Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 258 Partition
After arriving at the maintenance site.

Chen Ming looked around at the entire surrounding environment again.

There are no people here, just some robots doing basic work.

And as Chen Ming came to the maintenance site, he could also see that this place was also an independent module. Like the port, it was separated from other modules on the space station.

It seems that all the parts of this space station that are open to the public should be partitioned, making it easier to uninstall this module at any time.

It is also convenient to launch attacks directly on the uninstalled module after uninstallation.

At this time, Chen Ming looked back and saw that the direction of the port he had just come over was clearly visible from this position. The design was similar to that of the pirate space station.

It is obvious that the space station was definitely not separated as it is now. Before the transformation, it was definitely the same integrated design as the pirate space station.

There is definitely something wrong with this design.

"What are you looking at? I'm the only one working here."

"Hunter, hunter is good. It would be good to catch more criminals."

Then he went to the corner of the maintenance site and jumped out of the power armor, plugging in the cables to the power armor like an ordinary power armor owner.

Uncle Mao pointed to the corner.

While paying, he asked in passing: "Can the power armor be repaired?"

Uncle Mao suddenly reached out and knocked on Chen Ming's power armor and said, "Let's settle the bill first."

"Everything on the spaceship has been sorted out for you. Take a look for yourself. If there are any, they must have fallen out while you were in the clouds. Don't rely on me."

government?

"The conditions here are not that good. We can repair your spacecraft shell and controller. As for the armor, you will have to go back and find a solution yourself. As long as you don't rush into the clouds again, it should be enough for you to fly as close as possible. of the colony.”

"will not."

He looked at the crowd greeting him at the port of the space station with a smile on his face, and he seemed to have some status.

Just as Chen Minggang was about to reply that he had no problem, he suddenly heard the roar of an engine behind him.

"It's just a part-time job. Did you see the robots here? They are the ones doing the work. We usually work at the search and rescue team. If we see any distress signals, we will report them. You are the first person I have rescued in the past six months. One is really rare.”

"What about the charging place?"

So he chose to remain silent.

"You said you were a security guard, right?"

"Hey, stop looking."

"Can you see the price? If you have any questions about the material cost, labor cost, and machinery cost, you can talk about it now."

Chen Ming first wrote down the appearance, remaining suspicious in his heart.

He just went to a device and clicked a few times, calling Chen Ming over.

"I used to be, but now I'm working as a bounty hunter, causing trouble for pirates."

"Who is that person?"

Chen Ming took one last look at the man and turned his head, taking out the terminal and preparing to pay.

When Chen Ming heard this, he withdrew his gaze, looked at Uncle Mao who was walking in front, and asked, "Are you a maintenance engineer?"

Chen Ming's three-dimensional structural diagram of the damaged sentinel was currently displayed on the equipment panel he had just controlled.

But after all, the person who said this is Uncle Mao who works on this space station. I still can’t believe everything I say, so let’s take another look.

Uncle Mao, who did not urge Chen Ming to answer the price question and was also looking at the port, said: "It seems to be a government official. He has been here several times in the past few days. He is mysterious and has no idea why he is here. "

It was his eyes that subconsciously focused on Chen Ming's height of 1.9 meters and nearly 2 meters, An Wuping's prosthesis.

Uncle Mao also saw An Wuping's character, and he had no objection to An Wuping's lack of answer.

Uncle Mao then debugged the equipment and said, "The maintenance report has also come out. Take a look."

"It was just scanned. Your spaceship has been dragged here and no robot has been on it."

They are all worthless things anyway, so naturally they won’t be idle and cause trouble.

Judging from the model and painting of the spacecraft, it seems to be a government spacecraft.

Chen Ming felt that the Uncle Mao in front of him did not look like Zuo Jing based on his current performance, but it was difficult for anyone to say without evidence.

Chen Ming was thinking about the relationship between this ecological observation space station and the government. Can it come several times in a few days?
I'm afraid this government official has some unclear relationship with Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming knew very well what was left on the spacecraft after experiencing the baptism of the hyperspace lane cloud.

The cabin door of the spacecraft opened quickly, and a man in a suit and tie who looked to be in his thirties came down from the top, surrounded by several people.

After roughly looking at it, Chen Ming nodded to Uncle Mao.

Uncle Mao saw Chen Ming's actions and felt slightly relieved, so he didn't say much about Chen Ming's military power armor.

Uncle Mao quickly denied it and said: "How can this be repaired? Who dares to repair it for you?"

He immediately turned his head and looked behind him. At the port, a destroyer suddenly landed.

Chen Ming said nothing and silently paid the money needed for spacecraft maintenance.

But I just paid attention to it and didn't say much.

Just when Chen Ming was looking at the port next door at the maintenance station.

