Chapter 247 The Declining Colony

Chen Ming was slightly more alert after hearing the last few words Bai Quan said, and asked: "Adding insult to injury?"

"Yes."

"We can't let people retreat so easily, right? If they want to retreat, then we must bite off a large piece of meat before they retreat."

"Now they will get into trouble whenever they commit a crime, which is just the opportunity for us to do something, and even if we don't do it, most of their resources will be divided up by others."

"Then I must intervene."

Bai Quan's words aroused Chen Ming's interest: "So what should we do specifically?"

"Just grab their share of the resources originally in the legion."

"What resources?"

"The command of the fleet, the annual military expenditure, whether the technology developed by some research institutes can be obtained in the first place, and their people."

Chen Ming asked back: "Do you want all the people?"

"Yes, because people are also resources."

"And the fleet command, military expenditure, and technology I just mentioned are all related to people. If we don't grab the people, how can these resources come to me? "" Everyone who has the ability will not die in the sea with the body that has been sinking. " The potential, I have the confidence to control it, and it can also come over. "" It's like Lou Wei. He is actually in his ability. He is a major general in his forties, but you should be unhappy, so even if you want to dig. "" But others must find a way. " "Chen Ming considered Bai Quan's words," That's okay. "This can already be regarded as the dispute between the two factions of Baiquan and Lou Wei. He will not have compassion in the factional disputes with him who has a direct face -to -face conflict. Chen Ming definitely supports Bai Quan to completely plunder all the resources and even people of the other side.

This way, they will not have the opportunity to make a comeback.

Chen Ming suddenly sat up from the sofa, stretched his body after reading the report for a long time, and said with a stiff body: "I thought there was still a long battle to fight, but I didn't expect that it would end because of an assassination from the left-handed psychic."

Bai Quan also stood up from the sofa and prepared to start teaching Chen Ming every day.

But at this time, he said to Chen Ming again: "This is also a reminder, don't think about taking action against others."

"I know, I have seen the consequences of doing this twice, so I won't take action against others."

But Chen Ming didn't say another thing, that is, whether other people take action or not is none of his business.

If someone really makes him angry, he has a way to kill people without being discovered.

Bai Quan also felt that Chen Ming's words were implicit, but since Chen Ming had already said that he would not take action, he had nothing to explain.

However, Chen Ming suddenly asked another question at this time: "When will we meet with Lou Wei and others next time? This matter has come to an end. They won't have no time to come and finish the rest with us, right?"

"That's not the case."

Bai Quan immediately denied Chen Ming's guess, and after roughly calculating, he said: "It should be tomorrow. What they need to do now is to save some resources that can be used after they step down as soon as possible. Other things don't matter. One day is enough for such a small matter."

"Oh, okay."

One day passed in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ming came to the meeting room where they met last time again.

Like last time, Lou Wei and others sat in the meeting room earlier than them.

Their status is not much different from before.

It's just that they were anxiously waiting for the trial before, but now they have received the court verdict.

Chen Ming still has a cold face and no expression as before.

After giving out the storage chip, he handed over all the rest to Bai Quan to deal with.

Bai Quan didn't say much this time. Anyway, the matter was over and there was no possibility of reversal, so he just acted kindly.

He did not make things difficult for others and directly handed the chip to Major General Song.

"Take a look. These are the things that we have researched in the seventeen days before we set off."

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the chip.

In these seventeen days, he was able to research quite a few things.

Chen Ming could only say that he was rich if he did not make Lou Wei lose everything.

You should know that this chip also includes some research data on the synchrotron core.

And the complete research content of the synchrotron core has long been sent to where it should go by Bai Quan.

With the last purgatory core hormone or foundation, the report Chen Ming sent this time has been placed in the highest priority queue waiting for review, and a reply will be given soon.

According to Chen Ming's estimation, the synchrotron core and the purgatory core are of the same level, and there is a high probability that it can also be mixed with first-class merit.

Lou Wei's delay in first-class merit is not a small trouble, and the compensation will definitely not be small.

Major General Song inserted the chip into the terminal.

When Lou Wei, who was standing next to him, saw the number of files displayed on the terminal, his hand subconsciously trembled.

