Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 88 The military’s actions and Chen Ming’s response

The captain of the military team who walked into the room directly told him that Tian Jiwen had woken up.

Tian Jiwen felt panicked again. His hands tied behind the chair instinctively struggled hard, but the rope that tied him was very strong and there was no way to break free.

"I'm really awake."

The two people who had been guarding him immediately came closer.

One of them reached out and grabbed Tian Jiwen's hair and asked him to lift his head.

When he saw the faces of the two people, Tian Jiwen's eyes suddenly widened.

"You...are the people who asked about the spacecraft at the maintenance shop before."

The man who grabbed Tian Jiwen's hair curved his mouth, let go of Tian Jiwen's hair and said, "You still remember us and have a good memory, so I guess your memory of other things should be good too, right?"

"You are looking for that person and kidnapped me. Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble from the administration?"

The captain who had just walked in suddenly opened a corner of the room's curtain, allowing Tian Jiwen to see that the hotel he was currently in was quite close to the administration building.

"Why don't you guess why we are not afraid?"

He lowered the curtains again and said, "To be honest, I could have suffered less."

Tian Jiwen couldn't help but swallowed.

However, a team member near the door suddenly whispered to the teammate next to him: "The captain is worthy of being the captain. You can use this excuse to book any room in the hotel."

"really."

Tian Jiwen naturally couldn't hear the team members' words that hurt the captain.

He only knows that people are now being treated as fish and meat, and that his life is his own.

So Tian Jiwen didn't struggle and said directly: "I'll tell you where the ship is, but do you have a terminal that can log in to the space station website?"

The captain stretched out his hand and displayed in front of him a terminal that had opened the space station website page.

Tian Jiwen continued: "Open the forum and scroll to the front. You should be able to see a somewhat popular post with a video in it."

When the video of Chen Ming controlling an iron ore ship in a one-on-one battle was played in front of the five people in the military team.

They all fell silent for a while.

Seeing their performance, Tian Jiwen suddenly said nervously: "Is it this ship?"

Although the appearance of the ship in the video and the missing Iron Ore are basically the same, there are only some differences in color.

However, the actual operational performance made it difficult for several people in the military to draw conclusions. They could not directly rule out the possibility of coincidence.

However, it was certainly impossible for the captain to express this directly at this time, so he continued: "Yes, where is it now?"

"I was kicked out. I heard I'll be back today or tomorrow."

"The man who piloted the spaceship is called Mu Shuikong, and he is now an employee of the maintenance factory."

"Oh, and also, this spaceship has been modified later."

"What modifications were made?"

"Mu Shuikong spent nearly ten million to buy a military-style system at the maintenance shop and modified it, and the appearance was also modified."

"Remodeled the appearance?"

"Yes, but if you ask me to tell you exactly what it has been transformed into, I can't tell you."

The captain already had a rough estimate in his mind at this time, but just in case, he continued to ask: "Does anyone have a photo?"

"No, he has been wearing a protective suit since the first time I saw him and has never taken it off."

"Do you know the specific day he came to the space station?"

"I know, it must have been his first time here, and as soon as he entered the maintenance shop, he came to ask questions to me and my colleagues, so I have some impressions."

Tian Jiwen couldn't help but glance at the team member who had asked him the same question before, and at the same time named a date.

The captain glanced at the team member holding a computer behind him.

The team members responded: "It's almost the same, just a little bit off. It's basically right."

"can."

The captain standing next to Tian Jiwen suddenly stretched out his hand and punched Tian Jiwen unconscious to prevent him from hearing what was going on.

"Then it's confirmed, this Mu Shuikong is Chen Ming."

"What Mu Shuikong? I'm still a jellyfish."

"Get ready, we'll take action when he comes back."

The team member who was obviously more talkative than the others asked in surprise: "Are you really caught?"

The captain frowned and said, "I said it's a vacation, do you really think it's a vacation? If Chen Ming's presence here is found out later, our heads may not be saved."

Although another team member knew the seriousness of failing to complete the task, he still said: "But this Chen Ming has now joined the maintenance factory, and it will be difficult for the employees of the administration to handle it."

"Besides, we don't know about Chen Ming's situation from Xinda. Don't forget that this space station is funded by Xinda. If they are determined to protect Chen Ming, it will be difficult for us to find a chance."

"Coupled with the rules of the pirate space station, we are not very good at resorting to any means."

The talkative team member reached out and hammered the door frame next to him and said, "So why does the Pirate Space Station have such rules? Why do we have to abide by them?"

"If you ask me, just bring the warship to the door and ask them to hand over the person. There's so much nonsense."

