He shook his head slightly, like a man recovering from drunkenness.

However, there was no sign of drunkenness in his eyes; instead, he looked as sober as usual.

After identifying the direction.

Chen Ming walked into the city on the street where the overall lighting brightness was lowered throughout the space station at night.

The factory director’s home is near the center of the space station, very close to the administration building, and seems to be the administration’s staff dormitory.

To be honest, Chen Ming had no idea how the factory director, a second-generation son of a large company's chairman, could master all these maintenance techniques and be willing to actually work in the maintenance factory.

Moreover, he usually lives in a place that is quite simple compared to his status. Although the staff dormitory seems to be quite good, something seems wrong no matter how you look at it.

However, this is the factory director's private matter, and Chen Ming will not ask any more questions.

It was at this moment that Chen Ming suddenly remembered that the company seemed to have said before that they would arrange a special dormitory for him.

Although he didn't ask for it, the factory director seemed to have asked for it during a previous chat, and the dormitory was still reserved for him.

Forget it, it doesn’t matter. Chen Ming is too lazy to go over and take a look.

He also has to go to the factory director.

When Chen Ming arrived at the company's staff dormitory, he had told the factory director in advance that he was going there.

The factory director also took Chen Ming directly to his residence at the entrance of the community and stayed in the study.

After asking the same question as Lao Wu, Chen Ming gave the same answer.

Chen Ming just chatted casually with the factory manager about recent developments.

By the way, I also asked about the repair shop's business.

After all, it was a place where he had stayed for a while and he had some feelings for it.

However, as they chatted, Chen Ming noticed that the factory director was looking at him strangely.

Chen Ming thought the factory manager had figured out something and asked, "What's wrong?"

"fine."

The factory manager shook his head and continued chatting with Chen Ming.

But after a while, he said to Chen Ming hesitantly: "Let me ask you something, what are your plans for the future?"

"What later?"

"After the colony was established."

Chen Ming continued to chat and said casually: "I haven't thought about it yet, but colonization is not that easy. It may take a few years or even ten years. By then, I will definitely have thought it through."

"Your career will surely continue smoothly, so...is it almost time to start a family?"

Chen Ming pointed at his face and asked in confusion: "Am I very old?"

“I just think it’s about right.”

"Then I can only say that I don't have this idea yet."

Chen Ming pulled out a schedule for this period on the terminal, placed it in front of the factory manager, and said, "Take a look, where do I find the time to do other things?"

The factory manager asked, "Will you do it if you have time?"

"That takes time. And I'm not saying I'm totally against it, I just really don't have the time."

“Oh, I see.”

"Yes, that's it. Why do you ask that suddenly?"

The factory manager raised his thumb and pointed to the study door and said, "You know I'm married. Sometimes I talk about you with my wife, and then this comes up. She asked me to help take care of you."

Chen Ming smiled and said, "Is there anything I can do about this? This is my own problem."

"Yes, it's fine if you want to put your career first."

Chen Ming chatted with the factory manager for a while and then left.

Finally, go to the boss.

At the door of the hardware store of Space Arm No. 2, when Chen Ming arrived, he just saw the boss closing the store.

Chen Ming went around looking for everyone he knew, and when he finally arrived at the boss's place, it was already almost late at night.

Chen Ming stopped.

However, the boss noticed Chen Ming, waved to him and motioned him to come over.

When he approached the hardware store, the boss suddenly looked Chen Ming up and down and asked, "Why do you seem a little nervous?"

Chen Ming explained casually: "I just completed an experiment. The experimental process was a bit difficult, but the result was not bad."

While Chen Ming was speaking, the boss could feel that he quickly calmed down, so he didn't say anything.

After a brief chat.

Chen Ming took the initiative to leave here as time did not allow him to continue disturbing others.

And when the boss disappeared from his sight.

Chen Ming suddenly let out a long breath, and then walked all the way back to the highest point.

I boarded the spaceship and went to the captain's room.

There was someone waiting for him here.

And this person looks exactly like Chen Ming.

To be precise, the Chen Ming on the spaceship is the real Chen Ming.

The "Chen Ming" who just went out to meet Factory Director Lao Wu and his boss was just a prosthesis that looked exactly like Chen Ming and was controlled by Chen Ming's consciousness.

This is not a cloning technology, but a technology mastered by the Queen of Insects.

Through Chen Ming's genes, a pure fake body was created in the same way as ordinary Zerg.

The effect of the fake body is simple and direct, and he has just experienced it himself.

This fake body technology was something that Chen Ming had specially asked the Queen of Insects to develop some time ago.

That was the only thing that he thought could be considered good news among what the Queen of Insects was doing some time ago.

