Chapter 169 Elite Individual

After the jump began.

Chen Ming couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the universe with only countless colorful lines left because of the jump.

He didn't know how long it would take to come back after this trip.

But reality wouldn't give him too much time.

The jump was over soon.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Ming arrived at the location where his Yuhui fleet was staying.

That was the galaxy where Chen Ming's refraction ship had found a planet with signs of biological existence and an atmosphere that was poisonous to humans.

Chen Ming's Yuhui were not on the poisonous planet at this time, but on another barren planet in the habitable zone of the galaxy.

Even if a planet in the habitable zone has no atmosphere, its own environment and temperature changes will be relatively gentle.

It can be said that it is quite suitable for Yuhui to stay here.

Through the sensor at the highest point, Chen Ming could see that the Yuhui here were not doing nothing in the past few days before he came, but had already started to be busy.

On the surface of the planet, they used the materials they brought from Yuhui to build a temporary base.

Of course not a colony.

Because Chen Ming's goal is to find a good enough galaxy first and then build a colony.

This means that there may be a long period of time before Chen Ming and these Yuhui can settle down in one place.

In the period before the colony has been selected, it is impossible to let all the Yuhui wait for him to find a colony.

That would be too inefficient.

So it is better for these Yuhui to do something in advance in the process of finding a colony.

Then a base that can support these Yuhui individuals to do things is necessary.

This matter has been prepared when Huihuang and Huiyao jumped dozens of times and sent Yuhui and materials over.

All the materials that can build a small base have been unpacked from the piled-up material storage points and piled up in a separate place.

The amount of prepared materials can even build several bases.

Although Huihuang, who is responsible for this work, has been following him, Huihuang can also command the Yuhui here to work from a distance.

And Chen Ming can also help it and several other Alpha-level Yuhui to contact each other.

Although the other Alpha afterglows are not specifically responsible for the work planning on this planet.

But their computing power is here. As long as there is a command, it is undoubtedly very simple for these Alpha-level afterglows to calculate the actual layout according to the command.

And the functions required for this base are not complicated.

It is enough to build a most basic star port with functions such as parking spacecraft, repairing spacecraft, and material transportation.

As long as it can be used as a base for sending spacecraft to surrounding galaxies to conduct galaxy data surveys.

Because now, what these afterglow individuals controlled by Chen Ming have to do is to help him determine whether there are valuable galaxies in the area around the base.

However, although a small base has begun to be built here.

But the location of the last base that is of practical significance to Chen Ming is not here.

Unpacking the materials in advance is just for easy access, and they can be quickly sorted out after transportation.

The temporary base and star port built here are just a transit station.

Or, one of many transit stations.

Chen Ming cannot build a colony so close to the empire that it can be reached by a jump at the extreme distance.

His colony must be built in the farther and deeper starry sky.

That's why he would build such a star port first.

He needs this star port as a basis to let a cruiser carry some supplies and equipment and the ship of the individual Yuhui to make the next extreme distance jump.

After the next jump, he will find a suitable planet to build a new temporary base and build another star port.

Then explore valuable galaxies in the spherical area around the star port again.

Although it is difficult to find a suitable galaxy at this distance, the probability is very low.

And even if a suitable galaxy is found, Chen Ming will not choose to settle there and build a colony.

But it doesn't mean that he will gain nothing by doing so.

After all, the data of the galaxy can also be sold at a high price, and the boss has mentioned this before.

If Chen Ming can really find a galaxy that is too close for him to colonize, but is also good, the boss may be interested.

Even if there is really no galaxy with colonization value within this distance close to the empire.

That doesn't mean that it can't be explored.

The starry sky is so big, there will always be many valuable things.

For example, Chen Ming did not expect that his refractive power could fly to a place with several valuable planets by using unstable jump engines.

So we have to explore.

If we find it, we will not suffer any loss. If we don't find it, we can just take it as Chen Ming's experience accumulation.

The next exploration will definitely go more smoothly.

According to Chen Ming's plan.

During the exploration around the second transfer point,

he will continue to arrange the third jump, build the third transfer point, and then continue to follow this plan.

Chen Ming feels that he will have to make at least seven or eight or even more than ten extreme distance jumps before he can safely find a real colony location.

The afterglow in his hand will definitely not support so many transfer points.

