Chapter 168 Departure

As the director made his resignation report public at the meeting.

The other directors at the conference table looked at each other for a few times, and several directors also took out their resignation reports.

There was a big problem with the company's previous resolution, especially the resolution on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming can now be said to be a psychic with combat power close to Wu An's level.

Even if there are various factors affecting this, even if the upper limit of Chen Ming's combat power is the lower limit of Wu An, there is no possibility of winning in a head-on battle.

But since Chen Ming killed Yan Xiong, it means that he has the ability to reach this level.

With such a relatively close relationship with a psychic, plus the original line of involvement of the company's employees.

In exchange for the right to re-mine Sky Steel, and some military priority in purchasing spacecraft.

It seemed to be profitable before.

But now it seems that it can be said to be a loss.

If it weren't for the factory director and Old Wu, the company might even cause Chen Ming's hatred.

What material things can compare to a psychic close to Wu An's level?

The board of directors did make a wrong decision.

The few who had clearly opposed it before were basically those who were close to the chairman.

So in this situation, the directors who first proposed this proposal must resign.

As the last director who proposed the proposal first and took the lead, he must be the first to make the decision to resign.

At least this way they can retreat safely.

Otherwise, it will be ugly if others are dragged down.

One day later.

Pirate space station.

Since Zuo Jing and the war zone have already attacked, Chen Ming is not in a hurry to leave as before.

Anyway, he didn't feel the danger, and the war zone should not come again in a short time.

If they can get two more psychics, he will accept it.

So Chen Ming simply postponed his departure for a day.

Some supplies lost in the previous battle were replenished on the space station.

The boss was very considerate and helped Chen Ming replenish the supplies consumed to kill Yan Xiong.

Although these materials needed to be sent to the boss's colony due to the large quantity and the need for transportation, Chen Ming transported them himself.

But at least the boss saved Chen Ming a lot of money by doing this.

Then in addition to the supplies, Chen Ming also went to collect the spoils after winning the battle.

There were a total of four cruisers, more than 50 destroyers, and more than 200 escorts from the war zone and Zuojing this time.

In the end, not a single one escaped.

However, there were only three cruisers and about 80% of the small boats left on the pirate space station.

And among the three cruisers left.

The ruler was killed by the concentrated fire of Chen Ming's five cruisers, and then absorbed by Yan Xiong to form a steel giant.

In the end, it exploded, and all the materials were fused into lumps.

Chen Ming chose to take away the relatively large pieces of materials, and the remaining scattered and difficult to collect ones were left there.

He could disassemble these large pieces of materials directly, and he could also get some materials whose properties did not change under high temperature and high pressure, or alloy materials formed by the fusion of various materials.

The two defenders were not in such a situation.

Although they were also sunk by the fleet that rushed over after Chen Ming, at least they were still basically in good condition.

Since the sinking of the two defenders was mainly due to Chen Ming, if it weren't for Chen Ming, the space station would have no chance to keep them.

So, they belonged to Chen Ming.

Although the damage was a little serious, Chen Ming was not without materials to repair them.

So he directly asked the three afterglow cruisers that came to support to carry the two defenders back to the temporary base, and they could be used again after repairs.

Of course, Chen Ming still checked the defenders before sending them away.

Although large ships must be equipped with a considerable number of escape pods, there are always some people who were left in the sunken ship and are still alive.

Chen Ming did not investigate the identities of these people. After getting them out, he directly handed them over to the space station for processing.

The important thing is the defender itself.

Although it is a company's spacecraft, it is basically designed to castrate some excellent functions for mass production.

But at least the basics are not missing, and they still have the standard combat power of a cruiser.

It's worth taking.

Then there are the small boats.

Because Chen Ming saw that there was a big gap between him and the Zuo Jing fleet on paper, he didn't care about his face and directly used large weapons to sweep and clean up these small boats.

The small boats suffered very serious losses, and the kind of losses that could not be recovered.

So now there are only about ten destroyers and more than thirty escorts that are still intact.

Some are lucky, and some surrendered directly when they saw the situation was not good.

The people above were controlled by the Administration, and were soon transported away with the people Chen Ming found on the cruiser. No one knew where they were transported to.

Chen Ming didn't care about the people.

But the spaceships were what he wanted.

The fleet he planned to use to hunt pirates had lost three ships before it officially set out.

Although the losses were on Yan Xiong, it was not a loss.

But Chen Ming's fleet strength also dropped a lot in an instant.

At least that's what Chen Ming said when he talked to the deputy director about the distribution of spoils.

So, he must have new ships to rebuild a suitable fleet.

But the space station had contributed before, helping Chen Ming share some of the damage caused by the enemy cruiser's concentrated fire.

