Old Wu next to him was equally dark.

The bald maintenance man Chen Ming had seen before was smoking cigarettes one after another.

And Lao Wu's assistant, the maintenance engineer whom he called Xiaowen, was standing beside them with fear and fear on his face.

He was even more frightened when he noticed Chen Ming coming over. In addition to fear, there seemed to be a trace of disgust in his eyes.

Chen Ming frowned slightly, not understanding what was going on.

He immediately stepped forward quickly, greeted Wu, the factory boss, and asked, "What happened?"

The factory director who had been staring at the equipment suddenly turned his head when he heard Chen Ming's voice, and his expression improved slightly, but only a little.

He sighed and said: "There are still six living people left in the maintenance factory. You, the four of us, and the deputy director."

Chen Ming frowned even more when he heard this, and quickly asked: "What's going on?"

The factory director explained: "Someone locked the emergency access door of the maintenance factory. When Yuhui's ship hit the space station, all the people who were still in the maintenance factory did not have time to escape, and they were basically burned to death in the aftermath."

"All dead? But I remember that the door at the dock is not closed, right?"

"The door from the space arm to the core is indeed open, but the door from the maintenance shop to the dock is closed."

After hearing this, Chen Ming immediately recalled the structure of Space Arm No. 1.

Space Arm No. 1 is a dock as a whole, and there is a channel from the dock that leads directly to the interior of the space station.

The location where this passage extends out on both sides of the tail end of Space Arm No. 1 is the maintenance shop. There is a basically unclosed door between the maintenance shop buildings on both sides and this passage.

I didn't expect to turn it off myself when there was an emergency.

Chen Ming felt that it should be turned off automatically, in order to prevent someone from taking advantage of the emergency to break into the repair shop and rob it.

Once the door was closed, the employees in the maintenance shop were naturally locked in the maintenance shop.

Originally, they could leave through the emergency exit, but the factory director said that the emergency exit door was locked.

Then the problem is coming.

"Who locked it?"

Facing Chen Ming's question, the factory director's face turned even darker. He gritted his teeth and said, "Deputy Director."

Chen Ming couldn't understand it now.

And when he saw that the factory director had completely abandoned his previous dignified and serious temperament and looked like he wanted to eat people, he didn't dare to ask him any more.

He could only ask Lao Wu next to him: "What does the deputy director mean by doing this?"

When Lao Wu mentioned that his face was not pretty, he scolded him directly: "The deputy director is so pushy, he will find fault with every little thing, and he will do disgusting things just because he has some power."

"We are forced to arrive early every day, work overtime, and even take a break when we don't have regular work. Then we deduct money. It's so disgusting."

"The factory director usually leaves the door of the emergency exit open just so that everyone can take off their equipment and get off work earlier. He locks it as soon as he comes back." Chen Ming suddenly understood and said, "I guess he locked it when Yuhui attacked. He just ran away without coming to open the door or notify me."

Old Wu said nothing and acquiesced to Chen Ming's statement.

However, looking at the factory director's current performance and the deputy director's stupid operation of locking the emergency access door, there is a high probability that the deputy director was parachuted down from above.

Those who died in the maintenance shop should have died in vain.

Chen Ming was not very familiar with other people in the maintenance shop, and he had nothing to say to comfort them. Standing here for nothing was a waste of time. He could only say: "Well, I was just called back by someone from the human resources department and asked me to contact other people." Those from the maintenance shop have a job to do.”

"There should be no need to contact people, but now there are only a few of us left. What about the mission?"

The factory director re-adjusted his mood at this time, and said to the few people left in the maintenance factory who could work: "Afterglow is almost completely wiped out this time, and it shouldn't come back in a short time. We will take care of the task slowly." ”

"Originally, even if we are all together, we can only send out two engineering ships at most. Now we use one, the efficiency will be slower, and the superiors will not say anything if they know the situation."

Chen Ming suddenly realized that this seemed to be his opportunity, and took the initiative to say: "How about I open a boat alone?"

The factory director looked at Chen Ming with some surprise and asked: "Can you? The size of the engineering ship is close to that of a destroyer. It requires at least three or four experienced people to barely be able to drive it. You alone?"

It’s not like Chen Ming has never sailed Xinda Company’s engineering ship.

And if the factory director is talking about the original "experienced people" of the space station, then Chen Ming can indeed drive a ship by himself, and he is not afraid of professional counterparts at all.

So Chen Ming replied decisively: "Yes, I can."

The factory director thought for a moment and said, "Let's not rush it yet. We will start up the shipyard's equipment today at most, and we can officially start processing it tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, you should follow the ship to familiarize yourself with the work, and then we'll see what happens."

