The hatch opened quickly, revealing two fully armed men who looked like space station patrol members inside the shuttle.

Chen Ming stepped back slightly cautiously and was ready to go back into the hardware store at any time.

But soon another head popped out from the side of the shuttle door, it was Old Wu's head.

He was also wearing a set of professional-looking tactical gear, but it was totally inconsistent with his usual temperament and looked a bit out of place.

Old Wu was completely unaware of this. He waved at Chen Ming and said, "Xiao Mu, why are you dressed like this? Come here quickly. We have to go."

At the same time, on the phone that had not yet been hung up, the factory director also confirmed the identities of the two people on the shuttle.

Then Chen Ming had no more hesitation. He greeted the owner of the store, stepped out, and rushed onto the shuttle.

During the whole process, Chen Ming did not feel that the ever-present sense of danger had increased or decreased, and he did not know whether the military had lost track of him or was just holding it in.

But it doesn't matter, as long as he can successfully reach the administration building, his safety will be guaranteed.

Unless the military and the space station completely break up, there is absolutely no way to deal with him.

Chen Ming was dragged onto the shuttle by two patrol members.

The hatch closed instantly, the engine started immediately, and the shuttle flew vertically into the air.

The pilot turned the shuttle's bow and headed straight for the administration building located in the center of the space station.

Old Wu took Chen Ming to find a place to sit inside the shuttle so that Chen Ming could easily see the environment inside the shuttle.

However, the shuttle itself is not very big, and the interior looks like a space similar to that of a troop transport helicopter, without too many interesting things.

On the contrary, the outside world is more worthy of Chen Ming's attention.

The shuttle passed through in less than half a minute.

The gate of Space Arm No. 2 arrived safely and quickly at the edge of the city inside the space station.

It will take three or four minutes at most to reach the Space Station Administration.

However, Chen Ming has not forgotten the people in the military. They had been targeting him before and there was no way they would let him go like that.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

Just as the shuttle flew into the sky above the city, it suddenly shook violently and a red emergency light lit up inside.

The sense of danger that Chen Ming sensed suddenly became obvious.

The driver's voice came from the front of the shuttle: "The shuttle has a malfunction, the operating system has failed, and I can no longer control it."

"And it hasn't crashed yet, it's still flying in the other direction."

The pilot could be seen trying desperately to regain control of the shuttle, but with little success.

"The communication device is also out of order. I can't contact the Administration."

"Our shuttle was hacked."

Chen Ming immediately lowered his head and found that the communication between him and the factory director had been cut off at some point.

Not only the shuttle's communication equipment, but also the terminal's network was cut off.

"Damn it, how dare you do this on the space station."

The faces of the people on the boat all looked unhappy. They quickly checked their equipment and prepared for fighting at any time after landing.

Chen Ming watched their actions and asked, "Are we the only ones here?"

At this time, Old Wu was also checking the gun with an automatic locking system that he had spent a lot of money to get. Hearing Chen Ming's words, he said, "How is this possible? This is our space station."

"The guards have already been contacted in advance, but they can't determine the specific target before something actually happens, so they can only wait for orders."

"As long as we open fire, they will come to support us immediately."

"From where we are now, it will take us three minutes at most."

"If they can hold out for three minutes, they're done."

Just as the shuttle gradually deviated from its original route.

At the farthest point in the shuttle's deviation direction, there was an empty house with no one living in it.

All five members of the military team gathered here.

Xia Chao is now next to the team members who are responsible for electronic equipment related work.

While watching the shuttle outside staggering towards them, he said to his teammates: "Your electronic warfare skills are as good as before."

However, his teammates said unhappily: "What a bullshit, if I were good, would I be assigned here?"

"At least it's enough for now."

The captain coughed slightly at this time, interrupting the team members' chat, and said, "Get ready, and take the person down as soon as the shuttle lands. Be prepared for an armed conflict to break out."

"yes."

On the shuttle.

Sitting in the corner, Chen Ming watched the other team members preparing anxiously. Feeling the increasing shaking of the ship, he couldn't help but frowning.

