Chapter 344 Investigation of An Wuping

Soon Chen Ming turned his attention to the motherships stained with the blood of the Zerg units.

The gray-green blood was the trace left by the Zerg fleet that desperately crossed the shield of the battleship.

The Zerg blood, like everything else controlled by Chen Ming, can provide him with vision as long as Chen Ming wants, and can also mark the position of the mothership.

He can even use the Zerg blood to send the afterglow core, which originally belonged to the mechanical structure.

What this means is self-evident.

However, so far, the Zerg blood has only infected four motherships.

It is only less than half of the number of motherships that Chen Ming speculated that the mechanical family has.

If he does things early, Chen Ming feels that he may lose some things that he could have gotten.

And he did not find the foreign mechanical family fleet assistance that should have appeared.

The three battleships that the mechanical family used to ambush him before and the other fleets that followed behind did not look like foreign reinforcements.

It may be because he acted too quickly and the number of Zerg fleets was too large, resulting in the mechanical family reinforcements not rushing out when they found that the situation was not right.

Since the foreign mechanical race has not been exposed, Chen Ming really does not need to rush to control those motherships.

It is needless to say which one is more valuable, four or ten.

He continued to observe in secret.

After the sweep of the Zerg fleet just now.

The four motherships started the jump engine again for some reason and arrived at four different star systems inside the mechanical star field.

Chen Ming speculated that they should be going for maintenance.

Although they did not have much damage, they must have consumed a lot of war supplies after destroying hundreds of thousands of Zerg cruisers, and maintenance is a necessary process.

But the specific situation is somewhat different from what Chen Ming thought before.

They did not jump again or enter hyperspace to return to the giant dock.

Instead, they directly found a planet in the star system they jumped to and landed on it.

Through the Zerg blood left on the mothership, Chen Ming could see that the planets where the motherships landed had one thing in common, that is, there were large-scale mechanical buildings that looked very similar on them.

It looked like a factory.

The mothership landed in the center of the factory-like buildings on the surface of the planet.

These similar colony buildings on different planets have a large area inside.

It can accommodate the mothership to dock.

And just after the mothership landed.

Immediately, the mechanical clans in logistics came from all directions to repair the hull and replenish supplies.

It looks like these places are specially designed for the mothership. The mothership can also be used as a factory when it does not need maintenance.

There should be many places in the entire star field with such buildings, so that the mothership can land and repair at any time, and it is no longer necessary to return to the giant dock for maintenance.

Chen Ming felt a little pity.

If he went back to the giant dock directly, he would be happy.

But it’s okay, at least such a place is still valuable. After all, it is a factory that can be used to repair the main battleship, and there should be some main battleship-related technologies preserved.

Chen Ming has begun to move towards a higher level after learning the cruiser technology some time ago.

So the technology in this factory is also valuable to him.

After confirming that there was no device detecting psychic fluctuations near the factory, Chen Ming sent some iron atoms to the mothership through psychic power.

These iron atoms were completely undetected.

Some of them easily went underground.

And when these iron atoms reached the deepest part of the ground, Chen Ming continued to use psychic power to send several insect eggs there.

The queen immediately took over the eggs and started a new round of hatching and breeding.

Since the flesh and blood of the Zerg can send iron atoms to the main battleship under the action of Chen Ming's psychic power.

Then metal can also send the flesh and blood of the Zerg here under the same conditions.

This operation that avoids the eyes of all mechanical races will bring him unimaginable advantages for the mechanical race in the near future.

The remaining iron atoms are scattered in different corners of the entire maintenance center.

Chen Ming plans to find an opportunity to control the maintenance center and the entire colony it belongs to.

However, he plans not to control the mechanical race units in the facility just like he does not directly control the four motherships.

The main reason is that the mechanical race units he controls will become abnormal sub-individuals and be easily discovered by the mechanical race.

Anyway, the iron atoms have been left on the planet, and the eggs have developed underground.

Unless the mechanical race has the ability to check every inch of land and every atom of the entire planet, it is impossible to erase his influence.

If the influence cannot be erased, the mothership and the colony of this mechanical race will sooner or later be his.

Moreover, for Chen Ming, the importance of the mechanical race mothership is quite high.

Since it is unlikely that he will have access to the two giant docks of the mechanical race in a short period of time.

Then controlling these maintenance centers can be regarded as a substitute. Controlling the maintenance centers will give you more opportunities to contact more mechanical race warships and more mechanical race motherships.

Only by holding back can you gain more pieces.

Of course, the premise is that the mothership needs to enter the port for maintenance. Chen Ming cannot influence the mothership that does not enter the port for maintenance through the maintenance center.

The mechanical race's mothership is different from the main battleship of the Empire's afterglow.

The mechanical race's mothership also bears the responsibility of a mobile factory to a certain extent.

