Chapter 224: Colonial Expansion

After leaving the logistics center, Chen Ming immediately set out on the road to the second target location.

However, this time Chen Ming did not use hyperspace jump or ordinary jump system to go there directly, but flew slowly in hyperspace.

While waiting for Hong Guanghong to send the blueprint, he also waited for the mental power consumed by controlling the logistics center warehouse just now to recover.

Chen Ming's destination this time is an industrial colony planet.

You can view various data of the destination planet and the general appearance of the destination planet on the star map.

When Chen Ming clicked on the corresponding position on the star map, a planet surrounded by satellites appeared in front of Chen Ming.

However, he was not going to that planet, but the seemingly barren satellite that revolved around this planet.

The industrial colony on this satellite mainly produces the basic hull of the spacecraft and the supporting basic components of various parts of the hull, and also undertakes the task of developing mineral resources on some planets.

However, Chen Ming does not need to worry about the development of mineral resources, and the focus of the colony itself is still on industrial production.

Mineral resources are just some extras, and they are carried out by some small branches outside the main colony, which is similar to what Chen Ming had seen in Yuhui's industrial colony.

It is really unnecessary for Chen Ming to run to such a scattered and small place one by one.

Just when Chen Ming was checking the information of the target planet, it had been a while since he left the last logistics center.

And Hong Guanghong suddenly sent the planning blueprint of Chen Ming's target industrial colony.

And this blueprint also complies with Chen Ming's requirements. It can almost be said that it is a pure expansion in design. It is expanded on the basis of the original industrial facilities, and only a few buildings need to be built independently.

Let Chen Ming not worry about anything and just do it directly.

However, he did not do it directly, but spent some time to seriously study the logic and planning of the design in this blueprint.

Chen Ming certainly understands the overall content, but the things hidden behind this content are worth his in-depth study.

Although this special design of pure expansion is a requirement proposed by Chen Ming, Chen Ming himself has never done anything similar.

Therefore, under the premise of meeting the original requirements, the new design plan made according to the new restrictions is very special.

Chen Ming took a casual look and felt that this blueprint contained some special design techniques.

And this blueprint also has obvious traces of military technology.

It is very similar to what Chen Ming learned from the basic technology of cruisers given by Baiquan before.

Hong Guanghong is a student who is about to graduate from the engineering major of a military academy.

Although Chen Ming has graduated for many years, his technical level has also increased by leaps and bounds during this period.

But in terms of the professionalism and advancement of technology, as well as some special military design techniques, to be honest, he can't compare with Hong Guanghong.

After all, he didn't get the military technology from Baiquan some time ago for a long time, only two or three months.

It always takes time to learn from scratch, how can it be better than a talent who has been studying this for three or four years.

However, if Chen Ming can learn based on the experience of others and learn on the shoulders of others, the difficulty will be different.

And he doesn't need to worry that learning this thing will cause him to bring other people's colors when using various technologies.

His technical skills have already taken shape, and what he has learned now are all new branches derived from his main stem, which will only enhance his own abilities without affecting his skills.

For these reasons, when Chen Ming got the blueprint, he did not rush to jump to the destination to build things as soon as possible, but simply started studying on the spot.

And this is also a rare opportunity.

The deep consciousness penetration of the simulation equipment of the 14th Corps gave him a super high thinking acceleration rate.

At the same time, there was a design blueprint that reflected the level of prospective graduates of the military academy engineering major in front of him.

Anyone with a little idea and a little ambition knows what to do.

Especially on the main body side, Chen Ming has overdrawn some of his mental power to learn new things at several times the thinking speed after attenuation.

Then the prosthesis can also learn with dozens of times the thinking speed increase of more than ten hours, so why not learn?

The dozens of times the thinking increase can extend more than ten hours to a month, and there is no need to rest, even if most of the time needs to be used for the simulation of the battle itself.

If the remaining time is not used to study, it will be a complete waste.

It was unknown how long it had passed after Chen Ming immersed himself in learning.

Chen Ming's special terminal suddenly vibrated.

Song Pu said to Chen Ming on the communication frequency: "I received a message that a Ruler-class cruiser has arrived at the colony over there. Have you arrived there?"

Chen Ming immediately pulled his attention away from the blueprint and looked out the porthole

The seemingly desolate satellite and the cold planet covered with ice and snow below formed a sharp contrast.

