He quickly checked the previous code and confirmed his identity.

The boss, who hadn't contacted me for a few days, asked in surprise, "Xiao Ming, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Chen Ming didn't waste any more words and said directly: "Well, just now my spaceship was robbed by a group of pirates who called themselves the Free Alliance. Their leader said that they were working for a businessman named 'White Hair'."

The boss sounded like he knew who this person was and asked, "White hair? How did they find you?"

“I bought a Rainstorm.”

"Oh, you've got your eyes on this thing, right? Are you looking for me just for them?"

"Yes, after all, they are from the Free Alliance. I'm not sure if you know this white-haired guy and the pirate boss, so I came here to ask before I killed them."

"Is that so? Well, let's put it this way. It doesn't matter if we kill them, but it's also okay if we don't kill them. I know a little bit about Baimao. If you don't mind, just let me handle them."

Chen Ming was somewhat curious about his boss's plan and asked, "Then how do we deal with them?"

The boss didn’t hide it and said, “Take it to exchange for a favor.”

"If his name is not made up, then his situation is indeed a bit special. Although the bounty is worth tens of millions, the actual value will be much higher."

"You know I'm building a colony to prepare for my retirement. Baimao is a member of the Free Alliance, so I can use my favor to help him."

Chen Ming said clearly: "Okay, then I'll spare their lives."

After getting the answer, Chen Ming turned to the pirates and said, "You don't have to die for now."

"But your spaceship must stay. All the survivors must gather on that expedition ship. Someone will take you away soon."

"Do you have any questions? If you have any, you can ask them now."

The pirate captain was completely fine with this result, and kept saying, "No, no, we have no problem."

Then he immediately began to direct the crew to change spacecraft.

The boss's voice rang out again in the call that hadn't been hung up yet: "Xiao Ming, how are you doing with Yu Hui lately?"

Chen Ming stared at the pirates' situation and replied, "Not good. Yu Hui's suspicion of me is increasing. I will probably be moved to another place for a while. It will be very troublesome whether I want to escape or rescue."

"Not going well? Don't you value your ability Afterglow?"

"They do take it very seriously, but it's mainly my problem."

"What did you do?"

"We blew up a mine in Yuhui."

“…”

The boss was silent for a moment, but he thought Chen Ming must have a reason for doing this, so he didn't say anything.

"Then do you want me to find a way to get you out? I've heard about your current location. If you go deeper into Yuhui's territory, many things will be difficult to do."

"And I've heard recently that Yu Hui seems to be planning some big move. I'm not sure who it's targeting, so you'd better be careful."

The boss spoke very seriously, but Chen Ming thought about it and said, "Not for now."

Although Chen Ming has now controlled several AI cores and will send one back soon.

But if he leaves now, it means that if there are any problems with his plans in the future, there will be no room for remedy.

And the profits obtained from Yu Hui will be greatly reduced in the short term. If the plan is executed well, there is nothing to say.

But if something goes wrong, you won’t even be able to get the most basic guarantee, which is the materials and professional books provided by Yuhui on a regular basis.

Moreover, after Chen Ming leaves, Yu Hui might pay more attention to several Yu Hui AIs that he is suspected of having had contact with. The situation that was originally safe and sound might turn into something unexpected.

The last bit of decent relationship he still managed to maintain with Yu Hui would be completely severed, and there would be no chance of repairing the relationship.

Chen Ming is not completely restricted by Yu Hui now, and there is still room for him to find opportunities.

In addition, the boss' favor was indeed very important, and he didn't want to use it easily.

So considering so many factors, Chen Ming considered it and decided not to go back for the time being.

The boss had no objection to Chen Ming's decision, but just said, "It's up to you to decide."

"But you have to be more careful. You are not the only one paying attention to your situation."

"Someone from Sinda Corporation, Tachyon Technology, the Fourteenth Legion, the Star Region Government, and even the highest war zone has heard of you."

"Zuo Jing also has some ideas about you, and may even join a free alliance later. You should be careful and don't let them influence you."

Chen Ming also knew that if so many forces had ideas about him, some unexpected situations might occur in the future. Facing his boss's reminder, he solemnly responded: "I understand, I will pay attention."

