There were about twenty people sitting around the round table in the center of the conference room. There was a number plate in front of each seat, marking each person's number.

When Chen Ming's photo was fixed on the projection screen next to the conference table.

The initiator or host of the meeting with the number 1 sign in front of him spoke first: "The main purpose of this meeting is to discuss the purpose of Chen Ming's visit to the headquarters and prepare countermeasures."

"I invited all the participants to this meeting, so they can probably guess who they are. But as long as you are careful with your words, your specific identity won't be discovered."

“So please feel free to speak your mind.”

As soon as the host finished speaking, No. 2, who was sitting next to him, immediately said, "Isn't Chen Ming's purpose very clear? It is definitely related to Baiquan."

"Baiquan's momentum is so strong that even the higher-ups have offered to let him stay at the headquarters for further training."

"Chen Ming came here at this time, it must be because Bai Quan was unwilling to see his momentum suppressed and wanted to continue working."

"So the important thing is how to deal with it and discuss the way to deal with the alliance between Chen Ming and Bai Quan."

No. 2 did not give the others a chance to speak and continued to express his opinion: "There are two connections between Chen Ming and Bai Quan. One is their long-standing cooperation, and the other is the marriage."

"Chen Ming and Bai Quan now have an absolute interest relationship, and it is impossible to find a loophole in the cooperative relationship."

"So I think it's best to start with the marriage."

"If we destroy the marriage, there will definitely be a thorn left between Chen Ming and Bai Quan, and we can use this opportunity to open up the wound."

Figure No. 2 clenched his fists tightly, as if he wanted to crush the possibility of a powerful alliance between Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

But immediately, a rather broad figure with a number 9 in front of him said, "It's a bit too mean."

"It's despicable. Do you have any better ideas?"

No. 9, who had raised the question, immediately perked up and said, "I prefer to look for opportunities elsewhere."

"How do I find it?"

"We don't have to start with Chen Ming and Bai Quan. They have another target that cannot be touched, the branch in the Galo Star Region."

"Chen Ming left the branch and came to the headquarters, which means that the branch has lost another backbone."

"We can start from there."

What he said sounded reasonable, but he couldn't avoid being questioned by others.

No. 6 said: "The branch is now no different from Chen Mingquan's base camp."

"Ever since Baiquan carried out a large-scale internal purge under pressure last time, Baiquan's control over the branch is absolute."

"And there is also the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power. It has long been confirmed that his psychic power can not only control spacecraft, but can also control all metal and mechanized structures."

"No one knows how close the relationship between Chen Ming and Bai Quan is."

"The entire branch may already be under Chen Ming's control."

Of course, No. 9 would not accept his proposal and let someone find loopholes. He immediately retorted: "Even if the entire branch is controlled by him, can his psychic power reach so far?"

No. 6 directly brought up the previous example and said, "It has only been a short time since the Caimo incident, right? Chen Ming can already be in the headquarters and the spaceship is in Caimo, so why can't he control the branch from the headquarters?"

No. 9 continued to refute: "The distance between Caimo and Jialuo is quite different from that between the headquarters and Jialuo. Moreover, Chen Ming's spaceships in Caimo are all afterglow spaceships, which must have afterglow cores installed. We cannot be 100% sure that Chen Ming can control everything."

"Unless you ask Chen Ming directly about this kind of thing, no one can get an answer before Chen Ming actually takes action."

No. 6 knew he was not in the right, so he softened his tone and said, "At least we should compromise. When Chen Ming used spacecraft at long distances, he used afterglow spacecraft with afterglow cores."

"Then we will assume that as long as Chen Ming is in control, he will be able to know the situation around the controlled spacecraft. However, if he wants to control it, he can only do it through the afterglow core."

"I think this is a reasonable guess, right? At least it matches Chen Ming's current performance."

No. 9 did not pursue No. 9 relentlessly, after all, what No. 6 said did make some sense.

So he followed No. 6's idea and said, "If you think so, it's impossible for all the branches to have Afterglow Cores."

"Both key figures, Chen Ming and Bai Quan, have left the branch, so the defense will definitely be empty. We can indeed do something over there."

Number 10, who was standing next to number 9, suddenly spoke up: "I don't think it's necessary to go to great lengths to attack this branch."

"We have already sent out our mission from our headquarters, and the spacecraft has already passed through the star gate. The Beniu star field will definitely fall into our hands."

"The scale of the Beinu star field is not even on the same level as the Baiquan branch that couldn't even occupy a star region."

"As long as we can fully occupy Beinu and turn it into a new branch of ours, the branch of Galo will not be worth mentioning."

