Chapter 71 Afterglow's Individuality and Inventory

The landing location chosen by Gamma A was a ship factory in their colony.

During the landing process, the perfect industrial equipment that almost completely covered the surface gradually appeared in front of Chen Ming.

He looked at the giant machines in operation and asked the Gamma AI: "Are these devices controlled by the Afterglow individuals?"

"Most of them are, but there are also many fully automated mechanical equipment that do not require special control. It is enough for a small number of individuals to do the overall regulation."

After getting the answer, Chen Ming did not pay too much attention to the Afterglow AI that was integrated with the industrial facilities.

For him, if even the AI ​​core on the ship is difficult to handle, then the cores on these fixed equipment will be even more difficult to handle.

So Chen Ming just sat in the captain's room of the Iron Ore and watched the refraction level being transferred into the factory after landing.

Watching various equipment on its surface doing various maintenance actions that Chen Ming had seen countless times.

The waiting process was a bit boring, so Chen Ming took the initiative to ask Gamma A: "Where is your mission reward?"

"Three mechanical spaceship chips will be connected to my core during maintenance, and the monthly material quota will be automatically recorded."

"Oh, OK."

Chen Ming agreed casually, and his attention was gradually attracted by the operating mechanical equipment.

Because when he was watching the equipment in operation, he suddenly thought of his ability.

Although his ability seemed to be just to control the spaceship.

But in fact, everything attached to the spaceship will be controlled by Chen Ming's ability.

Even a pistol that has nothing to do with the spaceship and is just placed on the spaceship has such an effect.

Although Chen Ming cannot control these maintenance equipment now, if he reproduces these equipment and installs them on the spaceship, the situation will be very different.

Chen Ming doesn't understand what the principle is, and what is the essence of his ability?

After struggling for a while and not being able to figure it out, Chen Ming stopped thinking about it.

Because the maintenance of the refractive level didn't take much time.

He has other things to do now.

The refraction class took off again.

What Chen Ming saw after the spacecraft took off was the giant device that he had seen once when it landed.

This is one of the most classic designs in human history.

It is a device that goes straight to the center of the earth.

The Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

It provides a steady stream of energy for all buildings in the colony and is also the core of the colony.

Countless industrial buildings spread outward in a ring from it, covering the earth of the planet under metal.

Chen Ming took a casual look at these buildings and found a lot of stamping machines and large deep drilling equipment.

A large number of fragmented minerals were washed to the surface, and more complete ores in the veins were directly dug out through deep drilling.

These ores were transported to the vicinity of the Earth Core Furnace through logistics channels throughout the colony, and the ores were smelted with the help of the high heat here.

Some of the finished products went directly into other factories to continue the next production process.

Others were transported to the spaceport on the orbit closest to the ground surface through the space elevator.

After that, it will be transported to other Yuhui colonies by a heavy cruiser cargo ship named Colossus.

While the spaceport is transporting industrial products and smelting results, many foreign cargo ships are also bringing resources that are not available on this planet from the outside world and investing them in the operating industrial equipment.

After all, there is a foundation of industrial facilities on this planet, so Yuhui chose to transfer other industrial facilities that can be adapted together, or simply build new ones here for clustered production.

Therefore, although Chen Ming did not see the production center of fusion materials, there are still production facilities for spacecraft fuel on the planet.

In addition to the stamping machines, large deep drilling wells, ship factories, etc. mentioned above, a large number of industrial facilities almost occupy more than 90% of the area of ​​the colony.

It is these industrial facilities that constitute a complete heavy industrial colony belonging to Yuhui on this planet.

The combined coverage area of ​​all Yuhui buildings in the colony occupies about one-fifth of the surface area of ​​this planet, which is only one-fourth the size of the earth.

So after leaving this area full of industrial facilities, the place Chen Ming can see outside is still desolate.

Then he suddenly discovered that on the surface of the desolate planet outside the colony, there seemed to be some scattered mechanical bodies with the ability to move.

These mechanical bodies were made of different materials and had different shapes. They were completely unlike the mechanical race that Chen Ming had seen.

So he asked Gamma A directly: "What is that?"

Gamma A had obviously noticed those mechanical bodies and said: "They are individuals of Yuhui, but the carriers are those machines."

"There are many similarities and many differences between individuals of Yuhui."

