Chapter 13 Insect Eggs

After Chen Ming jumped, he entered the space station smoothly under the action of inertia.

The sudden gravity in the space station area almost made Chen Ming fall, but he landed safely.

Chen Ming did not dare to waste time and quickly identified his position.

He immediately left the dock and ran towards the small warehouse closest to the dock.

This time Chen Ming had to act quickly. God knows how long it will take for those attracted bugs to disperse again and spread in the space station.

Chen Ming ran all the way and soon arrived at the small warehouse.

The metal door of the warehouse had been destroyed long ago, and it was dark inside.

Chen Ming turned on the flashlight function of the terminal, illuminated the road under his feet, and walked in carefully.

He could not guarantee that there would be no bugs crouching in this warehouse, and safety was the most important thing.

The warehouse was divided into two areas.

One part stored the equipment and tool components needed to repair the spacecraft, which was Chen Ming's goal.

The other part stored some express parcels.

There was also express delivery business in the interstellar era.

Since this mining space station is located in a fringe star field far away from the lush star field with a large number of humans, it is not so easy to go back.

Also, because there are many mineral asteroids, it is common for people who work here and come here to send some minerals as local specialties to relatives and friends.

Therefore, many packages that should have been stored in the large warehouse according to regulations are often placed in this place close to the dock, which is convenient for express ships to transport.

In addition, there are supplies regularly sent from the outside world, which will be temporarily placed here before being counted and transported to the official warehouse next to the mining area.

So in the end, this small warehouse was divided into two areas.

It was just that when Chen Ming walked a distance away, he found that this place, which should have been quite neat, where goods and packages did not interfere with each other.

It had become a mess in the last chaos of the space station thirty years ago, and all kinds of messy packages and goods were piled together.

Chen Ming could only recall where the components for repairing the mining laser of the spacecraft were placed based on his memory, and try to find it.

After searching in the warehouse for about an hour, Chen Ming finally found a box with a good appearance among a pile of debris.

There was a label engraved with a laser in the corner of the box, which clearly read "high-intensity laser lens".

Under the protection of the internal buffer foam, even after thirty years, the three high-intensity laser lenses of different sizes inside were still intact.

The things were in hand, but since he was here, Chen Ming looked around the box where the lenses were found.

Not long after, the low-frequency frequency generator was also stuffed into the small backpack he found in the living cabin by Chen Ming.

As the name suggests, this thing is used to transform the mining laser into [frequency oscillation].

As for the last laser restrainer required for the [energy-gathering ring] transformation that Chen Ming now knows, it does not require a special industrial product as a material.

It can be transformed with basic metals, so Chen Ming did not stay any longer.

More than an hour has passed, and it may be dangerous to stay any longer.

Chen Ming glanced at the things in the backpack, put it on his back again, and prepared to leave.

When Chen Ming returned to the warehouse exit, he suddenly noticed a half-man-high wooden box in a hidden corner near the exit.

The warehouse was in chaos, but this box was placed here alone and intact. Chen Ming didn't believe it.

So Chen Ming stopped and approached.

The appearance of the box was intact and it was specially placed here, but its label was missing, and it was unknown what was stored inside.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming took out the tools he brought with him and started working on the box directly.

Anyway, thirty years have passed, and no one should come to take the package or the goods.

Chen Ming pried open the top cover of the box in a few seconds and threw the cover aside.

He shone the light of the flashlight into it.

The next moment, Chen Ming's eyes widened.

"This!"

Chen Ming couldn't help but exclaimed.

Inside the box was an insect egg wrapped in various cushioning and thermal insulation materials.

That's right, it was the insect eggs that Chen Ming had seen in the central hall of the space station before.

It's impossible for the insects to lay eggs in the box and then pack the box and put it in this corner.

Someone in the space station must have discovered the insects when collecting minerals, obtained the insect egg samples, and then placed them here, but ultimately did not have time to send them out.

Looking at this, Chen Ming suddenly felt that the possible reasons for the space station accident and the truth behind it were even more bizarre.

Did this person know that there were insects a long time ago, so he obtained the insect eggs and wanted to send them somewhere?

Or did he simply discover the insects by chance and find that they could survive in a vacuum.

So he thought it was some rare creature, and the greed in his heart made him choose to conceal it, and planned to take the eggs back to the human world to sell?

If it was the latter, it would be fine, but if it was the former, it meant that there must be a more terrible conspiracy behind the destruction of the space station.

Chen Ming no longer thought about it. Since he had decided to stay out of it and stay away from anything related to the company and the space station, there was no need to explore the reason. The most important thing was to live well.

After Chen Ming made up his mind, the eggs in front of him also began to move under the influence of light and vibration.

Chen Ming did not hesitate, raised his gun and smashed it with one shot.

Suddenly, Chen Ming felt a chill from head to toe, as if some danger was coming.

Chen Ming no longer wasted time and quickly left the warehouse with his backpack.

Just a dozen seconds after Chen Ming stepped out of the warehouse, Chen Ming suddenly felt the floor of the space station shaking violently.

Looking in the direction of the vibration, behind the damaged building wall, a large number of insects were approaching Chen Ming like crazy.

Chen Ming subconsciously tightened his grip on the gun in his hand, but immediately realized that this was not a problem that could be solved with a pistol. He quickly shook off the extra thoughts and ran back and forth.

These bugs suddenly appeared to chase him. Could it be that these bugs have a hive mind? A colony shares a consciousness?

I killed the egg, so the other bugs targeted me?

Chen Ming didn't know, but he quickened his pace again after feeling the vibration getting more and more intense.

I always feel that this scene is a bit familiar.

This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind for a moment, but he immediately threw it out.

Because he had returned to the dock.

There was nothing here except a few shabby spaceships that existed last time, and the Iron Ore was nowhere to be seen.

However, Chen Ming did not hesitate at all and continued to run towards a gap at the edge of the dock.

When he was close to the edge of the dock, there was only a void in front of him, but Chen Ming's pace still did not slow down.

At the moment when there was no way forward, Chen Ming chose to jump into the boundless space.

The crazy bugs behind him also ignored any external situation and followed Chen Ming to jump out of the gravity range of the space station.

At this time, in order to prevent being discovered by the Zerg, the Iron Ore, which had been hiding for a long time at a distance, suddenly flew out from the other corner of the space station.

It stopped in front of Chen Ming and caught Chen Ming.

Its engine then sprayed a red tail flame and disappeared around the space station.

And the bugs behind that followed Chen Ming to jump out of the space station range could only drift in space until they died.