Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 107 Plans and Coincidences in Plans
After obtaining the permission to go out of the spacecraft from Yu Hui.

Chen Ming spent several days traveling to the other side of the planet many times via different routes.

The situation of most of the planet was basically figured out and recorded in the spacecraft's computer.

So far, Chen Ming has confirmed the location of almost all the afterglow mining sites he has flown over on the planet.

and the locations of other facilities used to record planetary data that may contain afterglow entities.

Yuhui doesn't need to rest, all facilities must be working 24 hours a day.

It's just that before Chen Ming passed, Yu Hui notified him in advance so that Yu Hui could evacuate or hide.

Therefore, Chen Ming must try his best to hide his intentions.

He controlled the iron ore and mined for several days, and also used the dismantling ability to directly take out the valuable ore inside it, and handed the unnecessary products directly to Yu Hui in exchange for monthly material rations.

Acting as if he really just uses mining as a pastime.

But during this period, Chen Ming definitely did more than just things on the surface.

He also spent a lot of time determining the differences between different mining farms and found the locations of several mining farms with advanced resources and a high number of Afterglow AI.

These places are Chen Ming's final goals.

But if he finds other opportunities midway, he won't miss them.

And in these few days.

Chen Ming has also read almost all the subsequent technical books that Huihuang gave him before.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Ming was reading books about robots at the same time as he was reading these books, the efficiency would be even faster and he should be able to finish it all in two days.

However, it is precisely because Chen Ming read professional books on robots that he now has the ability to transform robots.

Chen Ming plans to transform his handling robot, called a standard all-terrain handling spider, into a mining robot.

This will facilitate his subsequent plans.

Besides studying, all he needs to do is select on the panel and confirm.

This is the benefit of combining learning efficiency with ability.

On the robot that will be transformed, in addition to the most basic small mining laser and some supporting exploration and drilling equipment.

Some melee or long-range weapons capable of combat, plus some weird ones such as a miniature electromagnetic pulse generator learned from refraction.

Chen Ming also plans to equip the robot with some high explosives that are well suited to the mining work it will perform.

He still used the explosive material ratio he obtained when he dismantled the Lourdes Left Path explosives in the Star Territory Capital.

The effect should be quite good.

Chen Ming felt that it would be no problem for the mining robot to carry some explosives that could blow up destroyers and use them to blast ores.

So I silently stuffed a lot of it into it. Anyway, it was definitely more than what the lunatic on Lourdes Path had carried with him.

Then Chen Ming removed half of the legs of the spider-shaped robot, and also disassembled part of the hydraulic load-bearing device.

Chen Ming does not need the overly powerful load-bearing capacity of the handling robot. He only needs to be able to save some space for storing the collected ore, and some of it cannot hold explosives.

Accordingly, Chen Ming also slightly adjusted the robot's walking logic AI so that it can adapt to the walking logic of four legs.

Of course, although four legs are missing, Chen Ming's adaptability in complex environments is still guaranteed as much as possible.

As for the effect, it should be able to support it for a period of time to a certain extent, and it will not be paralyzed directly.

Anyway, Chen Ming felt that this robot should be alive in just a few days, so there was no need to care too much about functionality and durability.

Transformation does not take much time.

In less than a minute, all the melted materials on the Iron Ore had been integrated into the new mining robot.

The body shape has not changed much from before, it is still the size of a person.

The middle part of the four spider legs was specially enlarged by Chen Ming, making it look a bit bloated.

But there shouldn't be any big problem.

Chen Ming is going to do it in practice first and see the effect before talking about it.

However, just when Chen Ming was about to get started, he discovered some problems.

This robot, which he had tried several times before and could not be controlled through the panel, was suddenly controllable again.

And it is still the same as how he controls the spacecraft, directly controlled by his consciousness without any interference or delay.

This situation made Chen Ming immediately consider whether the new ability was due to the growth of his mental power. .

However, his mental power has only been growing normally these days, and he has consumed his mental power to obtain training effects through the Lie Stone and other things. There has been no breakthrough in the upper limit or a significant increase in mental power.

And the number of controllable spacecraft displayed on the panel has not increased.

Only there is an extra line in the corner of the Iron Ore panel.

[Transformation Connection: Mining Robot (Customized Mechanical Body)]

Like the AI ​​core, no specific controllable upper limit data is shown.

However, Chen Ming felt that this mining robot should be counted on the Iron Mine, and it could not exceed the limit of the mental power consumed by the Iron Mine.

