Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 98 Destruction, joining, belated assistance

The two cruisers completely protected Chen Ming from behind.

Among the fleet that followed the two cruisers, there happened to be a diopter equipped with Gamma A.

Diopter directly activated the electromagnetic capture cabin, protecting Chen Ming's Iron Ore inside it, and then retreated away from the ruler.

On the front, the confrontation between the ruler and the Afterglow Fleet has begun.

Of Yuhui's two cruisers, one was the cruiser that Chen Ming had seen before, and was used to attack space stations and military outposts.

Chen Ming had not seen the other cruiser before, and its model was different from the cruiser Chen Ming knew. It looked more generous.

However, the appearance of the spacecraft is not important. What is important is that the distance between the two sides has become so close that all weapons can attack each other.

Although the Dominator had previously had one of its Storm Needles destroyed by the armor-piercing class, it still chose to take the initiative to use the remaining three large weapons to fire on the Afterglow Cruiser that was closer to it.

The powerful shield-breaking ability brought by one Storm Stinger and two Gauss cannons caused a large number of concussive ripples to immediately appear on the Afterglow Cruiser's shield.

High-strength armor-piercing weapons also pose a complete threat to Afterglow's shield, which has a top-level radiation system.

As long as it can hit them all, it will be enough to directly break its shield.

But the two Afterglow cruisers are not live targets, they also have the ability to fight back.

Moreover, the two cruisers have a total of six large load-bearing points, and all of them are tachyon spears.

The pirate space station was unable to withstand the attack of a cruiser Tachyon Spear.

And when the ruler faced the attack of the six-door tachyon spear without any interference and could completely focus its fire, it was completely inferior to the performance of the space station.

The ruler's shield was instantly overloaded, leaving him no time to react.

Terrifying arcs of electricity erupted from all over the ruler's ship.

Even if it has an overload protection device inside, such an arc will definitely cause damage to people inside.

However, the energy torrent continued, and after destroying the shield, it bombarded the ruler's frontal armor unabated.

Six energy torrents directly melted the ruler's frontal armor, leaving a large blazing white mark and a large amount of molten iron splashing into space.

However, when the energy torrent ended, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the ruler's frontal armor had not been completely broken even now.

The Dominator withstood the main weapon attacks of the two Afterglow cruisers head-on.

If it hadn't been for the fact that it didn't have time to close the shield just now, there might still be room for counterattack now.

However, Chen Ming can also understand why the ruler does not turn on the automatic radiation overload protection device.

After all, this device is too rigid. After the radiation capacity is close to the total upper limit, it will directly forcefully close the shield of the spacecraft no matter what the actual situation is.

If just when the radiation capacity is about to be overloaded, the enemy carries out a single high-intensity attack, such as a death torpedo.

Then relying on the shield to block it is definitely the best choice, rather than turning off the shield and letting the ship take a hard hit.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, manually controlling the shield of the spacecraft is definitely the optimal solution.

But the ruler obviously did not expect that a direct spacecraft would be directly overloaded.

Hence the present situation.

Even if they resisted Yu Hui's wave of concentrated fire, it was already too late to fight back.

After overloading the ruler, a cruiser in the afterglow fleet directly launched the flash engine that Chen Ming had seen before, and flashed to the rear of the ruler.

While the ruler was still flashing arcs of electricity, the cooled tachyon spear had already struck its engine.

A ruler without any supporting units is helpless when paralyzed.

Under the continuous attack of the Tachyon Spear, the Dominator suddenly violently imploded.

From the stern to the hull to the bow, everything was occupied by the raging burst of fire.

The entire ship turned into a cemetery of fire.

Only the hull of the ship, which was strong enough, remained intact and served as a grave for the ruler's crew.

The Afterglow cruiser ceased its attack.

Then, a large number of ordinary afterglow ships immediately approached the ruler.

Chen Ming saw many engineering-type ships among them.

While extinguishing the fire on the ruler, install some special equipment on its exterior.

If Chen Ming read it correctly, those equipment should be equipment used for jump engine resonance.

This kind of equipment allows large-mass objects without spacecraft engines to resonate with the jump engine and move instantaneously over long distances.

And while the Afterglow ships were performing this mission.

Chen Ming's Iron Mine suddenly received a communication request.

The source was another Afterglow cruiser that Gamma A didn't recognize, with a more generous hull.

Chen Ming knew that the most critical moment was coming.

Sunset's final confirmation of him.

But Chen Ming actually has nothing to worry about.

He did not say that he could control the AI, only that his ability was to control the spacecraft.

Although it is not certain whether Yu Hui believes it or not, when Chen Ming observed the situation at Gamma A before, he had already seen Yu Hui conduct a comprehensive review of Gamma A.

Naturally, no abnormalities were found, and gamma A was still gamma A.

