Chapter 205 Net worth
Chapter 205 Net worth
The morning passed quickly.
Bai Quan ended his communication with Chen Ming after summarizing to Chen Ming the problems that had arisen in the previous simulated battle.
Then he saw the message on the terminal that Cheng Xinghai had replied to him during class in the morning.
The content is quite long, and it’s basically a complaint about Chen Ming’s psychic perversion.
Bai Quan summed it up in one sentence.
"If you lose, you lose. Only when you win can you laugh back."
This was in response to Bai Quan's words of comfort to her yesterday. It seemed that Cheng Xinghai had completely come out of autism, much faster than before.
At the end of this message, Cheng Xinghai wrote another sentence: "Don't tell Cheng Xinghe about this incident."
Bai Quan raised the corners of his mouth and put away the terminal.
He might have told Cheng Xinghe the news before, after all, he was happy to see Cheng Xinghe and Cheng Xinghai compete with each other.
But now that Chen Ming is here and he happens to have other ideas, let's just let Chen Ming compete with Cheng Xinghai.
Cheng Xinghai will definitely go to Chen Ming later, he just needs to look at the situation from time to time and add fuel to the fire.
Although Bai Quan himself does not understand this aspect of things, he is married, so he has external help. In this kind of matter, it is always right as long as he does what his wife says.
Just when he thought about this, Bai Quan subconsciously thought of the wave of deformed children in the empire and couldn't help but frown.
This is something he has to consider at his current age.
But now he has no suitable solution.
When Bai Quan had a headache because of the child.
Chen Ming also sorted out the mistakes he made in the simulation for the last time to ensure that he would not make them again in the future.
Then he mentally reviewed his understanding of the mechanical race itself and the related knowledge he had mastered.
Everything is clear to me, just wait until Baiquan calls someone over tomorrow to explain it to him.
He will have to exercise caution when the time comes, as there are some things that cannot be exposed.
After figuring out what to do next, Chen Ming also planned to sum up his own power now.
Now that you have decided to join this war, you should make the necessary preparations.
Although Chen Ming said that he would not take the initiative to help the Fourteenth Army in a fight, and he could not even get up in a large-scale battle, he would eventually have the opportunity to fight in the autumn wind.
Accurately measuring his own abilities and choosing the right time to insert is what he should do.
But before Chen Ming started to do this, he suddenly received a phone call.
A clear and lively female voice sounded from the terminal: "Hey, hello, Chen Ming."
"Cheng Xinghai? What's the matter?"
"Are you free now? Can you have another one?"
Chen Ming thought about it for a moment.
He is not in a hurry to calculate his own strength. After all, his things are there and will not escape, and the empire's war against the machine race is still in a very early stage.
So he agreed: "Okay."
Ten minutes later.
Chen Ming's consciousness once again sank into the simulation equipment of the Fourteenth Legion branch.
But what was different from last time was that when Chen Ming's consciousness appeared in the flagship command room, he suddenly heard Cheng Xinghai's voice: "Hey, can you hear me?"
Chen Ming tried to speak directly in the command room with his consciousness that had sunk into the simulation equipment, "Can the simulation equipment still hold conversations?"
And Cheng Xinghai's voice sounded again: "Yes, under normal circumstances the communication between the two sides is not turned on, but it doesn't matter if it is turned on in private."
"It can be used to trash talk each other, or it can be used to communicate and test."
Chen Ming always felt that the order of the two purposes mentioned by Cheng Xinghai was reversed, but this was not a problem. The question was: "What are you driving it for?"
"Haha, it depends on the situation."
Cheng Xinghai chuckled lightly, and quickly entered into his last serious attitude and asked Chen Ming, "Are you ready?"
Chen Ming did not reply for the time being, but first took a look at the rules of this simulation.
Generally speaking, the rules were the same as those restricted by Baiquan in the previous game.
But the difference is that in addition to fifty destroyers and two hundred and fifty frigates, the two sides fighting this time also have one more cruiser.
