What Old Wu said made the factory manager hesitate for a moment, and he asked, "Who is he?"

"have no idea."

"have no idea?"

"I really don't know. He's a new guy. I guess he must have done something wrong and is hiding here."

"I don't know anything. I just helped him get an identity from Lao Wu yesterday. His name is Mu Shuikong."

"Old Wu is also quite interested in this new guy. It's obvious that his old habits have recurred."

Seeing that Old Wu was about to change the subject, the factory manager quickly interrupted and said, "Don't worry about other people's interests and hobbies. Just help me find a way to investigate him to make sure he's not a spy."

Old Wu said nonchalantly, "Why are you worried about us? Spies are just spies. They can't steal anything from you."

"With such good skills, he came to our remote area to find work. Do you believe that there is no problem?"

"It's really unnecessary. Are there any problems for the few people who can come to our pirate space station?"

"I'll give you the money."

"Say it earlier."

Old Wu's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and he said with enthusiasm for work: "How do you want me to evaluate him?"

"We just need to find out his purpose for coming to the space station. As long as he doesn't affect us, his identity and background are not important."

"I don't plan to ask him to do any work, just help me teach people. If he can share even 10% of his skills with those useless people under me, I won't have to wear this outfit every day."

Old Wu looked at the factory manager in his work clothes and smiled, saying, "Don't you think about where this place is? Who with skills would want to come here and suffer?"

The factory manager sighed in dissatisfaction, looked at Old Wu's face and said, "I think your skills are not bad. If you are willing to work harder and help me teach people, I don't have to rush to keep you now."

"Hey, I don't have that much energy to spend on this kind of thing. You should trouble the young man to do it."

"Actually, if you ask me, you shouldn't wait for me to figure out why Xiao Mu is here. Just trust Lao Wu. Hasn't his eyesight always been good?"

"Since he is interested in Xiao Mu, why don't you just invite him over first?"

The factory manager was not angry at what Old Wu said. Instead, he seriously considered his suggestion and said, "You have a point. What if I let you test him and he gets upset and runs away? It will be hard to find another person with such skills."

Old Wu followed the factory director's words and said, "Yes, yes. By the way, aren't you going to ask me to do some work today? Why not just go find him directly?"

Upon hearing this, the factory manager turned around and glared at Old Wu, instantly wrapping his arms around his neck.

"Don't even think about it. You can't escape."

"The tasks assigned by the superiors really can't be done by a newcomer like him."

"Anyway, I'll go and keep the person here first, and you can help me keep an eye on it later. I'll reimburse you for the money you spent."

Old Wu struggled a few times but found he couldn't get free, so he put his arm on the factory director's shoulder and said, "Since you said so, I must help you figure it out, right?"

"Be careful, don't overdo it."

"rest assured."

After the two men finished discussing, they let go of each other's hands and walked off the spaceship.

The factory director soon came to Chen Ming again and asked with a very serious expression: "Mu Shuikong?"

Chen Ming nodded and replied, "Yes."

"You've performed very well. I think our repair shop really needs people like you. Are you interested in staying?"

Chen Ming was not surprised by the factory director's invitation. As long as he agreed, he would get the job in the repair shop.

However, a question suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind, that is, since there is a job, he has to sign a contract.

But for a repair shop of a pirate space station that walks on the edge of the law or even outside the law, does a contract that emphasizes legal validity really make sense? Chen Ming glanced at Old Wu, who was whistling beside the factory director. He smiled as brightly as when he cheated him out of 3,000 yuan before, and gave himself a thumbs up.

Chen Ming resisted the urge to punch him in the face and decided to trust Old Wu first and then run away if there was really a problem.

After pretending to think for a moment, Chen Ming replied: "I am very interested in this."

After receiving Chen Ming's affirmative answer, the factory director couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

Although Chen Ming's identity is currently unknown, at least his skills are there, and the two people he knows are optimistic about him, so the probability of him failing is not too high.

The factory manager restrained his expression a little and continued to say to Chen Ming: "The maintenance factory staff is not here today, so I'll have to trouble you to come back tomorrow. I'll pay you today's salary first."

"OK."

Chen Ming agreed casually, but immediately remembered that when he was chatting with the bald man just now, he seemed to have said that this kind of maintenance work was settled weekly.

After all, the balance will only be paid after the owners of the spaceship, that is, the pirates, have inspected and accepted it.

Somewhat puzzled, Chen Ming turned his head to look at the bald man who was eavesdropping on the conversation and found that his expression was also very surprised.

However, the surprised expression on the bald man's face soon disappeared, because when he thought about Chen Ming's skills, he felt that everything made sense.

This behavior made Chen Ming even more confused, but since others wanted to give him money, he couldn't possibly refuse.