The automatic driving has brought him to the destination

The speed of the hyperspace channel is quite guaranteed within the range of the star zone

Chen Ming actually spent only a short time on the blueprint.

But in just a short while, Chen Ming gained more from industrial design than from his self-study in the past week.

Of course, this feeling is based on the knowledge he had learned before.

Without a foundation, you may not even understand it, let alone gain knowledge from the blueprint.

Chen Ming shook his head, temporarily put aside all the knowledge points about blueprint design in his mind, and replied to Song Pu: "I'm here, just looking at the engineer's blueprint, and preparing to enter the port."

"Okay, can we start after entering the port?"

"Anytime."

Chen Ming temporarily put down the blueprint, stretched his muscles and bones that were a little stiff in the simulation, and stood up to get started.

Anyway, the blueprint is in hand, so it doesn't matter if we study it for a while.

After Chen Ming stood up, he turned his head and looked at Cheng Xinghai, who was sitting in a wheelchair not far from him, holding an ordinary terminal monitored by Chen Ming and watching TV programs, and looked extremely bored. He said, "We should leave."

Cheng Xinghai immediately threw the terminal away and said to Chen Ming excitedly, "Are we finally leaving? Where are we going?"

"To a planet."

"You said it as if you didn't say it."

"Guess why I said it as if I didn't say it."

"... So boring."

"You have said this many times when I was watching something just now."

The spacecraft quickly landed in a space station in the satellite's orbit around the star.

Although Chen Ming came to an industrial colony this time, he still had to go to the local warehouse as soon as he arrived here.

And this time, Chen Ming brought Cheng Xinghai with him.

That is, he asked her to wear a protective suit that wrapped herself tightly, and a set of walking-assisting exoskeleton made by Chen Ming for the disabled.

At least Cheng Xinghai could walk normally, so that Chen Ming would not have to push the wheelchair to walk, eliminating the possibility of exposing her identity from this aspect.

This was also a must-do for Chen Ming to bring Cheng Xinghai out.

Cheng Xinghai had no objection. As long as she didn't stay in the cell, everything would be fine.

Because the space station where Chen Ming landed was responsible for the colony's external material transportation mission, most of the things that needed to be transported to other places would be piled up in this space station.

So Chen Ming first walked around the space station, and then went to the space elevator that connected the space station to the ground.

Go to the place where he really wanted to do business.

During the gradual descent of the space elevator.

When the colony appeared in Chen Ming's field of vision.

The first thing he could see was the Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower standing on the flat land in the dark universe.

Chen Ming had seen this thing before, just over at the Yuhui Colony.

It can provide a steady stream of energy for the entire colony.

And below this Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower is a cluster of spacecraft hull manufacturing factories belonging to heavy industry, illuminated by various heat sources.

The factory was constantly emitting dark smoke, which rose straight up into the sky on this planet without an atmosphere, forming a huge column of smoke.

At the end of the cooling cycle of the heat cycle of the Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower, the thick smoke could even hide the tower for a moment.

Even without air, the high heat of the factory below and the orange-red optical fiber with heat emitted by the Earth Core Furnace Tower itself when converting geothermal energy seemed to be able to be transmitted to Chen Ming through the vacuum and protective clothing.

This is a complete industrial colony.

The warehouses used to store materials and products for internal digestion and temporarily store materials before being transported to other areas through the space station are mainly concentrated near the furnace tower.

The Earth Core Furnace Energy Tower is the core of this industrial colony. Starting from its feet, there are a total of four logistics channels extending outward in the southeast, northwest and northeast directions of the planet's magnetic poles.

Finally, the logistics transportation area outside the colony is unified and directly transported to the warehouse of the space station through the space elevator.

Or directly transport it to other locations on the planet by spacecraft, after all, there are still some supporting resources on the planet that can be developed.

Chen Ming was observing the layout of the entire colony on the space elevator, while thinking about the effect that the blueprint drawn by Hong Guanghong should have after it was realized.

At the same time, he followed the guide arranged by Song Pu and took the freight train on the transportation line in the south of the industrial colony in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northeast, and arrived in the industrial zone.

As Chen Ming got closer to the core of the industrial zone, his attention was more and more attracted by the power tower.

