Chen Ming spent several days traveling to the other side of the planet many times via different routes.

The situation of most of the planet was basically understood and recorded in the spacecraft's computer.

So far, Chen Ming has confirmed the locations of almost all the afterglow mining sites he has flown past on the planet.

and the locations of other facilities used to record planetary data where afterglow entities may exist.

Yu Hui doesn't need to rest, as all the facilities must be working 24 hours a day.

However, before Chen Ming went there, Yu Hui had already notified everyone in advance and asked Yu Hui to evacuate or hide.

So Chen Ming must try his best to hide his intentions.

He controlled the Iron Ore to dig for several days, and also used his disassembly ability to directly take out the valuable ore inside, and handed the unnecessary products directly to Yu Hui in exchange for monthly material rations.

It seemed as if he really just treated mining as a pastime.

However, during this period of time, Chen Ming definitely did more than what was shown on the surface.

He also spent some time identifying the differences between the various mines, and found the locations of several mines with high-level resources and high numbers of Afterglow AI.

These places are Chen Ming’s final targets.

But if he finds other opportunities along the way, he won't miss them.

And in these few days.

Chen Ming has also almost finished reading the several follow-up technical books that Huihuang had given him before.

If Chen Ming hadn't been reading books about robots at the same time as these books, his efficiency would have been even higher, and he should have been able to finish everything in less than two days.

However, it is precisely because Chen Ming has read professional books on robots that he now has the ability to transform robots.

Chen Ming plans to transform his transport robot, called the Standard All-Terrain Transport Spider, into a mining robot.

This will facilitate his subsequent plans.

Besides studying, all he needs to do is to select and confirm on the panel.

This is the benefit of combining learning efficiency and ability.

The robot that is about to be transformed will be equipped with the most basic small mining laser and some supporting exploration and drilling equipment.

Some melee or ranged weapons that can be used for combat, plus some weird things like a miniature electromagnetic pulse generator learned from refraction.

Chen Ming also plans to equip the robot with some high explosives that are well suited to the mining work it is going to do.

He used the same explosive material ratio that he had obtained when he dismantled the Lud left-diameter explosives in the capital of the star region.

The effect should be quite good.

Chen Ming felt that it should be no problem for the mining robots to carry some explosives that could destroy destroyers and use them to blow up mines.

So he quietly stuffed a lot of it in. Anyway, it was definitely more than what the madman in Ludzuojing had carried.

Then Chen Ming removed half of the legs of the spider-shaped robot and also dismantled part of the hydraulic load-bearing device.

Chen Ming did not need the handling robot's overly powerful carrying capacity. He only needed to save some space for storing the collected ore and some space that could not accommodate explosives.

Correspondingly, Chen Ming also slightly adjusted the robot's walking logic AI so that it could adapt to the walking logic of four legs.

Of course, although it lacks four legs, Chen Ming still tries his best to ensure its adaptability in complex environments.

As for the effect, it should be able to support it for a period of time to a certain extent, and it will not collapse directly.

Anyway, Chen Ming felt that this robot would not last long, so there was no need to worry too much about its functionality and durability.

The transformation did not take Chen Ming too much time.

In less than a minute, all the melted materials on the Iron Ore had been integrated into the new mining robot.

The body size has not changed much compared to before, it is still the size of a person.

Chen Ming specifically enlarged the middle part of the four spider legs, making it look a little bloated.

But it shouldn't be a big problem.

Chen Ming plans to try it out first and see the results.

However, just as Chen Ming was about to get started, he discovered some problems.

This robot, which he had tried several times before but failed to control through the panel, was suddenly controllable again now.

And it was the same as the way he controlled the spaceship, directly controlling it with his consciousness, without any interference or delay.

This situation made Chen Ming immediately consider whether it was a new ability that appeared due to the growth of his mental power.

However, his mental power has only been growing normally in the past few days. He consumes his mental power through the Falsehood Stone and other things to obtain training effects. There has been no breakthrough in the upper limit or significant increase in mental power.

And the number of controllable spacecraft displayed on the panel did not increase.

There is only one extra line in the corner of the Iron Ore panel.

[Transformation Link: Mining Robot (Customized Mechanical Body)]

Like the AI ​​core, no specific controllable upper limit data is displayed.

However, Chen Ming felt that this mining robot should be counted on the Iron Mine and it was impossible to exceed the limit of the mental power consumed by the Iron Mine.

