Half a day later.

Baiquan's Fourteenth Legion is ready.

The fleet could make a dangerous jump at any time, straight into the heart of Yuhui.

And they have also left the giant dock that can perform maintenance and overhaul of capital ships and left their base.

In other words, since the end of the last mission, the 14th Legion fleet, which had failed in the mission, had left the dock after returning to the base to repair the damage to the ships.

The fleet has been hiding somewhere else and will only return to the dock at fixed times when it needs to be resupplied and repaired.

As for why Baiquan did this on purpose.

This is because since the last time humans launched a surprise attack on the afterglow, various afterglows have suddenly begun to appear frequently on the edge of the Galo star field.

It became common for Yuhui's fleet to attack fleets traveling between galaxies, invade galaxies with humans, attack colonies, and plunder resources.

Even around the galaxy where the Fourteenth Legion is currently located, a military base close to the edge of the star field, there are often harassments from afterglow fleets of varying sizes.

Although the small-scale Afterglow Fleet that came here every time was no different from committing suicide, their frequent doing so was definitely causing some impact on the 14th Legion.

The stationed troops need to be dispatched regularly to clean up the area, otherwise it will easily lead to the interception of supplies transported by the government.

Fortunately, Baiquan has taken over this former star zone military base for some time, not just now.

In addition, there is a dedicated person in charge of logistics, and his ability is also quite good.

Otherwise he would have a headache.

But the problem doesn't just end there.

While Yuhui was dying, he must have been constantly reporting back the situation inside the galaxy.

Such behavior made Bai Quanlai conclude that Yuhui would counterattack at some time in the future, otherwise they would have no reason to come here to die.

Since Yu Hui is trying to obtain intelligence about the galaxy, the situation of the fleet stationed in the galaxy will definitely be investigated clearly.

With a little attention, you can analyze the situation in which he is dispatching the fleet and preparing for subsequent actions, and make a response.

So after Bai Quan received a reply from Chen Ming agreeing to help him, he deliberately ordered the fleet to leave the giant dock early in order to hide the existence of the fleet.

I found a secluded corner and squatted there.

And after receiving the notice from Chen Ming today.

Bai Quan began to lead the fleet, circling the Yuhui star field, and approached the Yuhui star field from the side of the buffer zone where Yuhui and the mechanical race met.

This is a good standby position that Chen Ming told Bai Quan about.

Since the frontline planet on the edge and the entire galaxy have been controlled by Chen Ming, the leading Alpha-class Afterglow is also Chen Ming's subordinate.

So the 14th Legion's fleet had little need to worry about being discovered while staying there.

These afterglows can completely ignore the existence of Baiquan.

Even though this is the border of the Afterglow Star Region, there are often individuals coming from within the star region who want to get training in small-scale conflicts.

As long as they come over, they will be controlled by him while replenishing supplies.

Even if Chen Ming didn't have time to control the new Afterglow individual and let it spread the message.

The message that was sent out could only be transmitted back to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming, where there is a communication anchor point between galaxies.

If any external individual of the Afterglow dares to come here, it would be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth, and not even a sound would be able to be heard.

Baiquan’s fleet can stay here safely and wait for the right opportunity.

If it weren't for safety and preventing some accidents.

Chen Ming even wanted Bai Quan to prepare directly in the galaxy or closer to the interior of the star field, so that the cost of the jump would be reduced.

However, Baiquan took the initiative to reject this proposal.

He said that as long as the jump distance was not more than half a star field, the impact would not be that great. It was not profitable to exchange the possibility of being discovered for better combat conditions later.

So in the end, they chose an area outside the star field that was close to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming, but there were relatively few valuable galaxies nearby.

When Bai Quan led the fleet to arrive here, he used the terminal given to him by Chen Ming for the first time and took the initiative to contact Chen Ming: "I am already in place and can act at any time."

About a minute later, Chen Ming replied: "Is it possible now?"

"Okay, shall we start?"

"No, I'm just asking."

Although Baiquan could have acted in advance, there was no need to do so. Good steel should be used where it is needed most.

"Just wait there for now. Wait for my notification. Wait until I find a suitable time."

Chen Ming should be able to get news about Yu Hui faster than Bai Quan, and let them take action at a more appropriate time.

At the same time when the message came from Baiquan, Chen Ming had almost finished discussing the specific action arrangements with Huihuang and Gamma Z.

So Chen Ming didn't waste any time and started his plan directly.

Chen Ming currently has complete control over only three galaxies.

The first galaxy Chen Ming had ever visited.

The first place Gamma Z went to after returning was the galaxy with the energy crystal crab planet.

And the frontier galaxy located on the border between Yuhui and the Mechanical Clan.

The degree of control over the remaining galaxies varies, but the degree of control over two galaxies is close to 80%, and the degree of control over three galaxies is more than half.

