Architect

With his head throbbing from drunken pain, the man struggled to sit up, only to find that he was still in the bar last night.

He twitched the corners of his mouth self-deprecatingly, and forced out an unsuccessful smile.

Of course, no one will come to take him home, and that handsome young man will probably never appear again, after all, it is not a pleasant thing to be wooed by a horny uncle.

He subconsciously touched the things on his body to see if he had lost any valuables, but the next moment he remembered that he didn't have any expensive property at all, and the money in his pocket was probably used to pay the wine bill.

However, he still found a piece of paper in his empty pocket, took it out and crumpled it, and it was the registration number of a spaceship.

He was quite baffled by this.

Knowing that he didn't drink very well, and he couldn't remember what happened after he was drunk, so he raised his hand and grabbed the bartender who was sweeping the floor next to him: "Hey, let me say, what did I do here last night?"

The bartender raised his eyebrows: "You drank three big black beers, and then paid the bill to everyone who praised you for being young."

"Oh! Damn it!" He wanted to smash his head against the wall.

The bartender glanced at the note in his hand: "Oh, by the way, you also agreed to a temporary recruitment job, which seems to be some kind of mechanic on a cargo spaceship. Here, it is the note in your hand that boat."

"What?!"

His eyes widened uncontrollably, what's going on?He just sold himself on the spaceship? !

The bartender saw that his expression was extremely ugly, as if he woke up drunk and lay next to a man instead of a beautiful woman. Of course, he didn't know that if this was the case, the man would not have the expression he has now.

"You don't want to go back on your word, do you? I advise you not to. If I remember correctly, the person who recruited you seems to be the crew of the Gemini spaceship, which is a cargo ship of the Heber family."

"God..."

Weakly slumped on the chair, it is impossible to live in this spaceport without hearing of the Heber family. On the surface, this family is a legitimate businessman, but secretly has contacts with interstellar pirates. Who would dare not listen to them, I'm afraid The only end result is to be stuffed into an iron bucket and thrown out of outer space.

The man has long since lost the impulse he had when he was young, let alone tearing up the note in anger. Time and tragic experiences have smoothed away all the edges and corners he once had. Now he just doesn't want to die.He spread out the crumpled note on the table, and asked the bartender while holding his sore forehead, "Well... do you know when this boat leaves?"

The bartender told him: "It seems to be tomorrow. The person recruiting the crew seems to be in a hurry. Otherwise, he wouldn't have caught you, a drunk man."

"Damn it!"

The bartender looked at him with a slumped face, coupled with his unlucky appearance with red eyes and stubble from a hangover. He was going to work hard on a spaceship when he was too old, and he was still on a spaceship that was not clearly related to interstellar pirates. It's not good, maybe I won't be able to come back.I couldn't help but feel some sympathy, poured a glass of free water and put it in front of him: "I said you should go back and prepare soon? Collect the things in the store. I think this trip will last at least a year and a half Loaded."

"Hey! Ike! Come here for me!!"

The flight suit on his body was about to be burst by his fat belly, and the first officer had a rough voice, yelling rudely like a slave owner in the ancient times of the human mother planet yelling at his slaves.

Ike sighed, quickly squeezed the nutrient into his mouth and swallowed it, then threw the thing and ran to the first mate. He had been working for [-] hours without a break for half a minute. When the successor comes, he can quickly find something to eat to fill his stomach.

No wonder no one is willing to work on this spaceship. This Gemini cargo ship belongs to the old spaceship cargo ship of the last century. The once hard outer shell has withstood too many meteorite impacts and has become pitted, and the outer isolation windows have not been cleaned. The blurry, bulky shape of the cargo ship has long been eliminated, and the thrusters that cannot fly faster than the speed of light always emit a cough like an old man. It sails in the universe like a slowly crawling turtle. Big, I'm afraid it has already been disassembled and sold for parts.

Of course, the environment in the cabin will not be comfortable, at most it can provide a state of survival. In this kind of place with a pile of cargo for six months to a year, normal people will go crazy.

Therefore, there is a serious shortage of employees on the cargo ship, almost one person does the work of three people, and short-term hired workers like Ike are completely squeezed out.

"You slob! Are you squatting there to be lazy?! Look at you walking slowly, I really shouldn't allow a drunk like you to fly! Listen to me! The air circulation system of the decompression chamber is broken, Hurry up and fix it!"

The man who was too tired to keep his eyes open was scolded without thinking and then thrown back to work.