So the current situation should have one explanation.

Chen Ming cannot control the unmodified robot as long as it leaves the spacecraft, but it is different for the modified ones.

But Chen clearly remembered that the situation before seemed to be somewhat different from now.

Moreover, he has modified so many things, why is it that the panel only shows this robot that he just modified?

Chen Ming was a little confused, so he walked off the spaceship and took out the pistol he had always carried with him.

Later, Chen Ming discovered that the panel of the modified pistol, which he had not looked at carefully for a long time, could be opened directly.

It's no different from opening the panel of a spaceship.

Chen Ming can directly open its panel and modify, repair and disassemble it.

Although there was no power source or related power equipment inside the pistol so Chen Ming could not control it to move, this also proved that he could indeed control all the mechanical objects he had modified.

It's completely different from when we were on Ruimu.

It is possible that Chen Ming possessed this ability during one of the two times when his abilities improved and broke through, but he never discovered it.

As for what is shown on the panel, only robots are shown.

Probably because it only displays modified objects that have their own power source and can move freely.

Items that cannot move on their own, such as pistols, will not be displayed on the list.

"Um……"

Chen Ming put the pistol back into the holster at his waist and turned back to the spaceship.

It seemed that he had stayed in a peaceful place for too long and didn't even notice such a change in his abilities.

He had clearly emphasized when he had just left Ruimu that the human world was more dangerous than Ruimu and that this should not be forgotten.

In the end, he didn't even know his own complete abilities.

But fortunately, he already knows it now, and it is not too late.

And he also knew that the effects of his abilities were constantly increasing, extending, and strengthening.

Perhaps as his psychic powers improve in the future, there will be even more powerful effects.

Even at the end, he still had the ability to control the spacecraft remotely.

Chen Ming did not spend too much time imagining the future. After all, it was something he needed to do, not something he needed to think about.

After returning to the spacecraft.

Chen Ming did not use the Iron Ore's signal transmitter, but directly controlled the robot with his consciousness to perform some simple actions.

There is no difference between operating a robot with consciousness and operating a spacecraft. Chen Ming can accomplish many tasks easily.

What he wanted to do afterwards was naturally included in it.

However, Chen Ming still plans to spend today normally.

We also used the Iron Ore to remotely control it and moved it around the factory, showing off its capabilities a bit.

Let Yu Hui know what Chen Ming is doing now, give Yu Hui a hint in advance, and give him a preventive measure.

the next day.

After the repair was completed and successfully completed, Yuhui gave him a special weapon that could fire strange ammunition loaded with some kind of liquid.

Chen Ming first summarized the results of today's work, which was to test that his ability had the same effect on liquids as well as solids.

It made Chen Ming feel that he was one step closer to repairing the nuclear bomb.

Then, during the remaining time at work, Chen Ming said directly to Huihuang before he hung up the call: "I have something to say."

Huihuang was obviously very satisfied with Chen Ming's cooperation over the past few days, and immediately responded to Chen Ming: "You say."

"I want to go to your mining sites and try my hand at collecting ore from underground."

Although Yu Hui had not restricted Chen Ming's route of travel before, when Chen Ming made the request now, he could try to directly say that he wanted to go to the mining sites that collected high-level resources.

In Chen Ming's expectation, this should not be something that would be rejected 100%.

After all, the high-level mineral resources are there, so even if Chen Ming wants to collect them,

But in order to ensure that things can proceed smoothly without arousing suspicion, Yu Hui will not suddenly become overly alert or be under extremely close surveillance.

Chen Ming didn't come right out and say that he was going to those high-grade metal mining sites that were obviously very important to Yu Hui.

So Chen Ming chose an ordinary mining site as his second choice. There was a vein of tungsten ore here that he had been collecting in recent days, so that Chen Ming's demand at this time would not sound too abrupt.

Huihuang also quickly agreed to Chen Ming's request to apply for entry into the mining site in advance.

But Chen Ming was also given certain restrictions. He could only enter Yuhui's mining site tomorrow.

But for Chen Ming, one day is more than enough.

He just needs to do some preparation.

Another day is coming soon.

This morning's routine work Yu Hui gave Chen Ming a new strange weapon.

Its appearance looks rather crude, and is completely not on the same level as those standard weapons. It is unlikely that any designer would be able to produce this thing as a finished product.

Chen Ming guessed that it should be something new produced by Yu Hui himself.

