Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 181 Waves surge

Chen Ming can be said to have a good understanding of Yan Xiong's situation.

After all, Yan Xiong absorbed a lot of metal materials from the spacecraft and mechanical equipment controlled by Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming had no doubts about how to realize his idea.

However, Chen Ming has not yet decided whether the extracted top-grade materials from psykers will be used in spacecraft armor or weapons.

Wait, that's not right.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that his idea was wrong.

When applying these high-strength materials, his current knowledge gradually began to become scarce.

This kind of high-grade metal should be used in places with the most cutting-edge technology, such as the design of capital ships or anti-matter reactors.

Or show it to the boat spirit to see if this material has any special uses.

Rather than simply being used on spacecraft weapons and armor.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that he was now as if ancient people had obtained high-strength metal materials that could be used as aerospace technology.

Assuming that ancient people could use these materials at will, the biggest use for them was to make a cold weapon or armor.

Their level of knowledge determines how well they can use the material.

Now, although Chen Ming can't only use this material as a cold weapon, the properties are similar and he can't fully apply these materials.

But it’s okay, he still has time, and he still has many opportunities to learn.

Moreover, although he does not know how to use this material, his Chaofan is obviously different. As long as Chaofan is given the opportunity to study these things, Chen Ming will soon know the practical application value of this material.

In short, Chen Ming had to first extract all the psychic materials from Yan Xiong that he might have saved for most of his life.

After confirming his idea, Chen Ming suddenly couldn't help but say: "I'm really born."

Chen Ming suddenly cursed himself, which made the boss a little unresponsive and asked: "What did you say?"

"It's okay, boss, please help me refuse. I suddenly discovered that Yan Xiong seems to have other uses."

"Oh? What's the use?"

Chen Ming asked him to help find a new home some time ago. Now that he has found one, he is willing to pay a good price.

The value of things like the fairy tree is not low, especially since the buyer still has a ten-year warranty, which is enough for the fairy tree to produce something valuable.

Since Chen Ming chose to refuse, he must have his reasons.

Combined with this, Chen Ming just suddenly scolded himself.

The boss is very curious now.

There was no need for Chen Ming to hide anything, so he simply repeated his thoughts.

It can only be said that Yan Xiong’s alloy furnace is very useful no matter how you look at it.

Even if the top metal contaminated with psychic properties is regarded as Yan Xiong's flesh and blood to a certain extent, Chen Ming does not have the slightest psychological burden at this time.

After all, as much Chen Ming is poached as it is, it will be replaced with other metals.

The whole thing is similar to giving cats coffee cherries and using the coffee beans you get to make cat poop coffee.

Although it's not a cat now, and it's not coffee, the effect is similar.

Moreover, Chen Ming took the initiative to extract it and did not need to pull it out.

Besides, Chen Ming had already had a mental breakdown once when he knew that Sky Steel was the shit of an eel from Arturan Kong.

When you know that the door of the biological spaceship is made of muscle tissue such as sphincter, your mood is relatively stable.

So this time, he was in a good frame of mind.

Anyway, Yan Xiong is just a ball now, and it doesn't matter where he extracts the metal from.

After listening to Chen Ming's story, the boss said, "Now I know why you suddenly scolded yourself just now."

"It is indeed a bit unfinished, but yes, you will probably need something like this that can produce alloys in the future."

"Then I will reject the other side for you? Are you sure you won't have any thoughts of selling it in the future?"

Chen Ming responded: "Well, that's it."

While the fairy tree is great, it's not just its leaves that can be used to make tea.

Also, when Chen Ming was at Yu Hui's place before, when he mentioned fairy tree tea to his boss, the boss also mentioned several valuable things produced by fairy trees.

But even with these, the value of the Fairy Spirit Tree to Chen Ming is definitely not as good as a universal alloy smelting furnace that his spiritual power needs.

After Chen Ming confirmed his idea, he sent a document to his boss and said, "By the way, this is the data recorded at the highest point in the past few days."

The boss opened the file and took a look. He found that the content inside was all data that he could not understand, and then closed the file and said, "Okay, I will transfer it. There should be nothing else going on, so I will hang up." "

"Wait a minute, boss, I want to ask the name of the new member of the association who designed the highest point."

"Shao Yang."

As the communication with the boss ends.

The matter that Chen Ming still had in the empire was basically settled.

