Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 151 Depletion
Half an hour passed.

As Baiquan released the last wave of assault boats.

Chen Ming once again occupied two data nodes through the damaged robot.

The armor blueprint of the central part of the hull and the structural blueprint of the left front part of the hull were obtained.

In addition to the previous engine blueprints and blueprints for the left front hull armor, left rear hull structure, and central hull structure, there are six copies in total.

But after Baiquan's assault boat was exhausted.

He had already brought the offensive back to the front.

Deal with battle damage, shrink the formation, and retreat at any time.

And Yuhui also noticed Baiquan's movements, and after the initial caution, he discovered Baiquan's true thoughts.

So they directly began to squeeze the activity space of the Fourteenth Legion fleet in reverse, as if they were going to counterattack.

Next, Chen Ming can no longer use this method and control more data nodes through robot maintenance.

However, his methods have not been completely restricted.

After all, the giant shipyard is a whole, and the modules are in a cooperative relationship, but they are independent at the data level to facilitate management.

Therefore, normal communication can occur between different modules in the dock.

Chen Ming can use this to spread his spiritual energy.

He only needs to install a lowest-level gamma core controlled by him in some mechanical equipment that needs to be transported between different modules.

For example, Yuhui itself has a group of Yuhui individuals who are responsible for the maintenance of all internal areas that are not open to the public.

The giant shipyard as a whole can be said to be a large industrial facility, and it is also an industrial facility that requires high-intensity work every day.

All equipment within a facility requires frequent maintenance and repairs.

Several modules that are open to the outside world have Yuhui who is responsible for the maintenance work of the modules that are open to the outside world.

So internally, naturally there are also dedicated internal ones.

Therefore, Chen Ming, who has successfully controlled the afterglow inside the dock, can definitely find a way to control these afterglow individuals.

They are most likely unprepared, or unable to defend themselves at all.

Because they need to perform maintenance on the equipment, it means that they must access various lines of the equipment.

And such a data line connecting the Yuhui individuals controlled by Chen Ming is no different from a virus petri dish to Yuhui.

These maintenance workers must also take the initiative to get close to the petri dish. After all, this is their job.

just now.

Chen Ming has already reported the need for specialized maintenance individuals to perform maintenance at the node he first controlled with the robot.

It won't be long before he should be here.

Chen Ming has not reported such problems on other nodes for the time being.

In order to avoid similar accidents appearing in the database of this giant shipyard at the same time, the problem will be discovered.

Under normal circumstances, if it is just a problem within the module, then hiding it is the easiest thing to do if Chen Ming already controls the data nodes at the core of the module.

But now in order for the maintenance team to come over, the cause and consequences of the accident must be reported.

This will surely be documented elsewhere.

So just in case, Chen Ming did a little cover-up.

Anyway, each module area has its own module maintenance individuals, but the efficiency and scale are not as fast or as large as professional ones.

It is impossible for Yuhui, who is responsible for module management, to report any slight faults in the lines. Generally speaking, small problems must be solved by themselves.

It's normal to fix it yourself without reporting it.

Therefore, even if Chen Ming's hidden behavior is discovered, there are plenty of excuses to explain it.

Then, he only needs to wait for these maintenance afterglow individuals to be delivered to his door.

Taking advantage of this time, Chen Ming also carefully studied the map of the giant shipyard.

It can be confirmed that the overall number of module divisions in the giant shipyard has reached more than [-], and they are all modules controlled by at least Beta-level cores.

However, as long as there are no suitable factories and mechanical processing plants, the module divisions that cannot undertake the manufacturing tasks of new stars are eliminated, such as the external defense artillery platform module where Chen Ming's robot worked before.

Then remove the most core, the new star that has not been completed in the manufacturing stage is now docked with the main ship module.

The remaining number is 32.

Chen Ming then speculated based on the existing blueprints, and could roughly estimate the number of blueprints for new stars to be dispersed.

It should be around twenty, a little less than that.

Chen Ming has currently affected the division of six modules, and nearly one-fifth of the modules with a probability of having blueprints have been controlled by him.

The six blueprints he obtained were close to one-third of the final number of blueprints.

In other words, as long as he is lucky enough, he will definitely be able to obtain all the blueprints.

