Chapter 65 Excuses and Alarms

Chen Ming went back to the hotel he rented in the core city of the space station and barely rested for a few hours.

After dawn, he returned to the maintenance plant, feeling sleepy.

When he just entered the maintenance plant, he saw Lao Wu with a surprised look on his face, hurriedly running into the repair area of ​​the maintenance plant.

Lao Wu didn't see Chen Ming, but Chen Ming was very curious about what Lao Wu was doing, so he immediately followed him.

Then he saw Lao Wu staring at the half of the Yuhui destroyer parked here after entering the maintenance area, and said in a shocked tone: "Fuck, is it true?"

"What is true?"

Lao Wu suddenly got a start when he heard Chen Ming's words, and hurried over, following the passage from the repair area to the dock, pointing to the Iron Ore in the dock and asked: "Xiao Mu, is that your ship?"

"Yes."

Chen Ming had nothing to deny, anyway, the factory director Lao Wu must have investigated his situation.

It couldn't be simpler to check the surveillance, whether he admitted it or not.

When Old Wu heard Chen Ming's affirmative answer, he pointed to the half of the Glorious class and asked, "Did your ship bring this thing back yesterday?"

"Yes."

Chen Ming looked at the Afterglow destroyer next to him that he had dragged back with great effort last night, and did not deny it.

"But I remember you should have stayed in the basement of the Administration yesterday, right?"

"Indeed."

"Then take a look at this."

Old Wu took out the terminal and played a sensor scanning video.

This video recorded everything that the Iron Ore did last night.

The perspective of the recording is the ship that was abandoned before Chen Ming and the caravan clashed.

Old Wu waited for the video to finish playing, and said impatiently: "The news has spread on the forum since last night. A civilian mining ship directly smashed four ships head-on, and they were all armed ships."

"I also saw the Sentinel when I came here just now. Don't you have anything to say?"

"What?"

"Has your ship been stolen?"

Chen Ming actually thought of an excuse last night, but Old Wu suddenly asked a strange question that made him a little nervous.

He really wanted to say that if his ship was really stolen, how could the thief return the ship and give him half a glorious class.

However, Chen Ming soon realized that Old Wu might be giving himself a way out.

Because at some point, the factory director suddenly stood not far from Chen Ming. Although he did not come to disturb him, he could definitely hear the conversation between Chen Ming and Old Wu.

Although Chen Ming had won the trust of some factory directors and Old Wu before, trust is not blind faith.

If Chen Ming showed too many dangerous doubts, then trust would naturally collapse.

But this is a pirate space station, and pirate space stations don't care about finding out other people's secrets and origins, so the factory director Lao Wu and the others just need Chen Ming to give them a reasonable explanation.

Of course, it is also possible that Lao Wu's brain circuit is really like this, but the probability is a bit small to be honest.

So Chen Ming started to talk about the reason he had thought of last night: "In fact, there is still a captain on my ship."

He gave Xiao Shi the position of captain before going to bed, and he himself is the chief repairman of the Iron Ore.

"The captain drove the ship out when Yuhui came to attack yesterday."

"Then someone tried to steal Yuhui's ship, and it just started."

"In the end, it left a sentinel, and I went out with it last night and drove the two ships back."

After listening to Chen Ming's statement, Lao Wu was still a little skeptical.

He was a little unsure whether Chen Ming was talking nonsense,

but when he thought of the video that had been circulating on the forum, it was basically certain that the person driving the spaceship was definitely a professional, and the smoothness of the spaceship's driving was not an effect that an ordinary driver could achieve.

Although Chen Ming also said yesterday that his driving skills were good, he had been staying in the Administration and had no chance to drive the spacecraft directly.

Although remote spacecraft control on a cosmic scale can be achieved through superluminal communication technology, it can only be carried out next to the communication base station.

There is obviously no communication base station on the Pirate Space Station.

In addition, there are various interferences on the battlefield and electronic warfare between spacecrafts. It is very difficult to remotely control the spacecraft and fight.

It can be ruled out that Chen Ming is driving the spacecraft.

Then it can be confirmed that the weapons of the spacecraft are modified from the weapons of the mechanical family, which should be something Chen Ming made himself.

It seems that there is no problem for a maintenance technician to be equipped with a driver and captain.

However, Chen Ming's captain has not left the ship since the spacecraft landed, and only let Chen Ming come down to find a job and make money.