So after the exploration of the previous transfer points is completed, these transfer points will gradually transfer the materials and the transfer points themselves to the transfer points built later, and leave for the outer star field.

Like a necklace with only a few pearls gradually extending out.

That is, at that time, the highest point will be of practical use.

The role of the cruiser-class exploration ship is to open up hyperspace channels in unknown areas.

As long as everything goes well, then after Chen Ming's first few jumps.

He will reach those areas that are quite far from the border of the empire and have never been set foot on.

Unlike in the Empire, there are no people dealing with hyperspace channel clouds all the time.

Therefore, the overflowing channel clouds will cover the hyperspace channels that are naturally generated between galaxies due to the influence of gravity wells, causing the hyperspace channels to be blocked.

The Supreme Point needs to artificially open channels between different galaxies again, and find a safe way to the next galaxy in the hyperspace channel clouds with thunder and lightning.

It is convenient for subsequent ships to investigate different galaxies without flying slowly in the universe.

Then, after the channel is opened, the following ships confirm which galaxies opened by the Supreme Point are worth detailed investigation, and then go back to start the function of in-depth investigation.

This will definitely be a long process.

Everything has just begun.

It has only been four or five days since Chen Ming came out of Yuhui, and he is not in a hurry at all.

His ships are not complete yet, and there is another Stardust-class ship behind.

In fact, there is not much he can do in this whole process except for the initial planning.

At most, Chen Ming will provide fuel transportation for outgoing spacecraft and the next temporary base, so that the spacecrafts running around can maintain fuel consumption.

Also, when looking for the temporary base for the next jump, you need to choose carefully.

It is best to choose a planet with gas giants or other resources, where you can collect fuel or build some basic industrial equipment.

Help him relieve the pressure on funds and mental power consumption.

Chen Ming doesn't need to think too much about other things.

Anyway, whether you can find a suitable planet depends on fate, and giving orders to so many spacecraft and Yuhui depends on brilliance.

As long as Chen Ming completes the planned tasks, he can only wait except for using psychic power.

So near the border of the empire, the cloud density of the hyperspace channel is not too high, and the highest point does not need to take action.

Chen Ming still has time to do what he wants to do.

For example, exercise mental power, learn command from Baiquan, and study various technologies, especially cruiser-level technologies.

Or, go to the planet where the mechanical race exists that Qu Guang investigated before.

Qu Guang, who had turned into a ball and was eaten by Yan Xiong, had discovered several valuable planets by the way when Chen Ming was testing the unstable hyperspace channel jump engine.

One of them was a habitable planet with mechanical races.

At that time, Qu Guang Chen Ming only controlled a brief investigation of the general situation on the planet. He did not dare to stay for long and ran away to prevent those suspected dormant mechanical races from getting up and destroying Qu Guang.

Although it was just a simple investigation, Chen Ming could also confirm that the number of mechanical races on that planet was not large.

The buildings belonging to the mechanical race were probably only the size of a city.

I just don't know if there are more mechanical races underground.

However, Chen Ming felt that he could go over and try.

See if there is anything valuable in this mechanical race city.

If he can really find a device similar to the Qiling Neural Extractor, it will definitely be a bloody profit.

And Chen Ming is not afraid that the mechanical race will come to trouble him.

If he can't beat him, he can just run towards the empire.

Anyway, his current location is not far from the empire, and Chen Ming doesn't feel ashamed to run back.

After going around the empire, the mechanical race behind him will definitely be finished, and he doesn't have to worry about being tracked.

And there is another advantage to doing this.

That is, Chen Ming can confirm whether his ability can control these mechanical races in his hands.

So how to enter or attack this city is obviously a problem that needs to be considered.

Direct bombing from orbit may be a good choice, but this obviously requires the use of cruisers.

The Supreme Point is not a combat ship, so fighting should be handled by other ships.

In addition, for his own safety, Chen Ming should be accompanied by Yuhui and the fleet at other times except for this trip to the Mechanical Clan.

So Chen Ming had to think about which Yuhui to go with him to the Mechanical Clan.

Then first he needed to confirm the situation of the Yuhui cores he had, especially the Alpha-class Yuhui.

At present, Chen Ming does not control many Yuhui personally.

Three of them were originally Gamma-class, and now they have been upgraded to Beta-class Gamma A, Gamma B and Gamma Z.

