At this moment, Chen Ming almost wanted to choose yes directly.

But before doing so, Chen Ming still controlled this thought.

The reason is very simple.

Although there should be no limit on the number of times you can change the spaceship connected to the mind-control signal, changing the connected spaceship may require the consumption of mental energy.

Chen Ming is still in the maintenance shop, still working. Most of the things Chen Ming does through the panel require consuming mental energy.

If you want to try out new features of your abilities, you have to at least wait until you have some free time.

But having said that, the thoughts in Chen Ming's mind kept growing uncontrollably.

From the moment he saw the prompt that he could change the connection, Chen Ming had already thought of many ways to gain benefits from other people's spaceships with the help of the panel.

There is even the idea of ​​directly driving away other people's spaceships through the connection.

It’s a pity that it would be a bit difficult for him to go directly to the dock and contact other people’s spacecraft.

There are strict surveillance systems everywhere in the dock. If Chen Ming touches someone else's spaceship and then that spaceship runs away inexplicably, everyone will definitely suspect him.

Although Chen Ming could also choose to remotely control the spacecraft to remove the engine and life support system when the ship left the space station, causing people to freeze to death or starve to death in space.

But Chen Ming didn't want to use this method on people who were completely strangers to him and had no idea about the situation.

Chen Ming was not sure which people in the dock were truly vicious pirates and which ones had only come to the space station for some forced reasons.

Chen Ming would feel guilty for just picking a boat to cheat others.

At least Chen Ming had to make sure that the owner of the boat was really a bad guy before he could take action with confidence.

For example, the current owner of the ship he is repairing.

Chen Ming did it without blinking an eye.

In addition to what can be done by controlling other people's spaceships, the second sentence in Chen Ming's mind [Current number of connected spaceships: 1/1] also attracted his attention.

This should be the limitation of his mental strength, but it is also the direction in which he can develop in the future.

Chen Ming was very clear about the advantages of a spaceship that could be fully controlled in his hands. The three frigates that sank in the dark cemetery were the best proof of this.

Then more spaceships naturally mean that Chen Ming can do more things.

Chen Ming firmly believes that there is a way to increase this number.

Because in the past six months, especially when I was on Ruimu, I used the panel more and more frequently.

Chen Ming could clearly feel that the consumption of his mental energy was increasing.

At the beginning, Chen Ming could feel visibly tired just from repairing two machine guns.

Later on, Chen Ming could even modify the heavy armor on the bottom of the spacecraft in the morning and fight the mechanical clan.

He was constantly repairing weapons and damaged armor along the way, and finally even repaired an electromagnetic javelin taken from a combat mechanical clan.

All this happened within one day. If Chen Ming had just received the panel at the beginning, he would definitely not have been able to handle it.

This is very clear proof that Chen Ming's mental strength is growing.

As long as Chen Ming continues to consume his mental power through the panel and train, allowing his mental power to exceed a certain limit, the number above will definitely become 1/2.

In fact, Chen Ming also thought of another possible way to increase his mental strength.

People with psychic abilities are said to be able to influence spiritual will and thinking, so they must be able to train these aspects of themselves.

But this is really too far away from Chen Ming's current circle of life.

But Chen Ming felt that he could wait until he was familiar with Lao Wu or the boss and knew whether they were trustworthy or not.

Try to use the Whispering Stone hidden in your engine room as an excuse to ask them if they have any information related to psykers.

After all, Chen Ming still can't be sure whether his ability to control the spacecraft through the panel can be regarded as a kind of psychic ability.

If you talk about psychics with others for no reason, it would be like you are clearly trying to cover up something.

Although the Whispering Stone is a good reason, its value makes it impossible for Chen Ming to simply tell it out before he can trust others.

So in this regard, Chen Ming can only take his time.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking.

The sound of a wrench hitting metal came from inside the spacecraft, along with the bald maintenance engineer's urging: "Hey, what are you doing?"

“Here I come.”

Chen Ming responded and temporarily suppressed all his thoughts in his heart.

He entered the spacecraft and cooperated with the bald maintenance technician to complete the detailed repair tasks inside the spacecraft.

When leaving the spaceship, the bald man stared at Chen Ming for a few seconds, with doubt in his eyes.

