Chapter 113 Fleet and Yuhui's Development Strategy

After Chen Ming got through the communication with his boss.

He quickly checked the previous password and confirmed his identity.

The boss, who had not been in contact for a few days, asked unexpectedly: "Xiao Ming, do you have anything to do with me?"

Chen Ming said without further ado, "Well, just now my spaceship was robbed by a group of pirates calling themselves the Free Alliance. Their leader said they were working for a businessman named 'Baimao'."

The boss sounded like he knew who this person was and asked, "Baimao? How did they find you?"

"I bought a Heavy Rain."

"Oh, you've got your eye on this thing, right? You're looking for me just because of them?"

"Yes, after all, I'm not sure whether you recognize the people from the Freedom Alliance or not, including Bai Mao and the pirate boss, so I came over to ask them before killing them."

"Well, let's put it this way, it doesn't matter if you kill them, but it's okay if you don't kill them. I know a little bit about Bai Mao. If you don't mind, just leave him to me."

Chen Ming was a little curious about his boss's plan and asked, "What should we do with them?"

The boss didn't hide anything and said: "Take it in exchange for a favor."

"If his name is not nonsense, then his situation is indeed a bit special. Although the bounty is worth tens of millions, the actual value will be higher."

"You know I am building a colony now to prepare for my retirement. Bai Mao is from the Free Alliance, so I can exchange favors in this regard."

Chen Ming said clearly: "Okay, then I'll leave them alive."

After getting the answer, Chen Ming turned to the pirates and said, "You don't have to die for the time being."

"But your spaceship must stay. All the people who are still alive must be gathered on that expedition ship. Someone will take you away soon."

"Any questions? If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

The pirate captain was completely acceptable to this result and said repeatedly: "No, no, we have no problem."

Then immediately began to instruct the crew to change the spacecraft.

The boss's voice sounded again in the communication that had not been hung up: "Xiao Ming, how are you doing at Yuhui's place recently?"

Chen Ming stared at the situation here at the pirates and replied: "It's not good. Yu Hui's suspicion of me is getting worse. I should be locked up in another place after a while. It should be quite troublesome whether I want to escape or rescue. "

"Isn't it going well? Don't you pay attention to the afterglow of your ability?"

"We take it seriously. It's mainly my problem."

"What did you do?"

"Blowed up a mine in Yuhui."

"..."

The boss was silent for a moment, but he thought that Chen Ming must have a reason for doing this, so he didn't say anything.

"Then do you want me to find a way to get you out? I heard about your current location. If you go deeper into Yuhui's territory, it will be difficult to do many things."

"And I've heard recently that Yu Hui seems to be making some big move. I'm not sure who it's targeting. You'd better be careful."

The boss said it very seriously, but Chen Ming thought about it and said, "Not for the time being."

Although Chen Ming has now controlled several AI cores, and will send one back soon.

But if he leaves now, it means that there will be no room for remediation if something goes wrong in his plans in the future.

And the benefits obtained from Yuhui will be greatly reduced in the short term. If the plan is executed well, there is nothing to say.

But if something goes wrong, even the most basic guarantee, that is, the materials and professional books provided by Yu Hui on a regular basis, will not be available.

And maybe after Chen Ming leaves, Yuhui will pay more attention to the several Yuhui AIs that he is suspected of having contact with. Something might go wrong in what was originally a peaceful situation.

The last trace of serious relationship he still managed to maintain with Yuhui would be completely severed, and there would be no chance of repairing it to the point of contact.

Chen Ming is not completely restricted by Yuhui now, and there is still a lot of room for opportunities.

In addition, the boss's favor is indeed very important, and he doesn't want to use it easily.

So with the support of so many factors, Chen Ming decided not to go back after careful consideration.

The boss had no objection to Chen Ming's decision and just said: "You can decide for yourself."

"But you have to pay more attention. You are not the only one paying attention to your situation."

"Someone from Sindar Company, Tachyon Technology, the Fourteenth Legion, the Star Territory Government, and even the top war zone have heard of you."

