Chapter 73 Guests of the Space Station and Distribution of Benefits

A few days after Chen Ming returned to the space station.

The military returned to the RM-2 star system with a reorganized fleet.

In addition to the ships that ensure combat capability, there are also a large number of engineering ships and transport ships full of cargo in the fleet.

Relying on a large investment in manpower and materials, the military took less than a week to repair the outpost that was half-bombed by the afterglow.

After the outpost was repaired, the military's high-intensity sensors swept the entire galaxy.

Soon, an expedited report was passed from the grassroots level of the military to the top layer by layer.

It was finally delivered to the person in charge of the outpost, the captain of the Ruler-class ship.

When the report was delivered, the captain's deputy, who was responsible for conveying the captain's instructions and handing over the report after sorting it out, saw the captain's gloomy face that he had never had in many years.

Two more days passed.

Abandoned mining space station in the RM-2 star system.

A small transport ship suddenly appeared near it.

The five people in the cabin were all wearing professional weapons and equipment. This was a special mission combat team.

The captain leaning against the hatch suddenly knocked on the spacecraft cabin beside him, attracting the attention of the team members, and said: "Confirm the mission one last time."

"We need to enter the abandoned mining space station numbered DG-C-9527 to investigate the cause of the disappearance of the equally abandoned civilian mining ship "Iron Ore" in the space station."

"Are there any questions?"

"No."

"No."

After receiving scattered responses from the team members, the captain's voice sounded again: "Let's go."

The small transport ship gradually approached the dock of the space station.

However, before the appearance of the space station could be seen with the naked eye, a team member suddenly said: "To be honest, this should have happened thirty years ago, right? Why is there a problem only now?"

The captain recalled the mission documents he had read many times and said: "I heard that the person in charge of the detector blocked all the recorded spacecraft signals in order to save trouble and not have to go through the list of spacecraft in the galaxy every day."

"The sensor will only scan new ships, and the effect is similar, but the ships that have been recorded will not be monitored at all."

"Now that the outpost has been rebuilt, the sensor will be re-scanned, and then the problem will be found."

"There is one less ship on the space station, and there are some signs of human damage."

The team member asked in surprise: "If the foreign ships have been monitoring it all the time, does that mean someone has lived on that abandoned space station for thirty years?"

The captain shook his head casually and said: "Not necessarily thirty years. I remember that the person in charge of the detector at the outpost seems to be replaced every five years, and a new person will be replaced next year. It is very likely that the ship was gone a few years ago, but it was only discovered now."

"In any case, don't worry about it for now For a few years, we are not sure whether it is the dry in the space station now, or it is said that some people have sneaked into the galaxy. "" If it is an insider, this person used to be frozen in the freezing warehouse, so after we went up, we had to go to the living area with dormant warehouses. " The players saw the space station gradually becoming outside the porthole, saying, "Because it is relatively open here, you can find it as soon as possible." "And the task record was not written? At the time, the space station was destroyed by a group of bugs hiding inside the stars." The ground asked: "What bug can destroy a space station?" "A bug of the same size as humans." "That's not so, the crust can still block bullets." Under the control of the driver, the transport ship gradually approached the dock of the space station.

After swimming around the dock for a few times and finding no emergencies, the transport ship stopped steadily at the dock.

The hatch of the spacecraft opened, and several team members filed down, carefully on guard.

Although the dock of the space station was dilapidated and stained in many places, it did not seem to be dangerous.

Just now, the spacecraft approached with such a big noise, but no bugs or other things came over, so the dock should be safe.

After confirming that there was nothing dangerous on the dock side, the captain displayed a map of the space station on the inside of his protective suit helmet.

After slightly confirming the direction, he said to the team members: "Let's go in."

The team members quickly maintained a formation that could respond to various emergencies at any time, quietly and quickly passed through the dock, and came to the office area.

Just when they entered the junction of the dock and the office area, a team member suddenly said in the communication channel: "What is this?"

The others immediately approached the talking team member and saw a smooth hole on the wall of the office area.

On the wall of the other office area opposite this wall, there was another identical hole.

And deeper in the space station, there were more such holes.

"This is a bit like a weapon of the mechanical family."

The captain moved a little closer so that the recorder on the helmet could clearly capture the specific appearance of the bullet hole.

