Chapter 144: Covert Action

Half a day later.

Baiquan's 14th Legion was ready.

The fleet could make a dangerous jump at any time and go straight to the heart of Yuhui.

And they had also left the giant dock where the main battleships could be maintained and repaired, and left the base.

In other words, since the end of the last mission, the 14th Legion fleet, which failed in the mission, had left the dock after returning to the base to repair the damage to the ships.

The fleet has been hiding in other places, and will only return to the dock when it needs to be replenished and repaired at a fixed time.

As for why Baiquan did this deliberately.

It was because after the last human raid on Yuhui, various Yuhui suddenly began to appear frequently on the edge of the Galo star field.

It became common for Yuhui's fleet to attack fleets traveling between star systems, invade star systems with humans, attack colonies, and plunder resources.

Even around the star system where the 14th Legion is now located, where the military base is relatively close to the edge of the star field, there are often Yuhui fleets of different sizes coming to harass.

Although the small-scale Yuhui fleet that came here every time was no different from sending themselves to death, their frequent actions definitely had some impact on the 14th Legion.

The troops stationed there need to be dispatched regularly to clean up, otherwise it is easy for the supplies shipped by the government to be intercepted.

Fortunately, Baiquan has taken over the military station of the original star region for some time, not just now.

And there is a dedicated person in charge of logistics, and the ability is also good.

Otherwise, he would definitely be very troubled.

But the problem is not just here.

While sending themselves to death, Yuhui must have been constantly reporting back the situation inside the galaxy.

Such behavior made Baiquan judge that Yuhui would counterattack at some time in the future, otherwise they would have no reason to come here to die.

Since Yuhui is trying to obtain intelligence about the galaxy, the situation of the fleet stationed in the galaxy will definitely be investigated clearly.

With a little attention, he can analyze the situation of his dispatching the fleet and preparing for subsequent actions and respond.

So after Baiquan got Chen Ming's reply that agreed to help him, in order to hide the existence of the fleet, he deliberately let the fleet leave the giant dock very early.

I found a hidden corner and squatted there.

And after receiving Chen Ming's notice today.

Bai Quan began to lead the fleet, circling the Yuhui star field, and approached the Yuhui star field from the buffer zone where the Yuhui and the mechanical race meet.

This is a good waiting position that Chen Ming told Bai Quan.

Since the front-line planet on the edge and the entire galaxy have been controlled by Chen Ming, the Alpha-class Yuhui who led it is also under Chen Ming's command.

So the fleet of the 14th Legion has almost no need to worry about being discovered when staying there.

These Yuhui can completely ignore Bai Quan's existence.

Even if this is the border of the Yuhui star field, there are often individuals coming from the interior of the star field, wanting to get training in small-scale conflicts.

As long as they come here, they will be controlled by him when they are replenished.

Even if Chen Ming did not have time to control the new Yuhui individual and let it pass the message.

The message that was sent out can only be sent back to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming, where there is a communication anchor point between galaxies.

If any foreign afterglow individual dares to come here, it will be no different from a sheep entering a tiger's mouth, and not even a sound can be heard.

Baiquan's fleet can stay here safely and wait for the right time.

If it is not for safety and prevention of some accidents.

Chen Ming even wanted Baiquan to prepare directly in the galaxy or closer to the interior of the star field, so that the consumption of the jump would be less.

However, Baiquan took the initiative to reject this proposal.

He said that as long as the distance of the jump is not more than half of the star field, the impact is not too big. It is not profitable to exchange the possibility of being discovered for better combat conditions in the future.

So in the end, they chose an area outside the star field that is close to the galaxy controlled by Chen Ming, but there are fewer valuable galaxies nearby.

When Baiquan led the fleet to arrive here, he used the terminal given by Chen Ming for the first time and took the initiative to contact Chen Ming: "I'm already in place and can act at any time."

About a minute later, Chen Ming replied: "Now?"

"Sure, do you want to start?"

"No, I'm just asking."

Although Baiquan can act in advance, there is no need to do so. Good steel should be used on the blade.

"Just wait for me to notify you and wait for me to find the right time."

