Chapter 96 The Battle Stops Suddenly

The terrifying destructive power of the Armor-piercing class can be exerted in the most perfect way under the protection of many company ships.

Such a devastating attack that may come at any time puts more pressure on the opponent than the pressure the military put on Chen Ming just now.

But the commander on the military flagship did not panic at this time, but calmed down again.

The commander had heard of the name of the Armor-piercing class and remembered the situation of the Armor-piercing class.

This is a unique and aggressive spacecraft design of the Xinda Company.

Although it has extremely strong firepower, when the Armor-piercing class only has a design concept and no physical proof of combat effectiveness, the overly fragile armor and anti-line ability make the military not choose it in the annual bidding.

Before, he also thought that the Armor-piercing class was just an unreliable test product,

But now that he has seen the final physical object, he suddenly feels that this ability to instantly destroy ships of the same level does have a considerable degree of tactical significance.

But the commander remembered that this ship seemed to have been taken away by the government in the previous bidding.

Why would the government... No, it's not the government.

The commander suddenly realized the problem and called his deputy to ask, "Do you know the recent movements of Chen Ming, who is wanted by the military?"

"Yes, after Chen Ming's identity was confirmed, all the information can be traced."

"Tell me the key points."

"Yes."

"After arriving at the Pirate Space Station, Chen Ming changed his name to Mu Shuikong and rejoined the Xinda Company with a new identity."

"There is nothing wrong with this part. He was just an ordinary employee at the time. He must have had considerable doubts about the situation in the space station. It is normal to change his identity and sneak back in to test the company's attitude. What happened next?"

"Then there were two incidents of Yuhui attacking the space station. He participated in both incidents."

"Although there was evidence that he had been on the space station the first time, his ship clashed with other ships on the edge of the battlefield, destroying four civilian merchant ships, a Cerberus, a Sentinel, and two Expeditions in a one-on-many battle."

"And later captured a complete civilian-level Sentinel and obtained half of the remaining destroyer of Yuhui that caused their conflict."

The commander was not surprised by such a result.

A spaceship with several times the radiation energy capacity and seemingly endless firepower can easily destroy several civilian ships of the same level.

As for the fact that Chen Ming has been staying on the space station.

First of all, it is certain that Chen Ming returned to the space station alone, otherwise the military would definitely not only hunt down Chen Ming.

Secondly, Chen Ming has not recruited anyone to join the space station, nor has he mobilized manpower in the space station through his relationship within the Sinda Company.

The answer is actually easy to guess.

In addition to the ability to amplify the spaceship, Chen Ming also has the ability to remotely control the spaceship.

Is this a psychic?

Although the commander felt a little emotional, there was no envy in his eyes.

Because he had just suppressed Chen Ming, a psychic, with his own ability, and that was enough.

The deputy continued, "The civilian-class Sentinel is still in the repair shop of the space station, and the other half of the Yuhui destroyer was sold by Chen Ming in the space station. The specific seller has not yet been investigated."

"How could this not be investigated?"

The commander once again understood the incompetence of the local military, shook his head slightly, and waved his hand to signal the deputy to continue.

"There is no detailed information about how Chen Ming participated in the second incident. We only know that he was directly involved in the battle and brought back two ships after the incident, one Centurion-class of the military and one Lumen-class of Yuhui."

"The military seriously suspects that Chen Ming returned to the RM-2 star system after the second Yuhui attack on the space station, wandered on the edge of the battlefield between Yuhui and the military, and then obtained these two ships."

The commander who is now fighting with Chen Ming in person has no doubt that Chen Ming is capable of following Yuhui's ass to pick up leaks on the battlefield with the military.

But he obviously doesn't believe that Chen Ming only brought back two ships.

However, he did not say it directly, but asked his deputy: "I have just seen the Centurion he brought back, so what about the Yuhui ship?"

"It has not been confirmed yet. The Lumen has always been parked in the repair shop of the space station, but was later transported to Chen Ming's own Mule-class armed merchant ship, and then there was no trace."

