Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 225 Others’ Doubts

At the moment when Chen Ming's psychic energy covered the entire industrial area and expanded an entire industrial colony.

As the referee, Bai Quan couldn't help feeling a little emotional when he saw this scene, lamenting Chen Minngling's rapid progress.

Bai Quan really had a thorough understanding of Chen Ming's life.

Especially the period from ordinary people to psykers is a detailed and in-depth understanding.

From the beginning of the mining space station to Ruimu Planet, and then to the pirate space station, the speed of Chen Ming's spiritual progress in the entire process was completely slow compared to now.

It was not until later that Wu An discovered Chen Ming's talent and began to cultivate it. Chen Ming's spiritual strength and mental power increased rapidly.

Especially his last performance on Yuhui's side allowed him to successfully destroy Yuhui's new battleship.

At that time, Chen Ming was already able to make a lot of noise.

Therefore, now, when Bai Quan sees Chen Ming completing the expansion of the colony in the simulation, he has no doubt that Chen Ming can actually do these things in reality.

It even used the effect of the purgatory core to directly solidify the entire vertical volcano.

If a psyker can directly use the Purgatory Core to suppress a volcano, it at least means that the psyker's own psychic energy is strong enough to affect the volcano.

"Okay, I've seen the list of personnel. The only one who can capture the opponent at the beginning is Chen Ming, right?"

This should be the closest to reality.

When he saw the applicant's identity information, he frowned slightly, but made no other action. He just said in the communication channel watching the battle: "As I said, someone came, and it was Lou Wei, the mentor of the opposite Ogijia."

Identity verification... They are Song Pu's mentor Pang Dong and Dong Miao's mentor Shi Han, both with the rank of major general.

"Then who did he capture?"

"Cheng Xinghai."

After what happened at the giant shipyard, Bai Quan gave Chen Ming a second spiritual nerve, and his spiritual power was definitely higher than what he had at the shipyard.

Pang Dong suddenly felt that something was going to happen next, and confirmed: "Lou Wei?"

At the same time, he kicked out his psyker friend who was always talking about cheating, to prevent him from conflicting with others later.

Baiquan didn't hide it, and summarized the current situation: "It has just been one day in the simulation, and Songpu's side currently has a great advantage."

"Forehead……"

“Is there an advantage in one day?”

Therefore, even if Chen Ming achieved such a large-scale psychic effect, Bai Quan did not put forward any opinions. He believed that Chen Ming could achieve this.

Of course, this does not mean that every student has a major general as a mentor, but only excellent people can have excellent graduate mentors.

As for whether Chen Ming's mental strength is enough.

Pang Dong knew the background of the simulation, and he also knew that both sides would have one person very close to each other at the beginning.

"Yes, his teammates found an opportunity at the beginning and captured someone on the opposite side."

As soon as Shi Han finished speaking, Bai Quan received a new signal to apply to watch the game.

"I heard that Lieutenant General Bai will send the results of this simulation to their respective schools. Our students can't sit still. You told us about this in advance. Others should also come here, right?"

Chen Ming completely protected the dome in a ghost place like their Fourteenth Legion branch.

It's just that this time the refereeing authority for the simulation is in Baiquan's hands, so watching the game requires Baiquan's permission.

After Song Pu's mentor Pang Dong connected to the viewing system and joined the communication channel, he immediately asked Bai Quan, who was already in the channel: "Lieutenant General Bai, how is the situation? I came here just after I heard that the simulation had started. Now it's already How long has it been?"

And unlike the referee's authority, which can see the entire battlefield situation, the viewing authority's perspective is limited to the vicinity of all people in the simulation, and cannot understand the broader situation.

Bai Quan replied as expected: "Yes, it's him."

Someone from the headquarters has logged into the simulation equipment and is applying to watch the battle.

It is normal for a tutor to care about his students.

Moreover, the realization of various psychic attributes of deep simulation does not just come out of the blue.

Pang Dong felt something was wrong, and avoided the topic and asked, "Are we the only ones watching the game now?"

However, his own students still know that they are unlikely to take risks and change them.

Dong Miao's mentor Shi Han said: "We came here as soon as we received the news. It's normal that the others haven't come yet. Maybe they will come after a while."

So Bai Quan directly opened the permissions to the two mentors and pulled them into the communication channel.

And the last time Hu Yi used volcanoes to try to assassinate Chen Ming.

This purgatory core is just a tool, and more of a converter.

At this moment, Bai Quan suddenly received an external signal.

Except that the total amount of Chen Ming's mental power cannot be determined, all performances should be no different from what Chen Ming can do in reality.

Bai Quan specially asked someone to translate Chen Ming's paper on the Purgatory Core, and he probably understood the mechanism of the Purgatory Core.

The right to use the simulation equipment itself is not only in Baiquan's hands.

