Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 226 Stepping into the Trap
Two days later.

Chen Ming followed the route arranged by Hong Guanghong and arrived at the last logistics warehouse that needed to be controlled.

After controlling this logistics warehouse, the only thing he still needs to control is the last industrial colony.

Once the industrial colony is completed, Chen Ming's initial mission will be over.

The total time spent should be about three and a half days.

The efficiency can be said to be quite exaggerated.

But just when Chen Ming returned to the port and was about to board the spaceship to go to the next colony.

Song Pu said to Chen Ming at the special terminal: "Are you free now?"

"I just took control of a warehouse. I'm free. What's going on?"

"As I told you a few days ago, I used Cheng Xinghai as bait to set up a trap."

This string of identification codes allows him to travel directly to any planet in any galaxy, even military galaxies.

"Yes, just go and control the fleet over there."

So Cheng Xinghe didn't waste any more time and hurried to another port of the space station with Chen Ming.

Although Cheng Xinghe felt a little regretful because he didn't see Cheng Xinghai, he didn't forget the business.

After a short jump.

However, Chen Ming's purpose of coming here this time was very clear, and he immediately followed the patrol that turned around.

The destination was set in a frontline military system where Cheng Xinghe was not far away from him now.

It would be better to say that if Cheng Xinghai really comes out, it will be a bit troublesome.

"Also, there is no need to stay there after you control the fleet. Otherwise, it may be a bit unexpected to let the real Cheng Xinghai stay there."

When Chen Ming landed at the port of the space station, he was already standing at the port to receive him personally.

He asked Cheng Xinghe: "They say they want to set a trap to make the opponent jump. So what exactly will we do then? What might the opponent do?"

It docked smoothly at the port of the space station.

Therefore, Cheng Xinghe's strange attitude at the moment was understandable to him.

"Our specific approach? It must be to prepare a manned ambush on the space station, and then use the fleet as a final guarantee."

It can only be said that Chen Ming now has a general understanding of the situation of the two brothers Cheng Xinghe and Cheng Xinghai.

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at Cheng Xinghai, who had finished asking Chen Ming and Bai Quan about their acquaintance and familiarity in recent days, and had begun to ask Chen Ming about his past affairs.

Cheng Xinghe, the local top commander, received the news when Chen Ming had just jumped to the galaxy.

Chen Ming immediately activated the spacecraft transponder as usual and broadcast a series of special spacecraft identification codes assigned to him by Song Pu.

The ruler of Chen Ming appeared in a galaxy with three planets.

When Chen Ming stepped off the spacecraft and came to him, he took the initiative to extend his hand to Chen Ming, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"The information about Cheng Xinghai's substitute has been passed to the other side through spies. It depends on whether they come or not."

Then he looked back and responded on the terminal: "I remember, do you need me to go to the general to help?"

But when Chen Ming held his hand and waved his other hand to close the door of the cruiser behind him, Cheng Xinghe's eyes suddenly showed a hint of regret.

This is a large space station that integrates various military functions. The overall volume is larger than the pirate space station with a city inside, and it is enough to dock a large number of spaceships.

Just like now, the patrols in the galaxy that were still surrounding his spacecraft turned around and went back after verifying the identification code, wearing whatever clothes he wanted.

After all, he was not 100% sure whether anyone would be a hidden spy in such a public situation.

"Actually, I could have waited until you finished the last colony before looking for you, but the recent movements on the other side are a bit strange. I think it would be better to arrange some things earlier."

After confirming that the mental power is still enough to do things and does not require time to recover, the jump engine is started.

"The most convenient and effective one is definitely a spy. It doesn't matter whether the spy is here to rescue or assassinate, as long as Cheng Xinghai is not in our hands."

Went to the military orbital space station in the orbit of the volcanic planet in the galaxy.

Even when Chen Ming asked her specifically, she didn't move. She didn't seem to be facing Cheng Xinghe at all, for fear of being ridiculed.

"It's best if you come. If you don't come, you can just do your normal business."

Chen Ming looked at the huge military port that was zooming out of the shuttle boat's port window and the densely packed warships parked in the port, and suddenly thought of a question.

However, after Cheng Xinghai heard that Chen Ming's goal this time was Cheng Xinghe's, he hid in his room and shut himself up.

Chen Ming ignored her and got off the spacecraft alone.

Song Pu explained everything in one breath, and Chen Ming had nothing to say. He responded and turned around to calculate his mental state.

The port that Chen Ming just landed in was a port that was usually used, and the real fleet was not staying here.

Ten minutes later.

"Because since the government forces have got clues about Cheng Xinghai, they must use some means to try to get Cheng Xinghai out of our hands."

Chen Ming's cruiser is naturally no exception.