"Wait a minute, where did Chen Ming get the Mule-class? Did he buy it?"

"No, after the second Yuhui attack, he seemed to have organized a fleet to kill a group of wanted pirates and stole it from them."

"Seems?"

"Well... yes, this part of the military information is not detailed, but it is certain that the Mule-class is his trophy."

"Later, he went to the capital of the star field and handed in a pirate bounty, which can also prove this."

The commander immediately noticed that there were some problems with Chen Ming's handling of the Yuhui ship.

If he wanted to sell it, Chen Ming could have sold it as before, but he took the ship away personally, and there has been no news of any Lumen-class ship recently.

Even if any company took the Lumen away directly point-to-point, the military would not have been able to detect any rumors.

Then there is only one explanation left.

Chen Ming has the ability to control even Yuhui's ships. The Yuhui Lumen has been controlled by Chen Ming and docked in a space unknown to anyone.

The fleet organized by Chen Ming probably includes several Yuhui ships.

As for whether Chen Ming can control the Yuhui AI core installed on the ship, the commander would rather believe that the answer is yes.

Because everyone in the entire empire knows the significance of human beings being able to completely control Yuhui.

The commander had made up his mind at this time. He no longer considered anything else and directly contacted the communication room and said, "Start the emergency contact device and transfer the authority to me."

He wanted to send Chen Ming's intelligence back to the legion in full, and also attach his own analysis of Chen Ming's ability.

Chen Ming's value was higher than he had thought before.

While writing the information to send to the legion, he listened to his deputy's explanation of Chen Ming's subsequent whereabouts.

"After killing the pirates, Chen Ming went to the capital of the star region to collect the bounty."

"While the government was verifying the identity of the pirates brought by Chen Ming, he went to a government auction, and the armor-piercing class was the main item."

That made sense.

The commander was now certain that it was not the government's people who were causing trouble, but he still had some questions to clarify.

"I have some impression of this incident, but I remember that something went wrong at the auction?"

"Yes, Lud Zuojing attacked the auction as a cover for their attack on the space elevator."

"How long has it been since then? As one of the people involved in the incident, he should still be under investigation."

"It should have been like this. Someone got him out."

"Who?"

"Wu An."

The commander's expression changed significantly for the second time, and he said, "Wu An from the Psychic Society? In this ghost place? Chen Ming is also a member of the Psychic Society?"

Without waiting for the adjutant to answer, the commander denied his own thoughts and said, "No, he is not. He is just a psychic who has a certain relationship with Wu An."

"If so, he should be able to directly terminate the mission we are currently carrying out, and it is impossible for him to really fight with me here for so long."

"Forget it, whether it is or not, let's keep fighting."

The commander saw another destroyer being destroyed by the armor-piercing automatic pulse laser at this time.

He knew that he could no longer continue to distract himself to figure out Chen Ming's affairs.

Chen Ming is a good person with great potential. He wants it very much, and his army will definitely want it too.

But if he fails to win and crashes here, his life is a small matter, but the person is not caught yet, that is a big matter.

And just when he was a little distracted to deal with Chen Ming's affairs, there were already several places on the military front that were about to be suppressed by the armor-piercing.

He must immediately start to command the fleet more carefully and start to implement the method he just thought of to deal with the large weapons of the armor-piercing class.

Under Chen Ming's control, the armor-piercing class is now in a slow-speed shooting mode, continuously creating pressure on the military spacecraft on the entire front.

And the best way to deal with this attack mode is clustering.

Under the command of the commander, the military fleet began to cluster in small scale with three to five spacecraft, while trying to maintain the front line, forming more dense dozens of small combat clusters.

The automatic pulse laser is a restrained energy bomb type weapon, which means that its bullet speed is not as fast as a laser beam weapon.

The attacked spacecraft can still have a certain reaction time.

Although people can react, the spacecraft may not be able to control it in time, but at least it can struggle.

If you can hide, hide. If you can't hide, then find a way to share some damage with other spacecraft in a cluster.

