The captain of the military team who walked into the room directly said that Tian Jiwen had woken up.

Tian Jiwen's heart was in a panic again. He instinctively struggled with his hands tied behind the chair, but the rope was very strong and there was no way for him to break free.

"You're really awake."

The two people who had been guarding him immediately came closer.

One of them reached out and grabbed Tian Jiwen's hair, forcing him to lift his head up.

When he saw the two people's faces, Tian Jiwen's eyes widened.

"You... are the ones who asked about the spaceship at the repair shop earlier."

The person who grabbed Tian Jiwen's hair raised his mouth, let go of Tian Jiwen's hair and said, "You still remember us. You have a good memory. I think you should also have a good memory for other things, right?"

"You are looking for that person and you kidnapped me. Aren't you afraid of getting in trouble with the Administration?"

The captain who had just walked in suddenly pulled open a corner of the curtains in the room, allowing Tian Jiwen to see that the hotel he was in was quite close to the administration building.

"Why don't you guess why we are not afraid?"

He lowered the curtain again and said, "If you tell the truth, you will suffer less."

Tian Jiwen couldn't help swallowing.

However, a team member near the door suddenly whispered to his teammate next to him: "The captain is worthy of being the captain. He can come up with such an excuse for just booking a room in the hotel."

"really."

Naturally, Tian Jiwen could not hear the team members' words that insulted the captain.

He only knows that he is now a fish on the chopping board and his life is his own.

So Tian Jiwen didn't struggle, and said directly: "I'll tell you where the ship is, but do you have a terminal that can log in to the space station website?"

The captain stretched out his hand and presented a terminal with the space station website page open in front of him.

Tian Jiwen continued, "Open the forum and scroll to the front. You should be able to see a popular post with a video."

When the video of Chen Ming controlling an Iron Ore ship and fighting four others at once was played in front of the five members of the military team.

They were all silent for a moment.

Tian Jiwen looked at their performance and suddenly said nervously: "Is it this ship?"

Although the appearance of the ship in the video is basically the same as that of the missing Iron Ore, there is only a slight difference in color.

However, the actual performance made it difficult for several military personnel to draw a conclusion, and they could not directly rule out the possibility of coincidence.

However, the captain certainly couldn't express this point directly at this time, so he continued: "Yes, where is it now?"

"He was fired. I heard he will be back today or tomorrow."

"The man who was driving the spaceship is called Mu Shuikong, and he is now an employee at the maintenance factory."

"Oh and this spaceship was modified later."

"What was modified?"

"Mu Shuikong spent nearly 10 million yuan to buy a military system modification at the repair shop, and also modified the appearance."

"Renovated the exterior?"

"Yes, but if you ask me to describe the transformation in detail, I can't tell you."

The captain already had a rough estimate in his mind, but just in case, he continued to ask: "Does anyone have a photo?"

"No, he has been wearing a protective suit since the first time I saw him, and he has never taken it off."

"Do you know the exact date he came to the space station?"

"Yes, it was his first time here, and he asked me and my colleagues questions as soon as he entered the repair shop, so I have some impression of him."

Tian Jiwen couldn't help but glance at the team member who had asked him the same question before, and at the same time said a date.

The captain glanced at the team member behind him who was holding a computer.

The team members responded: "Almost, just a little bit off, basically the same."

"Can."

The captain standing next to Tian Jiwen suddenly reached out and knocked Tian Jiwen unconscious with a punch to prevent him from continuing to hear what was said later.

"Then it is confirmed that this Mu Shuikong is Chen Ming."

"What is Mu Shuikong? I am also Kong Jellyfish."

"Get ready, we'll take action when he comes back."

The team member who had spoken more than the others asked in surprise, "Did you really catch him?"

The captain frowned and said, "You really think I'm going on vacation? If Chen Ming's presence is discovered, we won't be able to save our heads."

Although another team member knew the seriousness of failing to complete the task, he still said: "But now that Chen Ming has joined the maintenance plant, it will be difficult for the staff of the management bureau to deal with it."

"And we don't know that Xinda doesn't know Chen Ming's situation either. Don't forget that this space station is funded by Xinda. If they are determined to protect Chen Ming, it will be difficult for us to find a chance."

"Plus, there are the rules of the Pirate Space Station. It's not easy for us to really resort to any means."

The talkative team member reached out and hammered the door frame next to him and said, "So why does the Pirate Space Station have such rules? Why should we follow them?"