"But if the circumstances are right, government forces may take the opportunity to burst into violence and directly tear up the contract."

"After all, if Cheng Xinghai is here, it means that at least one of us is here."

Cheng Xinghe said, pointing at Chen Ming and himself: "Like me, like you, or both of us."

"The government forces took the opportunity to rise up. If they can win, it will be equivalent to exchanging one prisoner for one or even two of our people. It will definitely be profitable for them."

"From the original four-on-five to four-on-three, I feel like they won't miss this opportunity."

"But if they really give up, there's nothing they can do. Just turn back and treat it as a drill."

After explaining Chen Ming's question, Cheng Xinghe added, "By the way, Song Pu asked me to ask you, can the space station be controlled?"

"Yes, and controlling the space station means that I have absolute control over everything on the space station. No spy will have to think about causing trouble on the space station, but at this scale..."

Chen Ming pointed to the huge port outside and said to the space station with such a port: "You can only choose between the space station and the fleet in one day."

"Then let's give priority to the fleet. The fleet is the most important. With your psychic power here, I can't even imagine how much the fleet's strength will increase."

Chen Ming accepted Cheng Xinghe's compliment and said with a smile: "I think you will always know about this simulation."

Cheng Xinghe also smiled.

After the shuttle boat landed, he took Chen Ming to get in touch with these spacecraft belonging to the rebel main fleet.

At the same time Chen Ming arrived at the space station.

The edge of the armistice zone, which is not too far from the frontline military galaxy where Chen Ming is located, is a military base within a military galaxy in the Galo-3 star sector.

One of the enemies of Chen Ming in this simulation, Ogika, is here.

He and Cheng Xinghe are both prospective graduates of the military command major, and they also have similar positions in the team.

He was currently in his office, communicating with the commander-in-chief of their team on a special terminal.

"Are you sure you want to go? Both our fleet and the fleet on the opposite side are near me now. If I want to go, it will only take half an hour."

There was a reply from the commander-in-chief on the terminal soon: "Of course I want to go, this is not just to rescue Cheng Xinghai."

"You have also seen the information returned by the spies in the past few days. The entire Galo-4's key material consumption suddenly doubled or tripled out of thin air, but only four days have passed from the beginning to now."

Although Ogika already knew this, when he heard this information again, he still couldn't help but subconsciously ask: "Is this really possible?"

"The referee didn't stop the game, so it's possible. Although your mentor and Lieutenant General Bai have conflicts, you'd better not doubt Lieutenant General Bai's character."

Ogika's face showed a headache expression, and she didn't dare to say a word.

"Try not to get involved in this kind of thing."

The commander-in-chief also knew Ogija's difficulties, so he brought the topic back up with a casual remark: "I won't talk to you about external matters for now. In short, it is Chen Ming's existence that forces us to do this."

"We lost one person at the beginning, and the industrial production capacity was completely overtaken in just a few days. In a few days, we will be directly crushed. If we want to win with such a huge disadvantage, we can only give up everything and put it to death. .”

"Sometimes taking the initiative to show weakness, or even taking the initiative to make yourself weaker is a must before winning."

The slightly headache-like expression on Ogika's face gradually calmed down and she said, "I understand, and I will do as you ask."

"Okay, remember to keep looking at the terminal these two days and cooperate with your teammates' actions. Do you still remember your teammates' tasks?"

"Remember, they will use the spies they planted to try to rescue Cheng Xinghai. If they cannot rescue her, they will directly assassinate her."

"My mission is to jump to the opposite side with the fleet when my teammates are making attempts, and conduct a surprise attack on the position deployed by Cheng Xinghe's fleet."

"Correct."

The commander-in-chief responded and emphasized again: "You have to remember, if the spy can investigate the location of Cheng Xinghe's fleet, it means that this is definitely a trap, 100% a trap, but we must step into it."

"Find a way to come back alive. If you can come back alive, it will be of great benefit to us in the future."

Although the commander-in-chief said this, Ogika did not have the slightest confidence that he could come back alive. He said: "It is a pity that the soldiers of the government army are really too weak. Their morale and belief were completely destroyed after the armistice." .”

"If there is no one to take command in person, I feel that they are not even qualified to warm up Cheng Xinghe. There is a possibility of surrender or mutiny. If I can take command from the rear, at least I will not fall into this situation."

The commander-in-chief was not affected by the limitations of such natural conditions, and said in a relatively calm tone: "Then this is a matter of background setting."

"But I feel that if we are rebels and the government forces are on the opposite side, we will be directly crushed by several times the number of troops on the frontal battlefield within half a month."

"Chen Ming's ability can definitely protect the overall livelihood of the four star districts under this situation. Even after we are wiped out, the life of the Gallo 4 star district will be better."