It can use the factory to manufacture war supplies and various mechanical races, and can also use the factory for self-repair.

As long as the supplies are sufficient, the mechanical race's mothership can be operated for a long time without having to return to the port frequently to replenish war supplies.

Unless the supplies are exhausted or they suffer serious damage that is difficult to repair themselves, they will not return to the giant dock or maintenance center under normal circumstances.

The reason why the four motherships landed this time is because Chen Ming's hundreds of thousands of Zerg cruisers made the mechanical race almost exhausted.

So Chen Ming has to create more opportunities to force the mothership to take action.

Not to mention the problem of material consumption, just the increase in the number of motherships and Zerg battles, Chen Ming will have a greater probability of influencing the mothership through the blood tissue of the Zerg.

And the way to force the mothership to take action is very simple, creating a situation where only the mothership can solve the problem.

Chen Ming opened the star map on the console at the highest point in front of him.

Compared with the last time he looked at the star map, there were more things on the star map in front of him. Some marks marked out the important surfaces that Bai Quan had told him before.

Among them, the ten most obvious marks were the mechanical family's psychic signal generator, two giant docks, and seven star gates.

These ten star systems are the most important information for the mechanical family.

If you want to force the mechanical family's mothership to go out, it should be the easiest to go to these places to cause trouble.

And it just so happens that these places, whether they are star gates or giant docks, or generators for the mechanical family to release psychic signals, are all very valuable things in Chen Ming's eyes.

Especially the star gates and giant docks.

The former is of great significance to Chen Ming's colony.

After all, the location where Chen Ming's colony will be built in the future is absolutely far away from the empire, and the existence of the star gate can shorten this distance.

And as long as both ends of the star gate are controlled in his hands, the shortening of this distance can even be one-way.

Although the star gate has problems such as high energy consumption.

But for Chen Ming, energy can be regarded as the least important issue.

With the existence of the Zerg, he can completely use the planet as fuel and convert it into energy crystals.

Make up for the shortcomings of using the star gate.

As long as he is given the opportunity to contact the star gate, he can directly rob the entire star gate.

As for the latter's giant dock, as a production base for the main battleship, its value is nothing to say.

After the Zerg's cruiser fleet of more than 100,000 chose to fight to the death against the three main battleships, but the biggest result in the end was that the rest of the lower-level fleets following the three main battleships were completely destroyed, and only a small part of the armor of the three main battleships was damaged.

Chen Ming's desire for the main battleship has changed from envy to the existence that must be obtained.

Needless to say, the giant dock that can produce main battleships.

Although he has a blueprint, he obtained the blueprint from the early years, and the technology is relatively backward.

What's more, the cost of building is not as low as the cost of robbing.

Why build if you can rob?

However, all these important places on the star map are inside the mechanical star field.

Although Chen Ming can rely on his psychic power to conduct a jump raid on the interior of the mechanical star field, he can also use psychic power to retreat if he is chased.

But if he fails to achieve his goal in the first raid, and his goal is discovered by the mechanical race, then the mechanical race may concentrate its strength to protect those important landmarks, which will make subsequent actions more troublesome.

So Chen Ming's goal can only be placed on those galaxies near the border of the mechanical star field for the time being.

Use attacking these places as a means to attract the attention of the mothership.

Anyway, the mothership is also one of his goals.

As long as his actions can attract the mothership, it will not be in vain, just do it slowly.

Chen Ming's eyes scanned the star map in front of him.

Soon he chose a star area on the edge of the mechanical star field, which is also located in a small nebula.

This star area in the nebula is rich in mineral resources.

Not only are there various asteroid mineral resources in space, but most of the planets in this nebula have rich mineral distribution on the surface and underground.

These galaxies are important resource production areas for the mechanical race, and can also be said to be an important guarantee for the logistics of the mechanical race.

At the same time, those mineral veins can also become an important source of energy for the Zerg.

After determining the target of the next action.

Chen Ming turned his attention to the Queen.

The Queen is still on the Zerg nest planet that has already begun to develop the resources of the core of the planet.

And this Zerg nest planet has now been greatly reduced.

A Zerg fleet that is larger than before is quietly waiting in orbit.

It feels that it will not take long before the entire planet will disappear in the universe.

This is not important.

Anyway, there are countless planets in the universe that have no development value, and they are useless in themselves.

And these planets that have no development value are treasure troves of endless energy for the Zerg, and no one or anything can touch them.

Just when Chen Ming asked the Zerg fleet to start the next move.

Something suddenly happened to An Wuping.

"It's indeed here."

Chen Ming said secretly.

Instead of rushing to let the Zerg fleet set off again, the Zerg Queen began to reorganize the fleet.

After something happened over An Wuping's side, there was no need to stay on the insect nest planet that had been mostly mined.

