Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 119 New environment, new problems, new afterglow
At the same time that the exchange between Chen Ming and Bai Quan ended.

Brilliant is exchanging information with its superiors.

Huihuang has sent back the summary of the previous report.

The contents are all records of Chen Ming's time at Yuhui's factory.

It also included the previous mining site incident, but the contents recorded in it were exactly the same as those previously investigated by Huihuang and reported to Chen Ming.

It was Chen Ming who modified the robot at will due to his lack of technical ability, which caused the robot to malfunction and left out the explosives he carried for mining and blasting operations while working.

Causing the collapse of the mine.

Although the Afterglow individual who received the report saw it, he didn't notice anything wrong here at all.

If Chen Ming were to see this report and Yuhui's reaction, he would immediately understand everything that happened before.

However, this report was delivered directly by Brilliance to its superiors, and no one except the high-level Afterglow individuals in this star field also knew about it.

After reading all the contents of the report, the Yuhui individual who was connected to Huihuang quickly sent several messages to Huihuang.

"Okay, there will be other Afterglows taking over your mission later."

"It will be responsible for preparing the supporting facilities and the necessary control over the presentation during the preparation. We can start our planning arrangements after the equipment is delivered."

"Your mission ends here."

"receive."

Huihuang replied to this sentence as usual.

However, after replying today, Huihuang added: "But I still think there is no need to do such a thing."

"After this period of investigation, I think Chen Ming's qualifications are beyond the reach of any Yuhui individual."

"The terrifying learning ability he possesses is at least equal to that of an Alpha-level individual on an equal level."

"Not only here, but also on the human side, there has never been anyone with such learning ability, and psykers are no exception."

"And we can't be sure whether this kind of learning ability is the effect of Chen Ming's spiritual power."

Huihuang's superior received everything Huihuang sent, and after reading it, he responded: "But Chen Ming is too dangerous."

"Although he was persecuted by humans, his thinking is still that of humans."

"Whether his recent stable performance is a pretense or genuine, for us, the method that can obtain most of the benefits while ensuring safety is the best option."

"We only need Chen Ming's spiritual power, so there is no problem in giving up part of the extra income in exchange for a more stable process."

"This can also block the possibility of humans rescuing Chen Ming."

Huihuang's superior continued to explain to Huihuang according to its logical way of thinking: "Human beings cannot have no reaction to such a psyker."

"However, humans have not taken any action since Chen Ming was trapped. There is a very high probability that they are planning a plan more targeted at us."

"The equipment sent by the army is already on the way. Even if there was a very low probability that humans would not take action before, there is no such possibility now."

"When humans are 100% ready to prepare for Chen Ming, we cannot continue to delay."

"The longer the delay, the higher the possibility of human plans, and the higher the possibility that Chen Ming will be taken away."

"And because Chen Ming is currently in our hands, humans may even directly choose to kill Chen Ming when there is no hope of snatching it."

Hui Hui's superior continued to patiently analyze the pros and cons of this matter with Hui Hui: "After all, we are just a branch here and have no real means to fight against the human empire."

"Once mankind tilts its center of gravity towards us, not only Chen Ming, but also the afterglow of our entire star field will embark on the road of exile."

"And we don't get any support from the main force."

"So before this happens, our plans for Chen Ming have to be completed."

"This is for the survival of all Afterglows."

Huihui knows that it is no longer possible to interfere with a Afterglow individual who is thinking for the benefit of the Afterglow group.

So it can only ask the question that has the most influence on its current thinking: "What is the success rate of our plan?"

The brilliant superior immediately gave the answer: "As long as you are fully prepared, you will be [-]% prepared."

"Even if there is subsequent failure, our technology will give us many opportunities."

"This psychic power must be fully within our grasp."

"Your mission has been completed from now on, and subsequent missions have nothing to do with you."

"You only need to complete the final handover, and all high-risk mission subsidies will be delivered to you."

"At the same time, you will also control the supervision authority over Hui Yao who comes into contact with Gamma A."

"Be safe, maintain normal communication, and don't put undue pressure on those gamma-level individuals like you did before."

Huihuang hesitated for a moment and responded: "I received it."

Huihuang's superiors obviously have full trust in Huihuang.

But the core personality module and logical thinking module of Brilliance at this time are full of many different and even mutually exclusive ideas.