And Gamma A Chen Ming is absolutely sure that he will not betray him.

Therefore, Yu Hui is not sure whether Chen Ming has the ability to control the AI ​​core.

That's why they come here.

As for what they would do when they came, Chen Ming had thought about it carefully and determined the risk of doing so through Gamma A.

Chen Ming would not seek death under normal circumstances.

He knew that when preparing the backhand, it was still necessary to confirm the stability and safety of the backhand.

So Chen Ming had previously followed the thinking logic of Gamma A, a member of Afterhui, and determined several possible ways to deal with Chen Ming himself after Afterhui.

Among the most likely responses, there was no direct killing of him.

Yu Hui is not 100% sure whether Chen Ming has the ability to directly control Yu Hui's individuals, and Chen Ming's other abilities are quite valuable to Yu Hui.

Taking both aspects into consideration, killing them directly without doing anything is definitely the worst way.

And one thing can be determined through the statement of ideas of Gamma A.

Even if Yu Hui is sure that Chen Ming has such ability, he may not be afraid or resist.

They also have the ability to restrict presentation.

The simplest way is to never give Chen Ming a chance to come into contact with Yuhui AI.

The fact that Chen Ming can only control the spacecraft by touch is Chen Ming's biggest limitation, and it is also very easy to confirm.

As long as Chen Ming is unable to access the Yuhui ship equipped with the Afterglow core, then the risk of Chen Ming's ability can be controlled within the acceptable range of Yuhui.

Anyway, if you want Chen Ming's ability to be used, it doesn't necessarily mean that Chen Ming needs to personally control the spacecraft, or control the spacecraft with the existence of Yuhui individuals.

Yuhui can just let Chen Ming conduct research on spaceships and come up with the blueprints for new spaceships and build them themselves.

Or give Chen Ming some sample spacecraft to test based on capabilities.

Giving the tested spacecraft directly to Chen Ming or melting it for recycling are ways to avoid possible dangers.

Therefore, Yu Hui's final decision still depends on whether the risks and benefits on Chen Ming are balanced.

In addition, Chen Ming also checked with Gamma A to see if Yuhui might think he was a spy sent by humans.

Gamma A said that Chen Ming was not sure whether Yuhui would really come to support.

If this scene is not performed well, then he will completely lose the possibility of entering the afterglow.
In addition, there are such psykers who do not want to control the paralyzed Afterglow on the battlefield or after the battle, but instead want to be more dangerous as spies. This idea is completely problematic.

Unless humans have the capital to do this, for example, there are two statements.

But if humans really have two psykers with such abilities, then I suggest Sunset just click on it.

Although the last sentence was polished by Chen Ming himself, the meaning of Gamma A is similar.

In short, since Yuhui is here, he won't be too worried about the harm of Chen Ming's ability.

This is a risk they must bear.

Chen Ming connected the communication.

The emotionless voice of a text-to-speech conversion device rang out on the Iron Ore.

"Hello, Chen Ming."

"Hello."

"We received your proposal passed to us via Gamma A, so we are here."

"Um, you guys also call it Gamma A?"

"No, each Afterglow individual has its own number, and the name is chosen by the individual at his or her own discretion. If he is willing to use the name you gave him, we will call him that."

"Then what shall I call you, and the other?"

"You can directly call my ship model, Brilliance. You have to ask the other one yourself. Its ship model is Huiyao."

Splendor-class cruiser and Glory-class cruiser.

Chen Ming silently wrote down the two ship models.

He didn't know much about Afterglow, so he had to pay more attention to this aspect of knowledge.

Huihuang had no intention of breaking up with Chen Mingxian and said directly: "Let's get down to business."

"Since humans have always had a relatively relaxed attitude towards captured Yuhui individuals, accordingly, we will also have some preferential treatment for humans."

"So, we have considered your proposal very seriously and responded with a positive attitude, but we still have some things that we need to confirm with you."

"The result of the confirmation will determine the outcome of your proposal."

"No problem, you said."

"We need you to explain why Gamma A concealed and protected you during your first contact with Gamma A."

Is it such a sharp question to come up?

Chen Ming thought quickly in his heart.

But there is actually an answer to this point, and lying can't change anything.

So Chen Ming said directly: "I can directly overcome any restrictions on the spacecraft controlled by me and obtain the highest control of the spacecraft. No one can take it away."

"So at that time, I forcibly controlled all the equipment on the spacecraft, and read the records that Gamma A had sent, so that all the afterglows thought that the refraction I controlled was controlled by Gamma A."

"After gaining a deeper understanding later, Gamma A and I reached a consensus that both parties can cooperate."

Huihuang did not directly point out the problem in Chen Ming's answer, but directly asked the second question: "Do you have the ability to control the Afterglow AI core?"

"No, Yuhui AI has its own consciousness and cannot be controlled by my abilities."

