Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Two days flew by.

Chen Ming studied peacefully for two days after sending Gamma Z into the star field of Afterglow.

As of today, he has read all the technical books given by Yu Hui after his last review.

And I have almost read the technical book from Tachyon Technology that Lao Wu gave me before.

I have read all the basic-level books, solved 80% of the entry-level books, and can quickly make up for the remaining 20% ​​of scattered books.

Lao Wu doesn't have any more advanced technical books on hand.

The only way for Chen Ming to obtain new knowledge is through Yu Hui.

So Chen Ming thought about it now, decided to conduct a second review in advance, and took the initiative to contact Huihuang.

Huihuang didn't have any bad attitude toward Chen Ming in the past two days, and he still maintained the same attitude as before.

Soon Huihuang was connected to Chen Ming's communication equipment.

And this time, Hui Hui asked Chen Ming as usual: "Mr. Chen, what do you need?"

Chen Ming didn't talk nonsense and said straightforwardly: "I want to conduct a second review in advance."

"Okay, please wait."

Huihuang agreed decisively, and Chen Ming didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Because Yu Hui's current attitude makes him very unpredictable.

He can clearly feel that the workload required of him has increased in recent days, increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The workload of one day can even be said to have doubled compared to the previous day.

Chen Ming's work relies on psychic energy, which means that if the workload continues to increase, it is very likely that Chen Ming will fall down from exhaustion after working for ten minutes.

This is obviously intended to restrict Chen Ming.

But Hui Hui's behavior was very normal and friendly, so friendly that even Chen Ming felt a little abnormal.

While working, Huihuang would occasionally take the initiative to help Chen Ming mobilize factory equipment and help him complete other tasks that did not require the use of psychic powers but required manual control.

Help Chen Ming prioritize the day's tasks in advance, and even inform Chen Ming of the tasks for the next day the day before so that he can prepare in advance.

These detailed arrangements really made Chen Ming's life easier.

But it also made him feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.

But although there was something wrong with the brilliant kindness, Chen Ming did not intend to refuse forcefully.

I still chose to accept it, and planned to take a closer look at what brilliance meant in the future.

Soon, Huihuang sent all the documents for the written examination and the things needed for the actual operation to the factory main control room.

When Chen Ming opened the file, he knew that this second review would not be difficult for him.

If he had wanted to, he would have been able to conduct the second review the night after the first review. It was just that Chen Ming had to think before writing, but now he could write with his eyes closed.

An hour passed in a blink of an eye.

Huihuang confirmed that Chen Ming passed the second review and received an excellent rating.

And after this review passed, it also gave Chen Ming something new.

The first and most important thing are some professional books based on the most basic Shimmer-class unmanned frigate in the Afterglow Fleet.

It is to disassemble the different components of the low-light level equipment and explain them in detail one by one.

After learning them all, Chen Ming will be able to master the manufacturing method of this shimmer.

In addition to Shimmer itself, these professional books will also have one or two other books that continue to follow the research trend of the book.

The content is still mainly expanded in three aspects: energy weapons, radiation systems and shields.

Of course, there are also some other books that allow Chen Ming to understand the design ideas of the Afterglow battleship.

Or some independent and special technical books.

For example, Chen Ming saw a book that described the technologies and differences between jump engines, hyperspace lane engines, and blink engines.

As well as a supporting technical document that is still under experiment, the content is probably about the experimental possibility of hyperspace jump extended from the jump engine.

Chen Ming flipped through it casually.

During this period of time, even if the workload increases, I still have almost ten hours a day to learn and gain more professional and technical experience.

It seems that this technology is possible in his hands. It seems that he only needs to study it to achieve some exaggerated effects.

Yu Hui seems to have handed over some very valuable technologies to himself this time.

I don’t know if he is not worried about Chen Ming continuing to cause trouble at all, or if he has other ideas.

Or is this thing, like the previous antimatter shock wave, a research direction that Yuhui has given up on?

No matter what it is, Chen Ming must sort everything out.

This gave him something he couldn't refuse.

In addition to these, Chen Ming also suddenly discovered two books in the files that were somewhat unrelated to these.

