Chapter 215 Invitation

Chen Ming could roughly guess the reason why Bai Quan turned into this decadent look.

So Chen Ming took the initiative to pick up the topic again and said, "What should we do with this person who helps the government in the future?"

"We can only investigate first."

"Still an investigation? Have the results of the last investigation come out?"

"Out."

Bai Quan nodded slightly and said: "Someone at the headquarters took kickbacks and provided a batch of inferior goods to replace the original batch of new goods. All the people involved and the suppliers have dealt with it."

"What about Director Wu's young apprentice? What is Director Wu's attitude?"

"This situation is a little more complicated."

"Director Wu's young apprentice has been studying with Director Wu at the headquarters. There seems to be no problem."

"But his research resources are not as good as those of his senior brothers and sisters who have already graduated, including samples of the machine race, various rare parts such as the Purgatory Core, and money. They are all incomparable. He has always complained in his heart."

"Director Wu specially brought the young apprentice here this time instead of other apprentices just to show that he is not partial."

"As a result, the young apprentice accepted a bribe from the supplier and actively asked to check the electromagnetic restraint device during the inspection. He just took a look at it and ignored it. There was no inspection at all."

"Then this time, there is another person who is responsible for the electromagnetic pulse bomb installed on the machine race. It's the same."

"These two individuals, combined, contributed to the situation that preceded it."

"I see."

Chen Ming understood the reason, and then asked the question he wanted to ask: "So why doesn't Director Wu give the young apprentice the same resources?"

"Because the young apprentice's skills are not up to par in Director Wu's eyes."

"It's difficult. To put it simply, a rookie who has not yet graduated feels that he should have a share of the resources of the senior brothers and sisters who have already graduated. If he can't get it, he will be sick, right?"

"It sounds a little bit ugly, but it's almost the same."

Chen Ming shook his head and said, "Where's the back?"

"Director Wu was sensible and cut off relations with his little apprentice directly after the suppliers and all the culprits in the headquarters were taken down. He was quite decisive."

"It's better than letting him continue to ruin your reputation. Where is the young apprentice?"

"Going to jail."

After Bai Quan finished speaking, he stopped talking, as if the matter was over.

But Chen Ming wanted to hear more than that. He then asked: "Is this the end of the matter?"

"It's over. This is the only way it's over. All the criminals have been picked out by the evidence I have. There are too many, and I can't do anything."

Chen Ming continued to ask: "People higher up are not affected at all? Don't you have any suspicion in your heart?"

"If this thing happened normally, it could indeed be regarded as a pure accident, but in my case, it definitely couldn't be an accident."

"Why does he dare to take kickbacks in the presence of you, me and Director Wu?"

"Electromagnetic restraint devices and electromagnetic pulse bombs, the two most important personal safety devices when conducting research on the machine race, were deliberately not inspected. The supplier thinks that the nine races have too many people, right?"

Bai Quan said with helplessness written all over his face: "We were not interested in such things when we were still on earth."

"Of course I know, as long as you understand what I mean."

"If it really doesn't work, let me ask you a question. Your fourteenth legion must not be of the same mind, right?"

Bai Quan replied without hesitation: "Every force cannot be of the same mind after it has passed its development period."

"So someone doesn't want me to come to the 14th Legion?"

"There are also many people within the Fourteenth Legion who don't like me."

The answer is not what the question was asked, but the idea is there.

There are indeed people in the Fourteenth Army who can't stand Bai Quan, and Chen Ming, who is suspected of having joined the Fourteenth Army via Baiquan's route, is naturally on the list of people who can't stand it.

"But I was thinking, didn't the Fourteenth Legion ask me to join them before?"

Bai Quan said: "It was in the past. At that time, you were still a pure free man. After joining the Fourteenth Legion, several factions within the legion may compete for you."

"But now... in short, of course everyone welcomes you to join."

Chen Ming guessed casually: "Privately, everyone wants me to get away as far away as possible, right?"

"That's not the case. The most they want is to keep you away from the Fourteenth Legion for a while, and then find you back after they get me away."

"Anyway, when the time comes, they can blame each other internally. Whether it is against you or me, the effect will be the same. In the end, I will be the one who takes responsibility."

Chen Ming felt a little headache when he heard that, and asked: "The person who did the work must be saved, otherwise who will do the work for him in the future? You always know who the protector is, right?"

Bai Quan still looked helpless and said: "...I know, but there is nothing I can do...it doesn't mean that others will admit it if you know it."

"Unless there is an extremely complete chain of evidence, everything is empty talk. Even if someone knows the truth about this matter, no one will believe the empty talk without evidence. There is really no way."