But he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly reached out and bent his left wrist a few times, removing the hand armor of the exoskeleton armor.

Then he pressed his left hand, which was only wearing a protective glove, on the cabin of the shuttle.

An option immediately appeared in Chen Ming's mind: whether to control the shuttle, which was not available when he first boarded the ship.

"This... is really hard to hold."

Chen Ming just thought that the shuttle was not at the level of a frigate, and that it was not that the shuttle could not be controlled.

It turned out that because Chen Ming was wearing gauntlets and there was too much distance between him and the shuttle cabin, the panel did not detect that he had touched the shuttle.

Obviously, he was able to touch and control the shuttle when wearing a heavy space suit of similar thickness before. Could it be a problem with the material? Chen Ming couldn't figure it out. It seemed that he could only pay more attention to this aspect in the future.

But at least the shuttle can be controlled by him, so things will be easier.

Chen Ming put the gauntlet back on his hand again.

His consciousness focused on the shuttle panel that had just appeared in front of him.

Within a few seconds, the emergency lights inside the shuttle were turned off, and everything on the shuttle's equipment returned to normal.

The external control signal was completely blocked by Chen Ming, and the shuttle was once again under the control of the driver.

"Hey? What's going on?"

"I don't know. The shuttle suddenly returned to normal. I'm readjusting the route."

Old Wu glanced at Chen Ming subconsciously and said nothing more.

However, Chen Ming opened the map of the space station on the terminal and said to Old Wu beside him: "We need to get the guards to block that area."

He pointed to a spot on the edge of the city on the space station map and said, "This is where the shuttle was about to land. Their people must be nearby."

"Huh? Oh, I'll be right there... Wait, the communication signal is still cut off."

"I know."

"It seems that they didn't rely on hacking into the system to cut off communications. It should be a high-intensity signal jammer."

"Unless we kill them directly, we have no choice but to go to the city first and get beyond the range of their jammers before we can restart our communication equipment."

“So I was wondering…”

Chen Ming turned his head to look at the electromagnetic weapons equipped by the patrol team members next to him and asked, "Do you have tracer bullets?"

The teammate who was asked by Chen Ming immediately answered: "Yes, when the electromagnetic bullet was designed, some bullets were indeed treated with tracers to facilitate aiming, so they can be seen even in the daytime."

Chen Ming showed him the terminal screen and said, "See this location? Shoot in that direction."

"Attract the guards here. It will depend on whether their leader is smart enough."

At the same time, in the eyes of several members of the military team.

The shuttle suddenly shook violently, and then resumed its normal trajectory.

They also saw the hatch suddenly open and someone stuck out a gun and fired dozens of shots in their direction.

Several conspicuous tracer bullets flew over their heads in an instant and landed somewhere unknown.

The captain suddenly felt a vague sense of uneasiness in his heart.

The hacker team member next to him suddenly said in a panic: "Something seems to have gone wrong here. I suddenly can't control the shuttle."

"What's going on?"

"I don't know. I'm still trying. Just now, all the permissions I controlled were suddenly cleared. There are people on the ship who are more powerful than me."

The hacker team member typed frantically on the computer, but all his attempts were in vain.

"No, there's no way to break in. The shuttle's equipment was clearly unprotected. All the systems were locked up in the blink of an eye. I can't find any loopholes."

The hacker's hand movements gradually slowed down and his expression gradually became stiff.

"Is there no other way?"

The hacker shook his head and said, "There's no way. This shuttle is like a solid steel plate without any holes or gaps. I don't know how he did it."

The captain did not blame him at this time. Instead, he comforted him and said, "If hacking in directly doesn't work, then try another method, Xia Chao."

“Here I come.”

Xia Chao stood at the window and held up a square device that looked like a cannon.

This thing is the military BZ-19 directional electromagnetic pulse generator, and its actual effect is already written in its name.

Xia Chao held up the electromagnetic pulse generator and immediately pressed the launch button after locking onto the shuttle.

There is no visible fluctuation when the generator starts up.

