Bai Quan ended his communication with Chen Ming after summarizing the problems that occurred in the previous simulated battle.

Then he saw the message on the terminal that Cheng Xinghai replied to him during the morning class.

The content is quite long, and is basically complaints about the degree of Chen Ming's psychic abnormality.

Baiquan briefly summarized it and it can be summed up in one sentence.

"If you lose, you lose. You can only taunt back if you really win."

This was a response to Bai Quan's words of comfort to her yesterday. It seemed that Cheng Xinghai had completely come out of his autism, much faster than before.

At the end of this message, Cheng Xinghai wrote another sentence: "Don't tell Cheng Xinghe about this."

Bai Quan raised the corner of his mouth and put away the terminal.

In the past, he might have told Cheng Xinghe the news. After all, he was very happy to see Cheng Xinghe and Cheng Xinghai compete with each other.

But now that Chen Ming is here, and he happens to have other ideas, let's just let Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai compete.

Cheng Xinghai will definitely go to find Chen Ming later, and he just needs to add fuel to the fire from time to time depending on the situation.

Although Baiquan himself does not understand these matters, he is married, so he has external help. In matters like this, it is always right to do what his wife says.

When he thought of this, Bai Quan subconsciously thought of the wave of deformed children in the empire and couldn't help but frowned.

This is something he has to consider at his age.

But he doesn't have any suitable solution now.

When Baiquan was having a headache about his child.

Chen Ming also reviewed the mistakes he made in the simulation to ensure that he would not make the same mistakes again in the future.

Then he went over in his mind his understanding of the mechanical race itself and the related knowledge he had mastered.

Everything is clear to everyone, just wait for Baiquan to ask someone to come and explain it to everyone tomorrow.

He also has to be careful not to expose some things.

After sorting out what to do next, Chen Ming also planned to take this opportunity to summarize the power he possesses.

Now that we have decided to join this war, we should make the necessary preparations.

Although Chen Ming said that he would not take the initiative to help the 14th Legion in a fight, and he couldn't even make a wave in a large-scale battle now, he would always have a chance to go and take advantage of the situation.

What he should do is to accurately measure his own abilities and choose the right time to insert.

But before Chen Ming started doing this, he suddenly received a phone call.

A clear and lively female voice sounded in the terminal: "Hello, hello, Chen Ming."

"Cheng Xinghai? What's the matter?"

"Are you free now? Can we have another round?"

Chen Ming thought about it for a moment.

There was no rush to calculate his own strength. After all, his things were there and would not run away, and the Empire's war against the mechanical race was still in a very early stage.

So I agreed and said, "Okay."

Ten minutes later.

Chen Ming's consciousness once again sank into the simulation device of the Fourteenth Legion branch.

However, unlike last time, when Chen Ming's consciousness appeared in the flagship command room, he suddenly heard Cheng Xinghai's voice: "Hello, can you hear me?"

Chen Ming tried to speak directly in the command room using his consciousness that had already been immersed in the simulation device, "Can the simulation device still communicate?"

Cheng Xinghai's voice sounded again: "Yes, under normal circumstances, the communication between the two sides is not turned on, but it doesn't matter if it is a private battle."

"It can be used to trash talk each other, or to communicate and test."

Chen Ming always felt that the order of the two uses mentioned by Cheng Xinghai was reversed, but that was not the problem. The question was: "What are you driving it for?"

"Haha, that depends on the situation."

Cheng Xinghai chuckled, and soon returned to his last serious attitude and asked Chen Ming: "Are you ready?"

Chen Ming didn't reply for the time being, but first took a look at the rules of this simulation.

Basically, the rules are the same as the previous one restricted by Baiquan.

However, the difference is that in addition to the fifty destroyers and two hundred and fifty frigates, the two sides in this battle also have an additional cruiser.

It may be that Cheng Xinghai felt that the small-scale combat without cruisers could not fully demonstrate her command ability, so she made some modifications.