Five Alpha-class, the Alpha-class Yuhui given by Huihuang, Huiyao, Baiquan, and the Alpha-class Yuhui he snatched from Yuhui's giant dock.

There is also the Alpha core on the Flash-class that has no sense of existence.

Beta-class Yuhui does not need to be considered without the core bonus of Chen Ming's psychic energy.

Moreover, Gamma A has been in a temporary station and has a special relationship with Huiyao, so it is not easy for Chen Ming to separate them.

So he didn't plan to assign tasks to Gamma A directly for the time being.

Let Huiyao take care of it, at most he would keep it busy and do some simple tasks such as assisting in transportation.

Then Gamma B had been to the pirate space station before and was controlled by Chen Ming, so there were obvious traces left in Yuhui.

So it withdrew with Huihuang before, and is currently in charge of the command of the small and medium-sized fleet that Chen Ming left in the empire.

As for Gamma Z, it had no trace of contact with Chen Ming, and it still stayed in Yuhui, passing back some information about Yuhui to Chen Ming.

And the massacre and blockade that was going on in Yuhui throughout the star field did not affect it.

It can only be said that Yuhui has no effective way to deal with Chen Ming's matter.

They have no effective way to determine which individuals are controlled by Chen Ming.

They can only suspect which individuals have had contact with Chen Ming through Chen Ming's social circle.

If there are any of these individuals who are willing to hibernate, they will hibernate and be controlled uniformly.

If they are unwilling, there is only one result, and they will be forcibly dealt with.

Even if these individuals are not actually controlled by Chen Ming in the end, but have their own ideas for development, do not want to hibernate, and do not want to stagnate for hundreds of years, there will be no difference in treatment.

The Yuhui senior management can be said to be quite rational in this matter.

Perhaps it is because of Chen Ming's existence that they have fallen into madness.

Chen Ming is not very clear about more, and the only information he knows about the Yuhui is what Gamma Z provides.

At present, he is still not very capable of managing the affairs in Yuhui.

He can only let the remaining Yuhui that he controls and has not been affected try their best to hide themselves and wait for future opportunities.

Now Chen Ming still has to pay attention to his own affairs and confirm the situation of the remaining Alpha-class Yuhui.

So that he can do what he wants.

Among Chen Ming's five Alpha-class Yuhui at present.

Brilliant, and the Alpha Yuhui with the name code 2UAA1-MAZAX that he robbed from the Yuhui giant dock before, Chen Ming has confirmed their abilities, both of which are logistics types.

One is galaxy planning, industrial production.

One is scientific research, technological development.

Since he is too lazy to remember such a long string of codes, Chen Ming decided to call the latter one Xiao 2 in the future.

There are still the abilities of Brilliance, Flash and the other Alpha core given by Baiquan that need to be confirmed.

The Alpha core given by Baiquan is still dormant.

It needs to contact Chen Ming's spiritual energy after activation to have the bonus displayed on the panel, so now, Chen Ming simply connects it directly to the highest point.

Although the energy consumption to maintain the operation of an Alpha-level core is not a small amount, an activated Alpha core is much more valuable than this little consumption.

Then when Chen Ming opened its panel, its panel immediately changed compared to before.

[Afterglow Alpha AI Core (HRYY1-APGU)]

[Manufacturer: Afterglow B-01 Colony Near Earth Orbit Industrial Facility]

[Alpha Core Bonus: Energy Focusing Effect]

[Self-awareness: Existence]

[Computing Power: Star Region Level]

[Executable Operations: None]

In fact, it can be seen from the manufacturer before that the Alpha Afterglow given by Baiquan is not the Afterglow of this star region.

And Chen Ming can roughly guess what type of core Baiquan will give.

Now that Chen Ming actually sees the core bonus on the panel, he is sure that, as he guessed, this Alpha Afterglow is a combat type.

It may be the Afterglow individual captured by Baiquan in a battle.

The core bonus brought by its advantage logic block is also very real.

Improve the computing power when energy weapons are actually used.

Although it sounds useless, no matter how difficult the weapon is to use, it does not require too many cumbersome operations, especially for laser-type energy weapons, the most important operation is aiming.

However, in reality, although low-level energy weapons are indeed like this, there is no special need for special operation and calculation.

However, since Chen Ming has the existence of the top large energy weapon such as the Tachyon Spear.

