Orbit around the Earth at the Armenian spaceport.

The spaceport was built in 6852 and has been rebuilt since then, and is still the main port for most starships.

Contrary to popular imagination, starships are not incapable of landing on the ground.

Every starship that sails far away will eventually land on a planet, and those unexplored planets will not have any harbors for them to anchor into. Because of this, starships must have the ability to land on gravity planets. However, the huge amount of energy consumed to resist gravity, the slow response time in the face of surprise attacks, too many natural invasions in complex environments, and the inconvenience of maintenance, make the starship still stay in the space dock as much as possible if conditions permit.

The Armenian spaceport maintenance dock, where a massive starship is moored.

It was the Abrodius.

Since its entry into the port, it has been sent here for major repairs.

Repairs have been going on for nearly two months and are in full swing. The whole ship was as if it had been stripped of its skin, with bare/exposed parts and wires all over the place. All the internal mechanisms are revealed, as if a person has been disemboweled, revealing the internal organs of the bones, and in almost all important parts, there are a large number of spider robots busy with them.

They crawl around the ship, following a predetermined procedure to look for problems, and every now and then a spark sparks emerge from the solder pin. Countless robotic arms dance on it, and there are also maintenance workers in overalls, wearing helmets to carry out some precision repairs that robots can't do.

All kinds of large cranes are busy shuttling in it, and huge booms are swaying and swaying.

Some workers are working on a larger level of repairs at the helm of industrial mechs...... It's a hot scene.

"A little bit more...... A little bit more...... Okay, it's time to put it down and get ready for docking! Standing on a command platform capable of autonomous flight, Amon Palma shouted with a wave of his arms.

A young man in a yellow helmet waved his arms below and shouted, "Mr. Parma! ”

"What's the matter?" Parma leaned against the railing and poked his head out, revealing his big rosacea nose.

"You've been approached by a couple of people who say they're here to check on the progress of the Abrody's repairs."

"Repair progress?" Amon Palma waved his hand to signal the command platform to descend and land on the lower deck: "I remember that I said in the report that it would take at least three months for the Abrody to be repaired. That idiotic and lucky captain almost drove the ship to scrap metal. It's only been half the time now, why did you come here for acceptance? ”

"It's not an acceptance, it's just a check on the progress of the repair." A young man with blond hair walked over and held out a hand: "Mr. Parma, Port Maintenance Engineer?" ”

Parma looked at each other suspiciously, but did not stretch out her hand: "Who are you?" ”

"You can call me Reynold, this is Mr. Hill, Miss Auston, Mr. Stark, and Miss Jia." Renault retracted his hand, pointed to the person behind him, and said, "We are the engineering supervisors sent by the military." ”

"The military's engineering supervisor?"

Renault gestured back, and Russell Hill handed over his papers.

Big Nose took it and looked at it: "Starship investigator, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with engineering." ”

"It's about the military." Renault retrieved the papers and handed them to Hill: "We have been ordered to check the progress of the Abrody's repairs. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't care who you are, I wasn't informed about that anyway." Big Nose shook his head like a rattle: "According to the rules, I can't let you in without notice." ”

"Hell!" Renault cursed, and he turned to the man behind him and shouted, "I know that these bureaucrats are never reliable. Look, we're all here, and they haven't even sent a notification. What do we do now? Wait here until that damn notification comes in? ”

"Don't get excited, Renault." A slender lady behind him comforted Renault and said, "Maybe Mr. Parma won't be so rigid and let us enter the ...... first." ”

"That's how rigid I am." Amon Palma replied: "No one can enter the ship without informing you, it's the rule!" ”

A few people looked at each other and hung there together.

Big Nose had returned to the podium, directing the platform to rise, but he had completely left them alone.

"He's just gone?" Clarice exclaimed, "This doesn't match the plan. ”

Hill shrugged: "Obviously, we ran into a guy who was rigid, stubborn, and unkind...... He disrupted all plans. ”

Stark muttered, "I hate it, my acting career is over before it even begins...... Why are those tricks in the movie so easy to deceive? ”

"What now?" Nora asked, looking at Renault.

Renault spread his hands: "What else can I do, use Plan B." ”

With a wave of his hand, a robot under repair on the Abrody suddenly shook its solder needle and was inserted into a circuit board.

Bang!

A spark erupts on the board.

Then a wrench suddenly made a sudden stroke, fell from where it had been resting, and fell into the gear below that was in trial operation, making a clattering sound. Then there was a sudden proofreading error on the two huge instruments that Amon Palma was directing and docking, and not only that, but also a stall, and the two big guys collided heavily, in addition to bringing an earth-shattering sound, but also bursting into the sky.

