Not long after.

Some robots controlled by Chen Ming and equipped with the Afterglow Core received rotation orders.

It is necessary to go to a defensive artillery platform in the front area of ​​the battle with the 14th Legion fleet to take over the positions of the robots that need repair.

The distance is not far, and with the assistance of a special rail logistics vehicle, the robot arrived here quickly.

Through the robot's sensors.

Chen Ming could see that there were many holes on the external wall of the artillery platform, which was being repaired by several engineering robots.

At the same time, Chen Ming could see through these broken shields that in the outside universe, Yu Hui and the 14th Legion were still fighting.

At this time, an offensive-class ship was advancing at the forefront of the 14th Legion's front line.

The shield was not even turned on, and it relied on its armor to withstand the fire.

The offensive-grade armor was already overflowing with a blazing white sheen, as if even the armor had been melted.

Those were the marks left by being hit by a microsievert-level light radiation cannon.

But for this attacking ship, only the armor was destroyed, and the hull inside the armor and the personnel inside were not harmed at all.

The Offensive class is not like other capital ships that need to lead a fleet to defend against the concentrated fire of the enemy fleet.

It can completely break out of the front line on its own and share the damage that the entire front line needs to bear.

It can do what only a fleet can do.

That's the offensive.

Even when this offensive ship was being bombarded by the weapons carried by the Yuhui fleet and Yuhui's giant dock.

Its main weapon, the thermal pulse laser, is still outputting crazily.

There is no need to rely on the shield to withstand the increase in radiation energy caused by damage.

The narrow, scarlet spindle-shaped energy restraint bombs that were able to directly destroy a cruiser with one shot now bombarded Yuhui's fleet as if they were free.

Even with two radiation-class main shields and a main shield temporarily used on the giant dock to build a joint shield group, it gave considerable support to all the afterglow ships on the battlefield.

However, the current situation on the battlefield is also due to the attack of this ship, which has caused Yu Hui to be suppressed and completely unable to engage in normal fire with the fleet of the 14th Legion.

Even if the linked shield can allow the battleship shield to help lower-level ships resist the damage caused by the battleship's weapons.

However, the energy released by the explosion of the energy restraint bomb did not reach the lower limit of the protection of the linked shield. If these energies hit the surrounding spacecraft, they would actually hit them.

If you are not careful, you could set off a series of fireworks among the fleet.

It was impossible for Yu Hui to withstand this kind of offensive-level firepower that completely abandoned the shield and relied on armor to hold the front line.

It seems that the only way to deal with such an attack is to find a way to deal with the two thermal pulse lasers.

But these two things are somewhat different from the main weapons of most other battleships.

It is not installed on the load-bearing point, which makes it easy to repair and replace.

Instead, it was installed directly inside the ship during the design process and protected under the heavy offensive-level armor.

If you want to destroy them in battle, you can only use high-intensity weapons to shoot into their barrels.

However, although this offensive ship at the forefront of the battle line did not activate its main force shield on a large scale.

However, in front of the two thermal pulse laser gun barrels, a small independent shield connected to the main-level shield generator was installed, and it was turned on.

Yuhui was unable to provide high-intensity continuous output to these two small shields and had no way of dealing with the thermal pulse lasers.

If you really want to take care of this offensive.

Judging from its current armor, it was clear that there was no way Afterglow could destroy it with another attacking ship still covering it from behind.

The offensive was so strong that while attracting most of the firepower, it also allowed the other fleets of the 14th Corps to have a good output environment and a chance to catch their breath after the previous long exchange of fire.

But if you leave it alone.

In addition to its armor, the Offensive class itself is not a vegetarian with its thermal pulse laser.

If it has no pressure on defense, then it can bring the most terrifying pressure to Yuhui's entire front line, which is more terrifying than the average main fleet.

So Yuhui could only leave it at that, destroy the offensive armor as quickly as possible, reach the upper limit it could withstand, and then retreat back to the front line on his own.

This also meant that Yu Hui could only concentrate his firepower on the offensive.

There doesn't seem to be any quick way out of this situation, and it looks like it's in an extremely disadvantageous position.

Such a scene.

However, Chen Ming, who had just seen this scene, felt something was wrong.

Although Bai Quan is suppressing Yu Hui now, Chen Ming feels that Bai Quan seems to be making a last desperate move.

This was his subconscious reaction. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that his guess seemed to be correct.

It just so happened that he had not lost contact with Bai Quan, so Chen Ming directly said to Bai Quan: "You don't look well over there?"