Here at the port, the man in suits and ties who got off the spacecraft also noticed the situation at the maintenance site.

After all, the military power armor Chen Ming just wore was too dazzling.

He immediately asked in a low voice to the people around him: "Who is that person?"

A manager of the space station immediately responded: "A person who was rescued after receiving a distress call here just now said that he encountered a malfunction in the autopilot system of the spacecraft in hyperspace, and then rushed into the channel cloud and barely escaped. come out."

"He's the only one still alive?"

"His spaceship has been modified so that only one person can pilot it. He is the only one on the spaceship."

"What identity?"

"He himself said that he used to be a member of a security company. Recently, he worked as a bounty hunter in the edge star field, hunting pirates in nearby galaxies."

The official got the general idea from the administrator, then looked at the secretary beside him and asked, "What about the actual situation?"

The managers were slightly dissatisfied when they heard the official's question, but did not express it clearly.

The secretary clicked a few times on the terminal and said: "I checked with your authority and found that he is indeed fine, but he concealed his experience of joining the army and retiring from the army, and then missing for several years while working with a security company. "

The officer felt nervous and asked: "When did you retire from the army? Why did you disappear later?"

"He retired from the army fifteen years ago and has been working as a security guard since then. He disappeared because he participated in a security mission for an independent colony. It has nothing to do with us. It is most likely an accident."

The official relaxed when he heard the time and reason, and nodded slightly.

However, he still gestured in Chen Ming's direction and said to the management: "Don't let anyone ruin our affairs. Let him go as soon as possible."

"understood."

Government officials, surrounded by a crowd of people, walked to the interior of the space station, areas that were not specifically isolated.

The management staff of the space station quietly left the vicinity of the team and rushed to the maintenance site as soon as possible.

But he didn't really intend to drive Chen Ming away directly.

Because there was no problem with An Wuping's arrival, although the military power armor made him a little worried, the old appearance of An Wuping's power armor, combined with the background they investigated, they can basically draw many reasonable and reasonable conclusions. They are irrelevant to the conclusion.

But now that the boss has spoken, and An Wuping did come over when a big shot came for no reason, it might indeed cause trouble.

So he has to explain what needs to be explained.

It's just that he can't really drive people away directly. After all, he really has to drive away people who have just received a distress signal and rescued them just because important government figures have arrived at the space station.

Then if Chen Ming is a thorn and exposes the matter, it will attract more unnecessary attention.

But when he came to the maintenance site.

However, he noticed that there was only Uncle Mao here, manipulating the equipment to repair the damaged spacecraft.

When he saw that the spacecraft could disintegrate at any time, he once again confirmed his idea that An Wuping's arrival was really just a coincidence.

Uncle Mao soon noticed someone coming to the maintenance site and saw who it was.

He immediately stopped, ran to the management staff, and said slightly cautiously: "Deputy Manager Chang, are you okay with your visit?"

Deputy manager Chang looked around the maintenance site and asked, "Where's the guy who just came?"

"He went to buy supplies. He's right next door. Do you want me to call him back?"

"No. But you saw it just now, right? The big government figure who just came will stay on the space station for a few days. Just don't let the kid who just came here run around."

"okay."

Uncle Mao decisively agreed, and Deputy Manager Chang immediately left the maintenance site that was full of the smell of metal and engine oil.

Chen Ming is currently purchasing supplies with the person in charge of the space station's material management.

After all, he was playing the role of An Wuping now. As a person who had just sent a distress signal, he obviously needed to buy enough supplies for the rest of the journey.

It just so happens that the space station is also obliged to provide those who sent the distress signal with supplies at market prices that can sustain the spacecraft's flight time for a week.

So Chen Ming naturally asked Uncle Mao to help introduce him, and then asked Uncle Mao to arrange robots to repair the spacecraft, and then he ran to the Material Management Office alone.

This way he can observe the situation of the space station more on the way.

It's a pity that there is nothing noteworthy in the outer area of ​​the space station, so he can only come here to buy supplies.

He also thinks when buying supplies.

How on earth should he sneak into the core area of ​​the space station, infiltrate it, obtain information, and launch an investigation into leftist elements.

Chen Ming originally wanted to find someone to ask around the corner, but An Wuping was not a talkative person. If he asked too many questions, others would definitely become suspicious.

This is a place that Chen Ming didn't design very well.

However, Chen Ming originally created An Wuping just for fighting, and his abilities were designed in this direction, so his character was also designed to match.

Otherwise, the contrast between the whole person will be extremely large and it will be easier to be suspected. There is nothing we can do about it.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ming still wanted to use a decisive plan, such as directly lifting the restrictions of the prosthesis and rushing into the core of the space station relying on the monster in his body.