"At that time, the branch over there will become the branch of Beiniu instead."

No. 9 knocked on the table and interrupted No. 10 who was about to continue speaking: "The branch in the Galo star field has a geographical advantage."

"The Beinu Star Region is not a prosperous star region, it is not developed enough, nor is it a marginal star region. It occupies a favorable position for external development, and cannot completely replace the position of the Galo Star Region, which borders Yuhui and the Mechanical Clan."

"More importantly, you want Baiquan to spit out what's in his mouth? Have you forgotten what he was like before because Baiquan has entered the political arena?"

"A person's character will affect the way he does things. Once he becomes thoroughly familiar with politics, he will bring in his previous brutal ways of doing things."

"If anyone tries to take the meat in his mouth, Baiquan will definitely tear off a bigger piece of flesh from that person."

"What if we make Bayonet a completely better branch?"

"The branch in the Galo Star Region will still be a branch of the headquarters, and will also be the headquarters of Baiquan."

"We must take action against the branch while Baiquan's power is still weak."

"Don't forget that we also have people in the fleet that just set out. Although the Beniu star field has been built into our branch, it will not affect Baiquan's control over the Galo branch, but we can use some external means to change this situation now."

No one had any comments on No. 9's speech.

But just when the more than 20 people attending the meeting were about to start discussing specific measures against the Gallo branch.

No. 17 suddenly poured cold water on everyone: "There are people from the supervisory department in the fleet that went out."

The conference room was silent for a moment, and No. 1 asked, "Supervision Department?"

"Yes, although it has not appeared openly, it is definitely there."

"With them watching, all our outbound fleet can do is to carry out their missions honestly."

"If you want to extend your reach beyond the two star regions, it depends on whether they agree or not."

"So either we should directly send people from the headquarters to the Baiquan branch, or we should not even think about using Beiniu to deal with Jialuo."

"The fleet we sent to Beniu can only exert some influence secretly. Any overt means, including military or economic interference, will not work."

"No, that's fine. Just have someone come and help take the blame."

"Who's coming?"

No one spoke.

No one dares to be too presumptuous in front of the supervisory department.

The supervisory department of the 14th Corps does not belong to any faction and only serves the Corps Commander.

The legion commander does not have his own faction and exists purely for the benefit of the legion.

Chen Ming's joining is beneficial to the entire legion.

Baiquan made his way through the battlefield and rose to the rank of lieutenant general, and he was also a powerful figure.

Chen Ming joined because of Bai Quan, so the connection between Chen Ming and Bai Quan is also beneficial to the legion, so he will definitely protect Chen Ming.

The legion commander would never allow anyone to do anything that would be absolutely detrimental to the legion's interests.

Of course, protection is protection, and there can be competition within the legion, but the competition cannot be excessive.

Last time someone went too far, which led to the intervention of the supervisory department.

As a result, a lieutenant general and his faction retired early.

Therefore, everyone present was quite wary of the supervisory department, and no one wanted to be the next person to be retired.

"So that means Bei Niu's side has no effect at all?"

No. 17 thought about it and didn't say anything final: "It's not completely impossible. As long as we wait until the war with the mechanical race begins, the supervision of us by the supervisory department will definitely decrease, and then we will have a chance."

"We can only rely on the actions of our headquarters."

"Let's take this opportunity to arrange someone."

After No. 17 finished speaking, No. 6 said as if he was very familiar with Baiquan: "Baiquan has grown very quickly after we targeted him a few times. He is no longer the same Baiquan as before."

"People who are directly sent there won't be effective, especially those who are from our headquarters. Baiquan will not let down his guard at all."

"If there is no way to get help from the fleet in the Beniu star field, then I would rather withdraw my proposal."

At this time, No. 9 sang a different tune from No. 6: "But Baiquan is not in the branch, there is still a chance."

No. 6 shook his head and said, "There is a chance, but it certainly cannot be used as the main method. We still have to look back and see if there is any way to dissolve the connection between Chen Ming and Bai Quan."

Number 2, who first proposed the idea, immediately said, "Aren't we back to the beginning?"

"Let's start with the marriage relationship. We must not let Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai get married."

"A strong alliance is definitely not a good thing for us."

Seeing that no one disagreed with what he said, No. 2 continued, "Then there are three directions to start with for the marriage: Chen Ming, Cheng Xinghai, and Bai Quan."

"Baiquan is currently learning command techniques for the mechanical race. He is under protection and there is no chance for contact. It is impossible to start with him."

"That……"

Just as No. 2 was expressing his thoughts.

No. 13 suddenly said: "In fact, Bai Quan's wife should also be able to influence Cheng Xing..."

