"It's an extension of my psychic power. It should have all the effects you can think of."

"Are you using this to restrict me?"

Chen Ming nodded, put his hand on the handle of the wheelchair and said, "Okay, it's time to go."

Cheng Xinghai waved his right wrist slightly and said, "Haven't you put me under restrictions? If you don't throw me into prison or find a place to detain me, where else can I go?"

"Even with this thing, I still don't think it's safe. After all, you're a psychic. It's too dangerous to let you out alone. I have to keep an eye on you.

Cheng Xinghai asked curiously, "I'm just a mentally enhanced psychic. Why do you think I can get away with my arms and legs broken?"

Chen Ming's mind flashed back to the scene where Cheng Xinghai almost kicked him to death on the civilian passenger ship. He said casually, "Well, I'm just a psychic who can make the spacecraft fly automatically and has some maintenance skills."

"And I've heard something else."

"What?"

"When you realize that auxiliary psychics are not without combat power, you have entered the realm of psychics."

"Your physical fitness shouldn't just be achieved through exercise, right? Your enhanced brain controls your body to break through limitations, so it's normal for you to do things beyond the ordinary."

Cheng Xinghai blinked, looked at Chen Ming's face, then looked at the wristband on his hand, and said nothing.

Chen Ming didn't notice Cheng Xinghai's expression. He just pushed Cheng Xinghai off the spaceship.

Went to the rebel headquarters to meet Song Pu.

After all, only text can be input into the terminal, so I can only talk about it in general terms.

If conditions permit, it is definitely better to meet in person.

When Chen Ming pushed open the door of Song Pu's office.

Song Pu glanced at Cheng Xinghai in the wheelchair, then glanced at Chen Ming, and without saying a word, continued to operate the computer in front of him.

Soon a three-dimensional projection appeared in front of his desk.

What is displayed is the star map of the Galo-4 star sector, the area actually controlled by the rebels.

On this star map, the coordinates of about twenty galaxies in total have been specially marked.

And there is a line on the star map starting from the rebel headquarters, which is where Chen Ming is now, connecting all the more than 20 star systems.

Song Pu walked out from behind his desk and motioned Chen Ming to take a closer look at the star map. He said, "I have already planned the specific route for you."

"These connecting points are the locations of our industrial colonies and important logistics centers. Just follow this line and you will be able to touch most of these places."

"From now on, everything you need in the colony will be in your hands."

Chen Ming leaned against the three-dimensional image to take in the entire Galo-4 star field, and then said to Sogou: "In fact, with a little trick, I don't even have to go to these places in person."

"It's okay to go there once. I feel that it's more efficient to go there myself than to use other things to help me."

Song Pu knew Chen Ming, so he naturally knew what the little trick Chen Ming mentioned was. So he did think about it before proposing to Chen Ming the plan of having Chen Ming go there in person.

"I have prepared a cruiser for you at the port."

Chen Ming recalled that when he landed, it seemed that there was a Ruler ship parked at the port.

Chen Ming could accept a ship like the Ruler, but he still wanted to ask, "Is there any stardust?"

"Stardust class... this thing has not been developed at this point in the simulation. It will take another year."

"Okay, then I'll be the ruler."

Song Pu nodded slightly and continued, "If you pass by the general later, you can go to him. It would be best if our entire fleet passed through your hands."

"no problem."

Although the number of spaceships Chen Ming can currently control is only seven cruisers.

But these seven cruisers are the upper limit of his comprehensive control over the spacecraft and real-time control.

If they only use psychic energy to maintain contact, then the number would be much larger. However, he is not quite sure about the upper limit of the number of spaceships that can actually be controlled.

So Chen Ming was not worried that he would not have enough mental strength to control those spaceships.

But Chen Ming still has a question: "Where is the fleet here?"

Chen Ming didn't realize that Song Pu wanted him to take control of the fleet at the headquarters.

Song Pu explained: "There is no need to rush the headquarters' fleet for now, because the headquarters' fleet will only be mobilized when the situation on the front line is critical. Instead of controlling this side, you might as well control other places first."

"Besides, controlling an entire fleet must have consumed a lot of your mental energy, right? It's best to use your mental energy on industrial facilities now."

"I see."

Chen Ming said readily: "For me, the mental consumption is actually not that bad, but it's okay, I have no objection, just follow your plan."

Song Pu was very happy to see that Chen Ming made a decision that was more in line with the current interests of the team. He smiled and said, "Okay, how many other small boats do you need as your escort fleet?"

