Chapter 323 Demand

Faced with Qiu Bowen's request, Chen Ming asked: "What do you want to do?"

"I want your fleet to wait there temporarily until the legion's fleet arrives for further investigation."

"If your fleet suffers any losses, the legion can reimburse it for you."

"Now is a great opportunity."

"what chance?"

Seeing Chen Ming's uninterested look, Qiu Bowen could only say rationally: "Where your fleet is now, an important stronghold belonging to the Machinery Clan has just been destroyed. The forces surrounding the Machinery Clan must be When it is at its most vulnerable, it happens to be the weakness of the mechanical race."

"There are a large number of mechanical remains that can be obtained, and there are even samples of mechanized psychic creatures of the mechanical race that we have only a preliminary understanding of."

"Studying these wrecks will definitely be of great benefit."

"We can all see that this must be a new colonial stronghold developed by the Machine Tribe in recent times. The industrialization level is quite complete and can be expanded at any time."

"There will definitely be the most advanced technological applications belonging to the mechanical family here."

"Our technology is developing, and so are the mechanical clan's. It is beneficial to have access to their advanced technology."

"And the planet itself has its value."

"The fact that it can become the location of the mechanical clan's stronghold shows that the galaxy itself has something special, so there is a high possibility that the mechanical clan will not abandon this place.

"We can leave something human on it that will serve a purpose in the future."

“We definitely can’t miss it”

After Xiaozhi ended with reason, Qiu Boyen also knew that Chen Ming was a master who would not let go of the rabbit before he saw the rabbit, and then he started to lure him for profit.

"This operation initially only involves you, but if you are willing to continue, it can be regarded as an additional invitation from Gallo's frontline military headquarters to participate in a mission to achieve military goals. middle."

Afraid that Chen Ming would not understand what he meant, Qiu Bowen said again: "When performing military tasks, the military in some places are not confident in their own strength. They can invite other similar military departments to participate."

"Usually, the two departments conduct some economic, material or technical exchanges in return for being invited."

"Individual invitations are rare, but not unprecedented."

"The superior department is also responsible for communication, exchanging materials between the two military organizations, and then dispatching personnel."

"Within the organization, expatriates will be given contribution points or other rewards. This is the rule of our army."

Bai Quan suddenly interjected and added: "Actually, our legion is also part of the frontline military headquarters. The ones participating in the frontline military headquarters are the legion itself. There are also several legions and the Star Territory United Front that Gallo participates in."

"The current operation is equivalent to using the frontline military legion and the legion itself to conduct personnel scheduling."

Chen Ming frowned and considered Bai Quan's meaning, then asked: "Why enrich your own pockets?"

Qiu Boyen quickly denied: "You can't say that, because you are the director of an independent extraordinary research institute. Under the name of Baiquan branch, the only ones who can dispatch you in the legion are Baiquan and the legion commander, but don't you listen? Listen to others."

"So when the legion commander is on the other side of the front line and Bai Quan is not at work, no one can dispatch you casually."

"Theoretically, this is really the only way to dispatch you."

"Although to be honest, it is indeed a bit illegal, but your situation is quite special. No one will bother with this. Of course, the premise is that you accept it."

Qiu Boyen's tone of voice could be said to be quite tactful, but Chen Ming still couldn't help but said: "Isn't this still lining his own pockets?"

Qiu Bowen raised his forehead and said, "The legion won't have to rely on this to earn supplies or anything. By then, the accounts will be even and no one will lose."

"No loss?" Chen Ming thought about it for a moment and asked, "It's like the materials were circulated between the front line and the legion, and then the contribution points were given to me for no reason, right?"

Chen Ming directly stated the actual situation in this way, which made Qiu Boyen a little embarrassed. He nodded slightly and said, "Just understand it that way. After all, contribution points cannot be given casually. There must be a reason. This is the reason." "

To be honest, Chen Ming felt that this was a bit too...political, but since he was the beneficiary, he actually had nothing to say about this matter.

But he still had to ask some key questions: "If no one is my superior, how will the contribution points be calculated?"

Bai Quan answered for Qiu Bowen: "Under normal circumstances, based on the ratio of material exchange between the frontline military headquarters and the legion, I can get some contribution points, and I will distribute them."

"There is a minimum ratio that requires me to give you at least a certain amount of contribution points. I can keep the rest for myself, or I can give it all to you. Normally, I will give it all directly no matter what the situation."

