Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 122 Accident?change?
After the offline joint meeting.

All participants quickly left the conference room.

Bai Quan was left alone in the conference room to sort out the current intelligence situation.

After going over the plan again and confirming that there were no missing points, he also left the meeting room with the documents.

Bai Quan will be the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet in the future, so his schedule will be very tight.

He needs to hurry up and get some other work done.

For example, what he was about to do was inspect the docks that would be used to house the several battleships that were about to be delivered.

The current location of the Fourteenth Legion was taken directly from the sector military.

Although the sector's military has no capital ships to call upon, there is still a dock for capital ship-level spacecraft, located in orbit around the star.

It has not been used for many years, so after it is reactivated, the maintenance and renovation of the entire dock must be guaranteed.

When Bai Quan first took over this place, he had already started letting professionals take charge of this aspect of work.

However, because the workload is so huge, it has not been completed until today.

So he had to check it out for himself.

In case the three capital ships arrive, they will find that they have no place to park.

After arranging several nearby matters, Bai Quan took his escort on a high-speed frigate that had been prepared in advance, took off, and flew out of the stronghold protected by the dome.

Flying towards the orbit of the volcanic planet beneath them.

Flying towards the giant space building in orbit around the star.

The size of this giant space building is close to that of a normal space station, and the size difference between it and the pirate space station is only within a quarter.

But this is not a pirate space station with thirty space arms of different specialized functions and an entire city.

This space building is just a dock.

The purpose is to carry the hull of the battleship that has exceeded [-] meters.

At the same time, the giant shipyard also comes with some defensive measures such as fixed artillery, which can also be regarded as a line of defense for the planet below.

Previously, the military in the sector only maintained this part of the area that could be used for fighting, and the main ship dock was basically in a semi-abandoned state.

Otherwise, there would be no need for the Fourteenth Army Corps to spend such a long time maintaining the entire shipyard after taking over.

This also shows how far the military in the previous sector has fallen.

When the people on the frigate can see the giant shipyard with their naked eyes.

Bai Quan raised his head from the official document on the terminal in his hand.

At this time, in addition to being able to see the appearance of the entire giant shipyard, he could also see a large number of engineering ships distributed in every corner outside the shipyard.

Lasers probing structures and sparks erupting from joining plates are constantly appearing outside the dock.

Maintenance and renovation work at the giant dockyard continues.

Bai Quan took a second look and asked the guard as the driver to drive the frigate directly into the dock through an entrance for small and medium-sized spacecraft on the edge of the dock.

The many obstacles that originally required inspection of the spacecraft were cleared for Bai Quan, allowing him to quickly enter the innermost part of the giant shipyard.

That is where the staff inside the giant shipyard usually work and live.

After being received by the person in charge of shipyard maintenance, Bai Quan said hello to him and borrowed a destroyer-class engineering ship.

He continued to let one of the escorts following him take charge of driving, while he himself sat in the passenger seat.

Bai Quan took the engineering ship and came to the empty space inside the dock used by the battleships.

There are also a large number of construction ships at work here.

They range from the smallest shuttle boats to cruise-level engineering vessels.

Responsible for different tasks depending on the size and installation equipment of the engineering vessel.

In addition to repairing the walls next to the ship's bay, these internal engineering ships also need to repair countless ship maintenance equipment that are usually hidden in the dock walls and occupy most of the area.

Although the size of the battleship determines that it must have the ability to self-repair, these maintenance equipment are still necessary for the armor and other external equipment outside the battleship.

Although Bai Quan is not a professional maintainer, he has a general understanding of the equipment for repairing spacecraft after many years as a soldier.

He could tell that the repair progress inside the dock was approaching the final stage.

It is basically guaranteed to be completed before the next few capital ships arrive.

After Bai Quan saw that this was not a bad situation, he continued to let the guards drive the engineering boat to patrol the interior, and then planned to go to the outside to check some places that he had not seen when he came in just now.

At this time, very close to Baiquan's engineering ship, it could be said that it was directly overhead at a location where equipment and circuits were densely distributed, and a huge amount of electric sparks suddenly burst out.

Several engineering ships that were nearby quickly evacuated, and at the same time, a large amount of fire-extinguishing foam was poured directly on it.

The situation was quickly brought under control.

Accidents are inevitable when there is a lack of maintenance over a long period of time.

Since Bai Quan has just seen that the repair work in other places is almost complete, then even if there are some accidents in this place, they will definitely be handled quickly.

Bai Quan did not stay any longer and said to the guard responsible for driving: "Stay out of the way, let's continue."