Before he finished speaking, the conference room, which had been quietly listening to No. 2's speech, suddenly became noisy.

"Are you stupid?"

"roll."

"Kick him."

After all, those who can participate in this meeting are not too young, and basically they have wives and children.

They can fight as they please, but everyone agrees that their wives and children will not be harmed.

If one person breaks the rules, no one will be happy.

Of course, Cheng Xinghai’s situation is different. Although Cheng Xinghai is Bai Quan’s adopted daughter, she is a soldier and a soldier who has been on the battlefield. This is the difference.

Since you have chosen to join the army, you must be prepared to face attacks.

After confirming that No. 13 had been kicked out, No. 2 continued, "Since we can't attack Bai Quan, we can only attack Cheng Xinghai and Chen Ming."

"Chen Ming's psychic power is there, no one wants to get in touch with it, right? So I prefer Cheng Xinghai."

"Does anyone know Cheng Xinghai's location?"

No. 1 immediately replied, "It's the end of May now, Cheng Xinghai is a junior, he must be in school, no need to guess."

"good."

No. 2 nodded to No. 1 and said, "The way to stop Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai from getting married is very simple. Just find a better one for Cheng Xinghai."

"Chen Ming is 26 this year, and Cheng Xinghai is 19. There is a seven-year age difference between them. We should be able to find a lot of suitable people just based on their age."

"A young person who is within 7 years of Chen Ming and is better than him, or not better."

"Young people, who has any recommendations?"

No. 8 raised his hand slightly and said, "Cheng Xinghai is a student majoring in military command at the Military University. There are indeed some outstanding students in her class in this major."

"But let's put it this way, almost all the opposite sex who are of the right age for Cheng Xinghai have already been introduced to Baiquan by their respective families."

"No one was left out, whether they were the same age or two or three years older, as long as they had some ability."

"In the end, none of them succeeded."

"No one usually talks about the failure of a marriage proposal, so you probably don't know about it, but I do."

"I can also say that it is impossible to find someone from Cheng Xinghai to replace Chen Ming."

"Looking at the entire empire, there may be someone, but there really is no one suitable among the people that the Fourteenth Legion can contact."

No. 2 was very unwilling to accept No. 8's tone of acting like a matchmaker. He insisted on his own idea and asked, "What if we don't look at ability, but only look at the identity that is suitable?"

No. 8 immediately said, "Cheng Xinghai is the adopted daughter of the Lieutenant General of the Fourteenth Legion, and she is also a psychic. It is impossible for her to marry someone of a lower status. The person she wants to marry must be at least one level higher, or if the other party is also a psychic, then we can relax the restrictions appropriately."

"That is to say, if the person you are looking for is not a psychic, then he must at least be the admiral's son."

"But as far as I know, most of the admirals in our army have grandchildren. Grandchildren are the next generation and have nothing to do with Cheng Xinghai."

"Only the general's youngest son can be considered as being of this generation."

"It's true that the general didn't get involved in the factional struggle, but who can persuade the general? And the general's son is only fifteen years old. Is it appropriate?"

No. 2 still didn't want to give up: "What about the other legions?"

I can see that what No. 2 says is becoming more and more outrageous.

Number 6, who had been resisting number 2's idea, couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted, "Stop talking nonsense. We've heard what number 8 said. At most, we can start with Chen Ming."

"Come to think of it, has Chen Ming not been very active recently? This incident at the headquarters is the first influential thing he has done recently, right?"

"That's not the case." No. 20 said, "Just because Chen Ming hasn't taken any action recently doesn't mean he hasn't done anything. He has been publishing various research and development results."

"Especially the extraordinary laboratory he opened there. The research results on the mechanical race can be published in a few days."

"His psychic power can control the mechanical race, so the supplies given by the higher-ups are quite a lot. Many old-fashioned laboratories that study the mechanical race may not be as powerful as theirs."

"After all, if they want to do any experiment, Chen Ming can just use the mechanical tribe. It would be strange if the efficiency is not high."

"There are still some relics of that civilization that have been given to Chen Ming for research. Those things are also very exaggerated."

"And he also has a patent on some antimatter technology. Don't think he's not working just because he's not making any big moves."

Number 1 was very surprised and asked Number 20, who seemed to be from the scientific research department of the legion: "Is there such a thing?"

"Not everyone cares about the patents of the technology they use. Don't think that he is just an ordinary person without vision after joining our army for a while."

"To introduce a suitable one to Chen Ming, we must not only consider Chen Ming's psychic power, but also Chen Ming's own abilities."