Chen Ming should be able to get the news of Yuhui faster than Baiquan, and can also let them start the action at a more appropriate time.

At the same time when Baiquan sent the news, Chen Ming had almost finished discussing the specific action arrangements with Huihuang and Gamma Z.

So Chen Ming didn't waste time and started his plan directly.

Chen Ming currently has only three galaxies under his complete control.

One is the galaxy where Chen Ming first stayed.

The galaxy with the energy crystal crab planet that Gamma Z went to first after returning.

And the frontline galaxy located at the border between Yuhui and the mechanical race.

The control of the remaining galaxies varies. There are two galaxies with a control level close to 80%, and three galaxies with a control level of more than half.

But since these galaxies are not completely controlled by him, there is a risk of information leaking.

So Chen Ming's target this time is set on these galaxies.

Instead, it is mainly based on the three galaxies that he completely controls.

The first choice to start the plan.

Start with the galaxy of the industrial colony where the factory where Chen Ming first stayed is located.

This is an industrial galaxy relatively close to the edge of the star field. The four colonies in the galaxy can provide Chen Ming with the foundation for establishing a colony.

At the same time, there are also a considerable number of Yuhui individuals who can support the development of the colony.

And most importantly, the glory of the Alpha-level Yuhui has always been here.

It is for this reason that the galaxy that Gamma Z went to first when he came back has been temporarily excluded as the first choice.

In fact, there was an Alpha-class afterglow in that galaxy, but it was bombed by the Fourteenth Legion when Chen Ming was planning to escape last time, and no new one has been assigned until now.

Chen Ming had asked Huihuang about this before.

After all, the galaxy has been completely controlled by him, and if a new Alpha-class afterglow comes, it will be the same as giving it to him for free.

But Huihuang meant that this galaxy will be taken over by a new Alpha-class individual in the future, but the new individual is still switching from the Beta-class core to the Alpha-class core, which still takes some time.

And it hasn't come until today, Chen Ming can't wait any longer, it can only be said that it's a pity.

But fortunately, he has other preparations that can be used in this galaxy.

But this will have to wait a while, and now it's better to focus on Huihuang.

Chen Ming contacted Huihuang through psychic power and said, "It's time, let's get started."

"Received."

After receiving Chen Ming's instructions, Huihuang confirmed that there were no Yuhui individuals in the galaxy that were not controlled by Chen Ming.

Directly relying on the communication device inside the galaxy, it began to broadcast to the entire galaxy.

Delivered countless complete mission books planned by it personally to each Yuhui individual controlled by Chen Ming one by one.

There are a total of four colonies distributed on different planets in the galaxy.

Three colonies with industrial facilities on the surface of ordinary planets, and a suspended industrial base floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet.

All the Yuhui individuals above began to act after receiving Huihuang's orders.

The production lines of countless factories gradually stopped operating, and countless Yuhui individuals were removed from the original industrial facilities.

They were installed on spacecraft, robots, or according to Huihuang's requirements, a core was directly transported to the cargo hold of a cargo ship.

The robots controlled by Yuhui began to cooperate with those low-flying engineering ships to dismantle valuable industrial equipment.

Or help the cargo fleets that have spread all over the colony to transport the disassembled equipment and the materials stored in the warehouse.

Countless spaceships are flying on the surface of the colony.

Different types of spaceships have different tasks, but from any angle, these spaceships are neat and orderly when performing their tasks, and there is no chaos at all.

They are all busy for the same goal.

Only a small number of Yuhui individuals who have received special orders are sorting out the materials according to the industrial production tasks that Yuhui has given to the brilliant galaxy before, and preparing the last one or two batches of external materials for transportation.

Although the colony has stopped production, the output of the previous batch has been placed there.

Some of these outputs will be kept by the galaxy itself, but more of the industrial output needs to be provided to other galaxies regularly.

Otherwise, other galaxies will find that the industrial materials are not available, and they will immediately react that there is a problem here.

Once Yuhui comes to investigate deliberately, it will be extremely difficult to conceal such a big move as Chen Ming, or even impossible to do it at all.

So leaving this part of the individuals to continue to complete the previous tasks can be regarded as Chen Ming's early preparation.

