Chapter 57: Attempting to Reach Afterglow Beacon

What Old Wu said made the factory director hesitate suddenly, and asked: "Who is he?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know?"

"I really don't know, he's a new guy, I guess he has done something wrong and is hiding here."

"I don't know anything. I just helped him get an identity from Old Wu yesterday. His name is Mu Shuikong."

"Old Wu is also very interested in this new guy. It's obvious that his old problem has come back."

The factory director saw that Old Wu was about to change the subject and interrupted him: "Don't worry about other people's interests and hobbies. Just help me find a way to investigate him to prevent him from being a spy."

Old Wu looked indifferent He said, "Why are you worried about us? Spies are spies. What can they steal from you?"

"With such good technology, he came to our remote place to find work. Do you believe it if I say it's okay?"

"It's really unnecessary. There are a few people who can come to our pirate space station, so there will be no problem?"

"I'll pay."

"Say it earlier."

Old Wu's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and his face was full of enthusiasm for work and he said, "How do you want me to investigate him?"

"Just confirm his purpose of coming to the space station. As long as it doesn't affect us, his identity and origin are not important."

"I don't plan to let him do it either." Whatever job you do, just help me teach people. If he can share 10% of his skills with the useless people under me, I won't have to wear this clothes every day. "

Old Wu looked at the factory director in his work clothes and smiled, and said, "Don't you think about where this place is? Who with skills is willing to come here to suffer?"

The factory director tutted his tongue in dissatisfaction, looked at Old Wu's face and said, "I think your skills are not bad. If you are willing to work harder and help me teach people, I don't have to rush to keep you now."

"Hehe, I don't have that much energy to spend on this kind of thing, you should trouble the young people to do it."

"In fact, if you ask me, don't wait for me to find out what Xiao Mu does. Why not just trust Lao Wu? Isn't his eyesight always good? "

"Since he is interested in Xiao Mu, just invite him over first."

The factory manager was not angry because of Lao Wu's words. Instead, he seriously considered his suggestion and said, "What you said makes sense. What if I let you test him and he gets upset and runs away? It will be hard to find another person with such skills."

Lao Wu followed the factory manager's words and said, "Yes, yes, by the way, aren't you going to ask me to work today? Just go to him directly."

The factory manager turned his head and glared at Lao Wu when he heard this, and his arms were instantly around his neck.

"Don't think about it, you can't escape."

"The task assigned by the superiors really can't be done by a newcomer."

"Anyway, I'll go and keep the person here first. You can help me check it later. I'll reimburse you for the money you spent."

Old Wu struggled twice and found that he couldn't get away. He put his arm on the factory director's shoulder and said, "Since you said so, I must help you figure it out, right?"

"Be careful, don't go too far."

"Don't worry."

After the two discussed, they let go of each other and walked off the spacecraft.

The factory director soon came to Chen Ming again, and asked with a very serious expression: "Mu Shuikong?"

Chen Ming nodded and replied: "Yes."

"You performed very well. I think our maintenance plant needs people like you. Are you interested in staying?"

Chen Ming was not surprised by the factory director's invitation. As long as he agreed, he would get the job in the maintenance plant.

But a question suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind. Since there is a job, he has to sign a contract.

But for a repair shop of a pirate space station that walks on the edge of the law or even outside the law, does a contract that emphasizes legal validity really make sense?

Chen Ming glanced at Old Wu, who was whistling beside the factory manager, and saw that he showed a bright smile like when he cheated him out of 3,000 yuan before, and gave himself a thumbs up.

Chen Ming restrained the idea of ​​punching him in the face, and planned to trust Old Wu first, and then run away if there was really a problem.

After pretending to think for a moment, Chen Ming replied: "I am very interested in this."

After receiving Chen Ming's affirmative answer, the factory manager's mouth corners could not help but rise.

Although Chen Ming's identity is currently unknown, at least his skills are there, and the two people he knows are optimistic about him, so the probability of a car overturning is not too high.

The factory manager restrained his expression for a moment and continued to say to Chen Ming: "The maintenance plant is not here today, so you have to come back tomorrow. I'll pay you today's salary first."

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed casually, but immediately remembered that when he was chatting with the bald man just now, he seemed to have said that this kind of maintenance work was paid weekly.

After all, the balance will not be paid until the owner of the spacecraft, that is, the pirates, have inspected and accepted it.

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the bald man who was eavesdropping on the conversation, and found that his expression was also very surprised.

However, the surprised expression on the bald man's face soon disappeared, because when he thought about Chen Ming's technology, he felt that everything made sense.

This performance made Chen Ming even more confused, but since others wanted to pay, he couldn't refuse.