Because the name of this weapon is [Electrical Storage Energy Transmitter 01 Test Type].

And the bullets it loads are all very special.

It is similar to loading batteries inside, and these batteries are the most common batteries and do not have any bonus effect on bullets.

Chen Ming didn't say anything about this obvious test. Just like when he faced the strange weapons a few days ago, he directly chose to repair it.

However, during this maintenance, Chen Ming's maintenance capabilities rarely showed some problems.

Chen Ming's repair did replenish all the bullets, there is no problem with that.

However, all the batteries, or all the bullets, after being repaired are not fully energized and need to be recharged later.

And Huihuang immediately transported another batch of fully charged materials.

Chen Ming took a quick look and saw some fully charged batteries that could be stuffed into bullets.

Chen Ming himself, like Yu Hui, chose to repair it out of curiosity.

However, after the modification, these fully charged batteries also lost their stored energy.

During the process of liquefying the material during maintenance, all the internal energy is released.

It seems that bullets must be made of substances that have energy properties themselves in order to have the effect of supplying energy.

Just like the plasma-charged warhead of the Inferno Cannon before, it used materials that had their own energy and did not require subsequent recharging, so Chen Ming was able to completely repair it in one go.

This was the first time that Chen Ming felt the limit of his abilities.

But this limitation is nothing.

Chen Ming even hoped that Yu Hui could help him measure the upper limits of his abilities, so that when he encountered problems in the future, Chen Ming would not misjudge the upper limits of his abilities.

Today's work is done.

But just when Chen Ming was planning to use the rest of the day to continue reading.

Huihuang suddenly asked Chen Ming a strange question: "Do you have any other requirements for your living environment?"

Chen Ming didn't understand why Huihuang suddenly asked this question. Maybe he was trying to prevent Chen Ming from finding excuses to exchange for rights next time? He was not sure, so he said he had no demand for the time being.

Huihuang didn't ask any more questions and left quickly, leaving the rest of the time to Chen Ming himself.

Then Chen Ming continued with his previous plan and read.

Chen Ming basically spent less than half of his time every day reading the second batch of books given by Yu Hui. He was mostly studying the technical books on Tachyon Technology given by Lao Wu.

However, even so, today, Chen Ming's study of afterglow technology has reached the final stage.

After today, he can find another time to review it again in advance.

At five o'clock in the evening, Chen Ming got off work on time.

Then the Iron Ore Ship with the mining robot was started and flew out of the factory.

It was just dawn at the location of the colony on the planet.

Chen Ming quickly saw his destination from a considerable distance through the camera of the Iron Ore.

The mine sits on a vein of tungsten ore.

You can also see that the ore punching machine at the core of the mining site is still in operation, constantly flushing ore from deep underground to the surface for easy mining and subsequent processing.

However, at this time, none of Yuhui's robots or spacecraft were performing any operations on these ores.

It was obvious that Huihuang had withdrawn the remaining light from here in advance so that Chen Ming could be isolated here alone.

Chen Ming didn't care about this, otherwise he wouldn't have told Huihuang in advance that he was coming here.

He quickly controlled the Iron Ore and landed near the mining site.

The side of the spacecraft was aimed at a mine tunnel leading underground near the stamping machine.

Once when Chen Ming was passing by, he happened to see several robots entering and exiting the mine entrance.

That's why he chose this place.

The hatch of the Iron Ore opened, and the mining robot jumped out and entered the passage directly.

Deep in this passage, there are mine tunnels connected to the periphery of the punching machine's range, which were obviously mined by some mechanical equipment.

Chen Ming did not find anything valuable in the wider mine tunnel on the upper level.

However, as Chen Ming continued to control the robot to go deeper, he could see many scattered tungsten ores around the mine.

The punch cannot reach these surrounding ores due to its range, and the value of these ores is not worth changing the position of the punch.

But giving up will result in losses.

So in the end, Yu Hui chose to arrange some scattered robots to carry out mining. This was the most convenient and economical approach.

At the same time, they can also dig a road from the mine tunnel to the nearby stamping machine and inspect the outside of the stamping machine.

The mining robot controlled by Chen Ming was now standing on a mine tunnel leading to the nearby stamping machine.

However, Chen Ming did not go over, but continued to walk deeper underground.

He planned to bury the explosives he carried with him in various places in the mine in order to blow up the mine.

Although Chen Ming originally planned to go to other mines where there were more afterglow to cause trouble, Chen Ming had already seen the opportunity at this time.