Instead, it relies on the settings entered before the simulation starts. After the computer logic calculation of the simulation device, the effect of the set conditions is finally realized in the simulation.

It seems that several other people have not done similar things, so the one who can do this should be Chen Ming.

"Well, that's him, I let him in."

As soon as Lou Wei entered the channel, he asked the same question as Pang Dong: "How is the situation?"

Bai Quan said nothing, but Pang Dong spoke on behalf of Bai Quan: "Your side is temporarily at a disadvantage."

"Disadvantage? How long has it been?"

"one day."

"You're at a disadvantage in just one day? Is it true?"

"Really, you'll know just by looking at it."

After a moment of silence, Lou Wei said in a strange tone: "On the first day, four against five. How did you do it with such a disadvantage?"

Lou Wei's words were not directed at his own students.

Several people present could hear that these words were used to question Bai Quan.

The implication contained in it was that he suspected Bai Quan of arranging for Cheng Xinghai to kill someone intentionally.

Bai Quan first conveniently rejected his psychic friend's request to join the communication channel after he found out that he had been kicked out and Lou Wei also joined the communication channel.

Then he said to Lou Wei: "See for yourself."

"Ok?"

Lou Wei's tone suddenly had a hint of anger and he said: "There should be everyone's perspective video of the past day, right? I want to take a closer look at what is the disadvantage. Please send it to me, Bai - middle - -Will--."

When the smell of gunpowder suddenly started to get stronger in Baiquan.

Song Pu finally finished lamenting the power of Chen Ming's spiritual energy, contacted Chen Ming and asked: "How is the consumption of spiritual power?"

"Still calculating."

Chen Ming replied quickly and continued to calculate the more detailed mental power loss in his mind.

The workload of this industrial colony is quite large.

So when the expansion was just in progress, Chen Ming had already started to follow the scale of the expansion and the upper limit of his own mental power, plus various biological and dead objects he owned that could help him restore his mental power, as well as the resources provided by the hive mind. Blessing calculated an approximate loss.

Then Chen Ming's ontology was tested in real life using an approximate physical object of the same proportion. With a simple conversion, he could get a basically accurate final amount of mental power consumption.

The result was unexpectedly low.

Although Chen Ming was purely following the drawings, he basically only needed to continuously extend and transform the original industrial building, and he didn't even need to manufacture anything more.

Moreover, the technological level of this colonial industrial facility that produces ship hulls and hull parts is not too high compared to other factories that produce high-precision chips.

But Chen Ming always felt that the acceleration of his thinking would have some positive effects when he used psychic powers.

The acceleration of thinking seems to have also strengthened the intensity of Chen Ming's consciousness, and the intensity of consciousness has also increased the intensity of Chen Ming's mental power.

This was a rather strange discovery. Chen Ming felt that he would have to find an opportunity to use simulation equipment to dive deep into his consciousness and test it specifically.

But at least one thing is certain now, that is, the expansion of this colony has not completely exhausted his mental energy.

And judging from Chen Ming's calculation of his mental power recovery rate, he would be able to fully recover his mental power in a few hours at most and start the next work.

So Chen Ming quickly said to Song Pu on the terminal: "I have already made the calculations here, and I can go directly to the next place."

"Are you in good condition?"

"The amount of mental energy consumed is about 80%. If you fly slowly on the road, you should be able to recover almost enough to support the next time."

"Then there is the logistics warehouse again. I can recover for a while at that time and can set off."

Song Pu was even more excited when he heard Chen Ming's answer and said, "Okay, if you continue at this efficiency, you may be closer to the front line in two days."

"When the time comes, remember to tell me or the general in advance to avoid being involved in any battle."

Chen Ming asked with some confusion: "Is there going to be a war so soon?"

"That's not true. It's not necessarily true. I'm just reminding you first."

"Because I feel that it is better for you to sit at the rear as much as possible. It would not be a good thing to be involved in the battle on the front line."

"The main thing is that your psychic power doesn't limit your location when you use it, so it doesn't matter where you are, right?"

Chen Ming did not deny this and said: "This is the truth."

But many times he still prefers to follow the fleet himself. This is a habit left over from when he didn't control many spaceships.

And now Chen Ming has a cruiser and a jump engine that can jump multiple times in a short period of time.

Even if he ran with the fleet, there was almost no possibility of being caught.

The only time they were almost caught was when the Machine Tribe took advantage of Chen Ming's attack on their colony and used the colony as bait to set up a device to block the entire galaxy.

But since he ran away at that time, among other things, he is quite skilled at running away now.

However, now we are engaged in a team-based battle in a simulation device. Chen Ming doesn’t mind being a team player and said, “Then I will pay attention. After controlling the colonies and warehouses on the front line, I will go directly to find a place where no one knows.” Squatting somewhere."

