Chapter 5 Choice

That's how it happened. Chen Ming didn't even want to go to the galaxy where the nearest military outpost was located.

If Chen Ming's spaceship was going to enter the space station, the military would definitely find out his identity.

If they directly found the record of the Iron Ore passing through the star gate decades ago, and the record of his passing through the star gate on his company's spaceship.

It would be no different from Chen Ming directly using the communication anchor of the space station to contact the military outpost.

So there are not many options left.

Chen Ming's eyes returned to the galaxy map he had just opened.

In a small galaxy very close to the galaxy where the military outpost is located, there is a space station belonging to humans that many people know about.

But it does not belong to the military in name, but to...pirates.

This is the space station of space pirates.

Of course, pirates are just a general term. Everyone knows how a group of scattered and unorganized criminals can build a space station with complete infrastructure and can be maintained for a long time.

There must be someone behind this, and the person who funded it has great power.

Otherwise, how could the military, which is only one galaxy away, turn a blind eye to this space station that everyone who makes a living near this marginal galaxy knows about.

If Chen Ming chooses to go there, there will naturally be danger.

If he doesn't go to the military outpost, how many good people can choose to go here?

But correspondingly, the possibility of exposing himself as a company employee and coming from this abandoned mining space station is also close to zero.

Although it will take longer for him to return to the human world, and the pressure to solve the food problem before going there will be greater.

But Chen Ming has no more choices at this time. He doesn't want to be involved in the affairs of some big shots because of his identity and origin, and he doesn't know how he died in the end.

The pirate space station became his only choice.

Therefore, in order to solve the food problem, the planting cabin of the spacecraft must be used in a way.

And the best place to get edible crop seeds...

Chen Ming's eyes looked at the blue, green and purple planet directly below the spacecraft.

But before considering this matter.

Chen Ming stood up from his chair, opened his hands, and leaned on the bridge in front of him.

Chen Ming half manually controlled the control panel, and half relied on the assistance of consciousness to set the flight route for the Iron Ore after leaving the space station.

Let it stay in the orbit of the planet in front of it, and keep a certain distance from the abandoned mining space station.

Can be seen, but cannot be touched.

Prevent insects from floating over from the space station.

At the same time, it also prevents himself from losing this extremely dilapidated place in space, but it contains many valuable resources.

Chen Ming had thought about it before leaving the space station.

Compared with those asteroids in space that contain rare minerals, this space station is more valuable to him.

He only has a civilian spacecraft for mining, and he lacks everything.

Collecting minerals from asteroids can only replenish the most basic materials needed by the spacecraft, and industrial products cannot make up for it.

For example, daily necessities, and some tools and materials for spacecraft equipment.

Chen Ming can't just rub a chip out of the repair kit on hand in space.

But it's different in the space station. This is a place that needs to maintain long-term operation and provide a living environment for many people.

Various sophisticated and professional electronic equipment, various rare metal materials, and various necessities for human life are everywhere in the space station.

Even if the bugs on it are very dangerous, Chen Ming can't just give up and leave.

Even if it's just to remove some iron sheets from the side, it's more efficient than Chen Ming looking for asteroids with iron resources in space and then smelting them into iron.

So even if you want to leave, at least you have to wait until Chen Ming gets enough resources from above.

After completing the setting of the spacecraft orbit, Chen Ming's urgent tasks are completed.

The fatal crisis will not appear in front of Chen Ming for the time being, and death will come at least in three months.

And the key to Chen Ming's idea later, food.

This problem can only be solved after Chen Ming repairs the landing module of the spacecraft and the spacecraft can land on the planet.

To repair the landing module, Chen Ming has to use the repair techniques in his mind and the two points that he can directly open the spacecraft panel.

So now, Chen Ming finally has the time and the need to study the abilities he has gained after crossing.

Chen Ming's consciousness is focused on the spaceship, and he opens the panel again.

[Spaceship Panel]

[Ship Name: Iron Ore]

[Type: Small Civilian Mining Cargo Ship]

[Fuel Reserve: 99.8%]

[Port Weapon: 22mm Machine Gun (Damaged)]

[Starboard Weapon: 22mm Machine Gun (In Operation)]

[Armor: Aluminum-steel Composite External Armor]

[Engine: Civilian escort-class engine]

[Built-in cabins: Captain's cabin, engine cabin, work cabin, planting cabin, living cabin, storage cabin]

[Important equipment: bridge control system module (in operation), position traction module (in operation), life support system module (in operation), artificial gravity module (in operation), landing module (damaged), hyperspace channel system module (missing)]

Except for the fuel column, there is no change on the panel.

But Chen Ming suddenly found something he had not noticed before.

Chen Ming can click on the columns displayed on the panel to view more detailed data.

For example, after clicking on the column [Type: Small Civilian Mining Cargo Ship], a more detailed panel appeared in front of him.

[Small civilian mining cargo ship]

[Manufacturer: Sinda Rockwell Shipbuilding Company]

[Ship length: 33 meters]

[Ship width: 15 meters]

[Ship height: 7 meters]

[Tonnage: 2,000 tons]

[Power source: civilian-grade fusion reactor]

[Maximum speed: standard speed]

[Spacecraft bearing point: standard civilian grade (small bearing point*2)]

[Hyperspace channel system: loadable]

Looking at this newly emerged panel, Chen Ming quickly retrieved several new concepts on this new panel in his memory.

Combining his own memory and the content introduced on a small panel that popped up after clicking on these items on the panel again, Chen Ming roughly summarized it.

The bearing point is a basic component or facility used by the spacecraft to place ship weapons, protecting the spacecraft so that the recoil of the weapon will not affect the normal operation of the spacecraft. All ship weapons must be placed on it.

If it is placed in other places on the spacecraft, it is easy to cause some unnecessary damage during the operation of the spacecraft.

Civilian escort-class spacecraft such as the Iron Ore were designed with only two small load-bearing points for installing some small weapons for self-defense.

Military spacecraft, or larger spacecraft of higher levels, such as destroyer-class and cruiser-class spacecraft, can be installed with more load-bearing points, and the installed load-bearing points can also be larger.

The standard speed of this maximum speed refers to the maximum speed of the spacecraft in the normal cosmic environment, 99% of the speed of light.

This is the standard speed of interstellar navigation that all spacecraft in this world, including civilian ships, can reach.

Of course, it takes a long time for civilian ships to accelerate to reach the maximum speed.

So when Chen Ming planned the route between the space station and the military outpost before, he said that the distance between the two was not large on a cosmic scale, but it was large for him.

His own spacecraft now lacks a hyperspace channel system, and this half-light-year road is not easy to travel.