Except for the pirate hunting he has been asking Gamma B to do, and the regular return of data records from the highest point, there is basically nothing that Chen Ming needs to worry about.

In the next period of time, Chen Ming should live a relatively calm and ordinary life, but also busy.

In addition to needing to learn a lot of things, the star port that has been built can be used to its fullest extent under brilliant command.

Chen Ming still has to ask Gamma B to go to the space station occupied by the left path to offer a reward or something.

Not long after Chen Ming ended his call with the factory director and boss.

The Asconia system, far away in the empire, is the headquarters of Sindar Corporation.

The company's board of directors meeting is being held.

The entire conference table was noisy at this time.

The content of the quarrel was the news that they had just received the death of the director.

Some people say that this is Chen Ming's threat, and the company cannot ignore it.

Some people think that this is helping the factory director, and that they should continue the tone they set before and befriend Chen Ming.

There are also people who are acting as peacemakers, thinking that since the company has fired the director in name, what Chen Ming did and the company's attitude towards him are completely different, and there is no need to argue.

Of course, there is no shortage of people who are angry. There is a director who is happy to see people at his level losing face and quarreling over such things.

Even with the new directors, there were only a dozen people in the board meeting, but it still felt like a wet market.

The chairman sitting in the main seat did not care about the specific content of the directors' debate at this time.

Because what really made them quarrel was not that Chen Ming killed someone casually, but the subsequent impact of Chen Ming's doing so.

All I can say is that the director's death was too scary.

He was burned to death on the spacecraft by the high temperature inside the spacecraft.

Although there must be arrangements from the space station, the person who ultimately implemented it must be Chen Ming, and only Chen Ming can do this.

The two had to let the directors consider whether Chen Ming might do this to them in the future.

The directors had no means to confirm whether Chen Ming controlled a certain spacecraft. There was indeed a possibility that they would die in Chen Ming's hands in the same way.

The more contact you have with Chen Ming, the higher the possibility of this happening.

After all, it is still the same sentence, the company is a power, and they are businessmen, and the power and businessmen must be profit-seeking.

No one can guarantee that their relationship with Chen Ming will not change in this life, so the possibility of sudden death at any time without warning will indeed worry some directors.

But the chairman in the chair is not worried about this.

Because anyone who knows the whole story can see that the director is seeking death.

It's just that some of the directors don't believe it, that's all.

In addition, the factory director actually told the chairman about this matter in advance.

And he also said that Chen Ming was the one he specially called to deal with the director, so he had reported it in advance.

Of course, the chairman must not tell anyone about this matter. After all, this is considered a factory director's leverage.

He only needs to remember that what this incident reveals is that Chen Ming is good to his friends.

There is no point in further arguing at the board meeting.

So the chairman coughed twice and said, "Stop."

When the conference room gradually became quiet, the chairman put a document on the screen next to him and said: "Evaluating Chen Ming must not just talk about it, you must look at the evidence."

"Previously, when Chen Ming was still in the afterglow, the 14th Army Corps took the lead in organizing a joint meeting."

"The Fourteenth Legion specially found a few people who majored in psychology to make a personality model for Chen Ming to analyze his personality."

"You have seen the result."

The chairman pointed to the content displayed on the screen behind him and said, "Chen Ming is a good man."

"At least if you don't have time to mess with him, he will definitely not mess with you for no reason. He is even quite nice to his own people."

"If you have any concrete evidence that proves that Chen Ming is not a good person and will come to the board of directors to kill people, you can mention it now."

A director immediately said: "Isn't the death of the director of the Space Station Management Bureau the best evidence? Chen Ming's psychology must have been tortured and distorted by Yu Hui, so he attacked so harshly when he came back."

The chairman nodded and said, "Oh."

"Then please explain that before Zuo Jing and the war zone invaded the space station, someone assassinated Chen Ming, but Chen Ming only had his hands and feet broken, disabling his ability to move." "And when Zuo Jing was During the invasion of the space station, when several people with explosives strapped to their bodies blocked Chen Ming at the entrance of Space Wall 1, Chen Ming did not directly kill these people who were mixed in with the crowd, but instead took the risk and entered the dock. "

"He directly killed people and blew up a bunch of ordinary people, and then casually hid in the space station. When the five cruisers outside opened, who could fight in? Isn't it more convenient?"

