Chapter 3 Search
"Fuck!"
Chen Ming cursed subconsciously and raised the pistol he had picked up.
After a slight recoil feedback, the insect eggs exploded directly.
The body of an unformed insect was torn into pieces, covering the empty cold storage room.
Chen Ming reached out to wipe the stains on the helmet of his protective suit, turned around and left, closing the door of the compartment.
Chen Ming forced himself not to recall the disgusting scene just now, but walked quickly to the planting cabin next to him.
However, this place was also empty like the cold storage room.
Chen Ming continued to force himself to think about where to get food.
If he couldn't get food as soon as possible, then starving to death would only be his final destination.
Or...
Chen Ming looked at the captain's room, where there was a frozen hibernation chamber in the corner.
But this was actually an emergency escape chamber.
Chen Ming could abandon the ship and escape, falling into the planet below, seeking life there.
"Only a fool would do that."
Until the last moment, Chen Ming didn't want to leave his life to fate.
Chen Ming took out his personal terminal with little power left, found a wire in the living cabin, and connected it to the spacecraft's power grid.
While charging, Chen Ming was looking for something on the map of the space station.
Soon, what he wanted to find appeared in his eyes.
If the mining space station is to operate for a long time, then some places must be indispensable.
A cold storage for storing a large amount of frozen food, and a warehouse for storing fusion fuel to maintain the operation of the space station.
If Chen Ming wants to survive, he has to go to the cold storage to find food.
If you want to live longer, you have to leave this dangerous space station, and fuel becomes a necessity.
But it is not a smart decision to leave on a damaged spacecraft.
Chen Ming had better go to the office that the voice broadcast prompted him before, and get the repair kit that Chen Ming, a repairman, should get.
At the same time, according to the prompts of the spacecraft repair guide, get enough materials.
Even if a lot of equipment on the spacecraft has problems, he might be able to fix them all.
Chen Ming thought about what he needed to survive and planned the next route on the map of the space station.
The first place to go must be the maintenance staff office No. 125 in the nearest office area to get the repair kit.
Then go to the power generation area to get fuel.
After all, the spacecraft only has 19% of remaining fuel, and God knows how long it can last.
The power generation area is below the living area where Chen Ming woke up at the beginning.
Because the power generation equipment generates heat, it can provide a certain insulation effect for the living area, so it is arranged there.
The power generation area should be safer than the cold storage on the middle layer between the public area and the mining area.
Chen Ming plans to wait until all the fuel and tools are in hand before considering the issue of going to the cold storage.
After Chen Ming chose the route, he did not hesitate. After confirming the approximate location, he ran all the way there.
Chen Ming found his name on a cabinet in the maintenance office.
The cabinet door was not locked, and Chen Ming easily got a suitcase-sized repair kit and his own brand new personal terminal.
Chen Ming did not stop, and went directly to the power generation area with the suitcase.
On the way, he carefully avoided the public area full of disgusting growths and insect eggs, and also successfully found fuel and a small cart.
After three trips back and forth, the fuel of the spacecraft was replenished, and there was still a lot of remaining fuel.
Chen Ming noticed that there was not much oxygen and electricity left in his protective suit.
So after transporting the fuel for the last time, Chen Ming pushed the small cart he found in the power generation area to the public area and approached the passage between the upper and lower floors.
Chen Ming held the gun tightly in his hand, and he would respond to any changes in the first time.
The passages up and down the public area were not blocked by growths and insect eggs, and Chen Ming went down to the cold storage floor with some fear.
After using the authority of the maintenance technician terminal to open the door of the cold storage, an empty warehouse appeared in front of Chen Ming.
There was nothing left in the cold storage.
However, there was an emergency supply room in the corner of the cold storage, which was Chen Ming's last hope.
Chen Ming pushed the cart and opened the door of the emergency supply room.
After noticing that the oxygen readings of the protective suit began to recover after entering the emergency supply room, Chen Ming closed the door of the room.
There were only packages of things like military dry food packaging stored inside.
There were six words written on it, packaged survival food.
There was no brand, no expiration date, and some only had an ingredient list.
Chen Ming tore open the package, and inside was a block that looked like luncheon meat.
After confirming that there was still oxygen in the emergency supply room, Chen Ming took off his helmet and smelled the luncheon meat, but did not smell any special smell.
He broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth to chew, but did not swallow it.
After chewing for about three or four minutes, Chen Ming seemed to taste a hint of meat in his mouth.
So he spit out the food in his mouth.
Next, just wait for a while. If there is no discomfort, then these packaged survival foods that have been stored for decades should be edible.
And Chen Ming estimated that there should be nothing else to eat in the space station.
So he moved all the packaged survival foods in the emergency supply room onto the cart and planned to leave.
Just as he went back to this level of the public area.
Chen Ming suddenly found that the insect eggs around him seemed to start moving.
"What's going on?"
Chen Ming's heartbeat instantly accelerated, and the movement of his legs also began to speed up.
The insect eggs around him trembled more and more violently.
And under the reflection of the light of the lower level that Chen Ming had just passed, there seemed to be many shadowy things moving in the passage between the upper and lower levels behind him.
That was the insect eggs in the lower level that had hatched.
Chen Ming's forehead was instantly covered with cold sweat.
Could it be that the cold storage had been sealed all along, and when Chen Ming opened it, the cold air, or the hot air relative to the temperature of space, escaped outside and stimulated the insect eggs.
Chen Ming was not sure what the reason was, but he was sure what he should do now.
Chen Ming no longer cared whether his movements were too large, and just ran towards the direction of the spacecraft.
He ran all the way and fled to the vicinity of the Iron Ore spacecraft.
Although no sound could be heard in the vacuum, Chen Ming could easily sense that the vibration under his feet was getting faster and closer.
When a sense of danger was about to come, Chen Ming pushed the cart full of food and fell to the ground.
At this moment, Chen Ming's eyes appeared with the picture of the camera connected to the machine gun on the spacecraft.
Before the group of newly hatched insects that followed him pounced on him.
The 22mm caliber machine gun opened fire.
There were no gunshots in the vacuum, but the flickering fire and the occasional hits on his back made Chen Ming aware of the situation he was experiencing.
And the situation was getting worse.
Chen Ming could see that in the office area not far away, several insects taller than humans appeared, which were definitely not newly hatched adults.
Chen Ming immediately got up from the ground, and the next moment, a larva that was lucky enough to survive directly grabbed Chen Ming's shoulder.
The sharp mouthparts could tear Chen Ming's protective suit apart in the next second, causing Chen Ming to die in the vacuum.
Chen Ming's hair stood up at this moment, and he raised his pistol at a speed he had never seen in his life, and shot the insect that looked like an alien larva on his shoulder.
Chen Ming did not make any extra movements at all. He quickly picked up the scattered packaged food next to the cart that had just been pushed out, and pushed the cart onto the Iron Ore.
The hatch was quickly closed, and the engine of the Iron Ore started at the fastest speed with full fuel.
The tail flame from the tail of the spacecraft pushed the Iron Ore out of the dock.
Chen Ming put the cart aside and rushed to the captain's room.
Looking at the abandoned mining space station that was gradually moving away from the porthole, and the insects that seemed to be roaring with their mouths wide open but were powerless.
The tension in Chen Ming's heart finally relaxed.
At least now, he was safe.