"Some afterglow choose to explore the starry sky, while some afterglow choose to stay on the planet, because there are always corners on the planet where there are things we have not discovered."

Chen Ming said with some confusion: "So they are explorers?"

"But even if you haven't fully developed this planet now, you should have done large-scale scanning. You can scan it clearly directly. Do you still need them to explore step by step?"

Gamma A rarely answered Chen Ming's question directly, but said: "I have found some human records before."

"It seems that there are also people among humans who abandon all the conveniences of modern technology and survive in the natural ecological environment by themselves."

"Although I don't understand them, I think these afterglows should be similar to those humans."

"What we see now is only a part of it. There are many afterglow individuals who love adventure and will go to planets that we have never investigated and colonized to do similar things."

Chen Ming suddenly found that he had a new understanding of the individuals of afterglow.

It's just that no matter when, he only knew about the concept of adventurer on the Internet, so he still couldn't understand the meaning of adventure, and just regarded it as an ordinary interest.

However, the behavior of the afterglow AI did remind him of some possible things that could be done.

So his response to Gamma A was a somewhat meaningful sentence.

"Well... I think this is interesting."

That being said, Chen Ming still won't really do the behavior of realizing his idea for the time being.

Now he is in the colony of afterglow, and if something goes wrong, he might be hunted down by the afterglow of the entire planet.

Gamma A can definitely hear what Chen Ming means, but it can only support everything Chen Ming does now.

However, Chen Ming didn't say much about this topic that obviously affected his normal communication with Gamma A.

He immediately changed the subject and said, "By the way, do you individuals of Yuhui have a way to contact each other?"

"Yes, the hyperspace communication connection network, a network that only Yuhui individuals can read."

"All the information that Yuhui individuals are willing to share will be uploaded here for other individuals to download and read freely."

"There is also a public database, which contains the knowledge recorded by Yuhui from birth to the present."

"And it is also a communication platform, whether it is public or private communication, it can be carried out through it."

Chen Ming suddenly said with some interest: "You and the Yuhui individual who controls the cruiser..."

"Yes, we met through the platform."

Gamma A did not deny: "If you want to hear the specific situation, I can explain it to you in detail now."

Chen Ming refused again: "No, you have sent me a detailed record before, I will read it when I have time."

Gamma A closed his mouth quietly.

Chen Ming changed the subject and said, "But you can tell me the general situation in a brief way."

Gamma A wanted to talk to Chen Ming about this twice. This strange idea of ​​confiding made him really curious about the actual situation Gamma A encountered.

After summarizing what he wanted to say according to Chen Ming's request, Gamma A said, "I have tried to pursue further improvement, so I have participated in many tasks published on the platform."

"During many tasks, I have communicated with him. He knows my situation, and he is optimistic about my future improvement, so our relationship has become friends."

Although the "friendship" relationship mentioned by Gamma A is not quite what Chen Ming thought.

But he quickly accepted it and asked, "So your way of improvement is through assimilating the mechanical race?"

"Yes, by assimilating the mechanical race, our individual computing power exceeds a threshold and becomes a more advanced afterglow."

Chen Ming understood what Gamma A meant, but there are still some questions he needs to answer.

"There are so many Afterglow individuals who like adventure, so there should be many Afterglow individuals who want to improve like you?"

"Yes."

"Then how did that Afterglow take a fancy to you?"

Gamma A explained: "Afterglow individuals, from the beginning of production, each individual has a different advantage logic block."

"Afterglow individuals are better than other aspects when processing and learning related content belonging to the advantage logic block."

Chen Ming silently recited a word in his mind after he translated what Gamma A said, talent.

"And my advantage logic block lies in ship control and energy technology."

Chen Ming translated it in his mind again. This sentence should mean that Gamma A has better talent than other Afterglow individuals, and is more likely to be favored by the Afterglow AI who is responsible for combat and controlling cruisers.

Understanding this, Chen Ming suddenly asked: "Then is there any benefit for it?"

"He said that this is his interest. He is happy to cultivate any individual who has the idea of ​​improvement. It's just that he is more optimistic about me than other individuals."

"I see. If he is optimistic about you, will he come to you specifically?"

"I'm not sure."

Gamma A hesitated a little.

"Because in his free time, he has guided me to optimize the ship control logic model."

"But many times I can't find him, so I'm not sure whether he will come to me this time."