"If Chen Ming's character is twisted, it should have been shown before this."

The chairman was not angry at this time, because he knew that this was a situation that must be maintained in order for the company to operate.

Someone must raise objections on some matters. Even if there is some internal friction in the entire company, it must not be his alone.

"In short, even if you object to continuing to communicate with Chen Ming, there is no way to change the fact that Chen Ming can control the spacecraft. Isn't the risk of being killed by Chen Ming greater?"

"If you and Chen Ming have a good relationship, will Chen Ming come to kill you when he is full?"

The chairman's eyes were locked on the director who had just spoken and said: "If you still have any objections, one of you can directly initiate a vote on whether to continue to maintain a friendly relationship with Chen Ming."

No one spoke at the conference table.

The directors all know that they may quarrel in words, but in actual work they must put interests first.

Just as the chairman said, the possibility and risk of Chen Ming coming to kill them is actually basically non-existent. On the contrary, the benefits are more realistic.

The chairman shook his head and said, "Wouldn't it be over already?"

"Okay, today's meeting is mainly about two things. The first one is antimatter reactor technology."

"We were the first to obtain a patent with the support of the government. Now that the technology has been initially verified, it is time to start industrial production and prepare for large-scale testing."

The director sitting next to the chairman asked: "Does this mean that antimatter engine technology can already start making money for us?"

"Yes, so we can't avoid the second thing today, which is Chen Ming."

"We all know that several companies in the empire are researching antimatter technology, but we were the first to get the results."

"The Yuhui anti-matter shock wave weapon that Chen Ming brought back is indispensable."

"Then because we took the initiative to cut ties with Chen Ming before, we allocated some patents to him."

The chairman said, moving his fingers to display a list on the display behind him.

Then he crossed out most of the patents on it, leaving only one line.

"Chen Ming previously sold some of the patents back to us, those that were crossed out, for a sum of cash."

"However, he did not sell the most critical antimatter reactor patent."

A director who had just joined the board said: "So cunning?"

"It's smart. Although he was just a team leader before, he is not ignorant of technology. He knows that the reactor in antimatter technology is the most valuable."

"Then what do we do? Find a way to buy the patent back?"

The former director who liked to take advantage of the situation took advantage of the situation and said: "We have many ways to get back Chen Ming's patents in a reasonable way without spending money."

The director in front immediately stared at the director who spoke behind him and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I don't mean that."

The chairman ignored the directors' intrigues and said: "Chen Ming deliberately kept the antimatter reactor patent before, so it is impossible to let go of the patent. If we want to make money, we will definitely not be able to avoid him."

"In that case, we might as well take the initiative to use this opportunity to build a relationship between him and our company."

"From Chen Ming's performance over the past 20 years, we can see that he is very motivated, wants to make progress, and has strong self-learning ability."

"In addition to money, our company can provide him with many technologies within the company that he has not been exposed to at his previous level, provide him with many learning opportunities, or simply seek cooperation."

"Cooperation is the best way to build relationships."

"Then how to get it?"

"We still have to start with money first, and send the money earned from the antimatter reactor in proportion to the patent."

"And things like technology cannot be sent directly. It would be no good if we sent them directly."

"We can just trade normally with Chen Ming. We can use our company's internal technology to exchange with Chen Ming the technology he got from Yu Hui."

"Then we can take the opportunity to exchange technologies with each other. We can take the initiative to ask him about Yuhui's technology issues and help him solve his problems in learning our technology."

"Wouldn't the relationship come back after this back and forth, and wouldn't it be easy to have more in-depth communication in the future?"

A director raised his hand and said, "Well, Chairman, how do you know that Chen Ming must have Yuhui's technology?"

The chairman glanced at the newly joined director with some confusion and said: "If you were Chen Ming, you had the ability to control the spaceship and control Yuhui, and then you would run away from Yuhui without doing anything or taking anything. come out?"

"No, but what if the technologies he has at his disposal are all technologies such as guard expulsion and many other technologies that we have already studied thoroughly?"

The chairman became even more confused and asked: "You can control a cruiser, but you only have the technology of a destroyer?"

"Uh... pretend I didn't say anything."

The chairman nodded and returned to the previous topic: "But we can't be so direct. Chen Ming must have a bad feeling towards us now, and giving money may not necessarily bring back the relationship."

"We'll use a more indirect approach, starting with Wu An."