Chen Ming looked at the Fourteenth Legion's special model of Ruler, and then looked at the unlimited logistics and completely unrestricted maintenance capabilities.

"I'm ready."

"Then let's get started. I won't lose this time."

"Um."

Chen Ming responded.

He drove the Ruler and instantly leapt to the face of Cheng Xinghai's fleet. The terrifying frontal firepower empowered by psychic energy instantly cleared a large number of low-level spaceships that had just entered combat status from the rear of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.

Cheng Xinghai didn't know Chen Ming well enough, and she had never expected Chen Ming to play like this.

However, she reacted quickly and commanded the 14th Legion's modified Ruler of the same model in the center of the fleet to change direction at the first moment and bear most of the damage.

The other ships moved to the flanks, trying to put some side and rear pressure on the Ruler, which had strong frontal firepower.

But Chen Ming did not care about the damage caused by those small boats to the ruler. He even endured the damage and focused on attacking those small boats that dared to approach.

His goal was very clear. As long as he could empty Cheng Xinghai's boat, there would be no possibility of her capsizing.

Chen Ming relied on simulated psychic power to make the ruler almost bear the damage of this fleet.

It has to be said that the ruler transformed by the Fourteenth Legion is also tough, which is in line with Chen Ming's stereotype of military spacecraft.

However, after nearly half of Cheng Xinghai's boats were destroyed, the Ruler's armor was about to collapse.

About to threaten the structure of the spacecraft itself.

Before the ruler could no longer hold on, Chen Ming started the jump engine and disappeared in front of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.

Cheng Xinghai was just a little shocked that Chen Ming's psychic power could achieve rapid and multiple jumps, and that a cruiser could kill half of a fleet of 300 spaceships that also had cruisers in it at a single encounter.

But at this time, she was full of confidence in defeating Chen Ming.

Because when the battle just started, she had already sent some spaceships to other places to lock the position of Chen Ming's main fleet.

In the small-scale battlefield, the overall distance between the two fleets was not far.

She also inferred the speed at which Chen Ming was repairing the cruiser based on what she had previously observed when Chen Ming was repairing the spaceship.

As long as we rush over now, we will definitely be able to take care of all of Chen Ming's other spaceships before Chen Ming's rulers finish repairing them.

Without Chen Ming's ruler staying with the main fleet, Chen Ming's main fleet would be completely crushed by her ruler.

As long as she could take advantage of this opportunity to kill the main force, even if she only had half of her fleet left, she would definitely be able to defeat Chen Ming with advance preparation.

but.

When Cheng Xinghai's fleet just arrived in front of Chen Ming's main fleet which was stationary without moving.

Chen Ming drove back in the fully repaired Ruler with full health and full status.

At this moment, he seemed to hear Cheng Xinghai quietly say a swear word.

What Chen Ming heard was indeed correct, Cheng Xinghai really couldn't hold it in.

Although she had heard from Bai Quan about some of the effects of Chen Ming's psychic powers.

But when she actually saw Chen Ming using the psychic effects that Bai Quan had not told her about, it still seemed perverted.

And now she understands how Chen Ming repairs his spiritual energy.

It was not the fixed repair speed she had thought of before, but a repair speed based on a percentage, which was the same for both large and small ships.

It was purely because of the size of the spacecraft that limited the range of Chen Ming's psychic power, which made her think that Chen Ming's psychic power recovery speed was not fast enough, which ultimately led to this situation.

It was too late to change strategy now, she could only try to fight back on the battlefield and try to struggle.

Naturally, Chen Ming would not hold back. With a fully-equipped ruler and the support of a complete fleet, there was no way he could lose on the front battlefield against an enemy force that had already lost more than half its strength.

This is no longer a question of operation, it is a pure crushing of psychic energy values.

For a moment, the only thing that could be seen on the battlefield was Cheng Xinghai's fleet disappearing.

