Chen Ming returned to the core city of the space station and rested for a few hours in the hotel he had rented, which had not expired yet.

After dawn, I returned to the repair shop feeling sleepy.

When he just entered the repair shop, he saw Old Wu with a look of surprise on his face and hurriedly ran into the repair area of ​​the shop.

Old Wu didn't see Chen Ming, but Chen Ming was very curious about what Old Wu was doing, so he immediately followed him.

Then he saw Old Wu staring at the half of the Afterglow destroyer parked there after entering the maintenance area. He said in a shocked tone, "Fuck, is this true?"

"What's true?"

When Old Wu heard Chen Ming's words, he suddenly got a start and quickly came over. He walked along the passage from the repair area to the dock, pointed at the Iron Ore in the dock and asked, "Xiao Mu, is that your ship?"

"right."

Chen Ming had nothing to deny. In any case, Factory Director Lao Wu must have investigated his situation.

It’s very easy to check the surveillance and stuff, whether you admit it or not.

When Old Wu heard Chen Ming's affirmative answer, he pointed to the half of the Glorious-class ship and asked, "Did your ship bring this thing back yesterday?"

"right."

Chen Ming glanced at the Yuhui destroyer that he had dragged back with great effort last night, and did not deny it.

"But I remember you were supposed to be in the basement of the Administration yesterday, right?"

"really."

"Then take a look at this."

Old Wu took out the terminal and played a sensor scanning video.

This video recorded everything the Iron Ore did last night.

The recording perspective is the ship that was abandoned before Chen Ming had a conflict with the caravan.

Old Wu waited for the video to finish playing, and said impatiently: "The news has been spreading on the forum since last night. A civilian mining ship directly smashed four ships head-on, and they were all armed ships."

"I also saw the Sentinel when I came here just now. Don't you have anything to say?"

"say what?"

"Has your boat been stolen?"

In fact, Chen Ming had already thought of an excuse last night, but Old Wu's sudden strange question made him a little nervous.

He really wanted to say that if his ship was really stolen, how could the thief return the ship and also give it half a Glorious-class ship as a gift.

However, Chen Ming soon realized that Old Wu might be giving him a way out.

Because at some point, the factory director suddenly stood not far from Chen Ming. Although he did not come to disturb him, he could definitely hear the conversation between Chen Ming and Lao Wu.

Although Chen Ming had won the trust of some factory managers and Lao Wu before, trust is not mindless blind faith.

If Chen Ming showed too many dangerous and suspicious traits, then trust would naturally collapse.

However, this is a pirate space station, and the pirate space station is not interested in finding out other people's secrets and origins, so Factory Director Lao Wu and the others actually just need Chen Ming to give them a reasonable explanation.

Of course, it is also possible that Old Wu’s brain circuit is really like this, but to be honest, the probability of this is a bit small.

So Chen Ming started talking about the reason he had thought of last night: "In fact, the captain is still on my ship."

Before going to bed, he gave Xiaoshi the position of captain, and he himself was the chief maintenance engineer of the Iron Ore.

"The captain took the ship out when Yuhui came to attack yesterday."

"Then someone tried to snatch Yuhui's boat from it, and it just started to attack."

"Finally it left a sentinel, and I went out with it last night and brought both ships back."

After listening to Chen Ming's statement, Old Wu was still a little skeptical.

He was a little unsure whether Chen Ming was talking nonsense, but when he thought of the video that was already circulating on the forum, he was basically certain that the person driving the spaceship was definitely a professional, and the smoothness of the spaceship's operation was not something that an ordinary driver could achieve.

Although Chen Ming also said yesterday that his driving skills are good, he has been staying in the administration and has no chance to directly drive the spacecraft.

Although remote spacecraft control on a cosmic scale can be achieved through superluminal communication technology, it can only be carried out next to a communication base station.

There is obviously no communication base station on the pirate space station.

Coupled with various interferences on the battlefield and electronic warfare between spacecraft, remotely controlling spacecraft driving and combat is very difficult to achieve.

It can be ruled out that Chen Ming was driving the spaceship.

Then it can be confirmed that the weapons of the spacecraft were modified from the weapons of the mechanical clan, and should be something made by Chen Ming himself.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with a maintenance technician being paired with a driver captain.

However, Captain Chen Ming never got off the ship after the spacecraft landed, and only let Chen Ming come down to find a job and make money.

