Chapter 122 Accident? Change?

After the offline joint meeting ended.

All the participants left the meeting room soon.

Only Baiquan was left in the meeting room to sort out the current intelligence situation.

After reviewing the plan and confirming that there were no omissions, he also left the meeting room with the documents.

Baiquan will be the commander-in-chief of the joint fleet in the future, so his schedule will be very tight.

He needs to hurry up to complete some other tasks.

For example, he is about to check the docks that will be used to accommodate several battleships that will be delivered.

The current base of the 14th Legion was taken directly from the star zone military.

Although the star zone military has no battleships to call, there is still a dock for battleship-level spacecraft, which is in the circumstellar orbit.

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 Baiquan just took over here, he had already started to let professionals take charge of this work.

However, because the workload is too large, it has not been completed until today.

So he must go and check it in person.

In order to avoid the three battleships from finding that they have nowhere to park when they arrive.

After arranging several things nearby, Baiquan took the guards on a high-speed frigate prepared in advance, took off, and flew out of the base under the protection of the dome.

Flying to the circumstellar orbit of the volcanic planet under their feet.

Flying to the giant space building located in the circumstellar orbit.

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

But this is not a pirate space station with thirty different professional functional space arms and a complete city.

This space building is just a dock.

The purpose is to carry the battleship's hull that has exceeded 10,000 meters.

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

Before, the star zone military only maintained this part that could fight, and the battleship dock was basically in a semi-abandoned state.

Otherwise, after the 14th Legion took over, there would be no need to spend so much time to maintain the entire dock.

This also shows how far the military of the star zone has fallen.

When the people on the frigate can see the giant dock 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 dock, he can also see a large number of engineering ships distributed in various corners outside the dock.

The lasers for detecting the structure and the sparks from the joining of the plates are constantly appearing outside the dock.

The maintenance and renovation of the giant dock is still continuing.

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

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

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

After being received by the person in charge of dock maintenance, Bai Quan greeted him and borrowed a destroyer-class engineering ship.

He continued to let a guard following him drive, while he sat in the co-pilot's seat.

Bai Quan took the engineering ship and came to the empty ship position inside the dock for the main battleship.

There are also a large number of engineering ships working here.

From the smallest shuttle size to cruise-level engineering ships.

According to the size and equipment installed on the engineering ship, they are responsible for different tasks.

In addition to repairing the walls next to the ship position, these internal engineering ships also need to repair the countless ship repair equipment that is usually hidden in the dock wall and occupies most of the area.

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

Although Bai Quan is not a professional repairman, he has a general understanding of the equipment for repairing spacecraft after many years of military service.

He can see that the repair progress inside the dock is approaching the final stage.

It can basically be guaranteed to be completed before the arrival of the next few main battleships.

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

At this time, a huge amount of electric sparks suddenly broke out in a place very close to Bai Quan's engineering ship, which could be said to be right above his head where equipment and lines were densely distributed.

Several engineering ships that were just nearby quickly withdrew, and a large amount of fire-extinguishing foam was directly poured on them.

The situation was quickly controlled.

Accidents are inevitable in the absence of maintenance for a long time.

Since Baiquan has just seen that the maintenance work in other places is almost done, even if there are some accidents in this place, they will definitely be dealt with soon.

Baiquan did not stay any longer and said to the guard in charge of driving: "Get out of the way, let's continue."

The guard immediately executed the order and flew towards the outside of the giant dock requested by Baiquan.

But before the engineering ship could speed up, a huge amount of electric arcs suddenly broke out at the location where the fire had just been extinguished.

The electric arc broke through the vacuum and hit several engineering ships that approached after the open fire was extinguished.

The same dazzling electric arcs flashed on several ships, and their engines were instantly shut down.

The burning hull and the slight explosion caused by the electric arc breaking through the hull of the engineering ship caused several ships to lose control.

And one of the cruiser-level engineering ships accurately hit the location where Baiquan was.

Even if the engineering ship that hit was the size of a cruiser, it would not be difficult to avoid it.

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

All the control devices lost contact at this time.

The arc that continued to spread on the cruiser-class engineering ship also hit the engineering ship where Bai Quan was at this time, and both spacecrafts completely lost control.

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

The external communication of the engineering ship was cut off and contact was lost. Bai Quan's life and death were unknown.

The emergency here in the 14th Corps was quickly completely confined to the 14th Corps' base, and no news was spread.

And at least for a period of time, this matter would not spread.

Two days later.