Ogika's mind flashed through the intelligence that the spies had obtained from Galo-4 in recent days. The productivity that was growing at a terrifying rate was really not something that an individual could achieve.

"Sure enough, the government troops are slightly more beneficial to us."

After the communication between Ogijia and the commander-in-chief ended, Chen Ming began to control the fleet in Cheng Xinghe's hands.

Another two days passed in the blink of an eye.

The time has come to the morning of the sixth day after the simulation started.

Chen Ming has completely controlled the two fleets at Cheng Xinghe's disposal.

And his mental power has almost recovered, and he can start controlling the space station at any time.

But at this moment, Cheng Xinghe suddenly contacted Chen Ming and said, "Unexpected situation. I feel that the other side has started to make moves. You should retreat first."

Chen Ming, who was about to get off the spacecraft, asked incomprehensibly: "Feeling?" "Um... It was the intelligence collected from various aspects yesterday that gave me this... um... feeling that a storm is coming, specifically. I can’t tell you, but there’s a high probability that the opponent will be here soon.”

"alright."

Cheng Xinghe said so, so Chen Ming had nothing to say.

He stopped disembarking and started the ruler directly, preparing to jump to the next industrial colony and wait there for a while.

Let’s see if Cheng Xinghe’s feelings are reliable.

Just when Chen Ming left the space station and arrived at the next galaxy dozens of seconds later.

He directly used the rebels' own communication network to pull several other people in the team into the same voice communication channel.

Song Pu's private terminal suddenly received Chen Ming's invitation and was a little unresponsive. He asked Chen Ming, "What's going on?"

"I started a voice discussion group."

"Of course I know you pulled this thing, but will this thing..."

Song Pu was naturally worried about the problem of communication signals being monitored. After all, the rebels' communication network used super-light communication base stations located in hyperspace.

Although the possibility of being monitored is small, it is still possible.

However, Chen Ming was not worried about this and said: "It's okay. I controlled several communication base stations along the way. The things controlled by me will not receive any electronic interference at all."

Ignoring electronic interference and signal intrusion, Chen Ming can naturally guarantee that there will be no problems with super-light communication.

Let the five people in the team keep communication open at all times.

Normally it doesn't mean much, after all, typing on the terminal has the same effect.

However, when it is not convenient to type on a terminal during wartime, the contact information of the basic super-light speed communication base station can be useful.

"Okay, then you are doing this now, probably for Cheng Xinghe's side, right? I just received news from him, and his side is about to start."

Chen Ming said nothing, but everyone already understood this.

Time passed by minute by minute.

During this time everyone was doing their own thing.

Three hours had passed since Chen Ming set up the communication channel.

Cheng Xinghe suddenly said in the communication channel: "My space station has received signal interference and they are coming. I will not care about the matters on the space station and leave them to you."

His teammates responded one by one, and Chen Ming cheered up.

Then he put the perspective of Cheng Xinghe's fleet in front of him.

Cheng Xinghe has two fleets, one of which disappeared a day ago.

The other one has just assembled and set off from the space station at this moment.

They faced the obviously more powerful government fleet that had just appeared at the edge of the galaxy, violated the armistice agreement, and had more than 80 cruisers.

Although the gap in strength seemed to exist, everyone watching this scene understood that the balance of this battle had been tilted towards the rebels from the beginning.

However, Chen Ming's mentality still fluctuated slightly.

After all, this is the first battle that Chen Ming does not need to personally command, but only needs to provide spiritual value to the fleet.

And now that he has avoided the front line of the battle, he can completely let go of his hands and feet and use psychic powers at will to provide terrifying blessings to the soldiers and fleets on the front line.

The moment when the two hostile fleets each came into range.

An extremely dangerous fireworks show suddenly appeared in space.

Hundreds of cruisers exchanged fire at the edge of the galaxy. Countless thick laser beams and countless live weapons that could not be observed with the naked eye in the dark space constantly bombarded the shields of both sides, exchanging the radiation energy of their respective ships.

As the exchange of fire continued, the shield on the government side gradually began to experience abnormal jitters and fluctuations, apparently approaching the edge of radiation overload.

But the rebel side's shield remains rock solid.

As the commander-in-chief of the government army's battlefield, Ogika watched this scene with sweat dripping from his forehead.

He originally thought that even if he took the initiative to step into the trap, at least he would be able to have a good exchange match with Cheng Xinghe in the first wave.

He and Cheng Xinghe knew each other and had fought against each other several times. This was the answer he came up with after analyzing the fighting forces of both sides.

But obviously, he was wrong.

He missed the calculation, or in other words, underestimated Chen Ming's existence.

Chen Ming's spiritual power is not only used in the logistics industry.