The captain couldn't help but punched the wall beside him and said, "Xia Chao! What are you thinking about?"

"If the troops here dare to block the door of the space station today, the troops from other places will also dare tomorrow."

"So many companies have spent money to build a space station. Are you threatening them at your doorstep?"

"If you think about it with your buttocks, you'll know that you can't do something like this that offends the public."

The captain said, his tone suddenly slowed down a bit.

"But although the military can't do anything casually, other people can actually do it casually, as long as it doesn't affect the military."

"Also, you don't know how to create accidents? Do you want me to teach you?"

"Is it difficult to find a way to tie up people due to accidents such as fires or equipment failures?"

"And didn't we all catch one?"

The captain looked at Tian Jiwen next to him.

"Even if this Chen Ming is protected by the administration unlike him, is it possible for you to not arrest him?"

"As long as the speed is fast enough and the efficiency is high enough, the people from the administration can't catch us."

After the captain finished speaking, he looked at each other.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and get ready to leave. According to the stationmaster's request, it's best to capture him alive."

There were a few scattered yeses in the room.

Xia Chao, who talked a lot, suddenly pointed at the unconscious Tian Jiwen next to him and said, "Then how should he deal with it?"

The captain glanced at Tian Jiwen and said: "I remember that the pirate space station will open some places where low-level force can be used to solve problems privately. Do you know where it is?"

The teammate holding the computer immediately checked and said: "Originally, there was a designated area behind the NO. 20 space arm. It was basically similar to a slum. People with no money and only lives stayed there and died there. People generally don’t get taken care of.”

"But it doesn't work now. The space station was attacked by Afterglow before and lost several space arms. Therefore, even the rules of the space arms after NO. 20 are much stricter. If a maintenance factory employee dies there, something will definitely happen."

The captain thought for a moment and said, "Then let's keep it for now until we finish the work."

"If things go well, sealing it is enough. Xinda Company will not take special care of him, an ordinary employee. He will know how to choose when the time comes."

"If it doesn't go well...it depends on the situation."

Xia Chao made another suggestion at this time: "Actually, I think we can try to control him for a long time. Captain, didn't you say we are short of manpower?"

"You mean with drugs?"

The captain carefully considered his opinion again, shook his head and said, "No, I heard that a batch of important medicine was lost some time ago."

"There is also a batch of medicine that seems to have been noticed by the review department and cannot be tampered with. We don't have any suitable medicine that can be used on him now."

"Forget it, I just said it casually and follow the captain's orders."

"Well, hurry up and get ready."

The captain suddenly stopped the two teammates who had discovered that Tian Jiwen was hiding something and said, "You two wake him up again and ask him if Chen Ming has any rules in his daily routine."

"Also, check to see if Chen Ming has established any connections."

"He can fly half a light-year in an abandoned mining space station on a broken ship that doesn't even have a hyperspace channel system. This ability is definitely not ordinary."

"I'm worried that he has developed a network of contacts during his time here. I need to know about it in advance to avoid making mistakes."

"Yes."

The military team at the space station became busy.

And Chen Ming also returned to the edge of the galaxy of the space station a few hours after leaving the star capital.

After jumping out of the hyperspace channel, he controlled the Iron Ore, Mule and Centurion to fly in the direction of the space station on the sensor.

Fighter Kai still stopped at the dark cemetery as before.

Seeing the space station getting closer and closer, Old Wu, who had been doing nothing for several hours, finally couldn't hold it any longer.

He suddenly asked Chen Ming, who was cradling a small stone in one hand and reading a book on a terminal in the other: "Xiao Ming, don't you consider buying a house on the space station? You should be able to buy a big one for a few million."

Chen Ming heard the question that Old Wu asked out of boredom and replied without raising his head: "I have no plans in this regard yet."

"Still want to climb up?"

"Correct."

"So hard?"

Chen Ming was silent for a while.

I recalled in my mind that when the space station was attacked by Afterglow, the space station that could accommodate an entire city was crumbling under the attack of Afterglow.

There was also the moment when the torrent of particles from the tachyon spear passed through the space station, and Chen Ming almost cut off a space arm a few hundred meters away.

And when the Diopter class was targeted by the military spacecraft, the Afterglow cruiser instantly annihilated the two military ships with its tachyon spear.

Chen Ming couldn't help but sigh slightly and said, "It won't work if I don't fight."

"Let me ask you, Lao Wu, have you ever seen a cruiser with your own eyes?"

"I must have seen a cruiser before."

"So have you ever been nearly killed in the aftermath of a cruiser attack?"

