Chen Ming was actually quite curious about the limits of his abilities.

His repair ability can replenish live ammunition and missiles.

Even energy weapons can use the maintenance function to shorten the weapon cooling time limit when the energy supply is sufficient, which is equivalent to replenishing ammunition in disguise.

So what is the upper limit of this capability? What about nuclear missile silos installed on spacecraft?

Or after humans entered the space age, what about weapons that were more terrifying than nuclear bombs? Although Chen Ming couldn't touch nuclear bombs, he couldn't touch weapons stronger than nuclear bombs, and he didn't know whether Yu Hui would give them to him.

But in short, there is no harm in testing the upper limit of Chen Ming's ability.

There was nothing to say, Chen Ming directly chose to repair the Purgatory Cannon.

This giant cannon, which was as big as the Iron Ore, consumed almost all of the repair materials prepared by Yuhui in just a few minutes.

There are still some left, but Yuhui probably can't take it away later, so Chen Ming can keep it for himself.

The liquid metal no longer flowed into the Inferno Cannon, and all of its thirty magazines had been loaded.

Chen Ming felt that the whole process was no different from repairing other ship weapons that used ordinary bullets.

Overall, it is similar to repairing a frigate of the same size, and there is no special feeling at all.

Chen Ming specially used the operating equipment in the factory to open the magazine of the Inferno Cannon and take a look.

We also saw thirty human-sized shells loaded with plasma-charged warheads neatly placed in the magazine.

Even though Chen Ming had no knowledge about plasma-charged warheads and didn't even have a sample, he only had the materials.

Chen Ming still relied on his maintenance ability to replenish them all. It can only be said that maintenance ability is still the most abnormal ability Chen Ming currently possesses.

Huihuang, who also had factory authority, could obviously see the magazine that Chen Ming opened.

This time, he did not wait for Chen Ming to leave and rest at night, but directly dispatched a team of remote-controlled robots to tow the Purgatory Cannon away again.

It was towed onto a cargo ship that landed at a considerable distance from the factory.

It can be seen that Yu Hui is very concerned about the results of Chen Ming's ability test this time.

It may be that Yu Hui just happens to have some plans that can be implemented based on Chen Ming's abilities.

Regardless of whether it is what Chen Ming thinks or not, there should be results after a while.

After watching the cargo ship take off, Chen Ming asked Huihuang: "No other missions today?"

"No more. Please continue studying the books we gave you before in the remaining time."

"OK."

In that case, Chen Ming felt that the time was almost right.

Before Huihuang hung up the call, Chen Ming said directly: "I have a request."

"What do you want?"

"You should know that my ship is a mining ship, so if I want to go out to mine, you shouldn't be worried that my small mining ship will collect all the ore, right?"

Chen Ming's sudden question did not make Huihuang hesitate, and he immediately asked, "What's the reason?"

"Same as yesterday."

"Mr. Chen, your request yesterday was for green plants that could provide you with emotional value, and we have now helped you obtain the cultivation equipment, which will be delivered here soon."

"We are also looking for green plants that are suitable for human habitation and will be able to deliver them soon."

“Is it unreasonable to extract emotional value from mining work?”

Huihuang clearly rejected Chen Ming, but Chen Ming also had reasons to explain.

"You should know that humans can have a kind of cabin fever, right?"

"If a person stays in a confined environment for a long time, he or she will have psychological problems."

"You look around and it looks empty, but in fact, the grey earth and dark sky can make people feel more claustrophobic than normal."

"Besides, I usually stay in the factory during the day. The factory environment you specially modified is no match for my normal working environment among humans."

"You should understand this, right?"

Huihuang knew that cabin fever did exist among human diseases, and that the causes of the disease were indeed the same as what Chen Ming said.

Although he is not human and does not know what human thinking is like, he knows that different humans have different definitions of different things.

What is cramped for one person may be just right for someone else.

Therefore, the request Chen Ming is making now is barely within a reasonable range.

But if Chen Ming, who is extremely dangerous to Yu Hui, were to be allowed to leave the factory and walk around the planet at will, it would definitely not be a good thing for them.

Therefore, Huihuang immediately reported the situation to the higher-level Afterglow AI.

However, it takes time to transmit information, and it also takes time to consider, confirm, and then send the information back.

Just when Huihuang had not yet given Chen Ming a definite answer.

Chen Ming suddenly took a step back and said, "Actually, I don't have to go out. I can just let my spaceship go out."