The guards immediately carried out the order and flew towards the outside of the giant dock requested by Baiquan.

But before the engineering ship could accelerate, a huge amount of arc suddenly erupted from the spot where the flames had just been extinguished.

The arc broke through the vacuum and hit several engineering ships that came closer after the open flames were extinguished.

The same dazzling arc flashed on several ships, and their engines stalled instantly.

The burning hull shell and the slight explosion caused by the electric arc penetrating the engineering ship shell caused several ships to lose control.

And one of the cruise-level engineering ships accurately hit Baiquan's location.

Originally, even if the engineering ship that came over had the size of a cruiser, it wouldn't be difficult to dodge it.

However, at the moment when the guard wanted to control the spacecraft, a large swath of red suddenly appeared on the control panel in front of him.

All control equipment was lost at this time.

The spreading arc on the cruise-class engineering ship also hit Baiquan's engineering ship at this time, and both spacecraft completely lost control.

The engineering ship Bai Quan was on was hit by a cruiser-class engineering ship and was crushed directly into the wall on one side of the dock.

The engineering ship's communication with the outside world was cut off and contact was lost. Baiquan's life and death were unknown.

The emergency situation here in the Fourteenth Army was quickly and completely restricted to the Fourteenth Army's garrison, and no news was spread.

And at least for a while, the news won't spread.

Two days later.

Chen Ming completed his previously planned research on shields during his afternoon study time.

That is the "Feasibility Study on Distinguishing the Amplitude Frequency of Multi-layer Slightly Different Shields in a Single-layer Shield".

After all, it was just a product of Chen Ming's university graduation, and it was a flawed existence, so the research speed was very fast.

So he can now carry out the modification named [Layered Shield Generator] on his spaceship.

This modification allows what appears to be only one layer of shield to produce different amplitude frequencies of the shield formed internally.

It is equivalent to cutting away a thick layer of armor to form multiple layers of weaker armor.

However, unlike armor, as long as the attack the shield withstands is not sustained or overly powerful.

Then even if the shield takes damage that exceeds its own limit, it can offset all subsequent damage that overflows, and will not let the armor under the shield bear it.

Chen Ming's shield can have similar effects many times.

Divide the shield into different layers and connect the different layers to the spacecraft's radiant energy system in sections.

When one layer of shield is overloaded, other layers of shield can continue to bear the damage.

The biggest advantage of this shield is that it can bear a lot of additional damage when faced with weapons that are particularly powerful against the shield but have low attack frequency.

And of course there are disadvantages to this thing.

There are multiple layers of different amplitude frequencies inside the shield, which will cause the strength of the shield itself to be reduced to a certain extent.

And the effect is not good for high-frequency attacks, and it will only have a particularly significant effect when facing low-frequency attacks.

But no matter what, this is just the product of Chen Ming's university graduation thesis, and it is also the first result of his research.

Therefore, Chen Ming felt that it could still be used as a transitional shield to support his spaceship.

Moreover, Chen Ming already had some ideas in mind for a shield design plan to withstand high-frequency attacks.

As long as a new shield is developed, he can use these two shields interchangeably.

At the same time, we will continue to develop more powerful shields in the future.

Chen Ming removed his hands from the control panel in the research area in front of him and transformed the physical shield he had actually created directly onto the Iron Ore.

After trying the effect for a while, Chen Ming put down the work at hand and rested for a while.

On the way to rest, Chen Ming took a look at the situation at Gamma Z.

Today, two days later, Gamma Z has been successfully upgraded to beta level.

At this time, it has returned to the afterglow galaxy where the crystal crab planet is located.

The number of afterglows controlled by Chen Ming in this galaxy has more than tripled in the past two days.

The crystal crab planet has been fully controlled by Chen Ming, and not a single afterglow on the entire planet is outside Chen Ming's control.

Any external afterglow that dares to land directly on the planet will not be able to escape the fate of being controlled by Chen Ming.

There are still a lot of areas that need to be developed on the other two colonial planets, but with the crystal crab planet already there, it will only be a matter of time before the remaining two planets are completely controlled.

So in this case, when Gamma Z comes back to this galaxy.

Chen Ming directly put it in charge of coordination and began planning and arrangements for the Alpha-level afterglow inside the galaxy.

Chen Ming left this matter entirely to Gamma Z. After all, he didn't understand Yuhui's rules at all, and his random intervention would only have side effects.

Although what Gamma Z has to do seems difficult, it is actually also simple.

The difficult part is that Gamma Z needs to find an afterglow with permission and find a reasonable reason for it to enter the space station that is not open to the public.

