Near the connecting line between the Galo star field and the other two star fields, there is a galaxy that exists independently of the surrounding star fields.

It belongs to the star field joint war zone that the Galo star field has joined.

And on a volcanic planet in this galaxy.

Under a dome that shields the planet from its extreme heat.

Inside the headquarters building of the Star Domain Joint War Zone.

In the office of the lieutenant general who had a conflict with Chen Ming.

Except that the Lieutenant General is here.

There is also Zhang Feng, who was the deputy of the second generation who was shot dead by Baiquan and actually commanded the 14th Legion fleet.

And the middle-aged woman who had personally gone to the psychic to check whether Chen Ming was still alive.

The lieutenant general and the middle-aged woman sat around the coffee table in the office, while Zhang Feng stood behind the lieutenant general.

On the coffee table in front of them was a document record of what had happened an hour ago, as well as a list of the people they had just lost.

The lieutenant general pointed at the erased personnel records on the terminal with his index finger and said to the middle-aged woman, "Tao Ying, are you still planning to continue at this time?"

"We are now almost in a period of liquidation, and some of our subordinates have acted on their own and put us in a very passive position."

The middle-aged woman, Tao Ying, was obviously ready to argue with the lieutenant general and said, "There will be no chance from now on."

"We have already obtained information about the head of the Psychic Society. He is located in another star system close to the Galo star field."

"The purpose of his trip has been determined. It was to recruit a new psyker from Tachyon Technology. However, after completing this task, he did not leave. Instead, he is still waiting for someone."

"The only person he is waiting for here is Chen Ming, who returned to the Sinda Company's pirate space station a few days ago."

The lieutenant general waved his hand and said, "I know this, you don't need to repeat it to me."

"But you don't know that because of this matter, I am already on the hyperspace route from the Galo Star Region to the head of the Psychic Society. I have also arranged personnel at the edge of that galaxy to intercept Chen Ming."

Tao Ying placed several documents on the coffee table and pushed them to the lieutenant general.

What was on the document was exactly the arrangement she had made earlier.

"But just now, the president of the Psychic Society suddenly left by boat and cancelled the meeting with Chen Ming."

"There is only one possible reason for this situation. The news that we were going to intercept them halfway leaked out."

"We have a problem internally, and someone provided information to Chen Ming."

"No, it can't be said that it was provided to Chen Ming."

"Chen Ming's identity has been completely exposed. He is just an ordinary person who was born as an orphan. He has no connections and has climbed up purely by relying on his psychic power."

"Someone else must be helping him."

"Baiquan, or Wuan."

"It's because of them that if we continue to delay, it will be even more impossible for us to kill Chen Ming."

"But Baiquan needs to leave for a while to attend his promotion ceremony to lieutenant general. The Fourteenth Legion that stays here will be very slow to respond."

"Chen Ming only has Wu An's protection, so it's more suitable for us to take action than if he has both Wu An and Bai Quan protecting him at the same time."

The lieutenant general persuaded again: "You have already said that your information has leaked out, and Chen Ming has already been prepared. Is this a good opportunity?"

Tao Ying obviously had no intention of giving up easily, and asked, "Did you see the two ships at the pirate space station?"

"A ship of the afterglow of glory, a new ship whose name I don't know. From its appearance, it can be confirmed that it is an exploration ship."

"Chen Ming will most likely leave the empire and go somewhere else. This is our last chance."

The lieutenant general suddenly took a photo of the highest point just entering the space station dock on the table.

"I received the news when the ship just arrived at the space station. It was designed by the psychic who had just joined the Psychic Society. It was obviously going to be taken to the fringe star field for testing."

"And Chen Ming has no reason to sail out on an adventure right now. This ship is just a temporary ship to take Chen Ming to the president of the Psychic Society."

Tao Ying sneered, "You said the same thing last time that Chen Ming was dead."

The lieutenant general's face darkened and he said, "Then take your say as the final word. What are you going to do?"

"He's staying on the space station. Who knows when he'll leave?"

"If he insists on waiting until the White Spring Ascension Ceremony is over before returning here, can you kill him when the 14th Legion is ready to warp and support at any time?"

"By then, those two cruisers had directly jumped away. Would you dare to follow them by following the jump traces?"

"And can you guarantee that Baiquan won't come over to help him disrupt the traces of the jump? What can you use to chase him?"

Seeing that the lieutenant general had shown signs of giving in, Tao Ying explained, "So I didn't plan to track him down. I wanted to force him out."

"You want to go to the space station? It's reasonable for us to kill Chen Ming outside the space station while Wu An is still not able to react."

