Mecha Hurricane

Looking at such a small merchant ship, still packed with cargo at every possible opportunity, I thought it would definitely not be a good place to live. But when the captain took Xia Yi to the front cabin, she looked at the scene in front of her and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Captain, is this a morgue? You are still selling corpses!"

"Are you blind? This is a bed, a honeycomb-style crew bed." The captain glared at her fiercely.

"Honeycomb crew bed..." Xia Yi looked at the crew room, which was severely squeezed by the cargo warehouse. The 15-meter-wide hull was completely occupied, and the length was only 10 meters. And those crew beds are like the holes of a honeycomb, densely piled one on top of the other in all directions. The highest beds have reached the top of the ship, and there is not even a simple staircase. It does look like a standing beehive, but that's pretty much what a morgue looks like.

No way! Xia Yi had a bad feeling in his heart. He couldn't get up without the bed at the top of the stairs. Could it be that he turned off the gravity setting and floated up without gravity? This is not only a bad ship but also an antique!

This is the captain pointing to the bed with 125 written on the top and saying: "Boy, you sleep in the upper position. The other places are all full, and I just left the last one for you."

"Captain, you pulled 125 people in such a small space?" Xia Yi looked at the captain in surprise. There were other passengers besides himself on the ship? What kind of mentally retarded person would take such a crappy ship to a remote colonial star.

The captain walked to a door that was piled among the crew beds, pressed it to the side, and the door slid to the left and opened. Noisy sounds immediately came from inside, and he said: "Take care of your luggage. Besides you, there are many miners going to Star 53. I can't guarantee that there is no one inside who won't do anything."

To go to the warehouse or main ship room, you have to go directly through here, and the most important operation room is also in the main ship room. In fact, for this kind of boat, the kitchen, activity room, and dining room are all mixed into the main cabin, which is quite crowded.

Xia Yi followed him into the main ship's room and saw that it was full of people, with people even sitting on the floor. The originally small space was even more uncomfortably crowded, and all of them were middle-aged and middle-aged men. The people who go to colonial stars to work as miners are all older people, and occasionally there are some young people, but the majority are still middle-aged.

Although they are miners, they don't actually have to dig it themselves, it's all done by robots. They only need to control various machines, and some things like loading ore also require people to drive them themselves. The reason most of them are middle-aged people is because many of the ore-producing colonies don't even have air, high-intensity radiation, and no women. There are few things for entertainment. The green plants are just a small area planted in the base, which is extremely boring.

Not to mention food, when the supply is sometimes insufficient, you can only eat compressed emergency food. The army's emergency food is better, but the civilian food is just the most convenient paste. No one wants to eat this kind of food.

Some ore-producing stars may encounter harassment from Melasti from time to time, but their income is very high, which is one of the higher incomes in the Nada system. It is easy to get started and the income is high, so it is the first choice of many men who support their families.

They are all middle-aged and have come to work on the colonial star for a few years or more than ten years. After saving enough money for retirement before the age of 60, they can take their family to find a colonial star with a good environment and low prices to retire and do some work. Something you like.

Although the conditions are much worse than taking a merchant ship, the price is cheap and it is the first choice for miners with poor conditions. Xia Yi, like them, boarded this merchant ship in extremely poor conditions. The only difference is that they went to the civilian No. 53 mineral colony star, while she went to the military No. 52 mineral colony. The only difference between the two was that they mined different minerals.

As soon as the captain brought Xia Yi in, many people started shouting loudly, "Captain, will your ship explode in space? The vibration just now was too strong, and they didn't even arrange seats for us to tie up." Get up and roll around on the ground like this!"

"That's right, something fell down and hit me just now. What kind of part is this?" One person held a palm-sized metal accessory in his hand and cursed angrily.

Facing everyone's anger, the captain walked over without saying a word, grabbed the accessory, and threw it to a crew member. "Tom, I didn't ask you to install the star map locator. Why did this thing fall off?"

"Ah! This thing turns out to be here, so I asked why the star map is now black." The crew member named Tom apologized and took the accessories. He directly opened the maintenance robot arm and started installing the accessories on the ship and aircraft. Install it on.

The miners who were noisy at first shut up. What kind of rotten ship was this? Even the star map locator could be damaged. All fools know that without a star map locator, you cannot find your own route. God knows where you will drift in this space. Now everyone looked up and stared eagerly at the mechanical arm, watching it install accessories there.

The captain was very satisfied with the silence. Every time he pulled the miners, there would be such dissatisfied noises, but important accessories would always fall off, which would immediately scare these people away from making trouble.

He threw Xia Yi into the crowd and walked into the control room separated by transparent metal glass. There were 10 crew members in the small control room, all controlling the ship's flight.