It may be that Cheng Xinghai felt that small-scale combat without cruisers could not fully utilize her command capabilities, so she made some modifications.
Chen Ming looked at the ruler of the special model of the Fourteenth Legion, and then at the unlimited logistics and completely unrestricted maintenance capabilities.
"Ready."
"Then let's start. I won't lose again this time."
"Um."
Chen Ming responded.
The ruler instantly jumped to the face of Cheng Xinghai's fleet, and the terrifying frontal firepower blessed by psychic energy instantly cleared a large number of low-level spacecraft that had just entered combat status from the rear of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.
Cheng Xinghai didn't know Chen Ming well enough, so she didn't expect Chen Ming to play like this.
However, she reacted quickly. The ruler who commanded the reformed Fourteenth Legion of the same model in the center of the fleet immediately changed direction and took most of the damage.
The other ships moved around the flanks, trying to put some side and stern pressure on the ruler, who had strong frontal firepower.
But Chen Ming didn't care about the damage caused by those boats to the ruler, and even bore the damage and stared at those boats that dared to get close.
His goal was clear. As long as Cheng Xinghai's boat was destroyed, she would have no chance of capsizing.
Chen Ming relied on simulated psychic power to make the Ruler almost take the damage of this fleet.
It must be said that the Ruler transformed by the 14th Corps was also very tough, which was in line with Chen Ming's stereotype of military spaceships.
However, after destroying nearly half of Cheng Xinghai's boat, the Ruler's armor was about to collapse.
It was about to threaten the structure of the spaceship itself.
Before the Ruler could no longer bear it, Chen Ming started the jump engine and disappeared in front of Cheng Xinghai's fleet.
Cheng Xinghai was just a little shocked that Chen Ming's psychic power could achieve fast and multiple jumps, and that a cruiser could kill half of the fleet of 300 spaceships with cruisers.
But she was full of confidence in winning Chen Ming at this time.
Because she had sent some spaceships to other places to lock the position of Chen Ming's main fleet when they just fought.
In a small-scale battlefield, the overall distance between the two fleets was not far.
Based on the situation she observed when Chen Ming was repairing the spacecraft, she deduced the speed at which Chen Ming repaired the cruiser.
As long as she rushed over now, she would definitely be able to deal with all of Chen Ming's other spacecraft before Chen Ming's ruler finished repairing it.
Without Chen Ming's ruler staying on the main fleet side, Chen Ming's main fleet would only be completely crushed by her ruler.
As long as she could take advantage of this opportunity to kill the large force, even if she only had half of her fleet left, she would definitely be able to defeat Chen Ming with advance preparation.
However.
When Cheng Xinghai's fleet just arrived in front of Chen Ming's main fleet that had been parked in place and had not moved.
Chen Ming drove the fully repaired, full-blooded and full-status ruler back.
At this moment, he seemed to hear Cheng Xinghai whisper a swear word.
Chen Ming was right, Cheng Xinghai really couldn't hold it back.
Although she had heard some of the effects of Chen Ming's psychic power from Bai Quan.
But when she actually saw Chen Ming using the psychic power effects that Bai Quan had not told her, she still looked perverted.
And now she understands the way Chen Ming repairs psychic power.
It was not the fixed repair speed she had thought of before, but a repair speed based on a percentage, whether it was a large ship or a small ship.
It was purely because of the size of the spacecraft that limited the scope of Chen Ming's psychic power, which made her think that Chen Ming's psychic power repair speed was not fast, which eventually led to this situation.
It was too late to change the strategy now, she could only try to fight back on the battlefield and try to struggle.
Chen Ming would naturally not hold back. The ruler in full state had the assistance of a complete fleet, and it was impossible to lose in the front battlefield against an enemy that had been damaged by more than half.
This was no longer a problem of operation, but a pure crushing of psychic power values.
For a while, only Cheng Xinghai's fleet could be seen disappearing on the battlefield.
