Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 9 Personal Terminals
Chen Ming considered these two options.

Decisively chose the latter.

If you were repairing the outer armor of the spaceship, you might pass out while repairing it.

You can repair yourself before going to bed. If you faint, you can fall asleep quickly.

So Chen Ming, who had made up his mind, took two personal terminals and sat on the chair in the captain's cabin.

Together with the constantly changing starry sky outside the porthole due to the movement of the spacecraft, the personal terminal device was studied.

With the memory of maintenance engineer Chen Ming, Chen Ming quickly became familiar with the personal terminal in his hand.

After all, it itself is almost the same as a personal computer, with only a few functions, such as communication, recording, and file saving, which are pretty much the same.

However, it doesn’t matter what the device looks like or what its functions are, what’s important is what’s inside.

When he was at the space station before, Chen Ming found the space station map and his log in the doctor's terminal.

Let Chen Ming know the situation of the space station, and also provide a lot of convenience for Chen Ming's subsequent actions.

This time when searching in the doctor's terminal, Chen Ming really found something new, some e-books.

The content of the book is mostly about the use of simple medical equipment, the collection of common herbal medicines, and the methods of preparing medicines manually, etc.

Although it seems useless at first glance, there are so many planets and common plants in the universe. Even if you list all the names, I am afraid it can fill the capacity of the entire personal terminal.

But when Chen Ming opened one of the e-books, he found that the common herbs recorded in the book all came from the same place.

It comes from the planet called Ramu that the space station orbits.

Needless to say what this means, the content in the book will have an immeasurable effect on Chen Ming's subsequent landing on the planet.

In a completely unfamiliar natural environment, who can guarantee that he will not get sick or injured in his life?
Although Chen Ming just saw the medical kit prepared by the former crew member in the living cabin, this medical kit was placed here 30 years ago.

The medical tools inside should still be usable, but the medicine must have lost all its medicinal properties in the past 30 years.

What Chen Ming needs most now is these things.

Although the doctor died 30 years ago, he really helped me a lot.

If given the chance, Chen Ming almost wanted to burn or bury the doctor's body, so that he could at least put it to rest.

Chen Ming also looked at his personal terminal.

Inside I found my electronic identity certificate and Imperial Savings Card, which is also my salary card.

Maintenance engineer Chen Ming's identity and resume can be clearly seen here. He is very similar to Chen Ming. He is an ordinary person who was born as an orphan and lived an ordinary and difficult first half of his life.

It seems that the debit card cannot be viewed because it is not connected to the Internet.

I don’t know if the company has continued to pay me wages in the past 30 years, or has my name been erased, or the company has actually disappeared?
Chen Ming didn't think much about it. It was better not to have anything to do with the company now.

Speaking of which, I didn't seem to find these two functions on the doctor's terminal.

Maybe there is, but it's hidden by doctors.

Chen Ming picked up the doctor's terminal again, and it didn't take long to find these two functions in a hidden private folder.

Although they are all locked, the doctor's specific resume and past conditions cannot be viewed.

But Chen Ming still knew the doctor's name, Ding He.If you have the chance to erect a grave, you might even be able to write your name on it.

Chen Ming carefully checked the doctor's terminal again, and after confirming that nothing was missing, he picked up his own terminal.

Just now, in addition to finding his identity certificate and debit card in his personal terminal, Chen Ming also found some other things.

It is an e-book similar to those in a doctor's terminal, but the type is completely different. They are all professional books related to maintenance work.

I don’t know if it’s because there are too few recreational activities on the space station, or because doctors and maintenance engineer Chen Ming both like reading.

Chen Ming himself actually has similar hobbies.

After casually flipping through the terminal, Chen Ming saw two books that he was very interested in, "Analysis of Xinda Company's Spaceship Design Ideas" and "Prerequisites and Applicable Environment for Ship Weapon Modification".

In addition, there are blueprints of some weapons and equipment commonly used on civilian ships, as well as blueprints of their modifications.

It just so happens that there isn't much that Chen Ming can do on the spacecraft right now, so he can take a look around and get familiar with the job of a maintenance engineer.

If repairing spaceships in the future still consumes so much energy, then we should try our best to repair some simple and easy-to-repair damage by ourselves.

Although panel repair is efficient, Chen Ming still feels that it would be better to experience it less often, as if his energy has been drained.

Chen Ming got rid of the messy thoughts and opened the book he was interested in. While reading, he reviewed the memory of the maintenance technician in his mind.

When the two are combined, Chen Ming can read and digest these professional books very quickly, and he can basically understand some contents after reading them once.

Although it may be a bit unfamiliar in practice, since I will need to fly a spacecraft over half a light-year in the future, I will be able to accumulate experience in repairing spaceships sooner or later.

The time for reading passes quickly.

A few hours later, until the work cabin gave a notification that the temporary storage was full, Chen Ming reluctantly raised his head from a book called "Common Weapon Modification Manual" that he was more interested in.

He came to the work cabin and sent a batch of newly minted metal ingots into the storage cabin opposite the door.

It's still the same as before, most of them are worthless metals like iron.

To be honest, if Chen Ming is really a crew member who makes a living by mining in a mining spacecraft, then in the end he may not even be able to earn back the fuel consumed by mining like this.

But Chen Ming is not there now, and the fuel is also shipped from the space station, so it's okay.

After placing the metal ingots, Chen Ming stuffed his stomach with several mouthfuls of the package of packaged survival food that he had torn open in the cold storage.

Then he continued to invest in the content on the terminal that was extremely interesting to him.

The process of reading a book is combined with the memories of the past, as if you are doing it yourself.

Chen Ming kept reading and saw that he felt obviously tired mentally and physically.

After collecting the last wave of metal ingots produced in the work cabin, he lay down on the bed in the living cabin.

After looking at the 8 a.m. display on his personal terminal based on Earth's zero time zone, Chen Ming silently changed it to [-] p.m.

In this situation, you can do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

Finally, Chen Ming opened the panel, looked at the 24% durability of the port armor on the panel, and chose to repair it.

Then Chen Ming lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)