Chapter 63 Resentment and Gain

It didn't take long for the Iron Ore to catch up with the Sentinel class that was sent away by the traction device.

Its engine was completely destroyed, and even with professional maintenance personnel and repair tools, it was impossible to repair the engine within a few hours.

Especially when the engine failed, the entire ship lost its life support system, and could only rely on the ship's protective clothing that could barely last for two or three hours for repair.

In fact, the only thing the people on the ship could do was to wait for death.

So Chen Ming simply limited its speed and let it stay where it was, and then continued to move forward and caught up with the half of the Yuhui destroyer.

Also relying on the traction equipment to gradually slow it down, turn the forward direction, and bring it back to the Sentinel class.

The next step is to use the mining laser to cut the Sentinel class's hull armor and expose the interior of the Sentinel class.

After cutting off a piece of the spacecraft armor, the first thing Chen Ming saw was the bodies of the crew.

Most of them wore ordinary temporary protective clothing, lost temperature and oxygen in just a few hours, and died in space.

The only person wearing a heavy protective suit that can maintain activities in a vacuum environment for a long time had a blood hole on his chest. He was not killed by the electromagnetic javelin, but by his own gun.

This is the best for Chen Ming. He just planned to leave the intact Sentinel-class, so he didn't have to bother to deal with the death of the people.

All he had to do was to let the Iron Ore continue to take his spoils to the hidden corners in space and hide them temporarily.

After all, it is unknown when the damaged dock of the space station will be reopened. Even if the things are transported back, there is no safe place to put them, and they have to spend energy to look after them.

So it is better to find a place in space first, and then bring them back after the space station can receive foreign spacecraft.

Just pay a little attention to the location of the hidden things, so that they cannot be discovered by other passing spacecraft.

After controlling the Iron Ore for a while, Chen Ming suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He immediately gave the Iron Ore, which had dragged the spoils to a safe place, an order to return home, and stood up and walked to the locked door of the workshop and asked, "Who?"

"From the Human Resources Department."

"Oh."

Hearing a familiar voice, Chen Ming immediately opened the door.

The person at the door was a man Chen Ming had just met in the Human Resources Department that morning.

He was a little surprised to see Chen Ming still wearing a protective suit in the Administration, but he immediately remembered what happened during the day and asked, "You just joined the company today, right?"

"Yes."

The person from the Human Resources Department poked his head into the studio and looked around, confirming that only Chen Ming was here, and waved to Chen Ming and said, "Come with me, your maintenance plant has a big job to do."

Chen Ming did not refuse, and followed and asked, "What big job?"

"Recovering the wreckage of the battle just now."

Chen Ming immediately became energetic. Recovering wreckage is definitely a good job. He might have a chance to get something he urgently needs.

However, Chen Ming certainly couldn't show it, so he continued to look like he had been hiding underground and asked, "Is it over?"

The person from the Administration nodded and said, "It's over. We won. Yu Hui will definitely not be able to come back in a short time, so the battlefield must be cleaned up as soon as possible."

"Does that use the space station's ship?"

"Yes, the Administration will approve an engineering ship for you. Also, do you know the location of your other colleagues? Contact them and discuss it with your factory director when the time comes."

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed casually, but he didn't have the contact information of anyone other than Lao Wu and the factory director. Chen Ming definitely didn't need to worry about the two of them, so he didn't move.

Seeing this, the person from the Administration didn't say anything and continued to take him to the 30th space arm of the space station, opposite to the 1st space arm.

This is the space station's spare dock, which is usually closed and will only be activated in an emergency.

At this time, there are already a few scattered ships docked on the dock that has just been activated.

In the repair shop at the same location, Chen Ming could see the factory director, Old Wu, and two other people there, starting up the spare repair shop equipment.

As soon as Chen Ming approached, he saw the factory director with a dark face, and Old Wu's face next to him was equally dark.

The bald repairman Chen Ming had seen before was smoking one cigarette after another.

And Old Wu's assistant, the repairman he called Xiao Wen, was standing beside them with a face full of fear and terror.

He was even more scared when he noticed Chen Ming coming over. In addition to fear, there seemed to be a flash of disgust in his eyes.

Chen Ming frowned slightly, somewhat confused about what was going on.

He immediately stepped forward quickly, greeted the factory director, Old Wu, and asked, "What happened?"