They must also have a share of the spoils.

In the end, the deputy director took the initiative to give in, letting Chen Ming choose what he needed first, and they took the rest.

Then Chen Ming was not polite.

Among these small spaceships as spoils, some were military models and some were miscellaneous models.

Chen Ming would definitely start with the military models and fill the fleet as much as possible in proportion.

So in the end, Chen Ming chose a total of three destroyers.

One military law enforcer, which is the basic model of the special law enforcer designed by the 14th Corps that Chen Ming asked Bai Quan for.

There are also two Scorpion-class ships, which are also the military's own spacecraft models.

There is a special device on this type of ship, a net ballistic rangefinder.

It can connect to the friendly spacecraft signal, obtain detailed big data on the battlefield, and provide accurate shooting route simulation for live ammunition weapons to achieve the effect of accurate point killing.

Although Chen Ming doesn't expect much from the destroyer.

But Chen Ming is still quite interested in the new model of spacecraft.

Even if the actual effect is not ideal in the end, he has collected the illustrations... No, he has obtained a new spacecraft design for research.

Moreover, this net ballistic rangefinder is not only used by the Scorpion itself, such a special device can also be used to provide ballistic simulation for more advanced spacecraft.

So from the actual effect, this is actually an auxiliary type of ship, but its own combat capability is quite good because of the ballistic rangefinder.

Then there are frigates.

Chen Ming chose five Vanguard-class heavy frigates.

It has a compact but simple and solid structure.

If the Centurion relies on its own damping field, a special device, to obtain the powerful anti-line ability of the frigate.

Then the Vanguard class relies purely on its own carefully designed armor and structure to resist.

Although the design is simple but easy to use, it is enough to guarantee the possibility of survival of the internal personnel to a considerable extent, and even if it is lost after the war, it is very easy to repair again.

It can be said to be a low-cost, medium-to-high-performance spacecraft.

What Chen Ming is least afraid of now is loss. These Vanguard-class ships can indeed be used as vanguards in the future.

There are also three Centurion-class ships, which is nothing to say.

The Centurion itself is a very good frigate, which can make up for Chen Ming’s previous losses.

Finally, there are seven military Sentinel-class ships to make up for the lack of missile weapons in Chen Ming's fleet.

These frigates add up to a total of fourteen ships, including three destroyers, a total of seventeen ships.

In general, Chen Ming did not go too far, at least he left some military ships for the space station.

Of course, the main reason is that there are only so many ships with light damage, which are fast and convenient to repair.

Chen Ming does not have so much energy to salvage those broken spaceships, so he should leave them to the space station to salvage slowly.

It can also let Lao Wu do more work.

When selecting spaceships, Chen Ming also contacted Baiquan.

Baiquan's efficiency is relatively low, and only the escorts and destroyers are in place among the promised spaceships.

Four Storm-class ships that can best demonstrate Chen Ming's strength, and a special model of the Fourteenth Legion Law Enforcer with the strongest anti-line ability among destroyers.

In small-scale combat, it can definitely exert a considerable degree of combat effectiveness.

Together with the spoils of war spaceships that Chen Ming took away, he organized them into the fleet that he left in the empire later.

It was not easy for Chen Ming to control this fleet all the time.

So he chose Gamma B, who ran away from Yuhui, as the commander of this fleet and handed it over to it to handle all matters.

And this fleet, which only Chen Ming had before and the spaceships given by Baiquan, has already taken shape.

One armor-piercing ship, five hammerheads, one 14th Legion Enforcer, five rainstorms, and one fighter modification.

A total of seven destroyers and six escorts.

If you count the fleet that Chen Ming added this time, then it is a small and medium-sized fleet of ten destroyers and twenty escorts, which is exactly thirty ships.

Then you can add two more ships.

After all, the number of ships in the fleet has increased, so it is best to prepare two logistics ships like other normal fleets.

A cargo ship transports fleet supplies, and a fuel ship transports fuel.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Chen Ming can't use psychic energy to replenish supplies.

It's just that if his mental power runs out one day, or if something happens and he can't get away, at least he can't let the fleet be without supplies.

But the cargo ship can actually be discarded. After all, there is no one on Chen Ming's ship, and the internal space is basically empty. Each ship can be used as a partial cargo ship.

But since Chen Ming has a Mule-class ship parked on the space station before, it must be used. It would be a waste to keep it there.

Before, Chen Ming needed the Mule as an anchor to send the things he needed back to the space station.

But now that he has controlled the No. 6 space arm of the space station, such a space arm full of power generation facilities, he can do a lot of things here, so he doesn't need to keep the Mule in the dock.

But fuel is better to be carried by a special fuel ship.

