Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 251 Completed
The metallic liquid is still continuing to expand towards the surroundings of the colony, swallowing up those abandoned residential areas.

After seeing those people who were forcibly taken away from the residential area by the metallic liquid, but they were not sent to the location where the left path was currently being processed.

Someone from the government and the army immediately came over to inquire about the situation.

After all, Chen Ming clearly planned to completely destroy the residential area, instead of bypassing the residential area and expanding a new industrial area outside the residential area.

If these people are displaced, it is definitely not good news for the government.

It's not good news for the military that Chen Ming, a psyker, forcibly does this kind of thing to ordinary people.

But Chen Ming obviously had some ideas in doing so.

He wants to collect all the excess materials obtained by destroying the residential areas and use them in the new residential areas he arranges for those who will continue to stay on the planet after the colony is expanded.

Of course, everyone and everything in everyone's residence has also been preserved.

Anyway, now that he had Glory and a few other idle Alpha Cores acting as external brains, it couldn't be easier to jot down and pack up what everyone had in their homes with metallic liquid.

Chen Ming didn't believe that some people would be upset if the original houses that were more than 20 years old were replaced by new, larger residences. This was not considered a loss by any means.

After confirming this idea

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"Anyway, the entire colony belongs to you, and you can provide these things to outsiders at reasonable prices."

After being scolded for a while, things will naturally pass.

and many more.

Anyway, the abandoned residential area is so big, with some materials and some space. He doesn't mind allocating more space to the people who work here. If each person is given a three-bedroom and one-living room, a lot of building materials can be left over.

And after explaining this idea clearly to the people who came to inquire about the situation.

This affirmative answer made Chen Ming feel a little uncomfortable for a while.

"It's just that most colonies only conduct simple verification of identity, that's why there are so many things like left paths. You said there is no need for this."

Chen Ming has learned about the original living environment of the colonial residential area, and the living environment he provided is definitely better than the original one.

Chen Ming suddenly realized another problem, so he picked up the terminal and dialed Bai Quan's phone and asked, "Does the colony have any other requirements?"

Anyway, what the government departments are worried about is the damage to the stability of neighboring colonies caused by a large outflow of people.

"However, my suggestion is not to raise the review requirements too high. Just keep them around the conditions that can screen out ordinary people but retain good people."

But some people may be greedy, and he still knows the truth of the insufficiency of people's hearts.

He can do this, but it's usually not necessary.

"Does my colony need to be opened to the outside world and receive foreign populations in the future?"

Chen Ming continued to use his psychic powers on the entire colony without any scruples.

"This is a basic obligation that colonies need to fulfill. You can check these contents on the official website."

He doesn't have that much energy to deal with this matter individually for each family. What he can do is to provide everyone with the same standard environmental conditions.

However, the problems of one, two, or a dozen people will not cause any trouble in the entire social environment.

"need."

When Chen Ming thought of this, he suddenly hesitated, because it was really possible.

"I really want it."

There may be some fragile items that are difficult to take away, or they may have been damaged during transportation by the metallic liquid.

"Of course, you don't have to provide free things to immigrants that you now have to provide to original residents."

"In short, you cannot explicitly prohibit anyone from entering your colony, and you need to provide equal treatment, such as job opportunities and residence, to all arriving citizens of the empire."

Bai Quan was a little confused by Chen Ming's question and asked, "What do you mean?"

But the latter, if someone really wants to be shameless, then he doesn't mind just using some privileges to drive the person out.

Chen Ming didn't care about what he said before. The worst he could do was get scolded a few times in private, but he wouldn't lose a piece of meat if he was scolded a few times.

Anyway, he only plans to take care of the remaining population in the colony, and does not intend to continue to open the colony to the outside world in the future...

"In this way, if someone really can pass the review, you will hire him. If such a person is willing to take the initiative to work for you, you don't have to refuse, right?"

When new residential areas are built later, these residents who suddenly lost the houses they originally lived in will be packed into new big houses by Chen Ming.

Some people may complain about the forced relocation because they do not want to leave their former residence.

"This is also one of the sources of revenue for the colony. There is no need for you to refuse."

"The owners of the colony can still set their own requirements in this regard, so that bad people will not be able to come and go from the colony at will."

"Don't you have an extraordinary laboratory? You can just build a branch in this colony, and then use this laboratory as a reason to raise the standards."