Chen Ming immediately noticed this and suddenly said, "You won't default on your debt, will you?"

Lou Wei's face became even uglier than before, but he still squeezed out two words: "No."

"Do you have money to pay?"

"Instructor Chen, if he doesn't have money, we will try our best to get compensation for you."

Chen Ming was a little stunned when he heard Major General Song address him. He almost forgot that he was a temporary tactical instructor hired by the 14th Corps.

Major General Song's sincere attitude and the stunned moment because of the address made Chen Ming lose interest in continuing to be aggressive. He leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to rest.

Of course, he said he closed his eyes to rest, but in fact Chen Ming was paying attention to the situation on the main body.

Because the third temporary base is about to be found.

It has been almost a month since he ran to the 14th Corps today, and the exploration of the galaxy around the second temporary base by Huihuang is also nearing its end.

Although the investigation around the first temporary base took about two months to complete.

But after all, the whole thing was started from scratch, and there was no experience at all.

After the first experience, the efficiency of this investigation was obviously higher.

And Chen Ming believed that starting from the third base, the efficiency would be even higher.

Because the Supreme Point that Chen Ming had borrowed from Shao Yang and had been using was almost due to be returned.

With two Supreme Points, more materials, more experience, and more support, it is definitely not a problem to greatly improve efficiency.

And when the third temporary base is built, the first temporary base will almost be demolished.

Although Chen Ming now has Baiquan's help in some basic materials, the funding gap is obviously much smaller.

And with the start of the test of the hyperspace jump engine, the advancement of the energy crystal technology test, and the second batch of patent fees for antimatter technology, Chen Ming will not be short of money at least in the short term.

But there is no need to support three temporary bases for no reason.

The main reason is that it is meaningless. The surrounding 400 light years have been explored. It is too costly to go further, and it is too close to the border of the empire.

It is indeed time to demolish it.

However, there is a problem if the first temporary base is to be demolished.

The problem of the Zerg.

Because in the next six months or a year, the Empire and the Mechanical Race will start a war.

The planet where Chen Ming first found the Mechanical Race city and the Queen of the Zerg is not too far from the territory of the Mechanical Race.

If the war really starts, there is a great risk of being discovered.

So with the demolition of the first temporary base, it is time for the Zerg to run to other places.

But the problem is that one-third of the entire habitable planet has been completely covered by the Zerg nest, and even the climate on the planet has changed due to the coverage of the Zerg nest.

Such a huge Zerg nest is a huge project to relocate.

And the act of relocation will definitely cause unpredictable damage to the ecology of this habitable planet.

It will leave a mess that is difficult to deal with on this planet.

Although the mess can be abandoned, Chen Ming has to find a way to move the mechanical city on the mess away intact.

This city is the most important place for Chen Ming to produce new mechanical individuals.

So it is best for these mechanical races to move to nearby planets with the Zerg.

It will be convenient for Chen Ming to stay near the empire in the future as a bridgehead for the transportation of materials, so that he does not have to use psychic energy to send energy crystals back to the empire all the time.

As for the Zerg, they have to run away.

If possible, it would definitely be best to go to the final location of Chen Ming's colony in the future, but it is still a bit far from this goal now, so he still has to follow Huihuang and the others to move slowly.

In the cosmic environment, large-scale, long-distance movement, either use star gates or fly slowly in spaceships, there is no other choice.

Chen Ming has no mastery of star gate technology, and has not even come into contact with it, so he can only choose the latter.

In the latter, the Queen of Zerg can only control the Zerg to create a large number of biological spaceships.

In this regard, the gap between destroyers and cruisers will be magnified countless times.

So Chen Ming is still waiting now.

Wait until the Queen eats the defenders fed to her and evolves into cruisers.

It can be considered as progress.

It is just right to change the basic structure of the hive in the process of slowly advancing, and adapt to the situation where those biological buildings made by the Queen that barely have an effect participate in the hatching process of the Zerg units.

Just when Chen Ming closed his eyes and thought about what he had to do recently on the main body.

On the prosthesis side, he suddenly heard the voice of Major General Song.

"I wonder what Instructor Chen is doing recently? I haven't seen you since the last meeting."