This time, No. 2 was not bothered by what No. 20 said about Chen Ming's situation. He said decisively: "Then let's not consider his ability for now."

"People always look up. If they have something good, they will definitely not want the bad one, especially when the bad one hasn't even reached their hands yet."

No. 8 suddenly couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Wait a minute, do you have any misunderstanding about good and bad?"

"Who can make Chen Ming give up his relationship with Bai Quan and choose someone else? Who can give Chen Ming more benefits than Cheng Xinghai?"

"You're thinking the wrong thing." No. 2 said confidently, "It doesn't have to be Chen Ming who makes the choice, it's Bai Quan who should make the choice."

"If Chen Ming was not a good man, but a scumbag who flirted with women everywhere, would Bai Quan hand his daughter over to him?"

No. 8 didn't understand what No. 2 meant, but he knew one thing: "Chen Ming is not a nice guy."

"As long as you understand what I mean, Chen Ming is definitely a capable and good person."

"So my idea is not to let Chen Ming choose someone else, but to let Chen Ming do something irrational so that Bai Quan can't marry Chen Ming with his bad reputation."

"Whose daughter or granddaughter is of the right age? The prettiest ones go first."

Number 10, who had not spoken before, finally spoke up at this time: "This makes it much easier to find."

Although the important people in the conference room were all speaking against Chen Ming and Bai Quan, they actually did not have any deep hatred towards Chen Ming.

If one could use one's own daughter or granddaughter to exchange for a relationship with a level 5 psychic, or even a psychic with a much higher upper limit, many people would not mind even if it is just a relationship at the very top.

However, some people fell silent.

Everyone present was from the 14th Legion and all had a military background.

Some people can accept using political means to achieve their goals, but selling out female members is a rather shameful way to achieve it, which is unacceptable to them.

Originally everyone would occasionally express their opinions in the meeting room, but suddenly only half of the people were discussing the feasibility of the plan proposed by No. 2.

The rest of the people remained silent.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became weird.

The people who were talking about this immediately noticed this, and the discussion about choosing the right person to use some improper means to deal with Chen Ming immediately stopped.

But everyone knows that what No. 2 said is indeed a feasible method, and someone will definitely try it.

There are always people with flexible moral bottom lines.

The meeting room was silent for a while.

Finally, it was No. 1 who opened up the situation: "Maybe there is another person we can look for an opportunity with."

"who?"

"Cheng Xinghe."

"He had conflicts with Chen Ming before. They had a conflict in the Galo Star Region and were captured by Chen Ming. Later, he was redeemed by Bai Quan."

"Although their conflict seems to have been resolved by Baiquan, those who understand know that those who are proud and arrogant will definitely not accept someone of the same age as them being superior to them."

"We can find a way to exert some influence on the people around him, and let them use Cheng Xinghe's defeat to Chen Ming to pressure him."

"Create some conflicts between him and Chen Ming."

"Try to bring up the old matter again and magnify the conflict between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghe to the point of a life-and-death feud."

"Cheng Xinghai and Cheng Xinghe are siblings no matter what. As long as the relationship between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghe continues to deteriorate, it will definitely create a rift between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai."

This proposal caught the eyes of the participants.

And the meeting continued.

at the same time.

The spaceship Chen Ming took arrived at the headquarters colony, which was not a military colony located on a volcanic planet, but a comprehensive colony belonging to the Fourteenth Legion.

Although the military base is built on a volcanic planet.

But since the Fourteenth Legion controls a star field alone, it must have a supporting administrative team, and the administrative team naturally falls on this comprehensive colony.

When the spacecraft Chen Ming was on landed at the space station connected to the ground by a space elevator, Chen Ming felt a psychic energy fluctuation directly locking onto him.

Of course, this psychic energy fluctuation did not show any hostility, it simply locked onto him and warned Chen Ming not to do anything bad in the headquarters.

Of course Chen Ming would not seek death.

Follow He Gu silently.

Anyway, He Gu came here at Bai Quan's request, so he would naturally help him arrange everything that follows.

Then.

He Gu did not take Chen Ming to see Bai Quan immediately, but took Chen Ming to a building.

In a corner near the building where no one would notice, He Gu said to Chen Ming: "Disguise a little."

"camouflage?"

Chen Ming rubbed a medical mask with his hands, put on a pair of slightly dark glasses and said, "Okay."

He Gu looked Chen Ming up and down, and confirmed that since he was not someone he knew well, he would not notice the problem.

He took Chen Ming into the building and entered a room located in the corner of the first floor.

This room was not empty, but a huge lecture hall with about three or four hundred people sitting in it.

(End of this chapter)