After all, Yan Xiong was courting death and absorbed a lot of metal materials from the spacecraft and mechanical equipment controlled by Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming had no doubts about how to realize his ideas.

However, Chen Ming has not yet decided whether to use the top-grade materials extracted from the psychic on spacecraft armor or weapons.

Wait, that's not right.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that his idea was wrong.

When applying these high-strength materials, the knowledge he now possesses is gradually becoming insufficient.

This advanced metal should be used in the most technologically advanced areas, such as battleships or the design of antimatter reactors.

Or you can show it to the ship spirit to see if this material has any special uses.

Rather than simply being used on spacecraft weapons and armor.

Chen Ming suddenly found that he was like the ancient people who had obtained high-strength metal materials sufficient for aerospace technology.

Assuming that ancient people could use these materials at will, the greatest use for them would be to make cold weapons or armor.

Their level of knowledge determines how they can use the material.

Although Chen Ming is not only able to use this material as cold weapon material, the properties are similar and he is unable to fully utilize these materials.

But it’s okay, he still has time and many opportunities to learn.

Moreover, although he did not know how to use this material, his extraordinary ability was obviously different. As long as he was given the opportunity to study these things, Chen Ming would soon know the actual application value of this material.

In short, Chen Ming had to first extract all the spiritual energy materials from Yan Xiong, which he might have accumulated for most of his life.

After confirming his idea, Chen Ming suddenly couldn't help but say, "I am really born."

Chen Ming suddenly cursed at himself, causing the boss to be a little unresponsive. He asked, "What did you say?"

"It's okay, boss. Please help me reject it. I suddenly found that Yan Xiong seems to have other uses."

"Oh? What's it for?"

Chen Ming asked him to help find a buyer some time ago, and now he has found one, who is willing to offer a good price.

The value of something like the Fairy Tree is not low, especially since the buyer has a ten-year warranty period, which is enough time for the Fairy Tree to produce something valuable.

Since Chen Ming chose to refuse, he must have his reasons.

Combined with the fact that Chen Ming just suddenly cursed at him.

The boss is very curious now.

Then there was no need for Chen Ming to hide anything, so he just repeated his thoughts.

I can only say that Yan Xiong's alloy furnace is extremely useful no matter how you look at it.

Even though the top-grade metal that was tainted with psychic properties was to some extent Yan Xiong's flesh and blood, Chen Ming did not have any psychological burden at this time.

After all, whatever Chen Ming digs away, he will replace with other metals.

Overall, it is similar to feeding cats coffee berries and using the coffee beans to make cat poop coffee.

Although it’s not a cat or coffee now, the effect is almost the same.

Moreover, it was Chen Ming who took the initiative to extract it, so there was no need to pull it out.

Besides, Chen Ming had already had a mental breakdown once when he knew that Sky Steel was the shit of Alturan Sky Eel.

When I learned that the door of the biological spacecraft is made up of muscle tissue such as the sphincter, my emotions became relatively stable.

So this time, he was in a good mood.

Anyway, Yan Xiong is just a ball now, so it doesn’t matter where the metal is extracted from.

After listening to Chen Ming's story, the boss said, "Now I know why you suddenly scolded yourself just now."

"It's a bit strange indeed, but it's good. You will probably need something like this that can produce alloys in the future."

"Then I'll help you reject the other side? Are you sure you won't think of selling it in the future?"

Chen Ming responded: "Well, that's fine."

Although the fairy tree is great, it’s not just its leaves that can be used to make tea.

Also, when Chen Ming was at Yu Hui's place and mentioned the fairy tree tea to the boss, the boss also mentioned several valuable things produced by the fairy tree.

But even with these, the value of the fairy tree to Chen Ming is definitely not as great as a universal alloy smelting furnace that he needs for his spiritual power.

After Chen Ming was determined in his idea, he sent a document to his boss and said, "By the way, this is the data recorded at the highest point in the past few days."

The boss opened the file and took a look. He found that the contents were all data he couldn't understand, so he closed the file and said, "Okay, I'll pass it on. There shouldn't be anything else to do. I'm hanging up now."

"Wait a minute, boss. I want to ask the name of the new member of the association who designed the highest point."

"Shao Yang."

As the communication with the boss ended.

Chen Ming's remaining matters in the empire have basically been dealt with.

