Chapter 115: Taking Advantage of the Situation
"The awakened ones are just so-so." In the bridge of the Warrior, Liu Chao held a goblet in one hand and looked at Gaia outside the spacecraft with a smug look, saying: "There are at least 30 awakened ones who died in our hands. Qi Yiming is considered a relatively powerful one, but he was still sent to the sky by our homemade bombs?"
After that, a burst of laughter rang out in the bridge.
Suddenly, the Warrior's lock alarm device sounded shrilly.
"What happened?" Liu Chao stood up suddenly from the captain's chair when he heard the alarm.
"Captain, we are locked..."
"Impossible, they should be in chaos now!!"
"Captain, three destroyers have locked us!"
As soon as the Warrior's radar chief finished speaking, Wang Shuhua's voice rang out in the wide-area communication channel: "You want to run away after you're done?"
"Mr. Wang, what are you talking about? I don't quite understand!" Liu Chao was still trying to get away with it.
But Wang Shuhua didn't give him any chance: "Have you sent the message? If you have, turn off the engine immediately. You are arrested! Don't think about resisting. A research ship can't withstand the bombardment of our warships."
At this moment, Liu Chao realized that Qi Yiming had been cooperating with them from beginning to end, and he was the fool.
At this point, Liu Chao acted very single.
"Since I'm exposed, I admit defeat..." Then he ordered to turn off the engine of the research ship and waited for Wang Shuhua to send people on board.
After Liu Chao was arrested, necessary interrogation was still needed.
Qi Yiming did not participate. He had more important things to do.
The personnel of the Engineer have been transported to the place, and the production equipment on the spacecraft can be operated, but there is not enough manpower and the efficiency is relatively low.
In addition, although the personnel on board have received basic skills education, it takes a process from knowing to mastering, and this kind of thing cannot be rushed.
Fortunately, Qi Yiming's demand for warships is not large now, as long as he can deal with the fleet sent by Mao Qiming.
When Qi Yiming came to the Engineer again, the ship was much busier than the first time he boarded the ship. The personnel sent were patrolling each production line, quickly familiarizing themselves with the performance and configuration of each production line to facilitate subsequent maintenance and upkeep.
Qiao Shan's Azure was quietly docked at the maintenance berth at this time, and the engineers were repairing the energy shield generator that exploded in the last battle for the Azure.
The warship blueprints on the Engineer were all warships of the former universal model of the Human Federation. For special warships like the Azure, the Engineer could only replace the universal parts on the warship. Special equipment such as shield generators could not be produced by the Engineer.
Azure was lucky. The shield generator was not seriously damaged. Only a few universal parts needed to be replaced, and it did not need to be replaced as a whole. Otherwise, Azure might really have to be left here to gather dust.
Qi Yiming moved the Academy of Sciences as a whole this time. Qi Yiming was a little worried about putting it on Gaia. After all, Liu Chao and his team had been on Gaia for almost three months, and they might have spread the location of the Academy of Sciences.
If Mao Qiming fails to use force and finds professional spies to steal, he might succeed. So while there are not many projects now, Qi Yiming simply moves the Academy of Sciences to the Engineer. The equipment here is advanced enough to fully meet the research work of this group of technology maniacs.
After arranging the people of the Academy of Sciences, Qi Yiming came to the bridge of the Engineer again and woke up the intelligent brain configured for the production area.
"Hello, Captain..." The shipboard intelligent brain responded as soon as Qi Yiming woke it up.
"I want to produce 100 Paladin-class battleships..."
"According to the current operating efficiency of the production area, it will take 500 years to produce 100 Paladin-class battleships. Please confirm to start production." The intelligent brain did not understand that Qi Yiming was actually joking, so it honestly calculated the time required to produce 100 battleships for Qi Yiming.
"Puff..." Qi Yiming spat out a mouthful of old blood: "Why does it take so long?"
"Insufficient mineral storage, low efficiency of engineering personnel, poor maintenance of automatic production lines, and inability to produce at full capacity."
Qi Yiming, who knew the current details of the Engineer, did not continue to joke with the intelligent computer, but asked seriously: "What warships can the Engineer produce quickly at present?"
A few seconds later, the shipboard intelligent computer listed a not-too-long list for Qi Yiming.
Qi Yiming took a look and found that the highest-level warships that the Engineer could mass-produce at present could only reach the destroyer level. It was not impossible to produce higher-level warships, but the efficiency would be very low.
Qi Yiming thought about it and realized that he now had the Xuefeng as a foundation. They were not short of high-end combat power. Their only disadvantage was that they had too few warships and could easily be dragged to death by Mao Qiming using the wheel tactics.
According to the design of the Engineer, it had two warship production lines, namely the concave areas on both sides of the main body of the Engineer. As long as there were sufficient minerals and the efficiency of the Engineer at present, it would only take 15 days to produce a destroyer from laying the keel to completing the outfitting.
Qi Yiming counted the number of his men. Fang Min and his men could get away and join the fleet after completing the further cleanup of the Gaia Star United Government.
The Engineer could not repair the captured warships, so a destroyer had to be built for each of them.
Then there were the men brought by Qiao Shan and Wang Shuhua. Although their warships were all destroyer-level, their combat effectiveness was not at the same level as the former Federation warships, so they also needed to be upgraded.
Hao Chenqi and his wife needed to assist Qi Yiming in commanding the Xuefeng. After all, the Xuefeng might need to be disassembled during the battle.
Finally, Qi Yiming ordered the intelligent computer to build eight destroyers.
"It will take 18 days to build eight destroyers. Please confirm."
"Confirm..."
The moment the order was confirmed, the mineral smelting area inside the Engineer started to operate.
A steady stream of minerals were poured into the smelting furnace, and then turned into various materials and transported to the production lines of various warship equipment by conveyor belts.
After obtaining enough materials, the two warship production lines also began to lay the keel at the No. 1 station.
The densely packed mechanical arms on the workstations started to operate rapidly. In less than half a day, the keel of a destroyer was laid. The rigid structure that fixed the keel left the No. 1 workstation and began to slowly move to the next workstation to prepare for the assembly of the warship structure.
The originally vacant No. 1 workstation was not idle, but continued to lay the keel of the second warship.
A production line for assembling warships started to operate in this way.
Qi Yiming then notified Qiao Shan that after the repair of the Azure was completed, he would return to Gaia Star first and let Wang Shuhua arrange personnel to come in batches to receive the new warship.
Qiao Shan had long been stunned by the efficient production method of the Engineer.
Although he had seen the production line of human warships now, most of the people working on the production line were humans, and the degree of automation could not be compared with that of the Engineer.
Looking at the new warships that were gradually taking shape, Qiao Shan could already see the scene of hundreds of warships arrayed across the interstellar in the near future.