"Zuo Jing also has some ideas for you. He may want to join a free alliance in the future. You should pay attention to yourself and don't let them affect you."

Chen Ming also knew that if so many forces had thoughts about him, some unexpected situations might occur in the future. Faced with the boss's reminder, Chen Ming solemnly responded: "I understand, I will pay attention to it."

Chen Ming recorded this matter in his heart, and suddenly remembered what happened just now, and said: "By the way, boss, there is something I need to tell you. There should be leftist elements in the space station now."

"In addition to the pirates, I just met a fleet from the left. They came to hunt down Lao Wu because he rented a construction ship."

"And this Zuojiao fleet planned to cause trouble for me together with this group of Free Alliance pirates."

"It's just that Lao Wu was not on the ship, so they missed the boat, and I also killed the left-wing fleet."

Chen Ming actually kept a list of the space station's left-path personnel in his hand before, and planned to find opportunities to earn some benefits in the future.

However, Chen Ming gave out the names of all the other Zuo Jing personnel, so these people had been purged when the space station was cleaned up before.

But I didn't expect that it would be so soon, and Zuo Jing would start activities again as if it had grown out of the ground.

It can only be said that the situation of the pirate space station is sometimes like this, and it should be cleaned up as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the safety of Lao Wu might be in trouble.

However, the boss's focus was not on Zuo Jing in the space station. Instead, he asked Chen Ming with some surprise: "What ship did you use to kill Zuo Jing? How many fleets does Zuo Jing have?"

"Zuo Jing has three mules and eleven guards, and the pirates with them have two destroyers and seven guards. In the end, the pirates only had one destroyer and seven guards to surrender, and Zuo Jing was completely wiped out."

"The ship I used was a storm."

One against twenty-three, a complete victory.

No one would believe such a record, but the boss was quite convinced when it came to Chen Ming.

And the boss also realized a little problem in Chen Ming's words, and said: "Not bad, your psychic power has also improved?"

"It shouldn't be considered, it's just that I have expanded the use of my psychic power."

"That's not bad either, keep working hard, I feel that your future potential is definitely more than what you have now."

"I will also remember to tell Lao Wu that the people of Zuo Jing can only be said to never be killed completely, but Zuo Jing still has little room to move around on the space station, so there is no need to worry too much."

"Yeah."

"Okay, that's it, do you have the video, send me a copy later."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment and said: "My spaceship can't go back, at most there may be videos on the engineering ship and the pirate spaceship I use to imprison people, I will send it to you directly when the time comes?"

"Okay, then I wish you a smooth journey with Yuhui later, and we will talk later."

The communication ended.

At this time, on the dark cemetery.

The pirates have all moved to the cheapest sentinel designated by Chen Ming.

The remaining eight pirate ships, and even the people on a destroyer, are all crowded on it.

Although the environment is not very good, it is much better to be alive than to be dead.

Chen Ming forced the pirate captain to open the porthole protection plate during the communication, isolating the internal and external environment of the spacecraft.

He also directly dismantled all the external cameras on the Sentinel, and shot the electromagnetic javelin that Chen Ming had just removed from the Iron Ore and replaced on the Fighter to destroy the spacecraft's sensors.

Except for the engine, which cannot be dismantled because of the life support system, all other spacecraft functions that can see the outside world have been restricted by Chen Ming.

Before the boss's people come.

Chen Ming has to deal with the remaining spacecraft and the wreckage from the battle.

It is definitely necessary to use abilities to deal with these things, so try to hide them as much as possible.

Although Chen Ming is not in the Dark Cemetery now, it is not a big deal to deal with the spacecraft.

All you need to do is to dismantle the bridges of those unmanned spacecrafts with an engineering ship, find an interface and connect an adapter so that Gamma B can be connected, and then the spacecraft will belong to Chen Ming.

The pirates had two mules and seven escorts before, except for one mule that was destroyed by a fighter plane and one sentinel to carry pirate members.

The remaining mule and six escorts can all go into Chen Ming's pocket.

Among the remaining six frigates, there is a sentinel, three expeditions, and two armed merchant ships of the Far Traveler class.

