Chapter 151 Exhaustion

Half an hour passed.

As Baiquan released the last wave of assault boats.

Chen Ming occupied two data nodes again through the damaged robot.

Obtained the armor blueprint of the central part of the hull and the structural blueprint of the left front part of the hull.

Add to the previous engine blueprint and the left front hull armor, left rear hull structure, and the central hull structure blueprint, a total of six copies.

However, after Baiquan's assault boats were exhausted.

He had already returned the offensive to the front line.

Dealing with the damage, shrinking the formation, and retreating at any time.

And Yuhui also noticed Baiquan's actions. After the initial vigilance, he had discovered Baiquan's true thoughts.

So they directly began to reversely squeeze the activity space of the 14th Legion Fleet, as if they were going to counterattack.

Next, Chen Ming could no longer use this method of controlling more data nodes through robot maintenance.

However, his means have not been completely restricted.

After all, the giant dock is a whole, and the modules are in a cooperative relationship, but they are independent at the data level, which is convenient for management.

Therefore, different modules in the dock can communicate normally.

Chen Ming can use this to spread his spiritual power.

He only needs to install a lowest-level gamma core controlled by him in a certain mechanical equipment that needs to be transported between different modules.

For example, Yuhui himself has a group of Yuhui individuals who are responsible for the maintenance of all internal areas that are not open to the public.

The giant dock can be said to be a large industrial facility as a whole, and it is also an industrial facility that requires high-intensity work every day.

All equipment inside the facility needs frequent maintenance and repair.

There are Yuhui who are responsible for the maintenance of the open modules in several modules open to the public.

Then there are also special ones for the internal ones.

Therefore, Chen Ming, who has successfully controlled the Yuhui inside the dock, can find a way to control these Yuhui individuals.

They are likely to be unprepared, or simply unprepared.

Because they have to inspect and repair the equipment, it means that they must touch the various lines of the equipment.

And such a data line connected to the Yuhui individual controlled by Chen Ming is no different from a virus culture dish for Yuhui.

These maintenance personnel must actively come to the side of the culture dish, after all, this is their job.

Just now.

Chen Ming has reported the need for a special maintenance individual to carry out maintenance in the node that he first controlled with the robot.

It should come soon.

Chen Ming has not reported such problems in other nodes for the time being.

In order to avoid similar accidents in the database of this giant dock at the same time, leading to the discovery of the problem.

Under normal circumstances, if it is just a problem inside a module, then hiding is the easiest thing under the premise that Chen Ming has controlled the data node of the core of the module.

But now, in order to let the maintenance individual come, the cause and effect of this accident must be reported.

This will definitely be recorded in other places.

So just in case, Chen Ming did a little cover-up.

Anyway, each module area has its own maintenance individual, but the efficiency and scale are not as fast and large as those of professionals.

It is impossible for each afterglow responsible for module management to report a slight fault in the circuit. Generally speaking, if a small problem can be solved by oneself, it must be solved by oneself.

It is normal not to report and repair it by oneself.

So even if Chen Ming's hidden behavior is discovered, he has a full excuse to explain it.

Then next, he only needs to wait for these repair afterglow individuals to deliver themselves.

Taking advantage of this time, Chen Ming also carefully studied the map of the giant dock.

It can be confirmed that the total number of module divisions in the giant dock has reached more than 500, all of which are modules controlled by at least Beta-level cores.

However, as long as the module divisions that do not have suitable factories and mechanical processing plants and cannot undertake the manufacturing tasks of the new star level are removed, such as the external defense artillery platform module where Chen Ming's robot had been before.

Then remove the most core, the new star level module that has not yet been completed in the manufacturing stage and is now docked at the main battleship position.

The remaining number is 32.

Based on the existing blueprints, Chen Ming can roughly estimate the number of blueprints that are dispersed for the new star level.

It should be around 20, slightly less than 20.

Chen Ming has already affected six module divisions, and nearly one-fifth of the modules with a probability of having blueprints have been controlled by him.

The six blueprints he obtained are also close to one-third of the final number of blueprints.

In other words, as long as his luck is good enough, he will definitely be able to obtain all the blueprints.

Chen Ming was a little excited, but he calmed down immediately.