So there should be one explanation for the current situation.

Chen Ming couldn't control the unmodified robot as long as it left the spacecraft, but it was different with the modified one.

But Chen Mingming clearly remembers that the situation before seemed different from now.

And he has transformed so many things, why is only this robot he just transformed shown on the panel?

Chen Ming was a little confused and stepped off the spacecraft. At the same time, he took out the pistol he had always carried.

Then Chen Ming discovered that the panel of his modified pistol, which he had not looked at carefully for a long time, could be opened directly.

It is no different from opening the spacecraft panel.

Chen Ming can directly open its panel to modify, repair and dismantle it.

Although there is no power source or related power equipment inside the pistol, so Chen Ming cannot control it to move, but this also proves that he can indeed control all mechanical items that he modified.

It's completely different from when I was in Ruimu.

Maybe Chen Ming had such an ability during one of the two times when his abilities improved and made breakthroughs, but he never discovered it.

As for what is displayed on the panel, only the robot is displayed.

Probably because it only displays modified objects that have their own power source and can move freely.

Things that cannot move on their own, such as pistols, will not be displayed on it.

"Um……"

Chen Ming put the pistol back into the holster on his waist and turned back to the spacecraft.

It seemed that he had been in a peaceful place for so long that he didn't even notice such changes in his abilities.

Obviously, when he just left Ruimu, he specifically emphasized that the human world is more dangerous than Ruimu, and he should not forget it.

As a result, in the end, he didn’t even know his complete abilities.

But fortunately, he already knows now, and it's not too late.

And he also knew that the effects of his abilities were still increasing, extending, and strengthening.

Perhaps in the future, as his psychic abilities improve, there will be even more powerful effects.

Even in the end, he was able to control the spacecraft remotely.

Chen Ming did not spend too much time imagining the future. After all, this was something he needed to do, not something he should think about.

After returning to the ship.

Chen Ming did not use the Iron Ore's signal transmitter, but directly controlled the robot to perform some simple actions through his consciousness.

There is no difference between operating a robot with consciousness and operating a spaceship. Chen Ming can accomplish many things easily.

What he wants to do later is naturally among them.

But Chen Ming still planned to spend the day normally.

And they also used the Iron Mine to remotely control it and move it around inside the factory, briefly demonstrating its functions.

Let Yuhui know what Chen Ming is doing now, give Yuhui a hint in advance and give him a vaccination.

the next day.

After the repair was completed and the repair was successful, Yuhui used a special weapon that could fire strange ammunition loaded with some kind of liquid inside.

Chen Ming first summarized the results of today's work, which showed that his ability had the same effect on liquids as well as solids.

It made Chen Ming feel that he was one step closer to repairing the nuclear bomb.

Then Chen Ming spent the remaining time at work and said directly to Huihuang before hanging up the communication: "I have something to say."

Huihuang was obviously very satisfied with Chen Ming's cooperation these days, and immediately responded to Chen Ming: "You tell me."

"I want to go to your mining sites and try to collect ore from the underground."

Although Yuhui had not restricted Chen Ming's travel routes before, when Chen Ming makes a request now, he can try to directly mention that he wants to go to mining sites that collect high-end resources.

In Chen Ming's expectation, this was not something that would be 100% rejected.

After all, high-grade ore resources are there, even if Chen Ming wants to collect them,

But in order to ensure that things can transition smoothly without suspicion, Yuhui will not suddenly become overly vigilant or have him under extremely close surveillance.

Chen Ming didn't even go so far as to say that he was going to those high-end metal mining sites that were obviously very important to Yuhui.

So Chen Ming settled for an ordinary mining site, which had a vein of tungsten ore that he had been collecting in recent days, so that Chen Ming's demand at this time would not sound too sudden.

Huihuang quickly agreed to Chen Ming's request to apply for entry into the mining site in advance.

But it also gave Chen Ming certain restrictions. He could only enter Yuhui's mining field tomorrow.

But for Chen Ming, one day was more than enough.

He just needs to make some preparations.

Another day comes quickly.

The afterglow of this morning's daily work gave Chen Ming a new strange weapon.

Its appearance looks relatively simple, and it is not on the same level as those standard weapons. There should be no designer who can directly take this thing out as a finished product.

Chen Ming estimated that it should be something new produced by Yu Hui himself.