"You are crossing the line by going to the space station. Do you think our losses today are not enough?"

"Unless you want to bring revenge upon us from another psychic, you must not do this."

"Besides Wu An's revenge, you might as well consider the revenge from those who have set their eyes on Chen Ming's psychic power after we kill him."

"He is no longer the Chen Ming who just escaped from the mining space station. He is not that easy to kill."

Tao Ying obviously had an idea and said, "Chen Ming has never controlled a battleship before. His ability is not yet fully mature."

"If we kill him now, we can afford the retaliation. As long as we can regain the relationship we lost because of Chen Ming, we will have the capital to make a comeback."

The lieutenant continued to pour cold water on him: "And then Wu An came to my house."

"Even if a psychic breaks an extremely serious law, as long as he doesn't cross the real bottom line and commit crimes against humanity, the Empire won't pursue it too much."

"Other forces can also recruit him and provide him with protection."

"What's more, Wu An is originally a member of the Psychic Society. Such a loose organization does not restrict its members from joining other organizations."

"Their members also have private relationships with each other. Who knows which psychic has a good relationship with which psychic in private? If you mess with them, you will end up with several of them."

"Besides, there are only a few of us here, and it's not like the entire war zone is on the same page with us."

"It would be very troublesome if retaliation really happened. We shouldn't have taken action against Chen Ming."

Tao Ying didn't expect the lieutenant general's expression to change so quickly, so he could only keep a straight face and continue, "My previous preparations cannot be wasted."

"And like you said, it's not easy for us to take action on the space station, but it's impossible for Wu An to come to the war zone headquarters to take action against us."

"And there's no need for us to do it ourselves and let others bear Wu An's revenge."

"Then we must sacrifice enough important people so that we can be removed."

Tao Ying tapped the terminal in front of him, displayed a person's file on it, and then pushed it to the lieutenant general.

"Li De, this person is important enough. Let him contact Zuo Jing to provide them with funding and let Zuo Jing help us do things."

"Left path?"

"Chen Ming once had a conflict with Zuo Jing."

The lieutenant general waved his hand and said, "I know. When Zuo Jing attacked the capital of the Galo star field before."

"Even if Zuo Jing forces the people out, Wu An will definitely be able to react."

"We still have to deal with Wu An's problem after the fleet has gone. What are your plans?"

"You have already seen what happened to the Yuhui Fleet that tracked Chen Ming to the Pirate Space Station a few days ago."

Tao Ying placed the teacup that he had just put to his mouth heavily on the coffee table, making a crisp sound.

"Of course I saw it, but I also know that the people in the Psychic Society are not united. There are also people who hate him. Isn't that what we did last time?"

"Last time you had Sky Steel, what do you have this time?"

"We can't come up with anything to ask the psychic to help?"

The lieutenant general rubbed his temple, suddenly exhaled and said, "Whatever you want."

"Then it's settled. Within two days, I want to see Chen Ming forced out of the space station and sink in space with his ship."

The lieutenant general warned for the last time: "After this, no matter whether we succeed or not, we must lie low. We must also give up some of the assets outside that we could have gathered. This is the price we have to pay."

Tao Ying nodded and closed several open files on the terminal.

The wallpaper on her terminal desktop was revealed, which was a photo of the life of the second generation Tang Shi who was once killed by Baiquan.

After seeing this photo, Tao Ying suddenly said hysterically: "It doesn't matter what the price is, I want Chen Ming to die!"

The lieutenant general shook his head imperceptibly.

Zhang Feng, who hadn't said a word the whole time, had a blank expression on his face.

He had just seen the contents of the file. Li De, who was selected by the Lieutenant General and Tao Ying, was a major general.

But he was sentenced to death based on a few casual words from the two lieutenant generals.

And before he died, he got into trouble with Zuo Jing.

He wondered if there would be such a day for him.

But he did not show it, nor did he dare to show it.

I can only think silently alone.

Time flies.

Two hours passed quickly.

Chen Ming and his boss have already worked out the subsequent material transportation plan.

All Chen Ming needs to do is send a gamma-class core to the boss's colony.

At that time, with the help of the gamma core for control, Chen Ming will not need to make the trip in person.

It just so happened that when Chen Ming ran away from Yu Hui, he also brought a few gamma cores with him, which was very convenient.

And after leaving the boss.

Chen Ming ran directly to the administration bureau.

The fifth floor of the Administration is a special hospital, and Old Wu’s ward is here.