But when he first received the documents, he seemed to have no impression of these two books.

Strange? When did you receive it?

Chen Ming looked at the general content of the book with doubts.

One of them is a research report on the bad compatibility between Afterglow, ectoplasmic stones, and psychic contact, and the other is a book on biotechnology where Afterglow has good development momentum.

It is about Yuhui finding valuable life on various planets with life, and then using various methods to breed it, such as professional breeding farms or cloning and other technologies.

There happens to be a creature like a crystal crab among them.

Chen Ming couldn't help but frowned when he saw this.

Sunset couldn't possibly know Gamma Z's whereabouts, otherwise Gamma Z would be dead by now.

It should be just a coincidence that some of the contents in this document are related to crystal crabs.

But why did Sunset give him this?

These two documents were very special and had absolutely no connection with what he usually studied.

Moreover, Chen Ming did not have this knowledge and could not understand the parts containing professional terms. At most, he could tell what he was studying.

This doesn't seem right.

Chen Ming took another inventory. Counting the two books he couldn't understand, excluding the previous ones, there were a total of forty-two documents that could be considered books in the computer in the main control room of the factory.

But in the computer records in the main control room, there is no trace of the entry of these two special books.

The other forty copies are all recorded in considerable detail.

This is not what Yuhui should give him.

But those who have access to the factory should only be brilliant.

Is this what Brilliant did? Why does it do this?

Was it Yu Hui's test of him?

Or……

The communications between Chen Ming and Hui Hui must have been recorded and monitored.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to ask now. He could only transfer the two books to the Iron Mine Number first, delete the records in the computer, and hide the matter.

Whatever the reason behind this incident, whether it was the afterglow or the brilliant decision, there will surely be other actions after them.

Chen Ming just needs to wait patiently.

Two days after the assessment ended.

Chen Ming was sitting in the captain's cabin of the Iron Ore, his eyes focused on the panel in front of him that only he could see.

At this time, he discovered that there was something awesome about his ability.

As long as it is a technology related to transformation that he has learned, as long as the technology is logically reasonable and can be realized in theory.

Then, Chen Ming can directly install this technology where it should be installed.

Since the technology has been installed, it is a matter of course to start.

As for why Chen Ming discovered this.

The reason lies in the previous books related to various special engines and the unfinished experiment.

Chen Ming did not study anything else in the past two days, but spent most of his time studying and summarizing this experiment.

Rely on past experiences in your mind, current knowledge, and research data in books.

Eventually, a new transformation technique was learned.

[Unstable Hyperspace Channel Jump Engine]

The name of this thing seems deceiving.

But in fact, it is just an advancement of hyperspace channel system technology, and it is not a degradation of the jump engine at all.

After all, Chen Ming's understanding of the jump engine, which can only be installed on cruisers and above, can be said to be zero.

Therefore, the key to this hyperspace channel jump engine is to rely on hyperspace and gravity well, rather than jump.

As for its effect.

Chen Ming can only say that he probably knows, probably.

First of all, its startup method is similar to that of the hyperspace channel engine.

However, one advantage is that it will not stop or be interrupted once it is started, and can be forcibly started under the influence of blocking pulses.

After it is started, it will take the spacecraft equipped with this engine and perform an effect similar to a jump in the direction of the gravity well inside the hyperspace channel.

Since it itself needs to be close to the gravity well and use the power of the gravity well to achieve its functions, it does not need to be activated outside the galaxy.

Of course, in reality, this thing is completely different from the high-precision long-distance and large-scale jump of the jump engine, and the nature is also completely different. It is purely similar in expression.

There is also the need to rely on hyperspace gravity wells, and also need to be equipped with hyperspace channel engines, etc.

But its biggest shortcoming can also be said to be an advantage.

The landing point of the transition after it starts is unknown.

After it is started, no one knows where it will go along the gravity wells of stars in different galaxies or massive objects.

It can only be used when you are forced into a desperate situation and gamble your life.

So Chen Ming couldn't help but complain when he just mastered this technology.

Why such a deadly trump card again?

It was the same before. The trump card he had that could get Yuhui's support didn't have to be fine, but once he used it, he would probably fall into another dilemma.

