Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 358 Progress
The galaxy occupied by the Empire within the territory of the Mechanical Clan that the two Mechanical motherships were heading to was named Flow Steel by the Empire.

Flow Steel is not an important galaxy, it just has two industrial colonies of the mechanical race standard.

The Empire had destroyed the galaxy's internal defenses a week ago, leaving only a fleet company of about 150 ships stationed here.

Cooperate with the Empire's army to control and manage the mechanical race's industrial colonies.

There are many galaxies like this, and there are definitely many more valuable galaxies occupied by the Empire.

But the mechanical race just happened to leap here, making it hard for Chen Ming to not believe that the mechanical race was testing something.

But there is no time to think about it now.

The impact of the two motherships on the fleet here is absolutely devastating, and he has to take action immediately.

At this time, it is on the flagship of the company fleet inside the Liugang Galaxy.

Commander and captain Cheng Xinghai was sitting in the main seat in the command room, staring at the control console in front of him nervously.

Obviously she had discovered the sudden and undisguised transition fluctuations in the galaxy, and also noticed the huge scale of these transition fluctuations.

No matter what is behind a jump fluctuation of this scale, it is definitely not something they can resist now.

So after she ordered the fleet to move away from the source of the jump fluctuations, she had already reported the existence of the jump fluctuations to her superiors.

Just then, she felt her wrist suddenly become a little heavy.

Looking down, she saw some metallic liquid flowing out and dripping from the wristband that Chen Ming had given her.

And the metal liquid dripping onto the floor of the spacecraft is quickly forming a power armor robot.

The appearance of the robot immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the command room.

Several people cautiously picked up their weapons, but immediately put them down at Cheng Xinghai's command.

Chen Ming's voice quickly came out from the robot that had not yet fully formed: "Retreat, there are two motherships of the mechanical race coming."

"I see."

No questions, no doubts.

Cheng Xinghai, who had roughly estimated the scale of the Mechanical Clan's invading military force, immediately issued an order to retreat, ordering the fleet she was leading to retreat to the edge of the galaxy via hyperspace as quickly as possible.

Even if the order from her superiors had not come down yet, even if Chen Ming did not suddenly appear to remind her, she had to make a decision now.

As long as they enter hyperspace, they can quickly leave the galaxy by using the hyperspace channel jump engine developed by Chen Ming, which has now been installed on the legion's warships.

"commander……"

Just as someone was about to say something, Cheng Xinghai immediately said in an unquestionable voice: "Follow orders."

"Yes."

She turned to Chen Ming and said, "I have just told my superiors that the scale of the jump is large, and there are suspected capital ships. My superiors said that reinforcements are on the way."

The Cheng Xinghai on the battlefield was very different from the Cheng Xinghai that Chen Ming knew in school. There was almost no emotion in his communication and he looked extremely cold.

But Chen Ming didn't feel any problem.

Because after Cheng Xinghai finished the training camp, his communication with Cheng Xinghai basically never stopped, and he had been guiding Cheng Xinghai in developing her psychic powers.

The ability to block all of one's own emotions is an application method that Cheng Xinghai researched when he was developing his own brain-enhancing effects.

Forcefully suppress some of your own emotions so that you will not be disturbed by any emotions when making decisions and judgments, and everything will follow logic.

In ordinary life, such psychic powers are meaningless and useless, with even greater negative effects.

But on the battlefield, this ability is of great value.

There is no need to consider too many situations. Just consider the reasons why Chen Ming suddenly appeared here and what Cheng Xinghai himself saw, and he can analyze the most reasonable approach as quickly as possible.

That is to say, they would follow Chen Ming's order to retreat and not consider staying to indicate targets for the subsequent reinforcement fleet.

Chen Ming responded to Cheng Xinghai's words at this time: "It doesn't matter whether the reinforcements come or not. It might be better if they don't come."

"Why do you say that?"

As soon as Cheng Xinghai asked the question, the flagship's sensor once again detected the jump fluctuation.

The scale of this jump wave is even larger than that of the two motherships, and it has even covered the entire galaxy.

"That's why."

The two motherships of the Mechanical Clan leapt into the galaxy the moment Chen Ming finished speaking.

It immediately locked onto Cheng Xinghai's fleet, the only fleet still sailing in space in the galaxy.

The light on the ridge cannon suddenly lit up.

The metal liquid controlled by Chen Ming has not stopped spreading since the beginning. It extends directly from the flagship where Cheng Xinghai is, and in a blink of an eye, the entire Cheng Xinghai fleet is under his control.

