He was relatively familiar with Chen Ming's situation, at least he knew more about it in the first twenty years before he went into hibernation.

Born as an orphan, he was recruited by their Xinda Company in the campus recruitment due to his excellent grades during college.

After joining the company, I devoted myself to my career and achieved a good level right after graduation.

Then, if you can be promoted to a higher level and sent out to work, as long as you can come back and spend a few years outside, it will be no problem for you to become a department manager.

Although an accident happened at this step.

But if the accident had not happened and Chen Ming had returned safely, then if everything went well until retirement, he might have been able to become the manager of a branch company.

It is obvious that Chen Ming has invested a lot in his career.

Even after escaping from the space station until now, it can be seen that Chen Ming's focus has always been on his career.

Naturally, not much energy was put into other aspects.

So, the chairman suddenly felt that he could provide some help in these areas and use these things to get closer to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming is now a psychic. He chats and laughs happily with the psychic bosses of the Psychic Society and the lieutenant general of the Fourteenth Legion. Naturally, his status and position are no longer what they used to be.

So the person he chooses must be carefully considered.

And just now, he found the right person.

Cheng Xinghai is a lively young man with a pretty face and an obedient expression like a girl next door.

Although she is from the military and her personality seems to be different from that of ordinary girls, it should be okay.

Moreover, from the chairman's previous speculation based on Bai Quan's performance and the fact that Chen Ming has now given Bai Quan the sales rights of an important technology, it can be seen that the relationship between Bai Quan and Chen Ming is definitely not ordinary.

But there seemed to be no sign of further progress for the time being, and Baiquan didn't seem to have the intention he thought now.

So what the chairman wants to do is to mention this matter.

Of course, the prerequisite is to investigate the feasibility first, so as not to be kicked out by Baiquan as Lao Deng.

So after everyone had seen what Wu An had brought, they returned to the banquet area and the crowd gradually dispersed to socialize.

The chairman came over to Wu An, who had taken the initiative to stay alone.

Before Wu An considered whether to drive the chairman away manually and give him a quiet place to stay, the chairman asked; "How old is Xiao Ming this year?"

"?"

Wu An looked at the chairman with a question mark and asked back: "Don't you know your employees?"

The chairman simply pulled down his old face, forcibly suppressed his embarrassment, coughed dryly and said: "Confirm it."

Wu An didn't understand what the chairman was here for for a moment, so he replied normally: "Let me think, twenty-six."

"When he was in hibernation, he was 25 years old in age, but 24 in real age. The rest were all from hibernation."

"It's been almost a year now. When is his birthday exactly? I'm not sure."

The chairman had read Chen Ming's resume countless times, so of course he knew how old Chen Ming was. His questions were just to pave the way for what he was going to say next.

"He's 26, not young anymore. Has he ever mentioned...anything suitable for his age?"

"?"

Wu An suddenly understood what the chairman meant, and the look in his eyes when he looked at him gradually became strange.

But he then looked in the direction of Baiquan, thought about the situation in the past few days, and then recalled the past and said: "No, but he can't contact the right people in his current environment, so... you can try."

The chairman nodded slightly, chatted with Wu An about the living environment at the pirate space station, and then went to find Bai Quan.

Bai Quan quickly noticed the chairman of Xinda Company who was keeping a certain distance from him but not too close, and looked like he wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it.

As the boss of the company where Chen Ming had worked before, and also the partner in the original plan to rescue Chen Ming, Bai Quan still had an impression of him.

So Bai Quan said hello to the people around him and came to the chairman alone.

The chairman quickly raised his glass and said, "Lieutenant General Bai, we have met before."

Bai Quan had a smile on his face at this time, and because Chen Ming had given him a big gift, there was no trace of his previous coldness in his expression.

"I remember, Chairman Xu of Xinda Company, we talked about the annual spacecraft technology bidding before. Is there anything wrong?"

The chairman moved his lips slightly and glanced at the other partners behind Bai Quan who were staring at him. He knew that he definitely couldn't beat around the bush with Bai Quan.

So after hesitating for a while, he finally chose a direct way to speak: "How old is the little girl before?"

Bai Quan's smile instantly disappeared and he became alert.

Cheng Xinghai and Cheng Xinghe are both younger than him, and he has always been paying attention to their development.

And after someone came to him a few days ago regarding matters related to Cheng Xinghe, he also knew very well why the chairman suddenly asked about Cheng Xinghai.

The chairman also knew why Bai Quan suddenly changed his attitude after hearing what he said, and quickly added in a low voice: "Chen Ming is 26 years old this year."

Bai Quan immediately understood what the chairman meant.

He really didn't have this idea at first, but the chairman suddenly brought it up, and he changed his mind and it seemed... it was not impossible.

