King of the Stars [Rebirth]

Yan Beichen didn't save his strength, and it took less than 2 minutes for him to run to the warehouse where the speeding car was repaired yesterday. The man guarding outside the warehouse was not the strong man yesterday, but a middle-aged man in overalls, who looked like It's the foreman.Looking up and down at the sweaty boy, he snorted, "Ten cars! Don't be lazy!"

Yan Beichen ignored him and walked into the warehouse indifferently.Just like yesterday, it was still a mess here, but there was an extra repair table, which made the space that was not considered spacious even more crowded.The foreman had no intention of coming in at all. After taking a look outside, he swaggered away. Obviously, a weak maintenance worker was not worth his time.And this is exactly what Yan Beichen needs.

He has countless goals to achieve, but before all this, the first thing to do is to escape the ship.This is a middleweight pirate ship, no matter how weak the internal management is, it is impossible to find opportunities easily.The only possibility is to use the resources at hand to personally pry out an opportunity.

Even a badly damaged flying car still has usable parts, many of which are related to the power system.Obviously, the fundamental purpose of these people is to use waste, rather than really expecting him to completely restore all the speeding cars, which means that he has enough waste to use.This is just a flying car, what if it is replaced with more advanced equipment?

Such an environment is beneficial to him. The only thing to pay attention to is to deceive the group of pirates, give them what they want to see, and at the same time hide his true strength.

After checking the speeding car in front of him, Yan Beichen moved his hands.

The warehouse is not an attractive place. For the whole day, except for someone who came to drop a pack of nutritional supplements at noon, no one was interested in Yan Beichen's work.Therefore, during the acceptance inspection at night, the handover foreman was very surprised. The spaceships in front of him were not ten, but a full twelve, two more than their strict standards.

After touching and checking the flying car for a long time, the man clicked his tongue: "Boy, your skills are not bad!"

"They're all the same model, so it's easy to get started with. But some cars have been completely scrapped and are worthless for maintenance." Yan Beichen replied calmly.

"Oh, put those away. Go back and pull them together and re-melt them." The other party replied a little casually.

This did not surprise Yan Beichen. Since they were engaged in cosmic salvage, they would not waste anything. Even bringing the scrap iron back to the ground for re-forging would be a profit.No one will move the garbage before it lands.

Of course the foreman didn't care what the young man in front of him was thinking, his small eyes circled around the car several times, he finally couldn't hold back, and asked again: "Do you know how to fix other things?"

"We'll have to see it first." Yan Beichen had no expression on his face, neither enthusiastic nor repulsive, but instead showed his left hand: "Where's the nutrient for tonight?"

"You..." The man was stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to think of something suddenly, he chuckled, "It's not impossible to want nutrient solution, but you still repaired ten cars on time today, do you understand what I mean?"

This is blatant blackmail.Yan Beichen's gaze darkened a little, making that too young face look a bit darker, the foreman who was willing to give him a chance to turn his face, immediately put on a straight face: "If you don't want to eat, go back to yours." Go to the den!"

As if overwhelmed by this threat, after a few seconds, Yan Beichen finally said, "Ten cars."

A smile suddenly appeared on the man's face, he took out a bottle of nutritional supplements from his pocket, and stuffed it into his hand: "Tomorrow will still be the same amount, so you can have two meals."

Faced with such a wretched face, Yan Beichen was extremely calm in his heart.This is exactly the "colleague" he needs.The storage system in any place has its own rules, not to mention ordinary civilian spaceships, even starships with strict management are not without loopholes.This is something he clearly understood when he commanded the fleet back then.For such a pirate ship that is both salvage and human trafficking, the rules are obviously not something that must be followed.

Instead of showing the fat captain his ability, it is better to give the "surplus value" to these greedy colleagues. When the other party is more and more inclined to use him, the vigilance will naturally be reduced to the minimum, and more opportunities can be used.After all, this kind of idiot who is greedy for petty gain is much easier to deal with than those real black market merchants at the top.

After receiving the nutritional supplement, Yan Beichen stopped talking nonsense and walked in the direction he came from.

In the corridor, the skinny supervisor was still counting the number of people, but this time he didn't mean to embarrass Yan Beichen anymore, and directly ticked off his name arrogantly.Could it be that the scope of benefit exchange has expanded to this point?Yan Beichen was a little puzzled, but he didn't stop, he opened the door and walked in.

Someone is already in the room.Seeing his cellmate enter the door, Griffin showed a smile on his face, stretched out his hand to fish behind his back, and threw something: "Here, it's extra today."

That's a bottle of nutrition.Yan Beichen froze for a moment, then shook his head: "I have it."

"How can one bottle be enough to eat? Don't worry, I managed to get this." Griffin blinked, with a smug smile.