The specific analysis of the bullet hole needs to be handed over to professionals, who are only responsible for recording.

The team did not stay at the edge of the office area for too long. Soon, under the guidance of the map, they found the mining space station management office safely all the way.

There was no sign of chaos in the office, only a skeleton lying on the desk.

The computer in front of the skeleton was not damaged.

A team member immediately stepped forward, removed the computer's storage device, and began to read the data in it using the small terminal he carried with him.

After operating for a while, the team member looked up and said to the captain: "Captain, the list of long-term dormant personnel in the space station you asked for is here, a total of ten people."

"In addition, I have also retrieved the overall list of personnel in the space station and will send it to you immediately."

The captain gave him a thumbs up, and after the list of personnel was sent, he wrote down the names and appearances of the ten people.

After confirming that there were no other valuable things in the office, they came to the monitoring room, which was also in the office area.

However, the monitoring room was quite chaotic.

Not only was there dried dirt everywhere, but even all the equipment was destroyed.

The team member in charge of managing electronic equipment checked it and finally only got a recording device that was barely not completely destroyed, which needed to be repaired before it could be read.

However, several people in the team knew that the possibility of recording valuable information in this device was close to zero.

The two valuable locations in the office area were searched.

The captain continued to look at the map and said to the team members: "Let's go to the living area next, the frozen dormant chamber is over there."

The team members followed the captain one by one, passed through the office area, and entered the public area in the center of the space station.

At this point, their nerves, which had been a little relaxed, suddenly tensed up.

Because in the corners of the public area and in the passages leading to the lower levels, there were many growths covering them.

However, they soon noticed that these growths had lost their activity at this time, and there were no signs of activity.

And there seemed to be many giant egg-shaped objects between the growths.

But now they have all disappeared.

After confirming that the surrounding environment was safe, a team member stepped forward to obtain some samples of the growths. When observing the samples carefully, some couldn't help but say: "Are these things left by the bugs?"

The talkative team member also came to the side of the samples and took a few glances and said: "It should be. The source of the insect outbreak in the space station is probably below."

The captain interrupted at this time: "Don't worry about these things. Our mission is to find out where the missing spacecraft went."

The two of them returned to the team very quickly, but they didn't stop talking.

"Actually, I'm curious about where the bugs have gone?"

"It's been 30 years, so they should be dead."

"How could a bug that can survive on an asteroid die for no reason?"

"Anything can happen in space."

"That's right."

The two of them quickly ended the topic and continued to follow the captain through the public area to the living area, which was also covered with a large number of dried-up organisms.

The density of the organisms here is less than that in the public area, and a little attention will not affect movement at all.

The team quickly followed the map and found three cryostasis chambers that were close to each other.

They started searching from the cryostasis chamber closest to the public area.

However, the first two cryostasis chambers only had equipment that was completely destroyed.

Until they entered the third cryostasis chamber.

As soon as they entered, the team saw the skeletons of the white coats on the ground, and the bodies of the bugs that died with them.

"It should be Doctor Ding He, who is responsible for the daily monitoring of the cryostasis personnel in the space station."

The captain finished speaking and waved his hand to signal others to start searching.

Soon, everyone gathered around a cryostasis chamber.

Because this cryostasis chamber had obvious signs of being opened recently.

And next to the cryostasis chamber was a simple personal information printed.

A team member read out the information: "Maintenance engineer, number 519, Chen Ming."

"Is it him?"

The team member in charge of electronic equipment was connecting his terminal to the hibernation chamber at this time. After a simple operation, he said: "It is likely that the human body parameter configuration of the frozen hibernation chamber matches the configuration in his system records, and I also found a record that this hibernation chamber was activated half a year ago."

"Who activated it?"

"No one, it should be that the space station lost power once, causing the hibernation chamber to restart, so the person was released. Didn't we see it when we scanned it before? The fuel of the space station is empty."

"That's him."

The captain set the tone directly.

"The question now is, how did he survive and then escape in that shabby civilian ship?"

"Who knows, anyway, it's OK as long as we know who it is."

"Why do you think the director is looking for this Chen Ming?"

"I guess it's to protect a person who has lived in the mouth of insects for thirty years, as a representative of our human beings' indomitable will to survive."

