Chapter 4 Problem

Chen Ming took off his protective suit and hung it next to the charging port in the captain's room.

Breathing the oxygen provided by the life support system on the spacecraft, all the pressures caused by the environment in his heart were dissipated.

He had been busy in the space station for nearly two hours, and he almost died here several times.

But fortunately, everything was worth it.

The suitcase-sized repair kit at his feet, the fusion fuel that could support the operation of the spacecraft piled in the storage room.

And the small cart filled with packaged survival food that he had just put in the central passage of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming now has no discomfort except fatigue, which means that these packaged survival foods are completely edible.

These things that he had worked so hard to get are the foundation and confidence for Chen Ming to survive.

The only thing he couldn't get in the space station just now was the materials for repairing the spacecraft equipment.

But the warehouse area where the space station stores various materials is on the mining area level, and Chen Ming didn't plan to go to such a dangerous place from the beginning.

If he had gone there, he would have become food for insects now.

Chen Ming shook his head, threw away the terrible thoughts, and didn't think about what would happen if he did something.

He planned to take advantage of the time when his body needed to rest after being busy for two hours.

He used his brain on his future plans.

He had just driven the spaceship away from the mining space station, which could only be said to be the most dangerous period of his coming to this world.

But there were more problems and troubles waiting for Chen Ming.

The spaceship had limited fuel reserves, and the food he could get from the space station was also limited.

This meant that Chen Ming could not drift in space forever.

So no matter what, Chen Ming had to return to the human world.

He was currently in the edge star field, and there were basically no human colonies nearby.

Therefore, Chen Ming had to settle for the second best and choose to go to the nearest galaxy with an open military outpost.

At that time, he could contact the army stationed there for help, and use the military's star gate technology that could jump between galaxies to return to the human world.

As for why Chen Ming was so confident that the army would help him,

Because in Chen Ming's memory, although the military outposts are called military outposts, they are not only populated by military personnel.

In marginal galaxies lacking infrastructure, these military outposts are actually equivalent to large central space stations in prosperous galaxies.

Provide all kinds of conveniences for human beings to navigate various galaxies, and provide some logistical support for those who explore the cosmic territory.

Chen Ming is a person after all, and a regular maintenance technician with the identity of a company employee. There is no problem in asking for help when he encounters danger.

As long as he gets there, Chen Ming's most basic survival will definitely be guaranteed.

So the biggest problem for Chen Ming now is.

How long does it take for him to reach the nearest galaxy where the military outpost is located from the abandoned mining space station on the orbit of the marginal planet of the marginal galaxy in this marginal star field.

Chen Ming opened the galaxy map near the mining space station on his personal terminal, and marked the galaxy where the space station is located and the galaxy where the nearest public military outpost is located on the screen.

Although the distance between the two points is not long on a cosmic scale, it is not short for Chen Ming.

In Chen Ming's memory, he came to the space station on the company's spaceship, which did not take much time.

But the company's spaceship has a hyperspace channel system, and the spaceship he found clearly has the words "Hyperspace Channel System (Missing)".

In the absence of a hyperspace channel system on the Iron Ore, it would definitely take a lot of time to fly this distance.

Chen Ming must be fully prepared for a long-term space voyage before he can set off there.

So Chen Ming left the captain's room and pushed the cart parked in the aisle into the storage cabin.

For the time being, he did not care about the bodies of insects and insect eggs in the refrigerator, but first counted the food piled on the cart.

It turned out that these packaged survival foods could only last for three months at most.

Three months of food, three months of survival time.

Chen Ming did not want to starve to death halfway through the spaceship.

So he could not just go to the military outpost without thinking.

Chen Ming returned to the captain's room again, sitting in a chair thinking about how to solve the food problem.

Chen Ming already had a general idea of ​​the solution, and the planting cabin inside the spacecraft could be fully utilized.

But the idea is not the key, the key lies in the execution process and the possibility of execution.

However, just as Chen Ming lowered his head slightly, his eyes suddenly saw the communication equipment on the control panel of the spacecraft bridge.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

If he wanted to return to the human world, it seemed that there was no need to drive the spacecraft back by himself.

If we can find a way to connect the spacecraft's communication equipment to the space station's communication anchor point, we can contact the nearest military outpost.

They might be able to send a rescue ship to take us back directly.

Chen Ming touched his chin and began to think about whether his idea was feasible.

But when Chen Ming focused his eyes on the abandoned mining space station not far away.

He realized something was wrong in an instant.

After integrating the memories of the maintenance engineer Chen Ming, Chen Ming knew the brain circuits of the people in the upper echelons of the company very well.

Even if the company was generous in paying him a salary during his hibernation, it could not change their greedy nature.

He was an insignificant little person, and he was given a salary that was not a sweet thing for them.

But this mining space station, although located in the marginal star field, often obtained some rare minerals that could not be bought with money. How could the upper echelons of the company give it up casually?

They bought the mineral mining rights of the planet, and a mining right lasted at least a hundred years.

It has only been 30 or 40 years since the space station was built. Could it be that the company has no reaction at all?

If so, they should have found me, as an employee of the company, out of the hibernation chamber and taken me away.

What are they doing?

And although the insect plague broke out in the space station in the middle of the night, some people should have been able to escape.

Where are the people who escaped?

Could it be that the news that a space station was occupied by the Zerg has not been spread at all?

Why has no one come here after so many years?

Even the corpses have not been collected.

Chen Ming's heart was full of doubts, and he seemed to have noticed the abnormality of the whole thing of the space station being abandoned.

No matter what the hidden story is behind it, the fact that a space station that has brought a lot of benefits to the company has been ignored for 30 years.

This matter is definitely not something that a small maintenance technician like me can intervene in.

Before confirming what the hidden situation between the space station and the company is, Chen Ming must not contact the military outpost that is very close to the space station through the signal tower of the space station.

I have to find a way to return to the human world.

The universe is so big, as long as I leave here, no matter what conspiracy is behind the abandonment of the space station, no one can find me.