However, since these galaxies are not completely under his control, there is a risk of information leaking.

So Chen Ming's target this time was set on these galaxies.

Instead, it focuses on the three galaxies that he completely controls.

Be the first to start planning your choice.

Let’s start from the galaxy of the industrial colony where the factory where Chen Ming first worked was located.

This is an industrial galaxy relatively close to the edge of the star field. The four colonies in the galaxy can provide Chen Ming with the foundation for establishing a colony.

At the same time, there are also a considerable number of remaining individuals who can support the development of the colony.

And most importantly, the glory of the Alpha-class afterglow has always been here.

It is for this reason that the galaxy that Gamma Z went to first when he came back was temporarily ruled out as the first choice.

In fact, that galaxy originally had an Alpha-class afterglow, but it was blown up by the Fourteenth Legion when Chen Ming was planning to escape last time, and no new ones have been assigned until now.

Chen Ming had specifically asked Huihuang about this matter before.

After all, the galaxy has been completely controlled by him, and if the new Alpha-level afterglow comes, it will be no different from giving it to him for free.

But what is meant by glory is that this galaxy will be taken over by a new Alpha-class individual in the future. However, the new individual is still in the process of switching from a Beta-class core to an Alpha-class core, and it will still take some time.

And it hasn't come until today. It's impossible for Chen Ming to continue waiting. It can only be said that it's a pity.

But fortunately, he has other preparations that can be used in this galaxy.

But that will have to wait for a while, right now we should focus on glory here first.

Chen Ming contacted Huihuang through psychic power and said, "The time has come, let's get started."

"receive."

After receiving Chen Ming's instructions, Huihuang confirmed that there were no afterglow individuals inside the galaxy that were not controlled by Chen Ming.

Relying directly on the communication equipment within the galaxy, it began broadcasting to the entire galaxy.

It will deliver countless complete task orders planned by it personally to each Yuhui individual controlled by Chen Ming accurately one-on-one.

There are a total of four colonies in the galaxy, distributed on different planets.

Three colonies with industrial facilities on the surface of ordinary planets, and a suspended industrial base floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet.

All the afterglow individuals above began to act after receiving the brilliant order.

The production lines of countless factories gradually began to stop operating, and countless afterglow entities were moved out of the original industrial facilities.

They were installed on spacecraft, robots, or according to Huihuang's requirements, a core was directly transported to the cargo hold of a cargo ship.

The robots controlled by Yu Hui began to cooperate with the low-flying engineering ships to dismantle valuable industrial equipment.

Or they could help the cargo fleets that have spread across the colonies to transport dismantled equipment and supplies stored in warehouses.

Countless spaceships are flying over the surface of the colony.

Different types of spacecraft have different missions, but from any angle, these spacecraft are neat and orderly when performing their missions, without any sign of chaos.

All are busy working towards the same goal.

Only a small number of Afterglow individuals who received special orders were sorting out the materials according to the industrial production tasks that Afterglow had previously assigned to the brilliant galaxy, and preparing for the last one or two batches of transportation of materials to other places.

Although the colony has stopped production, the previous batch of output has been placed there.

Some of these outputs will be kept by the galaxy itself, but more of the industrial output needs to be regularly provided to other galaxies.

Otherwise, when other galaxies discover that industrial materials are in short supply, they will immediately realize that there is a problem here.

Once Yu Hui came to investigate deliberately, it would be extremely difficult, or even impossible, to conceal such a big move by Chen Ming.

Therefore, leaving this group of individuals behind to complete the previous tasks can be considered as Chen Ming's early preparation.

A galaxy is one in which there is no sign of anything amiss and which continues to function normally, at least on the surface.

Receiving foreign materials and exporting industrial products, everything is normal.

Then there would be no reason for Yu Hui to doubt it.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

Everything is going smoothly.

Five hours later, it was exactly midnight Earth time.

Chen Ming usually has a very regular schedule, but starting from today, he obviously has no time to rest.

So now he just lies on the bed with his eyes closed pretending to sleep.

In fact, he was observing the situation of the galaxy through the afterglow of the brilliant galaxy.

The industrial facilities in the four colonies that had caused the earth and the atmosphere to tremble have been completely quelled, and the colonies themselves have basically been completely paralyzed.

Accordingly, spacecraft loaded with high-value industrial equipment and supplies have crowded the surface.

But none of them took off and were still waiting for orders.

Because at this time, the glorious Brilliant-class unmanned cruiser was staying at the position where the sum of the distances between the four colonies in the galaxy was the shortest.

A complete fleet that has reached the upper limit of the jump engine's carrying capacity has been formed around it.

Although most of them are cargo ships, it is enough even if they are mostly cargo ships since they cannot be discovered in the current afterglow.

Eighty percent of these cargo ships carry various high-value industrial equipment.

Fifteen percent carried supplies that could maintain these industrial equipment for a period of time.

