Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 323 Demand

In response to Qiu Bowen's request, Chen Ming asked, "What do you want to do?"

"I want your fleet to wait there for now until the Legion's fleet arrives to conduct further investigation."

"If your fleet suffers any losses, the Legion will reimburse you for them."

“Now is a great opportunity.”

"what chance?"

Seeing that Chen Ming looked very uninterested, Qiu Bowen could only explain: "Where your fleet is now, an important base belonging to the Mechanical Clan has just been destroyed. The forces around the Mechanical Clan must be at their weakest, which happens to be the Mechanical Clan's weakness."

"There are a large number of mechanical remains available, including samples of mechanized psychic creatures of the mechanical race that we have only a preliminary understanding of for now."

"Studying these wrecks will definitely be of great benefit."

"We can all see that this must be a new colony developed by the Mechanical Clan in recent times. The level of industrialization is already quite complete and can be expanded at any time."

"There must be the most advanced technology applications belonging to the mechanical family here."

"Our technology is developing, and so is the mechanical race. It would be beneficial to be able to obtain their advanced technology."

"And the planet itself has value."

"The fact that it can be the location of the Mechanical Clan's base shows that the galaxy itself has a special place, so the Mechanical Clan is very likely not to give up this place.
"We can leave something human on it that will be useful in the future."

“We definitely can’t miss it”

After explaining the reason to him, Qiu Bowen also realized that Chen Ming was a person who would not release the eagle until he saw the rabbit, so he began to tempt him with benefits.

"This operation initially only involves your mission, but if you are willing to continue, it can be regarded as an additional invitation from the front-line military headquarters in Gallo for you to participate in the mission aimed at achieving military goals."

Afraid that Chen Ming didn't understand what he meant, Qiu Bowen said again: "When carrying out military missions, some local armies are not confident in their own strength, so they can invite other similar military departments to participate."

"Generally, the two departments will exchange some economic, material or technical resources in return for being invited."

“Invitations from individuals are rare, but not without precedent.”

"Similarly, the higher authorities are responsible for exchanges, the exchange of materials between the two military organizations, and then the dispatch of personnel."

"Within the organization, we will give contribution points or other rewards to expatriates. This is the rule of our legion."

Bai Quan suddenly interrupted and added: "In fact, our legion is also part of the front-line military. It is the legion itself that participates in the front-line military. In addition, there are several other legions and the Star Region United Front that Galo is participating in."

"The current operation is equivalent to a personnel dispatch between the corps of the front-line military and the corps itself."

Chen Ming frowned and thought about Bai Quan's meaning, then asked, "What do you mean by embezzling money?"

Qiu Bowen quickly denied, "You can't say that, because you are the director of an independent supernatural research institute. It is registered under the name of Baiquan Branch. The only people in the army who can dispatch you now are Baiquan and the army commander, but whether you listen to it or not is another matter."

"So when the commander is on the other side of the front and Baiquan is not at work, no one can dispatch you at will."

"This is really the only way you can be deployed in theory."

"Although it is indeed a bit against the rules to be honest, your situation is quite special and no one will bother about it. Of course, the premise is that you accept it."

Qiu Bowen's tone was quite tactful, but Chen Ming couldn't help but say, "Isn't this still lining one's own pockets?"

Qiu Bowen held his forehead and said, "The Legion won't have to rely on this to earn supplies or anything like that. By then, the accounts will be balanced and no one will suffer any losses."

"No loss?" Chen Ming thought for a moment and asked, "It's just like the supplies were circulated between the frontline and the legion, and I got the contribution points for no reason, right?"

Qiu Bowen was a little embarrassed by Chen Ming's direct statement of the actual situation. He nodded slightly and said, "If you understand it this way, then understand it this way. After all, contribution points cannot be given casually. There must be a reason, and this is the reason."

To be honest, Chen Ming felt that this was a bit too...political, but since he was the beneficiary, he didn't really have anything to say about this matter.

However, he still had to ask some key questions: "If no one is considered my superior, how do I calculate my contribution points?"

Bai Quan answered for Qiu Bowen: "Under normal circumstances, based on the ratio of material exchange between the frontline military and the corps, I can get a share of the contribution points, and I will be responsible for the distribution."

"There is a minimum ratio that requires me to give you a certain amount of contribution points. I can keep the rest for myself, or give it all to you. Normally, I will give you all directly no matter what the situation is."