However, this kind of overture didn't have the desired effect. Yan Beichen walked to the bed, handed the nutritional supplement back, flipped his palm over, and took out his own bottle: "I have it, the second bottle."

After a pause, he added: "However, thank you."

This is a genuine kindness, and there is nothing more important to the displaced than food.Yan Beichen understood this, so he would not take advantage of this person.

For others, the refusal might be provocative, but Griffin was not irritated, and naturally took back his nutritional supplements, and joked with a smile: "Why, is the treatment at the warehouse so good? Are you Are you going to repair the waste?"

Was this guesswork, or did you get the message?Yan Beichen didn't intend to delve into it, but simply replied: "That's right."

Griffin laughed: "Sure enough, you have to pay attention. There are a lot of things you have picked up in the past few days, and the amount of tasks on your side may have to increase. Don't work too hard. These tasks, just deal with the business." .If you show up, it will make other people think about it."

This is very solid advice and very useful.Although it was not necessary, Yan Beichen paused and replied with one word: "Okay."

Without any intention of further communication, he put his palm on the fence, and with a push, he climbed onto the bed.

On the lower berth, Griffin rubbed his nose and put his bottle of nutrition in his mouth.It seems that this little roommate is not as weak as he looks, but that's okay, if this is the case, it is possible to take him out.Quickly sucking up the contents of the bottle, he stretched his waist, glanced at the extremely quiet upper bunk again, shook his head with a smile, and closed his eyes.

For the next three days, it was business as usual.

Yan Beichen stayed in the warehouse and repaired his flying car, "ten cars" every day, and the surplus was turned into worthless nutrients and stuffed into his stomach.And the foreman's attitude towards him is getting more and more excessive, like any scoundrel who has encountered a soft-bodied person, he is aggressive and extremely arrogant.In addition to the fixed flying car, that guy also got a bunch of odds and ends from nowhere and ordered Yan Beichen to repair it. There were even a few high-level weapons containing induction metals.

Yan Beichen did not refuse such oppression, nor did he repair all these things. In fact, he may have repaired less than 2% of them.But such a "harvest" still made the foreman smile.This is high-end equipment, each of which is worth a lot of money, and it is also a high-quality product that he has seized from the salvage team with great difficulty. If it is sent to the ground for maintenance, the cost will definitely be higher.Also because of this, Yan Beichen became the newcomer he "appreciated" the most.

Three days later, the "trial period" ended successfully.What greeted Yan Beichen was not rewards or salary, but the waste from a larger warehouse.This time it’s not just a speeding car, but all kinds of machinery. It may be that they searched the bottom of the library and took out all the garbage that no one can repair.

Faced with such a mountain of waste products, Yan Beichen did not complain.However, since that day, his speed of repairing things has slowed down, and he can complete 3 or 4 pieces at most in a day. The reason is very simple. There are different types of machinery, and each one needs to keep trying to repair.The foreman fully agreed with his statement, because he knew better than others that this "professional pilot" was capable. Instead of desperately trying to make things on the ship, it was better to secretly stuff some private goods and let him earn extra money.

The cooperation of the foreman became Yan Beichen's biggest reliance.He was indeed shortening the repair time, but not because of those trivial "private tasks", but because he found a real treasure in this pile of garbage: a dilapidated small fighter plane.

I don't know the model of that year, but this fighter plane has obviously gone through space wandering for a long time. Although the fuselage is still barely complete, the cockpit and main power system inside are basically broken and clean.No matter how ignorant a person is, he knows that if he wants to restore this fighter, what he needs most is the original parts. Without those precision parts, everything is out of the question.Therefore, no one put this thing in the scope of "repairable", but just discarded it in the corner as a pile of scrap iron.

But for Yan Beichen, this is a rare opportunity.The experience of working with Master Ensai at the beginning has become his best helper.Fighter planes do need to replace a lot of parts, but these parts may not only come from the original factory. In civilian equipment, there are still things that can be replaced.

Without anyone noticing, he began slowly repairing the fighter.The power system of flying cars, the scanning center of small satellites, the central control equipment of sensing weapons, and even the optical sensors of flying probes.All the bits and pieces that could be used were smuggled onto the fighter plane by him, and he took the most precious time for repairs.In this highly tense and highly exhausted rush, the fighter plane slowly recovered its basic functions. Although it looked like a pile of scrap iron from the outside, its core had already taken on a brand new look.

While repairing the fighter plane, Yan Beichen carefully observed the surrounding environment.Now he has determined that this warehouse is located on the lower deck of the spaceship, not far from the maintenance channel.As long as the two layers of partitions are blasted, there will be an endless universe.Freedom is only a thread away from him, and the only problem is this frail body.Most of the injuries he suffered due to reckless driving of the infantry armor have recovered, but his body is still difficult to withstand the accelerated flight in the space environment.How to maintain physical strength to drive a fighter is always a serious problem.

