Chen Ming looked around at the entire environment again.

There are no people here, only some robots doing basic work.

And as Chen Ming arrived at the maintenance site, he could also see that this place was also an independent module, and like the port, it was separated from other modules on the space station.

It seems that all the parts of this space station open to the public should be partitioned to facilitate the uninstallation of this module at any time.

It is also convenient to launch an attack on the uninstalled module directly after uninstallation.

At this time, Chen Ming looked back and saw the direction of the port he had just passed through was clearly visible from this position. This design was similar to that of the pirate space station.

It is obvious that the space station was definitely not separated like it is now. Before the transformation, it was definitely an integrated design like the pirate space station.

There is definitely something wrong with this design.

"What are you looking at? I'm the only one working."

Chen Ming retracted his gaze upon hearing this, looked at Uncle Mao who was walking in front, and asked, "Are you a maintenance engineer?"

"It's just a part-time job. You see the robots here? They are the ones doing the work. We usually work in the search and rescue team. We report any distress signals we see. You are the first person I have rescued in the past six months. You are really rare."

"You said you were working as a security guard, right?"

"I used to be, but now I'm a bounty hunter, looking for trouble with pirates."

"Hunter, hunters are good. It's good to catch more criminals."

Chen Ming felt that the Uncle Mao in front of him did not look like Zuo Jing based on his current performance, but no one could say for sure without evidence.

So he chose to remain silent.

Uncle Mao also saw through An Wuping's character, and he had no objection to An Wuping not answering him.

He just walked to a device, clicked a few times, and called Chen Ming over.

The device panel he had just operated was now displaying the three-dimensional structure diagram of Chen Ming's damaged Sentinel.

"Just scanned it. Your spaceship has been towed here and no robot has been on it yet."

"I've counted all the stuff on the spacecraft for you. Check it out for yourself. If there's anything missing, it must have fallen out when you were in the clouds. Don't blame me."

"Won't."

Chen Ming knew very well what was left on the spacecraft after it had experienced the baptism of the hyperspace channel cloud.

Anyway, they are all worthless things, so I won’t have time to create unnecessary trouble.

After taking a rough look, Chen Ming nodded to Uncle Mao.

Uncle Mao then debugged the equipment again and said, "The inspection report is out too. Take a look."

"Our conditions here aren't very good, but we can repair your ship's hull and main control. As for the armor, you'll have to figure it out on your own. Once these two are repaired, as long as you don't run into the clouds again, it should be enough for you to fly to the nearest colony."

"You can see the price, right? If there is any problem with the material cost, labor cost, and machine cost, you can tell me now."

Chen Ming was about to answer that he had no problem when he suddenly heard the roar of an engine behind him.

He immediately turned his head and looked behind him. At the port, a destroyer suddenly landed.

Judging from the model and paint of the spacecraft, it seems to be a government spacecraft.

The hatch of the spacecraft opened quickly, and a man in a suit and tie who looked to be in his thirties came down from it, surrounded by several people.

He looked at the crowd welcoming him at the space station port with a smile on his face, and he seemed to have some status.

"Who is that person?"

Without urging Chen Ming to answer the price question, Uncle Mao, who was also looking at the port, said, "It seems to be a government official. He has come here several times in the past few days. He is so mysterious and I don't know why he came."

government?

Chen Ming was thinking about what kind of relationship this ecological observation space station had with the government. How could someone come here so many times in a few days? Perhaps this government official had an unclear relationship with Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming first noted down the appearance, but remained skeptical.

However, the person who said this is Uncle Mao who works on this space station, so we can't believe everything he said, so let's wait and see.

"Hey, stop looking."

Uncle Mao suddenly reached out and knocked on Chen Ming's power armor and said, "Let's settle the bill first."

Chen Ming took one last look at the man, turned his head, took out the terminal and prepared to pay.

While paying, he asked, "Can the power armor be repaired?"

Uncle Mao quickly denied it, saying, "How can this be repaired? Who dares to repair it for you?"

"And where is the charging station?"

Uncle Mao pointed to the corner.

Chen Ming didn't say anything and silently paid the money needed to repair the spacecraft.

Then he jumped out of the power armor in the corner of the maintenance station and plugged the cable into the power armor like an ordinary power armor owner.

Uncle Mao saw Chen Ming's actions and felt slightly relieved, so he didn't say much about Chen Ming's military power armor.

His eyes subconsciously focused on Chen Ming's height of 1.9 meters, almost 2 meters, which was the height of An Wuping's prosthesis.

But I just paid attention to it and didn't say much.

Just when Chen Ming was looking at the port next door at the maintenance station.

Here at the port, the man in a suit who got off the spaceship also noticed the situation at the maintenance station.