The entire repair dock erupted in a sharp and strange sharp sound, and sparks flew everywhere.

"What's going on?" Amon Parma stood on the podium and yelled.

The sudden destruction caught the chief maintenance engineer off guard, so much so that he didn't react for a while.

However, the trouble is just beginning.

A turbine engine, which was supposed to be stationary, suddenly began to spin.

Huge turbine blades whirl and spin, creating a huge wind current.

Although no energy is formed due to the fact that the engine itself has been separated, this trend alone makes everyone untenable.

A maintenance worker screamed and flew out under the wind, crashing into an iron beam, and finally did not fall to his death, and more spider robots were blown into the air and fell with a crack.

There are electric sparks everywhere, electric currents are flying all the way, wires are running around like a smart mind, and some robots are chaotic and scattered under the action of electricity.

The whole scene was chaotic.

"Oh my God, what's going on!" Amon Palma shouted again, and the podium landed on the ground.

Parma was about to rush out, but was grabbed by a hand.

Looking back, it was Renault.

The young man's face remained silent: "That's why you didn't let me in, right?" The maintenance project is a mess, and you simply have the ability and conditions to complete the repair within three months. ”

"What are you talking about?" Amon Parma roared angrily.

"I'm talking about your dereliction of duty." Renault replied, "You're just a bastard who is afraid of being found out incompetent." I wonder why you think you're doing what you're doing to hide it from the military's eyes. ”

"You're talking nonsense!" Parma was furious: "Everything is going well with the repair works!" ”

"And how do you explain this?" Renault asked, pointing to the chaos in front of him.

Amon Parma was speechless.

He didn't know what was going on, why it had suddenly become such a mess at this moment. He could only grit his teeth and say, "It's just the surface, the core part of the Abrody has been repaired, and some major components and hidden dangers have been treated. ”

"I didn't see it." Renault replied.

Palma gritted her teeth and shouted, "Jack, take them into the ship!" ”

The previous kid ran over.

Renault threw a sentence at Parma: "I will tell you what I have seen." ”

Follow Jack away.

Entering the ship, Jack said, "Please come with me, the power compartment is over here......"

But he found that there was no response, and when he looked back, he saw that the people from the military headquarters were looking at him with strange eyes.

A hand was already on the back of his neck, and with a slight squeeze, the young man had fainted.

Reynolds withdrew his hand, and said lightly: "Thank you, I think I am more familiar with the layout of this starship than you." ”

Turn around and walk towards the mech hall.

The Abrody's mech hall is divided into two sections, one is a space combat mecha and the other is a ground assault mech.

Since it was intended to be used on the ground, it was natural to go to the mecha cabin where the ground commando team was.

They quickly came to the ground assault pod, and looking at the rows of mechs, Stark let out a hehe laugh: "Old man, I'm back again." ”

Nora whispered, "Don't talk nonsense, find your mech, put on the chip and leave, these damn maintenance personnel have messed up the location of the mech." ”

"Yes." Stark answered, and went to find his mech.

Russell Hill was a little curious: "Why can't you just choose one, it has to be your own use?" ”

Clarice replied, "Even if it's the same model, each mech has subtle differences. These differences may not exist for novices, but for veterans, they can be worlds apart from how well they can play in battle. Therefore, each mech pilot has his own exclusive mecha, even if it is the same model, it will not be changed at will. ”

Russell Hill looked at her in amazement: "I didn't expect an environmental investigator to understand this." ”

Clarice replied proudly, "My husband works on the starship, close to Zhu Zhechi. ”

She suddenly remembered something and looked back: "What about Renault?" Where did he go? ”

Russell Hill looked around when he heard this, and sure enough, he didn't see Renault.

The two searched everywhere, but they didn't see Renault.

Meanwhile, Nora has found her mech.

She climbed up, opened the outer hatch of the mecha, inserted a small control chip into the mecha brain system, and then fiddled with her personal terminal a few times to confirm that the connection was complete and jumped down.

On the other side, Stark walked over, apparently completing his own docking as well.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and walked back. Clarice came over and said hurriedly, "Renault is gone." ”

Nora replied, "He has something else to do, and he'll be back later." ”

Nora and Stark looked at each other and said together, "Then wait here for him for a while." ”

"Do you know where he went?" Clarice asked.

"I don't know, but I don't think he'll get lost in his own starship." Nora smiled and replied.

Stark also laughed, "Don't worry, Miss Auston, the leader of this ship is the boss, and no one can hurt him." ”

As if it were a prophecy, a few minutes later, Renault appeared.

"Where have you been?" Clarice asked with a hint of anxiety and concern.

Renault replied: "Urgency, go to the toilet." ”