Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 79 Delivery and New Renovation Ideas

It was almost evening at this time.

The boss must have just gotten off work and was very busy. After Chen Ming called, he immediately picked up the phone and asked in a slightly surprised tone: "Xiao Mu, what can I do?"

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the mule class that was heading to the space station in the galaxy and said, "I brought the person back."

"So soon? Where is he? I'll arrange for someone to pick him up right away."

"We're still on the way. We'll arrive at the space station in about ten minutes, but there are a lot of people there."

The boss didn't understand what Chen Ming meant and asked, "What do you mean by being a little too young?"

"Well... I brought the entire pirate ship back. There were about 30 people on the ship, and they were all alive."

"?"

The boss on the other end of the phone was even more confused and asked: "What did you do?"

"Fooling, and a little bit of technology, not only is their spaceship under my control..."

"The pirate leader now also thinks that I am looking for him because you are planning to ask him to do something special, and that you brought him here to discuss some serious business."

Chen Ming said, and sent over the photos taken by the Iron Mine of the Mule-class environment inside the galaxy where the Pirate Space Station is located.

Looking at the lonely Mule-class ship in the photo, the boss couldn't help but praise: "You can do it. When you have time, tell me how you fooled people into being like this."

Chen Ming didn't wait and said directly on the phone: "First beat the person and break his legs, and then tell him that I could beat you to death but didn't, which means I am very special to you, and finally beat him to death." Once my legs are connected, he will believe what I say."

"..."

The boss was silent for a moment and changed the topic that didn't sound right: "Let's not talk about this anymore. When the time comes, you can go directly to the patrol team's dock and enter the space station. Tell me the type of ship and I will let someone let you go."

"Wasn't that dock demolished last time? Has it been repaired?"

"It's so fast. Now I just reconnected the broken parts with the frame, and built a small thing inside that can temporarily park the boat. You can park the boat there when the time comes, and I will arrange the rest. of."

"it is good."

Chen Ming responded, suddenly remembering the cargo mounted on the mule class and said: "The batch of supplies they grabbed is now hung outside by them, and part of it is on another cargo ship. Do you want me to wait for a while... "

Before Chen Ming finished speaking, the boss said directly: "No, if you can take it, just take it."

"That batch of supplies is used to supply small colonies. If they were robbed, the colonies would have already prepared a new batch of supplies for shipment."

"There's no need to send this batch of supplies over again. It's useless for me to hold them here now. If you can take them, take them. If you can't take them back, I'll have them sent to the repair shop for you. You can sell them to others or keep them for yourself. All is OK.”

"This is considered an extra thing, and it is not included in the other benefits I promised you before."

"Wait until I finish taking care of the things at hand, and I'll come find you in two days."

"Row."

Chen Ming agreed again, and directly controlled the separation of the cargo compartment mounted on the mule class through the panel, and handed it over to another mule class of his own.

Then Chen Ming did as his boss said and entered the small temporary dock belonging to the patrol team in the space station with only the pirate mule class.

The layout of the temporary dock looks a bit messy. Not only are there many combat ships docked, but there is also a lot of materials that will be used to repair the space arm later.

However, it seems that there is still a clear space here for the mule class to dock.

Chen Ming did not let the Iron Ore go down, but only controlled the Mule-class to land on it.

Then he saw several people waving to his Iron Ore near the mule class. These should be the people arranged by the boss.

Chen Ming smoothly opened the mule-class hatch and returned control to the spacecraft itself.

The boss should have already contacted the pirate leader through the pirate's communication code given by Chen Ming in advance and followed Chen Ming's previous nonsense.

The professional military ships around made the pirate leader believe Chen Ming's words, so the boss's people successfully left the temporary dock with most of the pirates on board.

There were still a few watchmen left on the ship, and Chen Ming estimated that they would die the earliest.

But this has nothing to do with him.

Chen Ming has to go somewhere else next.

Just keep the pirate's mule-class ship here. The boss is unlikely to be interested in such a thing anyway, and just come back and get it later.

Chen Ming quickly took control of the Iron Ore and took the Centurion and another Mule class into the dock open to the public on the 15th Space Arm of the space station.

At the same time, Chen Ming was also checking what the mule class carried.

There are a total of three external cargo holds stolen by pirates mounted on the Mule class, two of the expulsion level and one of the guard level. In addition, there are also Chen Ming's own cargo holds of these materials in the Mule class. The quantity is very considerable.

Basically, they are all kinds of daily necessities and packaged food, as well as a relatively small proportion of supplies for spacecraft.