Chen Ming opened his eyes again.

Major General Song's attitude made him feel that Major General Song seemed to have some ideas.

He turned his head and looked at Bai Quan, and saw Bai Quan nodded slightly, and seemed to have the same idea about Major General Song.

Although Chen Ming didn't quite understand why Bai Quan had any ideas about a major general who was half buried in the ground, Bai Quan had his own ideas. Chen Ming and Major General Song had only met once before, and there was no fundamental conflict, so it didn't matter.

So Chen Ming responded normally: "Spend some time doing research or something. You saw it, the things in the chip."

The wrinkles on Major General Song's old face relaxed a little, and after confirming Bai Quan's attitude, he didn't say anything more.

Soon he confirmed the authenticity of the data and put the data chip into a special box.

And handed it to the military personnel of the star zone, who handed the data chip to the laboratory personnel to confirm the value.

Major General Song stood up from the conference table, took the initiative to extend his hand to Bai Quan and said: "Thank you for your hard work, and the next thing is the colony."

Bai Quan first pulled Chen Ming, who closed his eyes and looked like he had fallen asleep, and then also extended his hand to shake hands with Major General Song, talked about the colony and ended this meeting.

The rest of the things will be discussed when we get to the colony.

On the way back to the Stardust level, Bai Quan suddenly sent a file to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming opened the file and found that it was a sample of two colonies that Lou Wei was going to use for testing.

The two colonies are located in the same galaxy, one of which is a light industrial colony on a habitable planet, and the other is a heavy industrial colony on an uninhabitable planet.

Chen Ming was quite surprised to see the industrial colony on this habitable planet, after all, the habitable planet itself has its value.

But when he continued to look at the aerial photos and satellite images of the colony, he suddenly felt no surprise.

Because these two colonies look extremely decayed even from the outside.

Even though there are all kinds of huge industrial production facilities arranged in the colony, it just looks like a backward and desolate town.

And according to the information sent by Bai Quan, the development momentum of these two colonies has begun to decline as early as more than ten years ago.

Nowadays, most of the industrial facilities are in a state of shutdown and abandonment. If the legion had not occasionally provided some funds to maintain them, I am afraid that the industrial facilities of the entire colony would have been dismantled and sold for scrap metal.

Obviously, Lou Wei and his team had deliberately found two abandoned and backward colonies for Chen Ming, and they were connected together. I don’t know how much effort they put into it.

“How shabby.”

When Bai Quan heard Chen Ming’s words, he probably knew where Chen Ming had seen the document.

So he introduced the past of this colony to Chen Ming: “This colony was originally a colony under the military of the star region to which it belongs. In a transaction, it was traded to our Fourteenth Legion, and we internally divided it to Lou Wei’s faction.”

“Why don’t they manage their faction’s things? After all, they are two industrial colonies so close.”

“Don’t worry, you will know when you read on.”

Chen Ming continued to read on the terminal.

However, the latter part of the report only roughly talked about the decline of these two colonies from more than ten years ago, because of an accident in the industrial colony of the habitable planet.

But the specific circumstances of this accident were vague, unlike the quality of the report Bai Quan usually gave.

Guessing that this report was probably sent by Lou Wei, Bai Quan forwarded it to him.

Chen Ming was too lazy to check it himself, so he asked Bai Quan, who had probably seen and done a background check on the colony, "So what exactly was the accident? Why did an accident cause the entire colony to fail? And even affected the colonies next to it?"

"Think about what the colony has, and then think about what is important in the colony that can cause problems for the entire colony, and you will know."

It happened that they were on their way back to Stardust and had nothing to do, so Bai Quan kept it a secret.

"What is there in the industrial colony..."

Chen Ming subconsciously recalled the industrial colonies he had visited in the simulation before.

Those warehouses, those factories, those assembly lines, those robots, those workers who signed high compensation agreements, and the engineers responsible for maintaining industrial facilities.

And... the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower that almost every industrial colony has.

"Earth Core Furnace Power Tower?"

Bai Quan was not surprised that Chen Ming guessed it so quickly, and confirmed: "Yes, it is the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower."

