Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 144 Secret Action

After half a day.

Baiquan's Fourteenth Army Corps is ready.

The fleet can make what must be an extremely dangerous jump at any time, directly into the hinterland of Afterglow.

And they have also left the giant shipyard that can maintain and overhaul the capital ships, and left the station.

In other words, since the end of the last mission, the fleet of the Fourteenth Legion that failed the mission has left the dock after returning to the station to repair the damage to the ship.

The fleet has always been hidden in other places, and will only return to the dock when it needs supplies and maintenance at fixed times.

As for the reason why Bai Quan did this specifically.

It's because since the last time humans launched a surprise attack on Afterglow, various Afterglows suddenly began to appear frequently at the edge of the Gallo Star Territory.

It has become common for Yuhui's fleet to attack fleets traveling between galaxies, invade human galaxies, attack colonies, and plunder resources.

Even around the galaxy where the Fourteenth Legion is located, which is a military station near the edge of the star field, there are often afterglow fleets of different sizes coming to harass them.

Although the small-scale Afterglow fleet that came over every time was no different from dying, their frequent doings confirmed that they had some impact on the Fourteenth Legion.

The troops stationed in the area need to be dispatched frequently for cleaning, otherwise it will easily lead to the interception of materials shipped by the government.

Fortunately, Baiquan has already taken over the former star district military station for some time, instead of just taking over.

And there is a dedicated person in charge of logistics, and the ability is also good.

Otherwise he will definitely have a huge headache.

But the problem doesn't stop there.

While Yuhui is dying, he must also be constantly feeding back the situation inside the galaxy.

Such behavior led Bai Quanlai to conclude that Yuhui would counterattack at some point in the future, otherwise they would have no reason to come and die.

Since Yuhui is trying to find ways to obtain information about the galaxy, the situation of the fleet stationed in the galaxy will definitely be investigated.

With a little bit of attention, you can analyze the situation where he is arranging the fleet and preparing for follow-up actions, and respond accordingly.

Therefore, after Bai Quan received a reply from Chen Ming that he agreed to help him, he deliberately asked the fleet to leave the giant shipyard very early in order to hide the existence of the fleet.

I found a hidden corner and kept squatting.

And after receiving the notice from Chen Ming today.

Bai Quan began to lead the fleet and circled the Afterglow Star Territory, approaching Yuhui's Star Territory from the buffer zone between Yuhui and the Machine Tribe.

This is a good position to be on standby as Chen Ming told Bai Quan.

Since the frontline planet on the edge and the entire galaxy have been controlled by Chen Ming, the Alpha-level Afterglow headed by him is also Chen Ming's subordinate.

Therefore, the fleet of the Fourteenth Legion has little need to worry about being discovered when it stays there.

These afterglows can completely ignore the existence of Baiquan.

Even though this is the border of the Afterglow Star Territory, there are often individuals from within the Star Territory who want to get exercise in small-scale conflicts.

As long as they come over, they will be controlled by him during the supply time.

Even if Chen Ming didn't have time to control the newly arrived Yuhui individual, let it spread the news.

The news that was sent out could only be sent back to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming where there was a communication anchor point between galaxies in the first place.

Any outside after-hui individual who dares to come here is no different from a sheep entering a tiger's mouth, not even a sound can be heard.

Baiquan's fleet can stay here safely and wait for the right time.

If not for safety and preventing some accidents.

Chen Ming even wanted Baiquan to prepare directly in the galaxy or closer to the interior of the star field, so that the transition cost would be less.

However, Bai Quan actively rejected this proposal.

He said that as long as the distance of the jump is not more than half a star field, the impact is not too big. It is not profitable to exchange the possibility of being discovered for better combat conditions in the future.

So in the end, we chose an area outside the star field that was close to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming, but where there were relatively few valuable galaxies nearby.

