Breathing the oxygen provided by the life support system on the spacecraft, all the pressure caused by the environment in my heart dissipated.

I was busy going back and forth in the space station for nearly two hours, and I almost died here several times.

But fortunately it's all worth it.

There was a suitcase-sized repair kit at his feet, and fusion fuel that could keep the spacecraft running was piled in the storage room.

And the small cart filled with packaged survival food that he had just placed in the central aisle of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming no longer feels any discomfort except fatigue, which means that these packaged survival foods are completely edible.

These things that he had obtained with great effort were the foundation and confidence for Chen Ming to survive.

The only thing we failed to obtain in the space station was the materials needed to repair the spacecraft's equipment.

But the warehouse area where the space station stores various materials is on the same floor as the mining area, and Chen Ming had no intention of going to such a dangerous place from the beginning.

If I had gone, I would have become food for insects by now.

Chen Ming shook his head, threw away the terrible thought, and no longer thought about what would happen if he did something.

I planned to take advantage of this time when my body needed to rest after being busy for two hours non-stop.

Use your brain to plan for the future.

I have just driven the spaceship away from the mining space station. It can only be said that I have just initially passed the most dangerous period since I came to this world.

But there are more problems and troubles waiting for Chen Ming.

The spacecraft has limited fuel reserves, and the food it can obtain from the space station is also limited.

This means that Chen Ming cannot drift in space forever.

So no matter what, Chen Ming must return to the human world.

I am currently in the edge of the star field, and there are basically no human colonies nearby.

Therefore, Chen Ming had to settle for the second best option and choose to go to the nearest galaxy with an open military outpost.

At that time, he could contact the army stationed there and ask for help, and use the military's star gate technology that could allow for inter-galaxy jumps to return to the human world.

As for why Chen Ming is so confident that the army will help him.

This is because in Chen Ming’s memory, although the military outpost is called a military outpost, it does not only have military personnel on it.

In the marginal galaxies that lack infrastructure, these military outposts are actually equivalent to the large central space stations in those prosperous galaxies.

Provide all human beings with the conveniences necessary for navigating various galaxies, and provide some logistical support for those who explore the boundaries of the universe.

After all, Chen Ming is a human being, and a legitimate maintenance technician as a company employee. There is nothing wrong with asking for help when he encounters danger.

As long as he gets there, Chen Ming's basic survival will definitely be guaranteed.

So the biggest problem for Chen Ming now is this.

The time required to reach the galaxy where the nearest military outpost is located from the abandoned mining space station in orbit around a small planet on the edge of the galaxy in this edge star field.

Chen Ming opened the galaxy map near the mining space station on his personal terminal and marked the galaxy where the space station was located and the galaxy where the nearest public military outpost was located on the screen.

Although the distance between the two points is not long on the scale of the universe, it is not short for Chen Ming.

In Chen Ming's memory, he originally came to the space station on the company's spacecraft, and it didn't take much time.

But the company's spaceship has a hyperspace channel system, and the words "Hyperspace Channel System (Missing)" are clearly written on the spaceship that he found.

Since the Iron Ore does not have a hyperspace channel system, it would definitely take a lot of time to fly this distance.

Chen Ming must make sufficient preparations for a long-term space voyage before he can set out there.

I didn't bother with the dead bugs and eggs in the cold room for the time being, but instead counted the food piled on the cart.

It turned out that these packaged survival foods could only sustain themselves for three months at most.

Three months of food, three months of survival.

Chen Ming didn't want to starve to death halfway through the flight.

So he couldn't just go to the military outpost without thinking.

Chen Ming returned to the captain's room again and sat in a chair thinking about how to solve the food problem.

Chen Ming already had a general idea of ​​the solution. The planting cabin inside the spacecraft could be fully utilized.

But the idea is not the key; the key lies in the execution process and the possibility of execution.

However, just as Chen Ming lowered his head slightly, his eyes suddenly caught sight of the communication equipment on the control panel of the spacecraft bridge.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

If I want to return to the human world, it seems unnecessary to drive the spaceship back by myself.

If we find a way to connect the spacecraft's communication equipment to the space station's communication anchor point, we will be able to contact the nearest military outpost.

They might be able to send a rescue ship to take me back directly.

Chen Ming touched his chin and began to think about whether his idea was feasible.

But when Chen Ming's attention focused on the abandoned mining space station not far away.

In an instant he realized something was wrong.

After integrating the memories of maintenance engineer Chen Ming, Chen Ming was very clear about the thought processes of those people at the top of the company.

Even if the company is generous in paying their employees during their hibernation period, it cannot change their greedy nature.

I am just an insignificant person, and the salary I give to them is not a big deal at all.

Although this mining space station is located in the fringe star field, it can often obtain some rare minerals that cannot be bought with money. How could the company's top management give it up so easily?

They bought the mineral mining rights of the planet, and a mining right lasts for at least a hundred years.

It has only been 30 or 40 years since the space station was built. Could it be that the company had no reaction at all? If they had, they should have found me, as a company employee, from the hibernation chamber and taken me away.

What are they doing? And although the insect plague broke out in the space station in the middle of the night, some people should have been able to escape.

Where are the people who escaped?

Could it be that the news that a space station was occupied by Zerg had never spread? Why had no one come here after so many years?

No one even came to collect the corpses.

Chen Ming's heart was full of doubts, and he seemed to have sensed something unusual about the entire matter of the space station being abandoned.

No matter what the hidden story is, the fact that a space station that brought huge profits to the company has been ignored for thirty years is enough.

This matter is definitely not something that a small maintenance technician like me can interfere with.

Before confirming what the hidden situation is between the space station and the company, Chen Ming must not contact the military outpost which is very close to the company through the space station's signal tower.

You must find a way to return to the human world by yourself.

The universe is so big. As long as I leave here, no matter what conspiracy is behind the abandonment of the space station, no one will be able to find me.

(End of this chapter)