Before the work is done, any behavior of opening champagne in advance is absolutely unacceptable.

A few minutes later.

Just as Chen Ming planned.

Near the first data node he controlled through the robot.

Through the freight channel throughout the giant dock, an engineering transport vehicle carrying several engineering robots came.

The interior of this vehicle must have installed an afterglow core that will play a key role in Chen Ming's plan in the future.

Because Chen Ming confirmed the damage in advance with the internal general maintenance plant through the Beta afterglow here.

When the engineering transport vehicle arrived, it started working directly.

Confirmed the gaps in various lines on the wall, and found the data line connected to the data node.

It came to perform maintenance tasks, so actively contacting the afterglow that controls this module to be repaired is also part of its task.

So, in order to quickly contact the afterglow of this node, the maintenance individual who came to perform maintenance work directly and actively connected to this data line.

And then there was nothing else.

Chen Ming is now in full control of this module.

Everything that happened here could not be spread around him.

After letting the maintenance individual he just controlled quickly complete the relatively difficult work in the maintenance task.

For the sake of subsequent efficiency, Chen Ming did not let it continue to do the remaining simple wall repair work.

Instead, he communicated with its data through the Beta-level afterglow here.

The reason why the Beta-level afterglow wanted to handle the remaining work by itself was conveyed and saved in the database of the maintenance individual.

This reason was enough to explain why it completed the task so quickly.

After completing this matter, Chen Ming directly let the maintenance individual leave and return to its original place.

An independent maintenance plant responsible for the internal maintenance of the giant dock.

In the middle area of ​​the dock, in a module that Chen Ming did not control.

There is naturally a data node here.

And now, an individual controlled by Chen Ming has sneaked in here.

And there are sufficient reasons to explain its behavior.

Then the ending here is no different from other places.

Ten minutes later, as Chen Ming's psychic energy spread, the module division of this repair plant also fell into his hands.

However, since this place is not adjacent to the dock in the core area, and it may be because it undertakes the maintenance work of all modules inside the giant dock.

This place does not undertake the task of building part of the new star.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not find the blueprint here.

But it doesn't matter.

Since he has controlled such a repair plant that can come and go freely inside the giant dock, it is equivalent to holding the key to open the treasure chest.

Of course, his previous actions that relied on robots are not meaningless.

After all, if you want to reasonably make a big hole in the wall with a serious degree of damage, it is not so easy to do without these damaged robots.

Then after that.

When the maintenance individual controlled by Chen Ming arrives at the place that needs maintenance, it can directly contact the highest-level core in the module that needs maintenance.

Just like the gamma-level afterglow that just came to the door.

In name, in order to understand the information of the place to be repaired, actively connect to the data line.

In fact, it is to let Chen Ming's psychic power exert influence on it.

As long as the data line is connected, the rest is over.

And because the efficiency and security of data transmission through data lines on the physical level are better than those through network signals.

So it is extremely normal for maintenance individuals to communicate with local afterglow individuals through data lines.

Even when these maintenance individuals go to other modules to work.

The afterglow of those modules may take the initiative to provide some external data lines that must be strictly guarded under normal circumstances and not allowed to be touched at will, so as to facilitate communication.

However, this can only be done when the target module itself needs maintenance.

If there is no maintenance task for that module, Chen Ming's maintenance robot has no reason to go there.

As for the solution to this problem, Chen Ming thought of it for a while, that is, to let the robot destroy the module there, and let the afterglow of the control module apply for it himself.

But this idea that Chen Ming had a brain twitch was immediately rejected by himself, after all, it was too easy to find the problem.

Some robots controlled by afterglow individuals suddenly did strange things without reason and without any signs.

Afterglow would definitely find something wrong at the first time.

Therefore, Chen Ming could only think hard with his brain in a state of confusion.

He thought of another way, which might be put into practical use soon.

But not now.

Chen Ming is still checking the database of the repair shop through Yu Hui, who he just controlled.

The data reported by all the places that need repair in the entire giant dock is stored here.

Yu Hui definitely didn't build such a factory just for show.

Therefore, the number of records in the database can be said to be quite large.

The places to be repaired can be said to be spread all over the giant dock.

