Decisively chose the latter.

If he were to repair the outer armor of a spacecraft, he might pass out while doing so.

You can completely repair yourself before resting, and if you faint, you can fall asleep quickly.

So Chen Ming, having made up his mind, took two personal terminals and sat on the chair in the captain's room.

Along with the starry sky outside the porthole that kept changing due to the movement of the spacecraft, he began to study the device called the personal terminal.

With the help of the maintenance engineer Chen Ming's memory, Chen Ming quickly became familiar with the personal terminal in his hand.

After all, it is actually similar to a personal computer, with limited functions such as communication, recording, saving files, etc.

But it doesn’t matter what the device looks like or what functions it has; what matters is what’s inside.

Previously, when he was in the space station, Chen Ming found the space station map and his log in the doctor’s terminal.

It let Chen Ming know the situation of the space station and also provided a lot of convenience for Chen Ming's subsequent actions.

This time, while searching in the doctor's terminal, Chen Ming actually found some new things, some e-books.

The contents of the book are mostly about the use of simple medical devices, the collection of common herbs, and the methods of preparing medicines by hand, etc.

Although it may seem useless at first glance, there are so many planets in the universe and even if we just list the names of all the common plants, I'm afraid it would fill up the capacity of an entire personal terminal.

But when Chen Ming opened one of the e-books, he found that the common herbs recorded in the book all came from one place.

It comes from the planet called Ramu that the space station orbits.

Needless to say, what this means is that the contents of the book will have an immeasurable impact on Chen Ming's subsequent landing on the planet.

In a completely unfamiliar natural environment, who can guarantee that they will not get sick or injured in their lifetime? Although Chen Ming had just seen the medical kit prepared by the former crew members in the living cabin, this medical kit was placed here thirty years ago.

The medical tools inside should still be usable, but the medicines must have lost all their medicinal properties over the past thirty years.

These are what Chen Ming needs most now.

Although the doctor died thirty years ago, he really helped me a lot.

If there was a chance, Chen Ming would like to burn or bury the doctor's body, at least to let him rest in peace.

Chen Ming also looked at his own personal terminal.

I found my electronic ID and Empire Savings Card, which is also my salary card, in it.

The identity and resume of maintenance engineer Chen Ming can be seen clearly here. It is very similar to Chen Ming, that is, an ordinary person born as an orphan with a dull and difficult first half of his life.

However, the savings card cannot be viewed because there is no internet connection.

I don't know if the company has continued to pay me in the past 30 years, or if it has erased my name, or if the company is actually gone? Chen Ming didn't think much about it. It would be better for him not to have anything to do with the company now.

Come to think of it, I don’t seem to have found these two functions on the doctor’s terminal.

Maybe there is, but it is hidden by the doctor.

Chen Ming picked up the doctor's terminal again, and soon he found these two functions in a hidden private folder.

Although they are all locked, the doctor's specific resume and past conditions cannot be viewed.

However, Chen Ming still knew the doctor's name, Ding He.

Chen Ming carefully checked the doctor's terminal again, and after confirming that nothing was missing, he picked up his own terminal.

Just now, in addition to finding his identity card and savings card in his personal terminal, Chen Ming also found some other things.

They are similar e-books to those in the doctor's terminal, but they are completely different in type. They are all professional books related to maintenance work.

I don’t know if there are too few entertainment activities in the space station, or if the doctor and the maintenance engineer Chen Ming both like reading?

Chen Ming himself actually has similar hobbies.

Chen Ming casually flipped through the terminal and saw two books that he was very interested in, "Analysis of Sinda Company's Spaceship Design Ideas" and "Prerequisites and Applicable Environment for Ship Weapon Modification".

In addition, there are blueprints of some commonly used weapons and equipment on civilian ships, as well as their modified blueprints.

It just so happens that there isn’t much Chen Ming can do on the spacecraft right now, so he could take a look and get familiar with the job of a maintenance engineer.

If repairing spacecraft still requires so much mental effort in the future, then I will try to repair simpler and easier-to-repair damages myself.

Although the panel repair is highly efficient, Chen Ming still feels that it is better to experience it less often as the feeling of being drained of energy remains.

Chen Ming shook off his messy thoughts and opened the book that interested him. While reading, he recalled the memories of the maintenance engineer in his mind.

With the combination of the two, Chen Ming read and digested these professional books very quickly, and he could basically understand some of the content after reading it once.

Although he might be a little unfamiliar with the actual operation, since he would need to fly a spaceship across half a light year in the future, he would gain experience in repairing spaceships sooner or later.

The time spent reading passed quickly.

A few hours later, until the work cabin gave a reminder that the temporary storage was full, Chen Ming reluctantly raised his head from a book he was more interested in, titled "Common Weapons Modification Manual".

I came to the working cabin and sent a batch of newly-made metal ingots to the storage cabin opposite.

Just like before, most of it is worthless metals such as iron.

To be honest, if Chen Ming was really a crew member who made a living by mining on a mining spaceship, then in the end he might not even be able to make back the fuel he consumed.

But Chen Ming is not like that now, and the fuel is also brought from the space station, so it doesn’t matter.

After putting the metal ingots away, Chen Ming took a few bites of the package of survival food that he had opened in the cold storage.

Then I continued to immerse myself in the extremely interesting content on the terminal.

The process of reading the book combined with past memories makes it feel like I am doing it myself.

Chen Ming had been reading so much that he felt obviously exhausted both mentally and physically.

After collecting the last wave of metal ingots produced in the working cabin, he lay down on the bed in the living cabin.

After checking the 8 a.m. time on his personal terminal based on the Earth's zero time zone, Chen Ming silently changed it to 10 p.m.

In the current situation, do whatever makes you comfortable.

Finally, Chen Ming opened the panel, looked at the 24% durability of the port side armor on the panel, and chose to repair it.

Then Chen Ming lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)