"Contribution points are a unique way for psychics to quantify their military merits. Who would want to deduct these points?"

"The allocator himself also has some additional rewards, so there is no need to be greedy."

Qiu Bowen then said: "But Baiquan is not in the branch now, and it is not within his scope of authority, so the legion will directly count the contribution points to you and give them to you directly."

Chen Ming asked again: "So that means the contribution points gained from the material exchange are just random numbers?"

Qiu Bowen did not answer immediately.

Because this is the key to the matter, the contribution points are the only ones that came out of nowhere.

He can't say anything careless. If he gives a small contribution, he will give it away. If he gives too much and it leads to supervision, then it will be a big problem.

So he said conservatively: "Basic merit is third-class merit, mission completion is at least second-class merit, first-class merit and special merit depend on the situation."

"If any major results are discovered, then even if I don't want to give you the first-class prize, someone else will definitely give it to you."

According to the rules of the legion, third-class merit counts as 500 contribution points, and second-class merit counts as 2000 contribution points, which is acceptable to Chen Ming.

After all, we are just arranging the spacecraft to fly here for a few days. Even if the spacecraft is damaged, there will be compensation, so there will be no loss at all.

"Don't we need to inform other people about this? For example, people from the frontline military?"

"The frontline military is now led by the Legion. We do not need anyone else to tell us what to do."

"We must not do anything too extreme. There are people from the Empire supervising us."

"But our internal affairs don't matter."

Qiu Bowen added fuel to the fire and said, "As long as this mission is successful, you will be the key person to complete the mission and will also receive additional military merit. We will definitely not treat you unfairly."

Two benefits for one... sounds tempting.

But he did not let the temptation get to his head.

He continued to ask: "Who is responsible for this matter? You are stationed at the headquarters now, and Baiquan is also at the headquarters. Who can be responsible?"

"Of course the frontline military is responsible."

Qiu Bowen answered quickly: "And Baiquan is still a member of the front line now, he just came back temporarily for further study."

"And I will be transferred to the front line when the war phase changes."

"We will be responsible for all the finishing work at that time."

"As for the specific command right now, it belongs to the current head of the front-line military headquarters, General Guo Yan."

Chen Ming turned his head and looked at Bai Quan. Seeing Bai Quan nodded, it meant that Guo Yan was a trustworthy person.

Chen Ming had no objection either.

"I can help you with something."

In fact, there is a more important, or the most important reason for agreeing to this matter.

That is, Chen Ming originally planned to let the fleet stay. He was still very interested in that phase creature, and the same went for the things left behind by the mechanical race.

It's just that he doesn't intend to do this in front of other people.

Well, since Qiu Bowen openly asked him to do so.

So why shouldn't he do it?

Although there seemed to be many irregularities in this matter, Bai Quan would not go so far as to betray his good friend and son-in-law.

Even if the whole thing went wrong, the biggest loss for him would be just a few destroyers.

But even if he lost the armor-piercing device equipped with an antimatter reactor and engine, the cost would be just that.

Once you have the manufacturing technology and basic materials, the remaining costs are negligible.

Chen Ming can recycle the afterglow core above at any time if there is an accident.

To be honest, the most expensive thing he lost was the Tachyon Spear.

However, if the Tachyon Spear is purchased directly from Tachyon Technology, it is indeed expensive, after all, there are patent fees.

But Chen Ming obviously would not waste money. He disassembled the Tachyon Spear and figured it out himself.

The cost of making it yourself is at least two-thirds less than purchasing it directly.

Even if we lose a few goals it's not a big problem.

I have to say that patents really make money.

This can be seen from the fact that Chen Ming can even support an entire pioneering fleet by himself with just a few patents.

As for what Tachyon Technology Company would think if they knew Chen Ming did this.

Chen Ming could only say.

Anyway, his warships did not appear within the empire. If Tachyon Technology has the ability, it can just come and collect patent fees. It’s no big deal.

They don't know how many Tachyon Spears he has, so how can they charge him?

At worst, the legion will pay it for him.

Now that Qiu Bowen is willing to pay some costs, Chen Ming is still very happy to do something.

He even asked considerately: "How many boats do you need? Where do you want my boat to stop? Or what do you want to do?"

Qiu Bowen also breathed a sigh of relief.

If this matter can be successful, it will also be of great benefit to him.

As the commander who issues orders, he will naturally get some credit as long as his subordinates make achievements.