Apart from the pirate hunting that he had been asking Gamma B to do, and the regular return of data records from the Supreme Point, there was basically nothing else that Chen Ming needed to worry about.

In the next period of time, Chen Ming should live a relatively peaceful, ordinary, and busy life.

In addition to learning a lot of things, the already built starport needs to be put to the best use under brilliant command.

Chen Ming also had to ask Gamma B to go to the space station occupied by Zuo Jing. It would be a waste if he didn't do it because of the bounty.

Shortly after Chen Ming finished his call with the factory manager and the boss.

Far away in the Asconia galaxy within the Empire, the headquarters of the Sinda Corporation.

The company's board meeting is being held.

The entire conference table was arguing fiercely at this time.

The content of the argument was the news that they had just received about the director's death.

Some people said that this was a threat from Chen Ming and the company could not go along with it.

Some people thought that this was helping the factory manager, and that they should continue the tone they had set before and befriend Chen Ming.

There were also people who tried to be peacemakers, thinking that since the company had already fired the director in name, then Chen Ming's actions and the company's attitude towards him were two completely different matters, and there was no need to argue.

Of course, there are also people who add fuel to the fire. There is a director who enjoys seeing people on the same level as him lose face and argue with each other over such things.

Even though there were a few new directors at the board meeting, there were only about a dozen people in total, but the noise felt like a vegetable market.

The chairman sitting in the main seat was not concerned about the specific content of the directors' argument at this time.

Because what really made them quarrel was not that Chen Ming killed a person casually, but the subsequent impact brought about by Chen Ming's actions.

All I can say is that the director’s death was too horrifying.

He was burned to death on the spacecraft by the high temperature inside the spacecraft.

Although there must be arrangements made by the space station, the person who will ultimately implement it must be Chen Ming, as only Chen Ming can do this.

Both of these forced the directors to consider whether Chen Ming might do the same to them in the future.

The directors had no means to confirm whether Chen Ming controlled a certain spaceship, and there was a possibility that they would die in the same way at Chen Ming's hands.

The more contact you have with Chen Ming, the higher the possibility of this happening.

After all, the same old saying goes, the company is a force, and they are businessmen, and forces and businessmen must be profit-seeking.

No one can guarantee that their relationship with Chen Ming will not change in this life, so the possibility of sudden death at any time without any warning will indeed make some directors worried.

However, the chairman in the main seat was not worried about this.

Because anyone who understands the whole story can see that the director is definitely courting death.

It's just that some of the board members don't believe it, that's all.

In addition, the factory director had actually told the chairman about this matter in advance.

He also said that Chen Ming was the one he specially called to deal with the director, so he had reported it in advance.

Of course, the chairman certainly cannot tell anyone about this matter. After all, it can be considered a handle on the factory director.

All he had to remember was that what this incident revealed was that Chen Ming was good to his friends.

There's no point in continuing the argument at the board meeting.

So the chairman coughed twice and said, "Stop for a moment."

When the meeting room gradually quieted down, the chairman projected a document onto the screen beside him and said, "You can't just talk about Chen Ming, you need to look at the evidence."

"It was at a joint meeting organized by the Fourteenth Army when Chen Ming was still in Yuhui."

"The 14th Corps specially found several people who majored in psychology and made a personality model for Chen Ming to analyze his personality."

"You saw the result."

The chairman pointed to the content displayed on the screen behind him and said, "Chen Ming is a good person."

"At least you don't have time to bother him. He definitely won't mess with you for no reason. He's even pretty nice to his own people."

"If you have any concrete evidence that proves Chen Ming is not a good person and will come to the board of directors to kill people, you can bring it up now."

A director immediately said, "Isn't the death of the director of the Space Station Administration the best evidence? Chen Ming must have been tortured to the point of being twisted by Yu Hui, which is why he acted so cruelly when he came back."

The chairman nodded and said, "Oh."

"Then explain to me how before Zuo Jing and the war zone invaded the space station, someone tried to assassinate Chen Ming, but Chen Ming only broke his hands and feet, eliminating his ability to move."

"He just kills people, blows up a bunch of ordinary people, and then hides in the space station casually. With five cruisers outside, who can fight their way in? Isn't that more convenient?"

"If Chen Ming's personality was distorted, it should have been revealed before this."

