This discovery immediately excited him.

But he immediately realized a problem: this was only a partial blueprint for the new star.

And this is the most troublesome part.

There is a big difference between getting a complete blueprint of a battleship and getting a partial blueprint.

Because the value of some blueprints to Chen Ming may only lie in selling them.

But if it is a complete blueprint, Chen Ming might even be able to build this new star-class ship himself one day in the future.

However, Chen Ming also thought of a possible solution to this problem.

It is currently known that there must be many data nodes in Yuhui’s giant dock.

Based on the situation of the data node he currently controls, he speculates that some of the new star-level blueprints should also be hidden in the databases of other nodes.

As for why there is a blueprint.

It is highly likely that there will be different modular areas inside the giant dock, responsible for the construction of different parts of the new star.

In order to prevent meaningless data leakage, each data node only stores the part that is responsible for the current area.

This is what Chen Ming thinks is a relatively reasonable speculation.

So if you think this way, then Chen Ming feels that the complete blueprint may be found in the core central control system of the entire giant dock.

However, his current mental strength is basically unable to support him in obtaining the blueprints of other data nodes, not to mention the blueprint of the central control system.

Chen Ming thought about this for a moment.

He is generally not very greedy.

After all, his original goal a long time ago was just to go back alive.

Now he has even successfully returned to the human world after controlling a large number of Afterglow individuals and obtaining the foundation for colony development.

No need to be greedy...

etc.

Chen Ming suddenly reacted.

Why is he not greedy? Will being greedy do him any harm?

He has returned to the Human Empire alive, and the main fleet of the Afterglow that was chasing him was directly killed by the boss.

It was impossible for Yu Hui to send another fleet to hunt him down. That would be no different from giving it away for free.

So he doesn't need to consider the consequences of doing this now, because there are none.

Chen Ming is no longer a thing of the past for Yu Hui.

They have no ability and no idea where Chen Ming will go next.

What's more, although Chen Ming ran away, the influence he left behind is still within Yuhui, and Yuhui's attention is definitely more on the inside now.

His safety cannot be threatened by Yuhui, at least in the short term.

Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about Yu Hui at all. He can be as ruthless as he wants and do whatever it takes to make himself develop as quickly as possible in the future.

Besides, there happened to be people from the 14th Legion present here who could help him realize his ideas.

Besides, the goal of the 14th Legion is to destroy the Nova Star level, while Chen Ming’s goal is to obtain the blueprint of the Nova Star level, not the Nova Star level itself.

They do not conflict, nor do they affect each other.

Chen Ming can fully utilize or cooperate with the 14th Legion to try to obtain more blueprints.

As long as he succeeds in obtaining it, he might have a place to build his future battleship.

So Chen Ming came to a conclusion after a brief thought.

greedy.

Must be greedy.

It’s a greedy method, and you need to think about it carefully.

If Chen Ming wants more new star-level blueprints, he must start from the data nodes to control more afterglows and affect more areas of the giant docks.

This requires the consumption of mental energy.

But he can't bear it anymore, and is in a situation where he may come at any time in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, the problem of mental strength must be solved.

Chen Ming mobilized his tired brain, thinking about whether there was any way to temporarily gather some mental strength.

He pinched his brows and suddenly thought of something that might work.

Ship spirit.

Chen Ming had this idea in his mind, so he knocked on the wall next to him.

A shadow suddenly poked out from the wall, tilted the part of its head, and exuded a confused expression.

Chen Ming felt that the boat spirit could understand what he said, so he asked directly: "Can you restore my spiritual power?"

The ship spirit's doubts disappeared instantly, and it flew out of the spaceship and entered Chen Ming's body.

It even penetrated directly into Chen Ming's brain and covered his brain like a protective film.

Chen Ming instantly felt a coolness in his consciousness, the drowsiness faded a lot, and his mental strength was partially restored.

The boat spirit crawled out of Chen Ming's body, the shadow of the body faded a little, and returned to the boat.

Chen Ming subconsciously touched his head. He never expected that his random idea would actually be realized by the boat spirit.

Although the amount of mental power restored is not much, it is enough to deal with the next things.

It made him determined to obtain the new star-level blueprint.

This requires Chen Ming to continue working on the giant dock.

Just as Chen Ming obtained the bonus of mental power from the ship spirit.

Several special operations team members in the data node room also installed the terrain detection equipment again.

And once again obtained the map of the area to be visited next.

Looking at the map projected in front of him, the captain manually marked several locations with special shapes on it and said, "These are the locations of the gravity magnetic devices."