"Forehead……"

"That's it. I don't want to be a repairman who can only repair these frigates and destroyers. I also want to get in touch with larger cruisers and even battleships."

At this moment, Lao Wu sighed melancholy and said, "It's great. It's not like me. All I can think about now is my sister Baihuahua..."

"stop."

Chen Ming threw the small stone towards Old Wu and said, "Old Wu, if you are bored, you can watch videos or sleep."

Before Old Wu could catch Xiao Shi, Xiao Shi adjusted his posture in the air very flexibly, sat on Old Wu's head, kicked off his legs and ran back to Chen Ming's hands.

Old Wu clicked his tongue and said, "Oh, you said I..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ming waved to him, signaling him to stop talking.

"The factory director sent me a message."

Chen Ming clicked twice on the terminal, and the voice message began to play automatically.

"Xiao Mu, come back to the space station and come to my place."

"The money for the previous batch of goods has been posted. I got you a new card to save the money. Come and get it." "Also, the previous matter has come to an end. The chairman wants to talk to you personally. Chat, don’t worry, it’s a good thing, the company as a whole is facing you now.”

"By the way, when you come back, help me call Lao Wu over. I also have something to ask him about. He has been out playing for two days and it's time to collect his attention and work."

Chen Ming finished playing the voice message and raised his head to look at Lao Wu.

At this time, Lao Wu was lying on Chen Ming's fitness equipment, watching videos as if he was about to die.

It must be that the factory director said that the pressure of work was successfully crushed.

Chen Ming ignored him and controlled the spacecraft to land in the space station.

As soon as the hatch of the Iron Mine opened, Old Wu ran away in a swish, and Chen Ming couldn't stop him.

He didn't bother to stop him as he couldn't stop him. He prepared himself on the Iron Ore and walked out.

But Chen Ming had just stepped off the spacecraft.

He suddenly felt a familiar sense of danger.

Although this sense of danger was very weak, not even a fraction compared to the previous senses of danger, his brows still frowned suddenly.

Chen Ming stopped, raised his head and looked around, but when he did so, the sense of danger suddenly disappeared again.

Chen Ming failed to find the source of the danger, but he didn't think it was because he felt wrong. His perception of danger had never been missed.

It's better to be careful.

Chen Ming did not hesitate and immediately turned around and returned to the spacecraft.

At the same time, the repair shop was near the door leading to the interior of the space station.

A person just got on the horizontal elevator and headed into the city.

After making sure that no one around him noticed him, he put his hand to his ear and said, "Captain, that spaceship is really back."

"Although the man who came down was wearing a protective suit, his body shape could basically match him. It must be Chen Ming. His perception ability is a bit strong. I took one look at him and was noticed by him."

The captain's voice came from his headset: "Have you been discovered by him?"

"That's not true. I was walking fast. He just felt that someone was looking at him, and he definitely didn't see me."

"What about others?"

"We're back on the spaceship. I'm observing his spacecraft with the tiny camera I just secretly installed. If there is any movement, I will report it as soon as possible."

"Continue to observe, just monitor, don't go and see in person."

"Yes, Captain."

A few minutes after the military personnel left, Chen Ming got off the boat again.

In order to ensure safety, he made some extra preparations when he got off the ship this time.

He put on the lightweight exoskeleton armor he bought before, and also spent some materials from the ship to modify the full-body armor plate.

Soon, Chen Ming, wearing a white cloud steel alloy exoskeleton armor, also stood on the horizontal elevator.

However, he was not in a hurry to go to the city to find the factory director. Instead, he first planned to go to Space Arm 2 to find the boss.

And the bald man who was on duty at the maintenance shop today happened to see the whole process of Chen Ming getting off the spacecraft and getting on the elevator.

When he saw Chen Ming, he suddenly remembered what happened before.

Based on the idea that doing more is worse than doing less, he wanted to pretend that he didn't know anything about this matter.

But after Chen Ming left.

He suddenly thought about it and felt that it would not be a big problem to tell him that someone was asking for information about Chen Ming.

It happened that he also had Chen Ming's communication code, so he picked up the terminal again and planned to contact Chen Ming.

But just before the bald man did this, someone else's voice suddenly rang in his ears: "Master, what's the price for spacecraft maintenance?"

The bald man's hands operating the terminal could only stop and solve the immediate problem first.

When the bald head is entertaining customers.

Chen Ming arrived at Space Arm No. 2 very smoothly.

Although he had always felt a faint sense of danger, in the end he didn't encounter anything along the way.

I walked into the boss's hardware store safely.