The insect queen needs to go elsewhere to find the next... or the next hundred insect nest planets.

Maybe it's near the mechanical tribe's star field, or maybe it's near Chen Ming's pioneering land.

After arranging the tasks for the Insect Queen.

Chen Ming transferred his main consciousness to An Wuping, who had lived peacefully for a period of time.

An Wuping just opened the door to his room under the control of part of his consciousness.

Standing outside the door were Liang Fei and Li Wei.

Both of their faces were very solemn, and they seemed to be worried about something.

Chen Ming felt that the specific concern should be An Wuping.

After all, although his main consciousness has never been here, part of his consciousness has been paying attention here, and has been controlling An Wuping to do what An Wuping should do.

For example, while Chen Ming's body and other prostheses are working hard, he can travel around and enjoy delicious food to relieve mental stress.

and new relationships with colleagues and friends.

Of course, the people who got along best with An Wuping were Liang Fei and Li Wei, who had a fateful friendship on Yunluoxing.

In particular, the relationship between Li Wei and An Wuping is even closer. After all, Li Wei was able to leave Yunluoxing alive because An Wuping saved his life with his spiritual power.

So now, after Chen Ming took the initiative to leak information related to the Zerg, and the An Wuping incident happened, the two of them behaved like this.

However, Chen Ming still pretended to know nothing and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Someone is looking for you."

"whats the matter?"

"I don't know. It seems that the minister of an independent supervision department of the empire in our government department was arranged by someone very high up. Please pay more attention."

"OK."

Chen Minggang agreed.

His terminal received a call.

It was Liang Fei's boss, who could also be considered An Wuping's current boss, who called and asked Chen Ming to go to a place in the government office building.

Chen Ming nodded to the two people in front of him and set off immediately.

Soon, he came to the government building where he had worked for a while, and came to a corner room that he had never been to despite working here for so long.

There was a man in a suit wearing sunglasses at the door. He nodded when he saw Chen Ming coming over, and made way for Chen Ming to enter.

Chen Ming took another look at him and felt that this man seemed to be from the empire.

But he said nothing and kept his hand on the doorknob.

His movements suddenly stopped.

Because he could feel that the door handle in front of him, the entire door, and even the wall next to the door, the entire room were made of silent alloy.

Do you need to be so serious?

Chen Ming frowned, but still pushed open the door of the closed room.

There was only a table, two chairs, and a lamp embedded in the wall above the head.

There is also a person sitting on a chair.

nothing else,

"Hello, An Wuping, we must have met a few times during this time, right?"

The person sitting waved his hand towards Chen Ming, indicating that Chen Ming should sit down opposite him.

After Chen Ming sat down, he nodded and said, "Yes, Minister Hou from the National Supervision Department, do you have anything to do with me?"

Minister Hou pushed a few photos to An Wuping and said, "Take a look at these first."

Chen Ming took the photos and found that the ones above were the same photos that Chen Ming gave to Bai Quan before.

I can only say that the news spread a bit fast.

And the empire's reaction speed is also a bit fast.

Chen Ming thought this, making An Wuping look expressionless.

"Did you have any cooperation with Chen Ming? Did you work together to create those Zerg biological spaceships?"

Minister Hou said with a sincere look: "It's not that you can't cooperate privately, but Zerg-related matters involve all aspects."

"The Thorne Zerg were once enemies of the Empire, but now they have evolved the ability to compete with the Empire and even started to expand, so we must figure it out and have countermeasures."

"Personally, I absolutely trust you to be a good person based on what you did before."

"But not the Thrawn. The Empire needs to know more."

An Wuping let out a long sigh and asked, "What do you think now?"

Upon hearing the word "you", Minister Hou immediately changed his attitude of pretending to be stupid and asked very decisively and quickly: "Do you know Chen Ming?"

Just as he asked this, his eyes were fixed on An Wuping's face, trying to use his sudden attack to find out something from An Wuping.

Of course Chen Ming would not let him down, and he immediately performed a performance that caused some changes in An Wuping's micro-expression.

These changes told Minister Hou that An Wuping did know Chen Ming.

Therefore, even if An Wuping is silent now, it will not affect Minister Hou's understanding of some information that he thinks is correct.

Minister Hou continued: "As far as we know, Chen Ming has been using his psychic powers to expand externally, and he started a long time ago."

"And that insect nest planet is on the route he pioneered, and it's not too far away from the empire. As long as you go out and explore a little, you can easily find it, but..."

"He hid the existence of this planet and even went out of his way to hide it."

"Even when he was guiding the fleet of the Fourteenth Legion to which he now belongs, he deliberately avoided it."

"Chen Ming is a psyker related to machinery and spaceships. We can't imagine the reason why he helped the Zerg hide the existence of this planet..."

"But we want to get the reason why he helped you hide it."