Chen Ming recorded this incident in his heart, and suddenly remembered what happened just now, and said: "Oh, Boss, there is something I need to tell you. There should still be left-handed molecules in the space station now."

"In addition to the pirates, I also encountered a fleet from Zuo Jing. They came to hunt down Old Wu because he rented an engineering ship."

"And this Zuojing Fleet had previously planned to cause trouble for me together with this group of Free Alliance pirates."

"It's just that Old Wu wasn't on the ship, so they came up empty-handed, and I also wiped out the Zuojing fleet."

Chen Ming actually had a copy of the list of left-hand personnel of the space station in his hand, intending to find an opportunity to make some money later.

However, Chen Ming gave out the names of all the other Zuojing personnel, so these people had been cleared out during the previous internal cleansing of the space station.

But unexpectedly, not long after that, Zuo Jing started to move again as if it had grown out of the ground.

All I can say is that the situation at the pirate space station is sometimes like this, and it needs to be cleaned up as soon as possible.

Otherwise, there might be problems with Lao Wu’s safety.

However, the boss's focus was not on Zuo Jing of the space station. Instead, he sounded a little surprised and asked Chen Ming: "What ship did you use to kill Zuo Jing? How many ships are there in Zuo Jing's fleet?"

"Zuo Jing had three mules and eleven escorts, and the pirates with them had two destroyers and seven escorts. In the end, only one destroyer and seven escorts surrendered, and Zuo Jing was completely wiped out."

"The boat I used was a rainstorm."

One against twenty-three, a complete victory.

No one would believe such a record if it were told to others, but the boss was still quite convinced by Chen Ming.

The boss also realized a small problem in Chen Ming's words and said, "Not bad, your spiritual power has also improved?"

"It shouldn't be considered as such. It's just my expanded use of my spiritual power."

"That's not bad, keep working hard, I feel you have more potential in the future than you have now."

"I'll also remember to tell Old Wu that we can never completely kill Zuo Jing's people, but they don't have much room to move around on the space station, so there's no need to worry too much."

"Um."

"Okay, that's it. Do you have the video? Send me a copy later."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and said, "My spaceship can't go back. At most, there may be videos on the engineering ship and the pirate spaceship I use to imprison people. I will send them to you directly when the time comes."

"Alright, then I wish you good luck with Yu Hui. We'll talk later."

Communication ended.

At this time in the dark cemetery.

The pirates have all moved to the cheapest sentinel designated by Chen Ming.

All the people on the remaining eight pirate ships and even a destroyer were crowded on it.

Although the environment is not very good, being alive is much better than being dead.

During the communication, Chen Ming forced the pirate captain to open the porthole protective panel, isolating the environment inside and outside the spacecraft.

He also directly removed all the external cameras on the Sentinel, and used the electromagnetic javelin that Chen Ming had just removed from the Iron Ore and replaced on the Fighter to destroy the spacecraft's sensors with one shot.

Except for the engine, which cannot be dismantled because of the life support system, all other spacecraft functions that can see the outside world have been restricted by Chen Ming.

Before the boss's people come.

Chen Ming had to deal with the remaining spacecraft and the wreckage from the battle.

It definitely takes some ability to deal with these things, so try to hide them if you can.

Although Chen Ming is not in the dark cemetery now, it is not difficult to deal with the spaceship.

The engineering ship only needs to dismantle the bridge of those unmanned spacecraft, find an interface and connect an adapter so that the Gamma B can be connected, and then the spacecraft will belong to Chen Ming.

The pirates had two mules and seven escorts, except for one mule that was destroyed by a fighter plane, and one was used as a sentry to carry the pirate members.

The remaining mule and six guards can all go into Chen Ming's own pocket.

The remaining six frigates include one Sentinel, three Expeditions, and two armed merchant ships of the Traveler class.

The overall value is not high. When they are all repaired and sold, the net profit including the mule will be just over 120 million.

After deducting the value of purchasing repair materials and replacing battle damage, it is still not bad.

At least if we just put some more effort into it, we can get another Heavy Rain.