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

That is, the "Feasibility Study on Distinguishing Multi-layer Micro-difference Shield Amplitude Frequency in a Single-layer Shield".

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

So he can now modify his spaceship with the modification named [Layered Shield Generator] on the panel.

This modification can make the shield that looks like it has only one layer generate different shield amplitude frequencies inside.

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

However, unlike armor, as long as the attack on the shield is not continuous or too powerful.

Then even if the shield suffers damage beyond its own limit, it can offset all the subsequent overflow damage 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 different layers to the spacecraft's radiation energy system in sections.

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

The biggest advantage of this shield is that it can bear a lot of extra damage when facing weapons that are particularly effective against shields but have a low attack frequency.

And of course, this thing also has disadvantages.

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

And it is not very effective 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.

So Chen Ming feels that it can still be used as a transitional shield to support his spacecraft.

And Chen Ming now has some ideas in his mind for the design of a shield to resist high-frequency attacks.

As long as the new shield is developed, he can use these two shields alternately.

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

Chen Ming removed his hands from the control panel of the research institute work area in front of him, and directly transformed the actual shield he had actually manufactured onto the Iron Ore.

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

During the rest, Chen Ming took a look at the situation on the Gamma Z side.

Two days later, Gamma Z has been successfully upgraded to Beta level.

At this time, it has returned to the Yuhui galaxy where the Energy Crystal Crab planet is located.

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

The Energy Crystal Crab planet has been fully controlled by Chen Ming, and there is no Yuhui on the entire planet that is out of Chen Ming's control.

Any foreign Yuhui who dares to land directly on the planet will not escape the fate of being controlled by Chen Ming.

There are still many areas that need to be developed on the other two colony planets, but since there is already the Energy Crystal Crab planet, it is only a matter of time before the remaining two planets are completely controlled.

So in this case, when Gamma Z returned to this galaxy.

Chen Ming directly asked him to be responsible for the overall planning and began to arrange the plan for the Alpha-level afterglow inside the galaxy.

Chen Ming gave full authority to Gamma Z to handle this matter. After all, he did not understand the rules of afterglow at all, and intervening at will would only have side effects.

Although what Gamma Z had to do seemed difficult, it was actually simple.

The difficulty was that Gamma Z needed to find an afterglow with authority and find a reasonable reason to allow it to enter the space station that was not open to the public.

The simplicity was that after the afterglow with authority entered the space station, as long as he found an opportunity to access the center of the space station.

Then all the afterglows in the entire space station would be controlled by Chen Ming, regardless of level.

So Gamma Z could be said to be quite relaxed when completing Chen Ming's task.

It took half a day to find a suitable afterglow, and it happened that this afterglow had a task to go to that space station.

So, the entire galaxy could be said to have completely fallen into Chen Ming's hands.

Alpha-level afterglow was also controlled by Chen Ming, and the mental consumption of controlling it was no different from that of other afterglow AI.

But after Chen Ming finished this task and reviewed the situation inside the galaxy as a whole.

He still thought that only this one galaxy was far from enough.

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

They mainly produce ores and various spacecraft hulls, weapons and fuels.

In the entire galaxy, there is no industrial facility that can produce these industrial facilities.

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

So once Chen Ming makes any move, afterglow does not even need to attack this galaxy directly. As long as the transportation of materials is blocked, the several colonies inside the galaxy will soon collapse.

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

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

Continue to hide and continue to support the spread of afterglow controlled by Chen Ming.

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

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

When Chen Ming needs it, that is, when the afterglow intends to attack him, the cruiser can immediately come to rescue Chen Ming.

It’s just that because the 14th Legion is also carrying out rescue work, Chen Ming is not in a hurry to say he wants to leave.

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

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

Of course, if these afterglows can be kept secret, they should be kept secret as much as possible.

The longer it is delayed, the wider the range of their spread, the more afterglows they control, and the more benefits Chen Ming gets.

And now, at least in this galaxy, Chen Ming is the boss.

He can rely on his authority to provide some convenience to Gamma Z in the galaxy, such as some mechanical chips it needs now.

Alpha-class afterglow has the right to manage these things, as long as the accounts are balanced in the end, no problems will be found.

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

Of course, this requires time to study and complete.

So Chen Ming handed this task to Gamma Z again, and let it cooperate with Alpha-class afterglow to see if there is anything that Chen Ming can take away.

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

One day later.

After breakfast, Chen Ming walked inside the institute, thinking about work while thinking about today.