But what if the space station is actually divided into more partitions, and it is necessary to forcefully break into the core area to achieve the goal?
The space station is not small. Even if Chen Ming controls An Wuping to transform, he may not be able to completely suppress the Zhengege Space Station in a short period of time.

If you really want to do this, it will be very troublesome to safely save some information of the space station. If you forcefully use psychic energy to save the data without being deleted, it will be easier for the connection between An Wuping and Chen Ming to be exposed.

Quite a headache. If Chen Ming's purpose of coming here this time was just to destroy Zuojia's space station, then he could actually have started directly.

But he came here this time to get more clues about Zuojia, so he couldn't do this.

You must be fully prepared before taking action. At least you must first understand the general situation of the space station.

It just so happened that the repairs on his spaceship were estimated to take about a week, after all, the damage was too complete.

He still has time.

Fortunately, there is a "big man" on the space station now, and he should know a lot of information.

Maybe we can find a way to take action from him.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking about his next plan, Uncle Mao suddenly appeared next to Chen Ming and said, "Hey, An Wuping, someone specifically asked me to tell you that you should not be on the space station these two days. Running around."

"We saved you, so you have to respect us, right?"

The space station is indeed only responsible for rescue. As long as people are rescued, it will be no problem even if they directly call Chen Ming a tugboat to tow Chen Ming to the nearest colony.

Uncle Mao was willing to give Chen Ming a chance to choose. Although it might be to make some money, there was no telling.

But someone specifically asked Uncle Mao to explain?

Then Uncle Mao could just say no and that would be the end of the matter. Why did he mention this point specifically?
Chen Ming was a little confused, but An Wuping, who he played, would not resist this and said, "I will leave as soon as the spaceship is repaired."

A promise is a promise, and that's what you say, but how you actually do it is something that comes later.

And when Uncle Mao said that someone had told him about this matter, Chen Ming felt that there must be something wrong with it.

So he simply used his spiritual energy to call up the monitoring system of the maintenance site of the space station that he had already controlled.

The image of the person who had just come over to explain things immediately appeared in front of him.

Chen Ming was somewhat impressed by the management personnel of the space station. They seemed to be next to the government official just now.

The government official had noticed him.

The government official Chen Minggang had also found out his identity directly through the local public government website. His name was Ye Lirong, the director of the local district-level Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The reason for coming here this time was explained by an announcement on the government official website.

It is said that in order to develop the tourism industry in the star region and allow some backward galaxies to develop, it is necessary to cooperate with this ecological observation space station to conduct on-site surveys.

It doesn't sound like there's any problem. It's actually no problem to get rid of idle people like An Wuping when people like this come.

Everything seems normal, but because this space station is related to Zuojia, everything is abnormal.

However, although Chen Ming now knows who arranged this, he still doesn't do anything.

Anyway, it will take another week for the spacecraft to be repaired, so there is really no rush.

The president's investigation into Zuojia and Dimension's infections is unlikely to yield results within a week.

Zuo Jing had been hiding for so long, and it was not until Lou Wei died unexpectedly that Chen Ming discovered the clues. This matter cannot be solved simply.

Moreover, Chen Ming came here and used An Wuping's skin this time just to conceal his identity and the connection between An Wuping and Chen Ming himself.

Many small psychic actions can only be done after ensuring that they are completely safe and no one will discover them.

Chen Ming quickly agreed to Uncle Mao, but Uncle Mao did not leave.

Instead, he waited for Chen Ming to pay almost all the expenses for purchasing supplies, then waved to Chen Ming and said, "Let's go, I'll show you where you can go in the next few days."

"Originally, our space station is not open to the public, but we rescued you, so we have arranged some places for you to hang out."

"it is good."

Chen Ming agreed again without showing anything special.

Uncle Mao then took Chen Ming to three places.

The dining area, a small canteen, seems to be specially provided for those working in these peripheral areas. Ordinary employees seem to have to spend money to eat here.

The accommodation is an ordinary centralized dormitory, with four people per room, not too crowded.

There is also a work area, which is the area where the space station is dedicated to receiving distress signals.

There is a distress signal management office hanging at the door of this place.

When you open the door, you can see that besides Uncle Mao, there are six or seven people here, all in their forties or fifties, all gathered around two desks in the office.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Chen Ming and Uncle Mao who had just come in.

Uncle Mao wanted to reach out and pat Chen Ming on the shoulder, but he couldn't reach it. Finally, he patted Chen Ming on the back and said, "It's okay. This kid was rescued just after the distress signal. You mind yourselves."

He explained, half-pushed Chen Ming to the work table in the room, and pressed Chen Ming on the seat.

Of course Chen Ming didn't resist, otherwise Uncle Mao would definitely not be able to push him away.