He needs an appropriate timing, or, an appropriate helper...

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Macquarie meteorite belt.

There are countless asteroid belts in the universe.Many of them are safe and reliable, only a large amount of gas and countless dust, even if there are some gravel, the density is very low, and it will not bring much hidden danger.However, others are born spacecraft killers. They surround planets or dwarf stars with very irregular revolutions. The spacecraft that jumps to the vicinity of this kind of asteroid belt is likely to be swallowed by these "killers" and become cosmic debris floating in the asteroid belt.

The Macquarie meteorite belt is such a standard "dangerous airspace".It is located on the outer edge of the Macartzy Free Planet, straddling this star road full of pirates, elusive, and captures those spaceships that break into it intentionally or unintentionally.Only a very small number of helmsmen and navigators were able to escape this death trap, and more people died in plane crashes, burying the entire ship in the cemetery.Therefore, most of the spaceships going to MacAzhe will try to calculate the orbit of this meteorite belt, or directly slow down the speed and wait until the meteorite drifts past before driving on the course.

However, there are some people who are extremely interested in this meteorite belt.

The booster behind him sprayed out weak air waves, gliding, deflecting, standing still, turning, and gliding again... A series of extremely smooth movements made a person in a heavy space suit quietly land on the floating boulder , He didn't stop, but stepped on it hard. Under the interaction, the stone and the figure ran in opposite directions, opening a gap, revealing the huge spaceship wreckage behind.

Yes, most people will try to avoid the dreaded meteor belt, but for those who love space salvage, this is a surefire way to make money.

The figure didn't stop. After another light micro-management turn, he landed lightly on the outer armor of the spaceship. After climbing a few meters along the wreckage, he took out an oval suction cup from the luggage bag on his back, and buckled it. On the ship, he pressed the button in the center of the suction cup.This is a docking type gravity device, as long as it is placed on the center of gravity, it can easily drag the huge wreckage towards the spacecraft.However, how to find the center of gravity of the wreckage, and how to cross the meteorite belt and clear the passage without being towed by a rope is a job that requires experience and skill.

Apparently, this salvager's skill is pretty good.Just a few seconds later, the piece of wreckage began to move, slowly heading towards the spaceship.However, that figure didn't leave immediately, instead, it pulled out a small net from its bosom, turned slightly, and drifted towards a deeper place.After a while, the net was filled, and the bulky space suit didn't make his movements dull. He closed the net bag at a very fast speed, and he started to turn. After a few jets of acceleration, he caught up with the front wreckage of the spaceship.As soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed the big guy, as if he was riding a hitchhiker, being dragged onto the spaceship effortlessly by the wreckage.

The airtight chamber was closed, and red rays and sprays appeared at the same time, disinfecting everything in the chamber.No one knows what is contained in these wreckages, basic protection must be indispensable.After a while, the disinfection was completed, and the airtight chamber was reopened. A group of people rushed out and began to inspect the dilapidated spaceship, but the salvagers in spacesuits ignored the group of people and walked to the side with heavy steps. locker room.

With a click, the air valve of the protective helmet opened, and the man took off the helmet with great effort.It stands to reason that any spacewalk is a tiring affair, not only requires long periods of concentration, but also endures the torture of weightlessness and loneliness.However, the man did not show any signs of fatigue or languor, but shook his hair like a big wet dog, and let out a long breath.

Finally it's time.

With a soft whistle, Griffin quickly took off his space suit and opened the public locker.It took some time to hang the spacesuit, the suit was so heavy that every accessory had to be properly placed on the shelf.Of course, many people don't know how to operate in a proper manner, but he was not lazy. According to the rules, he began to arrange the clothes carefully.However, going deep into the cabinet, the hand away from the camera pressed lightly on a certain partition, and a small board came loose.

Helmet, one-piece space suit, heavy gloves and boots, he put things in at a leisurely pace, every time he put his hand deep into the cabinet, some things fell behind the partition, several back and forth, as the last one When the boots were in place, the partition snapped back into place as if nothing had happened.With a chuckle, he closed the locker and walked into the cabin.

Because the salvage was too time-consuming, there were not many people in the corridor. He walked quickly past the supervisor, and when he raised his hand, something slipped into the pocket of the supervisor's coat.The thin man knocked on the crystal screen calmly, as if he didn't notice that someone had inserted a bribe.Griffin didn't make any intentional conversations or hints. He walked briskly around the supervisor and pushed open the door of the room.

There were people in the room.Griffin blinked in surprise. His little cellmate is a complete workaholic. I don't know if the exploitation in the warehouse is too serious, and he has to go back to his room very late every day.It was really unexpected to see people so early.

Just when he was about to say something jokingly, the boy on the opposite side raised his head and asked calmly, "Do you want to run away?"