A decompression chamber without an air circulation system is like outer space. You must wear a bulky spacesuit to keep warm and pressurize. This job is usually performed by another technician stationed on the ship, but that guy often disappears or even He also turned off the communicator to avoid laziness, and even the first officer had nothing to do with him.

Ike had no choice but to wear a spacesuit alone, carried repair tools into the isolation chamber, closed the isolation chamber, entered the decompression chamber, opened the panel of the air circulation system and started repairing.This is not a job he is familiar with, so it took more time to finish it with difficulty. I guess he was too tired. After finishing it, he climbed back to the isolation cabin, took off his helmet, and fell asleep on the side.

Of course, the sleeping quarters were not prepared for the crew recruited temporarily. After boarding the ship, Ike was arranged to sleep in the dirty and messy cargo warehouse. In order to maximize the effective use of this heavy old cargo ship, the cargo warehouse space was squeezed It's so full that I can barely sleep in the gaps between the cargo boxes, and the smell is quite bad.

Compared with the cargo warehouse, which is so narrow that it can only accommodate one person who can barely turn over, the isolation cabin, which is only separated from outer space by a thick door, is relatively spacious.

Since he hadn't reported the repair situation, everyone on the spaceship thought that this clumsy old guy hadn't finished the work, so they didn't look for him again, but let him sleep well.

Sleeping soundly, suddenly a violent vibration of the hull woke Ike up.

The first mate's panicked shout came from the communicator: "Captain! There are pirates!! Our spaceship has been attacked by interstellar pirates!!!" The fat man who was as fierce as a slave owner now screamed like a woman whose skirt was lifted .

The captain who was awakened on the other side was still lying in his comfortable bed: "How is it possible?! We have a secret agreement with the Naparte pirates, how could they attack us?!"

"It's not the Nappa pirates! The pirate ship that attacked us has a blood-tear skull! It's a pirate ship with the blood-tear skull flag!!"

"What?!──"

The captain's roar came to an abrupt end with another loud explosion, followed by the sizzle of signal interruption.

"The master cabin has been hit!!" a crew member screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Everyone abandons the ship!! Go to the rescue cabin!"

"Run away!"

"Help!! Come and save me! Ahhh──"

The sudden change frightened Ike. He thought it was just a simple voyage, and it was a cargo ship of the powerful Heber family, but he didn't expect to be attacked by interstellar pirates during the voyage!

He remembered that the hatch of the rescue cabin was next to the isolation cabin, and his instinct for survival made him quickly take off his heavy space suit and get out of the isolation cabin.

The hull of the ship was severely damaged, and there was a lot of gray and black smoke everywhere in the cabin, and there were constantly jumping currents and sparks, and the vibration of the deck made it difficult to stand still.Although it was only a few steps away from the rescue hatch, Ike was so difficult that he almost had to roll and crawl to reach it. After he climbed in, the rescue capsule automatically closed and ejected from the inside of the hull.

The rescue cabin moved away from the spaceship at an extremely fast speed. Looking through the blurry isolation window, Ike saw three pirate ships with dark shells and a white skull logo with a drop of blood on the hull. They emitted tractor beams, Captured the Gemini space cargo ship, which has been destroyed for the most part...

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I don't know how long it has passed, but Ike didn't pay attention to the numbers displayed on the control panel.

After the rescue capsule was ejected, it rushed into an asteroid belt. The dense asteroids are small and numerous, and it is difficult to find the rescue capsule hidden here.

The pirate ship may still be lingering nearby, and the skull dripping with blood and tears is the nightmare of all ships. This interstellar pirate has never bought anyone's account, and has no connection with any organization. The merchant ships intercepted by them will never Keep anything alive.Although the Cosmic Alliance has repeatedly offered rewards to capture these pirates, the vastness of the universe is enough to make any human being invisible, even the Alliance's army can't do anything about them.

Ike hesitantly rubbed the button on the distress signal. The passage of time made him feel more and more desperate. Even if he was not discovered by pirates, would anyone be willing to waste resources to search and rescue a useless person like him who doesn't even have citizenship?The answer is of course impossible, because it is a temporary crew member, and his profile has not even been registered on the crew profile...

Even if he was captured and killed, someone would know that he was dead... It was better than floating in this boundless universe, and no one would ever find his shriveled corpse in the rescue cabin.

"Crack."

The red button was pressed, the signal was sent out, and Aike cooperated