But the interior of the shuttle was plunged into darkness in an instant.

All the flashing buttons and signal lights in the cab went out, and even the emergency lights couldn't be turned on.

Old Wu rushed to the door of the cab and asked, "What happened this time?"

Without waiting for the pilot to speak, Chen Ming said directly: "It was an electromagnetic pulse. The electronic components and circuits of the shuttle were blown."

The driver had a thin layer of sweat on his forehead at this time, and he immediately said: "The shuttle has stopped and we have to make an emergency landing, otherwise..."

The driver was suddenly stunned in the middle of his words, because all the equipment of the shuttle was gradually recovering, as if the electromagnetic pulse just now did not exist.

Chen Ming's voice also rang out: "Keep driving, don't worry about anything else."

The driver glanced at Chen Ming, who was sitting in the corner of the shuttle on the monitor next to him, and couldn't help swallowing.

Without hesitation, he immediately started the shuttle's engine again in the air and continued to fly into the city.

However, just a few seconds after flying out, the interior of the shuttle fell into darkness again.

Seeing this, Chen Ming continued to choose to repair the shuttle on the panel.

Directly and completely repair the damage caused by electromagnetic pulses.

The damage caused by the electromagnetic pulse to the shuttle's equipment was basically melting, and there was not much loss of the material itself.

In other words, Chen Ming could completely disassemble some of the damaged parts and recycle them for reuse.

Just a tiny bit of wear and tear is needed to keep the shuttle going.

If there really is a shortage of materials, he would just use the materials from the tools he carries with him.

If that doesn't work, other places on the ship can be used to patch up the holes.

The shuttle's signal light suddenly lit up again.

But then it fell into darkness again.

The driver couldn't help but curse, "This is fucking..."

"Stop talking nonsense and speed up."

Chen Ming did not hesitate at all and repaired the shuttle again.

This method of robbing Peter to pay Paul will eventually cause some damage to the shuttle's equipment.

The performance of the shuttle will be reduced to a certain extent, but at least it will be enough to last until the administration.

The shuttle, which had recovered, had approached the central ring of the space station city, where some tall buildings had already appeared.

Under the operation of the driver, the shuttle flexibly moved between the high-rise buildings, avoiding the electromagnetic pulses that constantly attacked the spacecraft and breaking out of the coverage of the signal jammer.

Disappeared from the sight of the military team.

Xia Chao watched the shuttle disappear behind a tall building, then looked at his teammates and asked, "Will a shuttle like this be equipped with electromagnetic pulse protection equipment?"

The hacker team member said: "Not as far as I know."

“But they do.”

The atmosphere in the team gradually became depressed.

The captain summed it up at this time: "Chen Ming's reaction was too fast."

"The only time we can take action against him is when he just gets off the shuttle and heads to Space Arm 2."

"But we were not well prepared at the time, and the success rate of direct action was very low."

The team member who was in charge of supervising the dock and monitoring Chen Ming showed a painful expression on his face and said, "Did you find something wrong with just one accidental glance? This is all my fault."

"I don't have time to blame myself. The mission must continue."

"But he has already entered the Administration. The Administration has even arranged a shuttle for him that only their internal personnel can use. The attitude of the Xinda Company should be very clear. Can we really take him away?"

The captain hammered the wall next to him and said firmly: "The mission has not completely failed."

"Xinda Company can't let Chen Ming stay here forever. They will definitely take him away."

"We still have a chance before Chen Ming is picked up by the people from Xinda Company."

"Let's leave here first. I have to report the situation to the stationmaster."

The team stood up and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, the hacker team suddenly said: "Wait a minute, Captain, we seem to be in trouble."

"The people on the shuttle just now should have noticed where I landed the shuttle when they kicked me out of the shuttle control authority."

"Those tracer bullets were used to locate the guards. There are already several guards surrounding us."

"What about the original route of escape?"

"No problem. The surveillance we set up did not find any trace of the guard troops."

"Then follow the previous plan."

"yes."