Huihuang immediately asked, "Will remotely controlling the spacecraft to carry out mining work help you relax?"

"Do you know the concept of games? It's similar to games. In real life, if you really ask people to do mining work, it's really hard to say that it's a way to relax, but in games it's completely different."

"People may spend hours or even days collecting minerals in the game, but I remotely control my spaceship, which is actually similar to the game. Just think of it as playing a game for fun."

After Chen Ming finished speaking, Huihuang also received a reply from a farther place, and after confirming Yu Hui's attitude in the reply.

Huihuang directly rejected Chen Ming's idea and said, "Mr. Chen, please try your best to ensure your efficiency in your daily work and your study. We will not delay your regular inspection."

However, although Huihuang refused, he sent Chen Ming's request back again.

Chen Ming obviously would not give up easily, and continued to try: "You should be able to see the work efficiency, right? It only takes me five minutes to complete most of the work, and I think I have invested enough time in studying."

"So, you mean to say that as long as I promise to pass the monthly review, you can give me the freedom to do this?"

Huihuang hesitated for half a second, then received another reply, saying, "Yes, it requires an excellent review result, and only your spacecraft can sail on the planet."

Chen Ming was a little excited, but he didn't show it.

He had already succeeded in getting the permission to go out in the first step.

Moreover, it was not surprising that Huihuang would let Chen Ming go. After all, the last time it refused Chen Ming to go out, it was just because an asteroid fell, not a strict prohibition.

It was during this bargaining process that Chen Ming always felt something was odd.

But this is not the point. The point is that as long as Chen Ming completes the excellent level review, his Iron Ore can go out and sail freely on Yuhui's colony planet.

Although he would definitely be monitored by Yu Hui, at least the first step had been taken.

"Then let's start now. I have mastered all the books you gave me."

Huihuang was not surprised that Chen Ming asked for a review right away, but just said, "Mr. Chen, shortening the inspection period may not be a good choice for you."

"I know,"

Chen Ming's answer prompted Huihuang to immediately send a document over and said, "Complete it and we will give you an evaluation soon."

Chen Ming nodded and opened the file. While reading the contents of the file, he suddenly realized what was going on with the strange feeling he had just felt.

However, he had no ability to change anything now, and could only quietly start writing this examination paper which was almost identical to the one he had written countless times.

Chen Ming had already thoroughly mastered the knowledge in the book given by Yu Hui, and he filled in all the contents in the document as if he was directly referring to the reference answers.

The whole process didn't take much time.

Huihuang received the completed documents sent by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming felt that according to Yu Hui's computing ability, he should be able to get the result immediately.

However, Huihuang did not give Chen Ming a direct answer to the result, but just asked Chen Ming to continue with the actual operation.

In actual operation, Chen Ming needs to carry out special modifications on several standard weapons including [expanded energy conduction track], [series coil], [conductor track parallel connection], etc.

Just when Chen Ming was writing the question, Huihuang had already delivered the weapons needed for the actual test to the factory.

Three weapons, two small and one medium, were piled up in the factory's work area.

However, Chen Ming didn't want to honestly transform all three. Although there were mechanical equipment, it would still take a lot of time to transform all three.

So Chen Ming tried to say, "I should have said this before, right? My transformation ability can only be used to transform things that I have relevant knowledge in my mind."

Huihuang replied very reasonably: "Yes, but in the actual test we still want to see your ability to do it yourself. You can choose one to transform yourself, and use your abilities for the other two."

"OK."

It would be convenient if we only need to modify one weapon.

Chen Ming controlled the factory's machinery and quickly began to transform one of the small weapons. At the same time, he threw the other two weapons onto the refractive index, instantly completing the transformation that Chen Ming had already mastered thoroughly.

Then, Chen Ming completed the remaining tasks as efficiently as he could, relying on the factory's equipment.

Huihuang suddenly asked: "Mr. Chen, have you ever learned our technology before?"

"No, but what you gave me is very basic knowledge, so it's not too difficult to learn."

The reasons Chen Ming gave make it difficult to evaluate Huihuang.

Sounds reasonable though.

After all, it doesn’t take too much time to master simple knowledge.

But Huihuang gave Chen Ming more than a dozen books, which are several hundred pages thick in total. It is not that they are simple and can be learned and mastered thoroughly in two days.

Even the actual operation can be so proficient.