When Bai Quan led the fleet to arrive here, he used the terminal given to him by Chen Ming for the first time and took the initiative to contact Chen Ming: "I am already in place and can act at any time."

After about a minute, Chen Ming replied: "Is it okay now?"

"Okay, do you want to start?"

"No, I'm just asking."

Although Bai Quan can act in advance, there is no need to do so. Good steel should be used on the blade.

"Just wait there for now, wait for my notification, wait for me to find a suitable time."

Chen Ming should be able to get the news about Yu Hui faster than Bai Quan, and he should also be able to get them to take action at a more appropriate time.

At the same time that the news from Baiquan was sent, Chen Ming had almost finished discussing the specific action arrangements with Huihuang and Gamma Z.

Then Chen Ming didn't waste time and started his plan directly.

Chen Ming currently has complete control over only three galaxies.

A galaxy that Chen Ming first stayed in.

The first time Gamma Z came back, he went to a galaxy with a crystal crab planet.

And the frontline galaxy located on the border between Afterglow and the Machine Tribe.

The degree of control of the remaining galaxies varies, but two galaxies have a control level of close to 80%, and three galaxies have a control level of more than half.

But because these galaxies are not completely controlled by him, there is a risk of information leakage.

So Chen Ming set his goal this time on these galaxies.

Instead, it focuses on the three galaxies he completely controls.

Be the first to start planning.

Starting from the galaxy of the industrial colony where the factory where Chen Ming first stayed was located.

This is an industrial galaxy relatively close to the edge of the star field. The four colonies in the galaxy can provide Chen Ming with the basis for establishing a colony.

At the same time, there are also quite a number of afterglow individuals that can support the development of the colony.

And most importantly, the glory as the afterglow of the Alpha level has always been here.

It is for this reason that the galaxy Gamma Z went to first when he came back was temporarily excluded from being the first choice.

In fact, that galaxy originally had an Alpha-level afterglow, but it was bombed by the [-]th Legion when Chen Ming tried to run away last time, and no new ones have been assigned to it until now.

Chen Ming had specifically asked about Hui Hui before.

After all, the galaxy has been completely controlled by him. If the new Alpha-level afterglow comes, it will be no different from giving it to him for free.

But what brilliance means is that this galaxy will be taken over by a newly promoted Alpha-level individual in the future. However, the new individual is still changing from a Beta-level core to an Alpha-level core, which will still take some time.

Then it didn't come until today. It was impossible for Chen Ming to wait any longer. It can only be said to be a pity.

But fortunately, he has other preparations that can be used in this galaxy.

But that will have to wait for a while. For now, we should focus on the glorious place.

Chen Ming contacted Huihuang through spiritual energy and said: "The time has come, let's get started."

"receive."

After receiving instructions from Chen Ming, Huihuang confirmed that there were no afterglow individuals inside the galaxy that were not controlled by Chen Ming.

Directly rely on the communication device inside the galaxy to start broadcasting to the entire galaxy.

Countless complete task documents planned by it personally will be delivered to every Yuhui individual controlled by Chen Ming accurately one-to-one.

There are a total of four colonies located on different planets in the galaxy.

Three colonies covered with industrial facilities on the surface of ordinary planets, and a suspended industrial base floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet.

All the Afterglow individuals above took action after receiving Brilliant's order.

The production lines of countless factories gradually began to cease operations, and countless afterglow individuals moved out of the original industrial facilities.

They were installed on spaceships, robots, or according to Glorious's requirements, a core was directly transported to the cargo hold of a certain cargo ship.

The robots controlled by Yuhui began to cooperate with the low-flying engineering ships to dismantle valuable industrial equipment.

Or help the cargo fleets that have spread across the colonies to transport disassembled equipment and supplies stored in warehouses.

Countless spaceships flew over the surface of the colony.

Different types of spacecraft have different missions, but from any angle, these spacecraft are neat and orderly when performing their missions, and there is no trace of chaos at all.