"No way? Are you so disgusted? Doesn't that person have any relatives or descendants, or does he have a junior apprentice like Director Wu?"

"No harm to the family."

"Tsk, you, Lieutenant General, are a bit frustrated. No one can help you?"

Bai Quan's face relaxed slightly when he heard Chen Ming's question and said, "Yes."

"I can come here to build a branch, and I can drive three battleships to rescue you before. Although the process was a little deviated due to the war zone, I still have two battleships in my hands now, which is the biggest help."

"But these things can't help you now."

"..."

Bai Quan suddenly sighed, took off his coat with the badge of the 14th Corps, and lay on the recliner.

"I need time. My old boss is about to retire, and his children are not active in the military and political circles."

"So I can't take the initiative to attack other people's families. That would really tear my face apart, and doing so would not get anyone's support, including those who are still supporting me now."

Chen Ming heard from his boss that Bai Quan was an orphan like him and grew up in the army.

And Bai Quan occasionally mentioned this matter in his spare time when teaching Chen Ming in the past few months.

Chen Ming knew that the old boss Bai Quan was talking about was no different from his father, and Bai Quan would definitely not harm his father's other children.

"Why don't you find a way to take over the resources of your old boss instead of running here?"

Bai Quan explained slowly: "I was promoted too quickly along the way, and my qualifications are not old enough. There are many things that I can't touch directly."

"My old boss is only a lieutenant general, but he can do many things that only generals can do, and I can't even do many things that lieutenant generals of the same level can do now."

Bai Quan suddenly pointed to the ground and said: "I came here because there are opportunities here, opportunities to gain military merits. As long as the military merits are enough, then seniority is nothing."

"Also, the 14th Legion branch in the Galo Star Region is a way out for me and my old boss."

"Backroad?"

Chen Ming suddenly sneered and said: "Tell a joke, a 34-year-old in the empire, the youngest in nearly a hundred years Lieutenant General, you need to avoid the front line of the empire and find a way out. "

Bai Quan's mouth twitched stiffly and said: "I can fail, but I can't let the person who taught me and gave me life not even leave a way out. "

Chen Ming was silent for a while and said: "Politics is really troublesome."

Bai Quan agreed: "I think so too, it's better to go to the battlefield."

"I guess the results of this investigation will be the same. Except for a group of people being punished, there will be no results."

"You are now within the rules and can't do too much. This is the restriction you must be subject to when you come here."

"Hmm..."

Chen Ming hummed meaningfully. He is still not within the rules, but his current situation gives people such an illusion.

For Chen Ming, as long as no one touches his bottom line, he will continue to pretend that he is still within the rules.

But if someone exceeds his bottom line, he will also use some means outside the rules.

For example, in the previous two times, Hu Yi's matter has exceeded it, so he will find a way to deal with Hu Yi.

It's just that he still lacks the means to track and investigate psychics, so he needs time and Baiquan's help.

And the matter of the mechanical race later was barely on the edge of his bottom line, which could be handled or not.

Anyway, if something like this happens, the losses are basically the people inside the 14th Legion, and the 14th Legion should be anxious.

They are not anxious, and the internal affairs have been handled according to the rules. Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about them.

And this time, which is the third time, Chen Ming himself doesn't care.

After all, it's just an invitation.

Baiquan was really slapped in the face.

But Baiquan and Chen Ming have more than just a mutually beneficial relationship.

After several months of one-on-one teaching, Chen Ming and Baiquan have a very good relationship in private.

Thinking about the problem from the perspective of a friend, Chen Ming's own anger also came up unconsciously.

Although everything seems to be directed at him, not Baiquan.

But Baiquan is the boss of this branch, and of course he has to take responsibility for what happens here, and of course he will be very upset.

However, Bai Quan's current attitude made it impossible for Chen Ming to cross the line and help him directly.

He could only raise his ideas to the best of his ability, and he could not help more.

He was just a newly developed psychic, and he would not participate in such political affairs and did not want to participate.

Let Bai Quan worry about it.

Unless someone really angered him and crossed his bottom line, then he would have a reason to avoid Bai Quan and make trouble.

Bai Quan did not dwell on this matter for too long.

It is useless to dwell on things that cannot be done. It is better to be prepared and wait for someone to reach out next time to cut off his hand directly, and then go back to find the person with a broken hand.

This is the simplest and quickest way.

Bai Quan put on his coat again and said, "Let's not talk about the bad things."

"There will be a small-scale combat meeting tomorrow. Do you want to go?"

"Tomorrow?"

"Well, I confirm your learning progress with the afternoon instructor every day. As of today, I think you can almost understand the things in the meeting."

"When the time comes, you can just use the holographic projection. You have the equipment here."

"Okay."