When Chen Ming heard that Old Wu was hospitalized, he thought something had happened to Old Wu, such as he was hit by a stray bullet or a ricochet before he built the second power armor.

As soon as he came, the doctor handed him the examination report. It can be seen that the doctor had basically checked Mr. Wu from head to toe, and there was no problem except that he drank too much and damaged his liver.

Moreover, current technology can easily treat this type of alcohol-induced liver damage, and the doctor has prescribed medicine for Mr. Wu.

But Old Wu simply used this excuse to lie in the hospital and didn't want to go out.

Then the doctor hinted to Chen Ming that Old Wu was fine and that he should be removed immediately.

Chen Ming didn't know what to say. He responded to the doctor ambiguously and pushed open the door of Old Wu's ward.

"Old Wu, how are you?"

Old Wu, who was sitting on the hospital bed watching videos, suddenly collapsed, looking like he could die at any time.

Chen Ming ignored such an expression and slapped Old Wu on the shoulder. Then an exoskeleton power arm appeared on his arm and lifted Old Wu up.

"Stop pretending. If you continue, I'll go find the factory manager."

“Don’t.”

Chen Ming shook his head and said, "I heard from the factory manager that you were in the hospital, so I came to see you. But you looked so arrogant, you must be pretending. Get out now, don't waste medical resources."

"This hospital is getting empty every day. It's a waste if I don't stay here."

Although Old Wu said this, he stood up obediently and didn't seem to plan to stay any longer.

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he looked around the ward and asked, "Where is the power armor?"

"I left it at the bar. Otherwise, it would be difficult for me to take the ambulance here in this outfit. I asked the bar staff to help send it to the dock. It should be in the warehouse where we usually store goods."

"You'll definitely see it if you look back."

Of course Chen Ming could see it, and he could dismantle the power armor and recycle those materials at any time.

However, the reason he mentioned the power armor that he controlled now was definitely not to find out where the power armor was, nor to get it back, but for other things.

Chen Ming directly said to Lao Wu: "I'll give you that power armor to keep you safe."

"Although the previous assassination attempt in the war zone was aimed at me, the next time may not be the case. It's fine for you to take it, and this thing is not valuable to me."

"Also, don't do the pirate bounty work yourself from now on. Leave it to others."

"Just find a way to arrange for someone you can trust, someone who can get the money and won't run away with it."

There are basically two kinds of rewards from fighting pirates: the pirates' bounties and the ships they operate.

Chen Ming can drive the ship back directly as long as his fleet brings an engineering ship and a gamma core.

Sending pirates to collect bounties is the only thing that really needs to be done.

It is not necessarily safe for Old Wu to stay in the space station because of Chen Ming, let alone go somewhere else.

Although the boss just said that it was the people in the war zone who carried out the assassination on impulse.

But the war zone reacted so quickly that Chen Ming was still unsure whether the war zone’s top leaders were involved.

So it’s better to keep some tricks up your sleeve and give Old Wu some means to save his life.

But Old Wu himself has to be careful, otherwise if he doesn’t have time to put on the power armor, it would be as if he doesn’t have it.

Moreover, Chen Ming also planned to arrange something for the factory director to protect himself, but he would talk about it next time they met.

Naturally, Old Wu accepted Chen Ming's gift.

He immediately sent a message to the bar, with a look of delight on his face saying, "That's no problem, and I'm always scared to death, don't worry."

"Well, you'd better keep the terminal I gave you with you. Contact me if anything happens."

"I came here to tell you about this. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

"Go slowly."

Chen Ming turned and walked out of the ward.

But just as he left, he suddenly turned around and looked into the ward and said, "I've already sent a message to the factory director saying that you're fine. If you don't want the factory director to come look for you, leave now."

After Chen Ming left, Old Wu suddenly stiffened his movement to lie down on the bed again, sighed, and began to change out of his hospital gown.

Then Chen Ming left with peace of mind, walking in the hospital corridor, continuing to think about what he would do next.

There are still too many things to deal with in these two days.

But if I don't finish all the things, it would be really troublesome if I have to come back after I set off.

He would rather spend more time on these things than come back to make up for it later.

So Chen Ming’s next plan was to find Bai Quan, as he also had a lot of things to deal with there.

It’s about the same time now, and it’s time for Baiquan to take a rest.

Just after Chen Ming made up his mind, the elevator in the building in front of him arrived at his floor.

Just as Chen Ming was about to go in, he was stopped by someone.

The elevator was full of people, and they were all guards from the Administration.

They gathered around a fat figure, the director.

The guard who stopped Chen Ming said to him, "Sorry, the bus is full. Please take the next bus."