"There's no need for a small boat. A big boat would be more suitable for me."

For Chen Ming, the small boat can only be cannon fodder forever. If he really fights against others, the main output will definitely be the cruiser.

However, in a game where the small boats can be used as cannon fodder, Chen Ming might find it easier to win without them.

Song Pu had no objection to this. As a psychic, Chen Ming naturally knew what kind of fleet size was more suitable for him.

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he received the star map file sent by Song Pu on his personal terminal, calculated the distance and the efficiency of the jump, and asked Song Pu: "When can we start?"

"Anytime, the sooner the better."

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "Then I can set off today. If I can go quickly, I can visit all these places in one day."

When Song Pu heard this exaggerated time, he immediately advised, "This is a bit too fast. The time it takes engineers to make blueprints is not as efficient as your past. Take your time and do it according to the normal time of hyperspace navigation."

"This is the route planned by the engineer. It must be a speed that matches his work speed. If it's too fast, you'll just be there doing nothing."

Chen Ming felt that Song Pu's understanding of his psychic powers was not quite accurate, but he did not say much about psychic powers.

Anyway, these things that can be seen with the naked eye will definitely be fine-tuned over time.

But there was one thing he still had to say: "Does it take five days to complete the journey? Isn't that a bit slow? Isn't the time that the industrial building can actually be used after expansion a bit too short?"

"I can actually just warp over there and visit all the places by myself."

Song Pu suddenly felt that Chen Ming seemed a little too greedy, and said, "Then each industrial colony will have at least half a month of full production time. At least doubling the production capacity in half a month is already a very ideal situation."

"My original plan was based on this. You don't have to worry too much about the time issue."

"Although your idea is good, how much will it take on your mental strength? And I remember that the simulation equipment is not perfect enough for mental strength. Is it really okay for you to do this?"

Chen Ming said confidently: "If there are auxiliary tools, it will indeed consume some of my mental power, but I think it is acceptable. My mental power recovery speed is also very good."

"As for the issue of my mental power in the simulation, I have already told the referee that I am very clear about my mental power situation. I will stop using my mental power when it reaches the upper limit."

"It's just a simulation, there's no need for me to cheat."

Seeing this, Song Pu stopped making suggestions: "Then do as you say, but try to go slower in the first two days. The engineers may not be able to produce blueprints that quickly."

"No problem. Just tell me when you can speed up. I can change the speed at any time. The engineers can definitely work faster than me."

"Well, I'll arrange it for you."

Song Pu walked over to Chen Ming, patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's it. Our industry depends on you and the engineers."

"rest assured."

After Chen Ming finished speaking, his eyes suddenly swept over Cheng Xinghai who was doing nothing beside him.

Under Cheng Xinghai's confused gaze, Chen Ming suddenly said to Song Pu: "There is something I need to confirm. How much do you know about my psychic power? How much do you think the other party knows about my psychic power?"

"Knowledge of your psychic powers?"

"I didn't say much, and you told me a lot of information yourself."

"According to the degree of protection that Lieutenant General Bai has given to your information, and judging by the normal means of obtaining information, the most that can be achieved is the basic effect of your psychic power. I will only know the further derivative effects if you tell me."

"Or let's put it this way. Many people know that you and Lieutenant General Bai did something big in Yu Hui's territory, but no one knows exactly how you did it."

"But she may not."

Chen Ming looked at Cheng Xinghai again.

In fact, judging from Cheng Xinghai's performance in the last simulated battle with him, Bai Quan did not take the initiative to reveal his psychic powers to Cheng Xinghai.

And since Bai Quan was invited to be the referee for this large-scale simulated battle, Cheng Xinghai must have told Bai Quan about this matter in advance.

In a many-to-many situation, Baiquan should not reveal his information.

So if Cheng Xinghai hadn't investigated him carefully, he might have known even less than her teammates.

At best, it was the same as what her teammates knew.

When Chen Ming looked at her, Cheng Xinghai showed an expression as if she knew nothing.

Although Song Pu had some doubts, Chen Ming knew that she probably didn't know much.

So Chen Ming just shook his head slightly towards Song Pu and said, "It's okay."

Song Pu didn't say much. After returning to his desk, he asked Chen Ming, "When do you want to leave?"

"About an hour or two? I looked up some information I was interested in on the way here."