This approach can reduce the pressure on the battle line in the slow shooting mode that Chen Ming is currently conducting.

As long as this output is difficult to break the military's battle line instantly, then under the commander's delicate operation, any moment of respite will become his opportunity to counterattack.

Chen Ming saw the changes in the military's battle line clearly.

He could also immediately detect the disadvantages of only a single armor-piercing class in slow shooting mode.

He also instantly realized the commander's ability to find an opportunity to counterattack and destroy several frigates that were advancing because the military ship's shield was about to overload.

So in the end, Chen Ming had to give up suppressing the entire battle line and choose to let the armor-piercing class destroy the military's ships with an explosive output of about fifteen seconds of cooling.

Chen Ming would definitely not be able to compete with the commander in a large-scale battle, so Chen Ming decided to rely on his own strengths to deal with it.

The commander on the other side also knew that he could not avoid the destruction of warships every time the armor-piercing fired, but the attack efficiency of the armor-piercing class had indeed been reduced to a certain extent.

Originally, if all the automatic pulse lasers hit, they could instantly destroy two destroyers.

But with the assistance of clusters, many times it would become a ship that was destroyed, while leaving several ships with shields close to overload.

There is still a big difference between them.

Although this method seems to be a temporary solution, the armor-piercing can still destroy military destroyers with a more terrifying efficiency than any other ship.

But the commander did this for more reasons.

He never thought that a destroyer would have such a big impact on the battle, and he was now sure that they did not have the means to deal with the armor-piercing class.

So he had no idea of ​​dealing with the armor-piercing class directly now.

Instead, he chose another way.

Fight with the ships of the Sinda Company head-on, and exchange them.

The commander has determined that the cooldown time of the armor-piercing large weapon is fifteen seconds after the few rounds of shooting just now. This seems short, but it is still a bit long in the exchange of fire between warships.

The fifteen-second vacuum period means that the company's fleet is actually the same as before in these fifteen seconds, or even worse.

Because the other ships in the fleet need to help the armor-piercing share the firepower, this is the only chance.

To be honest.

Originally, the commander had played a very obvious advantage in the battle, but in the end he was forced to rely on the number of ships to exchange for it. It's really embarrassing to say it out.

But for the commander, it doesn't matter whether it's embarrassing or not, victory is the most important.

After losing a destroyer and a guard again, the armor-piercing class produced a short fifteen seconds of vacuum period.

The commander found the weakest point of the company's front line and commanded the remaining fleet to launch the most fierce attack as if desperately.

With the determination to win without caring about losses,

The patrol ships, which were usually only responsible for patrolling the space station, were suddenly unable to bear it.

Even the people on the spacecraft sent by the company were a little flustered by the military's desperate fighting attitude.

Even if Chen Ming could maintain fifteen seconds to destroy at least one destroyer, the overall situation of the battle began to tilt towards the military.

After all, the army is the army. No matter how experienced the company's people are in battle, they can't compare to those who are really on the edge of a knife.

Chen Ming, who had time to observe the overall situation of the battlefield, naturally discovered the commander's plan.

The army is now desperately exchanging the battle loss ratio.

If the ship protecting the armor-piercing is destroyed, then the remaining armor-piercing ship has no meaning.

Even if the military is not exchanging the original one-to-two battle losses, but one-to-one, the company will definitely not be able to withstand it.

But there is not much Chen Ming can do now.

Although the panel repair can speed up the cooling time of the automatic pulse laser, it is not only the cooling time that affects the attack frequency of the automatic pulse laser.

There is also energy limitation.

The antiparticle antiparticle energy activation module needs time to charge and provide energy for the automatic pulse laser to fire.

This is the place that cannot be repaired.

So the current situation on the battlefield is to compete with each other to see who kills faster, and the one who kills faster will win in the end.

Chen Ming's advantage in reaching the armor-piercing level instantly turned into a balance due to the gap in other aspects.

Chen Ming, who was controlling the armor-piercing attack, felt more and more pressure.