Chen Ming is not wearing protective clothing now, but just casual clothes and a mask.

He was wearing the usual hospital attire, so he wasn't recognized.

Chen Ming nodded silently and stepped aside.

Has the director become so cowardly now?

Chen Ming suddenly found it funny and pressed the button for another elevator.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the director seemed to be carrying his computer with him.

Previously, Chen Ming had the micro robot leave some broken parts in the director's computer, taking this opportunity to determine the location of the computer.

Why did he carry a computer with him? Chen Ming did not look at the elevator which was not yet completely closed.

Instead, he kept his eye on the director's location while waiting for another elevator to arrive.

At the same time, he also activated the micro robot he left in the director's office.

Chen Ming looked around through the robot and found that the office seemed to have been cleaned up, and it seemed to have been cleaned up in a hurry.

The whole office was a bit messy and a lot of it was empty.

Are you going to run away?

Chen Ming immediately broke into the Administration through the backdoor he had left behind.

Through the elevator surveillance, we can see that in the elevator that the director took, the only button that was lit was the top floor, not the floor where the director's office was.

Chen Ming immediately relied on the Trojan program that he had left in the director's computer and that had been transferred into the director's terminal without the director's noticing.

He looked through the director's terminal data.

Inside, Chen Ming found a document that had just been edited.

This is the Director’s future schedule.

He planned to take his cruise ship and leave the space station under the escort of the Administration, on the pretext of going home to visit his family.

The reason is not important. What matters is that the director really intends to run away.

However, his cruise ship had always been used only by the director to rest occasionally, so it was only maintained in a very minimal state and was impossible to carry out interstellar voyage.

So the ship needs another day of maintenance to keep it in normal condition.

The director might be afraid of Chen Ming, so he planned to move out in advance. As soon as the boat was maintained, he would run away.

Then Chen Ming had nothing to say.

If it were in the Administration Bureau, Chen Ming would have to think of a way to get rid of the director.

But if it was on a spaceship, Chen Ming could make people die without even knowing how they died.

And he has been carrying several gamma-class cores with him lately, so it is easy for him to secretly control a spacecraft.

Chen Ming took the elevator to the outside of the administration building.

I found a random alley outside and built a micro robot with a gamma core installed.

The task Chen Ming gave the micro robot was very simple: go to the dock, find the cruise ship, and control it.

He is an employee of a maintenance shop, so it is easy for him to come into contact with a ship under maintenance.

Just at this moment, a shuttle flew out from the top of the building, and the person on it should be the director.

But since the plan has already been made, Chen Ming doesn't care at all.

The director's matter can be considered settled.

Chen Ming returned all the way to the highest point.

After lunch, Chen Ming contacted Bai Quan.

Communication connected.

"Hello?"

Bai Quan's tone of voice when greeting him was full of fatigue, but it also seemed to make him very excited, as if something happy had happened that made him so tired.

So Chen Ming asked casually: "Are you okay?"

"Very good, but I've been a bit busy with official business these days, and I also have to prepare to attend a promotion ceremony later."

"Promotion ceremony? Yours?"

"right."

"You're going to be a lieutenant general, right?

"right."

"By the way, how old are you?"

"Thirty-four."

"Are there any younger lieutenant generals?"

"Yes, there are."

Although he said so, Baiquan still looked in a good mood and explained: "In the early days of the empire's development, there were many more opportunities than now, and promotions were also faster back then."

"But you should be considered relatively rare now, right? Congratulations. When are you free? I'll discuss something with you."

Baiquan said with a serious tone and an obvious smile: "Thanks to you, I was able to be promoted so quickly, so if you have something to do, I am available anytime, right now."

"Then let's do it now. We have a lot of things to deal with."

"good."

Chen Ming flipped through the notebook in his mind.

However, he didn't rush to get to the point, but mentioned something else first: "By the way, is there any movement in the war zone recently?"

Baiquan recalled and said, "I haven't noticed any movement from them recently."

"It may be because of you that they suffered heavy losses. Not only did they lose Sky Steel, but many of their partners also ran away."

"Besides, they said you were dead before but you are still alive. Your credibility has basically been lost. You can basically not make any waves."

"But I can't guarantee that I won't have any thoughts about you. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. It's still possible that I want to do something to you."

"No action on the surface, right?"

"That's definitely not the case. I've been keeping an eye on them."

"OK."

Chen Ming agreed and said, "Then let's talk about what happened before, starting with the earliest incident."

"The thing about Cheng Xinghe that we talked about at the beginning."

(End of this chapter)