After spending several days at the supply point, the 8th Detachment of the Anxing Provincial Border Army embarked on a new journey.

This time, however, instead of patrolling, it headed for a mine in the area inspected by Unit 8.

The routes that have now opened up in the universe are divided into four stars. A one-star route is the safest, while a four-star route is the most dangerous. Today, the automation of spacecraft is already very reliable, and it is completely capable of flying from one to two stars, and only one person needs to be on duty in the command room. The three-star route requires half of the staff to be on duty, and the four-star route needs to be full.

This time to the mine, the eighth detachment took a second-class route, but there was a lack of personnel on the spacecraft, and all the people were forced to learn the basic spacecraft operation, and even Bowen, as the team doctor, had to take turns on duty. Now that Shang Si and Su Ne are added, there are still too few people, and the way on duty cannot be changed.

I have to say that the members of the eighth detachment are all-rounders, and they know everything except their own jobs, otherwise Doremi is a spaceship maintenance worker, and he can also fly a mecha to be a rescuer, all of which are forced by reality.

Today it was Bowen's turn to be on duty, so the rest of the people didn't have anything to do after they finished their jobs.

There's nothing more boring.

Arnold sighed.

For those who stay on the patrol ship all year round, all the days on the spaceship are very boring, especially the areas patrolled by the border army are mostly not covered by the star network, which is really boring to home.

Speaking of which, even if he wasn't worth it today, he shouldn't be so boring, because there are many places on the ship that need to be repaired. However, he could not do anything but simple debugging.

Seeing that the place that can be repaired can only be left there because there are no spare parts, this kind of thing is enough for a responsible maintenance worker to suffocate to death.

Arnold wanted to look up to the sky and howl.

After inspecting the area he was responsible for, Arnold walked into the dining room dejectedly, found a random table, put the toolbox in his hand on the ground, and nestled into a chair.

He can't fix his crow (crow), he's uncomfortable, he's depressed, he's going crazy......

"Dididi, unidentified object found...... Detecting......"

Hey, what is it?

Arnold lowered his head in a voice, why is this little machine on the ground so familiar?

"Tested, sorted: garbage. Cleaning program start-up ......"

Arno wondered, how could this cleaning machine look so much like the one in the supply point restaurant?

Yes! Now is not the time to think about that!

"Stop! That's not rubbish! That's my toolkit! Arnold shouted.

However, the movement he stopped was still a beat slower, and as soon as the cleaning machine Q� stretched and retracted his arm, he threw Arnold's tool kit into the space at the top with the lid open, and then closed the lid neatly.

After completing this series of actions, the machine is about to leave.

Arnold hurriedly grabbed the cleaner and wanted to open the lid and take out the kit.

However, I don't know who is idle, and I actually carried out an encryption makeover on a cleaning machine, and even the lid was unlocked with fingerprints! Let him toss and turn for a long time, but he didn't crack it!

Arnold was frantically frenzyed, and he began to shake up and down vigorously as he stood on tiptoe.

"My kit! You give me back the kit! ”

For a maintenance worker, the kit is like his daughter-in-law, and whoever is robbed of his daughter-in-law will be crazy!

But the cleaner is just a cleaner, and no matter how much Arnold shakes it, he can't spit out the toolkit.

Arnold swayed, and suddenly thought of someone.

"Many! Rai! Rice! You're a king-eight-egg! ”

Arnold gritted his teeth and yelled.

He said that this machine qì people are so similar to the supply point restaurant, in fact, it is not like it at all, but it is!

At that time, Doremi had been staring at the machine in the restaurant, and he couldn't pull it out in his eyes! It turned out to be this idea! What the hell does this bastard think! Wouldn't it be fun to transform a cleaning machine into a safe?!

Arnold carried the cleaning machine and rushed in the direction of Doremi's room in a fit of rage.

"Young people are just vibrant~"

Yan Kou, who witnessed this qiē, smiled.

Sune, who was sitting on the side, suddenly felt a little cold.

After lunch, Yan Kou took a lollipop in his mouth, and the stick outside his mouth curled up one after another: "How old is Deputy Su this year?" ”

"Twenty." Sune replied. "Senior Yan, it's okay if you call me Xiao Su."

"Twenty years old," Yan Kou didn't shirk, squinting his eyes and smiling, "Arnold is eighteen years old this year, they are all young people, you probably will be able to play together soon." ”

Sune smiled.

"Senior, I've always been curious, why Arnold joined the army at the age of sixteen, shouldn't he be in school at this age?"

"It's not because my family is poor." Yan Kou said: "Arnold is a native of Anxing Province, whose economy has plummeted due to the anti-invasion war, and now most of the residents of the entire province are living in poverty. Arnold's family couldn't afford to pay for him to go to college, so after completing his compulsory education, he enrolled in a subsidized spaceship maintenance major, and after graduation, he was assigned to serve here. ”

Su Ne didn't know what to say, he had lived in the central area of Shengyue since he was a child, although he was not rich, but the surrounding area was also considered to be well-off, he didn't expect that the border area had reached such a point of poverty.