Bai Quan did not show any extra reaction to Chen Ming's question, and asked calmly, "Why do you say that?"

"Because I think you have already felt that you don't have time to stay any longer, otherwise there would be no need for that offensive ship to advance alone."

Bai Quan's face remained expressionless and calm, but he smiled bitterly in his heart.

At the same time, he was a little surprised that Chen Ming could find out the purpose of his actions so quickly.

However, Chen Ming has given him many surprises, and it is normal for a psychic to surprise him in any way.

Bai Quan had always thought highly of Chen Ming, so when his thoughts were guessed, he was only slightly surprised and admitted, "That's true."

"I've been procrastinating here for too long."

"If the new star-level ship is successfully launched, and after Yuhui confirms that I have no other backup plan, the reinforcements can be dispatched to the site."

"I only have two ordinary offensive ships, so I don't have the capital to continue to stand on the field, so I have to retreat."

"But fortunately, at least I took down a radioactive ship at the beginning."

"It's still profitable, just a little less."

Chen Ming was a little confused and asked, "You don't count on the special operations team you arranged?"

"The special operations team is just a temporary idea of ​​mine. It can only be regarded as a bonus. Whether it can be successful depends on luck."

"Under normal circumstances, I actively avoid the element of luck. Unless there is really no other way, I still want to create the final outcome myself."

"Then you were so serious before."

Baiquan explained: "You have to have an attitude when doing things. If I asked you for help in a casual manner before, would you be too lazy to help me?"

"And I just don't like the element of luck, but if a little luck and a little loss can bring unimaginable gains, then I'm still happy to do it."

"It's just that I won't pin my hopes on it, so I say it's just a bonus."

Chen Ming shook his head slightly and said, "Two billion extra dollars. Rich people are different."

Baiquan said subconsciously: "You psychic... Oh, you just... It's okay, you will definitely not take money too seriously in the future."

Chen Ming immediately noticed the problem in Bai Quan's words and said, "So what you mean is that you are taking advantage of the fact that I still value money now to ask me for help with these things that I won't care about in the future?"

"But you still need money now. And I said I don't value it, not that I don't need it."

"Too."

Baiquan took the initiative to skip this topic and continued: "You can see that my idea is to let the offensive level go forward alone to look for an opportunity. If they find me, they may be able to directly break through Yuhui's defense."

"If you can't find it, then it's time to prepare to retreat."

"Look at Yuhui's battle line. Although it looks like it could collapse at any time, it is actually very resilient and will definitely continue to hold on."

"I have a ship attacking here that is attracting all of Yuhui's firepower, and the rest of the fleet is attacking at full capacity."

"We were unable to defeat it even with this, so there should be no follow-up."

"I have to prepare to shrink the battle line and retreat, otherwise it will be difficult to leave when Yuhui's support arrives."

Bai Quan was silent for a while, then said to Chen Ming: "The next batch of assault boats are ready. After this batch, there will be a final batch with a smaller number."

"Want to put them together?"

"Put some more here."

Chen Ming displayed a three-dimensional image of the giant dock on the terminal next to Bai Quan, and marked the area with the most robots under his control, which was the area of ​​the defensive artillery platform.

Bai Quan immediately noticed that the three-dimensional imaging on the panel had quite a lot of details, and it was obvious that specific data had been obtained through field investigation.

He copied the image file and sent it to another place. The data was quite valuable.

Chen Ming obviously noticed Bai Quan's actions, but he acquiesced.

Because he was not the only one who got this specific three-dimensional imaging data, the special operations team also had it.

If the special operations team can return alive, this data will be of no value, so it is better to give it directly to Baiquan now.

Taking this data is equivalent to accepting a part of his favor.

Baiquan obviously knew this, but owing a favor to a psychic was not a bad thing.

After saving the data, he immediately agreed to Chen Ming's request and issued an order to the department responsible for the deployment of the assault boats.

A new round of reinforced assault boats was released.

At the same time, he was also thinking about why Chen Ming had to specify the location for the placement.

He couldn't think of a result for the time being, so he simply asked Chen Ming directly.

"Why do you need me to concentrate my assault boats? Spreading them out will only help disperse the defense forces inside Yuhui and distract their attention."

“Because I’m useful.”

Chen Ming's answer can be said to have integrated the four words "I don't want to say" into it.

Bai Quan did not ask any more questions and continued to command the fleet, gradually starting to shrink the formation.