The sense of technology and a special sense of power on this tower really made him unable to stop.

Unfortunately, he could not control this thing in the simulation now.

The volume of this thing deep underground and the mental consumption brought by its technical level were not what he could bear alone now.

Chen Ming could only be forced to retract his gaze and followed the guide all the way to the warehouse under the earth's core furnace power tower.

And these warehouses filled with various industrial products and various raw materials transported were controlled.

Several warehouses were specially marked and filled with materials that Song Pu urgently called from other industrial tasks.

The expansion of the colony is the first priority, and everything else can be put back a little later.

What Chen Ming needs to do next is to transform these materials into new buildings for the colony.

And the way his psychic powers are used on the colonies is also very simple.

It is necessary to control the industrial buildings of the colony in the marginal parts, and it is enough to start renovation and expansion from these buildings.

That means he only needs to walk around the edge to complete the first step before the expansion officially begins.

However, Chen Ming did not do this for the final effect, and chose to visit every factory in the colony.

Although the accompanying personnel dissuaded him, saying that the interior of the industrial colony was very dangerous, and most of them were pure mechanical equipment and robots working in it.

The only people left inside the factory were supervisors who had signed a costly death compensation contract, and a small number of engineers who could control robots to perform maintenance on these industrial equipment.

However, Chen Ming didn't listen. He still made the power armor on his own and walked into the area of ​​the factory outside the factory's logistics and transportation channels.

Cheng Xinghai originally wanted to be left here by Chen Ming.

After all, she was wearing the protective clothing and exoskeleton he made to assist walking, so she wouldn't have any thoughts if she stayed here alone with others.

However, Cheng Xinghai finally followed him with the excuse that it was boring to stay there.

Chen Ming didn't bother to stop her. Anyway, Chen Ming could control all her situations in real time, so he wouldn't be killed by a sneak attack in a dangerous situation.

Walking among factories.

Chen Ming could see various robots and various small logistics transportation vehicles traveling through the few aisles, providing various factories with small amounts of materials.

Of course, the main means of material transportation in these factories still relies on the logistics transportation lines connecting different factories, but these lines are generally underground and cannot be seen from the ground.

At the bottom of these industrial buildings, Chen Ming occasionally saw some solid small houses appearing here.

Those are where the few people who work in these extremely dangerous conditions live.

As Chen Ming passed by, several surveillance cameras turned to him.

He didn't care and continued to walk between different industrial buildings and touch them.

During this process, there was the sound of metal friction and the roar of industrial equipment.

After actually stepping into the factory area, even the power armor felt unstoppable heat, which made Chen Ming slightly excited.

This crystallization of human industry is full of the product of the combination of power and technology, while the source of danger that humans must live with in order to develop is constantly pumping his adrenaline.

Even if this is just a simulation, Chen Ming can't help but start imagining it in his mind.

Imagine what the industrial facilities would look like in his future colony, a colony completely devoid of human presence except for him.

It should be very different from here.

Of course, Chen Ming did not forget about business.

After relying on the high mobility provided by the power armor to quickly fully control all industrial equipment.

Chen Ming returned to the train in the logistics channel and headed outside the colony with others.

At this time, he took out the special terminal and said to Song Pu: "I'm ready, let's make some preparations in advance."

Song Pu asked with some confusion: "What do you want to prepare?"

"Repair the industrial equipment. I see that there seems to be some problems with the operation of the equipment in many places,"

"I feel that there should be a problem with the output of the entire colony. For example, can the cruise hull be produced five units a day? Is it okay if the efficiency of the new equipment I created is not the same as that of the old equipment."

Professional Hong Guanghong immediately said in the terminal: "I estimate that your current colony can produce about two cruiser hulls a day. Small ship factories such as expulsion and escort are okay, and the efficiency is about 67% of the new factory. "

"Mainly because this colony took a long time to build, and it is all large-scale industrial equipment. The cost of complete replacement is too high. As long as it is not completely broken, we can continue to use it."

Song Pu followed Hong Guanghong and said, "Can your mental strength be able to withstand the maintenance and expansion?"

Chen Ming personally walked through the entire colony's factories and was very confident in his own mental strength. He replied: "Don't worry, there is no problem with your mental strength. I care more about the people in the colony."

"Everything has been explained, and they will wear protective clothing when you do things."