Chen Ming had been looking forward to this before. Now that Bai Quan took the initiative to say so, he couldn't miss it.

Seeing that Bai Quan was ready to leave at any time after he finished speaking, Chen Ming hurriedly asked: "How is the investigation progress of Hu Yi's case?"

Bai Quan stopped immediately and said: "I almost forgot to tell you that we don't have any clues about him yet."

"I specifically asked psychics to check him, but I couldn't find any trace at all. This person's existence was blocked by psychic power and the specific location could not be confirmed."

"Our ordinary investigators investigated Hu Yi's social circle and the places where he had lived before, but there were no clues at all. It was as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth."

Chen Ming nodded, without insisting that he must find something.

"Then wait, since he failed to kill me once, there will always be a second time."

Time came to noon the next day.

After the morning teaching ended, Bai Quan helped Chen Ming debug the equipment and left the dome.

After about half an hour of hunger, Chen Ming received a signal from Bai Quan and started the holographic projection device.

His projection immediately appeared in a conference room.

Bai Quan himself was in the main seat of the conference room.

There were still about twenty people in the conference room, most of them were holographic projections, and none of them had a military rank lower than that of a major general.

It seemed that the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race was still in its early stages, and the high-level officials who could participate in the meeting were still in various parts of the Empire.

This should mean that the Empire would not make any major moves for the time being, otherwise all the people in the army who could participate in the meeting would definitely have to gather here.

At the same time, this should also mean that Chen Ming's ideas are still a long way from being realized.

There are too few opportunities in small-scale conflicts.

Chen Ming's ideas only appear in his own mind, and no one knows about them.

However, his projection appeared in the conference room and everyone in the conference room could see it.

Bai Quan also deliberately stretched out his hand to signal Chen Ming and said, "Before the meeting, I will say one thing first. Chen Ming will play an irreplaceable role in the war against the Mechanical Race in the future, so he will join our subsequent meetings. Don't do anything unpleasant."

No one spoke in the conference room, and no one would speak.

Seeing this, Bai Quan didn't say much and started the meeting normally.

Soon, a projection of a three-dimensional star map appeared in the center of the conference table.

Chen Ming could tell at a glance that this was the Galo star field and the other two star fields that bordered the Mechanic race and Yuhui.

The area of ​​the Empire was marked with a friendly green, the area of ​​Yuhui was marked with azure blue, and the area of ​​the Mechanic race was marked with grayish white.

The azure part was not the main content of the meeting, so the projection was mainly focused on the grayish white area of ​​the Mechanic race.

A large part of the edge of these grayish white areas was dyed green.

And Chen Ming could directly retrieve the data of these areas based on the terminal at his seat.

If he had come before, Chen Ming might not have understood it.

However, after a few days of intensive tutoring, all kinds of data on the terminal that were not shown to people at first glance could be translated, and the meaning of each string of data could be understood.

In addition to natural data such as galaxy data, planetary data, and channel coordinates.

The terminal also marked more detailed data such as the number of Mechanic colonies, the approximate number of Mechanic garrisons, the proportion of garrison ships, and the distance to the nearest colony.

It seems that these are the results of the Empire's investigation of the Mechanic race in the early stages of the war.

Those areas with some green in the grayish-white are all areas where the Empire knows about the Mechanic Clan.

Chen Ming quickly scanned the area and could see that most of the Mechanic Clan's fleets were not in the galaxies bordering the Empire, and the other side opposite the Empire was almost undefended and empty of troops.

Of course, it could also be that the phase behemoth caused this situation.

But no matter what the reason was, Chen Ming felt that the Empire would be ready to take action in this direction next.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking, Bai Quan had already started speaking: "Last month, a total of six destroyers and 72 escorts of our ships were destroyed."

"The loss of personnel reached 532 people, including missing and dead."

"The Mechanic Clan is strengthening the defense of the border. They have noticed our actions to some extent, but they can't be confirmed yet."

"But we can be sure that the Mechanic Clan has sent a reconnaissance force to our border, and the number is pending investigation."

"We responded and acted as if we had just discovered that the Mechanic Clan had strengthened border management."

A holographic lieutenant general took over as soon as Bai Quan finished speaking: " Postponing the investigation of the border area of ​​the mechanical race, we have already determined the data of the initial exploration of the galaxy, and there is no need to continue. We should increase the investment in the investigation of the rear of the mechanical race and go deep into the hinterland of the mechanical race from the rear. "

Bai Quan immediately operated on the terminal and said: "At present, we have reconnaissance fleets from multiple directions through the Yuhui star field, and are about to arrive at the rear of the actual control area of ​​the mechanical race."