"Are you kidding?"

The captain interrupted the two bickering team members and said, "Stop talking nonsense, it's time to go, our mission is not over yet, we have to find this Chen Ming."

"Ah? This person may have died in a corner a long time ago, how can we find him?"

The captain seemed to be completely unconcerned about this aspect of the problem: "It doesn't matter whether we can find him or not, what matters is that we have found him."

"The universe is so big, where should we start?"

"The nearest one."

The mining space station welcomed the first batch of guests after being abandoned for thirty years.

At the same time, Chen Ming was carrying a machine gun that could be installed on a small load-bearing point, standing on the horizontal elevator that can be seen everywhere in the space station, heading towards the space station administration.

A few days after he returned to the space station, he had already taken the time to test the matters that needed to be paid attention to in the actual operation of the batch refurbishment of weapons.

It happened that it was his turn to be on duty at the maintenance plant today, and he did not need to go out for field work.

So Chen Ming directly handed the task of guarding the gate of the maintenance plant to a newcomer who stayed with him.

He skipped his shift, pushed a cart, and ran to the building of the administration with a brand new machine gun, ready to find the factory director.

If Chen Ming had not reported in advance that the workshop under the administration building needed to be tested with a machine gun, and the machine gun only had a bare barrel and no ammunition.

The security would definitely stop Chen Ming.

But at least he successfully brought the things in.

To the outside of the factory director's office.

Chen Ming knocked on the door of the office and walked in after getting a response.

The factory director who was sitting behind the desk looked up and found Chen Ming and said with some surprise: "It's Xiao Mu, what's the matter that you suddenly come to me?"

Chen Ming didn't waste words, and pulled the cart into the office and said: "Director, take a look at this."

The factory director stared at the machine gun with more surprise and asked: "What is this? The new weapon you bought? What's wrong?"

"This is one of the second-hand weapons you approved for me before."

The factory director stood up directly, walked to Chen Ming and carefully observed the machine gun.

As he looked at it, he couldn't help but half-squat on the ground, stretched out his hand to touch it, and said while carefully confirming: "Is this really second-hand? It's not so new, right?"

"Wait a minute, oh... I remember, you told Lao Wu before that you have the idea of ​​refurbishing the weapon, right?"

As the factory director said, he saw the hidden corner of the weapon, where the factory number of the weapon was recorded.

He just happened to have some impression of this number, which can prove that this weapon is indeed a second-hand recycled weapon that he approved directly to Chen Ming before.

The factory manager suddenly laughed helplessly and said, "Old Wu and I didn't understand what you wanted to do before, but in the end it was because we didn't have the skills."

"So you came to me with this, wanting to cooperate with the repair factory and make money by passing off old goods as new?"

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Yes, because I know that even if I have the skills, I can't do this kind of thing alone, so I first found a way to join the repair factory, and then tell you this."

"Otherwise I won't even see you, let alone other things."

The factory manager suddenly stood up.

He has confirmed that with his technical level, he can't see any difference between the weapons repaired by Chen Ming and the new weapons that have just left the factory.

And since Chen Ming is confident in doing this, there is a high probability that there will be no problem in cheating other people.

"So you were planning to make money this way from the beginning?"

"Yes, but there was an accident in the middle."

"Your accident was that you drove a civilian mining ship to blow up four merchant ships, and then brought back half of Yuhui's destroyer, which made you a fortune, right?"

"Almost, but it was my captain who did it."

When the factory manager heard Chen Ming's words, he suddenly remembered what he had talked about with the hardware store owner Lao Wu a few days ago, and echoed: "Oh, yes, it was your captain."

"But it doesn't make much difference. You must have made money anyway. But since you have made money, do you still need to stay here?"

Chen Ming knew what the factory manager meant, and said in a matter-of-fact tone: "You can never have too much money. I have already paved the way here. If you don't use it, it will be a loss."

The factory manager looked Chen Ming up and down and accepted his reason: "Yes, then let's talk about business."

"What is the cost of refurbishing this thing?"

"My labor cost, plus the most basic materials required for maintenance, that's it."

"What's the difference between this and no cost?"

Chen Ming shrugged and did not answer the factory manager's question.

And the factory manager knew very well that Chen Ming would not tell such a lie that would make him lose money.