After all, the military power armor that Chen Ming was wearing was too eye-catching.

He immediately whispered to the people around him: "Who is that person?"

An administrator of the space station immediately responded: "We just received a distress signal from a person who was rescued. He said that he encountered a malfunction in the spacecraft's autopilot system in hyperspace, and then rushed into the channel cloud. He barely escaped."

"He's the only one still alive?"

"His spaceship has been modified so that it can be piloted by one person. He is the only one on board."

"What is your identity?"

"He said he used to work for a security company, and recently he was a bounty hunter in the fringe star field, hunting pirates in nearby star systems."

The official got a general idea from the administrator, then looked at the secretary beside him and asked, "What's the actual situation?"

The managers were slightly unhappy when they heard the official's question, but did not express it obviously.

The secretary clicked a few times on the terminal and said, "I checked with your permission. There is indeed nothing wrong with him. However, he concealed the fact that he had joined the army and was discharged, and that he had gone missing for a few years while working for a security company."

The official's heart tightened, and he asked, "When did you retire? And why did you disappear later?"

"He retired from the army fifteen years ago and has been working as a security guard ever since. He disappeared because he participated in a security mission for an independent colony. It has nothing to do with us. It's most likely an accident."

The official relaxed at the time and reason and nodded slightly.

However, he still gestured in Chen Ming's direction and said to the manager, "Don't let anyone ruin our business. Let him go as soon as possible."

"Understood."

Surrounded by a crowd of people, government officials walked into the interior of the space station, to areas that were not specially isolated.

The space station managers quietly left the team's vicinity and rushed to the maintenance site as soon as possible.

However, he did not intend to really drive Chen Ming away.

Because there was nothing wrong with An Wuping's arrival, although the military power armor made him a little worried, but the old appearance of An Wuping's power armor, combined with the background they investigated, basically allowed them to draw many reasonable conclusions that had nothing to do with them.

But since the higher-ups have spoken, and An Wuping really came here for no reason when an important person was visiting, it is possible that he might cause trouble.

So he has to explain what needs to be explained.

But he couldn't really just drive them away. After all, if he really wanted to drive away the people who had just received the distress signal and rescued them just because an important government figure arrived at the space station.

If Chen Ming is a troublemaker and exposes the matter, it will attract more unnecessary attention.

But when he arrived at the maintenance site.

But he noticed that Uncle Mao was the only one here, operating the equipment to repair the damaged spacecraft.

When he saw that the spaceship seemed like it could disintegrate at any time, he once again confirmed his belief that An Wuping's arrival was really just a coincidence.

Uncle Mao quickly noticed that someone had come to the maintenance station, and after seeing clearly who it was.

He immediately stopped, ran to the manager, and said with a little restraint: "Deputy Manager Chang, what is the matter with you coming here?"

Deputy Manager Chang looked around the maintenance station and asked, "Where is the person who just came in?"

"He's gone to buy supplies. He's next door. Do you want me to ask him to come back?"

"No need. But you saw it just now, didn't you? The big government official who just came here will stay on the space station for a few days. Just don't let the kid who just came here run around."

"Okay."

Uncle Mao agreed decisively, and Deputy Manager Chang immediately left the maintenance station filled with the smell of metal and engine oil.

At this moment, Chen Ming is purchasing supplies from the person in charge of space station material management.

After all, he is now playing the role of An Wuping. As a person who has just sent out a distress signal, he obviously needs to buy enough supplies for the rest of the journey.

It just so happens that the space station is also obliged to provide supplies at market prices to those who send distress signals, enough to sustain a week's worth of spacecraft travel.

So Chen Ming naturally asked Uncle Mao to help introduce it, and then asked Uncle Mao to arrange for the robot to repair the spacecraft, and he went to the Material Management Office alone.

This way he can observe the situation of the space station more on the way.

It’s a pity that there’s nothing noteworthy in the outer area of ​​the space station, so he can only come here honestly to buy supplies.

He also thinks when buying supplies.

How on earth should he sneak into the core area of ​​the space station, infiltrate it, obtain information, and conduct an investigation into the left-path elements.

Chen Ming originally wanted to find someone to ask indirectly, but An Wuping was not a talkative person, and if he asked too many questions, others would definitely become suspicious.

This is a poor design by Chen Ming.

However, Chen Ming originally created An Wuping for the purpose of fighting, and his abilities were designed in this direction, so his personality was also designed to match his abilities.

Otherwise, the contrast of the whole person will be very great, making it easier to be suspected. There is nothing that can be done about it.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ming still wanted to use a decisive plan, such as directly removing the restrictions of the prosthesis and relying on the monster in his body to rush into the core of the space station.

