Chen Ming, who is in the Yuhui Industrial Colony, is still studying Yuhui's technology.

Relying on his experience and the skills he had mastered, he quickly and efficiently understood the design logic of the Yuhui ship.

Chen Ming could clearly feel that the professional books Yu Hui gave him were carefully considered.

These books are basically based on the very basic technologies common to humans and Yuhui, with additional knowledge gradually added in bit by bit.

Moreover, Chen Ming flipped through each book briefly before he officially started reading. He was able to feel the knowledge belonging to different books. The difficulty of learning was gradually increasing, but the whole was contained within a large framework.

It felt to him like the book that Yuhui was reading to its own individuals, which was quite outrageous.

However, when Chen Ming thought that Yu Hui didn't mean that he could learn the contents of the book just by putting them into the core database, they also needed to be learned, he felt that things didn't seem to be so wrong.

So Chen Ming picked up two books that he felt were the easiest and also closely related to each other and started reading them.

One is "Basic Compatibility and Adaptability Conditions of Radiation Energy Systems and Energy Weapons", and the other is "Radiation Energy Conduction Tutorial for Ship Radiation Energy Systems".

The content of the book is very basic. It talks about how to make good use of the solid space when Yu Hui's ships have a lot of usable excess space inside.

After spending some time, Chen Ming successfully digested the contents of the two books.

And also learned some standardized techniques.

To put it in terms of what is shown on the panel, there is an [Extended Radiation Energy Coil] and a [Radiation Energy Distribution Device].

Chen Ming really wanted to try it right away, but he temporarily suppressed the idea.

He decided to write these things down first and see if there would be other valuable modifications to the spacecraft in the book he was going to read later.

The Iron Ore is now his best test product, and after these technologies are verified, they can be options for modification on Chen Ming's future spacecraft.

Before continuing to read the next professional book, Chen Ming put down the terminal first.

It is still necessary to combine work and rest.

In the past, when Chen Ming was on Ruimu, he would go out hunting or do something else in between studying every night to relax while working.

It’s not easy for him to go out now on Yuhui’s planet, but selective relaxation is always necessary.

When Chen Ming put down the terminal, he also looked at the time.

It's half past nine in the morning.

This time...

Chen Ming was a little surprised. He remembered that he had just finished visiting three factories at 8:30.

In other words, he only spent one hour to finish reading the two relatively basic books, and he did not just read them superficially, but instead finished reading them so that he could fully master the techniques and content in the books.

Chen Ming himself didn't realize that his current learning efficiency was a bit exaggerated.

Just read it from beginning to end and you will understand it completely.

The process of reading is the process of learning.

Chen Ming pressed his temples in disbelief and closed his eyes.

He hadn't noticed it before, but now after discovering that his learning ability was a little exaggerated, he suddenly realized the changes in him.

Chen Ming could clearly feel that his brain's thinking flexibility had increased, and not just a little bit.

This may also be a passive effect of psychic power.

This is a good thing.

Chen Ming opened his eyes again.

The faster he learns, the less time Chen Ming needs to spend on these things, and he will have more time to do other things.

But when Chen Ming put down the terminal just now, he thought a long time had passed.

But since there was only so much time left, he chose to pick up the terminal.

I want to try to finish reading all the dozen or so e-books that Yu Hui gave me within one day today.

It's 9:30 in the morning now, and it's 10:00 in the evening. If I can maintain this efficiency for twelve and a half hours, it should be enough.

However, Chen Ming really couldn't maintain his high concentration for twelve hours.

So as you watch, your thoughts start to get tangled and need to be sorted out.

Chen Ming would relax for a while, change his mind and think about other things.

Such as what he is going to do now and in the future.

Chen Ming now has three main goals.

The first is to get benefits from Yu Hui.

The second is to find a way to prepare a stable escape route from Yuhui.

The third one was to prepare a fleet of his own.

There is actually a most convenient and even the quickest way to achieve these three goals.

Determine who is responsible for the afterglow galaxy, find it, and control it.

In this way, the entire galaxy may fall directly into Chen Ming's hands, not to mention the fleet.

However, it should be a bit difficult, not to mention whether you can find it or not, and whether you will have a chance to touch it.

What Chen Ming can control now is only the spaceship. The prerequisite for controlling the afterglow AI is to remove the core and install it on the spaceship.

Break through all the afterglow's defenses, dismantle the afterglow individuals that control the galaxy, and then install them on any of Chen Ming's ships.

The difficulty of this is really just imaginative.