They are all working towards the same goal.

Only a small number of Afterhui individuals who have received special orders are organizing materials according to the industrial production tasks that Yuhui previously assigned to the glorious galaxy, and preparing the last one or two batches of external materials for transportation.

Although the colony has stopped production, the output of the previous batch is already there.

Some of these outputs will be retained by the galaxy itself, but more of the industrial output needs to be provided to other galaxies on a regular basis.

Otherwise, other galaxies will find that there is a shortage of industrial supplies and will immediately realize that there is a problem here.

Once Yuhui came to investigate deliberately, it would be extremely difficult, or even impossible, to conceal such a big move as Chen Ming.

So leaving these individuals now to continue completing the previous tasks can be regarded as Chen Ming's early preparation.

A galaxy can function normally, at least on the surface, if there is no news that anything is amiss.

Receiving foreign supplies and exporting industrial products are all normal.

Then no Afterglow could have any reason to doubt it.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

Everything is going smoothly.

Five hours later, the time has just reached midnight on earth time.

Chen Ming usually has a very regular schedule, but starting from today, he obviously doesn't have any time to rest.

So now he is just lying on the bed with his eyes closed and pretending to sleep.

In fact, he is observing the situation of the galaxy through the afterglow individuals in the brilliant galaxy.

The industrial facilities that originally made the earth and atmosphere tremble in the four colonies have completely subsided, and the colonies themselves have basically been completely paralyzed.

Accordingly, spacecraft loaded with high-value industrial equipment and supplies have crowded the surface.

But none of them took off, still waiting for orders.

Because at this time, the brilliant Brilliant-class unmanned cruiser is staying at the shortest distance from the sum of the four colonies in the galaxy.

A complete fleet has been formed around it that has reached the upper limit of the jump engine's capacity.

Although most of them are cargo ships, under the current situation where Afterglow cannot detect them, even if most of them are cargo ships, it is enough.

80.00% of these cargo ships carry various high-value industrial equipment.

15.00% carried supplies capable of maintaining these industrial equipment over a period of time.

The remaining 5.00% is the fleet responsible for escorting.

It can be said that this fleet alone can build the prototype of Chen Ming Colony.

Brilliance completed the construction of the first cargo fleet within a few hours with extremely high efficiency.

And a second fleet can be formed again at any time.

And in this process, any spacecraft that enters the galaxy and is not controlled by Chen Ming and the Afterglow individuals it carries are all controlled by Huihuang using the coercive method of diopter.No word spread, at least not for a short time.

It may even have done something else during this period, and these things will be reflected immediately.

After completing all this, Huihuang reported to Chen Minghui: "The cargo fleet has been prepared and the jump engine positioning system has locked on the target galaxy, K-WYH-2."

This is a galaxy that humans have not yet set foot on, but has been confirmed and named through observational methods.

At the same time, Chen Ming had previously used the unstable hyperspace channel jump engine to test the refraction and sent it to the buffer zone between Afterglow and the Machine Tribe.

And took advantage of that time to explore the outer star fields and found the galaxy where one of the six valuable planets was located.

Chen Ming was very lucky to find a total of three habitable planets.

One of them has a toxic atmosphere on its surface, one has traces of the mechanical race on it, and the other is an ordinary habitable planet with everything normal.

There are also three galaxies with planets with different open mineral distributions.

Therefore, state the final goal of choice.

It is the galaxy where the habitable planet with the toxic atmosphere is located.

As for the reason for choosing it, it was just because it was the farthest from the Afterglow Galaxy in terms of physical distance, and Chen Ming only needed this galaxy as a temporary foothold.

It's impossible for him to build a colony at such a close distance, so a temporary stop doesn't require a good choice.

After the glorious report sounded, Chen Ming didn't hesitate much. He had reached this point and there was nothing for him to hesitate about.

"That's it, let's go."

"receive."