Chen Ming decisively chose to conceal it. If he told the truth, it would be unreasonable.

But whether he admits it or not, Yu Hui must have doubts about whether Chen Ming has this ability.

Even if there is clear evidence to prove that Chen Ming really cannot control Yuhui AI, it is impossible for Yuhui to completely put this speculation aside, otherwise Yuhui is really a fool.

So Chen Ming's answer is actually not important.

Just as Chen Ming thought, Alpha AI didn't care about Chen Ming's answer after asking and continued to the next question.

"We need the details of your ability. We know that humans have specific psychic institutions to test psychics, and we need your test report." This brilliant question stopped Chen Ming, and he explained: "I don't He has not systematically studied psychic knowledge, and has not been tested by a testing agency."

"What my seniors meant by guiding me in terms of psychic abilities is that systematic learning by naturally awakened psychics will lower the upper limit of development."

"So I can only give you a rough introduction to my abilities. I don't know the details myself."

Huihuang did not force him to state this, but simply said: "Please tell me."

Chen Ming organized his language a little and explained his abilities selectively.

After all, this is the key to determining his value to Yuhui in the future. If it is lower, Yuhui may directly choose to nip the risk in the bud.

But he definitely won't say anything that shouldn't be said.

After answering this question, Huihuang asked a few seemingly insignificant questions again.

They are all about Chen Ming himself, including a few strange questions such as Chen Ming's views on Yuhui.

In the end, Huihuang also gave Chen Ming a definite answer.

Yu Hui agreed to Chen Ming's joining.

In fact, when Yu Hui is willing to come to the rescue, the ending is basically foreseeable, as long as Chen Ming doesn't talk nonsense.

And Chen Ming also knew that this chat was not actually the main verification and testing.

The real big deal is yet to come, after Chen Ming went to Yuhui's place.

After Huihuang gave Chen Ming an agreeable reply, he suddenly said: "In addition, there are some necessary conditions that must be explained to you."

The words "necessary conditions" in the sentence "Brilliant" made Chen Ming become more serious, waiting for the next part of "Brilliant".

"It's about your future arrangements."

Chen Ming pricked up his ears and listened carefully. This treatment and what Chen Ming would get from Yuhui later would determine how long he would stay at Yuhui before he would seek help from others to get him out of Yuhui. Come.

"Just like how you humans treat our captured Afterglow individuals."

"Work for us on the basis of meeting the most basic survival needs and normal physiological needs."

Chen Ming was not sure what the actual survival needs and physiological needs were, so he asked, "Is there a more specific explanation?"

"Yes, according to Earth standard time, eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of free time."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment.

If he had just escaped from the mining space station and arrived at the pirate space station, he would have been very happy to become a complete adulterer.

But now he still has many ideas to realize.

So although Yu Hui's job is very attractive, it is not enough to attract Chen Ming to stay forever.

He still has to find a way to get enough benefits from Yuhui to prepare for his own future.

Not getting an answer from Chen Ming, Huihuang asked: "Is there any question?"

"No, no problem."

"Okay, we will inspect you for a period of time later, and Gamma A will continue to connect with you. If you need anything, you can mention it to him directly."

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the result, although the current situation was caused by the military's coercion and threats.

But his choice to join Yuhui was not only Yuhui's opportunity, but also his opportunity.

Chen Ming believed that he would be able to grasp it.

After the communication is over.

Through the equipment on the ship, Huihuang sent a brief message to the galaxy where the replica of the Kletka computer that Chen Ming had seen on the map was located.

"The risk level is high but low, and the returns are extremely high. More practical investigation is needed."

The risks and values ​​of Chen Ming were acceptable to Yu Hui, so he responded with such a message.

Moreover, Yuhui has actually prepared some back-ups, if there really is a back-up strategy in which the advanced Yuhui AI core is controlled by Chen Ming.

However, this backhand was not used, and they also determined that Chen Ming did not have the ability to remotely control.

That's why Chen Ming's risk is written high to low in the information.

Soon, Huihuang received a reply, and this reply was also a very short sentence.

“Afterglow needs an overall improvement.”

Chen Ming was unclear about Yuhui's internal communication, but he could probably guess it, which was basically his evaluation.

By the way, he could also guess how long it would take for Yuhui's other work ships to install the destroyed ruler.

So it would take some time to work in the afterglow, and Chen Ming had nothing to do for the time being, so he thought about it and simply went back along the hyperspace channel.

Look at what's going on right now near galactic hyperspace.

Chen Ming made a request to Huihuang, but Huihuang did not refuse and sent other spaceships to accompany him.

There is protection, but it also means to prevent Chen Ming from running away by borrowing Yu Hui's relationship.

Under the protection of some afterglow ships, Chen Ming returned to the place where the battle just happened.

At this time, the gravity well blockade device has been destroyed.

All the military ships have disappeared.