"If it were you, I would just send a warship to their door and ask them to hand the person over. There's no need to go through so much trouble."

The captain couldn't help but punch the wall beside him and said, "Xia Chao! What are you thinking about?"

"If the troops here dare to block the door of the space station today, the troops from other places will dare to do so tomorrow."

"So many companies have spent a lot of money to build a space station, and you just threaten them?"

"If you use your butt to think about it, you will know that you can't do something that will anger the public."

The captain said, his tone suddenly slowed down.

"Although the military can't do anything they want, other people can do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't affect the military."

"Also, you don't know how to create an accident? Do you still need me to teach you?"

"Is it difficult to create a fire, equipment failure or some other accident and find a way to kidnap someone?"

"And didn't we catch one?"

The captain looked at Tian Jiwen next to him.

"Even if this Chen Ming is not like him and is protected by the Administration, can you not arrest him?"

"As long as we are fast enough and efficient enough, the people from the Administration won't be able to catch us."

After the captain finished speaking, he looked at each of the team members.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and get ready to go. According to the stationmaster's request, it's best to capture them alive."

There were a few scattered "yes" sounds in the room.

The talkative Xia Chao suddenly pointed at Tian Jiwen who was unconscious next to him and said, "What should we do with him?"

The captain glanced at Tian Jiwen and said, "I remember that the Pirate Space Station will open some places where low-level force can be used to solve problems privately. Do you know where it is?"

The teammate holding the computer immediately checked and said, "Originally, there is a designated area behind the 20th space arm. It is basically the same as a slum. Some people who have no money but their lives stay there. People who die there are generally not taken care of."

"But it's no longer possible now. The space station was attacked by the afterglow before, and several space arms were lost. Therefore, even after the 20th, the rules for the space arms have become much stricter. If a maintenance employee dies there, something will definitely go wrong."

The captain thought about it and said, "Then keep it for now, until we finish our work."

"If things go well, it will be enough to keep it secret. Xinda Company will not take special care of him as an ordinary employee. He will know what to choose when the time comes."

"If it doesn't go well...we'll see what happens."

Xia Chao then made another suggestion and said, "Actually, I think we can try to control him for a long time. Captain, didn't you say that we are short of manpower?"

"You mean with drugs?"

The captain considered his opinion again, shook his head and said, "No, I heard that a batch of important medicines were lost some time ago."

"Another batch of drugs seems to have been noticed by the review department and cannot be moved. We don't have any suitable drugs to use on him now."

"Forget it, I just said it casually, let's follow the captain's instructions."

"Well, hurry up and get ready."

The captain suddenly called the two teammates who had discovered that Tian Jiwen was hiding something and said, "Wake him up again and ask him if Chen Ming's daily routine has any regularity."

"Also check whether Chen Ming has established any network of connections."

"He was able to fly half a light year in an abandoned mining space station with a broken ship that didn't even have a hyperspace channel system. This ability is definitely not that of an ordinary person."

"I'm worried that he has developed a network of relationships during his time here, so I need to know in advance to avoid any mistakes."

"yes."

The military team on the space station became busy.

A few hours after leaving the star region capital, Chen Ming returned to the edge of the galaxy at the space station.

After jumping out of the hyperspace channel, he controlled the Iron Ore, Mule and Centurion to fly towards the space station on the sensor.

The Fighter Kai stopped at the Dark Cemetery just like before.

Seeing the space station getting closer and closer, Old Wu, who had been doing nothing for several hours, finally couldn't hold back any longer.

He suddenly asked Chen Ming, who was rubbing a small stone with one hand and reading a book with the other hand, "Xiao Ming, don't you consider buying a house on the space station? A few million should be enough to buy a big one."

Chen Ming heard the question asked by Old Wu out of boredom and answered without even looking up: "I don't have any plans in this regard for the time being."

"Still want to climb up?"

"right."

"So hard?"

Chen Ming was silent for a while.

In my mind, I recalled the time when the space station was attacked by the afterglow. The space station that could accommodate an entire city was crumbling under the attack of the afterglow.

There was also the moment when the particle torrent of the Tachyon Spear passed through the space station and cut off a space arm just a few hundred meters away from Chen Ming.

And when the Refraction-class was targeted by a military ship, the Afterglow Cruiser instantly annihilated the two military ships with its Tachyon Spear.

Chen Ming couldn't help but sighed and said, "I have to fight."

"Let me ask you, Old Wu, have you ever seen a cruiser with your own eyes?"

"I've definitely seen a cruiser before."

