Chapter 306: Secret Meeting

In the virtual conference room located in the 14th Corps network.

About 20 people sat around the round table in the center of the conference table. There was a number plate in front of each seat, marking each person's number.

When Chen Ming's photo was fixed on the projection screen next to the conference table.

The initiator or host of the meeting with the No. 1 sign in front of him spoke first: "The main purpose of this meeting is to discuss the purpose of Chen Ming's visit to the headquarters and prepare countermeasures."

"I invited all the participants in this meeting, and they can probably guess who they are. But as long as you are careful when you speak, your specific identity will not be discovered."

"So please speak freely."

As soon as the host finished speaking, No. 2, who was sitting next to him, immediately said: "Isn't Chen Ming's purpose very clear? It is definitely related to Baiquan."

"Baiquan's momentum is too strong, and even the superiors took the initiative to let him stay in the headquarters for further study."

"Chen Ming came here at this time, it must be Baiquan who is unwilling to give up his power His head was pressed down, and he wanted to continue working. "

"So the important thing is how to deal with it, and discuss the way to unite Chen Ming and Bai Quan."

No. 2 did not give others a chance to speak, and continued to express his opinion: "There are two connections between Chen Ming and Bai Quan, one is their long-term cooperation, and the other is marriage."

"Chen Ming and Bai Quan now have an absolute interest relationship, and it is impossible to find a gap in the cooperative relationship."

"So I think it's best to start from the aspect of marriage."

"If the marriage is destroyed, there will definitely be a thorn left between Chen Ming and Bai Quan, and we can take the opportunity to tear open the wound."

The figure of No. 2 clenched his fists hard, as if to crush the possibility of a strong union between Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

But immediately, a figure with a rather broad figure and a number 9 in front of him said, "It's a bit too mean."

"Yes, mean, do you have any better ideas?"

No. 9, who raised the question, immediately became alert and said, "I prefer to look for opportunities elsewhere."

"How to find it?"

"It is not necessary to start with Chen Ming and Bai Quan. They have another target that cannot be moved, the branch in the Galo Star Region."

"Chen Ming left the branch and came to the headquarters, which means that the backbone of the branch has been reduced again."

"We can start from there."

What he said sounded reasonable, but he could not avoid being questioned by others.

No. 6 said: "The branch is now no different from Chen Ming Baiquan's base camp."

"Since Baiquan carried out a large-scale purge under pressure last time, Baiquan's control over the branch is absolute."

"And there is Chen Ming's psychic effect. It has long been determined that his psychic power can not only control spacecraft, but also control all metal and mechanized structures."

"No one knows how close the relationship between Chen Ming and Baiquan is."

"The entire branch may already be under Chen Ming's control."

No. 9 certainly couldn't accept his proposal and let someone find loopholes. He immediately retorted: "Even if the entire branch is controlled by him, can his psychic power work so far?"

No. 6 directly brought out the previous example and said: "It wasn't long after the Cai Mo incident? Chen Ming can already be in the headquarters and the spacecraft is in Cai Mo. Why can't he control the branch from the headquarters?"

No. 9 continued to retort Refuted: "The distance between Caimo and Jialuo is quite different from that between the headquarters and Jialuo, and Chen Ming's spaceships in Caimo are all afterglow spaceships, which must be equipped with afterglow cores. We cannot be 100% sure that Chen Ming can control everything."

"Unless you ask Chen Ming directly about this matter, no one can get the answer before Chen Ming actually operates it."

No. 6 knew that he was not right, so he softened his tone and said, "At least we have to compromise. When Chen Ming used spaceships at long distances, he used afterglow spaceships with afterglow cores."

"Then we assume that as long as Chen Ming controls it, he has the ability to know the situation around the controlled spaceship, but if he wants to control it, he can only do it through the afterglow core."

"I think this is a reasonable guess, right? At least it matches Chen Ming's current performance."

No. 9 did not pursue No. 9 relentlessly, after all, what No. 6 said did make some sense.

So he followed No. 6's idea and said, "If you think so, it's impossible for all places in the branch to have afterglow cores."

"Chen Ming and Bai Quan, two key figures, have left the branch, and the defense will definitely be empty. We can do something there."

No. 10 next to No. 9 suddenly spoke up: "I don't think it's necessary to go off the beaten track and attack this branch."

"The tasks from our headquarters have been sent out, and the spacecraft has passed the star gate. The Beniu star field will definitely fall into our hands."