"The simulation background seems to be very close to reality. I found out that there seem to be several research institutes that originally belonged to the star region military."

"And because the rebellion originated from Galo-4, the people in this sector seem to be normal and not corrupted, and the research institute is still operating normally."

Song Pu didn't expect Chen Ming to still pay attention to this in the simulation, and said with a little embarrassment: "It takes a long time for the research institute to produce results, so I didn't pay much attention to it and just let them do their own things. But if you want to go to these places, I can approve a pass for you."

"Just get me an identity. There are several institutes I'm going to, and it would be a bit troublesome to get them all one by one."

"Okay, wait for me a moment."

About ten minutes later.

Then he pointed to a corner of the office where there was a door that looked like it just led to another room.

However, Song Pu's eyes quickly swept across Cheng Xinghai next to Chen Ming and said, "If you want to leave, go this way."

It seems that the substitute that Song Pu mentioned before has started to move.

Chen Ming's cooperation is needed to complete the plan.

Of course Chen Ming would have no objection.

After leaving through a secret passage of the rebel headquarters and spending some time visiting several laboratories.

Chen Ming returned to the port again.

After finishing what he needed to do, he came to the ruler who was docked alone at the headquarters port.

This Ruler-class ship looks a bit old, but it has obviously been maintained very carefully.

Chen Ming reached out and touched the thick and cold armor of the Ruler, and the cruiser was immediately under his control.

All the data of the spacecraft were placed in front of Chen Ming.

There was nothing on the cruiser except a sufficient amount of supplies and some auxiliary robots, which met Chen Ming's needs perfectly.

Chen Ming suddenly turned his head and glanced at Cheng Xinghai. The autistic look on her face seemed to have recovered a lot.

When she noticed Chen Ming looking at her, she immediately said, "Why are you looking at me? You broke my legs, you can't really leave me here to watch TV, right?"

Chen Ming corrected him, "You broke your leg by kicking it yourself, and I was planning to take you with me anyway."

"Oh, then why are you looking at me? And you took me to Songpu."

"I came to see you because I was considering where to place you. As for taking you to Songpu, it was because I felt that if I left you in the hospital, I felt that you would most likely run away, or even find an opportunity to commit suicide."

"Is that so? I thought you were going to use me to carry out some plan."

Chen Ming didn't reply, nor did his expression change. Anyway, no attitude would affect Cheng Xinghai's guess. The more he said, the more mistakes he would make.

"I'm leaving."

Chen Ming pushed Cheng Xinghai onto the cruiser and arranged a separate cell for her.

A few minutes later, the spacecraft took off.

Chen Ming’s first stop was a logistics center not far from the rebel headquarters.

This place is located at the intersection of many hyperspace channels. It has a superior geographical location and is a good distribution center for supplies.

A considerable amount of military supplies are also distributed here, and a lot of civilian supplies also need to pass through this place.

There are clustered warehouses here, which makes it very convenient to control them.

It won't be like those integrated colonies, which are basically divided into blocks.

And because of its integration, the area of ​​each region may be larger than an entire specialized colony.

In addition, there are different types of warehouses in different areas, which makes it very time-consuming to control them.

Therefore, there was no comprehensive colony on Chen Ming’s itinerary.

This time, thanks to Song Pu's advance arrangements, Chen Ming successfully docked at the destination planet without encountering any accidents and stayed in a space station in the planet's orbit.

When it came to doing business, Chen Ming didn't plan to create any unnecessary trouble and got off the spaceship alone.

Soon someone came to guide Chen Ming to the colony on the surface of the planet and took him to different material warehouses.

Although it was almost the same whether he had any guidance or not, after all, Chen Ming could tell where the warehouses were, and he would touch every warehouse when he passed by.

It was when he was doing this that a question came to his mind: "This is a logistics center. If I use up the materials in the warehouse here, won't some places be short of materials?"

"And some of the warehouses don't seem to belong to us rebels, but to companies doing business here."

Song Pu's answer came quickly on the terminal: "Small-scale loss of military supplies is nothing. These supplies basically have a certain amount of surplus when they are prepared."

"If you want to use the materials on a large scale, either the colonies will need them, or you can get access to the materials prepared for the colonies in advance."

"If there is an emergency situation that requires materials, it must be a place more important than where these materials were originally destined, so it's nothing."

“So just use it as you like.”

"As for those companies, let's not talk about whether they can find out that there are missing materials in the warehouse in the first place."