While talking on the phone, Chen Ming seemed to hear a faint cry coming from the communication channel, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

A few mistakes resulted in the loss of a few ships, but Cheng Xinghai was not left without any ships.

At the same time, the rulers quickly stepped up their efforts and ended the battle once and for all.

Although Chen Ming did this, if it happens again next time, he will still beat him in the same way.

But Cheng Xinghai...

"Uncle Bai——"

Not long after, Bai Quan received another call from Cheng Xinghai.

He had just contacted the relevant personnel and was going to talk to Chen Ming tomorrow, so he happened to have some time to talk to Cheng Xinghai.

Then he learned about her second battle with Chen Ming.

All I can say is that when the cruiser came out, Bai Quan knew that Cheng Xinghai was bound to lose.

Under the condition of the same fleet size, the higher the level of the fleet and the larger the scale, the easier it will be for Chen Ming to win as long as the overall force does not exceed the upper limit of Chen Ming's psychic power.

So Bai Quan could only say: "I forgot to remind you, don't fight Chen Ming in a cruiser, especially in a small-scale battle that doesn't care about logistics."

Cheng Xinghai's tone was filled with grievance, and he said: "But he has only been learning for more than a month, and he has never learned long-term operations. If I really do this, it will become me bullying him."

Bai Quan shook his head and said, "Then you can only fight him on a small scale. This is the teaching progress here. He has already learned very quickly. Large-scale combat will be learned in the next few semesters."

"Or you can contact other people yourself and find a few more people who can take care of logistics. You can divide the simulation into two teams and let Chen Ming be responsible for fighting, right?"

Cheng Xinghai thought carefully about Bai Quan's proposal and felt that it seemed feasible.

The crying tone that was originally pretended disappeared instantly, and she said to Bai Quan in a well-behaved voice: "Thank you, Uncle Bai."

Baiquan put down the terminal, and various thoughts flashed through his mind.

In fact, at first glance, such a long-term operation with logistical limitations can indeed help Cheng Xinghai gain some advantages on the battlefield.

After all, Chen Ming's psychic power still depends on logistics. When logistics are restricted, Chen Ming's psychic power naturally cannot fully exert its due effect.

So he was ready to have fun.

A simulation captain of this scale would definitely have to ask him to be the referee when Chen Ming was involved, and he would definitely let Chen Ming's full power be unleashed at that time.

He also knew the terrifying effect of Chen Ming's psychic power on logistics.

All materials can be transmitted instantly, and all industrial equipment can remain overloaded like the spacecraft controlled by Chen Ming.

And the time to build a complete spacecraft production industrial system is only limited by Chen Ming's mental power and of course his own technology.

But Bai Quan still has more confidence in Chen Ming's technical level in this basic industry.

So when the time comes...

He could already see Cheng Xinghai's side being pushed back by Chen Ming's fleet.

I just don’t know if Chen Ming has time to participate in this kind of long-term operation that requires deep consciousness connection.

Of course, if Chen Ming is willing to participate and has a high probability of winning this game.

Later, Bai Quan will find an excuse to exercise his command ability to limit Chen Ming's use of psychic power in the simulation.

As long as Chen Ming's spiritual power can be restricted a little, Cheng Xinghai should be able to seize the opportunity to win.

It is best for the two of them to win and lose, and play more games.

This is the situation he wants to see most now.

On Chen Ming's side.

Although he was taken by Cheng Xinghai to simulate a fight for an hour, it was not a big problem because it was over quickly anyway.

It's just that a battle of this scale is not helpful for training command ability. It seems that even if Baiquan is not here, he will have to take the initiative to impose some restrictions on himself.

Of course, this is something that happened later.

Now Chen Ming continued to count his own situation.

The first thing is naturally the most easily counted liquid funds currently on hand by Chen Ming, totaling 18.7 billion, which will be used for the maintenance of temporary bases and the purchase of supplies.

The second is the spaceship controlled by Chen Ming.

The escort and expulsion statistics basically don’t need to be counted now. After all, after the temporary base was established, those spaceships that were not originally his have now completely become his.