What kind of person could make a maintenance engineer like Chen Ming willingly do such a thing? Old Wu wanted to speak out what was in his heart, but he also knew when to say something inappropriate, so he just reminded him: "Then you have to let your captain pay attention. It's not a good thing to be too conspicuous."

At this time, Chen Ming noticed from the corner of his eye that the factory director had gone to do his own thing, and nodded and said, "I'll pass it on."

Before Old Wu finished speaking and was about to leave, Chen Ming suddenly stopped him and said, "Old Wu, do you plan to take back the half of the Yuhui Ship Space Station?"

Old Wu was not annoyed by Chen Ming's frequent questions, and explained seriously: "The Yuhui Ship Space Station has always been collecting them."

"After all, Yuhui is also developing. Even though the technology they use on board is different from ours because of the design concept of the spacecraft, there are still many things we can learn from them."

"It's worth collecting them for research, and you can never have too many."

"In fact, Yuhui is also using various methods to collect human ships. It's the same principle."

"The space station just finished fighting Yuhui, so the recycling price will definitely be lower. You can talk to the factory manager. He should be responsible for this matter, but..."

Old Wu suddenly lowered his voice and said, "You can go talk to Old Wu. The price he offers is definitely higher than what the space station offers."

"The same goes for the Sentinel. The station is not short of such items, so it definitely can't be sold."

"As for Lao Wu... I really don't know if he will accept this thing. You can ask him yourself when the time comes."

Chen Ming's mind flashed with the lazy figure of the hardware store owner, and he responded, "Okay, but I remember the boss said he was collecting for others, so is it okay to steal business from the space station?"

"And I don't think I saw any space station ships at the dock. Don't their ships need repairs?"

Old Wu answered without even thinking: "Old Wu will definitely be able to handle his own problems, you don't have to worry about it."

"As for the boats...the ones responsible for the fights are a separate department, and they have their own dock to park the boats."

"And even if their ships are broken, they don't need to be repaired, because they are not actually under the management of the space station. All combat ships are sent down from above. If they are broken, they will be transported away together and a new batch will be sent down."

Old Wu knew that what he said would make Chen Ming have questions, so he explained directly: "So they usually don't have maintenance technicians, or they all have some simple maintenance skills to support them in a fight."

"How can we let the combatants do such hard work as cleaning up the battlefield? So this task will eventually fall on us."

Chen Ming digested what Old Wu said and suddenly seemed to have discovered a business opportunity. He asked, "What about these broken ships?"

"What are you thinking? It doesn't matter if you take some spare parts or equipment from those floating around out there. Old Lu will definitely turn a blind eye."

"But the ships that came back were all counted and listed. It's not easy to take advantage of them."

Since Old Wu has warned him like this, Chen Ming naturally won't say much.

"Okay, what about today's mission?"

Old Wu stepped forward and said, "Come on, the boat has been approved and just taken out of the warehouse. Old Lu just went over to start it up."

"This cleanup mission will probably take a few months. Once it's done, we won't have to go out every day."

"Just go back and sit in the office. We may ask you to do some work like training new people. It shouldn't be too tiring for us."

Old Wu suddenly chuckled and said, "If you sit in the office more often, I can go to more places when I skip work."

Deep inside the repair shop.

The factory director and the bald man had already put on their equipment and were waiting for Lao Wu and Chen Ming next to the engineering ship.

However, after seeing the number of people present, Chen Ming couldn't help but ask: "Just the four of us?"

Old Wu explained to Chen Ming: "The maintenance shop needs someone on duty, so I left Xiaowen here first. I originally thought that your skills would be more efficient if you could go out to work, but if you want to keep him as a doorman, that's fine too."

"Then forget it."

"Okay, let's go aboard."

The four of them walked onto the spaceship through the open hatch.

After getting on the boat, Chen Ming immediately took control of the boat.

With the previous experience of controlling half of a Glorious-class ship, controlling this engineering ship, which was roughly between a destroyer and an escort, did not have much impact on Chen Ming.

He quickly adapted and confirmed the situation of the engineering ship.

This engineering vessel is used internally by Xinda Company.

Its functions were more complex and diverse than the ones he had driven before, and it was more like a small mobile repair shop.

However, having said that, the new engineering ships only have some additional functions that a repair shop should have compared to the engineering ships of thirty years ago.