"That's okay. If you have a terminal, you can contact us at any time. You have the ability to jump multiple times. The entire star area can run with you. If something happens, you can be there as soon as possible." "That's it. I'll be there next time. Remember to tell me if you have a place."

"Row."

After the communication between Chen Ming and Song Pu ended, a day passed in the blink of an eye.

Song Pu, who was at the rebel headquarters, once again ended his communication with Chen Ming.

He had just learned that Chen Ming had arrived at the fourth industrial colony and would soon start the fourth expansion.

And this is because Chen Ming took a slightly long break after the expansion of the third colony, and now he is starting the fourth expansion.

This efficiency has once again exceeded Song Pu's expectations.

In just over a day, three colonies have been completed, and the fourth colony is about to be completely controlled and expanded by Chen Ming.

This means that it will take at most two or three days for Chen Ming to finish all the eleven industrial colonies in the star sector they actually control.

This efficiency is really incredible.

And the same is true for Hong Guanghong.

In order to keep up with Chen Ming's efficiency, he had no time to relax at all. He had been preparing the blueprint for the industrial colony behind for more than thirty hours in a row.

Although you can't sleep in this deep simulation due to the acceleration of consciousness, some rest is still necessary.

Hong Guanghong was also desperate in this situation.

Since other people are doing things, Song Pu naturally has to do things too.

As a person responsible for dispatching large battlefields and controlling the overall situation, he must have a good grasp of the overall situation.

The overall situation includes not only the rebels themselves, but also their opponents.

Although every team member in a team-based simulated battle is important, it does not mean that it cannot continue without one person.

Even if their opponents are already at a disadvantage because Cheng Xinghai was captured, they will definitely not give up and must be looking for some kind of opportunity.

Therefore, Songpu has recently stepped up its investigation of government forces.

After signing a document, Song Pu said to the secretary who had just come in and was waiting: "How did that happen?"

"It's going smoothly. There is someone in the government army who sympathizes with us. He has successfully blended into the giant shipyard after helping us develop some informants."

"Three people in the department responsible for the maintenance of the giant shipyard have been instigated, one of whom is the department's management."

"If nothing else happens, this department will continue to be responsible for the maintenance of the capital ship after the overhaul of the giant shipyard is completed."

"It is expected that the core work of destroying the giant shipyard will be accessible within a week."

Song Pu nodded with satisfaction and said: "Well, let them continue to work on this matter. If there is any news, please inform me as soon as possible."

"If the government forces want to find a way to deal with us, repairing the giant shipyard and pulling out the battleships parked there is the most convenient way. We must not let them do this."

The secretary silently took note of Song Pu's words.

After a slight pause, Song Pu continued to ask, "Is there any other movement from the government forces?"

The secretary replied: "After signing the armistice agreement, the armed forces of the government have gradually begun to move to the edge of Galo-3 in accordance with the agreement, and there seem to be signs of organizing negotiations."

"But one thing is strange. Their propaganda has not stopped recently. Instead, they want to put pressure on us in public opinion. Two things have obviously begun to ferment."

"Which two?"

The secretary glanced at Song Pu and said cautiously: "It's about the accidental injury of civilians at our headquarters."

Song Pu's expression did not change, and he said simply: "This is easy to solve. Just publicly state that there is an unknown failure in the communication system, hinting at the espionage behavior of the government forces."

"I have asked relevant departments to deal with the aftermath. Compensation has been given to the dead and injured, and I have received understanding from their families."

While the secretary is preparing to contact someone on the terminal.

Song Pu waved his hand to stop him and said, "Wait a moment, don't rush to respond with our own propaganda."

"First use the news agency on the government side to record the aftermath on our side and publish it. Don't give too much publicity, just let this news sink in."

"When public opinion really ferments, you can use our propaganda mouth to start propaganda. How fermented the government forces are at this time, how much bitter pills they will have to eat by then."

"We should have manpower in this field in the government army, right?"

The secretary immediately nodded and said, "Yes, I will do it later."

"Okay, what about the other thing?"

The secretary looked at the document in his hand and said, "It's about the gentleman who came to you two days ago."

Song Pu turned to look at his secretary and asked, "Chen Ming? Isn't it about his involvement with the government army?"

"Yes, the propaganda on the other side said that the spies we sent out carried out terrorist attacks at civilian aerospace airports, causing heavy property losses."

"Do the government forces have any video?"

"Have."

The secretary immediately handed the terminal to Song Pu, and a news video was playing on it.

However, the content of the video can be said to be quite blurry. There are only some fierce explosion shots and videos of post-disaster reconstruction of the civilian aerospace airport after the incident and cleaning up the wreckage and ruins. Chen Ming's identity as a psyker was not revealed.

