Chapter 201 Chairman's Thoughts

The chairman's thoughts are gradually taking shape.

He is relatively familiar with Chen Ming's situation, at least in the past twenty years before he went dormant.

Born as an orphan, he was recruited by their Xinda company in the campus recruitment with excellent grades during college.

After entering the company, he devoted himself to his career and had a good level just after graduation.

Then he was promoted to a higher level and sent out. As long as he could come back, he could be a department manager for a few years.

Although an accident happened at this step.

But if the accident did not happen and Chen Ming came back safely, then if everything went smoothly until retirement, he might be the general manager of a branch company.

It is obvious that Chen Ming has invested a lot in his career.

Even after escaping from the space station until now, it can be seen that Chen Ming's focus has always been on his career.

Then naturally he did not invest too much energy in other aspects.

Therefore, the chairman suddenly felt that he could provide some help in these aspects and rely on these things to get closer to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming is now a psychic, chatting and laughing with the psychic boss of the psychic society and the lieutenant general of the 14th Corps, so his status and position are naturally not comparable to before.

So he must carefully consider the person he chooses.

And just now, he found a suitable person.

Cheng Xinghai is a lively young man with a beautiful face and a well-behaved expression like a girl next door.

Although he is from the military and his personality seems to be different from that of ordinary girls, it should be okay.

Moreover, the chairman's previous speculation based on Bai Quan's record and the fact that Chen Ming has now handed over the sales rights of an important technology to Bai Quan can also be seen that the relationship between Bai Quan and Chen Ming is definitely not ordinary.

But it seems that there is no sign of further progress for the time being, and Bai Quan does not seem to have the intention he thinks now.

So what the chairman wants to do is to mention this matter.

Of course, the premise is to investigate the feasibility first, so as not to be driven out by Bai Quan as Lao Deng.

So after everyone has seen what Wu An brought, they returned to the vicinity of the banquet, and the flow of people gradually dispersed to socialize.

The chairman came to Wu An, who took the initiative to stay alone.

Before Wu An considered whether to manually drive the chairman away and give him a quiet place to stay, the chairman asked; "How old is Xiao Ming this year?"

"?"

Wu An looked at the chairman with a question mark and asked back: "Don't you know your employees?"

The chairman simply pulled down his old face, forcibly suppressed the embarrassment and coughed dryly and said: "Confirm."

Wu An didn't understand what the chairman was doing for a while, so he replied normally: "Let me think, twenty-six."

"When he was dormant before, he was twenty-five in virtual age and twenty-four in real age. The rest were all dormant."

"It's almost been a year now. When is his birthday? I don't know."

The chairman has read Chen Ming's resume countless times, of course he knows how old Chen Ming is. His question is just to pave the way for what he is going to say next.

"Twenty-six, not young anymore, so has he ever mentioned... the idea of ​​doing things suitable for his age?"

"?"

Wu An suddenly understood what the chairman meant, and the look he gave him gradually became strange.

However, he then looked in the direction of Bai Quan, thought about the situation a few days ago, and then recalled the past and said: "No, but he can't get in touch with the right people in his current environment, so... you can try."

The chairman nodded slightly, chatted with Wu An about the living environment at the pirate space station, and went to find Bai Quan.

And Bai Quan soon noticed the chairman of Xinda Company who kept a certain distance from him, but didn't get too close, and looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't say it.

As the boss of the company where Chen Ming had worked before, and also a partner in the original rescue plan of Chen Ming, Bai Quan still had an impression of him.

So Bai Quan greeted the people around him and came to the chairman alone.

The chairman quickly raised his glass and said: "Lieutenant General Bai, we have met before."

Bai Quan was smiling at this time, and because Chen Ming gave him a big gift, there was no trace of the coldness in his expression.

"I remember, Chairman Xu of Xinda Company, we talked about the annual spacecraft technology bidding before. Is there anything?"

The chairman's lips moved slightly, and he glanced at the other partners behind Bai Quan who were staring at him. He knew that he could not beat around the bush with Bai Quan.

So after hesitating for a while, he finally chose a direct way to speak: "How old is the little girl before this year?"

Bai Quan's smile instantly withdrew, and he became alert.

Cheng Xinghai and Cheng Xinghe are both younger than him, and he has always been paying attention to their development.

And after someone came to him for Cheng Xinghe-related matters a few days ago, he also knew very well why the chairman suddenly asked Cheng Xinghai what he was going to do.

The chairman also knew the reason why Bai Quan suddenly changed his attitude after hearing what he said, and quickly added in a low voice: "Chen Ming is 26 this year."

Bai Quan immediately understood what the chairman meant.