Chen Ming didn't have time to chat and focused his attention on the Afterglow robots that were about to face the Fourteenth Legion robots.

It would be foolish not to intervene.

But he had to try it himself to determine how to interfere specifically.

At this time, on the defensive artillery platform, you can see that the second, or to be more precise, third batch of assault boats have circled around the front line.

After a considerable number of them were intercepted, about a hundred assault boats still crashed into the damaged outer wall of the giant dock and penetrated into the dock.

There are more of them than before.

It seems that the frontal pressure from the 14th Legion is enough, making Yu Hui's defense a little insufficient.

As soon as these assault boats landed, their hatches suddenly popped open, and a large number of combat robots from the Fourteenth Legion jumped out.

Some assault boats didn't even have their hatches opened; the robots simply broke through the assault boats' armor from the inside.

The number of these robots programmed to destroy even exceeded the number of defense units stationed by Yuhui for a short period of time.

This is exactly what Chen Ming wanted to see.

In the battle that suddenly broke out in defense of the artillery platform.

Let the robots of the 14th Legion cause some damage to the robots of Yuhui under his control that will affect the battle, but will not cause their own robots to be completely destroyed.

While having a perfect excuse to withdraw from the battlefield, he can also avoid exposing the afterglow core he installed in it.

However, Chen Ming has also specially modified these robots, and the core installation locations are all the innermost and hardest parts of the entire robot, so this situation basically will not occur.

Chen Ming was just taking precautions.

After that, the robots that came down from the third wave of assault boats destroyed a considerable number of equipment on the defensive artillery platforms.

All the robots of the Fourteenth Legion were thoroughly cleaned up.

But the damage they caused to the Afterglow robots was obviously much greater than the last time the 14th Legion deployed assault boats.

Of course, this is the case where the robot controlled by Chen Ming is given for free.

However, at the beginning, the number of robots from the 14th Legion that broke in was obviously greater than the defensive units.

This situation is also very normal and is not worth worrying about for Yu Hui.

The damaged robots were quickly gathered and prepared to be sent for repairs via the rail logistics system.

This is because the defensive artillery platform is facing the direction where the 14th Legion is engaged in battle.

A large number of damaged spacecraft are now being repaired in nearby machining plants and repair shops.

In addition, there are factories in other places that have varying numbers of ships under repair.

Therefore, this batch of damaged Yuhui robots were divided into three parts, placed on different rail logistics vehicles, and transported to different locations.

When the visual sensors of the robots controlled by Chen Ming saw the factory gate at the end of the logistics channel,

He knew his chance had come and he had to act now.

Because after entering the factory, Yu Hui’s first step is to scan this batch of robots and confirm the damage in order to carry out subsequent repairs.

During this process, the afterglow core installed by Chen Ming inside the robot will inevitably be exposed.

So, before anything like that happened, before the railcars came into the factory.

Chen Ming took the initiative to destroy the weapon of a robot he controlled.

A large number of electric sparks instantly erupted on the rail transport vehicle, and then as if triggering a chain reaction, electric sparks also erupted on a robot next to it.

And its weapon system suddenly started firing indiscriminately, as if it was out of control.

This instantly caused another robot to encounter an unexpected situation.

A series of chain reactions continued to occur in the car like a series of firecrackers.

This directly caused another rail logistics transport vehicle following behind to brake urgently and stop.

But something even more unexpected happened.

A malfunction in the weapon of the Afterglow robot in front caused several stray bullets to hit the transport vehicle behind.

And this just happened to trigger another accident.

The battery fluid leak of a robot directly caused half of the logistics transport truck to catch fire.

One logistics vehicle can accommodate ten robots.

At least a dozen robots in the two vehicles had problems.

But in fact, there are only five robots controlled by Chen Ming here, and the rest are really just unexpected chain reactions.

In addition, these robots themselves are damaged, so it is normal for accidents to occur.

So Yu Hui still has no doubts so far.

Only the factory quickly dispatched a team of robots to deal with the messy scene.

Taking advantage of this extremely chaotic moment.

One robot suddenly exploded again, knocking the other robot away and pushing it against the wall.

And the next moment, he accidentally or intentionally destroyed the energy supply core of the robot by the wall.

A violent explosion occurred in the logistics channel.

The broken wall, accompanied by huge amounts of electric sparks, instantly created a large gap in the wall.

The damaged wiring inside the wall was revealed, and the damaged wiring caused the lights inside the freight passage to flicker a few times.

However, the timely activation of the backup power supply did not cause any problems in the freight channel.