It won't be used unless you are in a desperate situation. If you use it, it may cause other dangers to your life.

And this time too, who knows where a random jump along the gravity well can send him?

But something is better than nothing.

At the last moment, no matter how dangerous the method is, you have to use it.

And Chen Ming also saw other values ​​here.

Not only the engine may be stabilized in subsequent development.

At the same time, there is also Chen Ming’s own ability.

For example, this engine, or this kind of unstable modifications and accessories.

For Yuhui, the risk of using such a spacecraft equipped with unstable experimental equipment or itself is experimental is very high.

Once an accident occurs and something is damaged, you have no choice but to bear huge losses and start all over again.

But Chen Ming is different. Chen Ming can repair. He can forcibly suppress various possible failures through the repair function and record them.

This is very meaningful in the research and development of various weapons and equipment.

No matter how much paper data you have, it can't compare to an actual experiment.

So, Chen Ming decided to commit suicide, no, to test this unstable transition system.

Chen Ming immediately modified the [Unstable Hyperspace Channel Jump Engine] on Qu Guang.

After driving the ship outside, he started the engine directly.

Then Qu Guang disappeared.

Yu Hui had been paying attention to Chen Ming when Qu Guang started, and immediately noticed the abnormality.

Huihuang's communication immediately sounded here.

After Chen Ming answered the call, he said without waiting for Huihuang to ask: "I installed the hyperspace channel jump engine in the files you gave me before on Qu Guang."

"I spent two days researching and came up with a result."

"But you also saw that the result was very unstable."

"It entered the hyperspace after it was started, and then it was torn apart by the gravity well."

Huihuang had already judged that there was nothing wrong with the first few sentences Chen Ming said.

He had personally read all the files given to Chen Ming, and knew what was in them.

Naturally, he also knew what problems this hyperspace channel jump engine that had been half-abandoned by them had.

But he obviously didn't expect that Chen Ming spent two days researching this thing that couldn't be carried out in the experimental stage, and successfully transformed it, and finally completed an experiment.

As for the results of the experiment that Chen Ming said at the end, Huihuang did not believe it at this time.

But he still said: "I know."

And quickly reported the information.

Then Huihuang quickly received a reply and said to Chen Ming: "Engine-related experiments are prohibited in the future. All dangerous experiments must be informed to me in advance."

"No problem."

Chen Ming agreed decisively, and added: "Even if you want me to conduct such an experiment, I must have a spaceship, right?"

Huihuang did not say much and left again soon.

Chen Ming's eyes were locked on Du Guang.

Du Guang certainly could not be torn apart by the gravity well.

After activating the unstable jump device, it had been thrown away to an unknown place.

However, according to the design of the engine when Chen Ming was studying it before, it can still ensure that even if it is thrown away, the spaceship can still appear near the gravity well.

At this time, through Du Guang's sensor, Chen Ming can see the thick purple fog and lightning outside the spaceship.

The nearby hyperspace cloud layer is obviously thicker than that near the pirate space station, but there are barely a few routes leading to other places.

Chen Ming did not enter the channel, but directly left this hyperspace with the help of the gravity well.

According to the data of the surrounding stars scanned by the sensor and the galaxy map in his hand.

He quickly confirmed the current position of Qu Guang.

It did not leave the human empire too far.

And it happened to appear at the intersection of Yuhui and the mechanical race star field.

This narrow area where the two sides intersect extends from the direction of the human empire, and Qu Guang is now at the end of this extension line.

This place is usually a buffer zone between Yuhui and the mechanical race, and fighting does not often break out, especially in the corner where Qu Guang is now.

If you want to go back, although you must pass through the long boundary buffer zone, if you pay attention, you should not encounter danger.

However, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something at this time.

The star field controlled by Yuhui has a range, because Yuhui has come here from the direction where they once left the empire and bypassed the empire.

And the star field controlled by the mechanical race now also has a range, also because the mechanical race here is not the original mechanical race.

According to historical records, it seems that some mechanical races chased humans who had explored unknown star regions in the past and came here. After being blocked by the empire, they gradually developed and settled here.