And he doesn't need to consider how to dig out the buried things later. This is what Yu Hui should consider.

What he needed to consider was what kind of equivalent would detonate underground so that the mine would not collapse completely in the first wave of explosions, but would continue to maintain support from the inside and prevent his plan from failing.

Chen Ming certainly can't do this alone.

So, he contacted off-field assistance.

The arrangements in this regard were finalized through a professional mining worker, a blasting expert, whom he had asked the factory manager to find two days ago.

When Chen Ming was working at the mining space station, he was nominally a member of the mining subsidiary of Sinda Company.

It is not difficult to find a blasting expert within Xinda Company.

Although Chen Ming could only roughly bring the general environment of the mining site to the space station.

Moreover, after Chen Ming gave out the proportions of the explosives he had on hand and tested them, the blasting expert hired by the factory director said that they were very dangerous.

So he couldn't give Chen Ming 100% assurance that there would be no problems with the explosion.

But Chen Ming couldn't ask for too much under such conditions. If he failed, it would just be the loss of a robot for him.

At most it would deepen Yu Hui's suspicion of him, but nothing else. Chen Ming had plenty of time to start over.

Following what the blasting experts said, bombs were placed in all the blind spots of surveillance in the mine tunnels deep underground.

Chen Ming pretended to let the mining robot collect tungsten ore underground for a while and then returned to the surface.

During the process of going up, Chen Ming also specifically asked the mining robot to go through several paths leading to the stamping machine.

This will force Yu Hui to devote some of his energy to this in the future, so as to delay the chance of them discovering the buried explosives.

Then Chen Ming went to rest as if nothing had happened.

The next day, twelve hours after Chen Ming left, which was around eleven noon Earth time.

The mining site where Chen Ming had worked.

The three Yuhuis who were in charge of the mining field and had received a notice to leave early yesterday returned to the factory and connected to the factory's control terminal.

A task message is displayed above.

They were asked to conduct a comprehensive and thorough search inside the mine and check the condition of the stamping machines to ensure that there was no damage.

And report any abnormal situation immediately.

The three Yuhui immediately divided the work and cooperated.

Two of the Yuhuis controlled several robots to enter the mine and search the situation inside the mine.

Because the mission requires thoroughness, they inspect every corner of the complex mine tunnels.

Even if there are several robots working together, the efficiency is still quite low.

It would be difficult to start formal work in the mine today.

And as time goes by and the mineral layers go deeper.

The signals from Yuhui AI controlling the robots gradually became intermittent.

The signal deep underground is getting worse because the signal repeater is malfunctioning.

In such circumstances, it is difficult for robots to perform inspection and maintenance work.

The two Yu Hui who were in charge of this work immediately reported the signal repeater failure to the other Yu Hui who was in charge of the overall situation.

However, in this harsh industrial environment, and without the need to ensure personnel safety, signal repeater failures are apparently common.

Moreover, Chen Ming's robot was active in a deeper mine yesterday than the robot currently controlled by Yu Hui, which means that the signal repeater was not broken yesterday, at least not before Chen Ming left.

So although Chen Ming was not directly suspected of this matter, Yuhui AI still reported the routine failure of the signal repeater as required.

At the same time, the other two Yuhui AIs were each connected to a robot and went down to check the signal repeater in person.

Reports of routine equipment failures did not reach Huihuang directly.

Instead, it first passed by Yuhui AI, who was in charge of this mine.

Although there was only a transmission delay of a few minutes.

But it was this time difference that allowed Chen Ming to find an opportunity.

When two Afterglow AI controlled robots to arrive at the location of the signal repeater and prepared to carry out repairs.

They suddenly received an order to evacuate temporarily.

The two afterglow AIs immediately gave up their repairs and began to move upwards.

But the mine is deep and climbing up will take time.

And more importantly, it was already past five in the afternoon on Earth.

Chen Ming's iron ore had been on the journey for a long time.

Before they come to the ground.

The Iron Ore had already flown over their heads, and at the moment it was just above their heads, a violent explosion occurred inside the mine.

Several huge rocks and countless metal parts were blown away and directly hit the Iron Ore, which was almost flying close to the ground.

The hull of the Iron Ore shook violently, the engine flashed twice and then suddenly stopped, and it was forced to land at the entrance of the mine tunnel where an explosion had just occurred.

(End of this chapter)