Chen Ming took out the terminal, called up the payment interface, and showed it to the factory manager.

The factory director quickly transferred the labor costs for repairing six spacecraft, totaling two hundred thousand.

More than Chen Ming originally estimated.

Generally speaking, the cost of repairing a spacecraft, counting only the labor cost but not the replacement of spare parts, is about 100,000.

The maintenance shop takes half of the money, and two maintenance technicians usually work together to repair a spacecraft, so each person can only get more than 20,000 yuan.

Chen Ming's original ten and a half percent should be fifteen thousand for one ship, and six ships would be ninety thousand.

It now seems that the factory director has already understood the specific situation of the maintenance task just now, so he directly gave Chen Ming 30% and rounded it up to an even number, which finally became 200,000.

Chen Ming estimated that the repair shop would not have many opportunities to repair so many ships at one time, so the two hundred thousand was not a bad amount.

After confirming that the money had been received, Chen Ming nodded to the factory manager and prepared to leave.

But before leaving, Chen Ming did not forget why he came to the repair shop today.

Chen Ming bypassed the factory director and said to Old Wu, "Old Wu, I have something to ask you. Are you free now?"

Old Wu's hand seemed to have nowhere to put, so he put it on the factory director's shoulder again.

"Hey, not at the moment. Lao Lu asked me to come here for work. I'll definitely be free after get off work."

"Okay, I'll come back to you."

Old Wu waved his hand and walked deeper into the repair shop with Director Lu.

Chen Ming watched the two people's backs gradually disappear, but he didn't feel sorry about it.

This was a good opportunity for him to confirm whether his abilities could be useful on other people's spaceships.

And just now, Chen Ming had almost chosen the spaceship he was going to control.

The most suitable one was the Sentinel-class ship he had repaired at the beginning.

The Sentinel-class ships are highly maneuverable and are well suited to serving as vanguards or reconnaissance vessels.

A ship that undertakes such a mission is likely to leave the fleet alone and only maintain communication.

Chen Ming can monitor the Sentinel as soon as it separates from the main force.

Then he could forcibly control the Sentinel-class to run to a place where no one would notice before others could react.

Turn off the life support and the engine, and wait for the pirates on board to die from lack of oxygen or freezing. Then the spaceship will completely belong to you.

At that time, Chen Ming will drive the ship back to the space station before the pirates can react.

Dismantle what you need outside the space station and sell the remaining spacecraft directly to the repair shop.

Without any evidence, why would the pirates compete with the repair shop for food?

Chen Ming quickly put on the equipment he had used to repair the spacecraft.

It just so happened that everyone else had gone to eat at that time, and no one would stop Chen Ming.

Even if someone saw his actions on surveillance, he has a lot of reasons to explain it.

Chen Ming came to the Sentinel again and put his hand on its hatch.

[Currently connected ships: 1/1]

"replace."

As the choice was made, Chen Ming could clearly feel that he was losing control of the Iron Ore.

The Sentinel in front of him was gradually becoming his extended limbs, just like the Iron Ore before him.

And changing spacecraft does not consume much mental energy.

Soon, a new spaceship panel appeared in front of Chen Ming.

【Spaceship Panel】

[Ship Name: Sentinel]

[Type: Sentinel-class civilian frigate armed ship]

[Fuel reserves: 10%]

[Port side weapons: None, None]

[Small missile mounting point: None]

[Armor: Reinforced titanium alloy external armor]

[Engine: Civilian escort-grade engine]

[Built-in cabins: captain's cabin, engine cabin, missile auxiliary operation cabin, living cabin, storage cabin]

[Important equipment: bridge control system module (in operation), position traction module (in operation), life support system module (in operation), missile attachment module (in operation), artificial gravity module (in operation), landing module (in operation), hyperspace channel system module (in operation)]

The Sentinel-class panel is slightly different from that of the Iron Ore.

The most obvious place is in weapons.

The Sentinel-class' asymmetrical design, similar to that of the Cerberus-class, means that it has no ordinary weapons on its starboard side, and there is only a missile mounting point fixed to the front right side of the spacecraft.

It looks strange, but the fact that this design has been preserved means that it must have its merits.

At least that missile hardpoint gives the Sentinel-class more tactical options.

However, these are not important to Chen Ming, because what is really important is that he can now control this Sentinel-class ship just like he controls the Iron Ore.

At this time, from the perspective of the maintenance plant's surveillance, Chen Ming's hand could be seen pressing on the hatch. His hand moved slightly, and the hatch opened.

But in fact, the operation of opening the hatch was carried out by controlling the spacecraft through Chen Ming's consciousness.

There is no difference between Chen Ming's control over the Sentinel and his control over the Iron Ore.