The simple part is that after Yuhui, who has the authority, enters the space station, he only needs to find an opportunity to access the center of the space station.

Then all the afterglow of the entire space station will be controlled by Chen Ming, regardless of level.

Therefore, Gamma Z can be said to be quite relaxed when completing Chen Ming's task.

It took it half a day to find a suitable afterglow, and just in time, this afterglow had a mission that required it to go to that space station.

As a result, the entire galaxy can be said to have completely fallen into Chen Ming's hands.

Alpha-level Afterglow is also controlled by Chen Ming, and the mental consumption of controlling it is no different from other Afterglow AIs.But after Chen Ming completed this matter and took an overall inspection of the situation inside the galaxy.

I still think that just this one galaxy is not enough.

There are three colonies in this galaxy, all of which are industrial colonies.

It mainly produces ores and various spacecraft hulls, weapons and fuel.

There is no industrial facility capable of producing these industrial facilities in the entire galaxy.

At the same time, there is also a lack of some materials necessary for industrial production, and material transportation from other afterglow galaxies is also needed.

So once Chen Ming makes any move, Yuhui doesn't even need to directly attack the galaxy. As long as the transportation of supplies is blocked, several colonies inside the galaxy will soon collapse.

So even if Chen Ming controls this galaxy, he can only put it there first and let it continue to develop normally.

At the same time, Alpha Yuhui, who is controlled by Chen Ming, must also ensure that everything is normal and cannot be discovered by Yuhui.

Continue to hide, continue to spread out and support as the afterglow controlled by Chen Ming.

But Chen Ming also asked them to be ready at all times.

Because the Alpha-class Afterglow can control the cruiser, and there is a spare one in this space station.

When Chen Ming is in need, that is, when Yu Hui plans to attack him, the cruiser can immediately come to rescue Chen Ming.

Just because the [-]th Army Corps was also carrying out rescue work, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to leave.

Anyway, he has already kept this second life-saving means.

As long as the situation was not so urgent that he was forced to use an unstable hyperspace jump engine, he could always wait for a cruiser equipped with a stable jump engine to rescue him.

Of course, if these afterglows can be avoided, then try not to expose them as much as possible.

The longer it is delayed, the wider the scope of their spread, the more afterglow they can control, and the more benefits Chen Ming will get.

And now at least within this galaxy, Chen Ming calls the shots.

He can rely on his authority to provide some conveniences to Gamma Z in the galaxy, such as some of the mechanical family chips it currently needs.

Alpha-level Afterglow has the right to manage these things, as long as the accounts are settled in the end, and no problems will be seen.

At the same time, there are many other benefits, waiting for Chen Ming to slowly discover.

Of course this takes time to research and complete.

So Chen Ming gave this task to Gamma Z and let it cooperate with Alpha-level Afterglow to see if there was anything Chen Mingshun could take away.

Chen Ming's current main focus is still on the research of new technologies and the improvement of his own technology.

after one day.

Chen Ming walked inside the research institute after breakfast, thinking about his work and today's day.

Today is three days since he started researching the shield, and it is also the tenth day since he and Bai Quan talked.

The Fourteenth Legion had previously expected that Yuhui's psychic equipment would be delivered in half a month, that is, five days later.

Well until then, he'd better...

The thoughts in Chen Ming's mind had just begun to show up, when he suddenly noticed that there was something new in the experimental area of ​​the research institute.

At some point, a new device that he had never seen appeared in the previously vacant space.

And that location is definitely reserved for the psychic equipment sent by Yu Hui.

This unexpected scene made Chen Ming panic for a moment.

It almost made Gamma Z move directly.

Fortunately, the device was just sitting there and not started.

There are many robots standing next to the equipment, and they seem to be debugging the equipment.

Chen Ming pretended to walk into the experimental area accidentally and tried to ask the robots at work: "What is this?"

G3, who controlled these robots, did not directly throw a document to Chen Ming as before, but said: "It is the same device as other psychic devices, which can strengthen your mental power."

"is it?"

Chen Ming asked this question without waiting for G3 to answer. He leaned against the wall next to him and watched quietly.

G3 did not stop it. After some operations, all the robots that were maintaining the equipment dispersed and started the equipment at the same time.

The device looks like an ergonomic recliner and an operating table.

After activation, some psychic energy fluctuations were emitted from the head of the operating table.

Chen Ming, who was right next to him, did feel that his mental power was being stimulated.

But at the same time, he also noticed subtle dangers from inside the equipment.

The G3 has no intention of stopping after starting the device.

Instead, he greeted Chen Ming to start today's work.