He really didn't have this idea at first, but the chairman suddenly mentioned it, and he thought about it again, it seemed... not impossible.

Bai Quan returned to his normal smiling face and whispered, "Nineteen."

At the same time, he gave the chairman a look that they would talk later, and then returned to the person he had just talked to as if nothing had happened.

The chairman understood and went somewhere else with his glass of wine.

Wu An, who was next to him, paid attention to the chairman's situation the whole time after the chairman came to ask him questions.

When the chairman left Bai Quan, Chen Ming's communication code was already displayed on the terminal in Wu An's hand.

But he was still thinking.

After thinking for a while, he finally turned off the terminal and said to himself, "The age difference is a little big, but it's not impossible."

The second half of the banquet was basically the participants talking about business matters.

And after the banquet.

The chairman received Bai Quan's invitation and went to his residence.

When the chairman arrived, in addition to Bai Quan, Wu An was already sitting here.

The three of them gathered in silence around the coffee table in Bai Quan's residence, and it was a bit awkward for a while.

Because they didn't know what to say.

Obviously, they have dealt with all kinds of complicated things, and they have similar experiences even for extremely troublesome things.

But now they are going to discuss something that none of them know how to start.

In the end, it was the oldest chairman who took the lead in putting Chen Ming's resume on the coffee table, pushed it to Bai Quan, and asked, "What do you think?"

Bai Quan picked up the resume that he was already very familiar with and read it for a long time, and finally managed to say, "I think it's okay."

Then the two of them looked at Wu An together.

Wu An spread his hands and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

Bai Quan immediately said, "You are his spiritual guide, his elder, why don't you worry about some things for him? He is already 26 years old."

"Does he know that I am his elder?"

"The elder of spiritual power is also an elder. I have heard that after he gave up the company, you have been guiding him to the path of spiritual power. You should worry about this kind of thing?"

Wu An said with a helpless expression, "But I hibernate every few years and have never been married. How can I worry about him? It's good that he doesn't worry about me."

"And aren't you married? You should have experience in this kind of thing."

Bai Quan immediately defended, "I am an orphan like Chen Ming. My marriage was arranged by the person who brought me up all the way. I have no experience at all, so I asked you to come."

After Bai Quan finished speaking, his eyes turned to the chairman who was the oldest and whose son was almost the same age as them.

The chairman waved his hand and said, "Don't look at me. I'm not very good here. My son and I don't have a good relationship now. Mr. Wu An, you know that."

The three of them were silent for a long time.

Wu An suddenly coughed twice and said, "Why don't we change our thinking and think about the value of this matter to all parties."

"First of all, for me, I am very happy to see Chen Ming grow up. Is there any problem with this?"

"Yeah." Bai Quan nodded and said, "No problem, everyone knows your idea."

"Then for you, Bai Quan, you can use this matter to bring Chen Ming and your 14th Corps closer together. It will definitely be good for you, right?"

"No problem."

"Then for Chairman Xu, as the person who first proposed this opinion, if Chen Ming successfully accepts this result, then you, as a... matchmaker, can ease Chen Ming's current somewhat awkward relationship with Xinda Company, right?"

"Yes."

The chairman acknowledged Wu An's words and his ideas.

Wu An paused for a moment and asked, "What about this matter for Chen Ming? Is it good for him?"

The chairman asked, "Is starting a family a good thing?"

Wu An had thought about this when the chairman asked him questions just now, and quickly said, "Starting a family may be what many people want, but I don't see his thoughts from Chen Ming."

"But I don't think he is resisting, he just has no idea for the time being, he wants to do his own business."

"If it is valuable enough, if I mention this to him, he may still agree."

"It can be considered a benefit."

Bai Quan thought for a while and said, "If this thing can really be accomplished, no matter how it is accomplished, Chen Ming will be directly counted in our Fourteenth Corps."

"The resources of our Fourteenth Corps can be more Invest in him and treat him as your own person. "

"In addition... there are some hidden benefits."

"It is that Chen Ming's current situation makes those at the top a little worried, worried that Chen Ming will give up his relationship with the empire."

Wu An immediately denied: "Chen Ming will not give up. He has been trying to promote trade with the empire through you and me. Even if he goes out, he just doesn't want to be restricted by the rules and regulations of the empire."

Bai Quan shook his head slightly and said: "You know it won't happen, but the people above don't think so."

"Although Chen Ming is not yet able to leave the empire, the people above will definitely restrict him before Chen Ming really has the ability to survive independently from the empire."

"Unless there are more people in the empire who can make him keep his mind in the empire, such as you, Wu An, and his friends. "

"If this thing can be done, with the relationship network of the 14th Legion to tie up Chen Ming and keep him in close contact with the Empire, it is unlikely that something we don't want to see will happen in the future."