The chairman was not angry at this time, because he knew that this was a situation that must be maintained for the company to continue to operate.

Someone must raise objections on certain issues. Even if there is some internal friction in the entire company, he must not be the only one who has the final say.

"In short, even if you say you are against continuing to communicate with Chen Ming, there is no way to change the fact that Chen Ming can control the spacecraft. Isn't the risk of being killed by Chen Ming even greater?"

"If you have a good relationship with Chen Ming, will Chen Ming come and kill you out of boredom?"

The chairman fixed his eyes on the director who had just spoken and said, "If you still have any opinions, anyone can directly initiate a vote to decide whether to continue to maintain a friendly relationship with Chen Ming."

No one spoke at the conference table.

The directors all knew that although they argued verbally, their interests would always come first when it came to actual actions.

Just as the chairman said, there is actually almost no possibility or risk of Chen Ming coming to kill them. On the contrary, the benefits are more realistic.

The chairman shook his head and said, "Wouldn't it have been over earlier?"

"Okay, today's meeting mainly focuses on two things. The first one is antimatter reactor technology."

"We were the first to obtain the patent with the support of the government. Now that the technology has been initially verified, it is time to start industrial production and prepare for large-scale testing."

The director sitting next to the chairman asked, "Does this mean that the antimatter engine technology can already start making money for us?"

"Yes, so we can't avoid the second matter today, which is still Chen Ming."

"We all know that several companies in the Empire are researching antimatter technology, but we are the first to come up with the results."

"The afterglow antimatter shock wave weapon that Chen Ming brought back played an important role."

"Because we had previously taken the initiative to cut off ties with Chen Ming, we gave him some patents."

The chairman said this, moving his fingers to display a list on the display behind him.

Then he crossed out most of the patents, leaving only one line.

"Chen Ming previously sold some of the patents back to us, which are the ones that were crossed out, and received a sum of cash."

"But he didn't sell the most critical patent for the antimatter reactor."

A director who had just joined the board said, "So cunning?"

"He is smart. Although he was just a team leader before, he is not ignorant of technology. He knows that the reactor in antimatter technology is the most valuable."

"So what should we do? Try to buy the patent back?"

The director who liked to add fuel to the fire took the opportunity to say, "We have many ways to get Chen Ming's patent back in a reasonable way without spending any money."

The director in front immediately glared at the director behind him and said, "Don't talk nonsense. That's not what I meant."

The chairman ignored the directors' intrigues and said, "Chen Ming deliberately kept the patent for the antimatter reactor before, so it is impossible for him to let go of the patent. If we want to make money, we can't avoid him."

"In that case, we might as well take the initiative to use this opportunity to bring him closer to our company."

"From Chen Ming's performance over the past 20 years, we can see that he is a very motivated person who wants to improve himself and has a strong ability to learn on his own."

"In addition to money, our company can provide him with a lot of technologies within the company that he couldn't access at his previous level, and provide him with many learning opportunities. Or we can simply seek cooperation."

“Cooperation is the best way to build relationships.”

"Then how do we get started?"

"It still has to start with money. We will send the profits from the antimatter reactor to them in proportion to the patents."

“And things like technology can’t be given directly. There’s no benefit in giving it directly.”

"We can just trade normally with Chen Ming, using our company's internal technology to exchange with Chen Ming for the technology he got from Yu Hui."

"Then we can take the opportunity to exchange technology with each other and ask him questions about afterglow technology, and help him solve the problems he has in learning our technology."

"After this, the relationship has been restored. Wouldn't it be easy to have more in-depth exchanges later?"

A famous director raised his hand and said, "Um, Chairman, how do you know that Chen Ming must have Yu Hui's technology?"

The chairman looked at the new director with some confusion and said, "If you were Chen Ming, and you had the ability to control the spacecraft and Yuhui, would you run away from Yuhui without doing anything and taking anything?"

"No, but what if the technologies he has are some guard expulsion and other technologies that we have already studied thoroughly?"

The chairman was even more confused and asked, "You can control a cruiser, but you only have the technology to control a destroyer?"

"Uh... just pretend I didn't say anything."

The chairman nodded and returned to the previous topic: "But we can't be so direct. Chen Ming must have a bad impression of us now, and giving money may not necessarily restore the relationship."

"We use a more indirect approach, starting with Wu An."