It took Chen Ming ten minutes to fully understand the engineering ship.

What happened next was so magical that the other three people on the boat felt it was magical.

After the engineering ship set off, the four people were supposed to work together to complete the task of cleaning the battlefield.

But as they worked on it, the other people found that there were fewer and fewer tasks at hand.

Almost all the tasks were solved by Chen Ming alone, and he didn't even feel flustered. It was as if the projects that they needed to work on seriously were just things that Chen Ming could complete easily.

Old Wu had no objection to this at all. He hid in the corner of the engineering ship and was happily fishing.

The factory manager and the bald man basically kept staring at Chen Ming.

They all have mastered professional maintenance techniques, and they all started from the most basic knowledge and completed the company's education and training step by step.

But when they saw Chen Ming working, they always had a feeling that they and Chen Ming were not doing the same kind of work.

Even if they can do what Chen Ming is doing, and can do it well, but to achieve the terrifying level of fluency as Chen Ming and consume such a short time, it really seems like it is not something that ordinary people can do.

Not long after.

The factory director, who suddenly found himself with nothing to do, took out his terminal, avoided Chen Ming's sight, and chatted with Lao Wu about Chen Ming's background.

At present, they can be sure that Chen Ming is definitely a senior maintenance technician who has received elite education, and talent and hard work are indispensable.

So now they are discussing whether Chen Ming is from Xinda Company or from other companies.

Just one terminal inside Xinda Company could not explain anything completely, so they could not come to a conclusion for a while.

Chen Ming had no idea what the factory director and Old Wu were talking about.

But one thing he was clear about was that on the second day, there was another engineering ship in the repair shop, which was given to him to drive alone.

Without the interference of other people, Chen Ming can even use the panel directly to assist in driving and work, making it easier to complete the task.

He could even take some time to consider how to use the Afterglow AI core.

Chen Ming thought about it carefully over the past two days and also looked up a lot of information.

I found that after so many years since the AI ​​awakened and launched a rebellion, it seems that I have only seen the afterglow AI advance into the human empire, and I have never seen any AI run away.

Although it may be due to good management, it may also be due to good news blocking.

But it is also possible that individuals who are indeed Afterglow AI do not care where they work.

Chen Ming thought that he could try to trust Gamma AI and not sell the Sentinel-class ship for the time being. He would repair it when he had time, remove some dangerous functions, and use it to give it a try.

After get off work.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to repair the Sentinel-class ship. Instead, he went to see his boss and delivered the previous batch of cigarettes and alcohol.

We talked a bit about the recovery of half of the Glorious-class ship.

After get off work the day before, Chen Ming had already confirmed that there was nothing else of special value to him on the Glorious-class. If he acted quickly, he would avoid any more trouble and worries.

The recycling price of the Glorious-class ship was agreed upon, and the boss said that half of the ship could only be recycled at about 30% off.

But even at a 70% discount, it's still much more profitable than dismantling it and selling the materials.

Generally speaking, the price of a destroyer is in the tens of millions, and the price of a afterglow ship is definitely higher than other ships.

So in the end, the boss gave the payment for the goods directly to Chen Ming just like last time, a total of 45 million.

Getting such money made Chen Ming experience an unreal feeling again, and after confirming that he had received the money, his hands trembled slightly.

Fortunately, this time the boss directly sent two people to accompany Chen Ming to the repair shop to confirm it. After the acceptance, the money and goods were settled, which made Chen Ming calm down a little.

This amount of money is definitely enough for Chen Ming to buy a very advanced frigate.

Chen Ming was still struggling with whether he should make a major overhaul of the Iron Ore from the outside to the inside, or buy a new spaceship.

There is no need to think about it now.

He wants them all.

A backup option is better than nothing.

However, the current situation of the maintenance plant is not enough to support Chen Ming's major modifications to the Iron Ore, and there seems to be no spacecraft for sale at the maintenance plant for the time being.

So in the end, things went around in circles and came back to the transformation of the Sentinel-class so that Chen Ming could understand the effect of Gamma AI.

However, after the transaction with the boss, it was already a little late, so Chen Ming just made a rough plan of the transformation and lay down on the bed of the Iron Ore.

However, late that night.

Chen Ming was suddenly awakened from his deep sleep by a shrill alarm.

"The Sunset Fleet is about to attack the space station, please take shelter."

(End of this chapter)