"Maintenance engineer No. 519, Chen Ming, welcome to wake up."

"Today is March 12, 5601 AD. Please go to the maintenance staff office at No. 125 in the office area as soon as possible to pick up your personal terminal and work kit."

Chen Ming waved his hands somewhat stiffly and climbed out of the cryogenic hibernation chamber where he was.

His confused brain only received the content of the voice but did not digest it, making Chen Ming completely unable to understand what was happening to him.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming finally concentrated his scattered mind.

However, when Chen Ming observed the environment around him, his breathing suddenly stagnated.

"Where am I?"

Chen Ming looked around nervously and seemed to be in a place that looked very shabby.

A room made entirely of metal materials, with four devices similar to the one he had just stood up placed at the four corners of the room.

And in the corner next to the door near the exit, something appeared that made Chen Ming even more nervous.

A scattered human skeleton, and the corpse of some kind of oversized insect whose interior had completely rotted away, leaving only the shell.

The two bodies were pressed close together, as if telling Chen Ming what happened before they died.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were really just corpses, and quickly checked his own situation.

The last memory I had before waking up here was the speeding truck.

If the hospital hadn't grown like this, then there would basically be only one possibility for me now.

Travel through time.

Chen Ming took a few deep breaths and forced himself to calm down.

This kind of experience is actually quite good for me.

I have no father or mother, so my daily life cannot be called life, it can only be called survival.

Having a new beginning is undoubtedly a blessing from God for me.

But now, Chen Ming must at least find a way to figure out where he is.

Chen Ming quickly searched his body, but found nothing.

But just when Chen Ming woke up, the reporting voice seemed to have mentioned his identity.

Maintenance technician No. 519 asked me to go to that office to pick up something.

Chen Ming moved his limbs with a little force and felt that his physical condition was still good.

Although it seemed to have been frozen in the freezer next to it for a long time, there was no discomfort when moving it.

That office shouldn't be a problem in the past.

Moreover, the environment Chen Ming is in now always makes him feel uncomfortable, so it is better not to stay here.

But before that, Chen Ming suddenly noticed that under the human skeleton, there was a pistol that looked very sci-fi.

Chen Ming hurried over, picked it up and held it in his hand.

Half by groping and half by learning from the gun-handling videos I had seen on the Internet, I turned off the safety, removed the magazine, then reinstalled it, and adjusted the safety to the ready-to-fire position.

Although it is not known whether this pistol, which has been lying here for a long time, can still be used, it at least gives Chen Ming some confidence to deal with unknown dangers.

Next to the skeleton is the only closed metal door in the room, which should lead to the outside world.

There is a striking button on the wall next to the door.

Seeing that there was nothing else around that could open the metal door, Chen Ming reached out and pressed it.

A mechanical female voice followed.

"A vacuum environment has been detected. Please press the button again to confirm the opening of the buffer compartment. Please make sure that your protective clothing is fully worn."

"Vacuum environment? I'm in space?"

Chen Ming frowned and stepped on the solid metal floor. He couldn't see any sign that he was in space.

But he didn't dare to bet that the sound was wrong, so he turned around and began to search the inside of the room to see if there was anything that could help him.

The panic after waking up made Chen Ming fail to notice that many places in the room actually contained mysteries.

Under the cryogenic hibernation chamber when you wake up, there is a compartment that can be opened.

Inside was a full-body suit similar to a space suit, but it looked very light.

This should be the protective suit.

In the compartments under several other unmanned freezers, Chen Ming did not find any space suits similar to this protective suit.

However, Chen Ming found a personal terminal on the ground next to the freezer, the kind that can often be seen in science fiction movies.

Although the battery level displayed was low, it should be enough for Chen Ming to figure out some things.

Just before Chen Ming was about to study its usage.

A string of familiar yet unfamiliar memories suddenly appeared in Chen Ming's mind as if stimulated.

This is Chen Ming's past memory. Chen Ming's past memories as a maintenance engineer are constantly emerging.

Let Chen Ming understand his current situation.

Chen Ming is currently at a mining space station belonging to the Human Empire.

Located on the asteroid ring of a planet on the edge of a galaxy on the edge of human expansion.

The existence of the planetary rings makes the climate of the habitable planet below very suitable for human habitation, but the meteorites that fall from time to time make it completely impossible for people to settle down there.

However, these asteroids in the asteroid ring, which are rich in various rare minerals, have attracted a commercial company to buy the mineral mining rights of the planet.

They built a mining space station here and opened it to all humans.

Chen Ming is a professional maintenance engineer for the company that owns the mineral mining rights of this planet.

I got this task which required me to be in cryogenic hibernation for a long time and only come out to work when necessary.

During the period of cryogenic hibernation, the commercial company will still calculate Chen Ming's salary.

So Chen Ming, who has no parents and no friends, applied for this job very smoothly.

My main memory from this world ended the moment I lay in the cryogenic hibernation chamber.

Although more detailed memories still emerged in Chen Ming's mind, they were all scattered fragments.

Chen Ming still didn't know what exactly happened in the mining space station.

However, I rely on memory to instill in myself the usage of some tools, including the terminal.

Chen Ming quickly retrieved a log record on the terminal.

Based on the contents of the log, Chen Ming could roughly infer that this terminal and the recorded log should belong to the skeleton in the room, and he seemed to be a doctor.

The first part of the log is mostly about daily regular checks on the health of people inside the cryogenic hibernation chamber.

However, in the last few pages of the diary, around April 5569 AD, about thirty years ago, the content of the diary changed.

As usual, the mining space station captured an asteroid in the asteroid ring that may contain rare mineral resources.

When the first rare mineral was mined, everyone celebrated.

However, the very next day, a sudden riot broke out in the area where the mining equipment was located.

Countless insects poured out from here, spread throughout the space station, and slaughtered the personnel in the space station.

The interior of that asteroid contains not only rare minerals, but also the nests of these horrible insects.

They had been dormant for a long time inside the asteroid and woke up after being subjected to extreme stimulation.

Chen Ming still wanted to know what happened next, but the content in the log stopped abruptly there.

The doctor has died here along with that bug.

The final outcome of this incident is obvious.

All the people in the mining space station were killed and the space station was abandoned. Thirty years have passed since then.

In other words, Chen Ming is now in an abandoned mining space station full of Zerg.

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the white bones and insect shells beside him.

A bug of this size could easily bite you to death if it pounced on you.

Although the insects were scary, Chen Ming felt that there was a greater possibility that he would starve to death.

He didn't find any food in the room.

So…

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the rusty gate next to him, hesitating whether to go out like this.

Those Zergs could have hibernated inside the asteroid for so long, could they still be in this mining space station, waiting for him outside the door? While he was still hesitating, the last memory fragment of the maintenance engineer Chen Ming completely merged into Chen Ming's mind.

Then, two lines of words suddenly appeared in his mind.

[No spacecraft signal access detected]

[Please access as soon as possible to complete the brain control signal connection and initialization]

(End of this chapter)