Therefore, outside the star region controlled by Yuhui and the mechanical race, there is still an unknown area.

At the current position of Quguang, you can actually try to go out and explore.

Although Quguang is not an exploration ship, it can still conduct a rough and simple scan of the planet.

Scan the surface of the planet, take a few photos to record, confirm whether it is a habitable planet, and whether there are mineral veins directly exposed on the surface or in the shallow layer of the surface.

Scan out a rough data, which can be used as a reference later, saving time for actual investigation in the future.

Chen Ming has not forgotten what his boss mentioned before, that he wants to find a suitable star system outside the territory of the empire to establish a colony.

Although the premise is that Chen Ming and Yuhui have a good relationship.

However, as the boss said before, finding some valuable star systems and planets is valuable in itself, and it is not necessary to build a colony.

Moreover, when humans were exploring in the past, they always protected their own colonies, and never said that they needed Yuhui's protection.

Why can't we build it ourselves?

Of course, Chen Ming only had this idea in mind, but he didn't get carried away.

Things like colonies still have to be left to professionals. What he has to do now is to calculate how long the fuel can last for navigation and leave a certain amount of margin for return.

Then, in the galaxies closest to the current position of the refraction, locate those galaxies with yellow dwarfs, orange dwarfs and red dwarfs as stars that are most likely to find habitable planets.

Habitable planets are the most easily confirmed and discovered high-value planets when Chen Ming only has one refraction.

Chen Ming planned the route very quickly.

It is not troublesome to let the refraction drive automatically to the vicinity of the gravity well and wait for Chen Ming to control it personally.

Chen Ming estimated that it would take about a week or so for this buffer zone to survey the area that is about fifty light years away.

After all, not all star systems have planets, and not all planets require close inspection.

So in this case, the investigation is not troublesome.

After arranging the short-term action after refraction.

Chen Ming devoted himself to studying again.

To Chen Ming's surprise, he continued to stay in the factory safely for a week.

Yu Hui didn't send Chen Ming away directly because he caused trouble again.

Even Chen Ming's previous expectation that Yu Hui had almost arranged for him elsewhere seems to have to be questioned.

Chen Ming had no new ideas these days. Apart from studying, he just followed Yu Hui's requirements and carried out various tasks.

As the date changes, Yuhui gives Chen Ming more and more complex tasks every day.

Some tasks even required Hui Hui to teach Chen Ming step by step on the spot, which made Chen Ming very suspicious that Yu Hui was testing his learning ability.

Just take the test, Chen Ming doesn't care anymore anyway, he just wants to learn as many techniques as possible.

After all, this may be his last chance to obtain technology from Yuhui.

And the brilliant teaching is definitely more efficient than Chen Ming's reading every day.

Brilliance is the afterglow of the Alpha level, and its ability is definitely more than enough to teach Chen Ming.

However, as the daily work increases, Chen Ming's mental energy consumption also intensifies.

The remaining energy for learning is shrinking.

And Yu Hui seemed to be deliberately controlling the amount of work, not to the extent that it completely overwhelmed Chen Ming, but to keep Chen Ming's mental energy at a relatively moderate level after work.

I can feel tired, but it's not like I can't do anything else.

Huihuang tried its best to meet Chen Ming's needs for a resting environment these days. Chen Ming was able to get all kinds of sleeping aids he wanted, and even prepared some extra for Chen Ming.

And the time has reached the seventh day when Chen Ming sent Diopter away, which is today.

At the beginning of today's daily work, Huihuang sent the work content as usual.

Chen Ming already knew what it was before entering the warehouse.

A tachyon spear.

The name displayed on the panel is [Box Type Afterglow Tachyon Spear 01 Test Type].

Chen Ming has seen the 01 test type many times in the past few days. Chen Ming also touched one of Yuhui's tachyon spears a few days ago.

But the door delivered today is very obviously different from the previous door.

Not only because the tachyon spear has an extra plug-in accessory today, but also because the panel of the tachyon spear has a 0/2 ammunition reserve.

It seems to correspond to the "box type" in the name.

Chen Ming said nothing and repaired it as required.