"But even if this thing is broken, can't it be fixed? Why would the colony next to it also have problems?"

"Because the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower is not just broken."

Bai Quan said and sent another document to Chen Ming.

The content of this document is much clearer. It is the true history of the two colonies that Bai Quan asked people to investigate.

And Chen Ming finally identified the real culprit of the colony's decline, Zuo Jing.

"At that time, Zuo Jing once carried out a sabotage plan against the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower, and they succeeded."

"The power tower not only stopped operating, but also had several explosions before and after, which caused problems in the factories outside and killed many people."

"It took Lou Wei and the others more than a year to barely repair the energy supply tower, but during this period of time when production was no longer possible, all the customers had already left."

"And because it was Zuo Jing who successfully destroyed the energy supply tower, many Left Jing elements were inspired. They took root in this colony and were difficult to eradicate."

"Even if you kill a group of people, in two days another group of people will start to believe in that evil."

"No one dared to invest or sign a production contract in a place where Zuojie had done things before. Only some small companies looking for cheap were willing to produce things here. The colony began to decline from that time."

"The automated system was abandoned first. One was to save costs, and the other was to recruit idle personnel in the colony."

"The automated system occupies too many people's labor positions. Originally, when the colony was fully operational in the early stage, everyone had something to do. But later, the production lines slowly stopped, and there were fewer places where people were needed, so we had to Use this method to get people back.”

"Otherwise, if we leave a large number of people outside with nothing to do, it will create too many opportunities for the spread of Zuojiao, which is also a way to stabilize the social environment."

"But the effect was not ideal. More left-wing incidents occurred one after another, and there was no way to completely solve the left-wing incident."

"So Lou Wei and others later gave up and even started assigning some reform-through-labor prisoners here."

"The whole environment is a mess, and it continues to this day."

Chen Ming listened to Bai Quan's story and read the entire contents of the two documents, and his understanding of Zuo Jing became much clearer again.

Just four words, death is not a pity.

He raised his head and looked at Bai Quan: "Actually, one thing I'm surprised about is that since these two colonies are like this, they actually still have operating industrial facilities. What are they producing?"

"They are mainly self-sufficient daily necessities."

"As for the reason why it is still operating, although Zuo Jing is a madman, he is not a fool. They definitely have smart people at the top."

"If they completely destroyed all the working industrial facilities in the entire colony, then the place would be completely shut down and everyone would have to move."

"Instead, they will lose a place that is already a stronghold."

"But if they remain like this half-dead state, Zuo Jing can even let the empire support them."

"And as I just said, Lou Wei and the others have reached cooperation with some prisons and use this place as a work place for reform-through-labor prisoners and half a prison."

"It's better to lock a large number of left paths on this planet, and all entrances and exits must be audited. Even if there may be loopholes in the audit, it is better than letting the left paths run around."

"And not everyone in this colony believes in Zuo Jing. We can't kill everyone with one stick."

Chen Ming nodded, and he had a thorough understanding of the history of the decline of the light industrial colony.

The history of the other heavy industrial colony is similar to that of the light industrial colony.

After the leftist elements gradually took root in the light industrial colony, a large number of leftist elements also began to appear inexplicably in the nearest heavy industrial colony.

As soon as Zuojiao appeared, the situation behind it was almost the same. Various accidents in industrial production began to occur frequently here, and orders and vitality were gradually lost.

Chen Ming can now see that there is no hope for these two colonies before the left path here is completely wiped out.

"In other words, they are two pools of stagnant water. Lou Wei and the others are really embarrassed to take them out."

Bai Quan said with some helplessness: "No matter how bad the colony is, it is still a colony, and these two colonies should be the ones closest to you that are similar in size to the colonies in the simulation. At least there is really no problem with the location of the colonies. ”

"And with their current state, you don't have to pursue them if you want."

"Okay, actually it's not a big problem. Under such harsh conditions, I can feel more at ease and just do something big."

"Big deal?"

Bai Quan suddenly thought of something and said to Chen Ming: "Wait a minute, I have to explain something to you, that is, the colonies within the empire cannot be done casually."

Chen Ming suddenly had a bad premonition and asked, "What do you mean?"