Of course, the second rainstorm could not come in a hurry, and Chen Ming had some other ideas.

When all seven pirate spaceships were under Chen Ming's control, three more spaceships suddenly approached in the hyperspace of the Dark Cemetery.

Based on the direction and models of the three spaceships, Chen Ming could tell at a glance that they were sent by their boss.

Two of the three ships were ordinary Gladiator-class frigates.

The remaining ship is an electromagnetically assisted ship called the Electric Current, similar to the Refraction.

It is equipped with non-lethal electromagnetic weapons that are usually only used by patrol teams, as well as an asteroid traction device similar to the Iron Ore's, but with more powerful performance that can tow spacecraft.

The two ships looked a bit shabby.

However, the space station had just fought a battle with the military and suffered heavy losses.

We have already done our best to get three ships out.

After discovering the situation here, the ship on the space station immediately sent a communication and said, "We were sent by Mr. Wu."

Chen Ming confirmed with his boss that everything was fine, and replied very straightforwardly: "Did you see that Sentinel? All the people have been transferred to that ship. I'll leave it to you."

"good."

The problem can be solved in less than three sentences.

The three ships quickly left after taking control of the Sentinel-class ship filled with pirates.

He treated the wreckage of the spacecraft around him as nothing and was very well-behaved.

After everyone left, Chen Ming continued to clean up the battlefield.

At this time, there were still many wreckages of spacecraft that had lost their original shape left on the battlefield.

Chen Ming could not control them, but he could use the open cargo hold of the Mule-class ship he had just captured to collect the wreckage and choose to dismantle it.

In total, there are the wreckage of four mules and eleven escort ships.

Although most of the spaceships that had been blown up were destroyed by the terrifying power of the Terminator fighter, the number of remaining wreckage was not large.

But not much compared to before the spacecraft exploded.

All the wreckage combined would still be enough to fill the cargo hold of at least one and a half mules.

Even after dismantling, the volume of the wreckage was reduced, but the neatly stacked materials could still completely fill the mule's two cubic cargo holds, each thirty meters long.

There are still a lot of materials that can only be piled up in other cabins, and they have to find a place to put them after returning.

Fortunately, the mule that Chen Ming had specially left for him was modified to have an expanded cargo hold. After removing most of the unnecessary cabins, the number of storage cargo holds could be increased by two.

When the time comes, he can pick and choose, stuff the extra ones into the repair shop, and the remaining, more valuable ones should be enough to stuff into the mule he keeps so that he can have them at any time.

After quickly cleaning up with the mule and disassembly function.

Chen Ming also used the materials he had just harvested to repair the seven spaceships he had.

Make them at least look like a proper ship and not some pirate junk.

Chen Ming arranged the subsequent actions for Gamma B and Gamma Z.

Then he took the rest of the ships and drove back to the space station relying on the spacecraft's own automatic driving.

Half an hour later.

A mule carrying six spaceships and an engineering ship successfully arrived at the pirate space station and entered the interior of the repair shop.

All the spaceships looked brand new, and no one got off the ships. Only Old Wu, who had been slacking off all day, ran onto the spaceship under surveillance.

The company must have seen this, but they should not stop Chen Ming from doing this.

As for Old Wu, after getting on the spaceship driven back by Chen Ming, he skillfully removed the battery of the terminal he was carrying.

After wandering around on the spaceship, he came to the captain's room, sat down on the chair in the captain's room and asked, "Xiao Ming, have you been robbed again?"

"Well, a group of pirates and Zuo Jing. You see, their ships are in my hands now. Don't ask for details."

"By the way, Zuo Jing has been keeping an eye on you because you followed me to the auction before. Be careful about it."

Old Wu chuckled and said, "Old Wu just told me that it's not a big problem. I've lived for so many years, how can I be killed by them?"

He patted the inner wall of the Mule and asked, "So you still want me to sell the boat this time?"

"Yes, it's still the same as before, and your share will be the same as before."

"Counting the ships next to it, it's more than 100 million. What are you planning to buy this time?"

"I'm still thinking about it."