The power of the Scarlet Dimension was then activated, sending the entire fleet to the edge of the galaxy.

The mothership's attack fell into the air.

Everyone's heart rate in the command room at least doubled in just a few seconds.

The scene before their eyes that suddenly distorted and quickly returned to normal made their heartbeats almost stop after reaching the limit.

But when they noticed that they were not dead, but seemed to have been moved to another place by an unknown force.

They finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Cheng Xinghai's face was a little pale, she used her spiritual power to quickly suppress insignificant emotions.

She knew that Chen Ming must have done something just now.

But just as he was about to speak, the subsequent transition waves also condensed into shape.

The dark Zerg warships wrapped in dark fog also arrived in the galaxy.

Cheng Xinghai immediately changed what she was about to say and asked, "What is that?"

"Thorne Zerg." Chen Ming said, "Record the following scene. It will be valuable."

"The Thorn Zerg..."

Cheng Xinghai's first reaction was that these insects were related to Chen Ming.

Although she didn't know An Wuping, she also didn't know the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping.

But she was very curious about Chen Ming's past some time ago, so she specifically asked Chen Ming about many things that happened in the past.

Naturally, he was also aware of the bug that almost killed Chen Ming in the mining space station.

But she didn't know why the Thorn Zerg actually had biological warships, which were surrounded by a thick fog that looked extremely dangerous, and finally appeared here.

The black fog Zerg completely surrounded the two motherships, and the endless black fog was constantly eroding the motherships that were trapped in heavy siege.

The spacecraft at the edge of the galaxy could only see through sensors that the energy released by the main force weapons was surging in the black fog.

But those surging energies looked no different from the mothership's death throes.

Immediately afterwards, when the war between the Zerg and the Mechanics had not yet ended, new fluctuations appeared again at the edge of the galaxy.

However, this time it was not a jump fluctuation, because the jump within the galaxy could no longer be carried out due to the large-scale jump of the Black Mist Zerg.

What is appearing now is a hyperspace fluctuation that is comparable in scale to the jump fluctuation.

Countless Thorn Zerg fleets are entering the edge of the galaxy through hyperspace.

What they did was the same as what the Destroyer mothership did when Chen Ming attacked the mechanical race and the galaxy's jump waves were blocked.

The emergence of these new Zergs was Chen Ming's backup plan to avoid a direct conflict between the Black Mist Zerg and the Imperial Fleet.

The location where they appeared was just in front of the retreat direction of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.

The faces of those who had just survived the disaster in the flagship command room and on all the spaceships in the fleet suddenly changed again.

Cheng Xinghai was thinking quickly at this time, but she had no way to dodge when facing absolute power.

"It's okay, just go over there."

Chen Ming's voice made Cheng Xinghai find a way out of his thinking.

She immediately gave the order: "Keep the formation, weapons silent, and keep moving forward."

Although the fleet was somewhat panicked and made some operational mistakes, it eventually calmed down.

Many people on the spaceship have already figured out how they avoided the attack of the mechanical mothership just now, so they should be fine when facing these biological warships this time.

Just as Cheng Xinghai's fleet and the newly arrived Zerg fleet passed each other head-on and avoided interfering with each other.

The Black Mist Zerg inside the galaxy suddenly seemed to have sensed something and became even crazier, intensifying their attacks on the mechanical motherships.

Soon, there was no sound at all in the thick black fog.

When the Black Mist Zerg rearranged into a battle formation, the black fog gradually loosened and there was no trace of the two mechanical motherships in the black fog.

However, the Black Mist Zerg have found a new target.

A civil war among the Zerg suddenly broke out.

This was an extremely brutal battle, a bloody battle that still took place in the space age.

Everyone in the flagship command room was watching the battle intently.

But Chen Ming had no interest in watching it at all.

He first called some people, and then directly handed over all the command of the battle to the Queen of Zerg. As long as the ordinary Zerg won in the end, it would be fine.

If we let the black fog prosthesis show up in the middle of the process and create signs of escape, the problem will be solved.

Without saying hello to anyone, he disappeared from the flagship.

Not long after, reinforcements from the front line also arrived at the Liugang Galaxy.

It is a fleet led by an offensive-class ship.

The captain of the attacking ship had just received the order to wait and see, so he did not fire directly at the Zerg. He just silently watched the Zerg on both sides fighting each other.

Capital ships usually carry portable superluminal communication base stations, so the entire process of the battle was transmitted back to the empire.

Anyone who has seen this video has made a judgment on one thing.