The factory director, who had been staring at the equipment, suddenly turned his head when he heard Chen Ming's voice, and his face improved a little, but only a little.

He sighed and said, "There are still six people alive in the repair plant, you, the four of us, and a deputy director."

Chen Ming frowned even more when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

The director explained, "Someone locked the door of the emergency passage of the repair plant. When Yu Hui's ship hit the space station, all the people who were still in the repair plant did not have time to escape, and were basically burned to death by the aftermath."

"All dead? But I remember that the door on the dock should not be closed, right?"

"The door to the core of the space arm is indeed not closed, but the door to the dock from the repair plant is closed."

Hearing this, Chen Ming immediately recalled the structure of the No. 1 space arm.

The No. 1 space arm is a dock as a whole, and there is a passage from the dock that leads directly to the interior of the space station.

And the location where this passage extends from both sides of the tail end of the No. 1 space arm is the repair plant. There is a door that has basically never been closed between the repair plant buildings on both sides and this passage.

I didn't expect it to close itself when an emergency occurs.

Chen Ming felt that it should be closed automatically to prevent someone from rushing into the repair shop to rob in an emergency.

Once the door was closed, the employees in the repair shop were naturally locked inside the repair shop.

Originally, they could leave through the emergency passage, but the factory director said that the door of the emergency passage was locked.

Then the question came.

"Who locked it?"

Faced with Chen Ming's question, the factory director's face became darker, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Deputy Factory Director."

Chen Ming couldn't figure it out now.

And he saw that the factory director had completely abandoned his previous dignified and serious temperament, and looked like he was going to eat someone, so he didn't dare to ask him any more.

He could only ask Old Wu next to him: "What does the deputy factory director mean by doing this?"

Old Wu's face was also not good when he mentioned it, and he cursed directly: "The deputy factory director is so coercive, he will find fault with every little problem, and he will do disgusting things by relying on his power."

"It is mandatory to arrive at work early every day, work overtime, and he will be caught if he takes a break when he has no work to do, and then he will deduct money, and he will find ways to disgust people."

"The factory director usually opens the door of the emergency passage on purpose, just so that everyone can take off their equipment and leave work earlier. He locked it as soon as he came back."

Chen Ming understood it all at once and said: "I guess he ran away when Yuhui attacked, and didn't come to open the door or notify."

Old Wu didn't say anything and tacitly agreed with Chen Ming's statement.

However, judging from the factory director's current performance and the stupid operation of the deputy factory director to lock the door of the emergency passage, the deputy factory director is likely to be parachuted in from above.

Those who died in the maintenance plant should have died in vain.

Chen Ming was not familiar with the other people in the repair factory, and he had nothing to comfort them. Standing here was a waste of time. He could only say, "Then I was called back by the HR department just now, and they told me to contact other repair factories for tasks to be done."

"There should be no need to contact people, but now we only have a few people left, what should we do with the tasks?"

The factory director adjusted his mood at this time, and said to the few people who were left in the repair factory who were able to work, "Yuhui was almost wiped out this time, and he should not come in a short time. We will slowly complete the tasks."

"Originally, even if we had all the people, we could only drive two engineering ships out. Now we drive one, and the efficiency will be slower. The higher-ups will not say anything if they know the situation."

Chen Ming suddenly realized that this seemed to be his opportunity, and took the initiative to say, "How about I drive one alone?"

The factory director looked at Chen Ming with some surprise and asked, "Can you? The scale of the engineering ship is close to that of a destroyer. At least three or four experienced people are needed to barely drive it. You alone?"

Chen Ming had driven Xinda Company's engineering ships before.

And if the factory manager was talking about the "experienced" people who originally worked on the space station, then Chen Ming could indeed operate a ship by himself, and he was not afraid of professional matters at all.

So Chen Ming decisively answered: "Yes, I can."

The factory manager thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, we can only start the equipment at the dock today, and we can officially start processing tomorrow."

"Tomorrow you will follow the ship to get familiar with the work, and then see the situation."

The factory manager did not explicitly refuse, so Chen Ming would naturally not take the initiative to bring it up again to annoy others.

Anyway, he has the skills, and the factory manager does not seem to be a petty person, so sooner or later his skills will have a chance to show off.

"Xiao Mu, go put on your equipment first. Today we will just start the equipment and officially start tomorrow."