Money has no meaning if it is not spent, so Chen Ming will definitely find a way to spend the money as soon as possible.

The place where Chen Ming needs money the most right now is definitely the fleet, and what the fleet needs most right now is definitely to strengthen its weaknesses.

Make up for the weaker aspects of the fleet composition.

At present, Chen Ming has determined that the ones to be added to the fleet are Refraction, Fighter Kai and Storm.

Although these three ships have different functions and powerful effects, they all have one problem, which is their poor ability to hold the line.

If there were spaceships like the military's Centurion blocking the way, the combat effectiveness of Chen Ming's ships could be further enhanced.

Moreover, Chen Ming had tried the effect of the Centurion before. It can only be said that when the damping field and Chen Ming's own maintenance ability were activated, it could even block the output of a large weapon of the cruiser for about ten seconds before being destroyed.

Not to mention blocking anything else.

However, what Chen Ming needs now is not just guards. After all, a fleet cannot be composed of only guards.

So Chen Ming is now thinking about how best to get a destroyer to hold the line.

And he does have some signs now.

It was the flagship of Cheng Xinghe from the Fourteenth Legion that had fought with Chen Ming before, that special Law Enforcer. The name displayed on its panel was [Fourteenth Legion·Law Enforcer-class Heavy Destroyer].

Whether looking at the name or the spaceship itself, it is stronger than ordinary law enforcers.

Although this law enforcer was destroyed by the ruler, Chen Ming had collected most of the wreckage of the spacecraft before.

During the time in Yuhui's territory, Chen Ming had relied on his spaceship skills to roughly piece together the fragments of the ship, and he had also started drawing the blueprint.

Although the finished product and blueprint that are put together by then will definitely have huge errors and a lot of problems.

But Chen Ming can buy an ordinary law enforcer and make some modifications that he has in mind when repairing the 14th Legion Law Enforcer.

The only problem is.

"Old Wu, do you have any way to get the military ship?"

"What do you want?"

"Law enforcer."

“Dreams contain everything.”

"All right."

It seems that Chen Ming can only put the destroyer-class ship aside for the time being and use the frigate to deal with it first.

"Can the Centurion do it?"

"We can get a little bit of it at a 20 percent premium."

Chen Ming thought about it and decided that the price of a Centurion was around 400 to 500 million yuan, so a premium of 100 to 200 million yuan was still acceptable.

"Then let's go with two."

The fleet he is currently planning is about thirty ships, which should be the upper limit of the fleet size he can support alone.

Two Centurions should be enough for temporary transition.

"OK."

Old Wu agreed and asked, "Anything else you want?"

Chen Ming had no other ideas about the spaceship for the time being. After all, he would not have much money left after buying the Centurion.

However, Chen Ming still has some ideas in other aspects.

"Do you have any way to get the chip of the Mechanical Clan?"

"What do you want this for?"

"it works."

The reason why Chen Ming wanted to acquire the mechanical family chips was naturally because of Gamma Z.

Although Gamma Z is now an individual that will not be suspected by Yuhui at all, it is still just a Gamma-level Yuhui after all.

This determines that its influence is definitely not as great as that of Gamma AB, one of whom has been suspected by Yu Hui, and the other has not been investigated yet, but is definitely related to Chen Ming.

Therefore, Chen Ming was thinking about letting Gamma Z quickly upgrade to the Beta level by eating the mechanical chips.

At least the Beta-level AI can be responsible for some of Yuhui's large-scale production lines.

If possible, Chen Ming even wanted to upgrade Gamma Z directly to Alpha level.

Old Wu didn't bother about Chen Ming's purpose of hiding it from him. He thought for a moment and said, "Although this thing is not of great value, it's not easy to buy to be honest."

"It was taken from the mechanical race after all. It has white cloud steel and some other expensive items inside."

"And I remember that someone was actually buying up the chips of the Mechanical Tribe. It seems that the government was buying them up, but I'm not sure."

Chen Ming suddenly reacted after hearing what Old Wu said.

He is definitely not the only one who has Afterglow Cores, but the Mechanical Clan's chips are not monopolized by the government, military or various companies that are most likely to have a large number of Afterglow Cores. They are just normal acquisitions.