The remaining 5% is responsible for the escort fleet.

It can be said that this fleet alone can build the prototype of Chen Ming's colony.

Brilliantly completed the construction of the first cargo fleet with extremely high efficiency within a few hours.

And the second fleet can be formed again at any time.

And in this process, any spacecraft that entered the galaxy without Chen Ming's control and the afterglow individuals on board were all controlled by Huihuang using the coercive method of refraction.

It may even do other things during this time, and these things will be reflected immediately.

After completing all this, Huihuang reported to Chen Ming: "The cargo fleet is ready, and the jump engine positioning system has locked onto the target star system, K-WYH-2."

This is a galaxy that humans have not yet set foot on, but has been confirmed and named through observation.

At the same time, Chen Ming had previously used the unstable hyperspace channel jump engine to test the refraction and sent it to the buffer zone between Yuhui and the mechanical race.

And taking advantage of that time to explore the outer star fields, he found the galaxy where one of the six valuable planets was located.

Chen Ming was very lucky and found a total of three habitable planets.

One of them has a toxic atmosphere on its surface, one has traces of the existence of mechanical races, and the other is an ordinary habitable planet where everything is normal.

There are also three other star systems with planets that have different distributions of surface minerals.

Therefore, Chen Ming finally chose the target.

This is the galaxy where the habitable planet with a toxic atmosphere is located.

As for the reason for choosing it, it is simply because it is the farthest from the Afterglow Galaxy in physical distance, and Chen Ming just needs this galaxy as a temporary stopover.

It was impossible for him to build a colony at such a close distance, so a temporary stop didn't require any good options.

After the brilliant report sounded, Chen Ming did not hesitate any longer. It had come to this point and there was nothing for him to hesitate about.

"That's it, let's go."

"receive."

Brilliantly started the jump engine

Some blurs and afterimages visible to the naked eye appeared in the fleet images that Chen Ming saw through the sensors of the spacecraft that remained in the galaxy.

The preparation time of more than ten seconds is over.

Brilliance led hundreds of destroyer-class cargo ships in the fleet, as well as a dozen scattered frigates used to fill the last bit of excess jump engine carrying mass, and disappeared into the galaxy.

The transition process will take a little time.

Chen Ming took this opportunity to turn his attention to another galaxy.

The galaxy with energy crystal crabs that Gamma Z visited when he first came back.

A cargo fleet is also being formed here, and the flagship is the Colossus-class heavy cargo ship controlled by Huiyao.

The Colossus-class heavy freighter is an essential ship for large-scale material transportation between galaxies.

This is a type of ship that has been manufactured a long time ago.

There is only one reason why it has existed for so long without being eliminated: it is easy to use.

Both Yuhui and humans have been using it to this day, only the specific models have been changing.

Originally, these important cargo ships had fixed numbers and were shared among several different galaxies.

But it just so happens that there is a Colossus under production in the galaxy controlled by Glory, and the specific delivery date is in the future.

So Chen Ming asked Huihuang to allocate some resources to it and speed up the construction.

Until today it came in handy.

And while Huihuang was arranging things to do in his own galaxy, he also made arrangements for Huiyao in advance.

Huiyao now only needs to drive the ship to the designated location, and the other spaceships that have been assigned tasks will take care of the rest.

It only needs to jump to the galaxy found by Chen Ming according to the set coordinates after the fleet is assembled.

Although Huiyao was quite dissatisfied with Chen Ming for instructing Gamma A to deceive him.

But since it has been influenced by Chen Ming, it has some complaints.

Moreover, Chen Ming felt that Huiyao and Gamma A seemed to have developed a relationship beyond friendship.

Although he didn't know what kind of complicated relationship this was.

But based on his understanding of Yu Hui, a species capable of emotions, he can accept any situation.

So on the premise that he arranged the evacuation of Gamma A in advance, Huiyao is now really helping Chen Ming honestly.

The Colossus class was quickly in place, and the jump drive also began to resonate, taking the fleet in the galaxy away.

At this time, Brilliance had just completed the jump and arrived at the edge of the galaxy that Chen Ming had found before.

He randomly found a planet with no atmosphere and flat terrain and led his fleet to land there.

It puts all individuals into silent hibernation, awaiting subsequent instructions.

It was moving out all the goods from the few storage spaces on its Brilliant class.

After emptying the cargo hold, it moved away from the planet alone and sent the agreed signal to Chen Ming.

As soon as Chen Ming received the signal, he decisively used [Repair] on the Brilliant Class.

With the rapid depletion of mental power, the Brilliant-class jump engine was also cooling down at an extremely fast rate.

After waiting for the colossus that also leaped over, Assistant Huiyao began to unload the cargo.

Brilliant activated the jump engine that had been cooling down for a while, and jumped back to the original galaxy.

The second fleet began to be formed.

