Chapter 222 Chen Ming's Request

Song Pu did not make a decision quickly on how to arrange Chen Ming.

Instead, after spending some time with Hong Guanghong and Dong Miao to learn more about logistics and engineering details, I found Chen Ming in the terminal again.

"I've seen you rub the destroyer with your hands before. If I give you the materials and time, you should be able to rub the cruiser with your hands, right?"

"no problem."

Chen Ming had not neglected the research on cruiser technology during this period. Even before he had developed the fake body technology, Chen Ming still had to squeeze out time every day to learn other things besides command technology.

Now that he has taken on the task of learning command techniques under his disguise, Chen Ming can devote even more energy to other aspects.

With the increase in thinking speed provided by psychic energy and the hive mind network, his learning efficiency has allowed him to now manufacture some mass-produced cruisers, such as the Defender-class cruiser developed by Sindar Company that Chen Ming has in hand.

Song Pu nodded secretly and continued to confirm: "What about the large industrial equipment? What about the entire factory?"

"Let's put it this way, a spaceship of the same size is more difficult to control than industrial equipment. It is also more difficult for my psychic energy to act on the spacecraft than on most industrial facilities."

"Besides, before I learn how to build a spaceship, I have to figure out the uses of the tools and so on, and then I can build the spaceship."

Chen Ming's meaning is very clear. His mastery of industrial facilities is deeper than his mastery of spaceships.

A glint suddenly flashed in Song Pu's eyes, and he said: "We currently control eleven industrial colonies, and more than half of them are industrial colonies related to war and spaceships that were snatched during the battle with the government forces."

"There are five heavy industry colonies related to spaceships, including production industrial facilities for hulls, spacecraft components, spacecraft armor, shipboard weapons, etc. The highest number can currently produce cruisers."

"At the same time, we also have two heavy industry colonies for spacecraft fuel production,"

“And three light industrial colonies that mass-produce daily necessities and various daily necessities.”

"These three colonies control the people's livelihood in the entire Gallo-4 star region. One of them was originally a light industrial colony that was fully controlled by the government and used to adjust the prices of civilian supplies. Later, you will know after looking at the background story."

"The remaining two light industrial colonies are joint ventures built by some companies related to this area."

“The last industrial colony is the Integrated Industrial Park and has a quarter-built track industrial facility where many companies have their factories.”

"Other army equipment and industrial production facilities are basically located in other comprehensive colonies."

Chen Ming thought about the connection between the string of information Song Pu just said and the question he originally asked, and asked: "Do you want me to build a new colony?"

"No, expansion is the top priority. Building a new colony is a hundred times more difficult than expanding the original colony."

"Maybe you didn't look at the terminal just now, but the engineer and I have almost talked about it. Our main direction next is to try to expand these industrial colonies with our war potential. These are what the engineer is busy with now."

Chen Ming asked again: "He needs to come to more than a dozen industrial colonies? Is one month enough?"

“Are you doubting the speed of the engineers or the speed of construction?”

Chen Ming said bluntly: "A little bit of both."

Song Pu immediately explained for Hong Guanghong: "You can rest assured about the efficiency of the engineer's work. Under the premise that everything has a template, planning can be very fast with his ability."

"What we have to do is not to innovate, but to walk the path that has been taken by our predecessors again."

"And there are actually only seven industrial colonies that we need to expand. In the simulation, he is not the only one who can do things. There are so many rebel engineers."

"As for the speed of construction."

"Nowadays, all industrial equipment is being modularized and simplified. As long as there is space and enough materials, at most half a month will be enough for us to double the size of those war industrial colonies."

"Of course the premise is that we need to invest all our production capacity."

Although Song Pu limited the conditions, Chen Ming still asked with some uncertainty: "Is it so exaggerated?"

"Of course there is, because this is a simulation and we are not thinking about the future."

"Under the premise of directly abandoning the original rebels to protect people's livelihood, completely turning the Galo-4 star area we occupy to wartime industrialization can definitely ensure that the expansion efficiency and production efficiency are both improved."

"For us, the time limit for this simulation is only more than one month. We have to find ways to survive in just one month, and even fight back against the government forces. No matter what means we use, winning is the most important thing."