Chen Ming was slightly excited, but he calmed down immediately.

Any act of opening champagne in advance before the matter is completed is absolutely forbidden.

After a few minutes.

Just like Chen Ming's plan.

Near the first data node he controlled via the robot.

Through the freight channels throughout the giant shipyard, an engineering transport vehicle carrying several engineering robots came.

There must be an afterglow core installed inside this car that will play a key role in Chen Ming's plan later.

This is because Chen Ming confirmed the damage situation in advance with the internal general maintenance factory through the Beta Afterglow here.

When the construction truck arrived, it got straight to work.

I confirmed the gaps where various lines were exposed on the wall, and found the data line connected to the data node.

It is here to perform maintenance tasks, so actively contacting Yuhui, who controls the module to be repaired, is also part of its mission.

Therefore, in order to quickly contact Yuhui of this node, the maintenance individual who came to perform maintenance work directly connected to this data line.

Then there is no more.

Chen Ming now has full control over this module.

Nothing that happened here could possibly spread past him.

After letting the maintenance individual he just controlled quickly complete the relatively difficult work in the maintenance task.

For the sake of subsequent efficiency, Chen Ming did not let the remaining simple work of repairing the wall continue.

Instead, it communicates with its data through the beta-level afterglow here.

He conveyed the reasons why Beta-level Afterglow wanted to handle the rest of the work himself, and stored it in the database of the maintenance individual.

This reason is enough to explain why it completed the task so quickly.

After completing this matter, Chen Ming directly asked the maintenance individual to leave and return to its original place.

An independent repair shop responsible for the internal maintenance of giant shipyards.

It's in the middle area of ​​the dock, in a module that Chen Ming has no control over.

Naturally there is also a data node here.

And now, an individual controlled by Chen Ming has sneaked in here.

And there are good reasons to explain its behavior.

Then the ending here is no different from other places.

Ten minutes later, as Chen Ming's psychic energy spread layer by layer, the module division of the repair shop also fell into his hands.

However, this is not adjacent to the shipyard in the core area, and it may be because it is responsible for the maintenance work of all modules inside the giant shipyard.

The task of building part of the new star is not undertaken here.

So Chen Ming didn't find the blueprint here.

But it doesn't matter.

Now that he has controlled a repair shop that can move freely inside the giant shipyard, it is equivalent to holding the key to the treasure chest.

Of course, his previous actions that relied on robots were not meaningless.

After all, if you want to reasonably drill a large, severely damaged hole in the wall, it's really not that easy for a robot without these damages.

Then after this.

When the maintenance individual controlled by Chen Ming arrives at the place that needs repair, it can directly contact the highest-level core in the module that needs repair.

Just like the gamma-level afterglow that he just delivered to his door.

In order to understand the information of the place to be repaired, the data line is actively connected.

In fact, it was just to let Chen Ming's spiritual energy exert an influence on him.

As soon as the data cable is connected, the rest is over.

And because the data transmission efficiency and security of data lines on the physical level are better than those through network signals.

Therefore, it is extremely normal for maintenance individuals to communicate with local Afterglow individuals through data lines.

Even when these maintenance individuals go to other modules to perform work.

The afterglow of those modules may take the initiative to provide some external data lines that are strictly guarded under normal circumstances and will not allow any casual contact to facilitate contact.

However, this can only be done if the target module itself already needs repair.

If that module had no maintenance tasks, there would be no reason for Chen Ming's maintenance robot to go there.

As for the solution to this problem, Chen Ming's immediate thought was to let the robot destroy the module there and let Yuhui control the module himself.

But this idea that came to Chen Ming's head was immediately rejected by him. After all, it was too easy to find problems.

Some of the robots controlled by the Afterglow individuals suddenly did strange things without any reason or warning.

Yuhui would definitely notice something was wrong immediately.

Therefore, Chen Ming could only think more difficultly when his brain was extremely chaotic.

I thought of another way, which may be put to practical use soon.

But not now.

Now Chen Ming is still checking the maintenance shop's database through the afterglow he just controlled.

This is where the data reported from the entire giant shipyard and all places that need repairs are stored.

Yu Hui definitely didn't build such a factory just for show.

Therefore, the number of records in the database can be said to be quite large.

