A week passed in this dull and busy manner.

However, during this period of time, the Galo Star Region and the Yuhui Star Region were not as peaceful as Chen Ming's every day.

During his daily work and research, Chen Ming has been keeping an eye on several places where there might be big moves next.

This includes the buffer zone bordering the Yuhui star field and the Galo star field.

During this week according to Gamma B survey.

It started from the day after Chen Ming had a chat with Bai Quan of the 14th Legion.

A large number of reconnaissance drones or small-scale fleets have appeared in this buffer zone and are continuously infiltrating into the Afterglow Star Region.

Moreover, these drones or fleets have no intention of conflicting with the Afterglow Fleet that is tracking them. They will flee as soon as they are discovered.

If the drone cannot escape, it may even choose to self-destruct on the spot, leaving no chance for the Afterglow Fleet to arrest it.

Those human ships that have not been discovered are still continuing to move deeper into the Afterglow Star Region.

Yu Hui could only rely on dispatching a large number of ships to barely deal with these spaceships, but it was only a temporary solution.

Humanity is still spending a huge amount of resources to continue to transport spacecraft to the buffer zone. The purpose is very clear, which is to go deeper and transmit more intelligence back.

This situation lasted for about two days.

On the border between Yuhui and the Mechanical Clan, that is, near the galaxy where Gamma Z is located, a large number of human ships also appeared.

They started from the Empire, traveled through the entire buffer zone between Yuhui and the Mechanical Clan, and began to infiltrate Yuhui's territory from different locations just like the other side.

Even though Yuhui has a planet with a highly developed semi-military and semi-industrial state because of years of war with the mechanical race.

Any spaceship that wants to enter the Afterglow Star Region will be hit head-on.

But under the current situation of large-scale invasion by humans at all costs, Yu Hui has no way to completely block human ships from entering.

And for humans who seemed to only want to gather intelligence, they only needed to allow drones equipped with disposable high-intensity signal transmitters to cross Yuhui's defense line in a short period of time.

Just keep going deeper, keep recording, and keep scanning each planet with high intensity, and transmit back information about the geographical features, various buildings, and various active objects.

As for the content of the intelligence transmitted back, it doesn't matter at all.

Because they had already known his location from Chen Ming.

Such a large-scale investigation was obviously intended to interfere with Yu Hui's judgment, making Yu Hui think that they were still unclear about Chen Ming's location, so as to relax his vigilance.

This action also has another meaning, that is, the 14th Corps has begun the final preparations before the rescue work.

Constantly distracting Yu Hui's attention was part of the preparation.

Chen Ming also based his information on Gamma B's investigation and the information sent by Gamma A, who is now with Huiyao all day long.

It can be found that humans are intentionally or unintentionally deploying these exploration drones and spacecraft, gradually concentrating them on the galaxy where Chen Ming had stayed before.

This is also a means to make Yu Hui make a wrong judgment.

After all, it is impossible that humans don’t have any clues about Chen Ming. If there are clues, then there must be an ultimate target.

Therefore, the galaxy that Chen Ming was in before he left could just be used as bait for humans against the afterglow.

All these signs indicate that the 14th Legion will take substantial action before the psychic equipment is expected to arrive in seven days.

The target is definitely near Chen Ming's current location.

Although the activities on the human side seem to have no impact on the galaxy where Chen Ming is located.

After all, the distance is there, and it still takes time to react and prepare. Moreover, compared to a colony, Chen Ming is definitely more important.

However, since the 14th Legion intends to do so, they should have considered every aspect of Yuhui and should also be aware of the different ways in which Yuhui can respond.

So since Chen Ming is not a professional fighter, I believe they can handle this kind of thing.

Anyway, he didn't put all his eggs in one basket.

There was indeed an accident during the rescue operation of the 14th Corps, but Chen Ming still had other options.

So when Chen Ming investigated in Gamma B and found out that humans were beginning to infiltrate the Afterglow Mechanical Clan's buffer zone into the Afterglow Star Domain, the tasks that Afterglow usually issued to free Afterglow individuals on the Gamma Z side also included the task of searching for the human fleet.

Just for safety's sake, Gamma Z was sent to another galaxy.

Of course, this is based on the premise that Gamma Z has already obtained enough chips by destroying the mechanical warships through missions in the previous period of time.

Even if he left now, Gamma Z would be able to be upgraded to Beta level in just a few days.

Then it can return to the place where Chen Ming currently controls the largest amount of afterglow and coordinate the overall situation for Chen Ming.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming also took a look at the afterglow he controlled.