"The scale of the Beniu star field is not at the same level as the scale of Bai Quan's branch that couldn't even occupy a star zone."

"As long as we can fully occupy Beinu and turn Beinu into a new branch of ours, the branch of Galo is not worth mentioning."

"At that time, the branch over there will become the branch of Beinu."

No. 9 knocked on the table to interrupt No. 10 who wanted to continue: "The branch of Galo Star Region has a geographical advantage."

"Beinu Star Region is not a prosperous star region, not developed enough, nor is it a marginal star region. It occupies a favorable position for external development. It cannot completely replace the position of Galo Star Region, which is bordered by Yuhui and the mechanical race."

"And more importantly, you want Baiquan to spit out the things in his mouth? Have you forgotten what he was like before because Baiquan has entered the political arena?"

"A person's personality will affect the way he does things. When he is completely After he is thoroughly familiar with politics, he will bring in his previous brutal way of doing things. "

"If anyone wants to take advantage of the meat in his mouth, Baiquan will definitely tear off a bigger piece of meat from that person."

"Even if we build Beinu into a complete and better branch, what's the matter?"

"The branch in the Galo star field will still be a branch of the headquarters, and it will still be the headquarters of Baiquan."

"We must take action against the branch while Baiquan's strength is still weak."

"Don't forget that there are also our people in the fleet that just set off. Although the Beinu star field has been built into our branch, it will not affect Baiquan's control over the Galo branch, but we can use some external means to change this situation now."

No one had any opinion on No. 9's speech.

But just when the more than 20 people attending the meeting were about to start discussing specific measures against the Galo branch.

No. 17 suddenly poured cold water on everyone: "There are people from the Supervisory Department in the fleet that went out."

The conference room was silent for a moment, and No. 1 asked: "Supervisory Department?"

"Yes, although they didn't appear in the open, they definitely exist."

"With them watching, all our fleets that went out can do is to carry out their missions honestly."

"If you want to reach out to the two star regions, it depends on whether they agree or not."

"So either you can directly send people from the headquarters to the Baiquan branch, or don't think about dealing with Gallo through Beinu."

"The fleet we go to Beinu can only exert some influence secretly at most. Any overt means, including military and economic interference, are impossible to achieve."

"No, it's okay. Someone can come to help take the blame."

"Who will come?"

No one spoke.

No one dared to be too presumptuous in front of the Supervisory Department.

The Supervisory Department of the 14th Legion does not belong to any faction and only serves the Legion Commander.

And the Legion Commander does not have his own faction and exists purely for the benefit of the Legion.

Chen Ming's joining is beneficial to the entire legion.

Bai Quan walked out of the battlefield and became a lieutenant general. He is also a powerful figure.

Chen Ming joined because of Bai Quan, so the connection between Chen Ming and Bai Quan is also beneficial to the legion, so he will definitely protect Chen Ming.

The legion commander will never allow anyone to do something that is absolutely detrimental to the interests of the legion.

Of course, protection is protection, and there can be competition within the legion, but the competition cannot be excessive.

Last time, someone went too far, so it led to the end of the supervisory department.

As a result, a lieutenant general and his faction retired early.

Therefore, everyone present was quite wary of the supervisory department, and no one wanted to be the next person to be retired.

"Does that mean that Beinuo's side will not work at all?"

No. 17 thought about it and didn't say it for sure: "It's not completely impossible. As long as we wait until the mechanical race war begins, the supervision of the supervisory department on us will definitely decrease, and there will be a chance then."

"In the front, we can only rely on the actions of the headquarters."

"Take this opportunity to arrange people."

After No. 17 finished speaking, No. 6 said as if he was very familiar with Baiquan: "Baiquan has grown very fast after we targeted him several times. He is no longer the Baiquan before."

"People who are directly sent there will not work, especially those sent by the headquarters. Baiquan will not relax his vigilance at all."

"If we can't get the fleet from Beinuo Star Region, If you can't get help, then I would rather withdraw my proposal. "

At this time, No. 9 sang a different tune from No. 6: "But Baiquan is not in the branch, there is still a chance."

No. 6 shook his head and said: "There is a chance, but it must not be used as the main means. We still have to look back to see if there are any means to dissolve the relationship between Chen Ming and Baiquan."

No. 2, who first made the proposal, heard this and immediately said: "Isn't it back to the beginning?"

"Start with the marriage relationship, and never let Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai get married."

"A strong alliance is definitely not a good thing for us."