At this time, Yu Hui, who was controlling the robot team that came to deal with the robots, quickly released a forced shutdown signal based on the advanced control authority he possessed.

However, the signal receiving component of the robot that caused the situation just now did not receive the signal at all.

It even returned a series of failed cyclic lock codes.

Such performance is clearly a sign of damage to the combat system chip.

Yu Hui had no doubts and immediately came up with the best solution to the situation.

Just let the robot that came over raise its weapon and destroy the robot's head where the combat system chip was installed.

As a large number of broken wires were exposed in the air, the robot fell beside the gap.

All of this was deliberately arranged by Chen Ming.

In a blind spot that is out of reach of all visual sensors and monitoring systems on site, a small amount of metal liquid that is barely visible to the naked eye is appearing at the end of the data cable at the broken edge of the robot.

Connect the data cable inside the wall to itself.

By now, Chen Ming finally found an opportunity and successfully touched the data cable.

Chen Ming's spiritual energy penetrated through the data line into the nearby factory like a madly spreading virus.

The factory fell in an instant.

All the mechanical equipment outside the factory that was dealing with the accident suddenly stopped for a moment.

Then he continued with his previous task as if nothing had happened.

Chen Ming continued to follow the common data line in this area and traced back to the location of the regional data node.

He smoothly controlled the Beta-level afterglow here and took control of the database here.

Soon, the second new star-level blueprint fell into his hands.

This is a blueprint for a new star-level engine.

In addition, there is the hull structure blueprint of the lower left corner of the Nova Star ship with an "X" shape that Chen Ming obtained at the beginning.

We probably need to collect a dozen or so blueprints left.

It looks like a lot.

However, just now, two other factories that were assigned robot maintenance tasks also encountered similar accidents.

Although there are not as many accidents and coincidences as here, the final result remains the same.

Chen Ming also controlled the nodes there by accessing the data lines.

Chen Ming also found two new blueprints in the databases of the other two nodes.

They are the armor blueprint of the left front part and the structural blueprint of the central part.

Chen Ming felt that if he worked harder, his goal of completing the blueprint would soon be achieved.

Moreover, with the beta-level cores of these three newly controlled areas as a foundation, it should be relatively easy for him to control other areas and find new blueprint components later.

But at this moment.

Chen Ming's consciousness suddenly became dazed, and a huge feeling of fatigue surged into his brain.

For a moment, he felt as if he had returned to Raymu, back to the moment when he had to exhaust all his mental energy to fight for survival.

He could clearly feel that his mental strength had reached its limit again.

Chen Ming was stunned. He clearly didn't use that much mental energy.

And I have been saving money on purpose.

When controlling a new area, whenever possible, we would control Yuhui's individuals little by little to help share his mental pressure.

It's impossible to use it that fast.

Chen Ming quickly concentrated his consciousness and carefully felt the consumption of his mental energy.

Then he discovered that what the ship spirit had just given him was not directly added to his mental power.

But it is some temporary mental power hanging in another place.

Even if it is not used, it will dissipate quickly.

The shadow of the boat spirit had faded a lot, and it was impossible for it to provide him with mental power for the second time in a short period of time.

He had to find a way to solve this problem.

So far, Chen Ming has obtained partial blueprints of several new star levels.

There was no way he would give up halfway.

Even if he had to hold on or risk passing out, he was determined to get this done.

Anyway, it's not like he hasn't fainted before. When he was on Ruimu Star, he would actively use up his mental energy in order to fall asleep quickly.

The coma caused by mere mental exhaustion is nothing at all.

Chen Ming was also feeling a little angry at this time.

If he hadn't seen those new star-level blueprints, he could have withdrawn at any time.

But not now. His reason, instinct and desire all told him that he must obtain this complete blueprint.

However, at this moment, even the pain from biting his tongue could not cheer him up.

So Chen Ming stood up from the desk and went to the small kitchen next door.

He was in the kitchen, and he found a pointed kitchen knife and pointed it at his fingertips.

Even if you get injured, this is the place where it is easiest to heal quickly and least likely to get into trouble.

The tip of the knife was against the fingertips.

The slight sting was not enough to bring him back to consciousness.

So he stabbed the tip of the knife slightly into the tip of his index finger.

A drop of blood fell on the table.

Feel the mental stimulation of pain.

Chen Ming subconsciously took a deep breath.

If he could continue to persevere, he would definitely be able to put together the remaining blueprints.

(End of this chapter)