At present, there are many places in the entire Yuhui Star Domain where the Yuhui controlled by Chen Ming exists.

This naturally includes the Yuhui Industrial Colony where Chen Ming originally stayed, which has now become a counter-bait for humans.

But even today, there are only five Afterglow AIs controlled by Chen Ming.

Two of them were still in independent small exploration stations that had been arranged earlier and had no chance of coming into contact with other afterglows.

As for the remaining three people working at the mining site, Yu Hui has never changed his job.

And there is no new afterglow coming here, and there is no way to contact the outside world at all.

It can't develop at all.

However, after returning to this galaxy, Huihuang was responsible for some post-mortem work in various places within the galaxy.

Therefore, I have also communicated with these five afterglow AIs.

But Chen Ming was still not completely sure about Huihuang and could not trust him, so he played it safe.

Chen Ming still asked the five afterglows to remain normal and not have any other contact.

After all, this place is nothing to Chen Ming.

The afterglow he controlled was mainly in two other places.

One was the first location that Gamma Z arrived at after returning to the Afterglow Star Field, which was the supply point planet.

The situation here is much better than the planet Chen Ming had been to.

After all, no one would pay attention to Gamma Z, who had nothing to do with Chen Ming and left immediately.

What's more, the first thing Chen Ming controlled was the afterglow at the supply point, where he could be exposed to a lot of free afterglow.

Therefore, any Yuhui who came to the supply point later was basically given various reasons and excuses by the original Yuhui at the supply point to give them opportunities.

The Afterglow spacecraft, which only came for supplies, was connected to the industrial equipment in the colony.

And then, nothing happened.

As long as the industrial equipment controlled by the afterglow controlled by Chen Ming comes into contact with it, the afterglow that is touched will also be controlled by Chen Ming.

And he accepted it all without any abnormal behavior.

And the afterglow on the spacecraft that had just been controlled to leave the supply point can always go to various places and find various reasons to establish direct line connections with other afterglows.

Or just like Gamma Z at the beginning, find other supply points, connect them to the supply point equipment by connecting to the database, and assimilate them.

As long as all the supply points on a planet are controlled, no afterglow on this planet will escape Chen Ming's clutches.

Of course, in order to make everything look reasonable and normal, Chen Ming would not let these Yuhui drive a ship directly to the supply points of the entire planet.

Just let them follow normal behavioral logic and rely on different individuals to gradually control all the supply points on the planet.

If you really want to control the supply points of the entire planet quickly and undetected, you can only rely on reasonable overall planning.

But Chen Ming's computing power is not yet capable of doing this, so he can only wait until Gamma Z is upgraded to Beta level before trying again.

However, despite various restrictions, it still exists today.

One-fifth of the afterglow on the planet with energy crystal crabs where Gamma Z originally landed was already left, and all of it was controlled by Chen Ming.

There are also some remaining glories in key departments.

For example, Yuhui has the authority to build a space elevator to facilitate the transportation of materials.

And Yuhui, who is in charge of the material transportation authority of various high-level resource mining sites.

In addition, although there is no Chen Ming's plan on the planet, 80% of the supply points have been controlled during the normal activities of Yuhui individuals.

The afterglow on this planet has completely formed the climate.

Within a few days, the entire planet will be completely controlled by Chen Ming.

The pressure that this amount of afterglow put on Chen Ming in terms of mental strength was not even as great as actually controlling a frigate.

Therefore, Chen Ming is very confident about the future development of these afterglows.

In addition, in addition to the planet where the energy crystal crab is located, the entire galaxy outside is now filled with them.

There are two other colonies in this galaxy, but only about one-tenth of the afterglow in each of them is controlled by Chen Ming.

But at the same time, many of the supply points on these two planets have been controlled.

And the afterglow controlled by Chen Ming was also actively developing towards the key departments of the planet.

Once the afterglow of the Energy Crystal Crab Planet has taken care of the other planets, the remaining two planets will also become Chen Ming's possession in a short time.

It seems that the only problem now is that there is indeed no afterglow above the Beta level in the different colonies.

But there are a total of three industrial colonies in the galaxy, all of which are well developed, and one of them has energy crystal crabs.

Therefore, there must be an Alpha in the galaxy that is in charge of the overall situation. Most likely, he is in charge of everything on an independent space station inside the galaxy.

The afterglow controlled by Chen Ming had discovered a space station that was not open to ordinary afterglow individuals in the galaxy's circumstellar orbit of a high-temperature planet close to a star.

The alpha afterglow within the galaxy must be there.