Seeing Wu An suddenly frowned, Bai Quan said again: "Wu An, Chen Ming is different from you. Your psychic power limits you from leaving the Empire in this life."

"Even if you run to a pirate space station in the edge star field, everyone knows that you can't leave."

"But he is really capable of going out independently, so the way the Empire treats him may be different."

Wu An's face changed several times in succession, as if he thought of some things in the past.

Although the atmosphere of the three people chatting just now was a bit awkward, now thinking about other things made him even more uncomfortable.

He even felt that it would be better to continue the discussion in the awkward atmosphere just now.

Wu An suddenly exhaled and said, "Let's hide this for the time being and put the options in front of Chen Ming to see what he chooses."

"I won't force him to make a decision. He has to walk his own way."

Just then, the chairman who had been drinking tea in silence suddenly said, "What does Miss Cheng Xinghai think? Aren't you a little too fast? They don't know each other yet."

"They will know each other soon."

Bai Quan has already determined the candidate for Chen Ming to conduct actual combat tests, so he can say this with confidence.

"And Cheng Xinghai's family members died on the front line in the past few years, so I can make decisions for her in this regard now."

"Her background and ability leave her with not many choices."

"As long as Chen Ming agrees, I will do the ideological work on her side."

"But I also agree with Wu An's idea. Let them contact each other in the front, and then see the situation later. Take it slowly."

"Anyway, it depends on Chen Ming's attitude in the end. Forcing is definitely useless."

The three of them briefly chatted about the arrangements for this matter and then separated.

One day later.

Chen Ming, who was still on the pirate space station and knew nothing, got a ride from Baiquan with his boss and returned to the Galo star field through the star gate.

Chen Ming happened to be free these two days, so he came directly to pick him up.

By the way, he planned to report to the boss, the investor, about the recent temporary base and development.

After meeting with the boss, he had to consider his future destination.

Should he continue to follow the development team of Huihuang to the next temporary base, or simply find a place to remotely command Yuhui to continue working.

While Chen Ming was thinking, the spaceship that the boss was on had landed at the dock of the space station that was not open to the public.

The boss had also stepped off the spaceship.

But when the boss saw Chen Ming, the smile on his face suddenly froze.

The surging spiritual energy fluctuations instantly swept past Chen Ming, and then a powerful mental force directly enveloped Chen Ming.

"Boss?"

In Chen Ming's confusion, the boss frowned, and immediately came to Chen Ming quickly, stretched out his hand and pressed on his shoulder, and said: "You seem to have some dirt on your body, do you need me to help you solve it?"

"Ah?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

It should be that the hive mind network of the mechanical race and the insect race that he built was discovered by the boss.

The boss's psychic power itself seems to act on consciousness and spirit, so it seems normal to be aware of it.

And the boss only knows that he has controlled the mechanical race, and does not know that he has built a hive mind network.

I am afraid that he thought there was something wrong with his psychic power at the first time.

So Chen Ming quickly explained: "It's okay, this is the derivative effect of my psychic power."

"After I controlled the mechanical race, the consciousness of the mechanical race connected to my psychic power and actively built a network, which is not bad for me."

"But you have more than one network on your body."

"Uh..."

Seeing that this could not be concealed, Chen Ming thought about it, and simply displayed the photos and videos of the queen insect in the biological spaceship on the terminal, and then handed the terminal to the boss.

He also blocked the surveillance of the internal dock where they were now, to prevent the news of the biological spaceship and the Zerg from leaking out.

The boss looked at the photos and videos on the terminal for a long time, and finally said to Chen Ming with a hint of incomprehension in his expression: "Your psychic energy..."

Chen Ming spread his hands and said: "The biological spaceship is also a spaceship. The spaceship is controlled by me, and the things on it are no exception."

"The Thorn Zerg is also a hive mind like the mechanical race, and then... that's it."

Although Chen Ming explained, the boss still frowned slightly and scanned Chen Ming through psychic energy. After a long time, he gradually dissipated his mental power.

Then his eyes locked on the highest point next to him and said: "Are there Zerg on your body and on the ship?"

"Some of them, so that I can do something."

Chen Ming pulled up his sleeves, revealing the bracelet made of the Queen's body tissue fragments on his wrist.

Then, relying on the transformation of psychic energy, the dark biological armor was condensed from his wrist in an instant.

Chen Ming waved his fists in the air a few times, and the smooth movements without any stiffness made a clear sound of breaking through the air.

Chen Ming then made an electromagnetic javelin and shot it at his arm.

After seeing that there was not even a trace left on the armor, Chen Ming also broke the electromagnetic javelin into two sections with strength, dismantled it into the most basic materials and sent it away.