The overall value is not high. When all are repaired and sold, the net profit including the mule is about 120 million.

After deducting the value of purchasing repair materials and replenishing war damage, it is not bad.

At least if you put together another one, you can get another Storm.

Of course, the second Storm can't be rushed, Chen Ming has some other ideas.

When all the seven pirate ships were under Chen Ming's control, three more ships suddenly approached in the hyperspace here in the dark cemetery.

According to the direction and model of these three ships, Chen Ming could tell at a glance that they were sent by their boss.

Two of the three ships were ordinary Gladiator-class frigates.

The remaining one is an electromagnetic auxiliary ship named Electric Current Class, similar to the Refraction.

It is equipped with non-lethal electromagnetic weapons that are usually only used by patrol teams, and a more powerful traction device similar to the Iron Ore's asteroid traction device that can tug spacecraft.

These two ships look a bit shabby.

However, the space station just had a fight with the military and suffered heavy losses.

It should be the best effort to get three ships out.

After the ship of the space station discovered the situation here, it immediately sent a communication and said, "We are sent by Mr. Wu."

Chen Ming confirmed with the boss that there was no problem, and replied very straightforwardly: "Did you see the Sentinel? All the people have been transferred to that ship, and it is left to you."

"Okay."

The matter was resolved in less than three sentences.

After controlling the Sentinel Class full of pirates, the three ships quickly left.

They regarded the wreckage of the surrounding spacecraft as nothing, and they knew the rules very well.

After the people left, Chen Ming continued to clean up the battlefield.

At this time, there were still many wreckages that had lost the shape of spacecrafts on the battlefield.

Chen Ming couldn't control them, but he could use the cargo hold of the Mule-class ship he had just captured to collect the wreckage and choose to dismantle it.

There were a total of wreckage of four Mules and eleven escorts.

Although most of the spacecraft that had been blown up were destroyed by the terrifying power of the Terminator fighter, the number of remaining wreckage was not large.

But not much is relative to the spacecraft before it exploded.

All the wreckage added up can still fill the cargo hold of at least one and a half mules.

Even after disassembly, the volume of the wreckage has been reduced, but the neatly stacked materials can still completely fill the two cubic cargo holds of the mule with a side length of 30 meters.

There are still many materials that can only be piled up in other cabins, and they have to find a place to put them after returning.

Thanks to the mule that Chen Ming specially left for him before, he had modified an expanded cargo hold. After removing most of the unnecessary cabins, the number of storage cargo holds can be increased by two.

When the time comes, pick and choose, and put the extra ones into the repair shop. The remaining more valuable ones should be enough to be stuffed into the mule he kept, so that they can be used at any time.

After quickly cleaning up with the mule and the disassembly function.

Chen Ming also repaired the seven spaceships in his hands with the materials he had just harvested.

Let them at least look like a proper spaceship, not the rubbish in the hands of pirates.

Get everything done.

Chen Ming arranged the actions for Gamma B and Gamma Z.

Then he took the remaining ships and drove back to the space station with the spaceship's own automatic driving.

Half an hour later.

A mule with six spaceships and an engineering ship successfully arrived at the pirate space station and entered the interior of the repair shop.

All the spaceships looked brand new, and no living people got off the ship. Only Old Wu, who had been slacking off for a day, ran onto the spaceship under surveillance.

The company must have seen this scene, but it should not stop Chen Ming in such a matter.

As for Old Wu, after getting on the spaceship driven back by Chen Ming, he very skillfully removed the battery of the terminal he carried with him.

After wandering around on the spaceship, he came to the captain's room, sat down on the chair in the captain's room and asked, "Xiao Ming, have you been robbed again?"

"Well, a group of pirates and Zuo Jing, you see their ships are in my hands now, don't ask for details."

"By the way, Zuo Jing has been eyeing you because you followed me to the auction before, so be careful."

Old Wu said with a chuckle, "Old Wu just told me that it's not a big problem. I've lived for so many years, can I still be killed by them?"

He patted the inner wall of the mule-class and asked, "So you still let me sell the ship this time?"

"Yes, it's the same as before, and the share you get is the same as before."