Although ordinary afterglow does not have the authority to enter, Chen Ming has already found an afterglow individual that has the authority to enter that galaxy.

All that's left is to find a suitable opportunity to control it, and then find a suitable reason to control it before the Alpha-level afterglow can react.

You have to know that it has only been a week since Gamma Z left its seeds here, and it has already infiltrated several key places on the planet.

Expansion in the other two colonies was slower, but still equally efficient.

Given a few more days, the afterglow controlled by Chen Ming would be able to engulf the entire galaxy.

Except for the galaxy where the Energy Crystal Crab planet is located.

The second best development momentum of the Afterglow controlled by Chen Ming is the Afterglow where Gamma Z had stayed and the industrial colony on the front line of the mechanical clan.

In addition to the large amount of military equipment and the excavated resources that are sent directly to military factories, this planet has another special feature.

Because battles often occur on the front line, a large number of Afterglow individuals return here every moment and need repairs.

If the demand for supply points increases, then naturally more and bigger ones will be built.

All supply points that Gamma Z has visited will control the individuals of Afterglow at a higher efficiency than the supply points on the Energy Crystal Crab's side.

So far, many military factories on the planet have fallen under Chen Ming's control, but they are still maintaining the previous production orders.

At the same time, a considerable number of Yuhui who had advantageous logic blocks in combat were controlled by Chen Ming.

Almost all of them have their own spaceships and their combat capabilities are quite impressive.

If all the afterglow that Chen Ming currently controls were added together, it would be a force that could not be underestimated.

But that’s not enough.

For the entire star field of Yuhui, the current afterglow is far from enough.

If Chen Ming dared to take action now, the final result would definitely be the destruction of the planet, the destruction of the fleet, and the death of all the afterglow under his control.

Even if there are many Yuhui who can escape by spaceship, if Yuhui’s own industrial colony is lost, Chen Ming simply cannot afford the current number of Yuhui and Yuhui spaceships.

There will definitely be a major cleanup inside the afterglow, and any afterglow with special performance will not be able to continue to survive by relying on the afterglow.

Yuhui will also definitely take its overall external material control to a new level of strictness.

There was no possibility for Chen Ming to continue to obtain material support from Yu Hui.

At that time, he might be forced by the situation to do something he doesn't want to do.

Therefore, to this day, Chen Ming has not regarded the afterglow that he controls as part of his own power, but only as a mercenary.

This is the reason why he cannot support these fleets now.

Only when Chen Ming's logistical capabilities can keep up will he consider bringing these Yu Hui under his command.

So now, Chen Ming still plans to continue to hide and wait for the afterglow to slowly expand.

Moreover, the afterglow he controlled had already spread to the surrounding galaxies long before the afterglow individuals on the Energy Crystal Crab Planet had developed.

These spreading afterglows will be like viruses with no symptoms at all, spreading in the afterglow and no individual can detect them.

When it explodes, it will bring unprecedented terrifying effects to Yuhui.

After confirming the overall situation of the afterglow he controlled, Chen Ming returned to his daily research.

His research on the frigate shield he originally designed has entered the final stage and should produce a result in the next few days.

at the same time.

Far away in the Galo star field of the human empire.

An offline joint meeting is currently taking place in the headquarters room where the 14th Corps is currently stationed.

As long as there is a legitimate reason for rescuing Chen Ming, they have sent people here.

The meeting was already halfway through.

In the center of the conference table in front of Bai Quan, who was sitting in the main seat, a three-dimensional projection was showing the entire picture of the Yuhui star field.

Before them, a large number of drones and fleets were sent out to scan many galaxies in the Afterglow Star Region, and most of the galaxies shown on them had very detailed and accurate intelligence.

Among them, the galaxies that Chen Ming had been to and the galaxy that Chen Ming is currently in were highlighted.

Let the participants' attention basically focus on this.

As soon as Bai Quan took action, he enlarged the industrial colony galaxy where Chen Ming had been, revealing the situation inside the galaxy.

The industrial colony planet where Chen Ming had stayed was specially marked out.

He cleared his throat and said, "Next is the plan for the second half."

"We have currently dispatched a large number of drones and small fleets to attract the attention of Yuhui."

"And now it is obvious that Yuhui has been fooled. They believe that we have and have just discovered that Chen Ming is on this planet."

"So they are actively cooperating with us and deploying more ships here. They sincerely hope that we will only focus on this place."

"We will continue to execute according to the original plan."

"Before the estimated time when the Afterglow's psionic equipment arrives, send enough fleets to this system to absorb Afterglow's firepower."