However, Chen Ming is actually not sure whether his control over Yuhui AI is exactly what he is doing now.

Because the gamma AB on his panel are listed on a separate panel, instead of requiring Chen Ming to open the refraction or fighter modification panel to find them.

Maybe if Chen Ming had a chance to touch the Afterglow AI core, he would be able to control it directly? Before Chen Ming really touched an Afterglow core that he had not yet controlled, no one could say for sure.

After all, Chen Ming had never thought that his ability to control the spacecraft could also control the AI ​​core, and he could even continue to control it after the core was moved out of the spacecraft.

Since it is displayed separately on the panel, there is no way to completely deny Chen Ming's idea.

This requires Chen Ming to try it himself.

As for the opportunity to try, he can only find a way to get it.

The difficulty of directly engaging the afterglow AI that controls the galaxy is a bit exaggerated.

However, it is definitely not impossible to find a way to contact some lone Afterglow AI and control them manually one by one.

However, Yuhui will definitely not give Chen Ming the opportunity to contact Yuhui AI.

Moreover, if Chen Ming was always restricted to these three factories and this planet, there would be no possibility for him to come into contact with the Yuhui AI.

Therefore, the first step for Chen Ming to realize his idea is to get out of here first.

Even if it wasn't him, it would be the same as long as the Iron Ore could fly out.

In Yu Hui's territory, as a source of absolute danger to Yu Hui, he must be able to take the first step in order to lay the foundation for his subsequent plans.

Time passes.

Night falls quickly.

When Chen Ming looked up from the text on the terminal, he noticed that it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

In fact, at five o'clock in the afternoon, Huihuang came to remind Chen Ming to get off work.

But Chen Ming ignored it and continued to study Yu Hui's book. He has stayed in the factory until now.

And just now, Chen Ming has finished studying all the professional books that Yu Hui has given him.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to take any other action. He continued to sit back in his chair in the factory and took a comprehensive look at all the techniques he had learned throughout the day.

After a round of review from beginning to end, Chen Ming can be said to have thoroughly mastered these techniques.

Chen Ming stretched his body, which had been stiff for a long time, and found Xiaoshi who was sleeping in the corner of the factory.

He put on his protective clothing again and walked out of the factory.

It was daylight outside, and eleven o'clock at night on Earth had nothing to do with this planet.

Chen Ming could see the complete colony under the illumination of the galaxy's stars and the huge geocentric furnace power tower in operation.

And in the distance, there is a flat gray land with almost no undulations.

The contrast between prosperity and silence, as well as the spaceships flying across the sky endlessly, made Chen Ming feel the power of the afterglow again.

It is not easy to go back from such a place, and if he wants to take things from Yu Hui by himself, there is a great possibility that he will lose himself.

However, this could not change Chen Ming's mind. Living here and waiting to die was not what he wanted to do.

Besides, now that we are here, wouldn’t it be a waste if we don’t try to take something away?

Chen Ming returned to the Iron Ore.

However, he did not rush to the living cabin to rest. Instead, he sat on the chair in the captain's room and started the Iron Ore.

Immediately afterwards, a communication request was sent from Huihuang.

As expected, Yu Hui had been watching him.

Chen Ming didn't hesitate and connected the call directly.

Huihuang immediately asked: "Mr. Chen, what do you want?"

"I've been in the factory for more than ten hours a day. I want to go somewhere else for a walk."

"Please don't. Just now, several asteroids approached the colony. Although most of them have been destroyed, there are still a few asteroid fragments that are about to hit this side of the planet. Once the colony leaves the area, it may be attacked by subsequent asteroids."

"Is that so? Then I won't go."

Chen Ming very decisively stated that he had given up this idea.

Anyway, his action of starting the spaceship was just a test of Yuhui.

Since Chen Ming had found out that Yu Hui's attitude was to directly refuse and limit his activities to the factory, he would not just force himself to go out.

But before hanging up the call, Chen Ming said, intentionally or unintentionally, "If I have the chance, I would like to relax a little."

"The living environment in the factory is indeed very good for people, but survival alone is not enough. I want a more comfortable environment, or some green vegetation."

As if he had triggered some key words, Huihuang asked Chen Ming: "Is this your request?"

“I guess so.”

"Got it, I'll try my best to meet your needs."

"That's good."

"Oh, by the way, let me ask you something."

As if he suddenly remembered something, Chen Ming asked Huihuang: "When is the specific time for your regular review?"