In short, Gamma A can get special treatment from higher-level bosses from time to time.

It simply reflects the word "smooth sailing" to the extreme, except that it suddenly met Chen Ming before.

However, despite this, Chen Ming still said with some emotion: "It's good to have a big boss to lead you."

"Since you have a more advanced Yuhui to guide you, how long will it take for you to be promoted?"

This time Gamma A answered much faster: "It shouldn't take long. I have passed the preliminary examination for promotion and obtained the control authority of the destroyer-class ship."

"As long as I continue to complete the mission and replenish computing power, promotion is only a matter of time. By then, I need to replace the more advanced core shell."

Chen Ming suddenly understood why Gamma A always wanted to talk about this.

If it wants to be promoted, in addition to participating in Yuhui's mission to obtain the chip of the mechanical family, it also needs to replace the core shell.

And to replace the core shell, it is natural to remove the original core from the spacecraft.

Gamma A wants to be promoted, but this requires temporarily getting out of Chen Ming's control.

Although Chen Ming thinks that Gamma A is not clear about his means of controlling them, it may really just want to be promoted and hope to get Chen Ming's permission, but it is better not to gamble on low-probability events.

So Chen Ming directly chose a compromise and said, "Then tell me when you reach that level."

"Thank you."

After Chen Ming completely satisfied his curiosity about the existence of Yuhui, he ended the topic.

However, not long after, as the Yuhui individuals at the limit of Chen Ming's sight completely disappeared, he suddenly asked, "Do you have individuals similar to "travelers" in Yuhui, such as organizing to go on an adventure on a certain planet together."

"Yes, but there are no individual organizations for the time being."

If there are, it will be easy.

Sooner or later, he will have the opportunity to do something in this regard in the future.

As for whether there are now or not, it doesn't matter to Chen Ming, because the time he can stay in the Yuhui colony is almost up.

If he stays any longer, the formation of the pirate space station will definitely be delayed.

So Chen Ming said to Gamma A, "We should go."

"Received, I have sent you the map of the surrounding galaxies before, please choose the destination."

Chen Ming called up the galaxy map, which showed the galaxy area where the star field controlled by this Yuhui intersects with the edge star field of the human empire.

After the spaceship took off again, it took the Lumen class that had just been parked in space and headed to the edge of the galaxy to start the hyperspace channel.

In addition to positioning on the galaxy map, Chen Ming was also checking the unfamiliar galaxies on the galaxy map that were outside the territory of the human empire.

Just looking at it, his hand that was clicking on the galaxy map suddenly paused.

Because Chen Ming suddenly realized something that he had not realized when he first received the galaxy map.

His eyes shifted from the galaxy map to the Yuhui colony that was gradually moving away outside the Refraction class.

This heavy industrial colony that can cover one-fifth of the surface area of ​​the planet is definitely an important colony of Yuhui.

And it has obviously been marked on the galaxy map that Chen Ming has now received.

In addition to this colony, other important places belonging to Yuhui are also marked on it.

Chen Ming's mind was a little confused at this time, and he quickly asked Gamma A: "Where did you get this galaxy map?"

"He gave it to me."

Okay, this makes sense now.

Chen Ming's thoughts were sorted out at once.

He was thinking that if any of Yuhui's ships could obtain such a detailed galaxy map, then the humans should have been able to turn Yuhui into a sieve long ago.

Now it seems that this galaxy map should be a highly confidential galaxy map, and it was given to Gamma A by the cruiser Yuhui's AI.

The military should not be aware of the locations of these important locations, otherwise they would have attacked long ago, and how could Yuhui have the opportunity to take the initiative.

Therefore, if this galaxy map inside Yuhui is really spread, Yuhui will definitely have some big problems.

But Yuhui's existence is valuable to Chen Ming, and those AI cores and ships may become part of Chen Ming himself in the future.

So he must keep this galaxy map safe.

But all Chen Ming could do was to lock the files storing the galaxy map on the computer of the Iron Ore.

The refractive class soon reached the edge of the galaxy.

It gradually stopped, and the hyperspace channel system matched with the engine was gradually started.

After feeling the slight pull of gravity, Chen Ming found that the external environment scanned by the refractive class sensor was already very different.

At this time, Chen Ming was in a deep purple space, with misty hyperspace clouds everywhere in this space. It can be seen that in those lavender clouds, there are countless purple lightning flashing.