As Bai Quan spoke, more than a dozen green lines appeared on the star map in front of him, starting from the location of the 14th Legion and some surrounding military outposts

and circling the edge of the mechanical race in three-dimensional space, the target is near the galaxy where the phase beast was once discovered.

"The fleet performing the detection mission cannot use high-power communication devices. It will take some time for the signal to return. It is expected that the news will be available in three days."

Starting from this sentence, Chen Ming became a little incomprehensible in the following content.

The various professional terms within the military seem to be talking about the fleet numbers and the requirements for the specific reconnaissance missions they perform, as well as what should be done in case of emergencies, etc.

Chen Ming could only hear a general outline, but could not understand the details at all.

It seems like he still has a lot to learn.

Unable to understand what was being said, Chen Ming returned his attention to the terminal in front of him.

After Baiquan finished talking about the situation outside, he then changed the topic to the inside of the empire.

He talked about the logistics resource dispatching of the army, which Chen Ming had not been exposed to at all in the past few days.

When Chen Ming had a headache from guessing, the meeting finally ended.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief and was in no hurry to leave.

Bai Quan seemed to have something else to say to him.

When only Chen Ming's projection and Bai Quan were left in the conference room, Bai Quan forced a smile on Chen Ming and said, "Don't you understand?"

"This was just a simple, small-scale summary meeting to discuss the next policy, but the planned policy has not changed, so it ended quickly."

"If a large-scale war breaks out in the future, we don't have to think about stopping this meeting. There will be more professional terms waiting for you to understand."

Chen Ming's expression was slightly numb. Command technology was a completely new field for him, and it was much more difficult to learn than spacecraft technology.

But as long as he wants to progress, this kind of thing will definitely not be avoided.

Seeing Chen Ming's expression, Bai Quan changed the subject and said, "By the way, are you interested in participating in the investigation mission?"

Chen Ming quickly adjusted his mentality and asked: "How to participate?"

"I will give you a destroyer at the beginning of each mission. You don't need your destroyer to fight. You just need to follow the reconnaissance fleet to help transmit information every day."

"You just heard what I said. There are no super-light communication base stations outside the empire. Signal transmission can only rely on the communication device of the spacecraft itself. Instantaneous communication transmission can easily expose itself. We need a method that can communicate quickly."

"So just let me do it?"

To be honest, this matter is not difficult or troublesome. As long as Chen Ming packs the database on the spacecraft and brings it back every day, it is very simple.

And every mission has a ship to expel, which is also a good reward.

Although Chen Ming is not short of a ship to expel now, he can still earn a little bit.

He never wants too much money.

"Can it be discounted?"

"Can."

"Then I have no problem."

"Thanks, I will tell you about the next mission."

Bai Quan nodded and said: "Yes, and I am applying for the next relic of another civilization. It will be sent to you in a few days. I still need your help in researching it as before."

"Do you have a name?"

"Yes, synchrotron core."

Half an hour after the meeting ended, Chen Ming disconnected the holographic projection and returned his attention to the dome.

He now has some free time. At least he can do something of his own in the evenings during the few days before the next relic is delivered.

However, Chen Ming didn't have time to think about what he could do.

The phone call came right away.

Chen Ming picked up the terminal and took a look. It belonged to Cheng Xinghai.

After the call was connected, Cheng Xinghai greeted Chen Ming as before: "Hey, is Chen Ming here?"

"I answered your call and you asked me if I was there?"

"Hey, just kidding, I have a battle here, do you want to come?"

"Is there a battle?"

"Yes, there is a large-scale battle involving multiple people. Do you want to come?"

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "I have no experience in this area."

"It doesn't matter. There are several people on both sides of the large-scale battle. Everyone is responsible for their own tasks."

"Not everyone specializes in battlefield command. There are people who specialize in large-scale battlefield dispatching and logistics. When working with them, you don't need to worry about anything else. You only need to be responsible for fighting."

Chen Ming asked again: "It's just a team battle? But doesn't it matter if I don't know anyone?"

"Don't worry, I've found teammates for you, you just need to come."

"The referee is still Uncle Bai. I told him in advance."

"Also, this kind of long-term large-scale battle requires a deep penetration of consciousness, which is convenient for speeding up thinking and not wasting too much time in reality."

"I heard that you seemed to have been to the branch recently? You should be able to lie down directly in the equipment, right?"

Cheng Xinghai seemed to have arranged everything in the days before she disappeared, and was waiting for him to finally pass.

But Chen Ming still had to confirm: "How long will it take?"

"It may take more than ten hours, and everyone can pause for fifteen minutes in the middle."

"When does it begin?"

"Anything from tonight until the next week."

Chen Ming looked at the schedule and said, "Well, I can go."