"Including the ships next to it, it's more than 100 million. What are you going to buy this time?"

"I'm still thinking about it."

Money has no meaning if it's not spent, so Chen Ming will definitely find a way to spend the money as soon as possible.

And the place where Chen Ming needs money the most is definitely the fleet, and what the fleet needs most now is definitely to make up for the weaknesses.

Make up for the weaker aspects of the fleet composition.

At present, Chen Ming has confirmed that the ships to be added to the fleet are the Refractor, the Gladiator and the Storm.

Although these three ships have different functions and powerful effects, they all have a problem,

that is, their ability to hold the line is not good.

If there is a spaceship like the Centurion of the military to block in front, the combat effectiveness of Chen Ming's ships can be further improved.

And Chen Ming has tried the effect of the Centurion before. It can only be said that when the damping position and Chen Ming's own maintenance ability are activated, it can even block the output of a large weapon of the cruiser for about ten seconds before being destroyed.

Not to mention blocking other things.

However, Chen Ming now needs more than just guards, after all, the fleet cannot be composed of only guards.

So Chen Ming is now thinking about getting a destroyer to hold the line.

And he does have some signs now.

It is the flagship of Cheng Xinghe of the 14th Legion who fought with Chen Ming before, the special law enforcer, whose name displayed on the panel is [14th Legion Law Enforcer Class Heavy Destroyer].

Whether it is the name or the spaceship itself, it is stronger than the ordinary law enforcer.

Although the Enforcer was smashed by the Ruler, Chen Ming had collected most of the wreckage of the spacecraft before.

During the time in Yuhui's territory, Chen Ming had relied on his spacecraft technology to roughly piece together the fragments of the ship, and the blueprint was already being drawn.

Although the finished product and the blueprint will definitely have a lot of errors and problems.

But Chen Ming can buy an ordinary Enforcer and make some modifications that Chen Ming has in mind when repairing the Enforcer of the 14th Legion.

The only problem is.

"Old Wu, do you have a way to get a military ship?"

"What do you want?"

"Enforcer."

"I have everything in my dreams."

"Okay."

It seems that Chen Ming can only put the destroyer-level ship aside for the time being and use the frigate first.

"Can the Centurion be made?"

"I can get a little bit at a 20% premium."

Chen Ming thought about it. The price of a Centurion is 40 to 50 million, and a premium of 10 to 20 million is still acceptable.

"Then we'll take two first."

The fleet he is currently planning is about 30 ships, which should be the upper limit of the fleet he can support alone.

Two Centurions should be enough for a temporary transition.

"Okay."

Old Wu agreed and asked, "Are there any other things you want?"

Chen Ming had no other ideas for the spacecraft for the time being. After all, he would not have much money left after buying the Centurion.

However, Chen Ming still had some ideas for other things.

"Do you have any way to get the mechanical family chips?"

"What do you want this thing for?"

"It's useful."

The reason why Chen Ming wanted to acquire the mechanical family chips was naturally because of Gamma Z.

Although Gamma Z is now an individual that will not be suspected by Yu Hui at all, it is still a Gamma-level Yu Hui.

This determines that its influence is definitely not as good as Gamma AB, one of which has been suspected by Yu Hui, and the other has not been investigated yet, but it is definitely related to Chen Ming.

Therefore, Chen Ming is thinking about letting Gamma Z quickly upgrade to Beta level by eating mechanical family chips.

At least Beta-level AI can be responsible for some large-scale production lines of Yu Hui.

If possible, Chen Ming even wants to upgrade Gamma Z to Alpha level directly.

Old Wu didn't bother Chen Ming's purpose of hiding it from him. He thought for a while and said, "Although this thing is not very valuable, it's not easy to buy to be honest."

"It was removed from the mechanical race after all. It has white cloud steel and some other expensive things inside."

"And I remember that there seems to be someone buying the chips of the mechanical race. It seems that the government is buying them. I'm not sure."

Chen Ming suddenly reacted after listening to Old Wu's words.