But what if the space station is actually divided into more partitions, and they must force their way into the core area to achieve their goal? The space station is not small, and even if Chen Ming controls An Wuping and transforms, he may not be able to suppress the Zhengege space station in a short period of time.

If this is really done, it will be very troublesome to safely save some information of the space station. If psychic power is forcibly used to save the data and prevent it from being deleted, it will be more likely to expose the connection between An Wuping and Chen Ming himself.

It's quite a headache.

But he came here this time to get more clues about Zuo Jing, so he can't do it this way.

We have to be fully prepared before we can take action, at least to get a clear understanding of the general situation of the space station.

It just so happens that it will take about a week to repair his spaceship, after all, the damage was too thorough.

He still has time.

It just so happens that there is a "big shot" on the space station now, and he should know a lot of information.

Maybe we can find a way to start with him.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking about what to do next, Uncle Mao suddenly appeared beside Chen Ming and said, "Hey, An Wuping, someone specifically told me to tell you not to run around on the space station these two days."

"We saved you, so you have to respect us, right?"

The space station really only has the obligation to rescue people. As long as the people are rescued, it would be no problem to even call a tugboat to tow Chen Ming to the nearest colony.

Uncle Mao was willing to give Chen Ming the opportunity to choose, although it might be to make a little money, but there is nothing to say about it.

But did anyone specifically ask Uncle Mao to explain?

Why did Uncle Mao specifically mention this when he could have just said no? Chen Ming was a little confused, but An Wuping, who he played, would not resist and said, "I'll leave once the spaceship is repaired."

I agreed and said so, but how to actually do it is something that will come later.

And when Uncle Mao said that someone had confessed this matter, Chen Ming felt that there must be something wrong.

So he simply used his psychic powers to call up the monitoring system of the maintenance station of the space station that he already controlled.

The person who had just come over to explain things immediately appeared in front of him.

Chen Ming had some impression of the space station's manager. He seemed to be next to the government official just now.

The government official has noticed him.

And the government official Chen Ming had just looked up the identity of that person through the local public government website. His name was Ye Lirong, the director of the local star-level Department of Culture and Tourism.

The reason for my visit this time is explained in an announcement on the government's official website.

It is said that in order to develop the star tourism industry and allow some backward galaxies to develop, they want to cooperate with this ecological observation space station to conduct field investigations.

It sounds like there is no problem at all. When such people come, it is actually no problem to clear out idlers like An Wuping.

Everything seems normal, but when this space station is related to Zuo Jing, everything becomes abnormal.

However, although Chen Ming now knew who arranged this, he still did not take any action.

Anyway, it will take another week to repair the spacecraft, so there is no need to rush.

The president's investigation into the infection in Zuojing and Dimension is unlikely to produce results within a week.

Zuo Jing hid for so long, and was not discovered by Chen Ming until Lou Wei died unexpectedly. This matter cannot be solved easily.

Moreover, Chen Ming came here this time under the guise of An Wuping in order to conceal his identity and the connection between An Wuping and Chen Ming himself.

Many small psychic tricks must be done after it is completely ensured to be safe and no one will discover them.

Chen Ming quickly agreed to Uncle Mao, but Uncle Mao did not leave.

Instead, he waited until Chen Ming had paid almost all the money for the supplies, then waved to Chen Ming and said, "Come on, I'll show you where you can go in the next few days."

"Originally our space station was not open to the public, but since you were rescued by us, we have arranged some places for you to visit."

"good."

Chen Ming agreed again without showing any special reaction.

Uncle Mao then took Chen Ming to three places.

The place to eat is a small canteen, which seems to be specially provided for people working in these peripheral areas. Ordinary employees seem to have to pay to eat here.

The accommodation was an ordinary dormitory with four people in one room, which was not too crowded.

There is also a work area, which is the place where the space station specifically receives distress signals.

There is a distress signal management office hanging at the door of this place.

When I opened the door, I could see that besides Uncle Mao, there were six or seven other people here, all in their forties or fifties, all gathered around two tables in the office.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Chen Ming and Uncle Mao who had just entered.

Uncle Mao wanted to reach out and pat Chen Ming's shoulder, but he couldn't reach it. In the end, he patted Chen Ming's back and said, "It's okay. This kid was just rescued by a distress signal. You guys take care of yourselves."

He explained, half-pushed Chen Ming to the workbench in the room, and pressed Chen Ming into his seat.

Of course Chen Ming did not resist, otherwise Uncle Mao would definitely not be able to push him away.

But at this point, Chen Ming couldn't help but ask, "Why did you bring me here?"