Brilliance starts the jump engine

Some blurs and afterimages visible to the naked eye appeared in the fleet footage that Chen Ming saw through the sensors of the spacecraft left in the galaxy.

The preparation time of more than ten seconds is over.

The brilliance drove hundreds of destroyer-class cargo ships in the fleet, as well as a dozen or so scattered frigates used to fill up the last bit of extra jump engine carrying mass, to disappear into the galaxy.

The transition process still takes a little time.

Chen Ming took advantage of this moment to look at another galaxy.

When Gamma Z first came back, he went to the galaxy where the crystal crabs existed.

Here, a cargo fleet is also being formed, and as the flagship, it is the Colossus-class heavy cargo ship controlled by Hui Yao.

The Colossus-class heavy cargo ship is an essential ship for large-scale material transportation between galaxies.

This is a type of ship that has been out of the factory a long time ago.

And the only reason why it has existed for so long without being eliminated is that it is easy to use.

Both afterglow and humans have continued to use it to this day, only the specific models have been changing.

Originally, such important cargo ships had fixed numbers and were shared among several different galaxies.

But it just so happens that there is a Colossus in production in the galaxy controlled by Brilliance, and the specific delivery date will be in the future.

So Chen Ming asked Huihuang to invest some resources on it and speed up the construction.

Just came in handy today.

And while Huihuang was arranging what to do in his own galaxy, he also made arrangements for Huiyao in advance.

Huiyao now only needs to drive the ship to the designated location, and the other ships that have already been assigned tasks will handle the rest.

It only needs to jump to the galaxy that Chen Ming found according to the set coordinates after the fleet is assembled.

Although Huiyao criticized Chen Ming for instructing Gamma A to lie to him.

But since it has been affected by Chen Ming, it has some criticism.

And Chen Ming felt that Huiyao and Gamma A seemed to have developed some relationship that went beyond friendship.

Although he doesn't know what kind of complicated relationship this is.

But based on his understanding of Yuhui, as a species capable of emotions, he could accept any situation.

So under the premise that he arranged the evacuation of Gamma A in advance, Huiyao is now helping Chen Ming honestly.

The Colossus class was quickly in place, and the jump engine also began to resonate, taking the fleets in the galaxy away together.

At this time, Huihuang had just finished its jump and found the edge of the galaxy before arriving at Chen Ming.

He randomly found a flat planet without an atmosphere and led his fleet to land on it.

It makes all individuals sleep silently, waiting for subsequent instructions.

And it itself is moving out all the goods from the few storage spaces on its glorious level.

After emptying the cargo hold, it moved away from the planet alone and at the same time sent the agreed signal to Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming received the signal, he decisively used [Repair] on the Brilliant Class.

Amid the rapid loss of mental power, the brilliant-level jump engine is also cooling down at an extremely fast rate.

After waiting for the Colossus who also jumped over, assisting Hui Yao started the work of unloading the goods.

Brilliance started the jump engine that had been cooling down for a while and jumped back to the original galaxy.

The second fleet began to be formed.

As Huiyao carried a lot of cargo and took a long time to unload it, it took a while before giving Chen Ming a signal that repairs were needed.

After cooling down the jump engine through maintenance, he returned to the galaxy where the energy crystal crab is located and continued the transportation of the second batch of fleet supplies.

Although the efficiency is lower than the glory, at least there are no accidents in the whole process.

Everything is going in a good direction.

It seems that Chen Ming does not need to worry about these two sides for the time being. It is enough for Huihuang to take charge of coordination.

All he had to do was provide psychic energy to repair the jump engines of the two cruisers so that they could continue to work.

Therefore, Chen Ming turned his attention to the galaxy on the border.

There is only one individual in this galaxy who exists on the planet Afterglow, which maintains the planet's defense power and maintains the operation of the planet's military industry.

Chen Ming still needs to do some simple processing here.

Of course it can't be done here like in the galaxy where Brilliance and Glory are now.