"Your psychic powers will definitely allow you to thrive on that planet, and a powerful psychic who is living outside and unable to return to the empire is also worthy of Chen Ming's attention."

An Wuping suddenly lowered his head to avoid letting Minister Hou see the expression on his face.

However, the image of his hands intertwined under the table was quickly captured by the surveillance camera and brought to Minister Hou's eyes.

Minister Hou still said nothing, and just continued to tell his speculation: "Chen Ming definitely discovered this insect nest planet on the way to open up, and discovered you, or you discovered him, and the two of you had a friendly exchanges and reached cooperation.”

"He provides you with a spaceship, allowing the Zerg to evolve the same capabilities as the spaceship to help you return to the empire."

"And you agreed to some of his requests or conditions."

"Joining the Psychic Society should be one of them."

Ah this...

Chen Ming was a little embarrassed. It seemed that An Wuping's decisive agreement to join the psychic association had aggravated the people in the empire's suspicion of the relationship between An Wuping and himself.

But this can be considered a good thing. At least in this way, the possibility of An Wuping being Chen Ming is further reduced.

At least for now, no one in the empire except the boss would doubt this.

Who would have thought that Chen Ming, a person who is closely related to machinery, would suddenly be related to creatures like Zerg.

An Wuping continued to lower his head and said, "What exactly do you want to say?"

Minister Hou's tone became serious, but considering An Wuping's behavior all the time, he subconsciously softened his tone slightly and said, "I just want to confirm something, whether the Thorn Zerg is a threat to the empire."

"..."

An Wuping was silent for a while and responded: "It won't happen, at least not mine."

"Oh? The ones you control?"

"Tsk."

An Wuping raised his head and said, "Let me start from the beginning. I concealed some information last time."

"I'm not just a worker insect on that insect hive planet, I actually have a spiritual link with the insect queen on that insect hive planet."

"I lived on that planet like a fish in water, but it was not a human planet after all."

Seeing that An Wuping's attitude was quite cooperative, Minister Hou immediately relaxed his tone and asked softly: "So what I just said..."

"Absolutely, but my bug had some conflicts with Chen Ming at the beginning. We didn't get to know each other until after the conflict. It's like we don't know each other until we fight."

"After he learned about my abilities, he gave me a spaceship and asked me to use the Zerg to transform into a biological spaceship for him. Then he gave me the opportunity to escape from that planet and return to the empire."

"You can ask anything else you want to ask. I will tell you everything I can."

Minister Hou was very satisfied with An Wuping's attitude and immediately asked a key question: "Can Chen Ming's spiritual energy control the biological spacecraft?"

"Chen Ming originally asked me to build a biological spaceship for this purpose, but it didn't work."

"The biological spaceship only looks like a spaceship, but it is actually a super-large Thorn Zerg, so Chen Ming cannot control it."

"All the Zerg species on that planet, and all the Zerg biological spaceships, only listen to the instructions of the insect queen who is linked to my spiritual power."

"Wait a moment."

Minister Hou took the terminal to record what An Wuping said. When he heard the spiritual link, he immediately stopped and asked, "You have a spiritual link with that insect queen. Doesn't it matter to you now?"

"It's okay. Chen Ming and I have done a lot of cooperative experiments together before. We also tested it when the spiritual link was temporarily disconnected. Basically, we didn't have much of an impression. But I don't know what the queen will do if it goes too long."

As a member of the ruling party of the empire, Minister Hou happened to know some of the conflicts between Chen Ming and the Fifth Army.

After hearing that An Wuping and Chen Ming had conducted many cooperative experiments, I suddenly understood why Chen Ming had a conflict with the Fifth Army.

Chen Ming must have contributed to An Wuping's return to the empire.

And for An Wuping, a former commoner, to have so much hatred for Zuo Jing, and to accurately find Zuo Jing's location after returning to the empire, Chen Ming must have contributed.

The relationship between the two is definitely not just as simple as partners, at least it has a closer relationship.

Therefore, when Chen Ming learned that what the Fifth Legion did might lead to An Wuping's death, of course he would be angry.

The situations before and after were connected, and Minister Hou believed that the facts were what he thought now.

Although Chen Ming himself is considered a dangerous person, it is his spiritual power that is dangerous, not him as a person.

Chen Ming's character has always been very good in the eyes of most people.

Except that the incident with the Fourteenth Legion last time was a bit violent.

But as long as they understand the reasons, most people will understand that the biggest problem is the Legion itself.

Although An Wuping is extremely violent and even had a mild case of berserker syndrome some time ago, he is also a pretty good person.

So it is normal for these two people to get to know each other after fighting.

The doubts he had about the relationship between An Wuping and Chen Ming were gradually disappearing as he asked An Wuping about it.

Of course, even if it disappeared, he would not forget the questions he should ask.