"And within a month, the negative effects of the comprehensive industrial transformation will not appear so quickly. The overall economic level of the entire sector may even rise for a short period of time within a certain period of time."

"So that's the opportunity we have to take and what we have to do."

"And what's more important is your existence. It's your exact words that controlling a spaceship is more difficult than controlling industrial equipment."

"Everything I just said is based purely on normal planning. If you help me, the expansion efficiency will be even higher."

"Your presence allows us not only to resist attacks by government forces, but also serves as our trump card to fight back against government forces."

Chen Ming didn't expect Song Pu to say that, and asked, "Do you really believe in my ability?"

Dong Miao suddenly interjected at this time and said: "I remember a few hours ago you seemed to have just told us to believe you. We believed you, and you did what you said. We don't believe you anymore. question."

"Um...that's what you said...can I make a few requests to the engineer?"

When Chen Ming just asked this question, Hong Guanghong said in the terminal: "I'm watching."

“When planning the expansion of a colony, try to plan the direction of expansion continuously rather than creating new expansions independently.”

"What's the meaning?"

Chen Ming explained: "For example, if a spacecraft's armor plate manufacturing factory needs to be expanded, then there are two options."

"You can choose to build a new, identical factory, or you can choose to install a new production line based on the original factory."

"I know that under normal circumstances, we must choose to install additional production lines, but when different industrial facilities are expanded, it is certainly impossible to completely expand new production lines."

"And different industrial facilities also require different supporting facilities, and these supporting facilities should also have this problem."

"I hope that when you plan the expansion blueprint, you will try to expand on the original colonial industrial facilities instead of building new factories."

Hong Guanghong considered Chen Ming's request for a while and said, "It can be done, but it will increase the workload and cause the final blueprint to be released later."

"But it's good for when I use my powers on industrial equipment."

Chen Ming did not explain the specific advantages of it. After all, it was a hidden effect that was relatively invisible to his psychic powers.

That is, when he currently uses [Transformation] and [Manufacturing] to achieve similar effects, the mental energy consumed in manufacturing is more than three times that of transformation.

It used to be five times. With Chen Ming's proficient use of psychic energy, the consumption of mental power is gradually decreasing.

But in general, the three times the consumption is still exaggerated, so when it is obvious that psychic energy needs to be used on a large scale, it is good to save a little mental energy.

This time no one in the communication channel questioned Chen Ming, and Hong Guanghong quickly agreed after Chen Ming said this: "Okay, no problem."

"sorry to bother you."

After Chen Ming thanked him, he did not continue to ask about the planning of industrial facilities. He turned to Song Pu and said, "Speaking of which, since we have survived the siege by the government troops for a month, we have survived in the face of a higher-level siege. Additional targets, are there similar conditions for the government forces?”

"Cheng Xinghai seems to have not told you a lot of things."

"And the fact that you raised this question is probably because you thought of what I just said, right?"

"As you might imagine, government forces also have similar restrictions."

"Even if they destroy us, they must ensure that most of the galaxies in the one-third of the star field that is the battlefield have sufficient stability."

"Otherwise, the next rebellion will break out again soon, and this time the government forces will not have the ability to suppress the situation."

"Government forces will follow in our footsteps."

"In the end, it will be the same as when we were completely wiped out during the encirclement and suppression. We can only judge a draw."

Chen Ming said subconsciously: "It feels like they are more relaxed."

Song Pu immediately denied Chen Ming's idea and said: "Actually, the difficulty is about the same, but the conditions and restrictions are different, which gives you this illusion."

"Is it really easy for a government that has led to rebellions due to internal corruption and local policies to oppress civilians to bring stability to these areas? Can ordinary civilians live in peace?"

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "Yes."

"So logistics and engineers are very important when choosing teammates in such a large-scale battle."

"Whether it's the reconstruction planning of industrial facilities or post-war reconstruction and other things, it requires dedicated people to do it, and no one can avoid it."

"If we were assigned to the government forces' side, we would have had these headaches."

"Simulation is not very friendly and provides a group of engineers who have our best interests at heart."

"After all, our possibility of winning conflicts with the thoughts of the NPC in the simulation to a certain extent."

Chen Ming suddenly lost track of Song Pu's thinking and asked, "What is this statement?"