But he didn't say anything, just asked Chen Ming to continue to the next spaceship that needed maintenance.

He and Chen Ming needed to first handle all the internal repairs of the spacecraft, and then control the large-scale maintenance equipment in the maintenance plant to carry out the remaining external armor maintenance tasks.

Although Chen Ming's body was following the bald man, his mind was full of the two sentences that had just appeared in his mind.

Although it is quite unreliable to go directly to the dock and touch other people's spacecraft in front of a lot of surveillance.

But it was different in the maintenance plant. Although there were surveillance cameras, Chen Ming could touch the spacecraft that needed maintenance however he wanted.

As long as someone dares to drive the ship controlled by Chen Ming out alone, the ship will belong to Chen Ming.

Everything on the ship is naturally included, including the hyperspace channel system that Chen Ming needs most now.

In fact, Chen Ming had the idea of ​​dismantling the hyperspace channel systems on other ships in the space station and using them for his own use half a year ago.

But there were two reasons why Chen Ming did not do so at the time.

One reason is that the several spacecraft parked in the dock were severely damaged.

The Iron Ore, which Chen Ming chose as the ship that looked the most complete, lacked a hyperspace channel system, and the others could not be guaranteed.

So before Chen Ming gathered enough food for the voyage, he didn't think much about those ships.

The second reason is the bugs in the space station.

When Chen Ming returned to the space station for the first time, if he had free time, he would definitely stop by to take a look at the other two spacecraft.

But the insects' perception ability was too exaggerated. As soon as Chen Ming killed a larva hatched from an insect egg, all the insects in the space station came to chase him.

If you run a little slower, you might become food for insects, and there will be no chance of getting close to the spacecraft.

When Chen Ming went back for the second time, cystic worms with long-range attack capabilities had already appeared among the insects in the space station.

There is a high probability that those damaged spacecraft do not have the hyperspace station navigation system, and Chen Ming cannot take the huge risk to go and confirm it.

However, Chen Ming also considered using mining lasers to cut off part of the dock to disconnect the dock from the space station, so that he could go over and confirm whether there is a hyperspace channel system on the spacecraft.

Although the space station is not big, it is still small compared to other space stations.

If we really want to cut into the dock, the fuel consumed will be quite a lot.

Moreover, the spaceships docked in the docks are visibly fragile, and if you are not careful when cutting them, the spaceships may be completely destroyed.

The benefits are low, the costs are high, and it is difficult to achieve.

There is no way Chen Ming would do such a thing.

Even without the help of the panel, as long as Chen Ming can join the repair shop, it should not be difficult to get the damaged hyperspace channel system back.

With some modifications, it will be a brand new hyperspace channel system suitable for the Iron Ore.

If all else fails, Chen Ming has two alternative plans.

Buy the materials and make them yourself, or buy the finished products directly.

Which of these methods wouldn't be better than taking the risk of searching for a few abandoned ships?

In short, Chen Ming does not regret his original decision.

Assuming that he had really obtained the hyperspace channel system at the beginning, it would mean that it would take less than half a year to reach the pirate space station.

At the same time, it also means that I would not have these one million worth of goods, and my maintenance technology would definitely not have improved as it is now.

If you calculate the pros and cons, you will know what decision is the right one.

However, for now, the matter of controlling the spacecraft to obtain the hyperspace channel system will have to wait a little.

Chen Ming needs to wait for the right opportunity, and this opportunity should not take too long.

Chen Ming refocused his attention on the task at hand.

Under the bald man's strange look, it didn't take long for him to help him repair the second spaceship.

When entering the third ship that needed repair, Chen Ming suddenly asked, "I heard that the repair shop usually has a bad business. Why are there so many ships that need repair today?"

The bald maintenance engineer was obviously very happy to have someone chatting with him while he was working, and he immediately said, "A fleet has done something big, and these ships that need to be repaired in the next few days are their spoils of war."

"Do they use the boats themselves?"

"How is that possible? After they finish repairing it, they will definitely give it to their other subordinates. Pirates are not short of people who are not afraid of death."

Chen Ming nodded and continued to chat with the bald man about pirates, trying to find out more information. At the same time, he also completed the repair of the second spaceship.

