Chapter 1 Maintenance Engineer

"Maintenance Technician No. 519, Chen Ming, welcome to wake up."

"Today is March 12, 5601 AD. Please go to the maintenance staff office No. 125 in the office area as soon as possible to collect your personal terminal and work kit."

Chen Ming waved his hands stiffly and climbed out of the cryostasis chamber where he was.

His confused brain just received the content of the voice into his brain, but did not digest it, so Chen Ming could not understand what happened to him at all.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming finally focused his scattered mind.

However, when Chen Ming observed the environment around him, his breathing suddenly stagnated.

"Where am I?"

Chen Ming looked around nervously, and he seemed to be in a place that looked very shabby.

A room made of metal materials as a whole, with four devices similar to the one he just stood up on the four corners of the room.

And in the corner next to the door near the exit, something appeared that made Chen Ming even more nervous.

A scattered human skeleton, and a corpse of some kind of super-large insect whose insides had rotted away, leaving only the shell.

The two corpses were close together, as if telling Chen Ming what happened before they died.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were really just corpses, and hurried to confirm his own situation.

The last memory before he woke up from here was the speeding truck.

If the hospital hadn't grown like this, then he would basically have one possibility now.

Crossing.

Chen Ming took a few deep breaths and forced himself to calm down.

This kind of experience is actually quite good for him.

He has no parents, and his daily life can't be called life, it can only be called survival.

Having a new beginning is undoubtedly a blessing from God for him.

But now, Chen Ming must at least find a way to figure out where he is.

Chen Ming quickly searched his body, but found nothing.

But just when Chen Ming woke up, the voice of the broadcast seemed to have mentioned his identity.

Maintenance technician No. 519, and asked him to go to that office to pick up something.

Chen Ming moved his limbs a little vigorously and felt that his physical condition was still good.

Although it seemed that he had been frozen in the freezer next to him for a long time, he did not feel uncomfortable when he moved.

Going to that office should not be a problem.

Moreover, the environment Chen Ming was in now always made him feel uncomfortable, so it was better not to stay here.

But before that, Chen Ming suddenly noticed that there was a pistol that looked very sci-fi under the human skeleton.

Chen Ming hurried up to pick it up and held it in his hand.

Half groping and half learning from the video of using a gun that he had seen on the Internet, he turned off the safety, removed the magazine, and then reinstalled it, and adjusted the safety to a state where it could be fired.

Although I don’t know whether this pistol that has been lying here for a long time can still be used, it at least gives Chen Ming some confidence to deal with unknown dangers.

Next to the skeleton is the only closed metal door in the room, which should lead to the outside world.

There is a striking button on the wall next to the door.

Seeing that there was nothing else around to open the metal door, Chen Ming reached out and pressed it.

A mechanical female voice sounded.

"A vacuum environment has been detected. Please press the button again to confirm the opening of the buffer compartment. Please make sure that the protective suit is fully worn."

"A vacuum environment? Am I in space?"

Chen Ming frowned and stepped on the solid metal floor. He did not see any signs that he was in space.

But he did not dare to bet that the sound was wrong. He could only turn around and start searching the room to see if there was anything that could help him.

The panic after waking up made Chen Ming not notice that many places in the room were actually hidden.

Under the cryostasis chamber where he woke up, there is a compartment that can be opened.

Inside is a suit that can cover the whole body, similar to a space suit, but it looks very light.

This should be the protective suit.

In the compartments under several other unmanned cryo chambers, Chen Ming did not find a space suit like this protective suit.

However, Chen Ming found a personal terminal that can often be seen in science fiction movies on the ground next to the freezer.

What Chen Ming didn't expect was that this terminal actually started up under his random operation.

Although the battery power displayed was not much, it should be enough for Chen Ming to figure out some things.

Just before Chen Ming was about to study its usage.

A series of familiar and unfamiliar memories suddenly appeared in Chen Ming's mind as if stimulated.

This is Chen Ming's past memory, and Chen Ming's past memories as a maintenance technician are constantly emerging.

Let Chen Ming understand his current situation.

Chen Ming is now in a mining space station belonging to the human empire.

Located on an asteroid ring of a marginal planet in a galaxy on the edge of human expansion.

The existence of the planetary ring makes the habitable planet below have a very suitable climate for human habitation, but the meteorites that fall from time to time make people have no idea of ​​settling down.

However, these asteroids rich in various rare minerals in the asteroid ring have attracted a commercial company to buy the mineral mining rights of this planet.

They built a mining space station here and opened it to all humans.

And Chen Ming is a professional maintenance technician of the company that owns the mineral mining rights of this planet.

He got this task that requires long-term cryogenic hibernation and only comes out to work when necessary.

During the cryogenic hibernation period, the commercial company will still calculate Chen Ming's salary.

So Chen Ming, who has no parents and no friends, applied for this job smoothly.

The main memory of himself from this world ended the moment he lay in the cryogenic hibernation chamber.

Although more details of the memory are still emerging in Chen Ming's mind, they are all scattered fragments.

Chen Ming still doesn't know what happened in the mining space station.

However, relying on the usage techniques of some tools, including the terminal, that were instilled in his memory.

Chen Ming quickly retrieved a log record on the terminal.

Based on the content of the log, Chen Ming can roughly guess that this terminal and the recorded log should belong to the skeleton in the room, and he seems to be a doctor.

The content of the log is mostly about the daily regular health checks of the people inside the cryostasis chamber.

And in the last few pages of the log, that is, around April 5569 AD, about thirty years ago, the content of the log changed.

As usual, the mining space station captured an asteroid that may contain rare mineral resources in the asteroid ring.

When the first rare mineral was mined, everyone celebrated.

However, the next day, a sudden riot broke out in the area where the mining equipment was placed.

Countless bugs poured out from here, spread throughout the space station, and slaughtered the people in the space station.

The interior of the asteroid not only contained rare minerals, but also the nests of these terrifying bugs.

They hibernated for a long time inside the asteroid and woke up after being extremely stimulated.

Chen Ming still wanted to know what happened next, but the content in the log stopped abruptly.

The doctor had died here with the bug.

And the final result of this incident was obvious.

All the people in the mining space station were killed and the space station was abandoned. Thirty years have passed.

In other words, Chen Ming is now in an abandoned mining space station full of Zerg.

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the white bones and the shells of the bugs next to him.

Such a large bug should be able to bite him to death easily.

Although the bugs were scary, Chen Ming felt that it was more likely that he would starve to death.

He did not find any food in the room.

So...

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the rusty door next to him, hesitating whether to go out like this.

Those Zergs could sleep inside the asteroid for so long, could they still be in this mining space station, waiting for him outside the door?

While he was still hesitating, the last memory fragment of the maintenance engineer Chen Ming completely merged into Chen Ming's mind.

Then, two lines of words suddenly appeared in his mind.

[No spacecraft signal access detected]

[Please access as soon as possible to complete the brain control signal connection and initialization]