After finally finding a place to sit down, Xia Yi looked at the starry sky outside through the small window on the ship and began to endure the three-month voyage.

Life on the ship is boring, but fortunately the filtration system is good, and no one on the ship feels the air is turbid. Those hives were pretty good, even though they looked like a charnel house, they were fine for sleeping. It's just that the lack of gravity every day when you get up and before going to bed always makes people feel a little uncomfortable. There are also idiots who live high up. After floating for a long time, they can't swim. They keep doing swimming poses in the same place, but they just can't move. of beds.

There are only two spaces for toilets and showers. Xia Yi spends one-third of every day waiting in line to take a shower and use the toilet. As time passed, she hoped to reach Star 52 as soon as possible. If she stayed here again, she felt that she would definitely go crazy and beat the stingy captain to death.

Smoking is not prohibited on the ship, and the captain always takes the lead in sitting in the dining room, smoking his cigar and eating the food prepared by the chef who is very bad at cooking.

Xia Yi looked at the food on the metal plate, including pureed vegetables, beans, and meat paste plus bread or rice. The mashed beans, stewed beans and meat paste are all in barrels, and the chef just takes them out and heats them, and at most he cooks some rice occasionally. The only thing I can make by hand is to knead the dough, add the ingredients in proportion, throw them into the automatic oven, and bake the bread without even looking at it.

Xia Yi was very suspicious. If the bread didn't take up space, they might even have to bring ready-made bread. The chef puts on his clothes before eating and becomes a chef, and once he takes off his clothes after eating, he becomes a maintenance worker. He is really versatile.

Fortunately, he had the wisdom to eat a good meal before setting off. Xia Yi quietly ate this heated lunch that was not very delicious. Suddenly, the ship's hull shook violently, and the plate in his hand crashed to the ground. Some people fell directly on their bodies. Just as they were about to yell at the captain, they heard a piercing alarm sound from the ship.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The crew in the control room shouted loudly, and the captain jumped up and quickly got into the control room.

Xia turned his head and looked out the window and saw a small battleship flying over in the distance. He only saw the flash of fire and the attacking shells flew over. She said in confusion: "Enemy attack? Space bandits?"

"It's a hunter fighter from Melas Emperor! Everyone, go into the crew room, we're going to escape!" The captain yelled, and everyone got into chaos and rushed into the crew room. Only Xia Yi was fine. stood in the main ship room.

When the captain saw that there was an idle person standing here, he was about to scold her, but he paused when he realized it was Xia Yi, and then shouted: "Soldiers, do you know how to use weapons?"

"Yes." Xia Yi replied cheerfully.

"You four, go to the weapons bay quickly!" The captain pointed to three people and asked Xia Yi to follow them.

Xia Yi followed the three people and ran into the cargo hold. He only saw them touching the ship wall, and four doors appeared on both sides. The three crew members quickly rushed into three of them, and the doors inside were closed after entering. Xia Yi also got into the empty one and saw a fighting chair inside with many boxes piled around it.

She sat on the chair, and the voice device on her ear immediately received the frequency of the control room, and the captain's roar came from inside, "Turn on the quantum low-pressure cannon and kill them hard!"

Xia Yi can use weapons, but they are only the equipment of the Marines in the army, and she has not been asked to fire a shot until now. She didn't even know how to activate the quantum low-pressure cannon on the merchant ship opposite.

I don't know if I can see it. This ship is so backward that it doesn't even have a light curtain panel. There is just a red button on the table in front of me with a silly word "ON" on it. Xia Yi pressed it without saying anything, and with a buzzing sound, the metal plate in front of her moved to both sides, revealing a semicircular transparent glass.

Through the glass, she saw the Hunter fighter plane of Melas Emperor at a glance, flying right past the merchant ship. The console of the quantum low-pressure cannon also rose on the table. On the right side was a semicircle-like thing. Xia Yi finally knew that this controlled the direction of the fort. On the left hand side is the attack control of the quantum low-pressure cannon, which can control the amount of energy emitted each time.

Data also began to appear on the piece of glass. The number and distance of Hunter fighter jets around the merchant ship were displayed on it. The amount of energy and damage to the ship's hull are also clearly known.

"Six Hunters... that's a lot." Xia Yi said to himself.

Then the captain's voice was heard, "Soldiers! There is also a parallel battleship, which can have 24 Hunters. If you don't want to die, just fight it!"

"Twenty-four! Did you steal the underwear of Queen Melas Emperor, and you attracted so many guys?" Xia Yi asked curiously.

"Asshole, you are still joking now! These are specially sent by Melas Emperor to rob merchant ships! They never take prisoners. If you want to survive, you will beat them severely!" The captain was angered by her question. At this time, he actually And in the mood to joke.

Xia Yi laughed and said, "I know, if you don't fight, you will die."