Even Huihuang itself, when it was still at the Gamma level, found it difficult to learn at the same speed as Chen Ming.

So it immediately made some progress on Chen Ming's daily report that it had to submit every day.

There is no change in other information, except that one line of "Learning efficiency assessment, high" was changed to "Medium assessment", which means that the learning ability is at least close to the beta core.

And it adds an extra line at the end of the report.

After doing this, Huihuang immediately said to Chen Ming: "Mr. Chen, you can fly freely on the planet from now on, but just like you said, only your spaceship can fly freely on the planet."

"The next review will still be in a month, and this is the book you need to study and master next."

After Huihuang finished speaking, he sent a new batch of e-books to the factory's control terminal, with a few more books than before.

Chen Ming looked at the titles of these books and they were the same as he had thought before.

The vast majority of them are related to weapons, and only a small part is related to radiation energy systems.

Chen Ming flipped through it casually and found that the learning difficulty of all the books in it had increased to a certain extent compared with the previous first batch.

It is obvious that Yuhui needs Chen Ming to specialize in the two aspects of Yuhui’s ship weapons and radiation energy technology.

I just wonder if Yu Hui will change his plan after knowing Chen Ming’s learning efficiency.

After Glory gave Chen Ming the power to act on the planet and left.

Chen Ming finally had the opportunity to start getting down to business.

However, when Huihuang just left, he gave Chen Ming a map of the planet's mineral distribution.

There are two meanings for giving this thing over here.

One is to follow Chen Ming's intention and allow Chen Ming to easily find mineral-dense areas on the planet for mining.

The other is to restrict Chen Ming's movement routes on the planet in disguise.

Chen Ming said that he went mining to relax, so if he had nothing to do and ran to a place where there was clearly no mineral vein marked on the map, he must have had ulterior motives.

Therefore, if Chen Ming does not want Yu Hui to restrict his personal freedom further, then when his spaceship goes out, he must follow the distribution of the mineral veins, and at most deviate slightly.

This is a limitation he has to bear.

After all, there must be some afterglow individuals on the planet.

The colonies on the planet need to be developed and expanded, so units need to go out and conduct field surveys to confirm the direction and possibilities of development.

Or as Gamma A once said, some individuals in Afterglow have their own interests, and exploring the planet is one of them.

So Chen Ming might be able to find them somewhere if he drives the spaceship out.

Even if Yuhui's side would order the Yuhui on the planet to avoid Chen Ming and warn Chen Ming's flight direction in advance, there would definitely be some Yuhui individuals who would not be able to completely avoid Chen Ming's spacecraft.

By restricting the direction of Chen Ming's spacecraft's flight, at least the probability of Chen Ming encountering an afterglow individual will be greatly reduced.

However, Chen Ming must have considered this issue before.

Although Yu Hui would definitely monitor him, no matter how strict the surveillance was, as long as he could see Yu Hui, he would definitely find an opportunity.

Chen Ming opened the map on the Iron Ore.

The map given by Huihuang is a three-dimensional map.

A sphere appeared in front of Chen Ming through the spacecraft equipment.

You can visually see the distribution of mineral veins on the planet.

Chen Ming's current location, where the colony is located, is near a large ilmenite vein.

It was this ilmenite that supported the development of the entire Yuhui Industrial Colony.

As the Afterglow Colony continues to expand, some small mineral veins around it, such as manganese, copper, iron and the like, have all been covered by the colony and are being developed.

But outside the colonies, there are still a lot of mineral resources quietly lying there.

Even many of these veins are purely open-pit veins.

The mineral resource reserves of the entire planet can be said to be quite exaggerated.

According to normal logic, these open-pit mines will be Chen Ming's next target.

But Chen Ming didn't want to argue with Yu Hui. He definitely couldn't plan the route based on where it was convenient to collect valuable minerals.

The route he planned later must be one that could cover the largest area of ​​the entire planet while sailing close to the ground and within the daily schedule.

In this way, his exploration of the planet can be more accurate, and the probability of encountering afterglow will be higher.

Anyway, Yu Hui did not restrict Chen Ming's destination and route.

It doesn't matter if you wander around in different mineral veins, as long as you can increase the chance of finding an afterglow individual.

Chen Ming needs more goals and more complex and changing environments.

Only then could he complete his final idea under Yu Hui's supervision.

So in the end Chen Ming decided that his destination was on the other side of the planet, at a bauxite mine just opposite to his current colony.