Seeing that no one had any objections to what he said, No. 2 continued: "Then there are three directions to start with the marriage, Chen Ming, Cheng Xinghai, and Baiquan."

"Bai Quan is now learning command techniques for the mechanical race. He is protected and has no chance to contact them. It is impossible to start with him."

"Then..."

Just when No. 2 was talking about his thoughts.

No. 13 suddenly said: "In fact, Bai Quan's wife should also be able to influence Cheng Xing..."

Before he finished speaking, the meeting room, which was still quietly listening to No. 2's words, suddenly became noisy.

"Are you stupid?"

"Get lost."

"Kick him."

No. 13's figure disappeared in the meeting room in an instant.

After all, the people who can participate in this meeting are not too young, and basically have wives and children.

They can fight as they please, but it is the consensus of everyone that their wives and children will not be harmed.

If one person breaks the rules, everyone will not be happy.

Of course, Cheng Xinghai's situation is different. Although Cheng Xinghai is Bai Quan's adopted daughter, she is a soldier, and a soldier who has been on the battlefield. This is the difference.

Since you have embarked on the path of the army, you must be prepared to face targeting.

After confirming that No. 13 had been kicked out, No. 2 continued to speak: "If we can't do anything to Baiquan, then we can only start with Cheng Xinghai and Chen Ming."

"Chen Ming's spiritual power is there, no one wants to contact it, right? So I prefer Cheng Xinghai."

"Does anyone know where Cheng Xinghai is?"

No. 1 immediately replied: "It's the end of May now, Cheng Xinghai is a junior student, he must be in school, no need to guess."

"Okay."

No. 2 nodded to No. 1 and said: "The way to prevent Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai from getting married is also very simple, just find a better one for Cheng Xinghai."

"Chen Ming is 26 this year, Cheng Xinghai is 19, the difference is "I'm seven years old now, so I should be able to find a lot of suitable people just based on age."

"Young people who are within 7 years of Chen Ming, or who are not more outstanding."

"Young people, who have any recommendations?"

No. 8 raised his hand slightly and said, "Cheng Xinghai is a student majoring in military command at the Military University. In this major, there are indeed some outstanding students in her class."

"But let's put it this way, almost all the opposite sex who are of the same age as Cheng Xinghai have long been introduced to Baiquan by their families."

"People of the same age, two or three years older, as long as they have some ability, absolutely no one has been missed."

"As a result, None of them succeeded."

"No one usually talks about the failure of marriage proposals, so you probably don't know, but I know."

"I can also say that it is impossible to find someone to replace Chen Ming from Cheng Xinghai."

"Looking at the entire empire, there may be someone, but there is really no one suitable among the people that the Fourteenth Army can contact."

No. 8's tone of often playing matchmaker made No. 2 very unwilling. He insisted on his own idea and asked: "If we don't look at ability, what about the identity?"

No. 8 immediately said: "Cheng Xinghai is the adopted daughter of the Fourteenth Army Lieutenant General, and she is also a psychic. It is impossible for her to marry down. The person she wants to marry must be at least above If the person is a person of the same status or the other party is also a psychic, the conditions can be relaxed appropriately.

"That is to say, if the person is not a psychic, then at least he must be the son of a general."

"But as far as I know, most of the generals in our legion have grandchildren, and the grandchildren are all people of the next generation, which has nothing to do with Cheng Xinghai."

"Only the youngest son of that general can barely be considered as this generation."

"It is indeed okay for the general not to participate in the factional struggle, but who can persuade the general? And the son of that general is only fifteen years old, is it appropriate?"

No. 2 still didn't want to give up: "What about other legions?"

Seeing that what No. 2 said was getting more and more outrageous.

No. 6, who had been resisting No. 2's idea, couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted, "Stop talking nonsense. I've heard what No. 8 said. At most, we can start with Chen Ming."

"Speaking of which, has Chen Ming not been very active recently? This incident at the headquarters is the first influential thing he has done recently, right?"

"That's not the case." No. 20 said, "Chen Ming's recent inaction does not mean that Chen Ming has not done anything. He has been publishing various research and development results."

"Especially the extraordinary laboratory he opened over there. The research results on the mechanical race can be published in a few days."

"His psychic power can be To control the mechanical race, the supplies given by the superiors are quite a lot. Many old-fashioned laboratories that study the mechanical race may not be as powerful as theirs. "

"After all, whatever experiment they want to do, Chen Ming can just operate the mechanical race. It would be strange if the efficiency is not high."