A team member who didn't know much about mechanical equipment asked subconsciously: "So many?"

"Yes, the gravity magnetic device is not a single device, but a number of devices spread throughout the inner circle of the dock that can build a giant magnetic field."

"Although there are a lot of them, we don't need to destroy them all. If we can destroy two or three, it will cause a chain reaction, and the others will break down on their own."

"So what exactly are we going to do?"

The captain pointed to a place nearby without hesitation and said, "Here, the small ship berthing area inside the dock. There are engineering ships for the new star construction."

He looked at the electronic technicians and said, "I need you to hack in and use Yuhui's spaceship to destroy the gravity magnetic device."

"Without our own weapons?"

"No, because they are too far away and the range of our weapons is too short. We probably can't get close to those places. Only the spacecraft can barely do it."

"And we have other uses for our weapons. Look here."

The captain gestured with his hand to their current location and the next target location, which was the cargo distribution center, and then to the shipyard where Yuhui's engineering ship for the new star construction was docked.

"It's relatively safe here all the way to the cargo distribution center."

"But from the cargo distribution center, the exclusive transportation channel after the cargo is sorted leads all the way to the warehouses at the innermost part of the dock where the shipbuilding equipment is installed."

"All the scanners on the road have detected movement, all of them are Yuhui's robots."

Looking at the dense number of afterglow robots scanned on the map, the captain felt a little tingling on his scalp.

"Yuhui is now in a state where the outside is tight, the middle is loose, and the inside is tight again."

"So at this point, it's impossible for us to move forward without a direct conflict with Yu Hui."

"Prepare for a frontal assault and check all the weapons. When we came out, we brought good stuff for testing."

"If we are efficient enough, we can complete the mission before Yuhui kills us all."

"If you can run, run. If you can't, just drop your weapons and surrender. There's no shame in that."

"But remember, it's after the mission is completed."

"If you drop your weapons before the mission is completed, you don't have to go back."

"Is everything clear?"

Several team members nodded immediately.

As for the magnet, Chen Ming, who had just obtained some extra spiritual power supply from the ship spirit, just turned his attention back here.

I also happened to hear the captain and the team members discussing the specific actions to be taken next.

Chen Ming could hear that the captain had been formulating their specific plans without Chen Ming's help.

Each step was basically thought out on the spot. Of course, Chen Ming didn't blame them for not preparing for this before doing such an important thing.

After all, there was no advance arrangement for sending out the special operations team. Instead, Bai Quan formed such a team on a whim because of a casual remark made by Chen Ming.

There is no possibility of advance preparation.

Therefore, judging from the fact that the captain was able to make quite reasonable arrangements on the spur of the moment, he does have some ability.

But his thoughts were still limited to ordinary people, and he didn't take Chen Ming into consideration at all.

Of course, it is also possible that they dare not take Chen Ming into consideration.

That further proves that he is a man who knows his limits and will not take Chen Ming's help to them for granted.

But since Chen Ming heard it, he definitely cannot go ahead with this plan.

After all, the limit of his abilities is too great in Yu Hui's territory.

Moreover, how much effort he puts into this matter now is likely to affect how much he can get from Baiquan later.

So he interrupted the conversation between the captain and the team members and said, "No need to go through so much trouble. Just go over there. You will be safe until you enter the warehouse of the shipyard over there."

Because if we go further, we will be close to the core of the giant dock where the battleships are built.

Although the Beta-level afterglow that Chen Ming controlled at the data node had more horizontal control, several areas involved in the data node had been affected by it.

However, this Beta-level afterglow is not very effective in terms of vertical depth, resulting in the area that Chen Ming can influence being limited to this point.

This also resulted in him being unable to support the special operations team on the last leg of the journey.

Of course, this is also because Yuhui’s giant docks are basically modular and there are almost no physical connections between them.

If Chen Ming had not controlled a relatively critical data node, the impact of the spread might have been smaller, or even impossible to spread.

Otherwise, as long as he controls one data node, the rest of the giant dock may be controlled by him along the network cable without having to worry about any impact.

After all, the giant Yuhui shipyard is controlled by a large number of Yuhui individuals.

All mental problems can be borne by the afterglow individuals under his control.

If this is really possible, Chen Ming can even send people all the way in to the dock where the new star-class ship under construction is parked.

This is the only place that is completely disconnected from any other areas of the dock by any physical connection.

Unless there is an individual of Yuhui controlled by Chen Ming who can physically arrive here and access the data network here, this place will be a pure land that Chen Ming cannot control.