Chen Ming chose such a destination not only for his ultimate goal, but also after carefully considering the feasibility.

According to the cruising speed of the Iron Ore, it is enough for a round trip on this planet which is several times smaller than Ramu in daily life.

In fact, Chen Ming has another idea, which is to see which minerals Chen Ming particularly needs now.

You can find a way to collect and smelt some to replenish some raw materials for the iron ore.

The planets that Yuhui can colonize will always have some rare minerals.

By the way, try something Chen Ming has never tried before, which is to disassemble the ore.

Maybe it can save the fuel cost of smelting, or even save the smelting equipment directly.

And even if the ore he collected did not contain what Chen Ming needed, he could also choose to give the unnecessary minerals to Huihuang.

Like other Afterglow entities that control heavy mining machinery and perform mining work, they receive normal material rations for the job.

Huihuang had said before that Chen Ming also had material rations, and these rations could be exchanged for some materials.

For example, Sky Steel.

After Chen Ming had modified and repaired the spacecraft several times, the Sky Steel was already starting to run low.

In the short term, Chen Ming didn’t know where to find the mechanical tribe to purchase supplies, so it was always good to have some in stock.

And since Yu Hui agreed to Chen Ming's mining of the spacecraft, it means that he agreed to Chen Ming's mining.

Although the efficiency of the iron ore is average, there should be no problem in subsidizing some resources for self-use.

In this way, the Iron Ore returned to its old business.

In limited storage space and long operation time, find enough valuable rare ores, collect, smelt and bring them back.

Chen Ming has gone from being a savage struggling to survive on Raymu to being half of Yu Hui's collaborator and half of his prisoner.

At least it's better than before, and better than dying directly under the firepower of military rulers.

Chen Ming did not dwell on the past.

He walked down from the iron ore ship and left the work area separated from where Chen Ming usually stayed, and then opened the factory gate.

Controlling the Iron Ore, it flew towards the other end of the planet along the shortest route connecting the mineral veins on the planet.

Huihuang did not say anything about Chen Ming's behavior of "relaxing" directly during working hours.

Anyway, Chen Ming has completed his daily work today and passed the review, so tomorrow will be the day when everything starts as usual.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the gray land of the planet called KT-3 by Yu Hui kept swaying under the Iron Mine.

The unchanging environment even made Chen Ming doubt whether the Iron Ore was just spinning in circles.

Fortunately, after leaving the colony for a distance, the terrain of the planet gradually began to undulate.

Some smooth hills gradually appeared at the limit of the field of view that the Iron Mine's camera could capture.

However, the environment here is still similar to that near the colony, and it is still all gray land.

Chen Ming tried to find any traces of living things, but it was obvious that there would be no living things on this rocky planet without an atmosphere.

Instead, he saw quite a few high-grade metal ore veins exposed on the surface.

The value of the collected metals is definitely higher than that of low-priced high-grade metals such as Baiyun Steel.

However, Chen Ming still suppressed the thoughts in his mind and continued to fly towards his destination.

During the flight, in addition to his main search for traces of Yuhui individuals, he also saw several mineral veins where mining farms were being built, which clearly showed that Yuhui had worked recently.

Through the spacecraft, Chen Ming could not only see the mechanized ore punches in operation in the mine, but also saw a passage leading deep underground, which was obviously for robots to pass through.

Yuhui also has robots of its own, and the Yuhui AI core will be installed on these robots.

When Chen Ming thought about this, he felt that he had great potential in these mines.

The complex and dangerous environment deep underground is simply the best place for him to cause trouble.

But the only problem with doing this is that.

The Iron Ore is a mining spacecraft designed to collect ores from asteroids.

Mining work on the surface is already difficult, and mining work deep underground is even more difficult.

However, Chen Ming didn't give up so easily, he still planned to give it a try.

Although Chen Ming does not have a mining robot, he has a spider-shaped transport robot.

After some modifications to the mining robot's equipment, it should be able to be used.

Chen Ming remembered that among the technical books that Old Wu had given him before, there seemed to be a book about robot transformation.

At that time, Chen Ming can use the mining robots to enter these working mines.

Just find a way to circumvent Yuhui's restrictions, or simply raise this idea directly with Yuhui and the others.

Although it may not be possible, what if?

Anyway, even if it can't be achieved, Chen Ming will find a way himself.

(End of this chapter)