"Then according to what was agreed upon before, this matter will be handled by Xinda Company."

Baiquan looked at the representatives of Xinda Company at the meeting and said, "I need you to show enough desire to get closer to this planet."

"But we have to strike a balance. We can't just land on the planet successfully. We have to make sure that Yuhui can allocate enough fleet forces to find you first."

"Any questions?"

The representative of Xinda Company, and also the director in charge of the Pirate Space Station, said with a slightly unhappy expression: "No, but I hope the Fourteenth Legion can keep its promise."

After Xinda Company received the news that Chen Ming was transferred to another place, and learned about the information about the galaxy where Chen Ming was transferred from subsequent investigations.

It was already clear that they could not rely on their own battleship to rescue Chen Ming alone.

So this director was sent to the 14th Legion to cooperate with the 14th Legion to complete subsequent tasks.

In order to protect their final interest, Sky Steel.

As long as the profits from Sky Steel can finally fall into their hands.

Then even if Chen Ming is gone, it would still be an acceptable result.

Baiquan had no intention of embezzling Sky Steel from the beginning, so he agreed decisively: "Please rest assured, everyone here is a witness."

He retracted his gaze and continued, "Later, when the Xinda Company's battleship successfully attracted the attention of the Yuhui battleship."

"It's time for the rest of our fleet to jump in here."

Bai Quan zoomed in and out of the projection in the center of the conference table and refocused it on Chen Ming's current planet.

And on the projection of this planet, there is a precisely marked location.

"This location is an approximate longitude and latitude coordinate obtained based on Chen Ming's own observation of the starry sky. It will be used as a reference for the rescue operation when the time comes."

"I confirmed the specific coordinates with Chen Ming a few days ago. He can send out a specific signal frequency on the planet to help us locate him when our fleet arrives."

"As long as we break through Yuhui's defenses, the deployment of ground forces will be fully guaranteed by our Fourteenth Army."

"The final rescue mission will also be carried out by us."

"We will then arrange for a cruiser to take him away via warp."

Bai Quan did not say much about the 14th Legion’s own mission and quickly jumped to the next stage.

"After the rescue is successful, the remaining spacecraft will need to jump into the core system of Yuhui."

"Did you see this?"

As Baiquan spoke, he zoomed in on the galaxy again and located it in a galaxy in the center of a circle of colonies in the core of the Afterglow Galaxy.

"Among the dozens of star systems in this core region, this is the only volcanic planet with frequent geological activities."

"The Kletka supercomputer, which requires an extremely low temperature environment for cooling, must be here."

"In order to destroy it, we need to address the planetary shield generator that must be set up on the planet."

"This requires specialized EMP weapons."

Baiquan looked at the representative of Tachyon Technology.

The representative of Tachyon Technology asked in return: "The drones we provide are of good quality, right?"

"Yes."

"Then our weapons will have the same quality."

Baiquan nodded and continued, "Our goal is to destroy Kletka, and we expect to encounter three Afterglow battleships on the way."

The Tachyon representative immediately said: "Our main battleship is on the way, the Exemplar-class battleship."

"It just made its debut on your front line some time ago, you should know."

"So, what are you guys offering?"

Bai Quan waved his hand and projected the appearance of three battleships onto the conference table. Without exception, all of them had extremely exaggerated heavy armor.

"Two offensive-class heavy battleships and one legion-class aviation battleship."

"In the battle against Yuhui, we are the main force."

The Tachyon Technology representative nodded and looked at the government representative next door.

Baiquan also said at this time: "As for logistics..."

The government representative immediately said: "We will take care of it."

"We will have the Astra-class and Prometheus-class support supplies and fuel by then."

The Tachyon Technology representative sitting next to the government representative looked at him with interest and said, "I've never heard of this model. The Colossus class is so old and uncomfortable that they designed a new cruiser class?"

"Why can't your government send out a battleship to support us?"

The government representative looked at him and said, "These two ships are the capital ships."

Everyone at the conference table looked at the government representative in surprise.

The government representative said with a mixture of pride and sadness on his face: "This was distributed by the general government."

"You have already started developing a new generation of battleships, and we certainly can't fall behind."

"But since the military and the government are separated, our government can only design battleships for logistics purposes."

He took out a document from the file bag in front of him and slapped it on the table.

"Here are the carrying capacity data for the Astra-class super freighter and the Prometheus-class fuel transport."

Bai Quan took the document from the assistant next to him, glanced at it briefly and said, "No problem."

"Then let's end this meeting here."

"I hope I'll see you all again later."

(End of this chapter)