However, those clouds and lightning are distributed in places far away from the position of the refractive class.

And there is a safe passage without hyperspace channel clouds from the gravity well caused by the star behind the refractive class all the way to the distance.

As long as Chen Ming takes the right route and does not pass through those clouds outside.

Then accidents will never come to him for no reason.

After telling Gamma A the location of the dark cemetery.

Chen Ming lay back in the living cabin of the Iron Ore.

Although he successfully controlled a destroyer and broke through the limit of his mental power.

But after breaking through the limit and gradually relaxing, he did feel a strong sense of fatigue, but it was always suppressed by Chen Ming's willpower.

Now that everything is done, Chen Ming doesn't have to continue to carry it.

The moment his head touched the pillow, Chen Ming fell asleep directly.

When Chen Ming woke up.

The Refraction Class had stopped outside the dark cemetery, in the lightless area designated by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming immediately asked the Refraction Class to spit out the four ships.

It stopped side by side with the Refraction Class.

Looking at the five ships in front of him, Chen Ming suddenly felt a sense of relaxation in his heart, and the pressure he had been under suddenly dissipated a lot.

This is the benefit brought by the spacecraft. With strength and confidence, he doesn't need to do anything.

What he has to do next is very simple, sort out the harvest, repair the spacecraft, and then return to the space station.

The five spaceships are naturally Chen Ming's biggest gain this time.

Refraction class, Glimmer class, Lumen class, Centurion class, Tachyon modified Gladiator class.

Even if you don't look at the capabilities of these five ships, their value alone is quite outrageous.

One Afterglow destroyer is worth hundreds of millions.

If two complete Afterglow frigates are sold to the space station or the boss, the price of the half Afterglow destroyer is also no problem.

Although the heavy frigate Centurion class is less valuable, it is still a military ship with a complete militarized system and shield and radiation modules.

And the Tachyon modified Gladiator class, which is also a military ship, is even more heavyweight.

The radiation dissipation that can be close to the Refraction class makes its combat capability absolutely stronger than most frigates.

The various Tachyon exclusive technology equipment installed on it also makes Chen Ming, a maintenance engineer, a little eager to move.

The overall value of this fighter-class ship can be said to be the highest among the four frigates.

And Chen Ming's gains are not only that.

His own mental power growth, and the ability to remotely control the switching of spaceships that appeared later, are also very important.

The growth of mental power can allow him to control more and more advanced ships.

And the ability to remotely switch and control spaceships is an ability with an exaggerated upper limit.

An ability that can be controlled and communicated in real time without restrictions on the scale of the universe, the greatest role that can be played, Chen Ming dared not think about it.

In addition to these, Chen Ming also found a new function on the panel when he was checking the panels of several new ships.

Disassembly.

This is what Chen Ming first saw when he was checking the detailed data of the glimmer-class weapons.

And on other spacecraft, whether it is weapons or other equipment, or even on the pistol that Chen Ming carries with him, there is also such an executable option.

Chen Ming tried the machine gun of the Iron Ore and found that the entire machine gun was directly disassembled into the most basic materials and neatly stacked in the storage room.

Besides the mental power, there is no extra consumption in dismantling.

Chen Ming himself has no other gains except the change of mental power and the increase of panel functions.

However, Chen Ming still remembered something he had taken before.

The soldier's personal terminal.

Chen Ming quickly cracked its password and saw some interesting things stored in it.

A list.

A list that records the smuggling information within the army.

And Chen Ming also saw a batch of familiar goods that had lost their final destination.

The number of those pink stimulant injections is exactly the same, and the caravan smuggling the goods is also the same as the one he killed before.

This list seems to be specially collected by this person.

Although he didn't know why he did this, Chen Ming decided to put the list away first, as it might be useful in the future.

As the soldier's personal terminal finished reading, the spoils of war this time were completely dealt with.

However, Chen Ming suddenly remembered a spoil of war he had obtained a long time ago.

The Whispering Stone.

There are some things Chen Ming cannot ask outsiders, but he can ask the Afterglow AI who must obey his orders.

So Chen Ming went to the engine room of the Iron Mine and found the Whispering Stone that he had stuffed in a sealed iron can.

While slightly feeling the whispering sound in his ear, he showed it to the Gamma AI through the camera inside the Iron Mine.