The areas to be repaired can be said to be spread throughout the giant shipyard.

These records were reported recently.

There is a part of the giant shipyard that needs repairs due to malfunctions of various facilities.

But more importantly, it was the situation caused by the battle with the fleet of the Fourteenth Legion.At present, a considerable number of maintenance individuals have already gone out to perform tasks.

But even if you remove those that are already being carried out, there are still many maintenance tasks that are accumulating and are still spread throughout the giant shipyard.

This is good news for Chen Ming.

Let it even feel that he can directly try to rely on this repair shop to gradually spread his psychic energy to the entire giant shipyard.

But Chen Ming thought about it and decided to forget it.

Because his head hurts when he thinks about it now, and the consumption of mental energy reminds him all the time that he may collapse at any time.

If he hasn't run away from Afterglow yet, or has had a good rest, you can definitely try it.

But now, although controlling different modules is mainly Yuhui's task, for Chen Ming, the consumption of mental power is not too much.

But just in case, he still only arranged for the Afterglow individuals to go to those modules that had factories and were bordering the core shipyards as soon as possible.

The rest will be as normal and he will not take the initiative to control it.

After all, only the places he selected have the greatest potential for blueprints to exist.

As long as these places follow the normal process, none of them can escape his control, and the blueprint will fall into his hands sooner or later.

However, when Chen Ming looked through the database, he also found some problems, some of which he had thought of when he was just thinking about the plan.

According to the records in the repair shop's database, there are some module divisions inside the giant shipyard that do not require repair, but may contain blueprints.

If Chen Ming wants to obtain the blueprint, he will definitely not be able to avoid a place like this.

But fortunately, he had already thought of a solution just now, at least now he didn't have to hold back the headache to think.

Chen Ming didn't want to continue to experience that feeling of being groggy, unable to concentrate, and causing pain whenever a specific thing appeared in his mind.

In order to relieve the pressure caused by thinking and confirm whether his idea was feasible, Chen Ming started trying it directly.

He first determined his goal.

There is another module that is relatively close to the repair shop module area, separated by three modules.

And further back on the route from the maintenance shop to this module, there is indeed a module area for maintenance. There is a good reason for this trip.

Although Chen Ming already controls the repair shop, he can personally control and modify all data.

But if the rationality of the procedure can be guaranteed, it is better to ensure it.

Chen Ming has basically mastered the map of the entire giant shipyard.

So he successfully found a place in the target module where the internal wiring was very close to the wall.

When the engineering transport vehicle carrying the engineering robot passed by, it stopped immediately.

Several industrial robots immediately jumped out of the car, rushed to the wall without saying a word, took out tools and started to remove the data cables.

This is Chen Ming's idea. What he has to do now is to forcefully connect the data line here.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't do it out of nowhere, but after careful consideration.

He has already controlled Yuhui on several data nodes and is clear about Yuhui’s rules and regulations for module zoning management.

All information located in the module will be concentrated to the data node first and managed by the node's beta afterglow analysis.

As long as something harmful does not happen, these aggregated data will not be reported immediately.

For example, if a maintenance individual dismantles a wall, it is not considered harmful at all.

So that gave him the opportunity to do that.

It takes time for the local Beta Yuhui to react after knowing about this incident.

As long as Chen Ming can tear down the wall and find the data cable quickly, he can indeed directly connect the data cable before Yuhui here reacts and control it by force.

However, the beta-level afterglow individual in this area reacted very quickly.

It immediately noticed the passing engineering transport vehicle and its movements.

But just like what Chen Ming learned about Yuhui's rules and regulations, the first thing it did was not report the mole.

Instead, a message was sent to the maintenance individual through the network inside the module, asking what the maintenance individual controlled by Chen Ming was doing.

At the same time, it also arranged for a maintenance robot to come over to check the situation.

After all, the task of maintenance individuals is to repair, and it is relatively common to tear down walls. Every beta-level Yuhui who is responsible for module management must know this.

Therefore, when repairmen demolish the walls of their homes, the first thing these Yuhui think about is not that the construction team is going to kill them, but whether there is something wrong with their walls.

This is the reason why Chen Ming did this.

At the same time, facing the inquiry from the beta-level Yuhui here, Chen Ming had already thought of an excuse early on.