"Even if they find out, and they report it, and check the surveillance, and finally find out that the supplies have disappeared, and then report it to me along the way, and finally trace it to you, do you think a month is enough?"

Dong Miao suddenly said at this time: "By that time we will have already pulled up our pants and left."

“…”

Song Pu was silent for a few seconds, then said, "It's a rough statement, but the truth is true."

At this moment, Chen Ming suddenly felt that Dong Miao, who was in charge of logistics, was very skilled in doing this kind of thing.

But he didn't care too much, after all, he was a teammate.

Soon, Chen Ming walked through the entire warehousing area of ​​the logistics center.

After taking control of the last warehouse, Chen Ming also had a rough estimate of his current mental energy consumption.

It can only be said that there are very few. After all, warehouses are very basic buildings, not complicated at all, and there is no cutting-edge technology. The difficulty of controlling them is almost non-existent.

After confirming that his mental strength did not exceed the standard, Chen Ming returned to the cruiser again.

It took him about two hours from the time he got off the spaceship to the time he came back.

It took much longer than Chen Ming had imagined.

Originally, Chen Ming thought that controlling these things should be quick.

But if the current efficiency continued, he even felt that even if he simply passed by these colonies and logistics centers and controlled the warehouses and industrial facilities, it would take two or three days.

If you do something else and need to wait for your mental strength to recover, it may take longer.

But it’s okay, at least it’s faster than Song Pu originally expected, and if it’s a little slower, he can cooperate with his teammates.

Chen Ming thought about it and decided to just follow the time and efficiency Song Pu mentioned, spending five days to complete the entire trip and slowing down his pace.

Chen Ming has never been a stubborn person. He always corrects his own problems immediately and learns from other people's good points.

Since Song Pu was directly assigned to the position of rebel leader, there must be a lot he can learn from him, at least in terms of large-scale planning.

While thinking about Song Pu's way of doing things, Chen Ming walked up to the ruler.

Just as he got on the boat, he suddenly heard a thudding sound coming from not too far from the entrance.

The sound came from Cheng Xinghai's room.

Chen Ming walked over and saw that Cheng Xinghai was sitting next to the door in the room, knocking hard on the soft wall with the back of one hand, barely making a sound to attract Chen Ming's attention.

At this moment, the expression on Cheng Xinghai's face seemed to have lost its previous depression.

Chen Ming immediately opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Xinghai leaned against the wall, tilted his head and looked at Chen Ming and said, "What did you do just now?"

“Do things.”

"Why not take me?"

"Because you are a prisoner."

“…”

That makes perfect sense, there's absolutely no way to refute it.

But for Cheng Xinghai, she didn't want to stay on the boat any longer.

She had just completely thrown out of her mind the things she didn't want to think about for the time being.

At the same time, he temporarily let go of the frustration of being captured by Chen Ming and returned to his normal state.

As a result, she had nothing to do and was locked in the cell for more than two hours in boredom. The thoughts she had just gotten rid of came back into her mind.

I couldn't run away, and I wanted to commit suicide but everyone in the room was so weak that I couldn't do it.

So Cheng Xinghai felt that she couldn't go on like this.

Even if I can't escape, I have to do something, even if it's just to test Chen Ming's attitude. Maybe I can find a chance to escape through what Chen Ming says.

Or he could use some connections to at least get Chen Ming to take her with him when he gets off the boat next time.

"Chen Ming, let me ask you something. What is your relationship with Uncle Bai?"

Although Chen Ming was puzzled as to why Cheng Xinghai suddenly asked this, he still replied, "We should be considered friends."

"Is that so? I heard that you guys worked together during Operation Afterglow? And it seemed like you guys had conflicts even before that?"

Chen Ming could regard the first half of the sentence as Cheng Xinghai's casual question after hearing what Song Pu said, but the second half was something more private that only Bai Quan knew and could not be told to outsiders.

After all, this is actually a scandal of the 14th Legion.

So Chen Ming didn't answer directly, but just said: "This is more complicated."

Cheng Xinghai still said persistently: "Tell me about it."

"I'm a prisoner now. I can't do anything. Please at least make me less bored."

"Besides, this is something outside of this battle, so it doesn't matter if you talk about it."

Cheng Xinghai stretched out two fingers that were barely able to move and grabbed the corner of Chen Ming's coat, looking pitiful.

Chen Ming had never been treated like this before. After pulling his clothes twice without success, he sighed and said, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)