What kind of person can make a maintenance technician with such skills as Chen Ming willing to do such a thing?

Old Wu wanted to say what was in his heart, but he also knew what words were not suitable to say at what time, so he just reminded him: "Then you have to let your captain pay attention. It's not a good thing to be too conspicuous."

At this time, Chen Ming noticed from the corner of his eye that the factory director had gone to do his own thing, nodded and said: "I will tell him."

Before Old Wu finished speaking and was about to leave, Chen Ming suddenly grabbed him and said: "Old Wu, do you plan to collect the half of the Yuhui ship space station?"

Old Wu was not annoyed by Chen Ming's frequent questions, and explained seriously: "The Yuhui space station has always collected ships."

"After all, Yuhui is also developing. Even if the technology they use on their ships is different from ours because of the design ideas of the spacecraft, there are still many things we can learn from them."

"It's not a loss to collect them for research, and the number is never too much."

"In fact, Yuhui is also collecting human ships in various ways, and the same principle applies."

"The space station just finished fighting Yuhui, so the recycling price will definitely be lower. You can talk to the factory manager. He should be responsible for this matter, but..."

Old Wu suddenly lowered his voice and said, "You can talk to Old Wu. The price he offers will definitely be higher than that of the space station."

"The same goes for the Sentinel. The space station doesn't lack this kind of thing, so it will definitely not be sold."

"As for Old Wu... I really don't know if he will accept this thing. You can ask yourself when the time comes."

Chen Ming's mind flashed the lazy figure of the hardware store owner, and he responded; "Okay, but I remember the boss said he was collecting it for others. Doesn't it matter if he competes with the space station for business?"

"And I don't seem to see the space station's ship at the dock. Their ships Don't they need repairs?"

Old Wu answered without thinking: "Old Wu can definitely solve his own problems, you don't have to worry about it."

"As for those ships... the department responsible for fighting is a separate department, and they have their own docks to park their ships."

"And even if their ships are broken, they don't need to be repaired, because they are not actually under the management of the space station. All combat ships are sent down from above. When they are broken, they will be transported away together and a batch of new ones will be sent down."

Old Wu knew that what he said would make Chen Ming have questions to ask, so he explained directly: "So they are usually not equipped with maintenance technicians, or each of them has more or less simple maintenance skills, and they can just help out during a fight."

"Careless labor like cleaning the battlefield How can we let the combatants do this job? So this kind of job will have to fall on us in the end. "

Chen Ming digested what Lao Wu said, and seemed to suddenly find a business opportunity, and asked: "What about this batch of broken ships?"

"What are you thinking? It doesn't matter if you take some parts and equipment from those floating outside. Lao Lu will definitely turn a blind eye."

"But those ships that came back have been counted and there is a list. It's not so easy to get benefits from them."

Lao Wu suddenly lowered his voice and said: "Even if someone takes oil and water from it, it won't be our turn. It's almost enough to pick up the junk outside. Although it's a bit troublesome, at least we can make a lot of money."

Lao Wu warned himself so much, so Chen Ming naturally wouldn't say more.

"Okay, what about today's mission?"

Old Wu stepped forward and said, "Come on, the boat has been approved and just taken out of the warehouse. Old Lu just went over to start it up."

"This cleaning mission will probably take a few months. Once it's done, we won't have to go out every day."

"Just go back to the office. You may be asked to do some work like training new people. It shouldn't be too tiring for us."

Old Wu suddenly smiled and said, "If you sit in the office often, I can skip work and go to more places."

In the depths of the repair factory.

The factory director and the bald man have already put on their equipment and are waiting for Old Wu and Chen Ming next to the engineering ship.

However, after seeing the number of people present, Chen Ming couldn't help but ask, "Just the four of us?"

Old Wu explained to Chen Ming again, "Someone has to be on duty at the repair shop, so I left Xiao Wen behind. I originally thought that your skills would be more efficient if you go out to work, but if you want to stay to watch the door, that's fine."

"Forget it then."

"Okay, let's go, get on board."

The four of them walked onto the ship through the open hatch.

After getting on board, Chen Ming immediately took control of the ship.

With the experience of controlling half of a Glorious-class ship before, controlling this engineering ship, which was roughly between a destroyer and an escort, did not have much impact on Chen Ming.

He quickly adapted to it and confirmed the situation of the engineering ship.

This engineering ship is used internally by Xinda Company.