As Huiyao was carrying a lot of cargo and it took a long time to unload it, it was a while later that it gave Chen Ming the signal that maintenance was needed.

After repairing and cooling the jump engine, it returned to the galaxy where the energy crystal crab was located to continue transporting the second batch of fleet supplies.

Although the efficiency is lower than that of Huihuang, at least there were no accidents throughout the process.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

It seems that Chen Ming does not need to worry about these two sides for the time being. It is enough to have Huihuang be responsible for the overall coordination.

He only needed to provide psychic energy to repair the jump engines of the two cruisers so that they could continue to work.

So, Chen Ming turned his attention to the galaxy located on the border.

There is only one planet in this galaxy with afterglow individuals, which maintain the planet's defense capabilities and safeguard the operation of the planet's military industry.

Chen Ming still needs to do some simple processing here.

Of course, we can't do it here like in the galaxy where Brilliant and Fabulous are now.

Because this is the strategic location for Yuhui's battle with the mechanical race, it is always in contact with the core area of ​​the Yuhui star field and Yuhui's top leaders.

Many military facilities are under remote monitoring to prevent situations where the galaxy is unable to actively communicate with the outside world, so that they can provide support at any time.

As long as the signal is disconnected or there is an accident with any equipment, Yu Hui, or even Yu Hui’s senior management, will immediately discover the problem and come to inquire about it.

So Chen Ming either simply gave up the military equipment here, or delayed it until the last minute, when his actions were about to be discovered.

At least this way you can take something away.

Chen Ming naturally chose the latter.

However, there are still things he can do now.

For example, forming a fleet specifically for combat.

As a colony located in a fringe galaxy, the shutdown of the most core, pillar, and important military facilities of the front-line colony will be discovered.

But from another perspective, it is normal for such a special colony to suddenly form a fleet.

It is impossible for Yu Hui’s top management to come to the front line in person.

Whatever problems or events occur at the front line are all under the command of the leading Alpha-class Afterglow.

Such a specialized combat fleet can not only provide protection for Chen Ming's colonies and a period of time before colonial construction.

Even in the last one or two days, when there was an unexpected situation in Chen Ming's plan, he was able to stop Yu Hui for Chen Ming when necessary.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten hours passed.

The two cruisers have made several trips back and forth in and out of the star field.

Although the jump is fast, it takes time to organize the fleet.

But even so, Chen Ming's mental strength has already dropped by one third.

Of course, he actually didn't know that his mental power had now become so powerful that it could support so many repairs on the cruiser.

It should be noted that multiple jumps in a short period of time not only require accelerated cooling of the jump engine through maintenance, but also require the wear and tear of the repair engine and the battleship itself during the jump process.

It was equivalent to Chen Ming relying on his mental power to complete the maintenance work that should be carried out after the jump.

But compare his current mental energy consumption with the number of remaining spaceships in the two galaxies.

To complete his plan, he needs more mental strength.

Moreover, in these two star fields, during Chen Ming's operations which lasted almost a day in total, some afterglow individuals who discovered abnormalities have appeared.

They are investigating.

They could be private friends of some of the Yuhui individuals controlled by Chen Ming, or they could be Yuhui who came from some affected areas due to the interruption of production.

After all, Huihuang’s current computing power is only at the galaxy level.

Being able to handle the transportation of materials to all colonies in two galaxies at the same time and barely deliver the planned external transportation materials within the expected time is already the limit.

It was a pleasant surprise that the mistake occurred one day after the plan was implemented.

Moreover, Chen Ming had thought about this situation before, so he had asked Huihuang and Huiyao to prepare ways to deal with it.

Relying on specially prepared ships, they forcibly controlled these people, who thought they were just accidents, and not the afterglow individuals that Chen Ming, the human, was specifically targeting to investigate.

Let them think of a suitable reason before putting them back to delay time.

Until now, the situation in both galaxies has not been leaked.

But it should be soon. By tomorrow morning at the latest, Yuhui will definitely notice the conditions of these two galaxies.

Then it's time.

Chen Ming contacted Bai Quan through the terminal and said, "The time has come. We can start."

"Understood."

Baiquan's words fell.

The Fourteenth Legion, which was outside the Afterglow Edge Galaxy, suddenly made a move.

The fleet, led by two offensive-class heavy battleships, with over fifty cruisers and over four hundred destroyers, saw the iconic flashes and blurs of the jump engine starting up.

Apart from the battleships and some cruisers, the size of this fleet is no smaller than the last raid on Yuhui.

And last time it was a joint fleet formed by several forces.

Now it's just the 14th Legion, and Bai Quan is the only one in charge of the dispatch.

Bai Quan was currently in the command room of one of the offensive-class ships.

The moment when the efficiency of the jump engine is maximized.

He gave orders to the entire ship.

“Prepare for battle!”

(End of this chapter)