"Have you ever been nearly killed by the aftermath of a cruiser attack?"

"Forehead……"

"That's right. I don't want to be a repairman who can only repair these frigates and destroyers. I also want to get in touch with larger cruisers and even battleships."

Old Wu sighed with some melancholy at this moment and said, "That's great. Unlike me, my sister is the only thing on my mind now..."

"stop."

Chen Ming threw the stone to Old Wu and said, "Old Wu, if you are bored, you can watch videos or sleep."

Before Old Wu could catch Xiao Shi, Xiao Shi adjusted his posture in the air very flexibly, sat on Old Wu's head, and kicked his legs and ran back to Chen Ming's hands.

Old Wu sighed and said, "Oh, you said I..."

Before he could finish his words, Chen Ming waved his hand at him, signaling him not to speak.

"The factory manager sent me a message."

Chen Ming clicked twice on the terminal and the voice message began to play automatically.

"Xiao Mu, come to my place when you return to the space station."

"The money for the previous batch of goods has been transferred. I've applied for a new card for you to deposit this money. Come and get it."

"By the way, when you come back, please call Old Wu over for me. I have something to talk to him about. He's been out playing for two days and it's time for him to get back to work."

After Chen Ming finished the voice message, he looked up at Old Wu.

At this time, Old Wu was lying on Chen Ming's fitness equipment, watching videos with a dying look on his face.

I think he was successfully crushed by the work pressure mentioned by the factory manager.

Chen Ming ignored him and controlled the spacecraft to land in the space station.

As soon as the hatch of the Iron Ore was opened, Old Wu ran away and Chen Ming couldn't stop him.

He was too lazy to try to stop him since he couldn't, so he prepared himself on the Iron Ore and walked out.

But Chen Ming had just stepped off the spaceship.

He suddenly felt a familiar sense of danger.

Although this sense of danger was very weak, not even a fraction of the sense of danger he had felt in the previous times, his brows still furrowed in an instant.

Chen Ming stopped and looked around, but as he did so, the sense of danger suddenly disappeared.

Chen Ming failed to find the source of the danger, but he didn't think he was wrong. He had never been wrong in his perception of danger.

It's better to be careful.

Chen Ming didn't hesitate and immediately turned around and returned to the spaceship.

At the same time, near the maintenance shop's door leading to the interior of the space station.

A person just got on the horizontal elevator and headed into the city.

After making sure that no one around noticed him, he put his hand to his ear and said, "Captain, that spaceship is really back."

"Although the man who came down was wearing protective clothing, his figure basically matched. It should be Chen Ming. His perception ability is quite strong. He noticed me as soon as I looked at him."

The captain's voice came from his headset: "Have you been discovered by him?"

"No, I was walking fast. He just felt someone was looking at him. He definitely didn't see me."

"Where are the others?"

"Back to the spaceship. I'm now using the miniature camera I just installed secretly to observe his spaceship. I'll report any movement as soon as possible."

"Continue to observe, just monitor, don't go see it in person."

"Yes, Captain."

A few minutes after the military personnel left, Chen Ming got off the boat again.

To ensure safety, he made some extra preparations when disembarking this time.

He put on the lightweight exoskeleton armor he had bought earlier, and also spent some materials on the ship to modify the full body armor plate.

Soon, Chen Ming, wearing a Baiyun steel alloy exoskeleton armor, also stood on the horizontal elevator.

However, he did not rush to the city to find the factory manager, but first planned to go to Space Arm No. 2 to find the boss.

The bald man who was on duty at the maintenance factory today happened to see the whole process of Chen Ming getting off the spaceship and standing on the elevator.

When he saw Chen Ming, he suddenly remembered what happened before.

With the idea that less trouble is worse than more, he wanted to pretend that he knew nothing about the matter.

But after Chen Ming left.

He suddenly thought about it and felt that it would not be a big problem to tell others that someone was asking about Chen Ming.

It just so happened that he also had Chen Ming's communication code, so he picked up the terminal again and planned to contact Chen Ming.

But before the bald man did so, someone else's voice suddenly rang in his ear: "Master, how much does it cost to repair the spacecraft?"

The bald man's hand operating the terminal had to stop and solve the current problem first.

When Baldy is entertaining customers.

Chen Ming arrived at Space Arm No. 2 very smoothly.

Although he had always felt a faint sense of danger, in the end nothing happened along the way.

Walked into the boss's hardware store safely.

The boss sitting behind the counter was stunned for the first time, took a closer look, and said uncertainly: "Xiao Mu?"

