Chapter 163 Final Preparations Before Departure

When Chen Ming mentioned Cheng Xinghe, he subconsciously glanced at the dock of the space station.

The Buffalo filled with frozen escape pods is still parked near the Brilliant Class.

"Cheng Xinghe and the other people from the Fourteenth Legion that I took away before are now here at the Pirate Space Station. I haven't released them yet."

"Do you want to pick them up yourself, or do you want me to release them and let them go back by themselves?"

Bai Quan hurriedly said, "Let me pick them up, you just keep them frozen."

"Cheng Xinghe had a brain seizure and made a mistake before. He will receive the punishment he deserves when he returns."

"Okay, then do you remember what you promised when we discussed Cheng Xinghe's affairs before?"

"Of course."

Bai Quan responded quickly.

"Your previous request was to learn fleet command techniques from us, and then get the highest standard of outstanding students in our military academy under normal circumstances."

"That is four escorts and a destroyer, as well as the opportunity to use professional facilities for simulated space combat."

"To be honest, I am a little afraid to let you touch the equipment now, but since I have already promised before, there is no problem here."

"As for the ship, I still owe you a cruiser, right? Let's talk about it together later."

"Now let's confirm first, how do you plan to learn? Or is it online as mentioned before?"

Chen Ming answered without thinking too much: "Online, this is best."

"Okay, just It is a bit troublesome to use the equipment later."

"But I can apply for a separate server group, connect to the simulation device in our hometown, and build it here in our base in the Galo star field."

"The internal calculations are done there, and we are only responsible for scene rendering."

"It just so happens that this will be done sooner or later, and you can be the first user."

"Then with your special terminal, it should be no problem to maintain normal learning and training."

"I always have people here, and we can start at any time."

"If you have any opinions about the instructor, you can come to me directly,"

"Or, when I am free in a while, I can also come to teach you in person."

Chen Ming Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask: "You are a major general at least, and you will be a lieutenant general in the future. Do you have so much free time?"

"How is that possible? That's why I said I would take time to come. Whether you can learn fleet command depends on your talent."

"After teaching the basic knowledge, it doesn't mean that I have to teach you every day. At most, I will practice with you in the simulation equipment."

Chen Ming understood and said, "Is that so? OK, then this matter is settled."

"Well, then there is the matter of ships. What do you think?"

Chen Ming did not reply immediately, but asked back: "Will you give some strange ships to your students?"

"What do you mean by strange ships?"

"Not produced by the military itself, but by other companies. Company, or, simply Yu Hui's ship. "

Bai Quan thought for a while and said: "Generally speaking, we provide our own ships to outstanding students, after all, they are learning command techniques in our army."

"But there are indeed some special students who do not learn the ones commonly used by the army."

"If they want a ship, they can come according to their needs. As long as there are sufficient reasons, you can also ask for it."

"Even if we don't have Yu Hui's ship, you also know the conditions here, unless you are willing to wait for a month or two, I will transfer it to you."

"Forget it."

Chen Ming immediately rejected Bai Quan's kindness. He couldn't wait for a month or two.

So Chen Ming simply said what he thought: "I want the Storm from Tachyon Technology."

Bai Quan said subconsciously: "Rob the money, a Storm costs nearly 200 million."

"I remember you said before that money is not important."

"It depends on the time. When I talked to you before, I thought you were a psychic and I was an ordinary major general."

"But now I have to consider the whole station here, so it must be different."

"But if you really want the Storm, I will definitely give it to you. Are all four escorts Storms?"

"Yes, this ship is very good."

"Terminator drone... Well, it looks good with your ability, what about the destroyer?"

Chen Ming had said before Having already thought about it, he blurted out: "Your special law enforcer should be the most capable destroyer I know of."

"Defending the line... You have some knowledge of fleet combat."

"It's just the experience I summarized from watching several large-scale battles and the battle with Cheng Xinghe."

"In fact, I think a ship like the Cowherd seems to be okay, after all, it is the largest destroyer."

Bai Quan suddenly persuaded: "I don't recommend you to take the Cowherd, because the Cowherd must have a special ship position."

"Unless you equip the Cowherd with a mobile maintenance team in the future, otherwise you will have to find a way to deal with the problem of parking the ship wherever you go."

"So which one do you want?"

Chen Ming said readily: "Then let's go for the Enforcer."

"Yes."

Bai Quan wrote down Chen Ming's request and then asked: "What about the cruiser?"

The cruiser is very important to Chen Ming now.

So Chen Ming must think carefully before making a decision.

He currently has a total of six cruisers.