Obviously there are limitations.

So Chen Ming directly asked Gamma B who was still on the way and got a positive answer.

The afterglow absorbing mechanical family chip does have limitations.

Because the mechanical life forms' consciousness is contained within the mechanical chips, if they are eaten too much, it will be like when they come into contact with things like spirit stones, generating redundant data that will take time to process.

Moreover, Chen Ming suddenly thought of a problem that he had to solve with this sudden idea.

At present, Gamma Z’s identity can be said to be clean in Yu Hui’s eyes.

But once Chen Ming sends the chip over and it is discovered, it will be a big problem.

There is no reasonable reason for Gamma Z to pick up the mechanical chip in Yuhui's territory.

Therefore, even if there was no problem with chip absorption limitation, Chen Ming could only let Gamma Z find a way on his own.

Old Wu continued, "If you really want, I can try. We have to go somewhere else, to the star field bordering the Mechanical Clan's territory."

"The price shouldn't be too high, probably three or four times the weight of Baiyun steel. I'll have to check the details. How much do you want?"

Chen Ming thought about it. Although Gamma Z could not be eaten, Gamma B and Gamma A were not necessarily the same.

He also has some afterglow AI controlling other places, which might be useful later.

So after calculating the approximate price given by Old Wu, Chen Ming said, "I'll take ten Mechanical Guardian-class spaceship chips first, and two Destroyer-class ones first, and I won't take the higher-level ones for now."

"Nothing else?"

“No more.”

"OK."

Old Wu stood up from the chair in the captain's room, stretched and said, "After all these years, this is the first time I've been so busy."

"You think the money is too little?"

"That's not the case. I just feel a little sad that so many years have passed."

Old Wu's words suddenly made Chen Ming curious about his past.

However, Old Wu had no intention of explaining in detail, so Chen Ming did not ask.

Old Wu left the spaceship to help Chen Ming deal with things.

Chen Ming did not stay in the space station for long and turned his attention back to himself.

It was only ten o'clock in the morning on Earth.

At least he still has plenty of time before he is sent away.

So Chen Ming was not in a hurry to continue reading, but instead glanced at the three afterglow individuals he had previously controlled.

It doesn't take long to examine them, since nothing will be found anyway.

Gamma A, which had close contact with Chen Ming, could not find any problems, let alone these three.

But even though we can't find out the truth, we still have to take precautions.

The two Yuhui who had gone down the mine were each assigned to a small exploration station quite far away from the colony.

Responsible for the daily maintenance of the exploration station and scanning of undeveloped deep underground resources.

As for the AI ​​responsible for controlling the entire mining site, all evidence proves that Yu Chenming's robot has never come into contact with it.

So I was assigned to a new mining station and did the same job as before.

Of course, it is also quite far from the colony.

However, after this Gamma AI was implanted in the factory, the factory equipment controlled by the Gamma AI was also controlled by Chen Ming.

Although if the AI ​​core is removed, Chen Ming's control over this industrial equipment will be ineffective.

Just like what happened at the mining farm before, after losing the three AI cores controlled by Chen Ming, Chen Ming had completely lost the ability to control it.

This is what makes it different from Chen Ming’s ability to control the spacecraft.

There was nothing much to say about Chen Ming. His ability to control everything from spacecraft to core and then to indirectly control factory equipment through the core was already outrageous enough. Even if he didn't have this ability, it wouldn't be a big problem.

As long as the AI ​​core still exists on the device, his control over this industrial equipment is the same as his control over a spacecraft.

Therefore, the other two Afterglow AIs who were also working at this mining station also fell into Chen Ming's clutches.

But Chen Ming was not sure whether Yu Hui had set a trap for him on purpose.

Just as this Gamma AI was being inspected, it was immediately given a new working environment and assigned two new AI subordinates. This made Chen Ming feel that there might be something wrong.

So he wouldn't let them show any signs of doing anything, at least not in the short term.

If you want to achieve rapid development in a short period of time, you still have to rely on Gamma Z.

(End of this chapter)