And this achievement will also enable him to obtain more resources when he goes to the front line.

Qiu Bowen said to Chen Ming: "I need ten law enforcers and twenty armor-piercing ships to temporarily stay in that star system, with my own safety as the priority."

"The most important task is to help us confirm the status of the Phase Beasts, the time of arrival of the Mechanical Clan reinforcements, and the progress of their actions to clean up their own planet."

"Our army's ships are not as fast as yours. It will take several days to get there."

"So you may need to keep monitoring there and stay awake."

"How long exactly?"

"A fleet with sufficient supplies will make the jump regardless of the cost. Taking into account the time cost of advance reconnaissance...it will arrive in about four days."

"If it's any faster, it will make the subsequent evacuation more dangerous, so this is the shortest possible time."

Chen Ming suddenly asked, "What if I can provide you with a safe jump point?" Qiu Bowen looked a little surprised, but he quickly got used to Chen Ming occasionally taking out some important things that ordinary people would never think of, and said, "The time can be shortened by one third."

"That's great, I'll send you the coordinates then."

"Besides, keeping me awake is actually a pretty easy problem to solve."

"Is there an afterglow core?"

"What level?"

"Gamma will do."

"Wait a mininute."

Qiu Bowen immediately picked up the terminal and made the call.

Five minutes later, a man brought into the conference room a palm-sized iron-red gamma core.

Chen Ming directly used his psychic power to control the core and connected the core to the computer in the conference room.

At the same time, psychic energy was used to build a psychic communication network between this afterglow core and the afterglow core of the mechanical clan's galaxy.

It is called a communication network, but in fact it can also transmit picture signals.

Let Yuhui from the mechanical clan transmit all the data back through this core.

The commands received by this afterglow core can also be transmitted to the front line.

No time delay or impact.

Let this afterglow core help Chen Ming control the mechanical clan’s fleet.

Although Chen Ming still consumes his mental energy, he only needs to expend it and does not need to spend extra attention.

After finishing, Chen Ming pushed the computer to Qiu Bowen and said, "Okay, come on, try to issue an order."

Qiu Bowen looked at Chen Ming with great surprise again, and then tried to use the computer to give a few simple instructions to the mechanical fleet.

The effect is very good.

And Qiu Bowen thought of more from this computer.

The Empire possesses faster-than-light communications technology, but it cannot do so on the front lines of a war.

Because superluminal communication requires coverage of superluminal communication base stations, superluminal communication cannot be achieved in places where there are no base stations.

It is simply impossible to set up a base station stably in a place like the front line, and even if it is set up there is no guarantee that it can be maintained.

Chen Ming simply ignored the basic conditions for any empire's development over the years and relied on psychic power to solve all problems.

"This……"

This made Qiu Bowen feel that Chen Ming was a particularly outrageous person.

And there is another special thing about Chen Ming, that is, whose spiritual power can be shared with other conscious beings?

Who can share the full effects of psychic power with others?
It seems that the Thousand Faces who was killed by Chen Ming could do part of it, but that Thousand Faces only stole the spiritual energy of other people.

Instead of directly sharing one's own spiritual power, he still maintains absolute control.

Qiu Bowen already knew the general effect of Chen Ming's spiritual power.

But at that time he just thought that Chen Ming was a slightly special psychic.

He has seen many special psychics, but not many of them can really grow up, which leads to him not caring too much about Chen Ming.

But now, after witnessing with my own eyes the effect of this power transcending time and space and being able to share it.

He felt that he had to think carefully about his attitude towards Chen Ming.

After handing the computer to Qiu Bowen, Chen Ming felt that he had nothing to do in the conference room for the time being as he had done what he was supposed to do.

But before he left, he had one more question.

"By the way, General Qiu, what you promised before..."

What Chen Ming was referring to was the fact that Qiu Bowen had previously asked Chen Ming if he needed assistance with the legion's ships and supplies.

Originally, everyone present thought that Chen Ming's fleet was going to fight a fierce battle, but who could have imagined that they would be intercepted by the phase beast.

But Qiu Bowen had already agreed to this before Chen Ming's fleet entered the galaxy, and Chen Ming couldn't let him take it back.

Qiu Bowen was already considering changing his attitude towards Chen Ming at this time, so now he said decisively: "Of course I will give it to you. What do you need?"

Bai Quan had already guessed what Chen Ming wanted by this time.