Chen Ming was still a little dissatisfied with Bai Quan's statement and asked, "Can't we just raise the standards? Just say that my staff is already full and I only lack high-end management talents."

But these things can be partially compensated by Chen Ming later. Anyway, the government should not mind helping him pay the bill.

"Other ordinary people have nothing to say if they can't pass the review."

Bai Quan explained to Chen Ming and then suggested: "If you really don't want people, then you can set very strict review standards for entering the colony and screen out the people you don't need."

"No."

Bai Quan decisively gave Chen Ming a negative answer: "Even if you are a psychic, you must at least give people a decent reason."

"Many people know that afterglow cores are used in the empire, but it doesn't exist on the surface. Therefore, after your industrial colony is rebuilt, it is impossible to say that it is saturated if there are only hundreds of thousands of people."

"There has to be an excuse. Once you have an excuse, the rest will be easy to deal with."

"Colonies within the empire must abide by the rules of the empire and set up a branch to pretend that everyone is happy and happy."

"And you have to think about it this way, didn't you just go to that research colony before? How do the conditions in that place compare with your current colony?"

Chen Ming said directly without recalling the comparison: "It's not from the same era."

"You also know this, right? Then if I put it a little harshly, where will the capable researchers go?"

Bai Quan paused for a moment to let Chen Ming understand what he meant.

“So as long as you set the standard, you don’t have to worry about someone getting enough to make it through.”

Baiquan's voice suddenly dropped as he spoke: "As for what you said before that you want to completely move out the residents of the heavy industry colony."

"Originally, this matter is not possible, but you are a psychic. As long as you can handle this matter quickly and cook the rice without giving others a chance to stop it, there will be no problem with these things."

"Anyway, as long as there are no large-scale social incidents later, no one dares or will pursue what you did."

"I can also give you a suggestion, which is to remember to demolish all the places where people live in the heavy industrial colonies after moving the people away."

"Anyway, you can rely on the Afterglow Core to do things. It doesn't matter if you have people or not."

"As long as you don't have this kind of place for ordinary people to live, then you won't be able to provide them with residential areas, and there will be no need to accept immigrants."

"In this case, your colony was affected by objective conditions, rather than you actively preventing people from coming."

"And it is up to you to decide the development direction of your own colony. As long as the general type remains unchanged, whether it is a heavy industry colony or a heavy industry colony, you can do whatever you want."

"Once the residential area is demolished and you don't build it, no one can force you to build it again."

"It can be regarded as taking advantage of a loophole in the law."

"But you remember, the people in the heavy industrial colony must arrange their whereabouts. No matter whether you arrange to go to the light industrial colony or contact someone to send them away, you must arrange the people well."

"Once these people cause large-scale problems, all the previous ones will become nonsense, and your colonial ownership may be confiscated due to illegality."

After Bai Quan finished speaking, Chen Ming thought carefully for a moment and responded: "I understand, I just need to arrange it, and I will take care of the rest. Then I'll be relieved. Thank you."

Chen Ming ended the communication and continued the task at hand.

At this time, He Gu, who was sitting on the same shuttle boat as Bai Quan, was watching all this happening from a distance, while using the terminal in his hand to silently calculate the amount of Chen Ming's mental power.

Just seeing the turbulent spiritual energy fluctuations on Chen Ming's body and the metallic liquid sweeping across the entire colony.

He Gu had already come to an exaggerated conclusion, that is, the amount of mental power possessed by Chen Ming was greater than what was shown in the simulation, and was greater than what he had previously estimated.

Either his talents are more exaggerated, or he has more good things on hand for psykers to exercise their abilities.

He Gu calculated silently, and the result was both.

At this moment, a deportation-level cargo ship suddenly appeared in the sky and was slowly landing, and landed directly next to Chen Ming.

This spaceship is also the spacecraft that Chen Ming asked Bai Quan to report before. The cargo carried on it are some gamma and beta level afterglow cores that Chen Ming cannot directly use for long-distance transfer.

These cores will soon be installed in the industrial zone, responsible for managing the operation of industrial equipment in the industrial zone, responsible for controlling the overall operation of the colony, and responsible for managing the people in the entire colony.

When doing these types of work, Afterglow is much easier to use than people.

People also have to consider whether they have selfish motives and whether they will be involved with Zuo Jing again in the future.

But Yuhui is different. All of them are inextricably linked to Chen Ming. There will never be any betrayal before Chen Ming falls.