As the battle went on, Chen Ming seemed to hear a faint cry in the communication channel, which made him a little embarrassed.
He made a mistake and threw a few ships out to give them away, so that Cheng Xinghai would not be unable to kill any ships.
At the same time, he quickly asked the ruler to increase his strength and completely end the battle.
Although Chen Ming did this, if he came like this again next time, he would still fight like this.
But Cheng Xinghai...
"Uncle Bai——"
Bai Quan received another call from Cheng Xinghai not long after.
He had just contacted the relevant personnel and was going to talk to Chen Ming tomorrow. He just had some time to talk to Cheng Xinghai.
Then he learned about the second battle between her and Chen Ming.
It can only be said that when the cruiser came out, Bai Quan knew that Cheng Xinghai would definitely lose.
Under the same fleet size, the higher the level and the larger the scale of the fleet, as long as it does not exceed the upper limit of Chen Ming's spiritual power, the easier it is for Chen Ming to win.
So Bai Quan could only say: "I forgot to remind you, don't fight Chen Ming in a cruiser, especially in a small-scale battle without logistics."
Cheng Xinghai's tone was full of grievances, and he said: "But he has only been learning for more than a month, and he has never learned long-term operations. If I really do this, it will become me bullying him."
Bai Quan shook his head and said: "Then you can only fight him in a small-scale battle. This is the teaching progress here. He has learned very quickly. Large-scale operations are to be learned in the next few semesters."
"Or you can contact other people yourself and find a few more who can be responsible for logistics. You can divide the simulation into two teams and let Chen Ming be responsible for fighting, right?"
Cheng Xinghai thought carefully about Bai Quan's proposal and felt that it seemed feasible.
The crying voice that was originally pretended disappeared instantly, and he said to Bai Quan in a well-behaved voice: "Thank you, Uncle Bai."
Bai Quan put down the terminal, and all kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind.
In fact, at first glance, such a long-term battle with logistics restrictions can indeed help Cheng Xinghai gain some advantages on the battlefield.
After all, Chen Ming's psychic power still depends on logistics. When logistics are restricted, Chen Ming's psychic power will naturally not be able to fully exert its due effect.
But Bai Quan knows how outrageous Chen Ming's psychic power is.
So he is ready to have fun.
A simulation captain of this scale will definitely have to find him as the referee when Chen Ming is involved. He will definitely let Chen Mingling use his full capabilities.
He also knew the logistical horrors of Chen Ming's psychic powers.
All materials can be transported instantaneously, and all industrial equipment can maintain overload operation like spacecraft controlled by Chen Ming.
And the time it takes to establish a complete spacecraft production industrial system is only limited by Chen Ming's mental power, and of course Chen Ming's own technology.
But Bai Quan still believes in Chen Ming's technical level in this basic industry.
So then...
He could already see Cheng Xinghai being pushed flat by Chen Ming's fleet.
I just don’t know if Chen Ming has time to participate in this kind of long-term battle that requires deep consciousness connection.
Of course, if Chen Ming is willing to participate and has a high probability of winning this game.
Baiquan will also find excuses to exercise his commanding ability to limit the use of Chen Ming's psychic powers in the simulation.
As long as Chen Ming's psychic power can be restrained, Cheng Xinghai should be able to seize the chance of winning.
It's best for the two of them to win and lose, and play more games.
This is the situation he wants to see most now.
On Chen Ming's side.
Although he was taken to simulate a fight by Cheng Xinghai for an hour, it was not a big problem and it ended quickly anyway.
A battle of this scale is not good for training his command ability. It seems that even if Bai Quan is not around, he will have to take the initiative to make some restrictions on himself.
Of course this will happen later.
Now Chen Ming continues to count his own situation.
The first is naturally the easiest to count working capital that Chen Ming currently has on hand, totaling 18.7 billion, which is used for the maintenance of temporary strongholds and the purchase of materials.
The second is the spacecraft controlled by Chen Ming.