Chen Ming took out the terminal, called up the payment interface, and showed it to the factory manager.

The factory manager quickly transferred the labor costs for repairing six spacecraft, totaling 200,000.

More than Chen Ming originally estimated.

Generally speaking, repairing a spacecraft, only counting labor costs, not including replacement parts, is about 100,000.

The maintenance plant takes half, and then the maintenance technicians usually work together to repair a spacecraft, and the money each person can get is more than 20,000.

Chen Ming's original 15% should be 15,000 for one ship, and 90,000 for six ships.

Now it seems that the factory manager has already understood the specific situation of the maintenance task just now, so he directly gave Chen Ming 30%, and rounded it up, and finally it was 200,000.

Chen Ming estimated that the repair factory would not have many opportunities to repair so many ships at one time, so the two hundred thousand was not bad.

After confirming that the money had been received, Chen Ming nodded to the factory director and prepared to leave.

But before leaving, Chen Ming did not forget why he came to the repair factory today.

Chen Ming bypassed the factory director and said to Lao Wu; "Lao Wu, I have something to ask you, are you free now?"

Lao Wu's hand seemed to have nowhere to put, and suddenly put it on the factory director's shoulder again

"Hey, not for the time being, Lao Lu asked me to do something, I must be free after get off work."

"Okay, then I'll find you later."

Lao Wu waved his hand and walked deeper into the repair factory with Director Lu.

Chen Ming watched the backs of the two people gradually disappear, but there was nothing to regret.

It was just right that he could take this opportunity to confirm whether his ability could be used on other people's spaceships.

And just at that moment, Chen Ming had almost chosen the spaceship he was going to control.

The most suitable one is the Sentinel-class ship he repaired at the beginning.

The Sentinel-class ship with strong maneuverability is very suitable for the role of vanguard or reconnaissance.

The ship that undertakes such a task is likely to leave the fleet alone and only maintain communication.

Chen Ming can monitor the Sentinel-class as long as it leaves the main force.

Then he can forcibly control the Sentinel-class to run to a place where no one knows before others react.

Turn off the life support and engine, and wait for the pirates on it to die due to lack of oxygen or freezing, and the spacecraft will completely belong to him.

At that time, Chen Ming will directly drive the ship back to the space station before the pirates react.

Dismantle what you need outside the space station, and sell the remaining spacecraft directly to the repair factory.

There is no evidence, why should the pirates compete with the repair factory for meat?

Chen Ming quickly put on the equipment he had used when repairing the spacecraft before.

It happened that everyone else went to eat at this time, and no one would stop Chen Ming.

Even if someone saw his actions on the surveillance, he had a lot of reasons to explain.

Chen Ming came to the Sentinel again and reached out to press on its hatch.

[New spaceship signal detected, do you want to change the brain control signal connection]

[Current number of connected spaceships: 1/1]

"Change."

As the choice was made, Chen Ming could clearly feel that he was losing control of the Iron Ore.

And the Sentinel in front of him was gradually becoming his extended limbs, just like the Iron Ore before. .

And changing the spaceship did not consume too much mental power.

Soon, the new spaceship panel appeared in front of Chen Ming.

[Ship panel]

[Ship name: Sentinel]

[Type: Sentinel-class civilian frigate]

[Fuel reserve: 10%]

[Port side weapons: None, None]

[Small missile mounting point: None]

[Armor: Reinforced titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Civilian frigate-class engine]

[Internal compartments: Captain's compartment, engine compartment, missile auxiliary operation compartment, living compartment, storage compartment]

[Important equipment: Bridge control system module (operating), position traction module (operating), life support system module (operating), missile auxiliary module (operating), imitation gravity module (operating), landing module (operating), hyperspace channel system module (operating)]

The Sentinel-class panel is somewhat different from that of the Iron Ore.

The most obvious difference is in the weapons.

The asymmetric design of the Sentinel-class and the Cerberus-class makes it have no ordinary weapons on the starboard side, and there is only a missile mounting point fixed to the right front of the spacecraft.

It looks strange, but the fact that this design has been preserved means that it must have its merits.

At least the missile attachment point allows the Sentinel-class to choose more tactical options.

However, these are not important to Chen Ming, because the real important thing is that he can now control the Sentinel-class ship just like he controls the Iron Ore.

At this time, from the perspective of the maintenance plant's monitoring, Chen Ming's hand can be seen pressing on the hatch, and the hatch opens with a slight movement of his hand.

But in fact, the operation of opening the hatch is carried out by Chen Ming's consciousness to control the spacecraft.

Chen Ming's control over the Sentinel-class is no different from his control over the Iron Ore.

This means that all his previous ideas are possible.