The boss sitting behind the counter was stunned for the first time, looked at it carefully, and said with some uncertainty: "Xiao Mu?"

"it's me."

"Why are you dressed like this?"

"I feel more comfortable wearing it this way."

"..."

How can it be comfortable to wear an exoskeleton armor outside a protective suit?

"as long as you are happy."

The boss casually asked Chen Ming to find a place to sit down and asked, "Why are you here with me?"

Chen Ming does have a lot of things to ask his boss about.

However, Chen Ming planned to wait until he repaired the two items, the mind wave generator and the mind blocking box, before asking.

Otherwise, there is only one list that needs to be accepted by the boss.

"I have a document I need to show you."

"What document? Send it to me directly."

"It's best to use data lines to transmit."

"So troublesome."

The boss said, bent down from behind the counter and took out a data cable, plugged one end into his computer, and handed the other end to Chen Ming.

After all, the importance of this document was extraordinary, so Chen Ming still felt that it would be safer not to send it through any online channels.

After the boss opened the list of left-field personnel he had received, the expression on his face gradually became serious.

He immediately plugged his terminal into the computer and operated it quickly.

After waiting for a few minutes, the boss suddenly stood up and said to Chen Ming: "Wait for me."

Then he immediately went to the back room.

Just at this time, Chen Ming's terminal also rang.

It was Baldhead who called.

But Chen Ming and Baldhead usually only interacted with each other by saying hello at work. What kind of things should they call to talk about?

Chen Ming pressed connect with some confusion: "Hello."

"Brother Mu, I have something to tell you. Is there anyone else next to you?"

"No, you said."

The bald man immediately told Chen Ming exactly what he had seen before.

After listening to the bald man's story, Chen Ming's face became as serious as the factory director's.

If what the bald man said was true, then the source of the sense of danger he felt just now seemed to be certain.

Chen Ming breathed out to relieve his anxiety after receiving the news that the military had begun to track him down.

"Thank you, I'll treat you to dinner when I'm free."

Chen Ming hung up the phone.

The boss had already returned to the counter when the bald head was talking about the matter. After listening to everything the bald head said, he asked Chen Ming with some interest: "Did you tell the truth?"

"Pretty much, I have to find a way to deal with it."

"What are your plans?"

"Go to the administration, the company should protect me."

The boss didn't comment too much on Chen Ming's plan, and just asked: "Have you ever considered staying here?"

Chen Ming nodded and said: "After thinking about it, I think your side should be the safest place on the space station."

"Then you still go to Lao Lu?"

"Well... how should I put it? I feel more confident staying with the factory director. After all, the factory director needs me and the company needs me too."

"But as for you... I always feel like it's too much trouble for you."

The boss looked a little surprised and said, "Actually, the list you gave me just now allows me to handle this matter for you."

"Uh, there's this kind of thing."

"Yes, you should know its value when you give this to me, right?"

"I know, I know, but I feel that this kind of thing is a bit too much, and you shouldn't be able to help me deal with it."

The boss seemed very satisfied with the fact that Chen Ming was very self-aware and measured, and said: "There are some things that I really won't be a nanny for you, but I will still help with some ordinary things without compensation."

"Is it normal for me to be hunted down by the military?

"Not really, but as I said, what you gave me is enough for me to help you handle this matter."

"So, don't you think about it and just trade this list for me to help you handle things?"

Chen Ming shook his head and said, "Still not."

It's not like he didn't do anything during this time.

Chen Ming recalled the preparations he had made in various aspects and said: "I think I should be able to solve this matter this time."

"Not bad, then I'll wait for your good news, but don't die outside."

"Ah."

Chen Ming turned around and prepared to leave the hardware store.

But the moment he stepped out of the hardware store, Chen Ming suddenly stopped again.

The boss at the back asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?"

Chen Ming withdrew his stepped foot and said, "If I just go there directly, something will happen."

"I shouldn't be able to get to the administration."

Chen Ming picked up the terminal and contacted the factory director directly.

"Director, people from the military have been looking for me on the space station two days ago. They should have almost determined my whereabouts. I have no way to go to the management office."

The factory director suddenly became anxious and asked quickly: "Where are you now?"

"On the boss's side."

"Don't hang up the phone. I'll arrange for someone to pick you up right away."

"it is good."

While waiting for the boss's people to come.

Chen Ming contacted the owner of the store that Lao Wu had introduced before, ordered a batch of materials, and rushed them to the maintenance shop office of the management authority. They might be useful later.

After continuing to wait for about six or seven minutes.

A shuttle boat, which can only be used by the Administration on the space station, landed in front of the hardware store.

(End of this chapter)