He must be more than one person who has the core of the afterglow, but the chips of the mechanical race are not monopolized by the government, military or various companies that are most likely to have a large number of afterglow cores. They are just purchased normally.

It is obvious that there are restrictions.

So Chen Ming directly asked Gamma B who was still on the way and got a positive answer.

There are indeed restrictions on the absorption of afterglow by the mechanical race chips.

Because the mechanical race chips have the consciousness of mechanical life such as the mechanical race inside, eating too much will be like them contacting things like spiritual stones, generating redundant data, which takes time to process.

And Chen Ming suddenly thought of another problem that he had to solve with this sudden idea.

At present, Gamma Z's identity can be said to be clean in Yu Hui's place.

But once Chen Ming sent the chip over, once it was found, it would be a big problem.

There is no reasonable reason for Gamma Z to pick up the mechanical family chip in Yu Hui's territory.

So even if there is no problem of chip absorption restriction, Chen Ming can only let Gamma Z find a way to work hard on his own.

And Lao Wu continued to say: "If you really want it, I can also try it. I have to go to other places, to the star field bordering the mechanical family's territory."

"The price should not be too high, about three or four times the weight of Baiyun steel. I have to check the details. How much do you want?"

Chen Ming thought about it. Although Gamma Z can't get it, Gamma B and Gamma A are not necessarily.

He also has some Yu Hui AI controlled in other places, who knows if he can use it later.

So Chen Ming calculated the approximate price given by Lao Wu and said: "Ten mechanical guard-class spaceship chips will be collected first, two destroyer-class chips will be purchased first, and the higher-level ones will not be needed for the time being."

"Nothing else?"

"No more."

"Okay."

Lao Wu stood up from the chair in the captain's room, stretched and said: "This is the first time I've been so busy in so many years."

"Do you think the money is too little?"

"That's not the case. I just feel a little sad that so many years have passed."

Lao Wu's words suddenly made Chen Ming curious about his past.

But Lao Wu didn't intend to elaborate, so Chen Ming didn't ask.

Lao Wu left the spaceship to help Chen Ming deal with things.

Chen Ming didn't stay here at the space station for long, and put his attention back to himself.

It was only ten o'clock in the morning on Earth at this time.

At least he had plenty of time to use before being sent away.

So Chen Ming didn't rush to continue reading, but glanced at the three afterglow individuals he had controlled before.

It didn't take long to examine them, and nothing could be found anyway.

Gamma A, which had close contact with Chen Ming, could not find any problems, let alone these three.

But even if it could not find any problems, Yuhui still had to take precautions.

The two Yuhui who had gone down the mine tunnel were each assigned to a small exploration station far away from the colony.

Responsible for the daily maintenance of the exploration station and scanning of undeveloped deep underground resources.

And the AI ​​responsible for controlling the entire mining field, because all evidence can prove that it has not been contacted by Chen Ming's robots.

So it was assigned to a new mining station and had the same job as before.

Of course, it is also quite far from the colony.

However, after this Gamma AI was implanted in the factory, the factory equipment controlled by the Gamma AI was also controlled by Chen Ming.

Although if the AI ​​core is removed, Chen Ming's control over this kind of industrial equipment will be invalid.

Just like the mining field before, after losing the three AI cores controlled by Chen Ming, Chen Ming has completely lost the ability to control it.

This is different from Chen Ming's ability to control the spacecraft.

There was nothing much to say about Chen Ming. His ability to control everything from spacecraft to core and then to indirectly control factory equipment through the core was already outrageous enough. Even if he didn't have this ability, it wouldn't be a big problem.

As long as the AI ​​core still exists in the equipment, his control over this industrial equipment is the same as his control over the spacecraft.

Therefore, the other two Yuhui AIs who also worked in this mining station also fell into Chen Ming's clutches.

But Chen Ming was not sure whether Yuhui had deliberately set a trap for him.

The Gamma AI had just been inspected, and then it was directly replaced with a new working environment and equipped with two new AI subordinates, which made Chen Ming think there might be something wrong.

So he would not let them perform any performance, at least not in the short term.

If he wanted to develop rapidly in a short period of time, he still had to rely on Gamma Z.