Baiquan returned to his normal smiling face and whispered, "Nineteen."

At the same time, he gave the chairman a look that they could talk later, and then returned to the person he had just chatted with as if nothing had happened.

The chairman understood what he meant and went somewhere else with his glass of wine.

Wu An, who was standing next to him, paid close attention to the chairman's situation after the chairman came over to ask him questions.

When the chairman left Bai Quan, Chen Ming's communication code was already displayed on the terminal in Wu An's hand.

But he was still thinking.

After thinking for a while, he finally turned off the terminal and said to himself, "The age difference is a little big, but it's not impossible."

The second half of the banquet was basically just the participants talking about business matters.

And after the banquet.

The chairman was invited by Baiquan and went to his residence.

When the chairman arrived, besides Bai Quan, Wu An was already sitting there.

The three of them sat in silence around the coffee table in Baiquan's residence, feeling a little awkward for a moment.

Because they didn't know what to say.

They have obviously dealt with all kinds of complicated matters, and they have similar experiences even for extremely troublesome matters.

But what they wanted to discuss now was really something that none of the three of them knew how to start.

In the end, it was the oldest chairman who took the lead in placing Chen Ming's resume on the coffee table, pushing it to Bai Quan, and asked, "What do you think?"

Bai Quan picked up the resume, which he was already very familiar with, and read it for a long time. Finally, he managed to utter a sentence: "I think it's okay."

Then the two of them looked at Wu An together.

Wu An spread his hands and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

Bai Quan immediately said, "You are his spiritual guide and his elder. Why don't you help him take care of some things? You are already twenty-six."

"Does he know that I'm his elder?"

"A psychic elder is still an elder. I've heard that after he gave up the company, you were the one who guided him to become a psychic. Shouldn't you be concerned about this?"

Wu An said with a helpless expression: "But I go into hibernation every few years and have never been married. How can I worry about him? It's good enough that he doesn't worry about me."

"And aren't you married? You should have experience with this kind of thing."

Bai Quan immediately defended himself, "I am an orphan just like Chen Ming. My marriage was arranged by the person who brought me here. I have no experience at all, so I asked you to come here."

After Bai Quan finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the chairman, who was the oldest and whose son was almost as old as them.

The chairman waved his hand quickly and said, "Don't look at me. I'm not doing well here. My son and I still don't have a good relationship. Mr. Wu An, you know that."

The three of them were silent for a long time.

Wu An suddenly coughed twice and said, "Why don't we change our thinking and think about the value of this matter to all parties."

"First of all, for me, I am very happy to see Chen Ming grow, there is no problem with that, right?"

"Yeah." Baiquan nodded and said, "No problem, everyone knows what you think."

"Then for you, Bai Quan, you can use this incident to bring Chen Ming and your Fourteenth Legion closer together, which will definitely be good for you, right?"

"That's fine."

"Then for Chairman Xu, as the person who first proposed this idea, if Chen Ming successfully accepts this result, then you, as... a matchmaker, can ease the awkward relationship between Chen Ming and Xinda Company, right?"

"That's right."

The chairman acknowledged Wu An's statement and his ideas.

Wu An paused for a moment and asked, "What about this matter for Chen Ming? Is it good for him?"

The chairman asked, "Is it a benefit to have a family and a career?"

Wu An had thought about this when the chairman asked him a question just now, and he quickly said, "Starting a family and building a career may be what many people want, but I don't see what Chen Ming thinks."

"But I feel like he's not resisting. He just has no idea at the moment and wants to pursue his own career."

"If it's valuable enough and I bring it up to him, he might agree."

"It's a good thing, after all."

Bai Quan thought for a moment and said, "If this thing can really be accomplished, no matter how it is accomplished, Chen Ming will be directly counted as one of our Fourteenth Legion."

"We can invest more resources of the Fourteenth Legion in him and treat him as one of our own."

"Plus... there are some hidden benefits."

"It's just that Chen Ming's current situation has made those at the top a little worried. They're worried that Chen Ming will give up his relationship with the empire."

Wu An immediately denied it, "Chen Ming will not give up. He has been trying to promote trade with the Empire through you and me. Even if he goes out, he just doesn't want to be restricted by the rules and regulations of the Empire."

Baiquan shook his head slightly and said, "You know it won't happen, but the people above don't think so."

"Although Chen Ming is not yet capable of leaving the empire, the higher-ups will definitely restrict him before he truly has the ability to leave the empire and survive independently."

"Unless there are more people in the empire who can keep him in the empire, such as you, Wu An, and his friends."

