Chapter 101 Trouble

Seeing a huge cake in front of you but not being able to get it is a very painful thing for a hungry person.

Qi Yiming is in this state now.

With his own place to stay, he urgently needs various types of ships to support his development.

But Qi Yiming knows clearly that it is undoubtedly suicide to move the Engineer with his current strength.

So now he can only endure it and wait until he is strong enough to find a way to take down the Engineer.

Of course, there is also the problem of personnel. Although the population on Gaia is close to 300 million, their knowledge reserves are too low to be competent for the work on the warship.

When the Engineer is fully staffed, there will be as many as 100,000 people serving on her.

This is just the number of people. If you want to successfully operate the Engineer, the requirements for these 100,000 people will be much higher than those for ordinary warships.

The Engineer is a giant mobile dock. The personnel serving on it are not only combatants, but also engineers and scientific researchers.

Where do so many engineers and scientific researchers come from on Gaia?

Therefore, if you want to control the mobile dock in a short time, you don't have to think about it. You can only let the Engineer stay there first, send someone to check it out occasionally, and don't let others get there first.

On the other hand, more than a month has passed since Mao Qiming sent the pioneering fleet to the ancestral star field to plunder the population, and there is still no sign of the pioneering fleet returning.

This made him very anxious.

This pioneering mission was a PY transaction between the Flamingo Group and a politician in order to win a long-term supply contract from the official Commercial Alliance.

As long as there is a person who can help the politician achieve this year's population growth target, the Flamingo Group will win the alliance's exclusive supply contract for the next 30 years. The Flamingo Group can benefit from tens of trillions of dollars. How can Mao Qiming not pay attention to this?

The Gaia planet in the ancestral star system was the intelligence he bought from the mercenary union at a high price, and then he sent the pioneering fleet to plunder the population overnight.

But the fleet went there, like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news for more than a month.

"Zhang Wei, that idiot, it takes so long to rob a planet that doesn't even have a warship..." He cursed and pressed the call button on the desk: "Secretary Liu, call Zheng Dong for me."

More than ten minutes later, Zheng Dong stood upright in Mao Qiming's office listening to his boss's lecture.

"Go to the Ancestor Star Region and replace that idiot Zhang Wei for me." Mao Qiming didn't say much and directly asked Zheng Dong to replace him.

"Okay, boss!"

Zheng Dong was calm on the surface but extremely excited inside. He had been suppressed by Zhang Wei for a long time.

This time he finally had the opportunity to squeeze Zhang Wei out, so of course he was extremely excited.

After leaving the boss's office, he immediately summoned his men to prepare his cruiser, and then left the port and set sail in the shortest time.

But when he arrived at the Awakener Galaxy, Qi Yiming and his men blew up an engine, and then he was surrounded by more than a dozen warships, he cried.

What made him even more sad was that Qi Yiming locked him and Zhang Wei in a cell.

After waiting for another month, Mao Qiming's furious mood calmed down completely.

Two groups of people were sent in succession, but there was no follow-up news. If it wasn't something wrong, then there must be something fishy.

Mao Qiming's first reaction was that someone was targeting him, but it was unlikely.

Although he had many enemies, most of them were business people. These people were definitely good at tripping Mao Qiming up in business negotiations.

But when it comes to dealing with the pioneering fleet, Mao Qiming is the god of war in the business world. It has never been heard that his opponents can get an advantage from the fleet under Mao Qiming.

"This is weird, which bastard dares to make trouble?" Mao Qiming pressed the communicator on the table again, notifying his secretary to gather the company's security fleet. This time he wanted to go and see it in person.

It stands to reason that such a small matter doesn't need his attention as a big boss, but now it really can't be his choice. This 30-year contract is too important for the Flamingo Group.

Four years ago, the group company took four battlecruisers from the dock at the risk of breach of contract. Now the group company is burdened with huge debts. If there is no such contract, Flamingo Group will only go bankrupt and liquidate.

Thinking of this, Mao Qiming wanted to slap himself. He was really blinded by greed at the beginning. How could he be bewitched by that guy named Qi Yiming.

The security fleet of the group company quickly assembled, and Mao Qiming also came to his ship, the Flamingo battlecruiser.

The logo of the Flamingo Group was sprayed on the hull of a flat battlecruiser, making the surrounding spacecraft avoid it.

"Why did the big boss of the Flamingo Group personally command the battleship to go out?" The airport dispatcher sat together with his colleagues and gossiped.

"I heard that their pioneering fleet had an accident... Two groups of people went there in a row, and none of them came back!"

"Oh my god, which bold person dared to touch the pioneering fleet of the Flamingo Group."

"Who said it wasn't..."

"It looks like this is a real fight. That's the Flamingo Group's security fleet, whose combat power is second only to the Alliance's regular fleet."

Qi Yiming, who was busy exploring for minerals in the asteroid belt in the Awakener Galaxy, had already felt that things were not going well when Zheng Dong was captured, and he raised the combat readiness level of Gaia.

All warship personnel are on standby 24 hours a day to ensure that all warships can take off and fight at any time.

Sure enough, after everyone waited for half a month, the Flamingo Group's security fleet appeared on the edge of the Awakener Galaxy.

The fleet, which had been on alert, was discovered by the radar of the Xuefeng as soon as Mao Qiming's fleet left the jump mode, and then assembled the fleet to prepare to deal with this enemy.

"The enemy has a battlecruiser, 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers, and 15 frigates this time." Qi Yiming introduced the combat power composition of Mao Qiming's fleet in the fleet channel, with an unusually relaxed tone.

It has been several months since the occupation of the Awakener Galaxy. Qi Yiming had the logos on the captured cruisers of the pioneering fleet removed, and then had Wang Sen drag them to the Commercial Alliance. After the damaged parts were repaired, the warships were redistributed.

Now Qi Yiming has a fleet that can barely hold up the scene.

Including the captured warships, Qi Yiming now has 1 special cruiser, 3 general-purpose cruisers, 4 destroyers and 5 frigates plus a special frigate of Qiao Shan.

Fang Min and Liu Bishu were both nervous.

There was a battlecruiser on the opposite side, and this battlecruiser alone was equivalent to the combat power of the three cruisers they were responsible for.

But except Fang Min and Liu Bishu, no one else in the fleet seemed to be very nervous.

"Qi Yiming has become so arrogant after taking these people out?" Fang Min muttered in a low voice. He really wanted to remind Qi Yiming that no matter how arrogant he was, he still had to be timid when he encountered a situation where he should be timid. Is that battlecruiser something they can mess with now?

Liu Bishu was more direct. He directly pressed the communication button and shouted in the fleet channel: "Your Excellency, you should think about it carefully. The strength of the opposing fleet can crush us."

Qi Yiming just smiled and didn't say anything.

To be honest, except for the people who took him to the former federal territory and the people on Gaia Star, Fang Min and Liu Bishu really only thought that Qi Yiming was playing a game of hegemony and that he was the head of state just to satisfy his desire to be a leader.

In this case, Qi Yiming had to completely convince these guys who were not convinced by him through this battle.