Because the name of this weapon is [Electric Storage Power Launcher 01 Test Type].

And the bullets it loads are all very special.All of these bullets are charged bullets.

It is similar to having batteries loaded inside, and these batteries are the most ordinary batteries and do not have any bonus effect on bullets.

This clear test statement didn't say anything, just like when facing the strange weapons a few days ago, I directly chose to repair it.

However, during this maintenance, Chen Ming's maintenance ability rarely encountered some problems.

Chen Ming's repair has indeed replenished all the bullets, which is no problem.

However, all the repaired batteries, or all the bullets, are not full of energy and need to be recharged later.

And Huihuang immediately transported another batch of fully charged materials.

Chen Ming took a look and saw that they were fully charged batteries that could be inserted into bullets.

Chen Ming himself, like Yu Hui, chose to repair it out of curiosity.

However, after modification, these fully charged batteries also lost their stored energy.

During the process of liquefying the material during maintenance, all the energy inside is released.

It seems that the bullet must use a substance that itself has energy properties as a material to achieve the energy supply effect.

Just like the plasma-charged warhead of the previous Inferno Cannon, it uses materials with its own energy and does not require subsequent charging. Chen Ming can completely repair it in one go.

This was the first time that Chen Ming felt the upper limit of his abilities.

But this restriction is nothing at all.

Chen Ming even hoped that Yu Hui could help him measure the upper limits of his abilities, so that Chen Ming would not misestimate the upper limits of his abilities when encountering problems in the future.

Today's work is done.

But just when Chen Ming planned to spend the rest of the day reading.

Huihuang suddenly asked Chen Ming a strange question: "Do you have any other requirements for the living environment?"

Chen Ming didn't understand why Huihuang suddenly asked this question. Maybe it was to prevent Chen Ming from making excuses in exchange for rights next time?
He was not sure, so he said there was no demand for it for the time being.

Huihuang didn't ask any more questions and left quickly, leaving the rest of the time to Chen Ming himself.

Then Chen Ming continued his previous plan of reading.

Chen Ming basically spent less than half of his time reading the second batch of books given by Yu Hui every day, and spent more time studying the technical books on tachyon technology given by Old Wu.

But even so, today, Chen Ming's study of afterglow technology has reached the final stage.

After today, go back and find a time when he can review it in advance again.

At five o'clock in the evening, Chen Ming got off work on time.

Then the iron ore with the mining robot was activated and flew out of the factory.

It was just dawn at the location of the colony on this planet.

Chen Ming soon saw his destination through the Iron Mine's camera from a considerable distance.

That mining site sits on a vein of tungsten ore.

And you can also see that the ore stamping machine at the core of the mining field is still operating, constantly flushing the ore deep underground to the surface to facilitate mining and subsequent processing.

However, there are no Yuhui robots or spaceships performing any operations on these ores at this time.

Obviously Huihuang removed Yuhui here in advance so that Chen Ming could be isolated here alone.

Chen Ming didn't care about this, otherwise he wouldn't have told Huihuang in advance that he was coming here.

He quickly controlled the Iron Ore and landed near the mining site.

The side of the spacecraft was aimed at a mine tunnel leading underground near the stamping machine.

Chen Ming happened to see several robots entering and exiting the mine entrance when he passed by once before.

That's why he chose here.

The hatch of the Iron Ore opened, and the mining robot jumped out and entered the passage directly.

Deep in this passage, there are connected ore tunnels located around the scope of the stamping machine that are obviously mined through some mechanical equipment.

Chen Ming didn't find anything valuable in the wider mine tunnel on the upper level.

But as Chen Ming continued to control the robot to go deeper, he could see many scattered tungsten ores around the mine tunnel.

The stamping machine cannot reach these surrounding ores due to its scope, and the value of these ores is not worth changing the position of the stamping machine.

But giving up will result in losses.

So in the end, Yuhui chose to arrange for some scattered robots to come down for mining. This was the most trouble-free and economical approach.

At the same time, they can also dig a road from the mine tunnel to the nearby stamping machine to inspect the outside of the stamping machine.

The mining robot controlled by Chen Ming was standing on a mining tunnel leading to the stamping machine next to it.

However, Chen Ming did not go there, but continued walking deeper underground.

He wants to bury the explosives he carries with him in various places in the mine to blow up the mine.

Although Chen Ming originally planned to go to other mines with more afterglow to do things, by this time Chen Ming had already seen the opportunity.