In order not to let G3 notice, Chen Ming had no choice but to turn around and leave.

He glanced back at the device before leaving the experimental area.

Chen Ming could clearly feel that the intensity of the psychic energy fluctuations of the psychic equipment was increasing at a slow rate.

And as the intensity of this psychic fluctuation increases, the impact of this device on Chen Ming's mental power is also increasing.

However, there seems to be a limit to the extent of this growth.

When Chen Ming's mental power was disturbed by the equipment, he seemed to feel the upper limit of the equipment's psychic fluctuation intensity.

This is an inexplicable feeling, but Chen Ming chooses to believe it.

When the psychic energy fluctuation reaches its strongest point, it must be the time when this device is actually activated.

Based on the current growth rate, Chen Ming feels that this will probably take about a week.

After the action time set by the Fourteenth Legion.

This is good news for Chen Ming.

correct.

Chen Ming immediately realized what he should do at this time.

Immediately through the dim light parked on the pirate space station, he followed the communication code that he had used to communicate with Bai Quan.

However, after the communication was connected, the person talking to Chen Ming was not Bai Quan, but someone else whom Chen Ming didn't know.

Although Chen Ming was a little confused, he still said: "Is it the operator? I need to talk to Bai Quan."

There was silence on the other end of the communication for a long time, until Chen Ming was wondering if he had dialed the wrong number, and then the person on the other end said, "Major General Bai Quan doesn't have time to see you now."

"What about others?"

"This has nothing to do with you, Mr. Chen Ming. You just need to do your job well. We will take care of the rest."

"?"

The operator's words made Chen Ming very uncomfortable and at the same time very incomprehensible.

Bai Quan can't even discipline his subordinates, okay?Shouldn't it?
He was a major general, and it would be embarrassing for his subordinates to do such a thing.

But Chen Ming really has no way to contact Bai Quan directly, and there is no need for him to quarrel with an operator.

"Then you can tell me something and say that the equipment over there has been delivered in advance. According to my observation, it will take about a week to prepare for startup. It's best for you to move as soon as possible. Remember to inform me."

The operator casually responded and hung up the call.

Chen Ming felt even more strange when he heard the busy signal in the communication.

After thinking about it, he simply contacted Lao Wu and planned to ask the company about Baiquan's situation.

Lao Wu boarded Chen Ming's spaceship as before.

But before Chen Ming spoke, he said: "Let me tell you first, Xiao Ming. The company's attitude toward you seems to have suddenly changed for the worse. I don't know what happened."

Chen Ming frowned and asked, "Is there such a thing?"

"Yes, Lao Lu and I both think things are strange. He is still asking questions and doesn't know what is going on."

Chen Ming connected the two things together at once.

The attitudes of the Fourteenth Legion and the company suddenly changed together. There must be some connection behind this.

But without information, it was difficult for Chen Ming to confirm the truth.

So all he could say to Old Wu Chenming was: "The company's attitude is to wait for the factory director to sort it out. I have other matters to ask you for. Please send a message to the company for me."

"Okay, you say."

Chen Ming repeated what he said to the operator of the [-]th Army Corps.

He didn't do this because he was afraid that the Legion or the company wouldn't save him.

After all, he already had control of one of Yuhui's cruisers and was fully capable of escaping directly. It didn't matter to him whether they saved him or not.

Chen Ming contacted the legion and the company, mainly because he was worried that Yuhui's sudden early rescue and the acquisition of psychic equipment might affect their arrangements.

Problems with their arrangements may indirectly lead to problems on Chen Ming's own side.

That's why Chen Ming contacted both parties one after another and informed them of the news.

But there was only so much Chen Ming could do, and he didn't know whether this sudden change in attitude would have any impact on what happened next.

After confirming that Old Wu remembered what he said clearly, Chen Ming suddenly remembered something and said to Old Wu: "Does the boss have any news for me?"

Old Wu shook his head, then suddenly nodded and said, "Yes, yes."

"But Lao Wu went to his colony a few days ago, saying that there was some problem there that he needed to solve personally."

"He said that if you come to him and you have something urgent, just use the emergency number to contact him. But he also said that since he didn't attend the meeting later, there's no need to contact him about this matter, and there's nothing he can do about it."

Chen Ming exhaled slightly and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Then I'll leave the task of delivering the message to you. If you have any reaction, please contact me."

"okay."

Communication hangs up.

Chen Ming sighed.

It seems that he can't figure out why the Fourteenth Legion and the company suddenly changed their attitudes through the boss's relationship.

Sure enough, in the end, people can only rely on themselves.

(End of this chapter)