Originally, the Queen of Zerg was doing two things: one was to cultivate Zerg biological buildings, and the other was to cultivate special Zerg individuals.

Biological buildings are extremely difficult to build, and their efficiency is very low. Chen Ming has no good solution for the time being.

The process of cultivating another special individual is also difficult to achieve the ultimate goal that Chen Ming wants to achieve, which is to cultivate high-intensity combat individuals.

The Zerg is a species that wins by numbers, relying on its powerful reproductive ability to crush the enemy.

It is also very difficult to breed high-intensity combat-capable individuals that the Zerg do not need out of thin air.

But in the process of cultivating special individuals.

Chen Ming suddenly had an idea: Could the Zerg use human genes to allow Zerg individuals to exhibit some human characteristics?

Although the human body itself is too weak, and the human's developed brain can only serve as a carrier for the hive-thinking Zerg, it is completely meaningless to the Zerg.

But Chen Ming just wanted to try it.

Even if the Queen of Insects had to do several things at the same time like him, it would be the same.

Because he saw a glimmer of possibility in this idea.

After Chen Ming fed the queen insect with his own blood, he got a positive answer.

The Queen can indeed manually create some human organs and body tissues, but many Zerg genes are mixed in, causing the final products to be very strange.

But at least it means it's possible.

Then Chen Ming asked the Queen of Insects to try the more advanced idea that he had thought of at the beginning.

An idea that would better ensure his own safety.

Make a prosthesis just like him.

Such a new idea that is independent of any particular individual.

All Zergs created by the Queen will be influenced by her and controlled by Chen Ming.

Then the "humans" created by the Queen of Insects should have the same effect.

So Chen Ming has been asking the Queen of Insects to try it, and has also been paying attention to this matter.

The number of failures in this research is almost as many as the biological buildings that the Queen of Insects is building.

Moreover, the failure of the biological building research only resulted in a few more growth organisms and undigested energy crystals.

But once Chen Ming's prosthetic body fails during the experiment, it often results in many strange and distorted things with his face.

Finally, it will be wrapped by the fungal mat and digested again into the most basic nutrients. The process made Chen Ming feel a little depressed.

The bodies of all his own people who had died so far could almost circle the highest point.

However, after seeing his own strange-looking corpse so many times, Chen Ming no longer felt anything.

Or maybe he had already gotten used to it since Yu Hui used his genes to clone a bunch of weird clones that were infected by the dimension.

So when the Queen of Insects dug out a pile of his corpses, Chen Ming felt weird at first, but then he didn't care at all.

Sometimes he would even point at his own broken corpse in order to make his needs and ideas clear to the Queen of Insects.

Today, the experiment was finally successful, and Chen Ming used the honeycomb network to control the prosthesis.

The way he controlled the prosthesis was just like using a piece of biological armor, without the slightest fluctuation.

It also helped Chen Ming to develop some resistance to various strange things.

He can control the prosthesis and go out to meet people without changing his expression.

Originally, Chen Ming wanted to give someone he knew a little surprise to see if anything unusual could be noticed.

But...no one seemed to realize he was a fake.

The prosthesis is really good.

Chen Ming also confirmed the sensory problems through the prosthesis.

It can be confirmed that he is able to share the senses of the prosthesis and can actively accept or resist it.

In other words, when the prosthesis eats food, Chen Ming can directly taste the flavor of the food, and the same goes for the taste of alcohol.

However, the effect of alcohol on the prosthesis will not affect Chen Ming.

Even if he died, it was only the death of the prosthesis . So the prosthesis was also an excellent substitute for Chen Ming.

While going to find the factory manager during this process, Chen Ming thought he was exposed when he was stared at by the manager with a strange look.

It turned out that it wasn't the case. The factory manager just came to urge marriage.

The most nervous moment in this test was when he went to see his boss at the end.

As a result, his subconscious nervousness about the prosthesis was noticed, but the boss couldn't even tell that the prosthesis was fake.

Because Chen Ming's consciousness controls this prosthesis through the hive mind network link.

Chen Ming's hive mind network was constructed using his own psychic power, which means that his psychic power completely enveloped the prosthesis, allowing the prosthesis to possess his normal psychic power fluctuations.

Of course, if one tries to get deeper into the prosthetic brain, one will definitely find abnormalities, after all, Chen Ming's spiritual nerves are not grown here.

But the boss is not so idle as to use his psychic power to probe Chen Ming's head.

Normally, there is no simple way to easily investigate other people's brains, especially what is inside the brain of a psychic.

Only last time, when Chen Ming left the pirate space station for a while, when he came back, there were inexplicably two psychic energy fluctuations on his body that were connected to something.