Escorts and expulsions can basically not be counted now. After all, after the temporary stronghold was established, those spaceships that were not originally his afterglow have been completely attributed to him.
However, it is still necessary to keep statistics on cruisers.
Chen Ming currently has five human cruisers, including one Stardust class, one Supreme Point class, two Defenders and one Colossus class.
Although Chen Ming plans to feed one of the defenders to the insect queen, the insect queen has not eaten it yet, so it is still included in the cruisers he owns for the time being.
The Supreme Point that Shao Yang promised before is still on the way. So there is no need to calculate it yet.
In addition to the human cruisers, there are also four afterglow cruisers Chen Ming.
Brilliance level, brilliance level, refraction level and scintillation level.
Brilliance, brilliance and twinkling are all obtained by buying afterglow and getting a spaceship.
The Refraction-class cruiser was indirectly controlled by Chen Ming through the extraordinary when he cooperated with Bai Quan to invade the Yuhui giant shipyard.
As the largest and highest-quality spaceship that Chen Ming currently has on hand, it is driven by HR to be responsible for the security of the temporary base.
There are a total of four spaceships of the Machine Race.
The model names of the three mechanical cruisers are all very ordinary [Mechanical Standard Cruiser], obviously standard spaceships.
It has a long and narrow hull and large weapons distributed in the front, middle and rear positions.
The three spaceships have a total of nine large weapons, all of which are large live electromagnetic weapons. It can be seen that the mechanical race likes this type of weapon very much.
Apart from having nano-scale robots responsible for the maintenance of the interior of the spacecraft like the mechanical race ground units, there is nothing special about it.
In terms of combat effectiveness, it is also relatively average and has no special value.
So much so that Chen Ming considered whether to feed the Machine Tribe's spaceship to the Queen of Insects instead of feeding it to the Defenders.
But Chen Ming considered that the insect queen's biological spacecraft itself left a lot of cavities for various insects to move around, rather than being a pure, solid, single creature with the appearance of a biological spacecraft.
Therefore, it is better to feed the insect queen with a human cruiser with a similar structure.
Then there was another spacecraft of the Machine Tribe, which was the [Mechanical Tribe Standard Class Colonial Ship] that Chen Ming took away from the Machine Tribe's city as the core of the city.
It was controlled by Chen Ming and used psychic energy to repair it to its original appearance and then was lost to Glory.
Brilliance will find a way to get enough colonial technology from it to use in the future to demonstrate the moment of true colonization.
Speaking of technology.
The technology Chen Ming has on hand can also be counted as part of his comprehensive strength.
After all, patents on antimatter technology and hyperspace jump engine technology can provide a large amount of funds and logistical support, which can certainly be counted as part of their strength.
In fact, Chen Ming also has a high-value technology on hand, which is the blueprint of the new-class unmanned battlecruiser he obtained.
When Chen Ming's brain became hot, he took the thing by force with his brain and body, which had been on the verge of collapse after two days of high-intensity use.
However, it has nowhere to play its role today.
It can only be said that Chaofan can actually build a capital ship, as long as it is provided with a sufficient environment.
But Chen Ming couldn't get a huge shipyard, so this technology could only be put aside for now, and then he could show it out when it could actually be manufactured.
In addition to funds, spaceships, and technology, real estate should also be counted as a part of comprehensive strength.
Speaking of this, Chen Ming thought of the No. 6 space arm of the Pirate Space Station. This is the space arm used for power generation on the Pirate Space Station.
Although Chen Ming originally arranged for Yuhui to control it purely to restore the damaged power system of the space station.
But the subsequent accident was over, and the company didn't mention it even though they knew what Chen Ming had done.
Chen Ming didn't know what to do, so he just kept it like this, maybe it would come in handy one day.
As for the real estate that Chen Ming currently controls, apart from the space station, the most important one must be the temporary stronghold.
Although there is only a castrated version of the temporary stronghold with a star port and a giant warehouse with simple maintenance and transportation functions.