Several members of the military team quickly left the uninhabited area where they were, and followed the previously planned escape route to avoid the eyes of the guarding troops.

Entered the underground sewage system of the space station city.

Thanks to the signal blocking device they left behind, all the equipment in a large area around the residential area where they had previously stayed was caused to malfunction.

They successfully got rid of the guards, changed their disguises, and reappeared at the hotel they had booked previously.

After knocking out Tian Jiwen, who had already woken up, again, the captain contacted their superior, the station chief of the military outpost.

"Stationmaster, Chen Ming's identity and location have been confirmed. The first attempt to capture him failed."

"He got help from the Sinda Corporation and entered the Station Administration Building, which was difficult for us to get into."

"We have not yet discovered their specific identities and are preparing for a second arrest operation."

The person on the other end of the terminal was silent for a while before saying, "I don't care what you did or how you do it."

"The result I want is very clear. Either bring him back or kill him directly. If you can't do the former, then do the latter."

"Also, I can give you the informant you asked me for before. Even if you lose him, the mission must be completed."

"yes."

The captain put down the terminal and said to the team members next to him: "Did you hear that? If we fail to complete the mission, the fate of this informant will be our fate."

While the military team contacted their superiors.

The shuttle that Chen Ming was riding on had landed on the rooftop of the building.

Under the protection of two guards, he was quickly escorted to the basement of the administration building, to the workshop belonging to the maintenance plant.

This is definitely one of the safest places in the entire space station.

When Chen Ming arrived at the basement of the administration building, the factory director was already waiting at the door with several guards.

The anxious look on his face eased somewhat after he saw Chen Ming in person.

"Xiao Mu, you're here. Why are you dressed like this? Never mind. It's fine to dress like this."

"Let's go into the studio first and talk to the person I contacted before."

"Who exactly?"

The factory manager whispered in Chen Ming's ear, "The company's board member, chairman, Xu Lin, was sent by the company. He asked me to contact you as soon as he knew about your situation."

"Chairman?"

"Yes, although the chairman cannot represent the entire board of directors or the entire company, he can at least guide the overall direction of the company."

"With his help, as long as you can get the first chance to initiate a vote in the board of directors, the company will definitely protect you."

Chen Ming nodded and walked into the workshop.

"Oh, and your stuff."

The factory manager picked up a box with an identity data card on it.

"Someone just brought it here. It passed the security scan when it came in. No problem. It should be yours, right?"

"right."

He put away the card with more than 14 million yuan in it and walked into the workshop carrying the box.

The workshop was empty at this time. There were basically only a few pieces of equipment needed for maintenance work, a large workbench and several tables and chairs for rest and work.

On the large workbench opposite the workshop door, there is a lighted terminal.

Chen Ming was the first to walk in, followed closely by the factory director and Old Wu. The two patrol team members who had escorted Chen Ming before also followed in and closed the door.

There were five people in the studio, plus four guards outside.

It is enough in a relatively small place like underground.

Chen Ming sat down next to the workbench, put the box aside, and clicked the terminal in front of him.

The terminal automatically initiates a video call.

Soon a somewhat old face appeared on the screen.

"Hello, Chen Ming, I am the chairman of Xinda Company, Xu Lin."

"Hello."

Xu Lin stared at Chen Ming for a while and said, "I have known you before, and I know what you want."

"As long as you are willing, you are still an employee of our Xinda Company."

"So, let's get straight to the point and talk about cooperation."

Chen Ming said directly: "No problem, otherwise I wouldn't have to contact Director Lu specifically. So what is the content of the cooperation?"

"We need you as proof that the DG-C-9527 mining station was not destroyed by the bugs thirty-two years ago."

"Confessions and physical evidence alone are not enough, or they are not actually important."

"What really matters is you, the guy who worked on the space station thirty years ago."

"With you, we have a solution to our problem."

"Why do you say that?"

"The mining station and all your information can be found in the government."

"Your existence proves that everything the military said was nonsense. What happened thirty-two years ago will be completely revealed."