The factory director didn't explicitly refuse, so Chen Ming naturally wouldn't take the initiative to bring it up again to make people annoying.

Anyway, I have skills, and the factory director doesn't seem to be a narrow-minded person, so sooner or later my skills will have a chance to show off.

"Xiao Mu, please go put on your equipment first. Today we will just turn on the equipment and we will officially start tomorrow."

Looking at Chen Ming's back as he walked into the factory, the factory director said to the people around him: "Xiao Mu's skills are the best. When the time comes, one of us will be on duty at the shipyard, and the rest will go out to work. "

Seeing that Xiaowen's expression seemed a little reluctant, the factory director suddenly said in a low voice: "Tian Jiwen."

He warned with a serious expression: "At times like this, don't say anything bad."

Tian Jiwen, also known as Xiaowen, opened his mouth, but couldn't help but said: "But it was only after he came that Yuhui came. If he is not the disaster star, who is?"

"Everyone is dead, how can he, a newcomer, live well?"

Tian Jiwen became excited unconsciously when he spoke, with a ferocious expression.

The bald maintenance man threw the cigarette butt onto his shoes and said, "I'm still alive."

"And Lao Wu is still alive, the factory director is still alive, and you are also alive. Only the four of us had close contact with him, and we were the only ones who survived. Why don't you say he is a lucky star?"

"I……"

Tian Jiwen choked up for a moment, but everyone present could see that there was no change in his thoughts.

His current situation was due to the psychological trauma caused by the drastic changes in the surrounding environment, and he vented his depression on Chen Ming, the person he was least familiar with. He could just find a psychiatrist for him later.

Old Wu, who knew that there was no point in explaining to him, just shook his head and said, "I still have work now."

After leaving such words, Old Wu ignored him and continued to follow the factory director to start up the equipment in the maintenance factory.

But when Tian Jiwen looked at Chen Ming's back, the disgust in his eyes was obviously more intense.

Chen Ming spent the rest of the day in the maintenance shop helping to start, maintain and inspect various equipment.

After get off work in the evening, Chen Ming found a place to have dinner, and then came to Space Arm 30.

The Iron Ore had just returned at this time, and relied on Chen Ming's identity to successfully park in the No. 30 Space Arm Dock that had not yet been opened to the public.

After Chen Ming made sure that the bald man on duty tonight did not notice him, he boarded the Iron Ore and disappeared into the starry sky.

The Iron Mine quickly carried Chen Ming to the location where he had hidden the spacecraft.

The Sentinel class and half of the Afterglow destroyer are floating quietly in space.

Chen Ming can now finally start to sort out the gains he made by letting the Iron Mine take the risk this time.

With the idea of ​​saving good things until last, Chen Ming decided to use the Sentinel class first.

Wearing the heavy-duty protective suit he purchased when purchasing supplies, he entered the cabin of the Sentinel-class ship.

Throw all the stiff corpses into space.

Then Chen Ming controlled the Sentinel-class ship directly through the panel just like he did in the dock before.

The panels of this Sentinel-class ship are similar to those of the Sentinel-class ship in the dock that needs repair.

There are just too many weapons, and some important equipment is damaged.

But for Chen Ming, the most important thing was the hyperspace channel system installed near the engine. Fortunately, it was not damaged, and that was enough.

In order to prevent long nights and nightmares, Chen Ming directly removed the Sentinel-class hyperspace channel system through the panel and installed it on the Iron Ore.

The installed hyperspace channel system does not even need to be debugged and is directly adapted to the Iron Ore.

Chen Ming tried to start it up and there was no problem. It was no different from buying a new one and installing it.

This saved Chen Ming at least about 100 million imperial coins, a quarter of his current assets.

After doing this, Chen Ming then looked at the panels of several cabins of the Sentinel class.

He could check through the panel whether there were any valuable items in the cabin, but unfortunately the people on this ship were all poor, so there was not a single thing of value.

At most, a few terminals may be worth a little money.

But fortunately, what Chen Ming focused on at first was the spaceship itself. The spaceship itself was valuable enough, and it didn't matter how much or how little else he took.

Moreover, Chen Ming also found some different types of missile weapons in the missile auxiliary operation compartment, including a Death torpedo that had not yet been used.

Although it cannot be launched away from the spacecraft with missile mounting points, it can still be done if it is simply activated.

High-power consumables are a good choice for Chen Ming, whether as a trump card or as a last resort.

After all, Chen Ming couldn't guarantee that he would never fall over in his life, so it would never be wrong to prepare something of this type.

After finding the Death torpedo, Chen Ming repeatedly confirmed that the valuable things on the Sentinel level had been sorted out.

He cast his gaze to the side of the Sentinel.

Next is the main event.

Afterglow destroyer.

(End of this chapter)