And the time when these records were reported was very recent.

Some of them need repairs because of the failure of various facilities inside the giant dock.

But more of them are caused by the battle with the 14th Legion Fleet.

At present, a considerable number of maintenance individuals have gone out to perform tasks.

But even if these are removed, there are still many maintenance tasks accumulating, still throughout the giant dock.

This is good news for Chen Ming.

It even feels that he can try to rely on this repair shop to gradually spread his spiritual energy to the entire giant dock.

But Chen Ming thought about it and gave up.

Because he has a headache when he thinks about it now, and the consumption of mental power is always reminding him that he may fall down at any time.

If he hadn't escaped from Yuhui yet, or had had a good rest, he could indeed try.

But now, although controlling different modules was mainly Yuhui's task, it didn't consume much mental energy for Chen Ming.

But just in case, he only arranged for Yuhui to go to the modules where factories existed and bordered the core docks.

The others would be handled as normal, and he would not take the initiative to control them.

After all, only the places he selected had the greatest possibility of having blueprints.

As long as these places followed the normal process, none of them could escape his control, and the blueprints would fall into his hands sooner or later.

However, when Chen Ming was flipping through the database, he found some problems, some of which he had just thought of when he was thinking about the plan.

According to the records in the database of the repair factory, there were some module divisions inside the giant dock that did not need to be repaired, but there might be blueprints.

Chen Ming would definitely have to go around such places if he wanted to obtain the blueprints.

But fortunately, he had just thought of a solution, at least now he didn't have to endure the headache to think about it.

Chen Ming didn't want to continue to experience the feeling of being drowsy, unable to concentrate, and causing pain whenever a specific thing appeared in his mind.

In order to relieve the pressure brought by thinking and confirm whether his idea was feasible, Chen Ming started to try it directly.

He first determined his target.

There were three modules separated by another module close to the module division of the repair plant.

And further behind the route from the repair plant to this module, there was indeed a module division for applied repairs, and there was a full reason for this trip.

Although Chen Ming had already controlled the repair plant, he could control and modify all the data himself.

But if the rationality of the procedure could be guaranteed, it would be better to guarantee it.

Chen Ming basically had a map of the entire giant dock.

So he also successfully found a target module where the internal line was very close to the wall.

When the engineering transport vehicle carrying the engineering robot passed by here, the vehicle stopped directly.

Several industrial robots immediately jumped off the car, rushed to the wall without saying a word, took out tools and started to dismantle the location where the data cable was hidden.

This was Chen Ming's idea. What he had to do now was to forcefully connect to the data cable here.

Of course, Chen Ming did not do this on a whim, but after careful consideration.

He had already controlled the Yuhui of several data nodes and was familiar with Yuhui's rules and measures for module zoning management.

All information in the module would be concentrated on the data node first, and analyzed and managed by the Beta Yuhui of the node.

As long as nothing harmful happened, these aggregated data would not be reported immediately.

For example, the dismantling of the wall by a maintenance individual was not harmful at all.

Therefore, this gave him the opportunity to do so.

It took time for the local Beta Yuhui to react after knowing about this.

As long as Chen Ming was fast in dismantling the wall to find the data cable, he could indeed connect the data cable directly before the Yuhui here reacted and forcefully control it.

However, the Beta-level Yuhui individual in this area reacted very quickly.

It immediately noticed the passing engineering transport vehicle and its movements.

However, just like Chen Ming learned about the rules and regulations of Yuhui, it did not report the traitor at the first time.

Instead, it sent a message to the maintenance individual through the network inside the module, asking what the maintenance individual controlled by Chen Ming was doing.

At the same time, it also arranged a maintenance robot to come and check the situation.

After all, the task of the maintenance individual is maintenance, and demolishing walls is also quite common. Every Beta-level Yuhui who is responsible for module management must know this.

So when the maintenance individual demolishes their own walls, the first thing these Yuhui consider is definitely not whether the construction team wants their lives, but whether there is something wrong with their walls.

This is the confidence of Chen Ming to do this.

At the same time, facing the inquiry of the Beta-level Yuhui here, Chen Ming has already thought of an excuse early.

Let the maintenance individual send it a document of the maintenance request received by the maintenance plant.