At this point, Chen Ming's face finally showed a little satisfaction.

What he has to do next is very simple, just wait.

Wait for the pirates to drive the ship out again, and the rest of the things will be completed as if it is a matter of course.

Now, it's almost time to go to lunch.

Just when Chen Ming left the maintenance plant.

The factory director and Lao Wu just came to the deepest part of the maintenance plant, a maintenance area that is smaller than the outside.

In the zero-gravity area here, the wreckage of a ship is floating.

If Chen Ming were here, he would definitely be able to see that the wreckage was the ship that crashed into the dock yesterday.

After all, the repair shop was run by the space station, so the task of investigating the damaged spacecraft naturally fell on the repair shop.

The factory director quickly put on his equipment next to the spacecraft.

But Old Wu was dawdling beside him at this time, and he couldn't put on a simple set of auxiliary mobile equipment for a long time.

The factory director knew what Old Wu was thinking when he saw his expression, and sighed and said, "If you do the work for me honestly, I will count your full attendance this month."

Old Wu didn't say anything, but suddenly yawned, and the half-put-on equipment slipped off again.

The factory director could only continue to say, "There will be a bonus after the work is done."

"Why didn't you say it earlier."

Old Wu suddenly became nimble and put on his equipment immediately.

He walked into the zero-gravity area and started working with the help of the factory director.

They needed to sort out and confirm the cause of the spacecraft crash.

The quickest way is naturally to extract the black box and the records in the recording devices that have not been completely damaged.

This task was not too difficult for Lao Wu.

He cooperated with the factory director who was operating the external heavy maintenance machinery and quickly removed the wreckage of the spacecraft piece by piece, cleaned and disassembled it. It didn't take long for the black box to be found.

However, neither of them was in a hurry to see the contents of the black box, but continued to disassemble the wreckage.

They planned to clean up all the wreckage, gather all the valuable things, integrate them together, and quickly and accurately confirm the cause of the accident of the spacecraft.

The wreckage disassembly work soon reached the final stage.

At this time, the factory director suddenly found that there seemed to be something flashing in the last piece of wreckage, which was probably the engine part of the spacecraft.

The factory director immediately reminded Lao Wu who was working in the zero-gravity area: "Lao Wu, look at your right hand."

Lao Wu looked in the direction the factory director said and found a needle-like object as thick as Lao Wu's little finger that had pierced into the interior of the spacecraft.

There was a signal light at the end of the needle, which was constantly flashing a light blue light.

The explosion of the spacecraft did not leave any traces on it, and it looked very solid.

The factory manager came directly to the edge of the zero-gravity zone at this time, looked at the needle-like object in Lao Wu's hand and asked: "What is this?"

Lao Wu said uncertainly; "This looks like something from Yu Hui, it should not be a weapon."

He picked up a tool, stuck it next to the object and scanned it, and continued: "Its internal structure is very simple, there is nothing dangerous, wait, this thing..."

Lao Wu paused and continued: "This seems to be a locator, they may be going to attack the space station."

When the factory manager heard what Lao Wu said, his brows squeezed together, and he asked in confusion: "What is it? What's the reason? Is there any benefit for Yu Hui to attack the space station?"

"I'm not Yu Hui, how do I know."

"You can't think that Yu Hui determined the location of the space station to avoid the space station? Or do you think they just want to confirm it and do nothing? Is it possible?"

"Since Yu Hui and the others did this, they must have ideas about the space station."

As Lao Wu said, he left the zero-gravity zone directly, stood on the ground of the space station, and took off his equipment.

"Anyway, let's take a look at the black box first."

The factory director did not object, and together with Old Wu, he used a bunch of recording equipment that had not been completely damaged and the intact black box to restore the situation that the spacecraft had encountered before.

This spacecraft had a companion spacecraft before, and they jumped out of the hyperspace channel together to the edge of the galaxy where the space station was located.

When they just came out of the channel, they were attacked by a small afterglow fleet that had been lurking for a long time.

The other ship was destroyed on the spot, but this one was weirdly lucky.

Although all the attacks of the Yuhui ships hit the real place, they avoided the fatal position that could cause the spacecraft to sink directly.

And it seems that out of vigilance against the armed forces of the space station inside the galaxy, this small Yuhui fleet only operated at the edge of the galaxy, and did not go deep into the galaxy to chase the spacecraft, allowing it to successfully escape back to the space station.

Now it seems that Yuhui obviously let it go on purpose.

First leave a beacon on the ship, and then put the ship back to lock the location of the space station.

Yuhui must have expected that the beacon would be discovered, but they still did it.

In other words, there is a great possibility that Yuhui's assault force is already on the way.