This is an area that Chen Ming cannot really touch upon.

But if you think about it carefully, it’s actually not that bad.

After all, we have come to this point, and Chen Ming’s subsequent help is of little significance.

It was impossible for him to directly control the Alpha-class afterglow in charge of this giant dock.

The current situation is that he is unable to provide additional assistance to the special operations team earlier.

"From now on, you have to go on your own, or find a data cable. If you can't find it, then you're on your own."

The captain still remained respectful to Chen Ming.

And this time he immediately abandoned the plan and idea he had just proposed without any hesitation, and said: "Mr. Chen, we will follow your decision."

"And you've done enough. We really didn't expect to be able to break through the outer two layers of the giant dock so easily."

The captain's face beneath his protective suit revealed a hint of genuine respect, rather than the false respect he had maintained on the surface at the beginning.

Seeing the captain's changes and expression.

Chen Ming suddenly remembered something Bai Quan had said before.

When he, as a commander, can bring victory to his soldiers, his soldiers will naturally support him and help him eliminate unnecessary troubles.

And now that Chen Ming has brought hope of victory to the special operations team, they seem to have similar ideas.

Although Chen Ming doesn't actually need it.

But it still feels good to be respected.

It also makes him feel like he is trying to steal someone else's girl.

Of course, Chen Ming was just doing things according to his own ideas and did not intentionally try to steal someone else's girlfriend.

So he won't be able to avoid it.

After all, if these people in the special operations team can really return alive after completing the mission.

It is almost foreseeable that they will stand out in the future.

It’s also good to maintain a good relationship with several of them.

Even if he couldn't maintain it, it didn't matter. Chen Ming didn't really care about his relationship with people in the future.

The focus of his future development will be outside the empire.

Just do your normal work and let the rest take its course.

The team quickly cleaned up the equipment installed in the data node and set off again.

Although there are many robots and artillery on the road ready to guard against possible invaders, they are also serving as backup combat units to fight with the 14th Legion fleet on the front line.

But the members of the special operations team walked in there quite casually at this time, as if they were in an empty space.

The slight nervousness on the group's faces gradually dissipated as they went deeper.

They also fully understood the abilities of "Mr. Chen" sent by their immediate superior, Major General Baiquan Bai.

The electronic technician team member suddenly looked thoughtful.

He thought back to the last mission they had carried out in Yu Hui's territory.

Although the military is relatively closed to outside news.

And when actually carrying out the task, it is enough for everyone to just take care of what they are supposed to do.

So ordinary soldiers really don’t know that the last failed mission was actually to rescue Chen Ming.

However, the daily work tasks of electronic technical team members involve network-related parts, so they are often more informed than others.

So, he quietly connected the Chen Ming rumored by the outside world with the Mr. Chen who was guiding them now.

His eyes seemed full of eagerness.

Because Chen Ming is a psychic.

Although the news about psychics is just an urban legend in the eyes of ordinary civilians.

But in the fringe star regions that can almost be equated with lawless areas, and within legions like the 14th Legion, it is basically a semi-public matter.

But to the people of the legion, psychics have an even more important meaning.

Although in most cases the value of psychics on large-scale battlefields is not that high, of course the boss is an exception.

But when performing some special tasks, such as the tasks performed by the special operations team now, the value of psychics is completely different.

They have advantages on small-scale battlefields that no one and no modern technology can match.

It can bring the possibility of perfect execution of tasks to others who are acting together.

In the eyes of the electronic technology team members, Chen Ming is such a person.

And although Chen Ming is not a member of the 14th Legion, and not even necessarily a soldier, their superior Bai Quan was able to invite Chen Ming to guide them in completing the mission.

Then their relationship must be relatively close.

Maybe in the future there will be opportunities to carry out missions like this one.

When that time comes, he will definitely find a way to get involved.

Because it means easy promotion, even if it comes with a heavy debt of gratitude.

The electronic technical team members silently decided in their hearts to share this news with their companions later.

And before you know it.

Several members of the special operations team have also arrived at the location closest to the shipyard.

Chen Ming stopped the team and said, "After you pass the corner ahead, you will enter an area that I cannot influence for the time being."

The electronic technician took out the equipment he had used before, gestured around and said, "I can't find the data cable."

Although he said so.

But Chen Ming actually found a data cable nearby, because he had previously obtained the specific map of the giant dock through the Beta-class afterglow.

So of course he knows the directions of the different lines inside the product and the location of the most critical data lines.