The chairman looked at the director in charge of matters at the pirate space station.

He immediately said: "The relationship between our company and Wu An at the space station is still good. Our relationship with Chen Ming has not affected Chen Ming's attitude towards us too much."

"However, Wu An has not yet clearly expressed any intention to recruit us."

"But since he has been staying on our space station, he has basically no chance to come into contact with other forces. Unless there are no accidents, he will eventually get along well with us."

The chairman nodded and said, "That's right."

"Also, Wu An brought back a new member for the Psychic Society some time ago. You all know the highest point he designed, right?"

"The prototype spacecraft of the Supreme Point is the one that Chen Ming drove away. He also has technical cooperation with Chen Ming. Finding him is actually a way to contact Chen Ming indirectly."

"If we want to find someone we don't know in the Psychic Society, we must start with someone we know, so this matter comes back to Wu An."

"Find Wu An, whether you want to find a way to contact Chen Ming through him, or contact the newcomer named Shao Yang from the Psychic Society."

"And there will be a good opportunity in a while."

As the chairman spoke, he displayed a news release from the Empire's official media on the screen, with a photo of Baiquan on it.

"The commander of the 14th Legion in the Galo Star Region, Bai Quan, has returned to the 14th Legion's base to prepare for promotion to lieutenant general."

"Baiquan destroyed two battleships on Yuhui's territory, one of which was a new model battleship. He even obtained some data of the new model battleship."

"With such great achievements, the Empire is now promoting him as a role model for the army."

"Look."

The chairman displayed countless press releases issued by official or official-backed news media on the screen next to him, all of which were reports on Baiquan.

The significance of what the authorities did was clear, and it attracted countless tabloids to publish the same articles.

It seems that they want to promote Baiquan as the youngest lieutenant general in the empire in recent years and a hero of the empire.

A director was somewhat perceptive and noticed some of the problems. He said, "It's so loud. It's hard not to wonder if the Empire is going to make some big moves in the next few years."

The chairman did not deny it and said, "It is very likely. That is why I asked the company to adjust the production line and shift the production of civilian spacecraft to military use."

"But we are not talking about this right now. What we want to say is that Wu An will go to this promotion ceremony."

"There is also news that the Fourteenth Army has also invited Shao Yang, the designer of the highest point."

"I can only say that Shao Yang just came out of Tachyon Technology, and he has a ship designed by the highest point as his foundation. He is indeed a good candidate for recruitment."

"Whether Shao Yang will go or not, Wu An will definitely go, that's for sure."

"Actually, I also plan to get in touch with Baiquan more often."

The chairman suddenly changed the content on the projection behind him, replacing it with a document recording recent developments that appeared in the public eye and a document recording the Fourteenth Corps' publicly announced battle records.

"Looking at these two documents, did you notice anything special?"

Before the directors could find out what was wrong, the chairman explained himself: "The day Chen Ming escaped from Yu Hui was exactly the day Bai Quan went to Yu Hui."

"And Baiquan, who had just arrived in the Galo Star Region a few months ago, suddenly led his fleet deep into the heart of Yuhui, found Yuhui's giant shipyard, and knew that there was a newly designed capital ship inside, so he destroyed it."

"Then Wu An, who had almost no contact with Baiquan before, suddenly agreed to go to a place as far away as the headquarters of the Fourteenth Legion to attend a promotion ceremony."

"You should be able to understand these messages that can be analyzed on the surface, right?"

Several directors looked slightly embarrassed, but they quickly covered it up.

"So the conclusion is very clear. Chen Ming and Bai Quan have additional cooperation in private."

"They did not clash over the previous problems within the 14th Legion, but instead came together."

"We can't continue to waste the opportunity to contact Chen Ming."

"So, Wu An, Bai Quan and Shao Yang are all choices for indirect contact with Chen Ming."

"It just so happens that we have a pretty good relationship with the Fourteenth Legion. Even though it's a bit embarrassing, it shouldn't be a problem to get an invitation letter."

"I can take someone to Baiquan's promotion ceremony. Our chance to establish a good relationship with Chen Ming is now."

After the chairman finished speaking, he signaled the directors to speak freely.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour and then ended.

After this.

The peaceful week passed quickly.

A week later, Chen Ming was still in the planetary orbit of the mechanical city, leading a busy life every day.

(End of this chapter)