These things are basically worthless in the prosperous star field, but this quantity can still be sold for a relatively good price in the edge star field.

Chen Ming originally planned to find a place to sell it, but before he really planned to do so, he suddenly hesitated.

The image of Afterglow Colony flashed through his mind, and at the same time, he somehow thought of the small colony related to the boss.

After thinking about it for a moment, Chen Ming suddenly didn't want to sell the goods, so he simply stored them in the repair shop.

Anyway, the maintenance shop has a lot of extra space, so it’s not a big problem to put these materials temporarily.

Although Chen Ming didn't know what specific use he could have by keeping these things, he just wanted to keep them, always feeling that he might need them later.

This strange premonition was like the panic he had felt in the space arm before.

This premonition saved his life at that time, and although this premonition is not that strong now, Chen Ming feels that there is nothing wrong with trusting him.

After parking the Centurion at the dock, Chen Ming continued to control the Iron Ore and the Mule-class and drove deep into the repair shop.

Through the specialized unloading equipment in the repair shop, all the cargo held in the mule-class cargo holds and its own cargo holds were removed and piled in the open space beside it.

After the goods were unloaded, Chen Ming suddenly felt that the fatigue accumulated during the day suddenly flooded into his brain.

He had been repairing and dismantling the ship since the afternoon, and his mental exhaustion had begun to affect his thinking.

After all, the six frigates he dismantled are already comparable to many destroyers in terms of size, and the mental energy consumption of dismantling a destroyer is twice that of completely refitting a destroyer.

So Chen Ming was not in a hurry to move on to the next thing. Instead, he went to the hotel inside the space station and opened a private room to solve the problem of dinner.

Now that he has money, he has to do better in terms of food.

After he was done, he returned to the Iron Ore and lay on the bed in the living cabin.

Before falling asleep completely, Chen Ming habitually began to think and summarize his today's situation.

Doing this can help him identify flaws and problems in his work so that he doesn't do them again in the future.

As he was thinking about it, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the first time he came to the pirate space station.

And what he was thinking at the time.

Return to the prosperous star field with a new identity and start a new life.

Chen Ming seems to have been able to do this a long time ago, but this idea has faded slightly for him now.

there are many reasons.

The most important thing is that Chen Ming's new life actually started when he set foot on the pirate space station.

He never said that his new life must start in the prosperous star field.

It's just because Chen Ming was on Ruimu Planet before. It wasn't even a wilderness, it was just a pure primitive world.

Therefore, Chen Ming's first thought at that time was to return to the prosperous star field he was familiar with in his memory.

But for Chen Ming now, staying in the fringe star field would be more comfortable than going to the prosperous star field.

After all, he couldn't accept that all the hard work he had put into modifying the spacecraft during this period was scrapped.

It is even more unacceptable to completely ban the Afterglow AI core within the Human Empire.

You must know that the management environment of the prosperous star field is much stricter than that of the edge star field. The patrol team patrolling in the galaxy may suddenly investigate any spacecraft at any time.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to resist yet, so he could only passively accept their scans. Once the problem was discovered, the AI ​​core in Chen Ming's hands would definitely not be saved.

The two AI cores are Chen Ming's most important helpers now. Without them, his ability in spaceships will be reduced by at least half.

So Chen Ming thought it would be best to get an armed ship license first to ensure that his identity was not just a civilian, and no one would come and check him out.

Only in this way would he have the foundation to go back with the Afterglow AI core.

There are many ways to obtain an armed ship license, and there is even a way to climb up.

This path not only satisfies Chen Ming's need to improve himself, it should even satisfy Chen Ming's desire to go back with the Yuhui AI core.

Xinda Company has also been acquiring the core of Yuhui AI. Since the official has not investigated them, there is no need to guess anything.

Although Chen Ming is still not sure whether this road can be taken, its existence does make his desire to go back somewhat lower.

And if Chen Ming really chooses to return to the prosperous star field and stay away from the edge star field.

Then he will also lose the source of the new Afterglow AI core.

Many of his abilities to control spaceships are not easy to use in the bustling star field.

Just touching Yuhui's ship is basically impossible to do anymore.

But for Chen Ming, he has already deeply experienced the convenience of owning and controlling two Afterglow AI cores.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

It was really impossible for Chen Ming to give up the idea of ​​acquiring a new Afterglow AI core.

And not only his own ideas, but also the limitations of the actual situation forced him to obtain a new AI core to a certain extent.

As the number of ships Chen Ming currently has on hand increases, there are also changes in the types of ships.