But recently, the data lines that can affect the shipyard area are located inside the shipyard because of the division of different modules in the design of the giant dock.

So Chen Ming had to at least wait for the members of the special operations team to enter safely, and he also had to cut through the wall that was more than ten centimeters thick before he could connect the data cable.

The movement of cutting through the wall would inevitably attract Yuhui's defense units.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not expect anything from this, and just said: "The rest is up to you."

"yes."

The captain responded and waved to his electronics teammate to start working.

Since Chen Ming had just controlled a new beta-level core, he gave his electronic technology teammates a string of more advanced and internal data codes.

So now, it would be easier for him to hack in.

After hacking the surveillance and defense devices at the door, the team successfully slipped into the shipyard's warehouse.

Make sure that the special operations team has their own plans and ideas and does not need him to keep an eye on everything.

Plus, he basically had no chance to intervene afterwards.

So Chen Ming decided to start doing his own thing.

At this time, his attention has shifted from helping Baiquan complete the task to helping himself obtain the future upper limit, that is, the battleship.

In fact, Chen Ming has been preparing since the beginning.

In order to achieve his goal, he has investigated the defense measures inside the giant dock.

For example, the peak time that Yu Hui's combat robot can continue fighting is three hours.

After entering combat mode for three hours, the robots on the front line must take turns.

Replace the afterglow robots that fought with the human robots on the assault boats launched by the 14th Legion with the robots on standby in the rear to ensure combat effectiveness.

If there are combat losses, the robots on standby in the rear will be replaced to the front line earlier.

The replaced robots will be sent to mechanical assembly plants in different locations within the giant dock.

Multiple factories work together to carry out maintenance work, sharing the pressure on the factories.

Therefore, Chen Ming can do something through these robots that are used to guard against the robots on human assault boats.

As long as he could find a way to control a robot and install an afterglow core in it, and then have it replaced by a machine shop somewhere during the next rotation.

Then the rest of the things will follow naturally.

And now, Chen Ming has controlled a lot of low-level afterglows and many robots.

And there is another thing, although Chen Ming's ability to control the afterglow on a large scale and thoroughly has been exposed.

But it takes time for Yuhui to be fully informed.

It also takes time for the notification to reach the giant shipyard.

Although the giant shipyard had indeed received Chen Ming's message.

But Yuhui, who was still in the battle, had no time to take care of this issue.

It is also impossible to suddenly check a robot during a battle to prevent Chen Ming from controlling the robot or something.

They can only bite the bullet and fight the 14th Legion now.

At least there is good news for them, which is that they have been relatively strict in the management of giant shipyards from the beginning.

Chen Ming's ability to control the afterglow has not yet been demonstrated to them.

Therefore, at least before the battle is over, Chen Ming can safely use the combat robot rotation rules set by Yu Hui himself to achieve his goal . The success rate of this matter is very high.

As long as he can access different data nodes, he can find a way to put together a complete set of blueprints for the new star level.

Or, Chen Ming has another choice.

Go straight to the heart of the matter and directly infiltrate the central control system of the giant dock.

As long as we can control this place, the blueprint will be easy to get.

This new star under construction may be controlled by him.

Chen Ming can be sure that there must be an Alpha in Yuhui’s giant dock, or maybe even two.

Otherwise, Bai Quan would not have been able to see Yuhui launching a new star level that was not yet fully completed.

It's impossible for an Alpha Afterglow to control a battleship and a giant dock at the same time.

Therefore, it is even possible for Chen Ming to obtain two new Alpha-level afterglows.

It’s just that it’s a bit difficult to complete.

Moreover, Chen Ming couldn't think of any way to break through Yu Hui's defense and physical isolation.

So Chen Ming didn’t think much about the second option.

For now, the focus is still on controlling more data nodes.

Chen Ming contacted Bai Quan directly and asked, "Do you still have robots and enhanced assault boats?"

"We have enough assault boats, but we can probably deploy two more waves of robots from reserve."

"Then let them go if you can. The special operations team has now entered the core area. It would be best if you can attract more attention from the periphery."

"Understood."

After hearing what Chen Ming said, Bai Quan decisively agreed. Of course, he was not clear about Chen Ming's actual purpose at the moment.

And Chen Ming had no intention of telling anyone.

Anyway, what he and Baiquan said was true, they were not lying to him.

And his goal is, after all, the blueprint for a new star level, so it is better to keep this matter secret.

For Chen Ming, the battleship can completely serve as a trump card.

As a trump card, it must not be told to anyone.

(End of this chapter)