"Contribution points are a unique way for psykers to quantify military merit. Who seems to have no problem deducting this?"

"The distributor himself also has some additional rewards, so there is no need to be greedy."

Qiu Bowen then said: "But Bai Quan is not in the branch now and is not within his scope of authority, so the Legion will directly calculate the contribution points to you and give it to you directly."

Chen Ming asked again: "Does that mean that the contribution points for the exchange of materials are also randomly filled in?"

Qiu Bowen did not answer immediately.

Because this is the key to the matter, the contribution points are the only ones that are generated out of nowhere.

He can't say anything. If a little contribution point is given, it will be given. If too much contribution point leads to the end of the supervision, then the problem will be big.

So he said more conservatively: "Basic third-class merit, at least second-class merit for mission completion, first-class merit and special merit depend on the situation."

"If there are major achievements, then even if I don't want to give you first-class merit, there will definitely be others who will give it to you."

According to the rules of the legion, the third-class merit is counted as 500 contribution points, and the second-class merit is counted as 2,000 contribution points, which is acceptable to Chen Ming.

After all, it is just arranging the spacecraft to fly here for a few days. Even if the spacecraft is lost, there will be compensation, so there will be no loss at all.

"Don't we need to inform other people about this? For example, the frontline military?"

"The frontline military is now headed by the legion. We don't need anyone else to tell us what to do."

"We must not do anything too extreme. There are people from the empire supervising us."

"But our internal affairs don't matter."

Qiu Bowen added fuel to the fire and said, "As long as this mission is successful, you, the key person who completes the mission, can also get an extra military merit. We will never treat you unfairly."

Two benefits... It sounds very tempting.

But he was not overwhelmed by the temptation.

He continued to ask: "Who will be responsible for this matter? You are now stationed at the headquarters, and Baiquan is also at the headquarters. Who can be responsible?"

"Of course, the front-line military department is responsible."

Qiu Bowen answered quickly: "And Baiquan is still a member of the front line now, just temporarily back for further study."

"And I will also be transferred to the front line when the war phase changes."

"At that time, all the finishing work will be responsible for us."

"As for the current specific command, it is the current person in charge of the front-line military department, Admiral Guo Yan."

Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at Baiquan. Seeing Baiquan nod, it means that Guo Yan is a trustworthy person.

Chen Ming has no objection.

"I can help you do things."

In fact, there is another more important, or the most important reason for agreeing to this matter.

That is, Chen Ming originally planned to let the fleet stay. He is still very interested in the phase creature, and the things left by the mechanical race.

It's just that he doesn't plan to do this in front of others.

So since Qiu Bowen asked him to do it openly.

Why not do it?

Although there seemed to be many irregularities in this matter, Baiquan would not cheat his good friend and son-in-law.

Even if the whole thing went wrong, the biggest loss for him was only a few destroyers.

But even if he lost the armor-piercing with antimatter reactor and engine, the cost was just that.

With the manufacturing technology and basic materials, the remaining costs were a fraction.

Chen Ming could also recycle the afterglow core at any time if there was an accident.

To be honest, the most expensive thing he lost was the tachyon spear.

However, if the tachyon spear was bought directly from the Tachyon Technology Company, it would be expensive, after all, there are patent fees.

But Chen Ming obviously would not spend money in vain, he disassembled the tachyon spear and researched it himself.

The cost of making it with materials by himself is at least two-thirds less than buying it directly.

Even if a few doors are lost, it is not a big problem.

It has to be said that patents really make money.

It can be seen from the fact that Chen Ming can even support an entire pioneering fleet by himself with a few patents.

As for what the Tachyon Technology Company would think if they knew Chen Ming did this.

Chen Ming could only say.

Anyway, his warships did not appear in the empire. If Tachyon Technology had the ability, it could just come and collect patent fees. It was no big deal.

They did not know how many Tachyon Spears he had, so how could they collect the money?

At most, the Legion would help him pay.

So now that Qiu Bowen was willing to pay some costs, Chen Ming was still very happy to do something.

He even asked very considerately: "How many ships do you need? Where do you need my ship to stop? Or what do you want to do?"

Qiu Bowen was also relieved.

If this matter could succeed, it would also be of great benefit to him.

As the commander who issued the order, as long as the people below made achievements, he would naturally share some of the credit.

And this achievement would also allow him to get more resources after he went to the front line.