"Is it based on the supplies I have consumed, for example, will it be reviewed when my monthly quota is used up, or is it based on time? I looked during the day and it seems that there is no writing on this aspect."

"If you pass, the amount of supplies you will be given will be the same as last month. If you are excellent or unqualified, there will be corresponding additions or subtractions."

"The detailed material distribution list is in the factory's main control computer. If you haven't learned about our material distribution rules from Gamma A, I can explain it to you now."

Chen Ming refused: "No need, I understand. I'll still come to you to apply for supplies, right?"

"Yes, if you have any difficulties please let us know in advance."

"Well, there's no problem for now."

"Okay, bye."

Huihuang decisively disconnected the communication.

Chen Ming sat in the chair in the captain's room and breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Yu Hui doesn't have an accurate estimate of his learning efficiency.

The one-month probation period was enough for Chen Ming to read all the dozen or so e-books over and over again.

However, Chen Ming would not say it directly. He would at least choose a suitable and appropriate time to say it. His situation was so delicate now that he had to find a way to gain some benefits from this.

Whether it is tangible benefits or other benefits, he has to try to fight for them.

Moreover, Huihuang did not make a final decision on restricting Chen Ming's range of movements, which means there is still room for bargaining.

So Chen Ming plans to work first, cooperation is always mutual.

Even though Chen Ming had already planned to stab Yu Hui in the back, Yu Hui did not completely believe in Chen Ming's cooperation.

But at least in the short term, it should be a win-win situation for both sides.

Early the next morning.

At exactly eight o'clock, Chen Ming started the spaceship again.

Then I received another brilliant communication.

This time, Chen Ming said before Huihuang could speak: "I need the assistance of a spaceship to use my abilities. I need to drive the spaceship into the factory."

Huihuang paused for a little longer than the time he had spent answering Chen Ming's question instantly before and said, "Please continue. We have another request. This is the first time we've seen you use your abilities. We hope to witness it with our own eyes."

Yu Hui said that seeing it with his own eyes made Chen Ming feel something was wrong, but he did not refuse and said, "My ability is limited to the spaceship. I can only control things other than the spaceship on the spaceship."

"If you want to see it, you can only wait for me to move the things onto the spaceship, and then watch it through the spaceship's surveillance."

If Chen Ming had said this some time ago, it would be 100% true.

But now that it is said out loud, it is different, as it contains some of Chen Ming’s thoughts.

Because as of now, Yu Hui’s AI core happens to be the only exception that Chen Ming can still control after leaving the spacecraft.

Hiding some key issues in the corners of some ordinary words may make Yu Hui ignore these issues in the future.

Huihuang’s answer to this was very decisive: “No problem, please connect the signal directly to the factory control panel so that we can see it.”

After Huihuang finished speaking, he helped Chen Ming open the factory door.

Chen Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and successfully parked the Iron Ore into the factory.

With the assistance of equipment and robots in the work area, all the things needed for the work were delivered to the storage compartment that had been modified by Chen Ming and could be directly connected to the outside.

After these weapons that need maintenance appear inside the spacecraft, Chen Ming can directly see the maintenance materials required for different weapons on the maintenance panel.

Chen Ming did a quick calculation and quickly wrote a list at 1.5 times the amount and sent it to Huihuang.

"These are the materials needed to repair these things. There should be enough in the warehouse now, but it may not be enough in the future. These should not be counted as my own material ration consumption, right?"

"Not really. We will regularly replenish the warehouse's supplies. Please continue."

Chen Ming nodded and connected the iron ore mine, whose authority was completely under his control, to the factory's internal network.

Then he continued to look at the panel, ready to press the maintenance button.

But when he looked at these weapons at this moment, he suddenly noticed a problem.

These are the weapons given by Yuhui. They are basically all energy weapons, both medium and small. Small ones account for the majority, and there are very few live ammunition weapons.

Combining the books that Chen Ming spent the whole day studying yesterday, Chen Ming seemed to understand something.

If these are the main types of Yuhui's medium and small weapons.

So Yu Hui actually has the same problem as Chen Ming before.

The ship's finishing ability is insufficient.

Although Chen Ming had seen the existence of the Tachyon Spear, an energy weapon with terrifying destructive power.

However, the limitation of the Tachyon Lance as a large weapon means that it can basically only be installed on ships above the cruiser level.

As for Armor Piercing, Chen Ming felt that even with the antiparticle energy program module, Armor Piercing might not be able to withstand the horrific consumption of the Tachyon Spear.