"It's me."

"Why are you dressed like this?"

“I feel more comfortable wearing this.”

“…”

How can it be comfortable to wear exoskeleton armor over protective clothing?

"As long as you are happy."

The boss casually asked Chen Ming to find a place to sit down and asked, "What do you want to see me about?"

Chen Ming did have a lot of things to ask his boss.

However, Chen Ming planned to wait until he had repaired the generator before asking about the mind wave generator and the mind blocking box.

Otherwise, there is only one list that needs to be accepted by the boss.

"I have a document I need to show you."

"What file? Just send it to me."

"It's best to use a data cable."

“It’s so troublesome.”

As the boss spoke, he bent down and took out a data cable from behind the counter. He plugged one end into his computer and handed the other end to Chen Ming.

After all, this document is of extraordinary importance, so Chen Ming still feels it is safer not to send it through any online channels.

After the boss opened the list of left-wing personnel he received, the expression on his face gradually became serious.

He immediately plugged his terminal into the computer and operated it quickly.

After waiting for a few minutes, the boss suddenly stood up and said to Chen Ming: "Wait for me."

Then he went immediately into the back room.

Just at this time, Chen Ming's terminal also rang.

It was Baldy who called.

But the only interactions between Chen Ming and Baldy are greetings at work, so what is there to discuss over the phone?

Chen Ming pressed the answer button with some doubt: "Hello."

"Brother Mu, I have something to tell you. Is there anyone else around you?"

"No, you say."

The bald man immediately told Chen Ming everything he had seen.

After listening to the bald man's story, Chen Ming's expression became as serious as the factory director's.

If what the bald man said was true, then the source of the sense of danger he had just sensed seemed to be certain.

Chen Ming let out a sigh of relief and felt a little anxious after hearing the news that the military had begun to track him down.

"Thanks. I'll treat you to dinner sometime."

Chen Ming hung up the phone.

The boss had already returned to the counter while the bald man was talking. After listening to everything the bald man said, he asked Chen Ming with some interest, "Your crime has been exposed?"

"That's about it. I have to find a way to deal with it."

"So what are your plans?"

"I'll go to the Administration Bureau. The company should protect me."

The boss didn't comment too much on Chen Ming's plan, but just asked, "Have you ever considered staying here with me?"

Chen Ming nodded and said, "I've considered it. I think your side should be the safest place in the space station."

"Then why are you still going to Lao Lu's place?"

"Well... how should I put it? I feel more confident staying with the factory director. After all, the factory director needs me, and the company needs me too."

"But as for you...I always feel like it's too much trouble for you."

The boss looked a little surprised and said, "In fact, the list you just gave me is enough for me to help you deal with this matter."

"Well, there is such a thing."

"Yeah, you gave this to me so you should know its value, right?"

"I know, but I feel like this is a bit too much. You probably won't help me deal with it."

The boss seemed very satisfied with Chen Ming's self-awareness and sense of propriety, and said: There are some things I really won't babysit for you, but I will still help you with some routine things without any compensation.

“So is it normal for me to be hunted by the military?

"Not really, but as I said, what you gave me is enough for me to help you deal with this matter."

"So, why don't you consider using this list to get me to help you with things?"

Chen Ming shook his head and said, "No."

It's not like he didn't do anything during this period.

Chen Ming recalled the preparations he had made in various aspects and said, "I think I should be able to handle this matter."

"Not bad. I'll be waiting for your good news. Don't die outside."

"Um."

Chen Ming turned around and prepared to leave the hardware store.

However, the moment he stepped out of the hardware store, Chen Ming suddenly stopped again.

The boss behind asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Chen Ming retracted his foot and said, "If I go directly over there, something bad will happen."

"I probably won't be able to get to the Administration."

Chen Ming picked up the terminal and contacted the factory manager directly.

"Director, the military has been looking for me on the space station for the past two days. They should have almost determined my whereabouts. I can't go to the Administration."

The factory manager suddenly became anxious and asked quickly, "Where are you now?"

"On the boss's side."

"Don't hang up, I'll arrange for someone to pick you up right away."

"good."

While waiting for the boss to arrive.

Chen Ming contacted the owner of the store that Lao Wu had introduced to him before, ordered a batch of materials, and had them sent to the maintenance shop office of the administration as soon as possible. Maybe they would be useful later.

After waiting for about six or seven minutes.

A shuttle that only the Administration can use on the space station landed in front of the hardware store.

(End of this chapter)