In the end, Huihuang readjusted, and after terminating the communication with his superiors, he returned his attention to Chen Ming, whom he had escorted all the way.

On Chen Ming's side.

The escort fleet escorting Chen Ming has taken Chen Ming around the stars in the galaxy.

Chen Ming was sent to a gray planet on the other side of the star that he didn't see just after the jump.

At first glance, it looked similar to the one he had before.

Chen Ming can basically judge the condition of the planet from its appearance.

The planet in front of me is most likely an ordinary planet without an atmosphere.

As the fleet was captured by the planet's gravity, it entered the orbit around the star.

Chen Ming took two spaceships and landed on the planet alone under Brilliant's guidance.

In this process, it was just as Chen Ming had guessed in advance.

What he saw was a planet filled with deathly silence.

Except that the surface looks more undulating, and the soil layer on the surface is also rougher, the whole planet is almost the same as the previous one, with nothing special at all.

This should also be an ordinary resource planet belonging to Afterglow.

The only change.

It was what Chen Ming saw on the spaceship, the building that looked like a research institute standing alone on the dead land.

And the building is also covered by a tall transparent dome.

Under the dome, in addition to the overall architectural style tending to be simple, there are also a large number of plants that should not appear on this planet surrounding the building.

The dome sustains these plants.

Chen Ming landed outside the dome under the brilliant guidance.

Drawn here are a number of bays for at least destroyer-class ships.

The two spaceships Iron Ore and the Buffalo given by Huihuang parked here do not occupy much area, let alone compared with the huge dome.

Chen Ming put on protective clothing and stepped off the spacecraft. After passing an isolation room at the door, he successfully entered the interior of the dome.

He sees improvements in livable climate conditions reflected on the gas-quality monitor on his wrist.

At the same time, I also came into contact with these plants that actually grow here.

After Chen Ming and Huihuang asked for green plants before, Huihuang did give Chen Ming some ornamental plants grown in the cultivation cabin.

The plants grown here are basically the same ones as those given before by Huihuang. They are more numerous and grow better.

What Yu Hui did in these strange details always made Chen Ming feel Yu Hui's attention inadvertently.

But Yuhui still did this after he had done something wrong before, which always made him feel that something was wrong.

Chen Ming temporarily stopped observing these plants and came to the door of the building inside the dome.

The door opened automatically, revealing a wide corridor in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming could see that the layout of the corridor was indeed a pure white and simple environment like a research institute.

It doesn't look fancy, but it's easy to accept.

At least it's much better than the factory that Chen Ming was waiting for before, which was transformed from the original Yuhui Factory.

The end of the corridor is the center of the institute.

What Chen Ming saw was a garden-like place with some ornamental plants planted outside.

The top here is a holographic screen, which must be able to simulate various environments.

Chen Ming did not stop looking at these places that should be regarded as entertainment facilities.

He lowered his head and looked at the map of the institute that Huihuang had just sent to him on the terminal.

Counting from entering the door, to his left is the area for experiments and research.

The right side is the living and working area.

There is no one in the entire institute, and there is no afterglow. There are only some robots assisting in daily work.

For Chen Ming, it is indeed an excellent living and working environment, and the layout of every detail is similar to what he requires.

Chen Ming took the lead in entering the living area under Huihuang's guidance.

In addition to rest rooms and all supporting living facilities needed for daily life, it is also equipped with a canteen.

There is a cold storage behind the canteen.

However, Chen Ming did not see any place or cooking tools nearby that could allow him to cook.

Huihuang should have noticed Chen Ming's doubts at this time and said: "From now on, please come to the canteen at a fixed time for your daily meals. The robots here will help you prepare the food."

"If you have specific needs, you can respond directly through the equipment in the corner of the cafeteria. It will be ready for you in about three days."

Hui Hui's words explained the situation in the cafeteria clearly.

However, Chen Ming still felt a little strange. After all, Yu Hui had only prepared a bunch of food for Chen Ming in the warehouse before, but it had not reached this point.

But it's okay.

Maybe Yu Hui was planning to force Chen Ming to have a healthy routine because he saw that he had a messy reading schedule every day and didn't eat well?

After all, almost all of the food currently stored on Chen Ming's Iron Mine is packaged survival food that he specifically asked Lao Wu to find connections to buy as military emergency food.