Brilliant class, Radiant class, Refraction class, Supreme point class and Colossus class.

There is also a Flash class that was sent away by Chen Ming because the pirate space station could not stop after maintenance.

Among them, the Colossus class is a cargo ship, and the Supreme point class is an exploration ship.

The remaining four are combat-type ships, each with its own focus.

Brilliant has a strong firepower output capability.

The plasma reserve system provides it with an extremely terrifying maneuverable energy weapon amplification effect.

And the flexible Radiant class is more suitable for leading the fleet to run around, just like it did before in Yuhui.

As for the Refraction class, it is a heavy cruiser like the Ruler class of the army.

Its main task is generally to hold the line in large-scale battles and output frontal firepower. Under normal circumstances, it is a protective ship for certain important locations.

The last Flicker-class cruiser mothership carries the Starlight unmanned fighter, which has point defense weapons that are rare in other Afterglow ships. It is a cruiser that tends to be auxiliary and defensive.

So what Chen Ming lacks the most now is the cruiser.

In fact, it can still maximize Chen Ming's own abilities, and it is also the most resource-consuming ship type, the cruiser mothership.

The auxiliary defense type of the Flicker-class is not suitable for Chen Ming's psychic power. Only the offensive type of the Storm-class equipped with the Terminator unmanned fighter is suitable.

However, Chen Ming does not know many types of cruiser motherships, except for the Flicker-class.

A Mora-class cruiser mothership, which was once one of the cruisers in the fleet protecting the military outpost when Afterglow raided the outpost.

The other type is called the Heron-class high-speed cruiser, which is a type of cruiser sold by the Sinda Company to the military.

With its high maneuverability and special powerful sensors, it can provide extremely accurate enemy ship data for all fighters sent by Heron, improving their combat efficiency.

So Chen Ming's choice.

It was after he just asked Huihuang if there were any useful cruisers.

Huihuang told him about a cruiser he had never heard of, the Stardust-class cruiser.

According to Huihuang, the Stardust-class ship is a ship produced by Tachyon Technology that only appeared on the front line where the Empire and Yuhui's main forces fought on the other side.

Chen Ming chose it for only one reason.

Because Stardust and Storm have the same point, they are both equipped with offensive unmanned fighters.

Storm carries the Terminator unmanned fighter.

And Stardust carries the Meteorite unmanned fighter, which is as special as the Terminator.

Although Yuhui did not obtain too much data on this type of ship, it can be analyzed based on the battle situation that the Meteorite is as outrageous as the Terminator.

This is definitely the best choice for Chen Ming.

Bai Quan didn't care how Chen Ming knew about this kind of ship, and immediately agreed: "Okay."

Although the Stardust class is also a ship of Tachyon Technology Company, even if their 14th Corps buys it, the price is still expensive.

However, when Bai Quan agreed to compensate Chen Ming with a cruiser, he was already prepared to bleed. Cruisers are not cheap anyway.

After agreeing to Chen Ming's choice of cruiser, Bai Quan continued: "Then the latest one."

"I said before that as long as the request is reasonable, you can ask for it. What do you think?"

Chen Ming didn't speak, because he couldn't figure out what he wanted.

After all, Bai Quan had obtained some data of the Nova class before and destroyed two Yuhui battleships including Nova.

Such an achievement that can make a major general promoted to a lieutenant general really makes Chen Ming a little difficult to estimate how much it is worth.

Moreover, for Chen Ming, it seems unnecessary to have more psychic weapons, and it seems a bit too little to ask for another cruiser, and Chen Ming has no ability to control more cruisers.

There is no need for more afterglow individuals, because Chen Ming is having trouble arranging the work of the four afterglow cores on hand.

Spiritual stones with specified characteristics seem to be okay, but Chen Ming's demand for spiritual stones is not that great.

The crazy language spiritual stone alone is enough for Chen Ming's daily exercise and self-defense.

Is there any good choice?

The boss said before that he could choose something related to psychic energy, and spiritual stones are not very good.

So Chen Ming thought for a long time and asked tentatively: "Awakening the spirit nerve?"

"Hiss..."

Chen Ming heard Bai Quan's breath and asked: "Can't it be done?"

Chen Ming's request just hit the line in Bai Quan's heart.

So Bai Quan thought for a while and said, "Yes, but I can only give you artificial ones, and it may take a few days."

It's really possible.

Chen Ming didn't expect that Bai Quan would agree to his casual suggestion.

And for him, artificial ones are better. Natural spiritual awakening nerves are probably all taken from other people, and they may have some strange spiritual energy.