So after a brief thought, he said: "In this case, all your previous tasks are cancelled. You don't need to do tasks such as cleaning the battlefield and bringing in new people."

"You only need to receive the recovered weapons every day and refurbish them of this quality. You can use the equipment in the repair shop at will."

Chen Ming interrupted and said: "I don't need to use the equipment in the repair shop. I have my studio on my ship and I can work on the ship."

"Is that so? Then how efficient are you with your own equipment?"

"For the ones I brought here, I can refurbish fifty a day."

"How many?!"

"Fifty."

This is not the upper limit of the weapon repair speed, nor is it the upper limit of Chen Ming's mental power, but the upper limit that Chen Ming is worried that people will not believe if he says too much.

The factory director simply calculated in his mind at this time.

The value of an ordinary civilian small ship weapon ranges from 50,000 to 200,000.

If it is a military weapon, the price can be three to four times more expensive.

And the recycling price is completely negligible compared to the normal selling price of new weapons.

If Chen Ming buys weapons and renovates them, the profit he can get is almost equal to the value of a weapon itself.

Assuming that the average value of weapons sold by the repair shop is 200,000 yuan a day, and 50 weapons can be sold a day.

Then the net profit is close to 10 million yuan a day.

In fact, it may even be more than that.

The pirate space station has high mobility, and the edge star field is very dangerous, so spaceships and weapons are in rigid demand.

The amount of weapons sold every day will only increase, not decrease.

And he doesn't need to let Chen Ming refurbish small and worthless weapons.

Refurbishing military weapons and medium-sized weapons is definitely a better choice.

Although these two are sold more slowly, the profit is definitely higher than those low-level weapons.

You should know that when the repair shop is doing the best business, the daily income is generally around 40 to 50 million yuan, and when it is the quietest, it is about a few million.

Chen Ming alone can be worth half of the repair shop, which is really a bit exaggerated.

After all, if you buy weapons from suppliers and sell them, you can only make a profit of more than 10% of the selling price for a weapon.

How can it be like Chen Ming's refurbished weapons, earning more than 90% of the selling price in profit?

The actual profit rate is ten times.

The factory manager calmed down his slightly excited emotions and said: "Then, how about a 50-50 split in the end?"

Chen Ming thought about it for a while.

What the space station has to do is to provide sales channels and recycling sources for second-hand weapons, and use their relationships to obtain the factory codes of weapons.

These are things that Chen Ming can never do, and 50% is almost enough.

So he directly agreed: "No problem, do you need to sign a contract?"

"No, just treat it as your usual work task. When the time comes, I will list the weapons you refurbish, and you can see the destination and selling price."

"You are in this field, you must know the price of weapons, and your share will definitely not be less."

It's about the refurbishment of weapons.

Chen Ming did not leave in a hurry, but continued to say to the factory director: "There is one more thing, factory director, I want to make a fake identification code for a few spaceships."

"This is easy, you go to Lao Wu, he will help you get it done."

Chen Ming did not move, and said hesitantly; "It's a bit troublesome for me to make a spaceship with a fake identification code, there is Yuhui's ship inside."

"Yuhui ship?"

The factory director thought about it and said: "It's not impossible. Some people in other places have also made things in this regard for collection."

"I will contact them for you later. It may take some time to get it, and the money spent will definitely be different from other ships."

"I understand this, I am not short of money for the time being."

The factory director nodded slightly, and suddenly asked curiously: "You keep Yuhui's ship and want to take it back. It's not to study whether the AI ​​core can be controlled by you and whether it can be used to drive the ship?"

"No."

Although Chen Ming denied it, the factory manager acted as if he didn't hear it and said, "If you really want to do something like this, I suggest you do it here."

"If you go back to the prosperous star field, the patrol team will come to scan you from time to time. If your AI core is scanned, it will definitely be confiscated."

Chen Ming didn't say anything, and the factory manager didn't care. Seeing that Chen Ming didn't mean to leave, he asked again: "Do you have anything else to do?"

"Yes."

Chen Ming gave a positive answer and said: "In addition to Yu Hui's ship, there are two military ships that I want to get the identification code of."

"Equipped with a militarized subsystem?"

"Almost, it's a military ship."

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