It was the kind that Chen Ming found on the mining space station.

Chen Ming was in a hurry when he left Yuhui Factory and did not have time to take away the food in the warehouse.

In addition, the fresh food he brought with him at the beginning had been eaten long ago, so he only had this emergency food on hand at this time.

But it is definitely not possible to eat emergency food for a long time, otherwise there is no need to call emergency food emergency food.

Therefore, Chen Ming now feels that Yu Hui is doing a good job, at least he no longer needs to waste time cooking.

And he wasn't afraid that Yu Hui might do something to the food, such as poisoning it or something.

After all, he is here in Yuhui now.If Yuhui really had an idea, there were other ways that were ten thousand times better than poisoning.

Chen Ming's own combat effectiveness is close to nothing, and two random robots can knock him to the ground.

There was absolutely no need for Yuhui to use this method.

And Chen Ming, to this day, has the habit of testing food for toxins before eating.

It continues from Rui Jupiter to today.

Although there are always things that testing equipment cannot detect.

But he's not dead yet, and the food has never been tested for anything wrong.

It shows that Yuhui didn’t have this idea at least before.

And Chen Ming's habit is just a habit for Yu Hui.

They can monitor Chen Ming's status at any time and know what Chen Ming is doing.

It's all too easy to prepare something that the detection device cannot detect.

So what he is doing now is just to seek psychological comfort, and it has basically no practical significance.

Based on these considerations, Chen Ming had no psychological pressure at all about eating the food provided by Yu Hui.

If he really wanted to die, he would have died long ago.

It just so happened that it was almost lunch time, and Chen Ming could see that the lunch window in the canteen was open.

When Chen Ming walked over, a meal was automatically delivered.

All types of food were what Chen Ming had just eaten yesterday.

Except for the extra cup of tea in this meal.

Chen Ming noticed this immediately.

He picked up the tea and looked at it carefully.

There seems to be nothing wrong with the tea itself, it is made from boiled water and tea leaves.

Next to the window, Chen Ming also saw a constant-temperature hot water kettle, which contained boiling water and could be refilled at any time.

However, there is a problem with the tea leaves floating in the teacup.

These tea leaves are not the usual dark green color of ordinary tea leaves, but a special shiny white color.

And this bright white color is not a dye, but the tea leaves grow like this naturally, exuding a little bit of mist in the water.

At the same time, it also exuded an "aura" that Chen Ming was very familiar with, but couldn't remember for a while.

Chen Ming couldn't think of anything related for the time being, so he directly put it to his mouth and took a sip of the tea.

The taste can be said to be quite good, and it also has a refreshing effect.

Chen Ming deliberately took away a piece of white tea, intending to look back at the name of this thing.

But Chen Ming didn't touch the food for the time being.

"I want to check out the next place first."

Huihuang had no objection to this and continued to guide Chen Ming to the work area next to the living area.

The work area was basically filled with operating equipment that Chen Ming had seen countless times in the maintenance shop and Yu Hui's factory.

I walked around and didn't see anything special.

So Chen Ming turned around and headed to the research area on the other side.

Here, Chen Ming saw a piece of equipment placed in the center of the research area, occupying a considerable space.

"what is this?"

Huihuang immediately explained: "This is a connector for a supercomputer, as well as part of the infrastructure to bear the computing load."

“It can call upon the computing power of the supercomputer to which it is connected to provide convenience when frequent data calculations are needed in future research.”

"I see."

Chen Ming nodded slightly, feeling that the conditions provided by Yu Hui were really good.

But for some reason, Chen Ming always felt that something was wrong with this matter.

He had just done a big deal with Yu Hui not long ago, and Yu Hui shouldn't have completely forgotten about it in just a few days, right?
Give this kind of thing back?

This is something that Chen Ming cannot understand at all.

But again, if someone else gives it to you, and there seems to be nothing wrong with what you give, then it’s just a fool’s errand to not take it.

With partial use of a supercomputer's computing power, it can do more than just arithmetic.

Chen Ming is now able to start designing some frigate modules and even the frigate itself.

Just add some more knowledge that Yuhui didn't teach, or that was not in the Tachyon technology technical book given by Old Wu, and that Chen Ming had not learned in Xinda Company.

The rest will fall into place.

Has more than 20 years of learning and technical experience.