However, it is still necessary to count the cruisers.

Chen Ming currently owns five human cruisers, including one Stardust-class, one Zenith-class, two Defender-class and one Colossus-class.

Although Chen Ming intended to feed one of the defenders to the Queen of Zerg, the Queen has not eaten it yet, so it is still counted among his cruisers for the time being.

The Highest Point that Shao Yang had promised was still on the way, so there was no need to include it in the calculation for the time being.

In addition to human cruisers, Chen Ming also has four Afterglow cruisers.

Brilliant, Shining, Refractive and Scintillation classes.

Brilliance, radiance and twinkle are all obtained by buying the afterglow and getting a free spaceship.

The Refraction-class cruiser was the one that was indirectly controlled by Supernatural when Chen Ming cooperated with Bai Quan to invade the Yuhui giant shipyard.

As the largest and highest quality spaceship currently available to Chen Ming, it was driven by HR to be responsible for the security of the temporary base.

The Mechanical Clan has a total of four spaceships.

The model names of three of the mechanical cruisers are very common [Mechanical Standard Cruiser], which are obviously standard spacecraft.

It has a long and narrow hull and large weapons distributed in the front, middle and rear positions.

The three spaceships have a total of nine large weapons, all of which are large live-fire electromagnetic weapons. It can be seen that the mechanical race likes this type of weapon very much.

Apart from having nano-scale robots responsible for the maintenance of the interior of the spacecraft like the mechanical ground units, there is nothing special about it.

Its combat capability is also rather mediocre, with no special value.

To the extent that Chen Ming even considered whether he should feed the Mechanical Clan's spaceships to the Queen of Insects instead of the Defenders.

But Chen Ming considered that there were many cavities left in the Queen Insect's own biological spaceship for various insects to move around, rather than a purely solid, single organism with the appearance of a biological spaceship.

Therefore, it would be better to use human cruisers with similar structures to feed the queen insects.

Then there was another spaceship of the Mechanical Clan, which was the [Mechanical Clan Standard-class Colonial Ship] that Chen Ming took away from the Mechanical Clan’s city and served as the core of the city.

It was controlled by Chen Ming and restored to its original appearance using psychic power before being thrown to Huihuang.

Huihuang will find a way to obtain enough colonization technology from it for use in the future when Chen Ming actually colonizes it.

Speaking of technology.

The technology Chen Ming has at hand can also be counted as part of his comprehensive strength.

After all, the patents for antimatter technology and hyperspace jump engine technology can provide a lot of funds and logistical support, and can certainly be counted as part of strength.

In fact, Chen Ming has another high-value technology in his hand, which is the blueprint of the new star-level unmanned battlecruiser that he got at the beginning.

Chen Ming got carried away and forcibly seized the thing despite his brain and body being on the verge of collapse after two days of high-intensity use of his spiritual energy.

However, it still has no place to play its role today.

All I can say is that Chaofan can actually build battleships, as long as it is provided with a sufficient environment.

But Chen Ming couldn't get a giant dock, so this technology could only be put aside for now and will be brought out when it can be manufactured.

In addition to funds, spacecraft, and technology, real estate should also be considered as part of comprehensive strength.

Speaking of this, Chen Ming thought of the No. 6 space arm of the Pirate Space Station, which is the space arm used for power generation at the Pirate Space Station.

Although Chen Ming originally arranged for Yu Hui to take control purely for the purpose of restoring the damaged power system of the space station.

But the accident was over, and the company knew what Chen Ming had done but didn't mention it.

Chen Ming didn't know what to do. Anyway, he decided to keep it like this. Who knows, it might come in handy unexpectedly someday.

Among the real estate that Chen Ming currently controls, apart from the one on the space station, the most important one is definitely the temporary base.

Although the temporary base only has a castrated version of a starport with simple maintenance and transportation functions and a giant warehouse.

But the afterglow in the temporary base is the most important place in this base.