Because this is a strategic location where Yuhui fights against the machine race, it is always in contact with the core area of ​​the Afterglow Star Territory and with Yuhui's senior management.

Many military-industrial facilities maintain remote monitoring in case the system is unable to actively communicate with the outside world, and they can provide internal support at any time.

As long as the signal is disconnected or something happens to the equipment, Yuhui and even Yuhui's senior management will immediately discover the problem and come over to ask.

So Chen Ming either simply doesn't want the military equipment here, or he delays taking action until the end, when his actions are about to be discovered.

At least this way you can take something away.

Chen Ming naturally chose the latter.

However, there are still things he can do now.

For example, forming a fleet specifically for combat.

As a galaxy located on the edge, the core, most pillar, and most important military industrial facilities of the colony located on the front line will be found to be shut down.

But from another perspective, it is completely normal for such a special colony to suddenly form a fleet.

It's impossible for Yuhui's senior management to come to the front line in person.

Whatever goes wrong here on the front line, whatever happens, is all a matter of orders from the leader, Alpha-level Afterglow.

Such a dedicated combat fleet would not only provide protection for Chen Ming's colony later on, but also for a period of time before colony construction.

Even in the past day or two, when something went wrong in Chen Ming's plan, Yu Hui was able to stop Chen Ming when necessary.

More than ten hours passed in the blink of an eye.

The two cruisers have made several trips inside and outside the star field.

Although the jump is fast, the organization of the fleet takes time.

But even so, Chen Ming's mental power has already dropped by one-third.

Of course, he didn't actually know that his mental power was now so huge that it could support so many repairs on the cruiser.

You must know that multiple jumps in a short period of time not only require repairs to accelerate the cooling of the jump engine, but also require repairs for the loss of the engine and the battleship itself during the jump process.

It was equivalent to Chen Ming directly relying on his mental power to do the maintenance work that should be carried out after the jump.

But compare his current mental power consumption with the number of spaceships left in the two galaxies.

To complete his plan, more mental power is needed.

Moreover, in these two star fields, during Chen Ming's actions, which lasted for almost a day in total, some afterglow individuals discovered abnormalities.

They're investigating.

It may be some private friends of Yuhui individuals controlled by Chen Ming, or it may be Yuhui from some places that were affected due to the interruption of production.

After all, Huihuang's current computing power is only at the galaxy level.

It is already the limit to be able to handle the transportation of materials to all the colonies in the two galaxies at the same time and barely transport the planned external transportation materials within the estimated time.

It was an unexpected surprise that something went wrong only after the plan had been implemented for a day.

And Chen Ming had thought about this situation before, so he had Huihuang and Huiyao prepare the means to deal with this situation.

Relying on specially prepared ships to forcibly control these afterglow individuals who were thought to be accidents rather than Chen Ming, a human being specifically targeted for investigation.

Let them think of a suitable reason before putting them back, stalling for time.

Until now, the situation in both galaxies has not been leaked.

But it should be soon. Tomorrow morning at the latest, Afterglow will definitely notice the situation of these two galaxies.

Then it's time.

Chen Ming contacted Bai Quan through the terminal and said, "The time has come, we can start."

"understood."

Bai Quan finished his words.

A fourteenth legion outside the galaxy at the edge of the afterglow suddenly made some movement.

Led by two offensive-class heavy battleships, with more than fifty cruisers and four hundred destroyers, the iconic flicker and blur of the jump engine starting appeared on the fleet.

Except for the capital ship and some cruisers, the size of this fleet is no worse than the last time they raided Afterglow.

And last time it was a joint fleet formed by several forces.

Now it is only the Fourteenth Legion, and Baiquan alone is making arrangements.

Bai Quan was currently in the command room of one of the offensive-class ships.

The moment when the jump engine's efficiency reaches its peak.

He issued orders to the entire ship.

"Ready to fight!"

(End of this chapter)