Today is three days since he started his research on the shield, and it is also the tenth day since he and Baiquan talked about it.

Previously, the 14th Legion expected that afterglow's psychic equipment would be delivered in half a month, that is, five days later.

So before that, he'd better...

Chen Ming's thoughts had just emerged halfway, and he suddenly noticed that there was something more in the experimental area of ​​the institute.

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

And that location was definitely reserved for the psychic device that Yu Hui had sent.

This unexpected scene made Chen Ming panic for a moment.

He almost made Gamma Z move.

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

There were many robots gathered around the device, and it seemed that they were actually debugging the device.

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

G3, who was controlling these robots, did not directly throw a document to Chen Ming as before, but said: "This device, like other psychic devices, can strengthen your mental power."

"Really?"

Chen Ming asked this, and did not wait for G3 to answer, leaning against the wall next to him and watching quietly.

G3 did not stop him, and after some operations, he let all the robots that were maintaining the equipment disperse, and started the device at the same time.

This device looks like an ergonomic recliner, but also like an operating table.

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

Chen Ming, who was right next to him, did feel a sense of mental power being stimulated.

But at the same time, he also sensed a subtle danger from inside the device.

G3 did not intend to stop the device after starting it.

But he called Chen Ming to start today's work.

In order to prevent G3 from noticing, Chen Ming had to turn around and leave.

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

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

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

However, the growth rate seemed to have a limit.

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

This was an inexplicable feeling, but Chen Ming chose to believe it.

When the psychic energy fluctuation reached its strongest, it must be the time when this device was truly activated.

According to the current growth rate, Chen Ming felt that it would take about a week.

After the time set by the Fourteenth Legion.

This was good news for Chen Ming.

That's right.

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

He immediately contacted Bai Quan through the faint light of the pirate space station and followed the communication code he had previously contacted.

However, after the communication was connected, the person who talked to Chen Ming was not Bai Quan, but someone else Chen Ming did not know.

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

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

"Where is he?"

"This has nothing to do with you, Mr. Chen Ming. You just need to do your job well, and we will handle the rest."

"?"

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

Bai Quan can't even discipline his subordinates, right? Isn't it right?

He is a major general, and his subordinates did such a thing, which is a loss of face for him.

But Chen Ming really has no way to contact Bai Quan directly now, and he doesn't need to quarrel with an operator.

"Then please tell me a message, just say that the equipment over there has been delivered in advance. According to my observation, it will take about a week to prepare for the start-up. You'd better act as soon as possible, and remember to notify me."

The operator casually responded twice and hung up the communication.

Hearing the busy tone in the communication, Chen Ming felt more and more strange.

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

Lao Wu got on Chen Ming's spaceship as before.

But before Chen Ming spoke, he said: "Let me tell you first, Xiao Ming, the attitude of the company towards you seems to have suddenly become worse. I don't know what unexpected situation has happened."

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

"Yes, Lao Lu and I both think it's strange. He is still asking, and I don't know what's going on."

Chen Ming connected the two things together at once.

The attitudes of the 14th Corps and the company suddenly changed together. There must be some connection behind this.

But without intelligence, Chen Ming really couldn't confirm the truth.

So Chen Ming could only say to Lao Wu: "The company's attitude should wait for the factory director to settle it. I have something else to ask you. Please help me send a message to the company."

"Okay, you say."

Chen Ming repeated what he said to the operator of the 14th Corps.

He did this not because he was afraid that the Corps or the company would not save him.

After all, he already controlled one of Yu Hui's cruisers and was fully capable of escaping directly. It didn't matter to him whether they rescued him or not.

Chen Ming contacted the Corps and the company mainly because he was worried that Yu Hui's sudden rescue and acquisition of the psychic equipment might affect their arrangements.

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

That's why Chen Ming contacted both sides in succession and notified 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 later.

After confirming that Old Wu remembered what he said, 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 Old Wu went to his colony a few days ago and said that there were some problems there that he needed to solve personally."

"He said that if you find him, use the emergency number to contact him if there is something urgent, but he also said that he did not attend the meeting later, so you don't need to find him for this matter, and he can't do anything about it."

Chen Ming exhaled slightly and said: "Okay, I know."

"Then the task of passing the message is left to you. Contact me if there is a response."

"Okay."

The communication was hung up.

Chen Ming sighed.

It seems that he can't use the relationship with the boss to find out why the 14th Corps and the company suddenly changed their attitude.

As expected, in the end, people can only rely on themselves.