"If this can be accomplished, with the Fourteenth Legion's network of relationships keeping Chen Ming in close contact with the Empire, it will be less likely that something we don't want to see will happen in the future."

Seeing Wu An suddenly frowned, Bai Quan said again: "Wu An, Chen Ming is different from you. Your spiritual power restricts you from leaving the empire in this life."

"Even if you run to a pirate space station in the fringe star field, everyone knows that you can't leave."

"But he is really capable of being independent, so the way the Empire treats him may be different."

Although the atmosphere during the conversation between the three of them was a bit awkward, thinking about other things now made him feel even more uncomfortable.

He even felt that it would be better to continue the discussion in the awkward atmosphere just now.

Wu An suddenly exhaled and said, "Let's keep this a secret for now and put the options directly in front of Chen Ming to see what he chooses."

"I won't force him to make a decision. He has to choose his own path."

At this moment, the chairman who had been drinking tea in silence suddenly said, "What does Miss Cheng Xinghai think? Aren't you guys a little too fast? They don't even know each other yet."

"We'll get to know each other soon."

Bai Quan had already decided on the candidate who would give Chen Ming the actual test, so he could say this with confidence.

"Besides, Cheng Xinghai's family members died on the front lines a few years ago, so I can make the decision for her on this matter now."

"Her background and abilities didn't leave her with many options."

"As long as Chen Ming agrees, I will do some ideological work on her side."

"But I also agree with Wu An's idea. Let them get in touch with each other first, and then we'll see how things go later. Let's take it slow."

"Anyway, in the end it all depends on Chen Ming's attitude. Forcing him is definitely useless."

The three of them chatted briefly about the future arrangements on this matter and then went their separate ways.

One day later.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was still on the pirate space station and knew nothing, got the boss to take a ride from Baiquan and returned to the Galo star field through the star gate.

It just so happened that Chen Ming was free during those two days, so he came directly to pick me up at the airport.

By the way, I plan to report to my boss, the investor, about the recent temporary base and development situation.

And after meeting with his boss, he has to think about his future direction.

Should he continue to follow the pioneering team from Huihuang to the next temporary base, or simply find a place to remotely command Yuhui and others to continue their work.

While Chen Ming was thinking, the spaceship that his boss was on had landed at the dock of the space station that was not open to the public.

The boss has also gotten off the spaceship.

But when the boss saw Chen Ming, the smile on his face suddenly froze.

The surging spiritual energy waves instantly swept past Chen Ming, and then a powerful mental force directly enveloped Chen Ming.

"boss?"

As Chen Ming was puzzled, the boss frowned, and immediately came to Chen Ming quickly, put his hand on his shoulder, and said, "You seem to have some dirt on your body, do you need me to help you with it?"

"ah?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

It should be that the hive mind network of the mechanical race and the Zerg that he built was discovered by the boss.

The boss's psychic power seems to act on consciousness and spirit, so it seems normal to notice it.

Moreover, the boss only knew that he had controlled the mechanical race, but did not know that he had built a hive mind network.

At first, I was probably thinking that there was something wrong with his spiritual power.

So Chen Ming quickly explained: "It's okay, this is a derivative effect of my spiritual power."

"After I took control of the mechanical race, their consciousness connected to my psychic energy and actively built a network. It does me no harm."

“But you have more than one network in you.”

"Forehead……"

Seeing that this could no longer be concealed, Chen Ming thought about it and simply displayed the photos and videos of the Queen Insect's state on the biological spacecraft on the terminal, and then handed the terminal to the boss.

They also blocked the surveillance of the internal dock where they were currently located to prevent the information about the biological spacecraft and the Zerg from leaking out.

The boss looked at the photos and videos on the terminal for a long time, and finally said to Chen Ming with a look of incomprehension on his face: "Your psychic power..."

Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "A biological spaceship is also a spaceship. The spaceship is under my control, and the things on it are no exception."

"The Thorn Zerg are a hive mind just like the Mechanic, and... that's it."

Although Chen Ming explained, the boss still frowned slightly and scanned Chen Ming through his psychic power. After a long time, his mental power gradually dissipated.

Then he fixed his eyes on the highest point next to him and said, "Are there Zergs on you and on your boat?"

"There is a part that makes it convenient for me to do something."

Chen Ming pulled up his sleeves, revealing a bracelet made of fragments of the queen insect's body tissue on his wrist.

Then, relying on the transformation of psychic energy, he instantly condensed a set of pitch-black biological armor from his wrist.

Chen Ming waved his fists a few times in the air, and his smooth movements without any stiffness produced a clear sound of breaking through the air.

Chen Ming then made an electromagnetic javelin and shot it at his arm.

After seeing that there was not even a trace left on the armor, Chen Ming also broke the electromagnetic javelin into two parts with his own force, disassembled it into the most basic materials and sent it away.