Chen Ming had actually been looking forward to this for a long time, and asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"The reason the military blocked the galaxy thirty-two years ago was because a plague of insects carrying a deadly virus with a high ability to spread appeared on the space station."

"And since you have survived the space station, it means that the galaxy is safe enough. We can ask the government to ask the military to lift the blockade of the galaxy and return the development rights of the galaxy to our company."

"And this requires you to go to the capital of the star region and verify your identity there. This will serve as evidence so that we can submit an application to the government."

“…”

"I just came back from the Star Region capital."

“…”

Xu Lin chose to ignore Chen Ming's words and said, "We will arrange a special ship to take you to the capital of the star region."

"Once this matter is completed, we will use the star gate there to send you directly to the galaxy where the company's headquarters is located."

"I heard from Xiao Lu that you want a special armed ship license and want to continue to climb up along the promotion path?"

"Do you want to go the management route or the graduate school route? No matter which one you choose, I can arrange it for you. I can assign you a dedicated mentor and arrange dedicated teaching for you."

"As long as it's what you need, I can help you with anything within the company."

"So what do you think?"

Chen Ming first complained silently in his heart. Whether it was the factory director, Old Wu, the boss or even the current chairman of the company, they all liked to add a small character when calling people. It seemed like a hereditary trait.

Then he thought about it carefully and said, "Okay."

Chen Ming actually doesn’t have too many ideas at the moment. He will definitely try to take a stable path that will satisfy him and allow him to realize his own value.

He is still young, and even if he makes a wrong choice, he may still regret it.

"Very good. The ship that will pick you up will arrive at your place in about twelve hours."

"As long as you go to the star region government, the military and government of your star region will no longer have the power to control you."

The communication was disconnected.

Chen Ming raised his head and asked the factory manager next to him: "Manager, did you say I was that one?"

"I told you, originally Mr. Dong... Ahem, the old chairman was a little unsure whether to help you or not. After learning about your situation, he asked me to contact you directly."

"The conditions we give you are also the best, but how high you can climb is up to you."

"OK."

Chen Ming lowered his head again, took out his terminal, and clicked a few times on it.

"Oh? There's more."

Old Wu, who had been hanging up the phone nearby, came over curiously and asked, "What's going on?"

"My thirty-two years' salary."

Chen Ming placed the terminal on the workbench in front of him so that Old Wu could see it.

Chen Ming’s own savings card interface was open on the terminal.

In the card, there is thirty years' salary, not a penny less.

"My salary was 30,000 yuan per month when I was working, and 5,000 yuan per month when I was dormant, which is 60,000 yuan per year. In 32 years, it is just under 2 million yuan."

"Including what I had in my card before, it's almost 3.2 million."

Although the money is not much compared to Chen Ming's current situation.

But Chen Ming was very happy to see that there was still this money in the card.

Because that's the company's attitude.

Chen Ming turned off the terminal, leaned back in his chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

Joining the company and climbing up the career ladder within the company is indeed the path he wants to take.

If the company can maintain this attitude, he may not regret his current decision in the future.

Chen Ming didn't think much about what would happen in the future.

Because he knew that the military's pursuit might not end here, he had to make some other preparations.

Chen Ming closed his eyes, but the scene seen by the spaceship on the other side of the dark cemetery appeared before his eyes.

After explaining some things to the two Gamma AIs, Chen Ming returned to the space station.

Since the spacecraft from Sinda Corporation to pick him up would take another twelve hours to arrive, he actually had nothing to do for the time being.

So Chen Ming simply carried the box to the workbench and began to count the materials he had previously purchased from the owner of the second recycling shop.

Old Wu, who had already taken out his terminal to watch the video, said with a look of complete surprise: "You're still thinking about working at this time?"

"Um."

Chen Ming nodded and said: "I think it should be useful."

As soon as Chen Ming finished his words, he heard a noisy sound coming from outside the workshop door.

The sense of danger that had been dormant suddenly sounded in Chen Ming's mind like an alarm.

The door of the workshop suddenly opened.

A grenade rolled in through the crack in the door.

(End of this chapter)