After all, it is very dangerous if this thing is left randomly without a special safe storage method.

So in the end, what Chen Ming left behind in the empire was a fleet of 32 ships, as well as armor-piercing, 14th Legion Law Enforcers, and Storm-class ships with extremely strong combat capabilities.

In the marginal star field, if you don't provoke the military and the official, you can almost walk sideways.

It's a pity.

At present, the cruiser Baiquan, which is more important to Chen Ming, has not been delivered yet, and the Qiling nerve has not been delivered either.

It can only be said that after all, the cruiser and the Qiling nerve are delivered slowly, which is normal.

Chen Ming must not have been able to deliver it before departure.

However, since his mental power can now support the control of the cruiser.

That is to say, as long as a gamma-class afterglow controlled by him touches the Baiquan cruiser, he can control the cruiser while protecting the gamma individual from being burned by overloaded data.

So Chen Ming also left two gamma individuals with the boss, one of which can be sent to Baiquan later.

At that time, Chen Ming can just control one and drive the ship away by himself.

Chen Ming is very much looking forward to the performance of the Stardust-class cruiser mothership.

Of course, Chen Ming got more than just the bad news that the cruisers and the Qi Ling Nerve had not arrived from Bai Quan.

After Chen Ming finished talking with the deputy director and left the administration building, Bai Quan also told Chen Ming a good news.

"I know someone in the war zone, and he told me that the high-level officials in the war zone who had conflicts with you were taken away."

"And it was not an internal review of the war zone, but people from above took them away directly."

Chen Ming was quite curious about this, and said hurriedly: "Tell me more about it."

"The main reason is that their cooperation with Zuo Jing this time involves too much, especially those cruisers."

"There is a problem with the source of these ships."

"The ruler is a ship that was originally planned to be retired in the war zone because the model was too old."

"Generally speaking, there are two places for retired ships, one of which is to dismantle Recycling, the materials are used to build new ships, this ruler was originally going to be dismantled. "

"But I don't know where the problem occurred, the ship disappeared, the war zone has been tracking it down."

"And then you saw it, it fell into Zuo Jing's hands."

"The two defenders are spaceships sold by Xinda Company normally, and they have the order form provided by the war zone."

"But there is no such list in the war zone. Of course, it is not the problem of Xinda Company. It was purchased privately by someone in the war zone in the name of the military with the help of connections."

"This is not a big deal in general, but it is related to the disappearance of the ruler before, and the problem may be It's a big deal."

"The last Eagle has the biggest problem."

"It's also a retired ship, but it uses a different method of dealing with retired ships. Generally, this is done for ships that have made achievements."

"That is, the fire control system of the ship is dismantled and thrown into the museum. No, the ship should be used directly as a museum."

"It is used to record the past of this Eagle and the achievements of the soldiers on it."

"It is used to promote the army and recruit soldiers."

"Then, this ship also disappeared and appeared here."

"So it is mainly because of these situations that the people in the war zone stayed "There is substantial evidence, which led to their arrest."

"There are definitely more people involved than just those who have a grudge against you. A lot of people will definitely be eliminated."

Bai Quan finished a long paragraph in one breath, and then said with some sigh: "I didn't expect that even if they dispatched four cruisers to fight against your two, they couldn't gain an advantage, and finally ended up running away in panic."

"Your ability is really amazing."

Chen Ming didn't lose his mind because of Bai Quan's flattery, and asked calmly: "In short, it means that everyone who has a grudge against me has been imprisoned, right?"

"Yes."

"That's good, but there is still one thing I don't understand. "

"Since Zuo Jing was hired by the War Zone, why did the War Zone build a space station? And why did they use the defenders sold by the company?"

"You're bored and you want to provoke another Xinda Company? The company is still developing, but it is also a giant in other places."

Bai Quan said as if he knew the matter very well: "Then we have to mention the situation of the War Zone and Zuo Jing."

"First of all, there is one thing you have to know. Contacting Zuo Jing is like seeking the skin of a tiger, and it is a tiger that has just crawled out of the sewer. If you are not careful, you will not only be attacked, but also get into trouble."

"Your company has recently arranged a director for the space station, and he has conflicts with you, right?"

Chen Ming responded: "Yes, I caught him back, Interrogation in progress."

"Okay, then I'll tell you directly and briefly."

"The War Zone took the initiative to contact your director, and they agreed to kill you."

"But what the director didn't expect was that the War Zone didn't do it themselves, but pushed someone out to take the blame, and then asked the scapegoat to find Zuo Jing."

"Zuo Jing also agreed, and the War Zone helped him sneak into the space station."

"It really met the requirements of the War Zone. First try to kill you, and if you can't kill you, force you out and let the fleet deal with it."