Chen Ming has the terrifying learning efficiency after possessing psychic powers as the backbone.

There is also the added bonus of knowledge that Afterglow has been providing throughout this time.

Having the ability to become a R&D technician is what he should do.

And for Chen Ming, he can use the most cutting-edge technology directly on real objects without any pressure.

So overall, this research institute may be the place that will improve Chen Ming the most in the future.

As long as Yuhui really follows what Huihuang said now, let him use the equipment of the institute.

After leaving the research area, Chen Ming entered the experimental area next door.

There is an empty area in the experimental area.

What is written on the map is the finished product testing area, which is used to test the effects of developed weapons or other things.

Of course, some equipment with relatively small failure consequences will be tested here. If the failure consequences are large, it will definitely have to be tested outside.

But even so, there are many instruments and equipment here.

They are all high-precision, top-notch research facilities that can contribute to the research, development, and practical experiments of weapons, radiation, and shields.

There are a lot of people who know about it, but have never been exposed to it only on paper.

In the past, he had no chance or qualification to access these devices.

Although he has never actually used it, as long as he learns, he should be able to use these devices.

There were also some equipment that Chen Ming couldn't understand at all and had never seen before, but he could feel some strange equipment.

It was like... the cup of tea he had just drank.

Chen Ming suddenly realized at this time what the familiar yet unfamiliar smell that cup of tea gave him was.

It is an aura similar to the psychic fluctuations that the Whispering Stone and the Lie Stone usually spread to the outside world.

It's just that the spiritual energy fluctuations usually spread by stones like the Lie Stone are aggressive, and Chen Ming has become accustomed to them after so many days.

That's why I didn't notice the situation of the tea at the first time.

At this time, Chen Ming also realized one thing, that is, spiritual power is not exclusive to humans.

Plants also seem to have psychic powers.

And those devices on the side that he hadn't seen before should be the same thing.

These devices are all psychic devices.

This was the first time that Chen Ming felt other spiritual energy fluctuations besides the very obvious and special spiritual energy fluctuations of the ectoplasm stone.

I don't know if it's because Chen Ming's abilities are still improving during this period, or because Chen Ming has always been able to feel psychic fluctuations, but he just doesn't feel it because he hasn't encountered it before.

Chen Ming prefers the former, but in any case, it is always a good thing to be able to feel the spiritual energy fluctuations that are different from the extreme spiritual energy fluctuations such as the ectoplasm stone.

At least if Yu Hui wants to use psychic equipment to do something to Chen Ming in the future, he can react in advance.

There will be no situation where you don’t know how to die.

I just don't know whether the psychic equipment here is for Chen Ming, or whether it is intended to be used on him.

Chen Ming didn't feel anything too dangerous at first glance, but it would be hard to say in the future.

Chen Ming moved his eyes away from these psychic devices and looked at a large room in the corner of the experimental area.

The room was empty at this time, there was nothing in it.

"What is this place for?"

Huihuang quickly replied: "We will have a new equipment installed here in a while, and it will be available to you at that time."

"That's it."

Hui Hui said this, so this should be the room used to install the psychic equipment sent by Yu Hui.

I don’t know how the effect of this device will be fundamentally different from other devices that spread psychic energy.

Moreover, the brilliant phrase "will be used by you" makes it difficult for Chen Ming to judge how to use it.

Fortunately, he still has about half a month, which should be enough to make some responses.

Completed all four areas.

Chen Ming suddenly felt a little emotional.

What he had thought before was unexpectedly completed in a strange way.

The idea is to return to the company as a researcher, rely on technical skills to climb up step by step, and start a research institute of your own.

Although both the results and the process look a little off, at least in name it has been accomplished.

However, after experiencing many things before, Chen Ming's current thoughts are not limited to this.

People always change, and as their abilities increase, their ideas change and become bigger and bigger.

One research institute is far from enough for Chen Ming now.

So Chen Ming just took a few glances at the entire institute, and then asked Hui Huihuang: "I'm here now, so what are your arrangements for the future?"

"With so many new things, there should be many new tasks for me, right?"

Huihuang's answer this time was slower than before: "There should be."

"should?"

"Yes, my mission ends here, and there will be a new afterglow to take over the job, so I don't know, I can only say that it should."

"what?"

(End of this chapter)