"For example, the goal of the rebels is definitely to liberate the local people from the oppression of the government forces and give them a future."

"But look at what we are doing? Transforming industrial facilities to exploit the river, exploiting important mineral deposits without restrictions, and increasing the labor tasks of those engaged in industrial production institutions. Does it seem to be consistent with the rebels' goal of liberating civilians?"

Chen Ming carefully thought about what Song Pu said and the various ideas he mentioned before, and said, "It's true."

"Then if you look at the government forces, the goal of the government forces in the background is definitely to wipe out the rebels as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter if they use up all the resources to catch fish. They themselves are the most important."

"Even if they are fully aware of the consequences if they continue like this."

"But for the five people on the opposite side, they must not be able to catch everything."

"Otherwise, if the living conditions of ordinary civilians do not improve after the rebels are wiped out, but become worse, the next rebellion will end their chances of winning."

Song Pu concluded: "This is actually a problem that both sides cannot avoid, a problem where all the pressure is on the rear. This is why large-scale battles must involve the cooperation of multiple people and must have specialized logistics."

"We must have enough industrial power to support multiple consecutive large-scale battles, and the other side must have enough logistics to ensure post-war reconstruction and the construction of a new rule that can calm the anger of the people."

"What we need to do is to find a balance, or simply break this balance completely. Of course, the latter is more difficult."

"We You can let NPCs assist and guide them to do things, but you can never let them do things on their own. "

"This may lead to the opposite of what we want."

Chen Ming suddenly had another question at this time: "The engineer should not be doing the engineering task he is doing now alone, right? There should also be assistance from those rebel engineers. Will there be any problems?"

"It depends on my arrangement. I will control the overall situation and make the overall situation lean towards us."

"Let us make it seem that there is a reasonable reason for our exhausting efforts, and then you just need to let go and do it."

Chen Ming finally realized at this time that the background of this simulation and the identity relationship between them involved were really complicated.

But it was still understandable.

It was that he still had one thing about the background that he wanted to clarify.

Before the simulation started, Bai Quan told him that this simulation might involve the battleship.

"Does the Galo Star Region currently have a giant dock for producing battleships?"

Song Pu replied: "Yes, it's the 14th Corps branch where you are now, the original Galo-2 star zone military base, the location there is good, so the only giant dock in the Galo Star Region was built there."

"The government army in the background is quite corrupt, so the giant dock must be abandoned, and the other side must be repairing it now."

Chen Ming immediately asked a question in his mind: "Even if the giant dock is repaired, something of the size of a battleship should not be built in a month, right?"

"A new one will definitely not be built, but if I remember correctly, there should be a battleship parked in the giant dock."

"As long as the giant dock is repaired and the battleship is overhauled, it won't take long to go directly to the battlefield."

"I will definitely not let them drive the battleship out, don't worry."

Chen Ming actually wanted to ask if it was possible for him to sneak over and control the giant dock.

But after thinking about the premise that the other side must know the existence of his psychic power, and the risks of doing so,

Chen Ming felt that it was better not to do such things, at least when the situation was very favorable, he must not take the initiative to give opportunities.

"What should we do next? Counterattack or take the initiative to attack?"

Song Pu had already prepared a plan in his mind, and quickly said: "The pressure of attack is on the opponent. We don't need to attack. What we need to do is to develop and try to expand our military strength before the one-month deadline."

"Do a good job of defense in this process to prevent the opponent from using any decapitation tactics, and then consider destroying the opponent's action plan, that's all."

"I understand."

After learning about Song Pu's overall plan, Chen Ming did not continue to speak in the terminal.

At this moment, his spaceship was very close to the location of the rebel headquarters in the hyperspace jump.

After this jump, he can reach the destination directly.

Song Pu had received the information that Chen Ming was about to arrive, and arranged a green channel for Chen Ming in advance, waiting for Chen Ming to arrive.

However, just when Chen Ming's spaceship entered the normal universe environment from the hyperspace.

Song Pu suddenly heard the sound of the invasion alarm being sounded.

Song Pu frowned and contacted Chen Ming immediately, asking Chen Ming to stay where he was, and quickly found the relevant person in charge through the rebels' internal network.

As soon as the communication was connected, Song Pu heard the other end's obviously anxious movement.