This means that all his previous ideas are possible.

At this point, a look of satisfaction finally appeared on Chen Ming's face.

What he had to do next was simple: wait.

Once the pirates take the ship out again, the rest of the things will be accomplished naturally.

Now, it's almost time to have lunch.

Just when Chen Ming left the repair shop.

The factory director and Old Wu just happened to arrive at the deepest part of the repair shop, a maintenance area that was smaller than the outside.

In the zero-gravity area here, the wreckage of a ship is floating.

If Chen Ming were here, he would definitely be able to see that the wreckage was exactly the same ship that crashed into the dock yesterday.

After all, the repair shop was run by the space station, so the task of investigating the damaged spacecraft naturally fell on the repair shop in the end.

The factory manager quickly put on his equipment next to the spacecraft.

At this time, Old Wu was hesitating and couldn't put on a set of simple auxiliary mobility equipment for a long time.

The factory manager knew what Old Wu was thinking when he saw his expression. He sighed and said, "If you do the work for me honestly, I will give you the full attendance for this month."

Old Wu didn't say anything, but suddenly yawned, and the equipment he was half putting on slipped off again.

The factory manager could only continue: "There will be bonuses if the work is done."

"You should have said so earlier."

Old Wu suddenly became nimble and put on his equipment immediately.

He walked into the zero-gravity area and started working with the assistance of the factory manager.

They need to sort out and confirm the cause of the spacecraft crash.

The quickest way is naturally to extract the black box and the records in those recording devices that have not been completely damaged.

This task was not too difficult for Lao Wu.

He worked with the factory manager who was operating the external heavy maintenance machinery, and they quickly removed the wreckage of the spacecraft piece by piece, cleaned it up, and disassembled it. It wasn't long before they found the black box.

However, neither of them rushed to see the contents of the black box, but continued to dismantle the wreckage.

The plan is to clean up all the wreckage, collect all the valuable items, integrate them together, and quickly and accurately determine the cause of the spacecraft accident.

The wreckage dismantling work soon reached its final stage.

At this moment, the factory director suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something flickering in the last piece of wreckage, which was probably the engine part of the spacecraft.

The factory manager immediately reminded Old Wu who was working in the zero-gravity zone: "Old Wu, look at your right hand."

Old Wu looked in the direction the factory director had pointed out and found a needle-like object as thick as his little finger that had pierced into the interior of the spacecraft.

There is a signal light at the end of the needle, which is constantly flashing a light blue.

The explosion of the spacecraft did not leave any traces on it, and it looks very solid.

The factory manager came directly to the edge of the zero-gravity zone at this time, looked at the needle-like object in Old Wu's hand and asked, "What is this?"

Old Wu said uncertainly, "This looks like afterglow, so it shouldn't be a weapon."

He picked up a tool, put it next to the object and scanned it, then continued, "Its internal structure is very simple, there is nothing dangerous about it. Wait, this thing..."

Old Wu paused and continued, "This seems to be a locator. They may be trying to attack the space station."

When the factory manager heard what Old Wu said, his brows knitted together. He asked in confusion, "What is that? What's the reason? Is there any benefit in attacking the space station with afterglow?"

"I'm not Yu Hui, how would I know?"

"You can't think that Yuhui determined the location of the space station in order to avoid it, right? Or do you think they just wanted to confirm it and do nothing else? Is that possible?"

"Since Yuhui and the others did something like this, they must have some ideas about the space station."

As Old Wu spoke, he left the zero-gravity area, stood on the ground of the space station, and took off his equipment.

"Anyway, let's take a look at the black box first."

The factory director did not object, and together with Old Wu, they used a bunch of recording equipment that had not been completely damaged and the intact black box to reconstruct what had happened to the spacecraft.

This spaceship had a companion spaceship before it, and together they jumped out of the hyperspace channel to the edge of the galaxy where the space station was located.

Just as they came out of the channel, they were attacked by a small Afterglow fleet that had been lurking for a long time.

The other ship was destroyed on the spot, but this one had strange luck.

Although all the attacks of the Afterglow ships hit the real targets, they avoided the fatal positions that could cause the spacecraft to sink directly.

And apparently out of vigilance against the armed forces of the space station inside the galaxy, this small Afterglow Fleet only operated at the edge of the galaxy and did not go deep into the galaxy to chase the spacecraft, allowing it to successfully escape back to the space station.

Now it seems that Yu Hui was obviously letting the game go on purpose.

First a beacon was left on the ship, and then the ship was released to lock the position of the space station.

Sunset must have expected the beacons to be discovered, but they did it anyway.

In other words, there is a high possibility that Yu Hui's assault force is already on the way.

(End of this chapter)