This is of course forged, but it is forged very well.

At least the party... No, it is the party Yuhui who can't see any problems.

Although it can be sure that it has not sent such a file, this file does look very normal.

So it is now repeatedly confirming with the maintenance individual, wanting to contact the maintenance plant to verify whether there are any errors or omissions in this file.

However, during this process, the robots that demolish the wall controlled by the maintenance individual did not stop their work.

In a blink of an eye, the data cable in the wall was found.

For Yu Hui, as long as he came into contact with Chen Ming, there would be only one outcome, being controlled by him.

As long as he was close enough to the ground, there would be no possibility of resistance.

Another giant dock module division and the Beta-class Yu Hui in the module fell into Chen Ming's control.

Chen Ming suddenly found that the current situation was reversed compared to the past.

Before, he had to be vigilant at all times, worried that Yu Hui would suddenly attack him one day.

But now, it was Yu Hui's turn to worry, to be afraid, and to be afraid of those individuals hidden in Yu Hui who were controlled by him.

When his safety was guaranteed, he would be the biggest threat to Yu Hui.

Chen Ming sighed slightly and continued to use this method to control other module divisions.

And he controlled two modules again very smoothly, which was much smoother than the first one.

Including the previous one, three more blueprints were successfully obtained.

They were the blueprints of the right rear armor and the right rear structure of the hull, as well as the power grid system of the new star level.

A total of nine.

But when preparing to continue to control the fourth one.

Chen Ming's consciousness suddenly stopped for a moment.

Up to this moment, his mental power, which had barely recovered a little with the support of the mental power provided by the ship spirit, had bottomed out again.

Only a little bit of residual mental power remained in his brain.

But Chen Ming did not fall down.

Chen Ming's brain was almost unable to think, he could only try his best, and picked up the sharp knife with trembling hands and cut across his palm.

The severe pain made his mind return to his body again, and he continued to rely on his will to force it.

If it were the old him, he should have fainted now, and there would be no chance to continue to hold on.

But under his long-term training, at least now.

Even if his mental power has been exhausted, he can still maintain his consciousness.

As long as he is still conscious, he must continue to do it.

At this time, Chen Ming's hands were already a little numb, and blood was dripping.

He quickly found medicine and bandages to treat the wound.

Then he held the kitchen knife tightly with his injured hand, and while feeling extreme pain, he pointed the blade at the other hand.

But this time, before Chen Ming could stab, his eyes suddenly became a little dazed.

A steel jungle appeared in front of him.

He seemed to have come to the consciousness space again.

But this time, Chen Ming found that the surrounding steel jungle seemed a little different.

The steel was rusted at this time.

This is probably a sign of mental withering.

But the next moment, Chen Ming suddenly found that he was back in the kitchen, and he was still in a normal environment.

Just an illusion?

No, that's not right.

This is him seeing reality and consciousness space at the same time.

Another moment passed, and Chen Ming returned to the consciousness space again.

But this time, reality and consciousness space appeared in front of him at the same time.

And in the steel jungle of his consciousness space, the messy steel tree closest to him gradually shattered in the process of rusting, becoming a handful of scarlet rust.

It piled up on the ground.

But Chen Ming didn't panic.

Because he could feel it.

These steel trees are the result of his training of mental power.

The "metals" that were originally floating in the cosmic environment of the isolated island in the consciousness space were absorbed into the isolated island.

Even if these steels were completely crushed, as long as they still existed on the isolated island in his consciousness space, they actually still existed.

Chen Ming just needed to train again to gather these steels together again.

If he chooses to continue, then these crushed rusted steel trees should reduce the upper limit of his mental power for a while.

The time required for rest and recovery may be a bit long, and the effect of his psychic power may also be partially affected.

But this situation is completely acceptable to Chen Ming.

He will be protected by the boss in a short time and will not encounter any dangerous situations.

And Yuhui's new star level can only be divided into 20 blueprints at most, and he has collected nine now.

Nearly half.

He can't give up, he must persist.

He tried hard to concentrate his consciousness and let the picture of the consciousness space disappear in front of his eyes.

He must continue.

At this time.

The special operations team that has been infiltrating the core area for a long time has finally made progress in their mission.