However, when getting off the spaceship, the bald man suddenly said to Chen Ming with a tone that seemed to be hesitant: "You..."

Chen Ming turned his head and looked at him, but the bald man seemed to have given up his previous idea and said, "Forget it... It's okay."

Chen Ming knew the reason very well.

After all, he was a maintenance engineer under the Sinda Company, responsible for the long-term and scheduled maintenance of a high-value mining space station.

Even when in frozen hibernation, the company will pay a considerable salary, at least compared to other positions.

If the technology he mastered was not even as good as that of the maintenance technicians of the pirate space station in the fringe star field, Chen Ming might as well just bang his head against the outer wall of the space station and die.

Although my mind was occupied by those two sentences, the movements of my hands were not unfamiliar at all.

Many of the tasks that originally only required the bald repairman to help out were completed by Chen Ming alone.

It would be strange if the bald repairman didn't feel anything.

When it came to repairing the third spaceship, the bald man obviously paid more attention to Chen Ming, and unconsciously made Chen Ming, the assistant, do even more work than he did.

So when the internal maintenance of the third spaceship was completed, the bald maintenance engineer brought Chen Ming to the door of the fourth spaceship to be repaired.

He did not go in directly, but looked at Chen Ming beside him with a tangled face, and asked tentatively: "How about you come?"

"OK."

Chen Ming's behavior just now was just waiting for this moment.

It just so happens that I have already considered most of the things I should consider, and I can focus all my attention on the maintenance work.

Just as he remembered, Chen Ming directed the bald maintenance engineer as his assistant to start the maintenance work on the remaining spacecraft.

A few hours later, it was almost lunchtime.

The factory director took Lao Wu back to the spacecraft maintenance area of ​​the repair factory.

He found the bald maintenance man who was sorting out his tools and asked, "How much have you not finished?"

The bald man said with a confused look in his eyes: "It's done. All of it."

"So soon? How long has it been? You haven't even had lunch yet? Wait, all of it? You were supposed to do it tomorrow?"

The bald man glanced at Chen Ming who was observing the repaired spacecraft not far away and said, "It's all done. We are very efficient today."

The factory manager followed the bald man's gaze and his eyes immediately locked on Chen Ming.

He was very clear about the abilities of his eight employees, and absolutely no one of them could complete all the tasks in one day.

Moreover, the factory manager also knew the bald man very well and he would not lie about work matters.

Since he said all maintenance tasks have been completed, there is only one possibility.

Chen Ming and Baldy finished the work that should have taken two days in less than half an day.

The factory manager's first reaction when he thought of this possibility was disbelief, but the facts seemed to be right in front of him.

But he decided to confirm it himself.

"Give me the equipment, I'll go up and inspect it."

The bald man obediently took off his equipment and handed it to the factory director.

At this time, Old Wu also came over with great interest and said, "Then I'll go up and take a look too."

He followed the gazes of the bald man and the factory director and realized what the problem was.

Old Wu was also full of curiosity about Chen Ming.

The two of them quickly boarded the sixth spaceship, which was the last one in the planned schedule.

In fact, when they got closer, the factory director had to admit that the repairs on the spacecraft were indeed completed within half a day.

Because the external armor of several ships on the mission list has been repaired very completely.

The acceptance inspection of the interior of the spacecraft does not take much time.

So after making sure there were no problems with the internal repairs of the sixth spacecraft, the factory director directly called up the recorder of the auxiliary mobile equipment on his body.

Start viewing the full video of the repair process.

Although the perspective was from the bald man, he was basically watching Chen Ming's operations the entire time.

So the video just happened to allow the factory director to see Chen Ming's extremely professional maintenance techniques and terrifyingly skilled operating skills.

The factory director even felt that the skills of all the maintenance technicians in the entire space station were significantly different from Chen Ming's.

At this point, the factory manager couldn't help but ask Old Wu beside him, "Is this guy your friend? Where did he come from? Can you invite him in?"

"I see he has a pretty good relationship with you. He even covered for you when he knew you skipped work. You should be able to invite him, right?"

Old Wu also looked a little dazed, and subconsciously touched his head and said, "A friend is a friend, but there is no need to invite him. He just talked to me yesterday and said he wanted to join our repair shop."

"ah?"

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(End of this chapter)