"The sealing process has been completed. Everyone working in the colony has signed a one-month closed overtime agreement. There will be no reason to leave for at least one month."

"Information control is a little more troublesome, but it can be done, and you have your spiritual power as a final guarantee. You don't have to worry about the expansion of industrial facilities being exposed too early."

Chen Ming replied again: "Understood, then I'll start from here."

After he finished speaking, he put down the terminal, and the repair power instantly affected the entire colony.

A large amount of metallic liquid overflowed from the core warehouse area, covering the ground of the entire colony like a flood of metal.

The industrial colony also began to use the radio to repeatedly broadcast a message: "All staff should wear protective clothing and protective equipment according to the advance rehearsal. There is no need to pay attention to any abnormal phenomena. The situation will be over. If there is an unexpected situation, please contact the department head immediately." "

As the broadcast was repeated, the metal liquid that had submerged the entire colony in the flood changed again.

They flowed along the industrial buildings, gradually from the bottom to the top of the buildings.

All industrial buildings and industrial facilities were wrapped in these backflowing metal liquids at the moment of operation, and these metal liquids did not affect the work of these industrial facilities themselves.

This process lasted about five minutes.

These metal liquids were either completely integrated into the industrial facilities or all retreated back to the warehouse.

As the metal liquid disappeared, a new industrial colony that seemed to have just been built appeared in front of everyone.

Song Pu immediately asked Chen Ming with concern: "How is the mental power consumption? Do you need to rest for a while?"

"No, it's just maintenance, and the next is the highlight."

Chen Ming just finished speaking.

The metal liquid gushed out in the colony again.

This time it was not just a metal flood like before.

Instead, it was a metal tsunami that completely submerged the entire colony, gushing directly from the underground near the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

Like a metal volcano erupting, the metal liquid that submerged the entire colony gradually rushed to the edge of the colony area.

Part of them seeped into the ground, and part of them took shape on the ground.

Walls of steel rose outside the old colony, and metal towers were built inside the new colony.

Industrial facilities emerged from the metal liquid. Countless industrial robots were connected to the colony's industrial network the moment they were created by Chen Ming, and the industrial facilities were started, and they began to operate at the highest efficiency at the first time.

The area of ​​the entire industrial colony can be said to have more than doubled on the basis of the original colony.

And the work efficiency of the entire colony, even if it is just seen with the naked eye, rather than after precise measurement, is at least more than 1.5 times.

The expansion of area and the increase in industrial efficiency are not a one-to-one relationship.

With the expansion of area, and some of the original design defects being repaired in this expansion, the improvement in efficiency is far more than imagined.

Even if this is not Chen Ming's psychic power really acting on the real industrial colony.

But the effect presented by the simulated colony is enough to show the power of Chen Ming's psychic power.

This colony that sprang up in just a few minutes made Cheng Xinghai, who had been following Chen Ming, look at Chen Ming with a little shock.

Although she didn't know much about Chen Ming, she was sure that Chen Ming must have done something similar before, otherwise Bai Quan would not let him do something similar in the simulation.

Just think about the results Bai Quan had achieved in the 14th Legion.

Cheng Xinghai had no doubt that the giant dock belonging to Yu Hui became Chen Ming's thing in this metal wave.

Of course, Chen Ming was not so excessive in fact. Most of the giant dock was still under Yu Hui's control. In fact, it was still relying on the spread of psychic energy and the infiltration of a large number of Yu Hui individuals that allowed Chen Ming to achieve the final goal.

However, Cheng Xinghai didn't know this. She only knew that Chen Ming's psychic energy seemed to be at a different level of development than hers.

The possibility of defeating Chen Ming in her heart was reduced again, but her competitive spirit did not diminish at all.

If she could beat Chen Ming in the simulation, that would be a truly hearty and happy thing for her.

Of course, forget about this simulation, and talk about it next time.

At this time, Song Pu, who was watching the live broadcast, had a brain freeze when he saw the new steel city appear.

If the next dozen colonies can have such a large-scale expansion and such a large-scale increase in productivity.

Even if the front line is still at a disadvantage, he has the possibility of crushing the government army head-on with his troops.

Thinking of this, Song Pu looked at Chen Ming's figure in the live broadcast video with a hint of heat in his eyes.