Qiu Bowen said to Chen Ming: "I need ten law enforcers and twenty armor breakers to temporarily stay in that galaxy, with my own safety as the priority."

"The most important task is to help us confirm the situation of the phase beasts, the arrival time of the mechanical reinforcements, and the progress of their actions to clean up their own planets."

"The speed of our legion's ships is not as fast as yours, and it will take several days to get there."

"So you may need to keep monitoring there and stay awake."

"How long will it take exactly?"

"The fleet with sufficient supplies will jump at any cost, including the time cost of advance reconnaissance... It will arrive in about four days."

"If it is faster, the subsequent evacuation will be more dangerous, so this is the shortest."

Chen Ming suddenly asked: "What if I can provide you with a safe jump point?"

Qiu Bowen looked a little surprised, but he immediately got used to Chen Ming occasionally pulling out some important things that ordinary people would never think of, and said: "The time can be shortened by one-third."

"That's good. I'll send you the coordinates then."

"Besides, it's actually quite easy to solve the problem of me staying awake."

"Is there an afterglow core?"

"What level?"

"Just Gamma."

"Wait a mininute."

Qiu Bowen immediately picked up the terminal and contacted him.

Five minutes later, a person delivered a palm-sized iron-red gamma core into the conference room.

Chen Ming directly used psychic energy to control the core and connected the core to the computer in the conference room.

At the same time, psychic energy was used to build a psychic communication network between this afterglow core and the afterglow core of the galaxy of the mechanical race.

It is said to be a communication network, but in fact it can also transmit picture signals.

Let Yuhui from the mechanical tribe transmit all data back through this core.

The commands received by this afterglow core can also be transmitted to the front line.

There is no time delay or impact.

Let this afterglow core help Chen Ming control the fleet of the mechanical tribe.

Although mental power still consumes Chen Ming's own, Chen Ming only needs to expend mental power and does not need to spend extra attention.

After finishing it, Chen Ming pushed the computer to Qiu Bowen and said, "Okay, come on, try to give the command."

Qiu Boyen glanced at Chen Ming again in great surprise, and then tried to use the computer to issue a few simple instructions to the fleet on the mechanical side.

The effect is very good.

Qiu Bowen also thought of more from this computer.

The Empire has super-light communication technology, but it cannot do so on the front lines of the war.

Because super-light speed communication requires super-light speed communication base station coverage, super-light speed communication cannot be achieved where there are no base stations.

It is impossible to safely erect a base station in a place like the front line, and even if it is erected, it may not be able to be maintained.

Chen Ming directly ignored the basic conditions for the development of any empire for many years and directly relied on spiritual energy to solve all problems.

"this……"

Qiu Bowen felt even more that Chen Ming was a particularly outrageous person.

And there is another special thing about Chen Ming, that is, whose spiritual energy can be shared with other conscious beings?

Who can share the complete effects of psychic energy with others?

It seems that there is a Qianmian who was killed by Chen Ming who can do part of it, but that Qianmian just stole other people's spiritual energy.

Instead of directly sharing one's own spiritual energy, and still maintaining absolute control.

Qiu Bowen knew the general effect of Chen Ming's psychic energy before.

But at that time, he just thought that Chen Ming was a slightly special psychic.

He has seen a lot of special psykers, but not many can really grow up, so he doesn't care too much about Chen Ming.

But now, after witnessing with my own eyes the effect of being able to share this power across time and space.

He felt that he had to think carefully about his attitude towards Chen Ming.

After handing the computer to Qiu Bowen, Chen Ming felt that there was nothing for him to do in the conference room for the time being, and what he should do had been done.

But before leaving, he had one more question.

"By the way, General Qiu, what you promised before..."

What Chen Ming was referring to was Qiu Bowen's previous question about Chen Ming's need for legion ships and material assistance.

Several people present thought that Chen Ming's fleet was going to fight a fierce battle, but who would have thought that it would be intercepted by the phase beast.

But Qiu Bowen had already agreed to this before Chen Ming's fleet entered the galaxy, and Chen Ming could not let him swallow his words again.

Qiu Bowen was already considering changing his attitude towards Chen Ming at this time, so now he said decisively: "Of course I will give it to you, whatever you need."

Bai Quan had already guessed what Chen Ming wanted at this time.

And Chen Ming was very consistent with his thoughts and said: "Phase ship."