The person in charge also immediately apologized to Song Pu: "I'm very sorry, leader, someone in our group activated the alarm on his own initiative, causing several civilian spacecraft to be accidentally damaged."

"Spy?"

"Yes."

It's normal to have spies, and he also has spies in his hands on the government side.

But this spy was so obvious and exposed before it had any effect, what does it mean?

Song Pu was a little confused, but he still said to the person in charge in the communication: "Compensate the civilians as soon as possible, get their families' forgiveness, and don't let anyone catch you in this matter."

"Yes!"

After ending the communication, Song Pu contacted Chen Ming and said: "There is a small problem, continue to land."

Chen Ming, who had been waiting for a while, asked curiously: "What's the problem?"

"Just a spy."

"Okay."

After getting this answer, Chen Ming lost interest in asking questions and said: "I'll come to you later."

Before getting off the ship, Chen Ming came to the room where Cheng Xinghai was imprisoned again, and said to Cheng Xinghai, who was lying on the bed doing nothing: "We are here, it's time to go."

As he said this, he made a wheelchair beside him and motioned Cheng Xinghai to sit on it.

Cheng Xinghai slowly moved to the wheelchair, raised his head and asked Chen Ming: "Where are we going?"

"Go to the hospital first, then go see people."

Cheng Xinghai suddenly seemed a little nervous and asked again: "Cheng Xinghe?"

"He's not here."

Cheng Xinghai looked relieved.

Not long after, Chen Ming pushed Cheng Xinghai to the hospital attached to the rebel headquarters.

The doctor had several scars on his head, and he looked like he had been through a lot.

He didn't ask what the injury was. After a simple look, he sent a medical robot to deal with it.

The robot removed the splint that Chen Ming had made, took a new X-ray, and treated the injury again with a more professional method.

Finally, he gave a suggestion to rest and stay in the hospital and disappeared in the hospital corridor.

Chen Ming immediately chose to take out the terminal and asked in the communication channel: "Is there a hospital specifically for prisoners?"

Song Pu was still the first to say to Chen Ming: "Yes, there is, but I don't think Cheng Xinghai can be left alone in her condition."

"It is recommended that you take Cheng Xinghai with you. Your psychic power can monitor her well."

"If you are worried that Cheng Xinghai will die on the way due to serious injuries, I can send you a doctor or a medical robot to take care of her injuries."

"And I have prepared a cruiser for you. It should be no problem for you to modify it yourself and take one person."

Chen Ming frowned and thought for a while, and replied on the terminal: "It's not impossible."

"Okay, remember We have to try to hide Cheng Xinghai's existence and not let too many people know her location. "

"Why?"

"Because I have an idea. I will arrange a substitute for Cheng Xinghai to go to the front line and arrange her to be next to the general."

"And spread this news and take the initiative to act as bait to lure the other party into the trap."

"Given the general's character and his relationship with Cheng Xinghai, I think it is normal for him to do such a thing. It depends on whether the other party will be fooled."

Dong Miao, who had been silent all the time, suddenly interrupted at this time: "You just said that prisoners are useless."

Song Pu said bluntly: "Because I didn't think of it just now, and it will be useful if I think of it."

This reason was so legitimate that Chen Ming didn't know what to say.

At this time.

Cheng Xinghai, who was sitting in a wheelchair next to Chen Ming, suddenly asked Chen Ming: "Are you going to kill me once and for all?"

Chen Ming's frown just now seemed a little obvious.

But Chen Ming didn't have such an idea. If Cheng Xinghai died now, Song Pu's arrangement would be wasted, so Chen Ming replied: "That's not the case. You can at least distract your teammates if you are alive. Killing you will not do any good."

"What do you want to do?"

"I can't tell you this."

Chen Ming was not stupid enough to tell Cheng Xinghai all the plans, even though Cheng Xinghai was now completely restricted by him.

But in Chen Ming's impression, there are still many villains in movies and TV series who like to reveal their plans in advance before things are completely over, so he will never make such a mistake.

"By the way, I'll give you something."

Chen Ming's hand approached Cheng Xinghai's wrist, and the metal liquid flowing from his palm gradually formed a light wristband on her wrist.

Cheng Xinghai raised her hand and put it in front of her eyes to take a closer look. It seemed to be just a wristband.