So Chen Ming immediately said, "Enough."

"Okay, but what do you want this thing for?"

"It should be used for eating."

"..."

Bai Quan took the initiative to think of Chen Ming's words as absorption.

Although Bai Quan heard from the psychics he knew that actively absorbing spiritual awakening nerves is a way to quickly improve mental power.

And it will cause one's own mental power to mix with other messy mental powers, which requires a long time to organize and digest, otherwise it will cause problems in the use of spiritual power.

And absorbing spiritual awakening nerves itself is a dangerous thing.

But since it was Chen Ming, Bai Quan felt that he didn't need to say more.

"By the way, don't forget the Refraction-class ship you parked with me."

"Of course I didn't forget."

"But this ship may have to stay with you for a few more days. The pirate space station here can only park two cruisers at most. There is no room."

One Brilliant and one High Point filled the two cruiser slots in the entire dock tightly.

Chen Ming had to wait until he left the space station before calling Refraction to set off together.

"That's fine."

A Yuhui cruiser does not require any maintenance. It just takes up a slot. It is nothing to the 14th Legion.

Bai Quan agreed to help Chen Ming stay for a few more days and then asked; "So what are your plans for the future? If you are worried about any problems in the war zone, you can come to me. You are always welcome here."

"Not necessary for now."

Bai Quan's recruitment was rejected by Chen Ming: "If everything goes well for me in the future, there should be no safer place."

"Oh? What are your plans? If it's hard to say, don't say it."

"Then don't say it, you will definitely know in the future."

In two days, Chen Ming will most likely disappear directly in the empire. Bai Quan will definitely know where he ran to after a little thought.

"Okay, that's about it. This time I came to you to tell you basically these. I wish you to become a general soon."

"That's too difficult."

Bai Quan smiled and hung up the phone.

Chen Ming, who was at the highest point, stretched and took a breath.

The things that troubled other people have basically been dealt with, and the historical problems that have been left until now have also been solved.

So now, he should also deal with the rest of his own things.

First and foremost, what Chen Ming needs to do when he leaves the space station to find a galaxy to build a colony and what he needs to do during the process of building the colony.

Although the development of the colony needs someone to keep an eye on it, it does not mean that he needs to keep an eye on it 24 hours a day.

All Chen Ming needs to do is to guide the colony and let it develop in the direction he thinks is better.

In fact, the entire colony will definitely be managed by Huihuang at that time.

So Chen Ming should have a lot of free time.

Then Chen Ming must do something, such as developing himself.

Learn more technology and study more things.

Before, Chen Ming brought out a lot of research equipment from Yu Hui's research institute, which has been installed at the highest point by him, but this is definitely not enough.

Before, Yu Hui mainly asked Chen Ming to study things that their own research progress was not ideal, and the research equipment there all had a focus.

But Chen Ming did not want to follow Yu Hui's ideas, he wanted to study what he wanted to study.

But he has not thought about the details yet.

It is better for him to buy the research equipment he wants to add according to his own research direction.

And when conducting research, Chen Ming must also consider the Alpha-class afterglow he brought out from the giant dock.

Because Chen Ming couldn't help but look at the panels of several Alpha afterglow cores he had on hand.

And the Alpha-class afterglow obtained from the giant dock is very special.

[Afterglow Alpha-class AI Core (2UAA1-MAZAX)]

[Manufacturer: Afterglow BP-55 Colony Far North Industrial Production Center]

[Alpha-class Core Bonus: Research Hub]

[Self-awareness: Existence]

[Computing Power: Galaxy Level]

[Executable Operations: None]

When Chen Ming saw the name of the core bonus, he knew that this Alpha afterglow was not a combat type, but a more logistical research type.

The effect is also very simple, increasing the computing power of any type of research by 15%.

This number doesn't sound big, but think about it carefully.

All random research, as long as it is a research, has a 15% research speed bonus, which is not necessarily worse than the brilliant [Galaxy Coordination].

And it can be added by Chen Ming in the future. There are five core bonuses in total.

[Ship Specialization]

[Industrial Specialization]

[Weapon Specialization]

[Advanced Technology]

[Galaxy Main Force]

The first three are design type bonus options.

You can give it 30% computing power in different specialized fields and increase its research speed again.

This is also a very terrifying bonus.

Then the effect of this [Advanced Technology] is slightly different from the research type.

It strengthens the computing power of the core in industry and improves the final quality of industrial products, including spacecraft.

And [Galaxy Main Force] can improve the computing power when performing work related to the main ship, which is also the basis for it as a designer of the new star.