One Diopter class with three frigates is no longer enough.

After all, the two mules must occupy at least one of Chen Ming's spacecraft control positions stably. If both mules are taken, Chen Ming will not be able to control other spaceships.

No matter how many boats there are, he can't take them out at all.

Even if Diopter really transforms it into a small mobile dock, at most four spaceships can be stably parked inside, and some Diopter's combat effectiveness will be lost.

So Chen Ming thought for a while and simply postponed the refraction reform.

While ensuring its own combat capabilities, we must first solve the problems of the growing overall number of spacecraft and the backward number of ship controls.

The best way to solve this problem is to find Yuhui and let Yuhui's AI assist him in controlling the ship.Chen Ming didn't expect higher-level beta cores or even alpha cores that could control destroyers, but he had to get a few more gamma-level AI cores so that he could control all the spacecraft on hand.

Previously, Chen Ming specifically asked Gamma A whether there were cases where Yuhui individuals went together to explore planets.

Gamma A said yes.

So on Yuhui's information exchange platform, those Yuhui individuals who summon similar Yuhui to explore are Chen Ming's best targets.

It seems that he will have to prepare a robot that can explore the planet, and use the name of Gamma AB to sneak in and cause trouble.

And this robot can have another use.

It was to help Chen Ming handle some tasks that he couldn't risk doing himself.

For example, most recently, when controlling a pirate ship.

If Chen Ming could have had one or several powerful enough combat robots at that time.

After the pirate ship is paralyzed, he jumps directly to help and kills the pirates directly. It saves Chen Ming a lot of time by saying less, plus a lot of nonsense with the pirate leader.

Chen Ming is already preparing to do the previous matter, not only through Xinda Company, but also through his own abilities, advancing both sides.

As for the latter matter, Chen Ming will have to wait until Chen Ming has finished what he has to do before he has time to do it.

But the preliminary preparation work, such as preparing robots, can actually be done now.

It shouldn't take too much time to do it when you get around to it.

Chen Ming gradually fell into a deep sleep while thinking continuously.

When I woke up, it was already the next day.

The outside of the Iron Ore was already piled with weapons that needed to be refurbished and had been delivered late at night by the factory director.

After Chen Ming moved them onto the ship, it took him 5 minutes to complete the batch repair of the weapons.

After putting the refurbished goods back in their original positions, Chen Ming went straight to the mule-class that was parked in the repair shop yesterday.

I plan to repair and modify the mule class.

We were at the Dark Cemetery because we had to transport people back as soon as possible, and because we had dismantled several ships before.

Chen Ming did not have the time or energy to do modifications and repairs.

So I can only leave it until now.

Chen Ming opened the mule-class panel smoothly.

[Spaceship Panel]

[Ship name: None]

[Type: Mule-class armed merchant ship]

[Radiant energy capacity: 0/600]

[Radiant energy dissipation: 50]

[Fuel Reserve: 37%]

[Port side weapon: Light assault gun (small)*2]

[Starboard weapon: Light assault gun (small)*2]

[Top weapon: Assault chain gun (medium)]

[Tail weapon: Vulcan point defense gun (small)]

[Armor: Titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Customized civilian destroyer engine]

[Built-in cabins: captain's cabin, engine room, bridge control cabin, weapons control cabin, living cabin*4, small cargo storage cabin*2]

[Important equipment: control system module (in operation), landing module (in operation), hyperspace channel system module (in operation), simulated gravity module (in operation), guard-level radiation system (in operation), guard-level full-angle Shield module (running)]

On the panel, Chen Ming immediately noticed the change in the weapon display, which had appeared with the emergence of the disassembly function.

It seems a little more convenient, but it has little impact on Chen Ming.

Anyway, if there is a problem, it is enough to open the panel that records more detailed information.

Looking at the entire panel of the Mule-class ship, Chen Ming felt that it was just an ordinary merchant ship that had undergone rough military modifications.

The most obvious part of the rough modification on the ship is its radiation system.

Although it is also a frigate-level radiation energy system, its radiation energy capacity and radiation energy dissipation are not even as good as those of the Centurion, which has a relatively poor shield.

So much so that Chen Ming even wanted to dismantle the entire radiation system and replace it with a destroyer-level radiation system.

But after thinking about it and complaining, I still have to use this frigate-level radiation system.

After all, Chen Ming couldn't afford a more advanced radiation energy system now.

So I’d better think about how to make the mule class as good as possible.

In fact, the modification and transformation of the ship has almost become Chen Ming's standard process before officially using the ship.