So far, the amount of afterglow Chen Ming has on hand is still more than 50,000. Even though there has been continuous loss of afterglow during the two months of exploration, the loss is still relatively light compared to the overall scale.

Among the more than 50,000 afterglows, there are nearly 48,000 gamma-level afterglows, more than 3,000 beta-level afterglows, and five alpha-level afterglows.

This was Chen Ming’s entire fortune some time ago.

But things are different now.

Now, with Chen Ming's efforts in pioneering the road, he has two more assets on hand.

One part Mech and one part Zerg.

And these two assets are constantly expanding with Chen Ming's efforts.

At the beginning, there were only more than 40,000 individuals of the mechanical race in that isolated city. After adding the 30,000 individuals that Chen Ming later snatched from the mechanical colony, the number has increased to nearly 80,000.

Chen Ming settled these tens of thousands of mechanical people into the city, bringing new life to this city that had been abandoned for many years.

And the city itself is a city that only needs to exist for that civilization.

So after Chen Ming used psychic power to repair the entire city during this period of time, he discovered that all the mechanical people in the city could be self-sufficient in everything they needed.

Even nanorobots are the same.

Chen Ming found a factory in the city.

A factory that only needs to input some materials to automatically output nanorobots that can be used by the mechanical race.

It’s a pity that there is only one factory in the entire city, which is even smaller than the industrial facilities in other small cities.

Therefore, nanorobots are still the main limitation to the development of mechanical family.

But as soon as he changed his mind, Chen Ming realized that he had made a lot of money.

Because this is a nanorobot production factory, another legacy of another civilization.

Originally, Chen Ming thought that there were only those mechanical people in this mechanical city.

It was not until he discovered this factory later that he realized he was too young.

Anything left behind by another civilization is extremely precious, at least to Chen Ming now.

Although he now completely cannot understand the operating principles and manufacturing methods, it is enough for Chen Ming to use this factory.

As long as the factory is still in his hands, he will always have the opportunity to master the technology thoroughly in the future.

And when the new 30,000 mechanical races were gradually controlled by Chen Ming, Chen Ming discovered that the number of mechanical races in his hive mind network had reached the standard, and he could directly generate the consciousness of new mechanical individuals in the network.

This means that the number of Chen Ming's mechanical clans can begin to increase, and he can start building new mechanical clans.

Combined with the nanorobots produced by the nanorobot factory.

Although the speed is not fast, the increase in the number of mechanical individuals can always subtly provide Chen Ming with more mental power and thinking speed bonuses.

Chen Ming's other asset, the Zerg, is obviously even more powerful.

Although the types of Zerg are the same as before, they have hardly changed when there is no fighting.

Moreover, among the Zerg biological structures, only the larvae hatching pool has been completed in the past few days, and the progress of the other structures is very unsatisfactory.

However, the speed at which the Zerg population expands is even greater than that of the Afterglow and the Mechanical race combined, even if doubled.

From the size of a city at the beginning, the area covered by the insect nest today is close to half of the colony that Chen Ming first saw when he went to the Afterglow Star Field, which occupied one-fifth of the planet's surface.

If it weren't for the fact that the planet the Queen Worm is on now is larger, and Chen Ming later deliberately restricted the Queen Worm's reproduction on the surface, allowing it to expand underground to avoid destroying the surface ecological environment.

Otherwise, Chen Ming even felt that he could see the insect nest on the ground directly from outside the planet.

This makes it difficult for Chen Ming to estimate the size of the Zerg population.

But at least one thing is certain, that is, the strength of the Zerg's current ground units is enough for Chen Ming to do many things.

The Queen's ability to devour everything, transform everything, and breed everything is too exaggerated.

It won’t be long before the entire planet will be completely occupied by the Queen of Worms, and the Queen of Worms will also have the ability to destroy the planet.

Of course, Chen Ming is not afraid of this. His psychic power will make all of this help him.

(End of this chapter)