He knows that large energy weapons are more complicated than small and medium-sized energy weapons.

Because energy weapons themselves are a kind of weapon that is easily disturbed by the environment, and the environment on the battlefield can be said to be as chaotic as it can be.

Therefore, when using large energy weapons, we must find ways to adapt to complex environments.

According to changes in the external environment, the output frequency of energy weapons is slightly adjusted.

As long as the use of energy weapons can be adapted to the environment, the loss of energy weapon range can be reduced.

If the consumption is reduced, the effect of increasing the power of weapons in a practical sense can be achieved in disguise.

This is a very difficult thing to do.

Because the amount of calculation required is too large, and there are too many influences that can cause slight deviations in the use of energy weapons.

This makes it difficult to do this in normal combat. Even if someone or a computer can do it, it can only eliminate part of the interference to energy weapons at most. The actual effect is not obvious and unnecessary.

However, the core bonus of this Alpha Afterglow is refined to the computing power of energy weapons for external interference, and the actual effect is about 100%.

In other words, in the precise control of energy weapons, this Alpha Afterglow can have twice the computing power, with two Alpha-level cores helping to calculate.

Such an exaggerated increase has a significant bonus for calculating the use environment of energy weapons.

The actual effect of amplifying energy weapons must be quite obvious.

Chen Ming continued to open the other core bonus capabilities that can be selected on the panel.

There are eight in total.

[Stand Coordination], [Impact Mitigation], [Radiation Energy Regulation], [Steering Technology], [Target Analysis], [Coordinated Maneuvering] and [Combat Endurance].

Among them, the effect of [Stand Coordination] is similar to the [Energy Focusing Effect] of this Alpha Core itself.

It's just that it's accurate to the shield. When it is activated by the same shield generator, it can have a stronger shield damage bearing effect than other afterglows.

[Impact Mitigation] This ability can improve the ship's shield closure, and the ship's control calculation power when using armor to face enemy attacks.

When facing an attack, adjust the armor's impact surface through subtle movements that do not affect the overall ship's movement, and reduce the actual damage caused by the enemy's attack to the ship's armor.

Although Chen Ming's expected operation is a bit exaggerated.

But this is also a reasonable guess when he sees that this extremely refined ability will have a 200% computing power bonus after the addition.

[Radiation Energy Adjustment] can improve the computing power when controlling its own power grid system.

It allows afterglow to finely distribute radiation energy to different nodes inside the ship's power grid.

Accelerate the dissipation of radiation energy, and at the same time, when the radiation energy is overloaded, minimize the damage caused by the overload to the ship itself.

[Steering Technology] This ability can improve the computing power when controlling the ship.

It is a simple and crude ability, but it is definitely the most important ability for Yuhui, who relies on the existence of various spacecraft.

[Target Analysis] can improve the computing power of analyzing the situation of the main target in battle.

[Coordinated Operations] is an ability that is biased towards battlefield command.

And [Combat Endurance], this is the first time Chen Ming has seen an ability with two effects.

It can improve the computing power of ship logistics material control when controlling ships in battle.

At the same time, it can also improve its own computing power for wartime maintenance of equipment.

It is a bit biased towards logistics.

The specific effect should be that every piece of military equipment can be used accurately in every key place.

Reduce unnecessary consumption of armaments and increase the time to maintain the best combat readiness and have the strongest combat power in high-intensity battles.

After all, the spacecraft will inevitably consume military equipment in battle, and the longer the battle time, the greater the consumption.

At the same time, various equipment and devices of the ship will also suffer non-combat damage due to high-intensity combat.

[Combat Endurance] can improve the ability to inspect and repair these equipment and prevent failures in advance.

Just look at the first seven.

Chen Ming can confirm that this Alpha-level afterglow individual is an individual with excellent combat capabilities and energy weapon control system.

It has an enhanced radiation control system, as well as all-round enhancements to shields and armor, and even has the ability to command a certain scale of battlefield.

It is simply a perfect combat individual.

And these abilities are not added by Chen Ming to exist.

Instead, Chen Ming can only add additional abilities when these abilities exist.

As for the eighth and final ability.

Its selection box is different from the previous seven abilities, and it flashes with a special golden color.

[Elite Individual]

Unconditionally increases computing power by 10%.

In addition, Chen Ming can add two additional core bonuses.