Yuhui will definitely spare no effort to help him manage everything in the colony, including Zuojia. Shortly after the cargo ship landed, the metal liquid that poured into the sky gradually spread from the edge of the industrial area to the edge of the outer residential area as time passed.

After entire residential areas have been plowed to the ground, industrial buildings and industrial facilities are gradually being built in place of the former residential areas.

The product of the combination of human technology and industrial power, which originally took months or even years to build, appeared out of thin air in just a few hours under the power of Chen Ming. On the colony.

This is what psykers are.

These gradually emerged industrial buildings expanded from the original buildings, and after a period of time, they successfully reached the scale that Chen Ming had achieved in the simulation.

However, Chen Ming did not stop. Instead, according to his own needs, he continued to use a large amount of materials stored in the temporary stronghold to fill part of the gap, and continued to expand the colony by an additional 10%.

The total area occupied by the expanded industrial zone has tripled.

However, compared to the area of ​​the basic industrial area, the additional extension only occupies a little more than half of the original residential area.

Things are not over yet here, after all, Chen Ming just demolished the residential area before.

The new residential area is still the same ring shape surrounding the industrial area as before.

Based on the year-round wind direction determined by the overall climate, the downwind of the industrial area was isolated. Instead of building a residential area, a large amount of space was left. A broad road was built from the furnace energy supply tower in the center of the earth to the outside of the colony. .

Whether it is used directly for transportation or for the transportation of materials, there is no problem.

Moreover, similar issues seemed to have been considered before in the design of this colony.

The direction of the downwind outlet happens to be the location of the abandoned space elevator where Chen Ming's Stardust class is parked. It is very convenient for Chen Ming to carry out other modifications in the future, and it is also convenient for Chen Ming to give away all valuable things in the entire colony. Repair again.

In the simulation, Chen Ming only repaired and expanded the colony. In reality, the gambling agreement only required Chen Ming to do these two things.

The rest are extra things he has to do himself.

New residential areas soon began to be constructed gradually.

The metal liquid gathered tons of materials for Chen Ming to touch. Then Chen Ming could directly use the materials to dismantle the discarded building materials and send them to the warehouse. These materials could naturally be used where they are actually needed.

One advantage of doing this is that all residential areas are built based on his psychic energy and have unique mechanical structures.

Being able to truly have the entire colony as his eyes and ears allows him to ensure that all problems in the entire colony cannot escape detection.

Of course, all this should be left to Yu Hui to handle. Chen Ming didn't have the time to spend on these matters.

Since the population of the colony was too small compared to the area of ​​the colony, Chen Ming did not use the standards of apartment buildings, but used the standards of bungalows to build the new residential area.

Although he is not proficient in architectural planning, he only knew a little bit about Hong Guanghong during the previous simulation.

But it’s okay to design a living quarters.

In addition to basic residential buildings for people to live in, other basic livelihood buildings will definitely be arranged.

Just count the number of independent and residential buildings in the original residential area, and arrange special buildings such as shops, clinics, and water purification plants to provide purified water.

These were originally entrusted by the Louwei faction to the local government to help operate and manage them.

After all, it is a small colony. It is basically unable to achieve self-sufficiency in materials. It will definitely need external support and subsidies. Without these things, the colony would have collapsed long ago.

Now Chen Ming has to take charge of these things, and he also handed over these tasks to Yu Hui, letting them control the robots to be responsible for the management of these places that are important to people's livelihood. In this way, there should be no big problems later.

After the general construction of the residential area was completed, Chen Ming asked the ordinary people who were carried by the metallic liquid and waited outside the colony to retrieve their own things. Places to go.

That is, the new house that belongs to everyone has been allocated by Huihuang.

It would take some time for them to get familiar with the environment and understand what happened. Then Chen Ming estimated that there would be a lot of curses.

But the problem is not big. Huihuang has helped provide everyone with corresponding notices and given them a special channel to complain.

And when they see a brand new home, a variety of brand new furniture that has been purchased, and a better environment.

Chen Ming believes that there will not be too many people coming to the complaint channel to complain.

If someone complains, let Yuhui handle it. If the request is reasonable, you can agree to it. If it is unreasonable, just ask him to get out.

Chen Ming has also connected this complaint channel to the government, and they will also help take care of it.

As for the reform-through-labor prisoners who were originally sent here, Chen Ming planned to take them out and send them back to whichever prison they were sent to. He did not welcome such people here.