He used his mental power to forcibly examine Chen Ming.

He checked at the time and found nothing wrong, and Chen Ming also said it was fine.

The boss thought it was normal that Chen Ming had two mental fluctuations connecting to the outside world.

That’s why the boss didn’t notice anything unusual just now.

Even if someone were to conduct genetic testing on his prosthesis, the final result would definitely be Chen Ming's own genes.

When making the prosthesis, the Queen of Zerg also made special adjustments so that there would not be any Zerg parts in the prosthesis.

So since those people who are close to Chen Ming cannot see any problem, then to anyone else, the prosthesis is Chen Ming himself.

However, once Chen Ming stopped his conscious control over the prosthesis.

Then it will be like now.

The fake body that was originally standing in front of Chen Ming suddenly collapsed to the ground.

After Chen Ming lost consciousness, it became a piece of dead meat.

Of course, Chen Ming did not completely withdraw his consciousness. He still left a tiny part of his consciousness in the prosthesis.

In case the non-self-aware prosthesis is taken over by something from another dimension that causes dimensional infection.

Chen Ming immersed his consciousness into the prosthesis again and controlled the prosthesis to climb up.

He and the prosthesis stretched out their hands at the same time and made different gestures.

It is very easy for Chen Ming to divide his mind into two parts now.

and……

There is also a bracelet made of the queen worm's body tissue on the wrist of the prosthesis in front of Chen Ming.

After the prosthesis raised its hand, a liquid mixed with metallic and bright green colors flowed from its wrist, gradually wrapping it up to form a set of biological armor.

After putting on this armor, the combat capability of the prosthesis should be the same as Chen Ming himself.

After all, the physical quality of the prosthesis is still based on his condition, and the armor is just that armor.

It does not have the body tissues and organs of the Zerg that have abnormal combat capabilities.

But this ordinary prosthesis can allow him to do things that he would never risk doing.

For example, he could go to the 14th Legion on his behalf, a place he himself would never dare to go.

After Chen Ming agreed to Bai Quan's invitation to join the war yesterday, he was thinking about how he could gain the greatest benefits from the war.

That means being deeply involved in this war.

Because this war is winnable.

It was a war that was sure to be won, and he had no reason to refuse to participate.

However, simply helping with the research on the mechanical race as he had agreed with Baiquan was not enough.

Although certain benefits can be obtained, it is definitely not as good as participating in something deeper.

The answer to how to deeply participate in this war initiated by the Empire and prepared by the Fourteenth Legion is obvious.

Go to the XIV Corps.

As a temporary tactical instructor in the contract he had just signed.

Chen Ming does not need to actually join the 14th Legion because he now has the signed contract in his hand.

After all, the 14th Legion was the main force in the Empire's early war against the Mechanoids.

They definitely have first-hand intelligence about the war.

As the person who currently has the deepest understanding of the mechanical race, Chen Ming can definitely get it.

But if Chen Ming is not in the 14th Legion, then Bai Quan’s information will definitely be delayed.

Only by going there in person, to the 14th Legion’s base, could he get the information he needed firsthand.

Then he would look for opportunities to remotely command his afterglow to reap the benefits.

But there are obvious problems with doing so.

There was no way Chen Ming would risk being placed under house arrest and run to the Fourteenth Corps.

Because he had used his deep repair psychic power several times and optimized some technologies.

Not only is there cooperation with Shao Yang, the hyperspace channel jump technology itself is the result of reverse research using deep maintenance.

Even if Chen Ming concealed the research and development process in his paper.

But once traces were left, it would be impossible for him to ensure that his abilities would never be leaked.

It was only a matter of time before his psychic powers were exposed, unless he completely stopped using them.

But it is impossible to do without psychic power.

So once the spiritual power of this optimization technology is leaked.

Although his own safety is the least of his worries, countless people do not want him to die.

But he and the word freedom will also say goodbye.

Therefore, he certainly would not dare to go to not only the 14th Corps, but also other places belonging to the government army.

Although Baiquan and he have a good relationship recently.

But Bai Quan is a soldier, and Chen Ming really can't guarantee what Bai Quan will do.

Therefore, the importance of the fake body is heightened here.

It allows Chen Ming to do many things without burden.

Before Chen Ming actually made the prosthetic body, he actually didn't expect it to be so powerful... It doesn't seem quite right to say it is powerful, it should be said that it has such a unique effect.

At first, he just thought that the fake body was a good life-saving technology and it was feasible, so he tried it.

Finally, I got a pleasant surprise.

Chen Ming threw the prosthesis, which had collapsed again, to the Queen of Insects and asked her to help take care of it.