The boss suddenly became silent, because he suddenly couldn't understand what the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power was.

Even if Chen Ming's psychic power has been improving, it shouldn't have evolved directly from influencing machines to influencing living things.

Chen Ming noticed the boss' silence and asked, "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly feel that I'm a little old."

"?"

The boss quickly adjusted his mentality and said to Chen Ming as usual: "Forget it, it's okay, let's go back. I haven't read last week's report yet."

"OK."

Although the boss seemed to have understood, for some reason Chen Ming still felt that the way his boss looked at him was strange.

However, the boss did not say much, but just handed over the data from the development process to Chen Ming as usual every week.

After chatting about what happened over the past month.

Chen Ming left the boss's place.

And that evening, Chen Ming received news from Bai Quan that everything was ready.

The practical test he had promised to help Chen Ming with could start at any time.

Bai Quan returned to the Galo Star Region with his boss through the star gate during the day, so the time for notification is about the same now.

So Chen Ming talked with Bai Quan and sent out a destroyer with a robot equipped with the afterglow core.

After flying in hyperspace for a night, the destroyer arrived at the base of the Fourteenth Legion, which was the base of the original star zone military.

Then it was stopped in hyperspace by a military patrol fleet.

However, the patrol team seemed to have received the news in advance and quickly allowed Chen Ming's spacecraft to pass.

Bai Quan apparently received the message and called: "Go to the giant dock first and park there. I will arrange a spacecraft to deliver your things to the ground later."

"OK."

Chen Ming followed Bai Quan's instructions and went to the giant dock after leaving the hyperspace and entering the galaxy.

Chaofan had stayed here for some time before, so Chen Ming still had some impression of the situation in the dock.

When Chen Ming came here this time, in addition to seeing that the development level of the entire base on the planet was obviously higher than before, he also discovered that the number of fleets here seemed to be more than before.

It seems that Bai Quan was right. The Fourteenth Legion did support him in expanding his influence in the Galo Star Region.

Chen Ming paid a little attention to it and then didn't take it too seriously.

He just controlled the robot and quickly boarded the spaceship specially arranged by Baiquan and headed to the ground.

Headed to a huge independent building under an ecological dome on this volcanic planet.

When Baiquan saw the robot carrying the Afterglow Core in person, he asked, "All we need to do is connect the core to the electronic device, right?"

"That's right."

After receiving the reply, Bai Quan quickly connected the afterglow core controlled by Chen Ming to the only huge simulation device in the building.

Under the influence of the Yuhui individual, this device was also successfully controlled by Chen Ming.

Of course, the Fourteenth Legion is obviously not a fool. This independent building and the equipment inside are completely blocked from other buildings. There is no physical connection, leaving Chen Ming no chance to steal.

But Chen Ming didn't care. He said to Bai Quan who was holding the terminal, "There's no problem on my side. I can access this device like a normal user and start at any time. So what about my opponent?"

Bai Quan pushed up his glasses to shield his eyes, and said, "She's already prepared. She's just at our headquarters, using the host to remotely connect to your extension. Don't worry about delays."

"OK."

"I have input some of your psychic effects for you. Please check if there are any mistakes or omissions. If there are any, please let me know and I will help you correct them."

Chen Ming looked at Bai Quan's settings on the system and said, "Yes."

"Set the ammunition for all live ammunition and missile weapons to unlimited, shorten the cooling time of energy weapons by 99%, and set the radiation energy dissipation efficiency of the spacecraft to thirty times."

"The command and communication delay is set to 0, and the interference of enemy electronic warfare equipment is set to none. Oh, there is no electronic warfare. I won't set it then."

"I can fine-tune all the spacecraft and operate them myself."

"And the spacecraft will not be damaged or degraded in combat readiness during non-combat situations under my control, and there will be no equipment failures."

"Unmanned operations will not result in any errors by the pilots or combatants, nor will there be any personnel casualties and low morale that will lead to a reduction in combat capability."

"Also, if my spaceship is about 80% intact when it is destroyed, I can completely repair it and put it back into the battlefield."

"I can also use psychic power to mold the shattered spaceship into a new one and return to the battle. So, can I just mold a new spaceship right after I come up? For example, a rainstorm or something?"

"Oh, and I have so much afterglow on hand..."

“Ahem…”

Bai Quan quickly interrupted Chen Ming and said, "We're only going to look at individual abilities this time, not other things like afterglow. I think your settings are almost ready, so let's get started."

“Tsk.”

Although Chen Ming had not finished setting up the effects of his psychic power, he did not continue since Bai Quan had already done this.

"Then let's get started."

(End of this chapter)