As for the final transformation direction of the ship, it is determined by its use.

The purpose of the Mule-class freighter is simple.

Cargo.

A 120-meter Mule-class ship with two small cargo storage compartments.

Although it sounds small, the actual capacity of this specialized small cargo storage compartment is a full 30*30*30.

The interior is divided into three floors: upper, middle and lower. Just one floor has a capacity gap dozens of times greater than the 5*5*5 storage compartment of the Iron Ore.

Moreover, the original size of the Iron Ore was 33 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 7 meters high. After modification, it became even smaller.

In other words, six Iron Ore ships can be directly stuffed into this complete cargo hold.

It can actually carry more than a larger diopter.

But think about it, after all, it is an electromagnetic ship that assists in combat, and it is loaded with a large number of electromagnetic or other types of equipment.

The other one is a specialized cargo ship. It would be strange if it could exceed that.

So under such circumstances, Chen Ming's choice of transforming the mule class has actually been determined.

If you go by what is displayed on the panel, it is several additional [Expanded Cargo Holders].

By dismantling the cabins that are redundant for Chen Ming, such as the captain's cabin and living cabin, and even the bridge control cabin and weapons control cabin, we can find a way to dismantle it.

The equipment inside is separated and placed in the corners of the hull, saving a lot of space in exchange for greater cargo capacity.

Chen Ming is not worried that he may not be able to use it in the future. After all, with Chen Ming's dismantling ability, as long as he can touch other people's spaceships, there is no chance that he will have a chance to fill the storage compartment.

Of course, to carry out such a large-scale modification to the spacecraft, the engine must also be modified accordingly.

So Chen Ming took out Lu De's professional book that was updated 30 years later.

Although after Chen Ming found out what Lu Dezuo Path was, he found that the content in the book seemed to be somewhat deleted.

But there are still many useful technologies above.

For example, the modification technology used in the engine of the self-destructing ship can definitely be adapted to the Mule class, which carries more cargo holds.

In addition, the Ludd technical book contained many technologies that involved a certain degree of danger in exchange for more powerful performance of the spacecraft, and Chen Ming was also very willing to learn them.

After all, Chen Ming often doesn't need to take the risk himself.

After roughly thinking about the modification plan, Chen Ming directly began to personally control various large-scale maintenance equipment in the maintenance shop.

Although he is not easy to use the panels in the repair shop many times, the engineering equipment in the repair shop can still be used casually.

It's not like Chen Ming has no experience in using these devices. In fact, it's not too difficult to modify them.

In addition, there are several cargo holds that pirates unloaded from caravans that can be used as the base, and the transformation of the [Expanded Cargo Hold] does not take Chen Ming too much time.

On the contrary, Chen Ming planned to modify the [reinforced bulkhead] in order to enhance the survivability of the mule class, and his favorite [heavy armor]. These two modifications required a lot of effort on his part.

Although the finished product will still take a few days to complete, Chen Ming has already drawn the entire Mule-class ship on the design drawing in advance.

The Mule-class, which originally had a more layered design, gained a lot of weight due to Chen Ming's design, but its maneuverability increased instead of decreasing.

After all, this [Flame Drive], which is Ludd's technology, was obtained at the expense of the instability of the spacecraft's internal temperature control system.

At this point, the Mule-class transformation ideas have been thoroughly planned.

Once the ideas are planned, the rest is just mechanical work.

Therefore, during the few days it took to actually modify the Mule class, Chen Ming was still thinking about the modification plan for another ship.

Although he left a lot of materials in the dark cemetery, there are still many ordinary materials that cannot be used at all.

So Chen Ming wanted to completely transform a spaceship based on Ludd's technology.

Transformed a self-destruct ship belonging to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had never had this idea before.

But after seeing Ludd's self-destructing ship, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that Ludd's technology was very suitable for him in many cases.

A spacecraft that does not require human control can carry out quite a lot of dangerous modifications.

Naturally, this includes self-destructing spaceships.

And regarding the self-destruction of the ship, he needs to be able to figure out how to detonate all the fuel stored in different locations inside the ship at once, and how to maximize the power of the explosion. It is enough.

The remaining technologies of the self-destructing spacecraft are all in Ludd's technical book.

However, it is a bit of a disadvantage to buy a fuel ship and modify it just to try this idea.

Therefore, the target that Chen Ming planned to transform into a self-destruct ship was a Sentinel-class that had been left in the dust in the repair shop.

Once the mule is modified, it's the sentinel's turn.

(End of this chapter)