"There are also some relics of that civilization given to Chen Ming for research. Those things are also exaggerated."

"And he also has some patents for antimatter technology. Don't think that he is not working if he doesn't make a big move."

No. 1 asked No. 20, who was suspected to be a member of the legion's scientific research department, in surprise: "Is there such a thing?"

"Not everyone cares about the patents of the technology they use. Don't think that he is still an ordinary person without vision after joining our legion for a while."

"To introduce a suitable person to Chen Ming, we must not only consider Chen Ming's psychic power, but also Chen Ming's own ability."

This time, No. 2 was not bothered by what No. 20 said about Chen Ming's situation, and said decisively: "Then let's not consider his ability first."

"People always look up. If they have good ones, they will definitely not want the bad ones, not to mention that the bad ones have not yet reached him."

No. 8 suddenly couldn't help but interrupt and said: "Wait a minute, do you have any misunderstandings about good and bad?"

"Who can make Chen Ming give up his relationship with Bai Quan and choose someone else? Who can give Chen Ming more benefits than Cheng Xinghai?"

"You are thinking wrongly." No. 2 said confidently: "It is not necessary to let Chen Ming come Choose, but let Baiquan choose. "" If Chen Ming is not a good sir, but a rotten man who is merciless, will Baiquan give him his daughter? " Instead, as long as Chen Ming did something irrational, Baiquan couldn't get married with Chen Ming's informed reputation. " In the end, there is no deep hatred with Chen Ming. However, some people fell silent.

All the people present were from the 14th Corps, and all were military men.

Some people could accept using some political means to achieve their goals, but using the method of selling out female members was a rather shameful way to achieve their goals, which was unacceptable to them.

Originally, everyone would occasionally express their opinions in the conference room, but only half of the people were discussing the feasibility of the plan proposed by No. 2.

The rest of the people remained silent.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became weird.

The people who were talking also noticed this immediately, and the discussion about choosing the right person to use some improper means to deal with Chen Ming immediately stopped.

But everyone knew that what No. 2 said was indeed a feasible method, and someone would definitely try it.

There are always people with flexible moral bottom lines.

The conference room was silent for a long time.

Finally, No. 1 opened the situation: "Maybe there is another person we can find an opportunity with."

"Who?"

"Cheng Xinghe."

"He had conflicts with Chen Ming before. He had a conflict with Chen Ming in the Galo Star Region and was captured by Chen Ming. Later, he was redeemed by Baiquan."

"Although their conflicts seem to have been resolved through Baiquan, those who understand will understand that those who are arrogant will definitely not accept someone of the same age as themselves to suppress them."

"We can find a way to exert some influence on the people around him, and let those people use Cheng Xinghe's defeat to Chen Ming to suppress him."

"Create some conflicts between him and Chen Ming."

"Find a way to bring up the old things again and magnify the conflicts between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghe to the point of life and death hatred."

"Cheng Xinghai and Cheng Xinghe are siblings anyway. As long as the relationship between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghe continues to deteriorate, it will definitely cause a rift between Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai."

This proposal made the participants' eyes light up.

And the meeting continued.

At the same time,

The spaceship that Chen Ming took arrived at the headquarters colony. It was not a military colony located on the volcanic planet, but a comprehensive colony belonging to the 14th Corps.

Although the military base was built on the volcanic planet.

But since the 14th Corps controls a star field alone, it must have a supporting government team, so the government team naturally fell on this comprehensive colony.

When the spaceship that Chen Ming took landed on the space station connected to the ground through the space elevator, Chen Ming felt that a psychic wave directly locked him.

Of course, this psychic wave did not show any hostility, but simply locked him and warned Chen Ming not to do something wrong in the headquarters.

Of course, Chen Ming would not commit suicide.

Silently follow He Gu.

Anyway, He Gu got Bai Quan's request to find him, so he would naturally help him arrange everything in the future.

Then.

He Gu did not take Chen Ming to see Bai Quan immediately, but took Chen Ming to a building.

In a corner near the building where no one would notice, He Gu said to Chen Ming: "Disguise a little."

"Disguise?"

Chen Ming rubbed a medical mask with his hands, put on a pair of slightly dark glasses and said: "Okay."

He Gu looked Chen Ming up and down, and confirmed that he was not a familiar person and would not notice the problem.

He took Chen Ming into the building and entered a room in the corner of the first floor of the building.

This room was not empty, but a huge lecture hall with about three or four hundred people sitting.