Although Chen Ming was not very interested in the mechanical race's spaceship with phase weapons.

When Bai Quan asked Chen Ming to find a way to obtain the phased weapon technology of the mechanical tribe, his attitude was just to let it go.

After all, that is only the technology of phase weapons, not the technology of phase ships.

This is the same as the battleship technology, which he has not learned yet.

He doesn't have any foundation, and it doesn't mean much if he gets it. At most, it can be used as a special weapon.

If you really want to master phase technology, you still have to start from the basics.

To learn the basics, you still have to go to the Naval Research Institute.

Although he has not been there yet, as an honorary member of the Ship Research Institute, he has heard about several phase spacecraft projects of the Ship Research Institute.

The most important project is even being followed up by the director of the Ship Research Institute, and he is cooperating with several other ship research institutes from different organizational departments.

He was also quite interested.

But a complete phase ship is completely different.

With such a spaceship in hand, Chen Ming can even use the deep repair spiritual power he has on it to erase all the irrationalities in the research and development process.

Become a true phase ship.

After Chen Ming has more opportunities to come into contact with phase ships and masters the technology of phase ships, he can further publish the things he has researched using psychic energy.

The financial support that further patents can provide Chen Ming based on the phase ship will not be bad.

Qiu Bowen immediately agreed: "This is no problem at all, but the phase ship is currently only available in the laboratory, the ship laboratory, and the legion commander has given you permission before."

"If you need one, we can build one specially for you. You can go and get it at any time."

"But you have to know that our research on phase ships is still in the development stage. All phase ships are experimental models and are definitely not warships that can go on the battlefield."

"If you really need a complete ship, you have to cooperate a little bit to conduct experiments. Your psychic powers will definitely be helpful to the experiments."

"I have to explain this to you in advance."

Chen Ming nodded and said: "No problem. I also have the idea of ​​going to the Ship Research Institute, but for now I still focus on the Psionics Research Institute."

Chen Ming estimated that it would be in the middle of the war when he went to the Naval Research Institute.

Because he went to the Psychic Research Institute now for two things.

One is to study the plan to counter the mechanical hive mind network of the mechanical race at the Psionics Research Institute, as well as the psychic equipment of various mechanical races, and the other is to study the stable cultivation of spiritual enlightenment nerves.

What matters is the former.

After the early war between the Empire and the Machine Tribe was almost over, more detailed information related to the Machine Tribe was obtained, and the basics of the new psychic weapons of the Machine Tribe were understood.

There is a high probability that the Psychic Research Institute will not be the main force in the war.

After all, wars are won by battleships.

Therefore, he would have to go to the ship research institute sooner or later, and Chen Ming would have to get in touch with phase ship research sooner or later.

After Qiu Bowen received Chen Ming's reply, he stopped telling Chen Ming whether there was something or not.

He decisively agreed to Chen Ming's request.

When the time came, he would personally go and ask for help. The Ship Research Institute would definitely not mind bringing a ship to Chen Ming.

After Chen Ming confirmed that he really had nothing to do with him, he stood up directly.

He wanted to return to the Psychic Research Institute to continue his research.

By the way, he had to summarize the gains from this small-scale operation.

have to say.

Although the scale of the operation was quite small, it was still very rewarding for him.

That special audio, that special mechanical cruiser, these two things have secrets, and Chen Ming has to find out the secrets.

Just as Chen Ming took a few steps out of the conference room, he used his spiritual power to check his harvest.

Bai Quan also followed out and stopped Chen Ming.

"Are you free? Let's chat?"

"OK."

After Chen Ming agreed, Bai Quan took him to another empty room in their building.

After closing the door, Bai Quan asked curiously: "What is that audio?"

Chen Ming asked somewhat speechlessly: "You called me here to ask about this?"

"That's not the case. It's just curiosity."

"..."

Although he was a little embarrassed, Chen Ming still replied seriously: "My ship received a communication frequency, and then I heard some special sounds from this frequency, but none of you can hear it."

"So I initially suspect that this voice is the voice of the phase creature. I plan to go to the ship research institute on the pretext of needing a phase ship to see if I can use phase space-related technology to get the audio."

"I see."

After satisfying his curiosity, Bai Quan finally got back to the business: "I just received a piece of news here, and there is a rumor spreading outside."

"what news?"

"Some people are questioning whether you deliberately let the machine race attack the fleet."