But at this point, Chen Ming finally couldn't help but ask: "Why did you bring me here?"

Uncle Mao said as if reciting a text: "While enjoying rights, if conditions permit, the rights holder should also bear some of the obligations of the rights enjoyed."

Chen Ming said nothing, and there was a little confusion on his slightly fierce face.

"You may not know that this article is written in the "Imperial Code of Rights and Obligations of Distress Signals,"

Of course Chen Ming knows this, which means that the person who sent the distress signal has been rescued. He must take the initiative to provide assistance to the rescuers to a certain extent, which means that he must cooperate.
If conditions permit, providing rescue assistance to rescuers is equivalent to asking the rescued person to save other people.

Although this rule seems to exist or not, after all, everyone has asked for help, who is still qualified to help.

But Chen Ming is in really good condition now, and no one needs help, but the code of obligations does stipulate this.

So Uncle Mao pressed Chen Ming on his seat and asked Chen Ming to help him look at the distress signal equipment.

Chen Ming glanced at the equipment in front of him, then turned back with a fierce face.

"Do I look good enough to talk?"

Uncle Mao looked a little embarrassed and said, "It's not about your face that matters whether you're good or not, it's about other things...please."

After he finished speaking, he patted Chen Ming's shoulder hard, and even after patting him, he didn't take his hand away, as if he wouldn't take it away unless he agreed.

Chen Ming immediately reached out and grabbed Uncle Mao's hand and threw him away, looking very disgusted.

At the same time, he stared at Uncle Mao's face with confusion.

But the confused expression quickly disappeared.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully. After all, this was a distress signal management department, and the equipment here seemed to be of use.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not refuse in the end. He just put the hand that had just grabbed Uncle Mao's hand into his clothes pocket and took out a tissue to wipe it with.

"How to do it?"

"When this device receives a distress signal, it will automatically alarm. If the alarm occurs, just send the communication signal and leave the rest to me."

In other words, in fact, no one needs to look at this device at all. Someone can just answer the phone after asking for help.

Uncle Mao patted Chen Ming's shoulder again and said, "You have to pretend."

"Row."

Chen Ming sat upright where Uncle Mao had been working, holding the instruction manual that Uncle Mao had just thrust into his hand, and pretending to check how to use the equipment.

Then he heard several employees in the office behind him immediately take out some coins and playing cards from their pockets.

The whole office suddenly became noisy.

Everyone was noisy about the card game that was suddenly stopped just now.

"..."

Now Chen Ming knew why everyone in the office was staring at him when he just came in.

Forget it, it's okay, they are playing their own game, Chen Ming still plans to use the equipment of the distress signal management office first.

The equipment here has good ability to receive and send signals. It can be overclocked and modified to be directly used for signal shielding.

Of course, Chen Ming could not directly use psychic modification at this time, but had to use the technology that he had actively reduced to modify.

Then you must first understand the direction of the line.

Although the overall design of the space station has been changed, the style is definitely the same. This fact shows that the current technical level can definitely do it.

Understanding part of the space station is equivalent to understanding the entire space station.

It will be more convenient to block the signal then.

And this place in front of the workbench is not bad. With his back to everyone, no one will notice him.

Chen Ming quietly released a large amount of metallic liquid from the palm of his hand that was pressed on the instrument in front of him. It penetrated into the structure of the space station along the structure of the equipment, and gradually penetrated into the surroundings.

Metallic liquid is also Chen Ming's eyes.

Although it is not his hand and cannot be controlled indirectly like Yuhui, he can definitely use this thing to see what is on the space station.

However, Chen Ming's metallic liquid had just spread out not far.

The metallic liquid was suddenly blocked.

There is an extremely thin metal film made of silent alloy that blocks each space station module.

The silent alloy is a psychic metal material that even Chen Ming's psychic powers cannot control.

To be precise, it is not a psychic metal material, but a metal material that blocks psychic energy. It is also the material of the box that Chen Ming usually uses to place the portable psychic wave generator.

Now Chen Ming really had to suspect that Zuo Jing was really targeting him.

If he wants to let the metal liquid pass through the partition membrane, he must either destroy it directly, or he must be exposed to the surrounding environment.

Destroying the metal film is definitely an act of seeking death. Chen Ming has already seen some induction lines mixed in the metal film.

Once the metal membrane is damaged, an alarm will immediately sound throughout the space station.

The external environment is all under surveillance, even outside the space station. It is impossible to handle this matter without being exposed to the environment.

Chen Ming searched for a long time and did not find any blind spots around the space station module where he was now.

This is...a bit troublesome.

That's when.

Chen Ming suddenly heard someone calling him from behind.

"Hey, that young man over there, three are short of one, can he play cards? Can he play?"

(End of this chapter)