That is, there is no relationship between those Black Mist Zerg and ordinary Thorn Zerg.

This is not only the result of this battle, but also due to the reasons on the pirate space station side.

Since Chen Ming deliberately exposed the Black Mist Zerg fleet to the Empire when it was still an egg, the Zerg fleet has been under surveillance by the Empire.

Therefore, the entire process of the Black Mist Zerg fleet, from its departure to its attack on the Mechanical Clan and its driving away of the Mechanical Clan's three motherships, was all observed by the Empire.

The destinations of the three motherships were quickly determined. The situation at the pirate space station was immediately reported to everyone with sufficient status in the empire.

After all, there were millions of Zerg cruisers, and they were completely killed by Wu An in just one encounter.

The Zerg biological spaceships spread all over the galaxy and the aftermath of the vast mental fluctuations cannot be faked.

No matter how fast the Zerg reproduced, such a horrific loss in the blink of an eye made it hard for anyone to imagine that this was done to cover up their identities.

Therefore, after receiving the news, most people believed that the possibility of An Wuping and Chen Ming directing and acting in the drama themselves was further reduced.

After all, they have such powerful strength now, and many things can be said directly, or even with violence. There is no need to do such things that seem to be self-destructive.

at this time.

In the empire's capital system.

Inside a building on a certain planet.

Minister Lu of the Psychic Census Department hung up the video call with Minister Hou of the Odan Star Region, and he looked very unhappy.

He once again retrieved An Wuping's information and looked at it over and over again.

Sudden.

He threw the documents to the ground, lit a cigarette for himself, took a long puff, then put out the almost burnt cigarette in the ashtray and lit a new one for himself.

But doing so did not relieve the pressure in his heart.

He questioned himself why he hadn't noticed before that An Wuping and Chen Ming were so similar.

They are all good guys. They usually do things quietly and on their own, making people think they are easy to bully.

As a result, when someone really runs into trouble, they will find themselves in huge trouble.

The last time it was the Fourteenth Legion that provoked Chen Ming, the problem was finally forcibly resolved by the legion commander of the Fourteenth Legion.

And this time, the one who provoked An Wuping... seemed to be him.

At the same time on the pirate space station.

Inside the hardware store.

The boss hung up a phone call and said to Chen Ming's robot, who had not disappeared, "The news has basically spread throughout the empire. People who are capable and qualified have basically watched the video. Next, An Wuping should become the focus of the entire empire."

Chen Ming responded: "This is what I want to see."

"So where are you at?"

"We have obtained the star gate, but there is only one. The mothership carrying the Destroyer has escaped for now, but it is my next plan and it cannot escape."

The boss did not ask Chen Ming why he had to create An Wuping to attract the attention of the empire, and then secretly go to fight against an entire mechanical race's star field alone.

He respected Chen Ming's decision.

After all, even in his opinion, the power of the Zerg was really too exaggerated. In his opinion, it was even more exaggerated than Chen Ming's current ability.

It was difficult for the boss to imagine what the empire's attitude would be if the fact that Chen Ming was An Wuping was exposed.

After all, he really saw the potential in the Zerg to compete with the Empire now.

And he had seen this potential in Chen Ming a long time ago.

And when two potentials are concentrated in one person, can the empire really accommodate this person?
He was not sure, so he respected all of Chen Ming's decisions and would never ask any more questions.

But there were some things he still had to say: "Deal with those Zerg spaceships in the galaxy as soon as possible. I can stop some people from touching those Zerg warships with legitimate means, but I can't stop someone from secretly trying to find ways to obtain samples of Zerg warships."

Chen Ming responded: "I have arranged for the Zerg fleet to come over. When the time comes, we can just pretend to implant the Zerg consciousness and drive the ship away."

"Then I see you seem to be thinking about something. You haven't made any movement for a long time."

Chen Ming looked down at himself through the perspective of the robot in front of his boss, and at the same time confirmed that he did not install any device to simulate facial expressions on the robot.

"Don't look at it. I just feel like you're thinking about something important. You don't even want to care about your own Zerg spaceship."

Chen Ming shrugged and said, "Now that the star gate is ready, the problem of the Zerg being forced to flee into the Empire has been solved, and the problem of the Mechanical Race raiding the star sea has also been solved."

"I only want to do two things now. One is to get the Destroyer as well."

Chen Ming felt that he'd better hurry up.

Because he doesn't have much time left.

To be precise, the mechanical race is running out of time.

The fighting power of the Mechanical Race is being rapidly eroded because of him. The Empire will soon discover the emptiness of the Mechanical Race’s military power and continue to advance.