"You know what happened outside the space station."

"But inside the space station..."

"Zuo Jing completed what they promised, and it can be said that they are very credible."

"But later, they began to play freely."

" 'Free play'? Very vivid. "

Chen Ming's casual complaint made Bai Quan shrug his shoulders and continue: "Carry out terrorist attacks in the space station, blow up important facilities in the space station, and publicize their existence."

"Use the funding of the war zone to achieve their own goals, and at the same time drag the people in the war zone into the sewer."

"In the end, they were reported by someone."

"The specific reporter has not been investigated yet, and it should not be investigated."

"You can also see that if this matter continues to ferment, the war zone will be swollen."

"The reporter reported it in time, so the higher-ups handled it quickly, and the department that received the report will definitely protect this person."

"Let's not talk about anything else, just my side."

"My fleet just stopped the Eagle that escaped, and then I got a call from above."

"It was called directly from my hometown, asking me to cooperate."

"What else can I do? I just cooperate honestly."

"That's basically it."

Chen Ming digested what Bai Quan said, and couldn't help but said, "Do you know so much?"

"I have caught the director of the department involved, why is the news not as fast as yours?"

"It's natural. Even if the company's people are of good quality in the marginal star field and can be said to be a militia, they are definitely not as professional as us."

"That's right."

Chen Ming nodded, thinking about the meaning of Bai Quan's words.

In fact, after he knew the news, the whole thing was connected.

Knowing the truth, he no longer paid too much attention.

Anyway, the matter is over.

But Chen Ming finally told Bai Quan: "If there is a trial one day, remember to tell me the result."

Bai Quan hesitated for a moment, and finally said according to the most likely scenario: "You may be a little disappointed, the death penalty should not be necessary."

In fact, Chen Ming did not want people to die: "As long as they pay the due price, I will find a way if they cannot pay it."

"Is it really okay for you to say this to a major general?"

"It's okay, I still say that you can't stop me."

"In this era, everything can be lacking, but spacecraft cannot be lacking."

"This is the situation that will inevitably result from the specialization of planets for productivity."

"To be honest, even if I kill a criminal, will I be in trouble?"

"And even if I don't say it, if you let me know that those who conflicted with me did not pay enough, what do you think I would do?"

"Although we haven't met yet, you should know me well."

Chen Ming knew very well that since Bai Quan could guess the effect of his psychic power so many times, he must have a considerable understanding of him.

Bai Quan did not respond to Chen Ming's question.

Obviously, he would not ruin his relationship with Chen Ming for a few prisoners who had quite a lot of conflicts with him.

He chose to skip the previous topic and brought up the previously agreed matter: "By the way, are you very busy recently? Can you arrange some time to prepare for the formal fleet command training?"

Chen Ming did not force Bai Quan to answer the previous question, and took the opportunity to shift to the topic raised by Bai Quan and said: "I should have a lot of free time in the next period of time, but you have to wait for me for two or three days."

"No problem, then you go ahead and do your work. Contact me when you are free. I will give you a schedule."

"Then if you have time, remember to do some physical exercise every day. Physical strength is also a very important point in command, and you can't fall behind."

"If you really lack time, you can choose to reduce some of it, but a psychic I know said that the physical fitness of a psychic will also affect his use of psychic power."

"Well, I remember."

After making an agreement with Baiquan, Chen Ming didn't say anything more.

Hang up the communication.

During the time Chen Ming stayed on the space station, he confirmed with Lao Wu about the subsequent delivery of industrial equipment and research equipment, as well as the pirates.

Lao Wu has already determined the person who will take over the pirate captives or the pirate corpses or only a video of the battle with the pirates.

After Chen Ming kills a pirate, he can hand it over to that person.

Chen Ming's money will soon increase slowly.

It's mainly about fighting to support the war.

As long as Chen Ming doesn't blow up the spaceship and doesn't miss, he will definitely not lose.

All things are done.

Chen Ming can't hold back any more, and immediately climbs to the highest point.

Start the control system of the spaceship and determine the destination.

His first destination was clear, which was where his Afterglow Fleet was temporarily stationed.

In addition, Chen Ming asked Bai Quan to help cover up the traces of his upcoming jump to prevent anyone from tracking his location.

When Chen Ming's several Afterglow cruisers were exposed before, Bai Quan must have understood what he was going to do next.

So now Bai Quan also agreed very readily.

Chen Ming took the initiative to control the High Point and the Brilliant Class to leave the pirate space station and come to the outside of the galaxy.

After waiting here for a while, he met a cruiser from the 14th Legion and immediately started the jump engine.

Gradually disappeared into the starry sky.