Tomorrow, the fake body will be useful.

The next day dawned.

Chen Ming asked the fake body to contact Bai Quan with the terminal, and when Bai Quan appeared on the screen and started teaching, the fake body suddenly asked Bai Quan: "Does your 14th Corps have any places open to the public?"

Bai Quan was stunned by Chen Ming's question. After thinking for a while, he said, "It should be none. Especially at this time, the interior of the legion is sealed off. Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly became curious about what your Fourteenth Legion's territory looks like."

Baiquan said casually: "Why don't you come over and take a look?"

"OK."

"Hmm? Ah?"

Bai Quan had never expected Chen Ming to give such an answer. He had invited him so many times before, but Chen Ming had never agreed once.

He suddenly agreed at this time, and Chen Ming took the initiative to express this intention intentionally or unintentionally.

This made Bai Quan hesitate for a moment.

Seeing this, Chen Ming added, "Didn't I just promise your headquarters yesterday to bring the mechanical race here so that I can show them what the mechanical race will look like when they are controlled by me? Just consider it a satisfaction."

"Do you believe this reason?"

Chen Ming himself knew that the reason he made up was unreliable. After thinking about it, he continued according to his current situation: "Well, actually I want to see the technology of your Fourteenth Legion."

"You also know that many of your technologies are not available on those public academic websites."

"Well, I've recently reached a bottleneck in learning cruiser technology, and I want to see your skills and change my mind."

"And you also said before that I will help you with the research on the mechanical race, and any results will be rewarded with military merit."

"I'll go directly to your place, so it will be convenient for me to use the equipment to get some results or something."

Bai Quan immediately grasped the key point in Chen Ming's words and said, "So you are eyeing our equipment?"

Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "I can't help it. I'm short of money recently. Your place is a good place to make money."

Chen Ming's half-true and half-false words made Bai Quan a little confused about what Chen Ming was trying to do.

He could only use a joking tone, in the direction that might suddenly change Chen Ming's attitude, and asked: "Why do you say that our Fourteenth Army Corps is not a serious place? Is the progress of your opening not good enough?"

"It's OK, but it's just too good, so the money is pouring out like water. How about you help me out a little?"

"I remember that the Empire seems to have a pioneering law that can provide certain financial and technical support to pioneers."

Baiquan kept saying, "Stop, stop, stop. That was a law during the pioneering era. Are you applying it now?"

"You know all this?"

"Yes, the imperial law now stipulates that there are no restrictions on individuals going out to explore and develop, and the construction of colonies outside the empire does not require approval. What else is there? That's it, right?"

"It seems like it's really gone, so I have to find a way to solve the money problem, right?"

"really……"

There is nothing wrong with Chen Ming's reasons just by listening to them.

Many people know that he is now expanding abroad, and Chen Ming's materials are all circulated through regular trade routes and taxes are paid, so it is easy to investigate.

Otherwise, Bai Quan would not have been so decisive in arranging a way for Chen Ming to purchase supplies at cost price.

They can roughly estimate the foundation of Chen Ming's development based on the amount of supplies Chen Ming purchased.

However, all the supplies purchased by Chen Ming will eventually be sent to the boss's colony and transported away by Chen Ming's psychic power.

Therefore, the final transportation process cannot be determined.

But it is easy to see whether Chen Ming is short of money.

And according to the recent flow of materials in the colony from his boss's side, Chen Ming did spend a lot of money, so it was normal for him to be short of money.

After all, the material purchasing route he arranged has not yet been fully implemented in Chen Ming's hands, and it will probably take another week.

Therefore, the reason why Chen Ming is short of money now is completely understandable.

But Baiquan always felt something was wrong. After thinking about it, he said directly: "I can let you come over here, but don't you worry about anything?"

Chen Ming asked back, "Are you worried that you'll use violence to keep me here? No way? Probably."

"Now many people think that you are not suitable to leave the empire, so... it's hard for me to say."

Chen Ming said again: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about me."

"Why didn't I go to your place before? Because if you want to go to the Fourteenth Legion, you have to be a member of the Fourteenth Legion."

"But I still don't want to join directly. The army is too troublesome for me."

"It's different now. I'm a temporary soldier. I've already seen everything in the contract. This identity will be gone when the war is over."

"I have to go and have a look if I get the chance."

Bai Quan frowned and suddenly took off the badge of the 14th Legion on his chest, and said to Chen Ming: "Honestly, why did you suddenly have this idea?"

"This is not something you would do. If you weren't using your psychic power to talk to me right now, I wouldn't even think you were Chen Ming."

(End of this chapter)