Uncle Mao said as if he was reciting a text: "While enjoying rights, the right holder should also bear some of the obligations of enjoying the rights when conditions permit."

Chen Ming didn't say anything, but a hint of confusion appeared on his slightly fierce face.

"You may not know this, but this is what is written in the Imperial Distress Signal Rights and Obligations Code."

Chen Ming certainly knew this, which meant that the person who sent out the distress signal was rescued, and he should actively provide assistance to the rescuers to a certain extent, that is, he should cooperate. If conditions permit, he should provide rescue assistance to the rescuers, which is equivalent to asking the rescued person to save other people of his own.

Although this rule seems to be non-existent, after all, everyone has asked for help, and who is willing to help?

But Chen Ming is in really good condition now, and no one needs help, but the code of obligations does stipulate this.

So Uncle Mao pushed Chen Ming into his seat and asked Chen Ming to help look after the distress signal equipment.

Chen Ming glanced at the equipment in front of him, then turned his fierce face back.

"Do I look easy to talk to?"

Uncle Mao looked a little embarrassed and said, "Whether you are good at talking or not is not determined by your face, but by other things... Please."

After he said that, he patted Chen Ming's shoulder hard, and he didn't take his hand away after that, as if he would not take his hand away unless he agreed.

Chen Ming immediately reached out and grabbed Uncle Mao's hand and pushed him away, looking very disgusted.

At the same time, I stared at Uncle Mao's face with some confusion.

But the confused expression soon disappeared.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully. After all, this was a distress signal management department, and it seemed that the equipment here could be used.

So, Chen Ming did not refuse in the end. He just put the hand that had just been holding Uncle Mao's hand into his pocket and wiped it with a tissue.

"How?"

"This device will automatically alarm when it receives a distress signal. Just send the communication signal and I will take care of the rest."

In other words, this device actually does not need anyone to watch it. Just answer the phone when someone calls for help.

Uncle Mao patted Chen Ming on the shoulder again and said, "You have to pretend."

"OK."

Chen Ming sat at the position where Uncle Mao had originally worked, holding the instruction manual that Uncle Mao had just stuffed into his hands, and pretended to check how to use the equipment.

Then he heard several employees in the office behind him immediately take out some coins and cards from their pockets.

The whole office suddenly became noisy.

Everyone was arguing about the card game that had just been suddenly interrupted.

“…”

Now Chen Ming knew why everyone in the office was staring at him when he just came in.

Forget it, it’s okay, let them have their fun. Chen Ming still plans to use the equipment in the distress signal management office first.

The equipment here has a good ability to receive and send signals, and can be overclocked and modified to be used directly for signal shielding.

Of course, Chen Ming could not use psychic power directly for modification at this time, but had to use the technology he had actively reduced to modify it.

Then you need to understand the direction of the line first.

Although the overall design of the space station has been changed, the style is definitely the same. Chen Ming's current technical level can fully achieve this.

Knowing one part of the space station is equivalent to knowing the entire space station.

It will be more convenient to block the signal at that time.

And the spot in front of the workbench was also good, with his back to everyone, so no one would notice him.

Chen Ming quietly released a large amount of metallic liquid from the palm of his hand that was pressing on the instrument in front of him. The liquid penetrated into the structure of the space station along the structure of the equipment and gradually penetrated into the surroundings.

The liquid metal is also Chen Ming's eyes.

Although it is not his hand and he cannot control it indirectly like Yu Hui, he can definitely use this thing to see what is on the space station.

However, Chen Ming's metal liquid had only spread very shortly.

The liquid metal was suddenly blocked.

There is an extremely thin metal film made of silent alloy, blocking between each space station module.

Silent Alloy is a kind of psychic metal material that Chen Ming’s psychic power cannot control.

To be precise, it is not a psychic metal material, but a metal material that blocks psychic energy. It is also the material that Chen Ming usually uses to place the portable mind wave generator.

Now Chen Ming really had to suspect that Zuo Jing was really targeting him.

If he wanted to allow the metal liquid to pass through the barrier membrane, he would either have to destroy it directly or expose it to the surrounding environment.

Destroying the metal film is definitely a suicidal act. Chen Ming has already seen some sensing lines mixed in the metal film.

Once the metal membrane is damaged, an alarm will immediately sound throughout the space station.

The external environment is full of surveillance, even the outside of the space station. It is impossible to handle this matter without being exposed to the environment.

Chen Ming searched for a long time but did not find any dead corners around the space station module where he was currently.

This... is a bit troublesome.

Just at this moment.

Chen Ming suddenly heard someone calling him from behind.

"Hey, that guy over there, we're short of one, do you want to play cards? Do you know how to play?"

(End of this chapter)