This Alpha Afterglow itself is the afterglow left in the giant dock when the new star was launched before.

It seems that there is no problem in being responsible for ship design and subsequent manufacturing work.

That is, its existence must be carefully considered by Chen Ming.

The purchase of research equipment must also take its existence into consideration.

Chen Ming's current idea is to let it continue to carry out the research on the spacecraft technology of Yuhui, while he himself will carry out the research on the spacecraft technology of mankind.

Therefore, this requires a considerable amount of research equipment.

Originally, Chen Ming thought that he didn't need to bother others for the scientific research equipment he used, and he could buy it himself.

But considering this Alpha-class Yuhui, the equipment that Chen Ming originally planned to use for himself was not enough, and it seemed that he would have to go to Lao Wu again.

Chen Ming made a list on the terminal.

Since this was going to be purchased in large quantities, he didn't have to worry about it or choose.

Just buy all the research equipment that he could currently consider and could use in the future.

The total number was a bit more, at least more than he had thought before.

And the value should only be more expensive than industrial equipment.

Fortunately, Chen Ming didn't need to provide a bunch of the same equipment like he provided industrial equipment to the colony.

He only needed to buy one copy of these research equipment.

The money needed is definitely not the same level as buying industrial equipment.

In addition to the equipment used for research.

There is another thing that Chen Ming needs to prepare.

Star map.

Although the empire did not continue to expand in the direction of the Galo star field, various large-scale detectors have been recording the galaxies outside the territory.

Chen Ming had better master the information of these galaxies in advance and conduct a survey of colonies that can be colonized based on the density and types of galaxies within the star field.

Chen Ming wants to find a good galaxy to build a colony.

Similar to the capital of the star field, there are several high-value planets, and all kinds of resources can basically be gathered. As long as it develops, it can be self-sufficient and does not need to continue to contact the human empire.

This will definitely be very difficult, and it will take a lot of time to explore.

So the star map is very necessary, which can save a lot of exploration time and abandon some galaxies where it is impossible to have suitable planets.

Star maps are generally easy to get.

But if Chen Ming wants some more detailed star maps that are farther away from the empire, he must find a way to get them through connections.

Chen Ming still has one or two days to use, which should be enough to get it done before the president contacts him for the second time.

Although he has dealt with a lot of things, it is obvious that Chen Ming still has to keep busy.

A few hours later.

On the night after Chen Ming talked to someone he knew again.

In the No. 1 space arm of the Pirate Space Station, an ordinary destroyer-class cargo ship arrived here.

Although the management of the Pirate Space Station is very loose, this kind of destroyer-level cargo transportation still needs to be inspected by the Administration.

Otherwise, if you just transport some deadly things up, will the space station still be able to handle it?

So when the ship entered the ship's position.

Immediately, someone from the Administration came out of their office near the maintenance plant.

A small team of people planned to go over to confirm.

But when they were halfway there, the leader's walkie-talkie suddenly rang.

He answered the call immediately and said, "Director."

The director calmly said to him, "Don't worry about the ship that just entered the port, and don't check it."

"Ah? But isn't the rule..."

"Rules are dead, people are alive, rules are there and can't be changed, but people can be changed and can be circumvented."

The captain and several team members around him looked at each other and said, "Yes."

He gave up on checking the ship.

He really didn't need to lose his job for a ship or some strange competition above.

However, after the captain returned to the office, he still saved a file in the computer and transferred it to the database of the ships that needed to be inspected after entering the port.

But what he didn't know was that this file was also deleted quietly without anyone noticing.

The next day came quickly.

Chen Ming's own fleet had been sent out to look for traces of pirates in other parts of the star field.

He had also purchased some of the research equipment he needed at the space station.

Of course, it was black goods, the price was quite good, and it had been installed at the highest point.

The batch of materials that the boss specially sent to the pirate space station almost filled up the warehouse at the highest point.

All the preparations before departure had been completed.

But Chen Ming was still running around today.

Mainly because the 5 billion given by the company was directly received very efficiently.

And Lao Wu had basically determined the price of the industrial facilities that Chen Ming wanted to order.

He also helped Chen Ming determine the price of the research equipment.

It can only be said that money is really not easy to spend.

After all these things are done, there will probably be about 400 to 500 million left.

However, Chen Ming cannot use this money to replenish his own fleet.

After all, there may be a shortage of materials in the colony in the future, and this money must be used as emergency money.

Time flies, and another day has passed quickly in the blink of an eye.

At noon on this day.

The boss took the initiative to contact me.

The president is ready to talk to Chen Ming again.