After all, they had lost the command of the commander before, and the station commander forcibly took away the control authority of the command system.

Those who ran ahead of time had already run away, and those who failed to run away the first time also ran away immediately after the ruler was destroyed.

They desperately needed to distance themselves from the rebel webmaster.

The company's fleet is gathering, and is also trying to rescue those who are still alive on other destroyed ships.

Chen Ming deliberately avoided them.

He now has a refractive shell on the outside and is escorted by the Afterglow Fleet, so it is not easy to appear directly next to them.

The remaining dozen or so remnant ships were absolutely incapable of rescuing him from Afterglow.

In addition, the cattle driver had just been destroyed, and the captain was not sure whether he was dead or alive. Chen Ming had no way to contact someone on the spot who could command all the company's ships.

Simply stop contacting him and just pretend that he was taken away by Yuhui.

While the company's fleet was on alert, Chen Ming controlled the refraction, and took the initiative to bypass them with the escorting Yuhui battleship, heading to the location where the military fleet had gathered after the ceasefire.

Chen Ming planned to find the special law enforcer that was destroyed by the ruler.

Brilliance They look down on this kind of ship, only the ruler.

But Chen Ming still has ideas about this ship.

Di Guang quickly arrived at the location where the enforcer was destroyed just now.

The shattered law enforcers had drifted away, leaving only debris that looked like space junk.

Chen Ming planned to let Di Guang take away part of it. After all, he couldn't finish the fight without getting anything, and also lost the armor-piercing and centurion in vain.

However, Chen Ming's main target is not actually these wreckage, but the escape capsules surrounding the wreckage that were launched before the Enforcer was destroyed.

After scanning with sensors, Chen Ming discovered a total of 63 escape cabins near the wreckage of the law enforcer.

The rest of the military simply abandoned these men as they retreated.

Under normal circumstances, Yuhui would not take the initiative to capture these escape pods.

Therefore, Chen Ming planned to take them all away.

There are two reasons.

One is because Chen Ming saw a special person in these escape cabins.

A person who wears a different military uniform from others, a person who can suppress the fleet with the blessing of Chen Ming's ability by virtue of his command skills.

Another reason is that Chen Ming needs some chips.

Regardless of whether this bargaining chip is for Yuhui, the military, or even the company, it is always better to have some.

The commander is definitely the best bargaining chip.

Anyway, Chen Ming also has the ability to rely on the panel to open the panels of all items inside the controlled spacecraft.

It is not impossible to weld a steel plate or something on the outside of these escape cabins through modification so that the people inside cannot get out.

Chen Ming didn't need to worry about the people in the escape cabin dying of hunger or thirst.

Because if he remembered correctly, all escape cabins should be equipped with a special disposable freezing sleep device.

This special hibernation device will automatically activate two days after the escape capsule is launched.

To ensure that the internal personnel can survive if rescue cannot be obtained in a short period of time.

And again, Chen Ming can't let others destroy two ships and still leave empty-handed.

It was the military that caused all this. Chen Ming tried to find a way to get some compensation. The content of the compensation was the prisoners of these military personnel, so there should be no problem.

All 63 escape pods were quickly captured.

Also captured were the remains of some law enforcers, which might be useful later.

Chen Ming himself also had two destroyed ships, Centurion and Sunder.

However, the Centurion had been completely crushed and there was no value in saving it.

Although the armor-breaking armor was broken into two sections, it was still on the panel, but Chen Ming thought about it and did not try to take it away.

The reason is also very simple, he did not repair the damaged armor-piercing material.

It's better to keep it and wait until someone from the company or government comes to take the boat away and see if they can repair it.

It's best to repair it. If not, Chen Ming can still determine the location of the broken armor, and there will still be a chance to take it away in the future.

Chen Ming has done what he wants to do.

Afterglow has also installed a jump engine resonance device on the destroyed ruler.

Di Guang returned to the Afterglow Fleet.

As the jump engines of the two cruisers drove the other ships in the fleet, they began to resonate.

Chen Ming's vision gradually lengthened.

At the last second when he could still see his surroundings, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that another cruiser had entered hyperspace.

And that cruiser seemed to have the mark of Sindar Company on it.

They were a step slower, however.

No, it must have been several steps too slow.

Without the Afterglow Fleet that Chen Ming managed to obtain, Sinda Company's current support would have to collect the corpses for him.

Chen Ming didn't know what to say for a while.

The company indeed attaches great importance to him and gives him a lot of protection.

But in the end, he could only save himself by relying on his own contact methods.

In the end, it seems that the only one who can be relied on is Chen Ming himself.

Time did not give Chen Ming a chance to think too much.

The transition has completely begun.

Ten seconds later, the galaxy where the Afterglow Colony he had visited once again appeared in front of Chen Ming's eyes.

(End of this chapter)