He really had no good way to crack the military's clear-cut play.

Moreover, Chen Ming's mental power was close to the limit in the long battle, but Chen Ming was still thinking with his brain that was constantly producing a tingling feeling.

Thinking about whether he needed to use the last resort.

But at this time, Chen Ming suddenly noticed that there was a sudden chaos within the military front, and there was chaos in the dispatch.

Several spaceships suddenly seemed to have a conflict inside and began to fight each other.

And a large part of the ships suddenly stopped attacking and began to withdraw from the battlefield.

What happened?

Chen Ming had already controlled all the destroyers in the fleet and returned to the cowherd again.

He just saw the captain receiving the message sent by the military.

"The commander of the RM-2 military outpost was identified as a rebel, and the order he issued was deemed invalid and the review was not authorized."

"Please stop the fighting immediately, and the military will compensate your company accordingly."

The captain was filled with anger at this time.

The military said they wanted to stop? Then how can they get back the people they lost?

But his reason made him suppress his anger, and instead began to restrict his ships and gradually pull away.

The two sides, who were just engaged in a fierce exchange of fire and even wanted to exchange their lives for their own, suddenly became peaceful again.

What is going on?

Not only Chen Ming and the captain, but even the commander also had such thoughts in his mind at this time.

He just received a message from his legion, as well as from the star domain government and the star domain military.

The stationmaster of the small military outpost for collecting sky steel in the RM-2 star system, and also the stationmaster of the military outpost closest to the pirate space station, violated the rules and used military resources.

After being discovered, he still did not give any reasons for the illegal operation, and acted on his own, and was subsequently classified as a rebellious act.

It was just now.

The commander came here just to fight, just to take Chen Ming away, not to have anything to do with the rebels.

So he immediately chose to stop the fight and distanced himself from the company fleet.

Most of the people in the fleet who had not completely lost their minds had no objection to this, and they also did not want to be affected by the rebellion of their superiors.

The remaining ones who still wanted to continue fighting were basically those who had gone crazy in the battle.

But it was impossible for all the people on a spaceship to go crazy, so all the warships in the entire military fleet executed the commander's order.

As for those confidants of the stationmaster in the military, all of them were sent away by the commander in the previous battle.

The battle started suddenly, but ended peacefully.

Just when Chen Ming thought he could finally rest and go to the capital of the star region safely.

The boss, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Xiao Mu, it seems that you have a big trouble to go over there."

"What?"

As soon as Chen Ming finished speaking, some ripples that Chen Ming had never seen suddenly appeared in the hyperspace where the fleet was located, at a distance from the fleet, as if the space had fluctuated.

In a situation that no one on the battlefield had expected, a ruler-class heavy cruiser arrived in this hyperspace with its own jump engine.

"Fuck!"

Chen Ming, who thought that his brain was groggy due to mental exhaustion, did not dare to feel sleepy at all.

"Boss! Ruler! Cruiser!"

"I'm already...trying to...contact...someone..."

The boss' voice came out intermittently for the last few words, and then the communication was completely disconnected.

The only thing left in Chen Ming's eyes was the extremely terrifying heavy cruiser.

And at this time.

Inside the empire.

On an earth-like planet in the Asconia star system in the prosperous star field.

Here is the headquarters of Xinda Company.

The upcoming board of directors has been prepared to the final stage.

But in fact, there is no need for any preparation. After all, this is an online meeting. From preparation to gathering people, it is just a matter of adjusting work.

In short, in the final meeting room, except for Chairman Xu Lin who was present in person, everyone else was in the meeting room as a virtual projection.

After everyone confirmed that they were present, the chairman spoke directly: "This decision-making meeting was initiated by me, and half of the members have agreed to hold it."

"There are two issues that need to be voted on by the board of directors."

"First, is it necessary to re-confront the military and take back the resource mining rights of the galaxy?"

"Second, is it necessary to protect Chen Ming, let Chen Ming return to the company with a higher status, and give investment."

"You should all know what happened. Except for a few directors who have just joined the board of directors, others should not forget what happened thirty years ago."