The boss suddenly became a little silent, because he suddenly couldn't understand the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power.

Even if Chen Ming's spiritual power has been improving, he should not directly evolve from affecting machines to affecting living things.

Chen Ming noticed the boss's silence and asked, "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I just suddenly feel like I'm a little old."

"?"

The boss quickly adjusted his mentality and said to Chen Ming as usual: "Forget it, it's okay. Let's go back. I haven't read last week's report yet."

"OK."

Although the boss seemed to understand, Chen Ming still felt that the boss looked at him strangely for some reason.

However, the boss didn't say much and just handed over the development data to Chen Ming every week as usual.

After chatting about what happened for more than a month.

Chen Ming left from the boss's side.

That night, Chen Ming got the news from Bai Quan that everything was ready.

The actual combat test he promised to help Chen Ming can start at any time.

Bai Quan and his boss returned to the Gallo Star Territory through the Star Gate during the day, so the notification time now is about the same.

So Chen Ming chatted with Bai Quan, sent a destroyer, and set off with a robot equipped with the Afterglow Core.

After flying in hyperspace for a night, the destroyer arrived at the base of the Fourteenth Legion, which was the base of the original star sector military.

Then he was stopped by a military patrol fleet in hyperspace.

However, the patrol seemed to have received the news early and quickly released Chen Ming's spacecraft.

Bai Quan obviously also received the news and called: "You can park at the giant shipyard first, and then I will arrange a spaceship to send your things to the ground."

"OK."

Chen Ming followed Bai Quan's instructions and went to the giant shipyard after leaving hyperspace and entering the galaxy.

Chaofan had also stayed here for some time before, so Chen Ming still had some impressions of the situation in the dock.

When Chen Ming came here this time, in addition to seeing that the entire station on the planet was significantly more developed than before, he also found that the number of fleets stationed here seemed to be larger than before.

It seems that Bai Quan is right, the Fourteenth Legion does support his expansion of influence in the Gallo Star Territory.

Chen Ming paid a little attention and then didn't pay much attention.

He just controlled the robot and quickly boarded the spacecraft specially arranged by Baiquan and headed to the ground.

Went to a huge independent building under an ecological dome on this volcanic planet.

When Bai Quan saw the robot carrying the afterglow core in person, Bai Quan asked: "Just connect the core to the electronic device, right?"

"That's right."

After receiving the reply, Bai Quan quickly connected the afterglow core controlled by Chen Ming to the only huge simulation device in the building.

This device was also successfully controlled by Chen Ming under the influence of the Yuhui individual.

Of course, the Fourteenth Legion was obviously not a fool. This independent building and its internal equipment were completely blocked from other buildings, without any physical connection, and did not give Chen Ming any chance to steal the chicken.

But Chen Ming didn't care. He said to Bai Quan who was holding the terminal: "I have no problem here. I can access this device like a normal user and can start at any time. What about my opponent?"

Bai Quan pushed up his glasses, covering his eyes, and said: "She is ready, but she is at our headquarters and uses the host to remotely connect to your extension, so there is no need to worry about delays."

"OK."

"I've input some of your psychic effects for you. Check to see if there are any mistakes. If there are any, just tell me and I'll help you correct them."

Chen Ming looked at Baiquan's settings on the system and said, "Yes."

"Set all ammunition for live ammunition and missile weapons to unlimited, reduce the cooling time of energy weapons by 99%, and set the radiation dissipation efficiency of the spacecraft to thirty times first."

"The command and communication delay is set to 0, and the enemy's electronic warfare equipment interference is set to none. Oh, there is no electronic warfare, so there is no need to set it."

"I can fine-tune all spaceships and operate them myself."

"And the spacecraft under my control will not suffer any damage or decrease in combat readiness during non-combat operations, and there will be no equipment failure."

"Unmanned operation will not cause any error rate for pilots and combatants, nor will there be personnel injuries and low morale leading to a decrease in combat capabilities."

"In addition, when my spaceship is destroyed, as long as it remains about 80% intact, I can completely repair the spacecraft and return to the battlefield."

"I can also use my spiritual power to shape the smashed spaceship into a new one and return to the battle. Can I just create a new spaceship when I come up? For example, a heavy rain or something?"

"Oh, and also, I have so many afterglows on hand..."

"Ahem..."

Bai Quan quickly interrupted Chen Ming and said: "This time we will only look at personal abilities, not other afterglows or anything like that. Your settings are almost there, let's start quickly."

"Tsk."

Although Chen Ming has not finished setting up the effects of his psychic energy, Bai Quan has already done this and he will not continue.

"Then let's get started."