Acting on the spaceship and providing unimaginable blessings to the spacecraft is the greatest use that Chen Ming's spiritual energy can achieve from the beginning.

While the assassin was there, Ogika also received an urgent report that a jump wave had appeared behind his fleet.

About to bite his tail.

Even though Ogika still has some reserve ships that have not been used, and the frontal battle seems to have just reached its most intense moment.

But everyone watching this scene knew that the rebels would win.

These people naturally include those in the watching channel.

After Ojia's mentor Lou Wei joined the communication channel, two or three hours had passed outside.

The remaining instructors of the prospective graduates who participated in the simulated battle have joined the viewing channel as long as they are free, observing the simulation situation through the perspectives of their respective students.

And this time when Ogika took the initiative to step into the trap, the battle broke out at the most intense moment.

Ojia's mentor Lou Wei suddenly said to Bai Quan in the viewing channel: "Lieutenant General Bai, is Chen Ming's psychic power really that strong?"

"Can't you see?"

"Oh, of course I saw it. His psychic power is so powerful that he can renovate an industrial colony in a sector in less than four days, control hundreds of cruisers and thousands of destroyers and escorts in less than two days, and even continue to control an industrial colony. The remaining power is too strong."

Bai Quan was too lazy to pay attention to him, but Lou Wei was not the only one present, there were others.

So he still said: "You don't have to believe it, but this is what he can do."

Lou Wei asked again: "You mean a person who has been a psychic for less than a year can do these things?"

"You have the ability to say this in front of people from the Psychic Association."

"..."

Lou Wei was silent for a moment, then suddenly snorted coldly and chose to exit the communication channel directly.

No one cared what Lou Wei was doing and continued to focus on the simulated battle that was still going on.

From the students' perspective, Ogika still has the possibility of a comeback.

Half an hour passed quickly in the simulation.

This battle can be said to have ended at the speed of light.

The government fleet suffered heavy losses, and only a few remnants escaped.

The only pity is that the flagship on the opposite side successfully retreated.

But it is enough to be called a big victory.

Chen Ming didn't know what happened to the opponent after the battle.

But every word Cheng Xinghe said after the battle felt full of unfinished meaning, with nearly unlimited firepower, shields, and armor.

It made Cheng Xinghe fully understand how Chen Ming overturned him in his hands and how he beat Cheng Xinghai to tears later.

This cheating pleasure made him want to stop.

However, Song Pu didn't tolerate him, and quickly asked him to close the team and not enter the armistice zone for the sake of pursuit, so as to prevent him from being defeated even if he was superior.

After Cheng Xinghe returned to the space station.

Song Pu also sent a document to each of them through the communication network built by Chen Ming.

This document disclosed all Songpu's arrangements.

Chen Ming could see that Song Pu had made several back-up arrangements for this plan.

Just in case the opponent knows it's a trap and is still prepared to take advantage of it.

But Song Pu obviously didn't expect that the other party would step directly into the trap, as if he was completely unaware.

As a result, his back-up preparations were not used, but all his first-hand preparations were put into practice.

Just when everyone had seen it, Song Pu said on the communication channel: "In addition to these arrangements in advance, I also did some other things just now."

"I have discovered the spies on the space station in advance and arrested them before they took action. They are currently being interrogated. There are no casualties on the space station."

"I have obtained the record of the battle that just ended and asked others to arrange it. Soon the public opinion will be completely biased in our favor."

"Government forces will have less support."

"Also, there is good news."

Song Pu paused for a moment and said: "The giant shipyard in the Gallo-2 star field was destroyed by the spies I planted and infiltrated just when the battle was happening."

"The battleship was also severely hit, and its weapons and shield systems were completely offline. Although the battleship could not be completely destroyed directly in the giant shipyard, the battleship was forced to leave the giant shipyard in extremely poor combat readiness. Next The repairs needed definitely took more than a month when we came back at one time.”

"The threat to us from capital ships no longer exists."

After Song Pu finished speaking, Hong Guanghong suddenly said: "I also have good news. Relying on psychics, so far, the production capacity of our industrial colonies has increased by about four times compared to the beginning, and has surpassed us in productivity. Government troops.”

“Excellent all round.”

Song Pu's tone was obviously a little excited, but he immediately adjusted back and said: "But there is one thing I still have to remind everyone. I noticed the opponent's spacecraft in the battle just now, especially the cruiser."

"Most of them are older models. The government forces should not only have these. So this time they took the initiative to step into the trap and tear up the armistice agreement. It is probably part of their plan."

"We must not relax until we are completely victorious."

When his teammates responded one after another, Song Pu suddenly said: "Wait a minute, I have news here."

"what news?"

Song Pu said in a strange tone: "The government forces accused us of tearing up the armistice agreement and taking the lead in starting the war."

(End of this chapter)