Looking at Chen Ming's back as he walked into the factory, the factory director said to the people around him: "Xiao Mu has the best skills. When the time comes, leave one of us on duty at the dock, and the rest will go out to work."

Seeing that Xiao Wen seemed a little reluctant, the factory director suddenly said in a low voice: "Tian Jiwen."

He warned with a serious expression: "Don't say anything bad at this time."

Tian Jiwen, that is, Xiao Wen, opened his mouth, but couldn't help saying: "But Yu Hui came after he came. If he is not the disaster star, who is it?"

"Everyone is dead, how can he, a newcomer, live well?"

Tian Jiwen unconsciously became excited when he spoke, and his expression was a little ferocious.

The bald maintenance technician threw the cigarette butt on his shoes and said, "I'm still alive."

"And Lao Wu is still alive, the factory director is still alive, and you are still alive. Only the four of us have had close contact with him, and we are the only ones who survived. Why don't you say he is a lucky star?"

"I..."

Tian Jiwen choked for a moment, but the people present could see that his thoughts had not changed at all.

His current situation is due to the psychological trauma caused by the drastic change in the environment around him, and then he vented his anger to Chen Ming, who he was least familiar with. Just find a psychologist to see him later.

Knowing that there was no point in explaining to him, Lao Wu just shook his head and said, "I still have a job now."

After leaving such a sentence, Lao Wu no longer cared about him, turned around and continued to follow the factory director to start the equipment in the maintenance plant.

But Tian Jiwen looked at Chen Ming's back, and the disgust in his eyes was obviously more intense.

Chen Ming spent the rest of the day helping to start maintenance and overhaul various equipment in the repair shop.

After get off work in the evening, Chen Ming found a place to have dinner, and then came to the No. 30 space arm.

The Iron Ore had just returned, and with Chen Ming's identity, it successfully parked in the No. 30 space arm dock, which had not yet been opened to the public.

After Chen Ming made sure that the bald man on duty tonight did not notice him, he walked onto the Iron Ore and disappeared into the starry sky.

The Iron Ore soon carried Chen Ming to the location where he had hidden the spacecraft before.

The Sentinel and half of the Afterglow destroyer were floating quietly in space.

Chen Ming can now finally start to sort out the gains he made by letting the Iron Ore go out at risk this time.

With the idea of ​​saving the good things for the last, Chen Ming decided to move the Sentinel first.

He wore the heavy protective clothing he bought when purchasing supplies before and entered the cabin of the Sentinel.

All the stiff bodies were thrown into space.

Then Chen Ming controlled the Sentinel directly through the panel, just like he did in the dock before.

The panel of this Sentinel was similar to the one in the dock that needed repair.

It just had more weapons and several important equipment were damaged.

But for Chen Ming, the most important hyperspace channel system installed near the engine was fortunately not damaged, which was enough.

In order to prevent more trouble, Chen Ming directly removed the Sentinel's hyperspace channel system through the panel and installed it on the Iron Ore.

The installed hyperspace channel system did not even need to be debugged, and it was directly compatible with the Iron Ore.

Chen Ming tried to start it and there was no problem, which was no different from buying a new one.

This saved Chen Ming at least about one million imperial coins, a quarter of his current assets.

After doing this, Chen Ming then went through the panels of several cabins of the Sentinel.

He could use the panel to confirm whether there were any valuable items in the cabin, but it was a pity that the people on this ship were all poor, and there was nothing valuable.

At most, a few terminals might be worth a little money.

Fortunately, Chen Ming was targeting the spacecraft itself at the beginning. The spacecraft itself is valuable enough, so it doesn't matter how much other things he takes.

Moreover, Chen Ming found some missile weapons of different models in the missile auxiliary operation cabin, including a Death torpedo that has not been used.

Although it cannot be launched without a spacecraft with a missile mounting point, it can still be done if it is just activated.

High-powered consumables are a good choice for Chen Ming, whether as a trump card or a last resort.

After all, Chen Ming can't guarantee that he will not roll over in this life, so it's always right to prepare something of this type.

After finding the Death torpedo, Chen Ming repeatedly confirmed that even if the valuable things on the Sentinel have been sorted out.

He cast his eyes to the side of the Sentinel.

Next is the highlight.

Yuhui's destroyer.