But the afterglow in the temporary stronghold is the most important part of this stronghold.
So far, the number of Afterhui that Chen Ming has on hand is still over 50,000. Even though the Afterhui has been continuously lost during the two-month exploration process, the loss is still relatively light in terms of the overall scale.
Among these afterglows of over 50,000, there are nearly 48,000 gamma-level afterglows, a beta-level afterglow of over 3,000, and five alpha-level afterglows.
It was Chen Ming’s real entire family fortune some time ago.
But things are different now.
Now, with Chen Ming's efforts in pioneering the road, he has two more assets on hand.
One part machine race, one part Zerg race.
And these two family fortunes are constantly expanding through Chen Ming's efforts.
From the beginning, the Machine Race only had more than 40,000 individuals in that isolated city. After adding the 30,000 individuals that Chen Ming later snatched from the Machine Race colony, the number has increased to nearly 80,000.
These tens of thousands of robots were placed in the city by Chen Ming, revitalizing the city that had been abandoned for many years.
And the city itself is a city whose mere existence is enough for that civilization.
So after Chen Ming used spiritual energy to repair the entire city during this period, he found that all the mechanical races in the city needed to be self-sufficient.
Even nanobots are the same.
Chen Ming found a factory in the city.
A factory that only needs to input some materials and can automatically output nanorobots that can be used by the mechanical clan.
It's a pity that there is only one factory in the entire city, which is smaller than the industrial equipment in other small cities.
Therefore, nanorobots are currently still the main limitation to the development of the mechanical family.
But as soon as he changed his mind, Chen Ming realized that he had already made a lot of money.
Because this is a nanorobot production factory, another legacy of another civilization
Originally, Chen Ming thought that there were only those mechanical races in this mechanical race city.
It wasn't until he discovered the factory later that he realized he was still too young.
Anything left by another civilization is extremely precious, at least to Chen Ming now.
Although he can't understand the operating principles and manufacturing methods at all now, it is enough for Chen Ming to be able to use this factory.
As long as the factory is still in his hands, he will always have the opportunity to fully master the technology in the future.
And when the new 30,000 mechanical races were gradually controlled by Chen Ming, Chen Ming found that the number of mechanical races in his hive mind network had reached the standard, and he could directly generate the consciousness of new mechanical race individuals in the network.
This means that the number of Chen Ming's mechanical clan can begin to increase, and he can start building new mechanical clans.
Coupled with the nanorobots produced by the nanorobot factory.
Although the speed is not fast, the increase in the number of mechanical race individuals can always subtly provide Chen Ming with more mental power and thinking speed bonuses.
And Chen Ming's other family fortune, the Zerg, is obviously even more heavyweight.
Although the types of Zerg are the same as before, there are almost no changes when there is no battle.
Moreover, only the larvae hatching tank has been completed for the Zerg biological buildings in the past few days, and the progress of the other ones is very unsatisfactory.
However, the Zerg population is expanding at a rate that even the Afterglow and Mechanical Races combined can't match even if they were doubled.
From the size of a city at the beginning, the insect nest now covers an area close to half of the colony that Chen Ming first saw when he went to the Afterglow Star Territory, occupying one-fifth of the planet's surface. .
If it weren't for the fact that the planet the Queen is currently on is larger, and Chen Ming later deliberately restricted the reproduction of the Queen on the surface, allowing it to expand underground to avoid damaging the surface ecological environment.
Otherwise, Chen Ming even thought that he could see the insect nest on the ground directly from outside the planet.
This resulted in Chen Ming being unable to estimate the size of the Zerg population.
But at least one thing is certain, that is, the strength of the Zerg's current ground units is enough for Chen Ming to do many things.
The Queen's ability to devour everything, transform everything, and reproduce everything is exaggerated.
Before long, I am afraid that the entire planet will be completely occupied by the insect queen, and the insect queen will also have the ability to destroy the planet.
Of course, Chen Ming is not afraid of this. His spiritual power will help him in all of this.
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