It has more complex and diverse functions than the ones he had driven before, and is more like a small, mobile repair shop.

But having said that, the new engineering ship only has a few more functions that a repair shop should have than the engineering ship thirty years ago.

Chen Ming spent ten minutes to fully understand the engineering ship.

So much so that what happened afterwards made the other three people on the ship feel very magical.

After the engineering ship set off, the four people should have divided the work and cooperated to complete the task of cleaning the battlefield.

But as they worked, the other people found that they had fewer and fewer tasks.

Almost all the tasks were solved by Chen Ming alone, and Chen Ming didn't even feel flustered, as if the projects they needed to work on were just things that Chen Ming could do easily.

Old Wu had no opinion on this at all, hiding in the corner of the engineering ship and fishing happily.

The factory director and the bald man basically stared at Chen Ming all the time.

They all mastered professional maintenance technology, and they all started learning from the most basic knowledge, completing the company's education and training step by step.

But when they saw Chen Ming working, they always felt that they and Chen Ming were not people who did the same job.

Even if they could do what Chen Ming was doing, and they could do it well, but to do it as smoothly as Chen Ming and consume such a short time, it really seemed that it was not something that ordinary people could do.

Not long after.

The factory director, who suddenly found that he had nothing to do, also took out the terminal, avoided Chen Ming's sight, and talked to Old Wu about Chen Ming's origins.

At present, they can be sure that Chen Ming is definitely a senior maintenance technician who has received elite education, and talent and hard work are indispensable.

So now they are discussing whether Chen Ming is from Xinda Company or from other companies.

A terminal inside Xinda Company alone cannot fully explain anything, so they can't discuss a result for a while.

Chen Ming didn't know what the factory director and Lao Wu were talking about.

But he knew one thing, that is, on the second day, there was another engineering ship in the maintenance plant, which was given to him to drive alone.

Without the interference of others, Chen Ming can even use the panel to assist driving and work directly, which makes it easier to complete the task.

He can even take time to consider how to use the core of Yuhui AI.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully in the past two days, and also checked a lot of information.

It was found that after so many years since the AI ​​consciousness awakened and launched a rebellion, it seems that it has indeed only seen Yuhui AI entering the human empire, and no AI has ever run out.

Although it may be due to good management, it may also be due to good news blockade.

But it is also possible that individuals of the Afterglow AI do not care where they work.

Chen Ming thought that he could try to trust the Gamma AI and not sell the Sentinel for the time being. He would repair it later and remove some dangerous functions and give it a try.

After get off work.

Chen Ming did not rush to repair the Sentinel, but went to see the boss and delivered the previous batch of tobacco and alcohol.

Talked about the recycling of the half of the Glorious class.

Chen Ming had already determined that there was nothing else of special value to him on the Glorious class after get off work the day before. It would save him from more trouble if he sold it as soon as possible.

The recycling price of the Glorious class was agreed, and the boss said that half of the ship could only be recycled at about 30% off.

But even at 30% off, it was much more profitable than dismantling it and selling the materials.

And generally speaking, the price of a destroyer is in the tens of millions, and the price of the Afterglow ship is definitely higher than other ships.

So in the end, the boss gave Chen Ming the payment directly like last time, a total of 45 million.

This amount of money made Chen Ming feel unreal again, and after confirming that he had received the money, his hands trembled slightly.

Fortunately, this time the boss directly sent two people to follow Chen Ming to the repair factory to confirm. After the acceptance, the money and goods were cleared, which made Chen Ming calm down a little.

Such a large amount of money is definitely enough for Chen Ming to buy a very advanced frigate.

Chen Ming was still struggling whether he should make a major change to the Iron Ore from the outside to the inside, or buy a new spacecraft.

Now there is no need to consider it.

He wants them all.

A backup option is always better than nothing.

It’s just that the current situation of the repair factory is not enough to support Chen Ming to make a major change to the Iron Ore, and it seems that there are no spacecrafts for sale here for the time being.

So in the end, things went around and around, and still returned to the transformation of the Sentinel class so that Chen Ming could understand the effect of Gamma AI.

However, after the deal with the boss, it was already late, so Chen Ming just made a rough plan for the transformation and lay down on the bed of the Iron Ore.

However, late that night.

Chen Ming was suddenly awakened by a piercing alarm while sleeping.

"The Afterglow Fleet is about to attack the space station, please take shelter."