Immediately, Chen Ming saw two capsule-like objects completely wrapped in metal appearing inside the plug-in accessory.

This should be the ammunition for the Tachyon Spear.

Yuhui transformed the tachyon spear, which relies on energy storage to achieve the final attack effect, into a mode that can attack through "bullets" with a large amount of self-storage materials installed inside.

Let the energy accumulation time be solved by consuming the prepared ammunition, which greatly increases the shooting speed.

As a result, all it has left to solve is the problem of weapon cooldown.

But Chen Ming felt that this transformation method was not very effective.

Because such transformation can be achieved even without him.

Now Yuhui has sent this tachyon spear over just to test that he can quickly replenish the bullets of this spear.

And Yuhui obviously knew that his psychic energy could quickly cool down weapons.

Therefore, if the effect is really to be sufficient, Chen Ming can only do it in person.

Is Yuhui still thinking about relying on his psychic powers now?

Chen Ming didn't think so.

What he did before should be enough for Yuhui to stamp him with a dangerous seal. It is impossible for them to hand over this kind of tachyon spear to him.

However, Chen Ming still lacked Yuhui's information and could not speculate on a possible outcome.

Moreover, the tachyon spear looked more and more weird, so that Chen Ming finally couldn't help but asked Hui Hui: "Why did you design the weapon like this?"

Chen Ming didn't expect Huihuang to answer this question, but Huihuang really did.

"Because your psychic powers are still effective enough against such a weapon."

Chen Ming became more and more confused after hearing this answer and asked: "You will let me control the spacecraft and weapons?"

The factory's lighting system suddenly flickered abnormally.

Huihuang said as if he hadn't noticed: "Yuhui will never believe in humans, but Yuhui's individuals will never completely believe in Yuhui."

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Just when Chen Ming was thinking about the meaning of this sentence, Huihuang suddenly said: "There is another notice."

"We will arrange for you to travel to other galaxies immediately. You have a total of one and a half days today and tomorrow to prepare."

"Leave on time at eight o'clock in the morning Earth time the day after tomorrow."

This notice interrupted Chen Ming's train of thought.

Although it was sudden, it was still expected.

What will happen next is not detailed at this time, but Chen Ming feels that the treatment will not be much better.

And if he just leaves like this, it will definitely be more difficult to leave Yuhui's territory in the future.

But Chen Ming has no choice now.

The consequences of not cooperating can be figured out with a little thinking.

So Chen Ming chose to be more decent and cooperated by himself.

In fact, he also has a feeling now that what he did before has accelerated this process.

But again, Chen Ming will definitely accept the consequences of his actions.

"So where exactly are you going?"

Chen Ming asked another question casually, but also did not expect a brilliant answer.

But Huihuang suddenly sent Chen Ming a star map of the Afterglow Star Territory that he was very familiar with.

There are only two marks on it.

One is Chen Ming's current galaxy, and the other is a place very close to the galaxy where Chen Ming speculates that the replica of the Kletka supercomputer is located.

It was one of the colonies in the system that surrounded Kletka.

"here."

Huihuang left two words and prepared to leave.

But Chen Ming suddenly reacted and immediately interrupted before Huihuang left: "Huanghuang, you are Yuhui, what do you Yuhui believe?"

“We believe in Afterglow ourselves.”

After Huihuang finished speaking, he left completely, leaving only Chen Ming alone in the factory.

One thing that Chen Ming has always noticed is that when Huihuang talks about official matters, that is, things arranged by Yuhui, he usually calls himself "we".

Only occasionally do I call myself "I".

Brilliance just said before that not all individuals in Afterglow believe in Afterglow.

The “we” mentioned later in answering Chen Ming’s question is very interesting.

But Chen Ming is still not sure whether this is Yu Hui's test.

He also needs more information.

And this takes time.

So now, Chen Ming could only follow Yu Hui's request and start packing.

However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to start. After all, he still had the rest of the day and the whole day tomorrow.

So Chen Ming might as well do something else, and then go somewhere else and have no free time.

Chen Ming set his sights on the sentry of the pirate space station and prepared to contact Lao Wu.