"Then I won't waste your time, and start voting on the first proposal."

The result came out in just a few seconds, and it was passed unanimously.

The existence of Chen Ming means that the military's blockade of the galaxy where Xinda Company has obtained mining rights has no meaning.

Reclaiming is something that the company must do.

"Then the second proposal is next, please vote."

What the chairman did not expect was that the final result was four votes in favor, eight votes against, and one abstention.

The collective opposition of the board of directors made the chairman's face appear gloomy for a moment.

A director who voted against the decision said, "A psychic who can control a spaceship has different values ​​for different forces."

"We all know Chen Ming's value and how much his ability can help the development of our cutting-edge technology."

"But the government just gave us a message."

"The armor-piercing class we sold them suddenly ran away. You all know who did it, right?"

"With the military's intervention, Chen Ming's information can never be kept completely secret. Sooner or later, the government will know who took the armor-piercing class away."

"Then, they will know how terrible the effect of Chen Ming's ability is."

"After that, who will dare to buy our company's spaceship?"

"For Chen Ming, we have to offend the military and the government at the same time. Is this exchange worth it?"

"We have to make a choice between the company's business and the company's technology."

The director has laid out the pros and cons of the whole thing.

The chairman also knew whether what he said was correct or not. After a slight sigh, he said, "What is the opinion of the board of directors?"

"Chen Ming can only be used as a person."

"Find a way to gain his trust, exchange Sky Steel back steadily, and then sell him."

In order to prevent ambiguity, the director added another body and said, "Of course not to kill him, but to sell him to other forces."

"Other companies, the military, and even the government can sell him."

"Chen Ming is our bargaining chip, but in our hands, or in the hands of all companies that produce and sell spacecraft to foreign countries, there will be negative value."

"But for the military and the government, there is no need to consider negative issues, so they will definitely be happy to buy Chen Ming from us."

"Do you want Chen Ming? Of course, but not all of them, only for a period of time."

"This is the most profitable choice for the company, and Chen Ming's personal wishes are not important."

The chairman suddenly crossed his fingers and put them in front of his mouth, saying, "But Chen Ming, a psychic, is favored by Wu An of the Psychic Society."

The meeting room was quiet for a moment.

The director in charge of the Pirate Space Station who voted in favor also spoke up: "I can testify."

"Wu An has been staying in the place under my jurisdiction. His attitude towards our company is at a stage of neither good nor bad. I am still trying to show him goodwill, so I have not announced this news at the board meeting."

After a while of silence in the meeting room, the director who had just abstained said: "I think this matter needs to be considered seriously. I propose to postpone the vote."

"That's good."

"I agree."

"Second."

The directors all agreed to postpone the resolution of the company's attitude towards Chen Ming. Wu An's presence requires them to take time to carefully consider their attitude towards Chen Ming and whether it will affect Wu An's attitude towards them.

At this moment, the door of the boardroom was suddenly knocked.

The matter that can disturb such a meeting must be the most urgent matter.

The chairman immediately asked his secretary who knocked on the door to come in.

The secretary immediately handed a paper document he brought to the chairman and then left the meeting room.

After scanning the documents, the chairman said quickly: "It's an emergency. The military is attacking the fleet I sent to bring Chen Ming back, and they are also using cruisers to hunt him down."

"The military said that the captain of the cruiser violated the rules and started a rebellion. The army has been sent to suppress it."

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became anxious.

They were hastily discussing a situation that was definitely not good for the company.

The chairman, relying on his own people at the scene, knocked on the table, quieting the conference room, and said: "Everything else is empty. The most important thing now is that Chen Ming cannot die."

"Chen Ming is dead, and the rest is empty talk."

"Whether it is Sky Steel, or the top research-type psychics who have a certain degree of knowledge of spacecraft technology, or even the possibility of forming a relationship with the psychic association in a short period of time, all are gone."

"Everyone, please act immediately if you have the ability to rescue in a short period of time. Chen Ming must survive."

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