Although there is a difference between conquering a galaxy and occupying a planet, as long as the empire still wants to occupy the mechanical race's planet, it will have to fight a ground war.

Even if every galaxy is occupied, the war cannot be considered over as long as the planets are not completely occupied.

The ground war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race will take time unless Chen Ming intervenes.

But this does not affect the actual advancement on the front line.

As long as the battle line is pushed to the rear of the Mechanical Clan, it means that the Mechanical Clan's Destroyer Mothership may engage in battle with the Imperial Fleet at any time.

If the Destroyer was killed in the battle with the Empire's Level 6 Psychic, Chen Ming would lose the opportunity to obtain the Destroyer.

So we need to act quickly and take away what he needs as soon as possible.

He didn't want any conflict of interest with the empire.

Because he knew very well that he was not strong enough in the entire empire.

Just because his ability has exceeded the point where the empire would respect him, it doesn't mean that he can directly override the empire.

So he was planning his next course of action and first determining the whereabouts of the Destroyer.

"What's the other thing, grab another stargate?"

"No..." Chen Ming's tone was a little gloomy: "It's to find out who leaked the information about me to the mechanical race."

Before Chen Ming confirmed his relationship with Cheng Xinghai, he had already anticipated that someone would make trouble for the people around him.

So he always cares about everyone who is close to him and provides them with protection.

Whether it was the factory director, Old Wu, or even the bald guy, Chen Ming had all given them some things made with his spiritual power, so that he could come to the rescue when necessary.

Cheng Xinghai is of course no exception.

He had long guessed that there would definitely be such a day in the future, and he was willing to take the trouble.

When a strong person is dragged down by his relatives and friends, and is even forced to give up relationships with other people, this person is not a strong person at all.

Cheng Xinghai’s attack was just a small matter that Chen Ming handled casually.

After all, if he really wanted to solve the problem, Chen Ming wouldn't even have to go to the scene. He could just use his psychic power on Cheng Xinghai and send her to another place.

He appeared there just to show his attitude and at the same time thoroughly deal with the matters he had arranged regarding the Black Mist Zerg and ordinary Zerg to avoid leaving any additional problems.

After what happened last time, Chen Ming has understood some things.

Mere humility and friendliness are meaningless.
Humility and friendliness have value only after strength has been demonstrated.

Some people like to seek death, so Chen Ming will send him to death.

The boss understood what Chen Ming meant and said, "The location where the mechanical race jumped is indeed a little strange, but are you so sure that someone must have leaked your information?"

"I don't believe in coincidences, and my intuition tells me that someone must have leaked my information."

"It's normal for the mechanical tribe to want to attack Baiquan. That's the headquarters of the front line now."

"But they have no reason to attack here..."

Chen Ming pointed to the pirate space station under his feet and said, "There is also the galaxy where Cheng Xinghai's fleet is."

"Boss, would you believe this kind of thing if it happened to you?"

"I do not believe."

“So I’m going to do something.”

"understood."

It looks like Chen Ming is going to do something within the empire again.

The boss leaned back in his chair, looked at Chen Ming's robot and said, "You rarely seem to get angry about your own affairs."

"As far as I can remember, the only time you're really angry is when your friends are affected."

"maybe."

Chen Ming responded with this and temporarily withdrew his consciousness from the robot on the boss's side.

Back to the prosthesis located in the division.

Just when Chen Ming was about to use the authority of this prosthesis to do something.

Bai Quan's phone suddenly rang: "Xiao Ming, someone wants to talk to you."

"Who?"

"Mainly the Minister of the Imperial Psychic Department, Luo Yi. And the Minister of the Imperial Psychic Census Department, Lu Han."

"There may be some other people, all representatives of different levels of the Empire. You should know why these people are here."

"Oh, yes, there is also An Wuping."

Just when Chen Ming heard Bai Quan say An Wuping's name, An Wuping received a call at the same time.

While Chen Ming controlled An Wuping to answer the phone, he replied to Bai Quan: "What are you talking about?"

"Let's talk about the Zerg and the Mechanoids."

"When? How?"

"Right now, online meeting, holographic projection, can you come to my place?"

"I know, I'll be there right away."

After Chen Ming finished speaking.

Baiquan didn't hang up the phone.

And suddenly he asked in a somewhat strange tone: "Come to think of it, we have been fighting with the Mechanical Tribe for a while now, and it caused such a big commotion, but Yuhui next door didn't seem to react at all."

Chen Ming responded with a very vague statement: "Who knows."

(End of this chapter)