And he doesn't need to think about how to dig out the buried things later. This is what Yuhui should consider.

What he needs to consider is what kind of yield will be detonated underground so that it will not cause the mine to completely collapse in the first wave of explosions, but will continue to maintain support internally, so that his plan will not fail.

Chen Ming would definitely not be able to do this by himself.

So, he contacted sideline assistance.

Two days ago, he had asked the factory director to find a professional mining personnel, a blasting expert, to determine the arrangements in this regard.

When Chen Ming worked on the mining space station before, he was nominally from the mining subsidiary of Sinda Company.

It is not difficult to find a demolition expert within Xinda Company.

Although Chen Ming could only roughly get the general mining field environment to the space station.

Moreover, the explosives that Chen Ming now had on hand, after the proportions were given and actually tested, the blasting expert called by the factory director said that this stuff was very dangerous.

So much so that he could not give Chen Ming 100% certainty that there would be no problems with the explosion.

But Chen Ming couldn't ask for too much under such conditions. If he failed, it would just be the loss of a robot for him.

At most, some of Yu Hui's suspicions about him would be deepened, and the rest would be gone. Chen Ming would have plenty of time to start over.

After following what the blasting experts said, bombs were placed in all the blind corners of the mine tunnel deep underground.

Chen Ming pretended to let the mining robot collect tungsten ore underground for a period of time and then brought it back to the surface.

On the way up, Chen Ming also specifically asked the mining robot to walk through several roads leading to the stamping machine.

So that Yuhui would have to allocate part of his energy to this in the future, in order to delay their possible discovery of buried explosives.

Then Chen Ming went to rest as if nothing happened.

On the next day, twelve hours after Chen Ming left, that is, around [-] o'clock noon earth time.

The mining farm library that Chen Ming had touched.

The three Yuhui in charge of the mining farm who were notified to leave early yesterday returned to the factory again and connected to the factory's control terminal.

A mission message is displayed above.

They are required to conduct a comprehensive search inside the mine and inspect the condition of the stamping machine to ensure that there is no damage.

And report any abnormal situations as soon as possible.

The three afterglows immediately divided their labors and cooperated.

Two of the afterglows controlled several robots to enter the mine and search for the situation inside the mine tunnel.

Because the mission requires thoroughness, they inspect every corner of the complex mine tunnels.

Even if there are several robots working together, the efficiency is quite low.

It should be difficult to start formal work in the mine tunnel within today.

And as time goes by and the mineral deposits deepen.

The signals from those robots controlled by Afterglow AI gradually became intermittent.

The signal deep underground is getting worse, and the reason is that the signal repeater is malfunctioning.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult for robots to perform inspection and maintenance work.

The two Yuhui responsible for this work immediately reported the signal repeater failure to the other Yuhui who was in charge of the overall situation.

However, in this harsh industrial environment and without ensuring the safety of personnel, signal repeater failures are obviously common.

Moreover, Chen Ming's robot was active in a deeper mine tunnel yesterday than the current robot controlled by Yu Hui, which shows that the signal repeater was not damaged yesterday, at least it was not damaged before Chen Ming left.

So although this matter was not directly suspected on Chen Ming, Yuhui AI still reported the daily faults of the signal repeater as required.

At the same time, the other two Yuhui AIs were each connected to a robot and went down to inspect the signal repeater in person.

Reports of daily equipment malfunctions were not passed directly to brilliant hands.

Instead, they first passed by the Afterglow AI in charge of this mine.

Although there is only a few minutes of transmission delay.

But it was this little time difference that allowed Chen Ming to find an opportunity.

When the two afterglow AIs controlled the robots to arrive at the signal repeater, they were ready to carry out repairs.

They suddenly received a temporary evacuation order.

The two Afterglow AIs immediately gave up repairs and began to move upward.

But the mine is very deep, and it takes time to climb up.

And more importantly, the time on Earth at this time has already reached around five o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Ming's Iron Ore Ship has already set off for a long time.

Before they reach the ground.

The Iron Ore had already flown over their heads, and at the moment it was just above their heads, a violent explosion occurred inside the mine.

Several boulders and countless metal parts were blown away, directly hitting the Iron Ore that was almost flying close to the ground.

The Iron Ore's hull shook greatly, its engine flashed twice and then suddenly shut down, and it made an emergency landing at the entrance to the mine tunnel where the explosion had just occurred.

(End of this chapter)