The chairman looked at the director in charge of the pirate space station.

He immediately said: "The relationship between our company and Wu An on the space station is currently quite good. Our relationship with Chen Ming did not affect Chen Ming's attitude towards us too much before."

"However, Wu An has not clearly shown any intention to recruit from us."

"But since he has been staying on our space station, he basically has no chance to contact other forces. As long as nothing happens in the future, his relationship with us will eventually get better."

The chairman nodded and said, "That's right."

"Furthermore, Wu An helped the Psychic Association get a new member some time ago. You all know the pinnacle of his design, right?"

"The prototype spaceship at the Supreme Point is the one that Chen Ming drove away. He also has technical cooperation with Chen Ming. Finding him is actually an indirect way to contact Chen Ming."

"If we want to find people we don't know in the psychic association, we must start with people we know, so this matter comes back to Wu An."

"Look for Wu An, whether you find a way to contact Chen Ming through him, or contact the newcomer from the psychic society called Shao Yang."

"And there will be a good opportunity after a while."

The chairman said as he displayed a press release from the empire's official media on the screen, with a photo of Bai Quan posted on it.

"The commander of the Fourteenth Legion in the Gallo Star Territory, Bai Quan, has returned to the station of the Fourteenth Legion and is preparing to be promoted to lieutenant general."

"Bai Quan killed two battleships on Yuhui's territory, one of which was a new model of battleship. He even obtained some data of that new model of battleship."

"With such great achievements, the empire is now promoting him as a model of the army."

"Look."

The screen next to the chairman displayed countless press releases issued by the official or news media with certain official backgrounds, all of which were reports on Bai Quan.

The significance of what the authorities did was clear, and it attracted countless small newspapers and periodicals to publish the same article.

It was as if he wanted to promote Baiquan as the youngest lieutenant general in the empire in recent years and a hero of the empire.

One director was keenly aware of some of these problems and said: "It's so popular that it's hard not to make people wonder if the empire is going to make any big moves in recent years?"

The chairman did not deny it and said: "It's very possible. That's why I asked the company to adjust the production line and shift the production of civilian spacecraft to the military."

"But we are not talking about this time now. What we are talking about is that Wu An will go to this promotion ceremony."

"There is also news that the Fourteenth Legion also invited Shao Yang, the man who designed the Supreme Point."

"It can only be said that Shao Yang just came out of Tachyon Technology, and he has the design of a supreme ship as his family background. He is indeed a good recruitment target."

"Whether Shao Yang will go or not, Wu An will definitely go, that's for sure."

"Actually, I also plan to get in touch with Baiquan more."

The chairman suddenly changed the content on the projection behind him, replacing it with a document recording the current situation that appeared in public view, and a document documenting the achievements of the 14th Army Corps announced to the public.

"When you looked at these two documents, did you notice anything special?"

Before the directors discovered the problem, the chairman explained directly: "The day Chen Ming escaped from Yu Hui happened to be the day Bai Quan went to Yu Hui's place."

"And Bai Quan, who had just arrived in the Gallo Star Territory a few months ago, suddenly led his fleet deep into the hinterland of Yuhui, found Yuhui's giant shipyard, and knew that there was a newly designed capital ship inside, and killed it."

"Then Wu An, who had almost no interaction with Bai Quan before, suddenly agreed to attend a promotion ceremony so far away from the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps."

"You should be able to understand these messages that can be analyzed on the surface, right?"

A few directors looked slightly embarrassed, but they quickly covered it up.

"So the conclusion is very clear. Chen Ming and Bai Quan have additional cooperation in private."

"They did not have conflicts because of the previous internal issues of the Fourteenth Legion. Instead, they came together."

"We cannot continue to waste the opportunity to contact Chen Ming."

"So, Wu An, Bai Quan and Shao Yang are all candidates for indirect contact with Chen Ming."

"We happen to have a pretty good relationship with the Fourteenth Legion now. Although it's a bit embarrassing, getting an invitation letter shouldn't be a problem."

"I can take people to Baiquan's promotion ceremony. The chance for us to have a good relationship with Chen Ming is now."

After the chairman finished speaking, he motioned to the directors to speak freely.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour and ended.

after this.

The peaceful week passed quickly.

A week later, Chen Ming was still on the planet orbit of the mechanical city, leading a busy life every day.

(End of this chapter)