Let the maintenance individual send it a document of the maintenance request received by the maintenance factory.

This is of course a forgery, but it's a very good one.

At least the person involved... No, it was Yu Hui who couldn't see any problems.

Although it was certain that it had not sent such a file, it did look very normal.

So now it is still repeatedly confirming with the maintenance individual, and wants to contact the maintenance factory to verify whether there are any errors or omissions in this document.

However, during this process, the wall-demolition robots controlled by the maintenance individuals did not stop their work.

In a blink of an eye, I found the data cable in the wall.

For Yu Hui, as long as he comes into contact with Chen Ming, there is only one ending: being controlled by him.

As long as it's close enough to the ground, there's no chance of resistance.

Another giant shipyard module division and the beta-level afterglow in the module fell into Chen Ming's control.

Chen Ming suddenly found that the current situation was reversed compared to before.

Before, he had to be constantly vigilant, worried that Yuhui would suddenly attack him one day.

But now, it was Sunset's turn to worry, to fear, to fear the individuals he controlled hidden within Sunset.

When his safety is guaranteed, he will be the biggest threat to Yuhui.

Chen Ming sighed a little and continued to use this method to control other module divisions.

And I controlled the two modules again very smoothly, which was much smoother than the first one.

Counting the previous one, three more blueprints were obtained successfully.

They are the right rear armor and right rear structure of the hull, as well as the blueprint of the new star's power grid system.

Nine copies in total.

But when preparing to continue to control the fourth.

Chen Ming's consciousness suddenly stopped for a moment.

Up to this moment, his mental power, which he had barely recovered with the support of the mental power provided by the ship spirit, had bottomed out again.

Only a little bit of residual mental power is still in his brain.

But Chen Ming did not fall down.

Chen Ming's brain was almost unable to think. He could only try his best to pick up the sharp knife and cut his palm with trembling hands.

The severe pain brought his mind back to his body again, and he continued to rely on his will to hold on.

If it had been him before, he would have been in a coma by now, and there would be no chance of him continuing to hold on.

But under his long-term training, at least for now.

Even if his mental power is exhausted, he can still maintain his consciousness.

As long as he was conscious, he had to keep doing it.

At this time, Chen Ming's hands were already a little numb, and blood was dripping.

He quickly found medicine and bandages and treated the wound.

Then he held the kitchen knife tightly with his injured hand, and while feeling the extreme pain, he pointed the blade at the other hand.

But this time, before Chen Ming could stab him, his vision suddenly became a little blurry.

A steel jungle appeared in front of him.

He seemed to be in the conscious space again.

But this time, Chen Ming found that the surrounding steel jungle seemed a little different.

The steel was now corroded.

This is probably a sign of mental atrophy.

But the next moment, Chen Ming suddenly found that he was back in the kitchen, and he was still in a normal environment.

just hallucination?

No, not right.

This is when he sees reality and consciousness space at the same time.

Another moment passed, and Chen Ming returned to the conscious space again.

But this time, reality and consciousness space appeared in front of him at the same time.

In the steel jungle of his consciousness space, the messy steel tree closest to him gradually shattered in the process of rusting, turning into a handful of scarlet rust.

accumulated on the ground.

But Chen Ming was not flustered.

Because he can feel it.

These steel trees are the result of his mental training.

These "metals" that were originally floating in the cosmic environment of the isolated island in the space of consciousness were absorbed into the isolated island.

Even if these steels are completely shattered, as long as they still exist on the island in his consciousness space, they actually still exist.

Chen Ming just needs to exercise again to reunite these steels.

If he chooses to continue, then these crushed rusty steel trees should lower the upper limit of his mental power for a period of time.

It may take a while to rest and recover afterwards, and the effects of his psychic powers may also be partially affected.

But this situation is completely acceptable to Chen Ming.

He will be protected by his boss in a short period of time and will not encounter dangerous situations.

And Yuhui's new star level can only be divided into twenty blueprints at most, and he has collected nine of them now.

Close to half.

He couldn't give up, he had to persist.

He worked hard to concentrate his consciousness and let the picture of the conscious space disappear before his eyes.

He must continue.

And this time.

The special operations team, which had been sneaking into the core area for a long time, finally made progress in their mission.

(End of this chapter)