Chen Ming has personally experienced the effects of the automatic pulse laser and the tachyon spear.

Although one is experiencing and the other is being experienced, the difference in energy output between the two is clearly visible to the naked eye.

The consumption of the Tachyon Spear is definitely far greater than that of the Automatic Pulse Laser.

Not to mention that the armor-piercing ship is a model that has only appeared recently, and Yuhui has no design for installing a large load-bearing spacecraft on this kind of destroyer.

Low-level ships like Yuhui's destroyers and escorts are not very good at finishing.

That’s why most of the technical books that Yu Hui gave yesterday were related to weapons, especially weapon destructive power and weapon output power.

Whichever aspect is weak needs to be strengthened.

They probably had this consideration in mind when letting Chen Ming learn this technology first.

If we follow this line of thought, then the remaining small part of the book that Yu Hui gave me yesterday basically contains technologies related to radiation energy systems and shields.

Are Afterglow's radiance and shield also weak?

Chen Ming suddenly became a little suspicious, because he remembered that Yu Hui's shield was very good.

No, it seems to be good compared to the military.

But as for the military ship, Chen Ming could only say that the shield was almost non-existent.

And he always had a feeling that military ships might be stronger if their shields were removed.

Chen Ming shook his head and threw away the strange idea about the military ship.

Since Yu Hui wants Chen Ming to learn this, then Chen Ming must need to improve in this area.

Chen Ming's energy is limited, so it is impossible for him to learn the design of the entire Afterglow spacecraft in a short period of time.

Yu Hui must arrange things in this regard in blocks and according to priorities.

What determines the capability of a spacecraft is its weak points, so what Yuhui needs most is to make up for its weaknesses.

It should be true that the weapons and overall shield of Yuhui's low-level spacecraft are a bit weak.

Chen Ming silently recorded these two points in his heart.

It might be useful in the future fight with Yu Hui, or it could be used as a reference for fleet composition when he starts to build his own fleet.

Chen Ming quickly gathered the scattered thoughts in his mind.

Start repairing the various weapons piled up in the spacecraft's storage compartment.

The materials in the warehouse next door began to melt and gathered into a large pool of mixed liquid, which seeped into the Iron Ore and covered all the weapons in the storage compartment.

Then, without any logic, all the weapons that had suffered a lot of damage were repaired to the state of brand new ones.

Chen Ming is now very curious about what Yuhui AI is thinking as he watches this scene.

However, he could only hear Huihuang's calm words: "Can you let me see the effect of your ability transformation?"

Chen Ming thought about it and agreed.

It just so happened that the book on weapons technology that he read yesterday contained technology for modifying energy weapons.

Chen Ming can directly choose a relatively simple and common modification called [Expanded Energy Conduction Track].

As for the modified weapons, Chen Ming chose to directly work on a very special weapon that he had just found among a pile of weapons of different models.

A weapon called the Antimatter Blaster that fires a confining energy bomb.

When Chen Ming saw the name, he thought it was a good thing.

Because if Chen Ming remembered correctly, the Reaper torpedo seemed to be made of antimatter.

Take advantage of the modification to tinker with the weapon so that Yu Hui won't be able to continue treating it as a normal weapon, which will make it easier for Chen Ming to keep the thing.

The transformation also does not require Chen Ming to spend much time.

After a ball of metallic liquid wrapped around the antimatter shock wave, the transformation was completed.

There are no visible changes from the outside, but there are indeed some different changes inside the weapon.

Huihuang was silent for a moment, knowing that it could not see anything directly through the shell of the weapon, so it said: "Please place these weapons in the warehouse, and a special freight robot will come to transport them away tomorrow."

Chen Ming then said shamelessly: "I want to keep one weapon for research and experimentation."

"Which one?"

"The one I just transformed."

"Can."

After Huihuang gave Chen Ming an affirmative answer, he immediately hung up the call.

Only Chen Ming was left in the factory to continue the rest of his work and study.

And inside the brilliant Alpha AI core, a report was written in an instant.

"Adaptability assessment, extremely high."

“Learning efficiency evaluation, high.”

"Risk assessment, no changes."

"Capability verification, weapons maintenance and modification capabilities have been preliminarily verified."

“The transformation capability effect is roughly within expectations.”

"The repair ability effect can replenish the spent weapon bullets."

“The remaining capabilities need to be verified later.”

In addition to these verifications of Chen Ming's abilities, at the end, Huihuang suddenly added another line to the report.

"Enthusiasm for learning, very high."

(End of this chapter)