It should be like this.

But the government department brought a few more people when they were dealing with leftist elements with Chen Ming.

They were the managers of the prison that had previously signed a cooperative management agreement with the Lou Wei faction on the management of reform-through-labor prisoners.

And when they met with Chen Ming, they gave him too much.

Chen Ming estimated that the money they were willing to pay to renew the contract after changing the owner of the colony should be the liquidated damages given to them by the Lou Wei faction.

After all, providing prisons with labor camps is now the main source of revenue for these two colonies, and Lou Wei and the others took the initiative to take out the colonies as bets. If the colonies were in the hands of Chen Ming, some businesses would definitely not be able to continue. The losses caused must be compensated to those who have a cooperative relationship with them.

But the prison did not want to give up. You can imagine how troublesome it would be to take back a large number of reform-through-labor prisoners in a short period of time and then arrange their places.

In that case, if this choice is put together with discussing new conditions with Chen Ming, they will definitely try the latter.

Although the whole thing is not completely over yet, after all, Chen Ming has not yet started to repair and expand the second heavy industry colony.

But anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chen Ming did have such ability, so in the end, they successfully reached a result that satisfied both parties. Chen Ming signed an agreement on behalf of the Lou Wei faction.

Anyway, all the prisons require is that they continue to lock people up and provide them with jobs and minimum wages.

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry too much.

Leave everything to the Afterglow Core and arrange some robot guards. There will be no problem in guarding these prisoners.

And it happens that the government needs to station government departments and security departments in the colony.

It doesn’t have to be much, just that they need to do it.

Since there is such a public sector that needs to be built, prisons are naturally high on the list.

If agreements are reached with prisons in other places, the industrial facilities used by criminals that were already there can be used as prisons and continue to be used by the colonies.

At this point, the outer residential areas of the colony are completely completed.

But now, there are still a large number of spacecraft taking off and landing near the Stardust level.

They are all government and military spacecraft, constantly transporting leftist elements and conducting investigations and interrogations on them.

Any further news will be sent as soon as possible.

The person who clearly found evidence related to Zuo Jing asked Chen Ming to cooperate in the arrest.

If there is no evidence but just suspicion, mark it so that Chen Ming can have Yu Hui monitor it later.

And those who are clear that there is no problem can stay in Chen Ming's colony safely for the rest of their lives.

Some of the jobs in the plastic products industry that Chen Ming had deliberately left before were reserved for them.

Anyway, the work arrangements are left to Yu Hui, so Chen Ming doesn't have to worry at all.

The job of more than 100,000 people is a bit difficult for Chen Ming, but for Yuhui Core, there is absolutely no problem.

As the last gamma-level afterglow core was installed in an area of ​​​​the residential area.

All Afterglow cores have been installed in place. After assigning tasks, connecting to their respective systems, and running the test without any errors, the entire colony has been completely controlled by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming also ended the use of psychic energy, the metal liquid gradually faded away, and all the excess materials were piled into the original warehouse.

It might be useful in the future.

In the distant industrial zone, industrial facilities have also begun to warm up.

Just wait for the gambling agreement to end and the ownership of the colony to be officially transferred. The person who helped contact Baiquan will bring the spaceship that has been waiting for material transportation outside the galaxy to the planet, and the colony can be officially put into operation.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was standing on the edge of the colony, once again created the Locust Armor.

He flew into the air alone, looking at the colony that had come to life again in his hands, and he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction and accomplishment in his heart.

Although a purely industrial colony was different from his ideal, comprehensive colony that developed the entire planet.

But this can at least be regarded as a colony that he built with his own hands, which always gives people an indescribable feeling.

This is the result of his efforts.

Chen Ming landed on the ground again.

They reboarded the shuttle boat that Baiquan and the others took to keep a distance from the newly built colony.

He said to Bai Quan and Major General Song who had been waiting for a while on the shuttle boat: "The work here is over. Let's wait for my mental strength to recover for a while, and then we will go to the next place."

At this time, Major General Song, who had almost recovered from the previous unexpected situation, immediately greeted him with a smile and said, "I will listen to you."

Although the other people's faces are not very good-looking, they are at least much better than before.

Apparently Bai Quan did something else when Chen Ming left.

Lou Wei was the only one sitting alone in the corner of the shuttle boat, his face full of defeat.

(End of this chapter)