After reading it, the waves in Song Pu's heart were completely smoothed away, and he said: "It's okay, this matter is easy to handle. I'll show you a document and you will know."

Song Pu happened to have a video file in his hand that Chen Ming had handed to him when he came over.

It was recorded by Chen Ming himself from multiple perspectives, recording what he did at the Sky Airport.

Anyway, at least Chen Ming did not take the initiative to attack civilians. It was even the government forces who took the initiative to attack him in the beginning.

In addition, there are clips of police robots killing each other in the video.

With a little editing, it is a piece of evidence that can turn what the government forces did into an ugly act that they directed and performed themselves.

After giving the video to his secretary, Song Pu asked him again: "Is there anything else?"

"There is nothing important for now. I have sorted out the rest of the files that you may need to see and sent them to your computer."

"That's right, then you go do your own thing."

"Yes."

After the secretary left, Song Pu was the only one left in the office.

He leaned back on his seat, and images of recent actions by government forces flashed through his mind.

To be honest, he felt that the government forces frequently used some nasty tricks. Although these methods seemed to be fine, they were very easy to be countered and should not be used so casually.

Instead, release it at a better time, such as when they start fighting again.

Then he might not have the energy to take care of these things.

As a precaution, the government forces should not say that they did these things because of Cheng Xinghai's disappearance.

I need to observe more, maybe there is some special arrangement.

Song Pu breathed out.

Suddenly he stood up and walked out of the office, ready to go outside to get some fresh air.

This is the downside of simulating too much detail on these things.

Although there is no need for sleep, the mental pressure caused by long hours of work is real, and it is easy to cause accidents if it is not relieved a little.

Just when Song Pu left the office and went to the corridor to light a cigarette for himself.

There were two young officers holding paper documents in their arms talking on the other side of the corridor. Neither of them saw Song Pu coming out of the office.

Just as Song Pu took a puff of his cigarette, he heard one of them say: "Our recent movements seem to be increasing our preparations for war. Didn't we sign an armistice agreement with the government troops?"

Another person immediately said: "Because the government troops did not retreat at all. Instead, they stopped at the border of Galo 3 and did not withdraw to Galo 1 and Galo 2. What do you mean by the government troops?"

"But will the government forces really violate the armistice agreement?"

Song Pu went over and patted the shoulder of the person who first asked the question.

After the young officer turned his head, a somewhat frightened look appeared on his face.

Song Pu said to him calmly: "The armistice agreement is meant to be torn up. Don't forget what the government originally looked like. We must be prepared to fight with force until higher levels intervene. Never trust your enemies."

Song Pu returned to his office soon after.

Cheng Xinghe contacted him at this moment and said, "I am already preparing to set up a trap and arrange to pick up the person. When picking up the person, I will use the identified spy to transmit the information to the other side in a reasonable way. There should be action.”

"Understood. Chen Ming should also be near your place at about the same time. If you need support, let him know. Don't feel embarrassed."

Cheng Xinghe said decisively: "I know, I can understand the priorities of things. But it depends on whether the opponent is trapping him or not. If not, there is nothing I can do."

Song Pu didn't finish what Cheng Xinghe said, and followed him and said: "Well, anyway, this is just a random attempt. I never thought that Chen Ming could catch Cheng Xinghai from the beginning. It doesn't matter even if the opponent doesn't come. Just use it as a warm-up exercise."

"Speaking of which, how is the quality of your soldiers there? Only part of the rebels are converted from the regular army, and many are new recruits. I am more worried about the source of soldiers and the number of soldiers."

"I feel okay."

Cheng Xinghe spoke without any worry in his tone: "Now the rebels are basically veterans leading new recruits. After fighting a few battles and losing some people, the new recruits basically become veterans."

"If you continue this mode, although the overall combat power will be weaker than that of pure veterans, the benefits of doing so are also obvious."

"It can quickly transform new recruits into combat effectiveness, and the overall loss will not be too great if the veterans are with them."

"As long as it's okay with you."

After contacting Cheng Xinghe, Song Pu turned around and contacted Hong Guanghong and asked, "How is the progress over there?"

Hong Guanghong responded after a while: "It's okay. The difficulty of setting up the subsequent colonies is much easier than the main business of ship hull manufacturing at the beginning. The only ones left are manufacturing chips and high-precision equipment. The colonies are more troublesome, but that’s about it.”

"As long as I produce results, I will contact Chen Ming as soon as possible. But now, his mental recovery speed can't keep up with the speed at which I can produce blueprints."

Song Pu nodded again with satisfaction and said, "The fact that Chen Ming's expansion of the colony can be compared to your drawing speed is outrageous enough."

After continuing to explain some things to Hong Guanghong.

Song Pu looked at the time and continued to devote himself to his own work.

(End of this chapter)