Speaking of which, despite the fact that Arnold studied in the grant class, he relied on his intuition to know how to coordinate the various systems of the ship to achieve the highest degree of coordination. If he had been able to continue his studies, he might have been able to become a senior engineer. ”

……

Although the Raven is called the Crow, since Shang Si got on this spaceship, everything has been quite smooth, so don't be so superstitious.

Bowen confirmed the deal through the Guò Star Network when he was at the supply point, and after arriving at the mining company's remote planetary mine, he began to load ore.

In fact, Shang Si initially thought that he was using the patrol ship of the Eighth Detachment as a merchant ship escort, but the reality told him that how could a poor place like Anxing Province that even the people were starving to death afford to raise interstellar pirates.

An interstellar pirate with that kind of large combat spaceship would not take a fancy to this idea in the province of Anxing.

The Raven can only serve as a transport ship, carrying ore, and relying on the energy she brings to the destination.

Every other month, large mining ships dedicated to transporting ore will arrive at the outlying supply points of Anxing Province, and countless small shipping ships will load ore mined from the ore planet to transport it to the large mining ships, and then the large mining ships will set off, carrying a large amount of ore gathered together, and fly to the large factories.

This time, the large mining spacecraft will stay at the supply point in the area of the eighth detachment for a day, and Shang Si and they must transport the ore within this time, otherwise they will have to bear the liquidated damages for a trip in vain.

Detachment 8 has no money to pay compensation now.

The information given by the mining site is that the large mining ship will arrive at the supply point in three days, and the Raven is now only two days away from the supply point. The time was completely late, so Shang Si decided to take a detour to inspect Area E.

The patrol area of the eighth detachment is very large, and it takes four days to fly from one end to the other. In fact, this is a bit unreasonable, because you must know that the area inspected by the border army detachment in those years generally only took one to two days to walk back and forth. However, with the disarmament, the strength of the garrison army has become smaller and smaller, and the patrol area assigned to each detachment has become larger and larger.

If it weren't for the last time when Detachment 8 patrolled not far away, the Dodo spacecraft would definitely not have been able to support their arrival.

It doesn't matter if the rescue is not timely, anyway, the spacecraft still has a rescue capsule, and it will be enough to salvage the rescue capsule in time when the time comes.

When someone questioned it back then, this is what the people who asked for the merger of the patrol areas replied.

This method is not impossible, and now the spacecraft is equipped with a high-performance rescue capsule when it leaves the factory, so that people can escape in the rescue capsule if the spacecraft has a problem. Whether the detachments of the border army can arrive in time or not makes little difference.

In this way, the redundant border troops can be eliminated, and military expenditures can be reduced by a considerable amount.

But the people who came up with this idea overlooked that the high performance of the rescue chamber corresponds to the high price. Requiring a ship to be equipped with enough rescue pods at the factory means that the cost of the ship increases, and the purchaser of the ship has to spend a lot.

Therefore, there are people like the captain of the Dodo spaceship, who secretly sold the equipment in the rescue capsule to return to the capital.

The topic turned back, the patrol area of the Raven is too large, it can probably be divided into ten areas, this time the route just passes through Area E, and the time is still sufficient, so it's good to patrol along the way, and the next time the province will waste energy to fly over.

The cruiser turned a corner and flew towards Area E.

Detachment E of the 8th Detachment has a meteorite belt, which is a key inspection area in the patrol area of the 8th detachment. If there are many meteorites, the detector is easy to be interfered with, and it is very convenient for the Zerg to hide their tracks, which is considered a high-risk area.

It is best to inspect such an area mecha, which is small in size and flexible, and it is more convenient to move in the meteorite zone. But the eighth detachment was a half-crippled mecha, and even if someone dared to drive it, Shang Si didn't dare to let him drive it. So it's all about patrol ships.

When the Raven usually travels in the universe, it only needs a first-level protective shield, but when it enters the edge of the meteorite belt, Shangsi opens the third-level protective shield to prevent small and medium-sized meteorites from hitting the hull.

At this moment, there can't be only one person on duty in the spaceship's command room, Shang Si, Sunne, and Yan Kou are all there, and Arno and Dolemi are on standby after completing the equipment inspection.

However, the journey was smooth, and for half a day, the detection equipment on the patrol ship found no abnormalities.

There is no day or night in the universe, but the standard time set by Sheng Yue is still implemented on the spaceship, and now the timer on the spacecraft shows that it is already six o'clock in the evening.

There was still an hour before the spacecraft sailed out of this small meteorite belt, and Shang Si faintly felt a sense of relief.

But at this time, the detection equipment, which had not responded for a day, suddenly sounded an alarm.

"Attention all personnel, please note that there is an anomaly ahead, coordinates 293,371,849."

Shang Si's nerves tensed suddenly.

Could it be the Zerg?

"Adjust the farsighted distance of the spacecraft probe and prepare for battle."

"Yes."

The patrol ship sped up, but cautiously approached the anomalous area.

Finally, the detection device sent a generally clear image.