Chen Ming also agreed with his idea and said, "Phase ship."

Although Chen Ming was not very interested in the mechanical race's spaceship equipped with phase weapons.

After Bai Quan asked Chen Ming to find a way to obtain the mechanical race's phase weapon technology, his attitude was to just go with the flow.

After all, that is only the technology of phase weapons, not the technology of phase ships.

This, like battleship technology, was technology he had not yet learned.

He had no foundation at all, so there wasn't much point in getting it. At most he could use it as a special weapon.

If you really want to master phase technology, you still have to start from the basics.

To learn the basics, you still have to go to the Ship Research Institute.

Although he hadn't been there yet, as an honorary member of the Ship Research Institute, he had heard of several of the institute's phased spacecraft projects.

The most important project is now being followed up by the director of the Ship Research Institute, and is cooperating with ship research institutes from several other different organizational departments.

He was also quite interested.

But a full phase ship is something completely different.

With such a spaceship in hand, Chen Ming can even use his deep maintenance psychic power on it to eliminate all unreasonable things in the research and development process.

Become a true phase ship.

When Chen Ming has more opportunities to come into contact with phase ships in the future and masters the technology of phase ships, he can further publicize the things he has researched using psychic powers.

Further patents based on the phase ship can provide Chen Ming with financial support, which will not be bad.

Qiu Bowen also agreed immediately: "That's absolutely no problem, but the phase ship is currently only available in the laboratory, the ship laboratory. The legion commander has already given you the authority."

"If you need one, we can build one specifically for you. You can come get it anytime."

"But you have to know that our research on phase ships is still in the development stage. All phase ships are experimental models and are definitely not warships that can be used on the battlefield."

"If you really need a complete ship, you'll have to cooperate with me in the experiment. Your psychic powers will definitely be very helpful in the experiment."

"I need to make these clear to you in advance."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "No problem. I also have the idea of ​​going to the Ship Research Institute, but I am still focusing on the Psychic Research Institute for now."

Chen Ming estimated that the day he would go to the Ship Research Institute would be in the middle of the war.

Because he went to the Psychic Research Institute for two things.

One is to study the countermeasures against the psychic hive mind network of the mechanical race and the psychic equipment of various mechanical races at the Psionic Research Institute, and the other is to study the stable cultivation of the spiritual awakening nerves.

The former is important.

After the initial war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race was almost over, more detailed information about the Mechanical Race was obtained and the basis of the Mechanical Race's new psychic weapons was understood.

The Psychic Research Institute is most likely not the main force in the war.

After all, wars are won with warships.

Therefore, sooner or later he will have to go to the Ship Research Institute, and sooner or later Chen Ming will have to get involved in the research of phase ships.

After receiving Chen Ming's reply, Qiu Bowen stopped talking to Chen Ming about other matters.

He decisively agreed to Chen Ming's request.

When the time comes, he will personally go and ask for help. The Ship Research Institute will definitely not mind giving Chen Ming a ship.

After confirming that he had nothing to do here, Chen Ming stood up.

He wanted to return to the Institute of Psychic Energy to continue his research.

By the way, he had to summarize the gains of this small-scale operation.

have to say.

Although the operation was quite small in scale, he still gained a lot.

That special audio, that special mechanical cruiser, both of these things contain secrets, and Chen Ming has to discover the secrets.

Just as Chen Ming walked a few steps out of the conference room and used his spiritual power to check his gains.

Bai Quan also followed out and called out to Chen Ming.

"Are you free? Can we chat?"

"Row."

After Chen Ming agreed, Bai Quan took him to another empty room in their building.

After closing the door, Bai Quan asked curiously, "What on earth is that audio?"

Chen Ming asked speechlessly, "You called me here just to ask about this?"

"Not really, it's just out of curiosity."

"..."

Although it was a bit difficult, Chen Ming still answered seriously: "My ship received a communication frequency, and then I heard some special sounds from this frequency, but you can't hear it."

"So I initially suspected that this sound was the voice of that phase creature. I plan to go to the Ship Research Institute under the pretext of asking for a phase ship to see if I can use phase space-related technology to fix the audio."

"I see."

Having satisfied his curiosity, Bai Quan finally got back to business: "I just received a message that there is a rumor spreading outside."

"what news?"

"Some people are questioning whether you deliberately let the fleet be attacked by the Mechanoids."

(End of this chapter)