If a galaxy has no news of anything wrong and is still operating normally, at least on the surface.

Receiving foreign materials and exporting industrial products, everything is normal.

Then there is no reason for Yuhui to doubt it.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

Everything is going smoothly.

Five hours later, the time has just come to midnight on Earth.

Chen Ming's daily routine is still very regular, but starting today, he obviously has no time to rest.

So now he was just lying on the bed with his eyes closed pretending to sleep.

In fact, he was observing the situation of the galaxy through the afterglow individuals in the brilliant galaxy.

The industrial facilities that originally made the earth and the atmosphere tremble in the four colonies have completely subsided, and the colonies themselves have basically been completely paralyzed.

Correspondingly, spaceships loaded with high-value industrial equipment and materials have crowded the surface.

But none of them took off, and they were still waiting for orders.

Because at this time, the brilliant Brilliant Class Unmanned Cruiser was staying at the shortest distance from the sum of the distances between the four colonies in the galaxy.

A complete fleet that reached the upper limit of the jump engine has been formed around it.

Although most of them are cargo ships, it is enough even if most of them are cargo ships in the current situation where the afterglow cannot be found.

Eighty percent of these cargo ships carry various high-value industrial equipment.

Fifteen percent carry materials that can maintain these industrial equipment for a period of time.

The remaining five percent is the fleet responsible for escort.

It can be said that this fleet alone can build the prototype of Chen Ming's colony.

Huihuang completed the construction of the first cargo fleet with great efficiency within a few hours.

And the second fleet can be formed again at any time.

And in this process, any spacecraft that entered the galaxy and the Yuhui individuals on board that were not controlled by Chen Ming were all controlled by Huihuang using the coercive method of refraction.

No news spread, at least not in the short term.

It even did something else during this period, and these things will be reflected soon.

After completing all this, Huihuang reported to Chen Ming: "The cargo fleet is ready, and the jump engine positioning system has locked the target galaxy, K-WYH-2."

This is a galaxy that humans have not yet set foot on, but has been confirmed and named through observation.

At the same time, it was also the galaxy where Chen Ming had previously tested the refraction with an unstable hyperspace channel jump engine and sent it to the buffer zone between Yuhui and the mechanical race.

And when he took advantage of that time to explore the outer star field, he found one of the six valuable planets in the galaxy.

Chen Ming had good luck in finding a total of three habitable planets.

One of them has a toxic atmosphere on its surface, one has traces of the existence of the mechanical race, and the other is an ordinary habitable planet with everything normal.

There are also three galaxies with different distributions of open-air minerals.

Therefore, Chen Ming finally chose the target.

It is the galaxy where the habitable planet with a toxic atmosphere is located.

As for the reason for choosing it, it is just because it is the farthest from the Yuhui galaxy in physical distance, and Chen Ming only needs this galaxy as a temporary foothold.

It is impossible for him to build a colony at such a close distance, so it does not require a good choice to stop temporarily.

After Huihuang's report sounded, Chen Ming did not hesitate much. There was nothing to hesitate at this point.

"That's it, let's go."

"Received."

Huihuang started the jump engine

Some visible blurs and afterimages appeared in the fleet picture that Chen Ming saw through the sensors of the spacecraft left in the galaxy.

More than ten seconds of preparation time ended.

Brilliant led hundreds of destroyer-class cargo ships in the fleet, as well as a dozen scattered frigates used to fill the last bit of extra jump engine carrying mass, and disappeared into the galaxy.

The jump process still needs a little time.

Chen Ming took advantage of this moment to look at another galaxy.

The galaxy with energy crystal crabs that Gamma Z visited when he first came back.

Here, a cargo fleet is also being formed, and the flagship is the Colossus-class heavy cargo ship controlled by Huiyao.

The Colossus-class heavy cargo ship is a must-have ship for large-scale material transportation between galaxies.

This is a type of ship that has been manufactured for a long time.

And there is only one reason why it has existed for so long without being eliminated, it is easy to use.

Whether it is Yuhui or humans, it has been used until today, only the specific model has been changing.

Originally, this kind of important cargo ship has a fixed number and is shared among several different galaxies.

But it just so happens that there is a Colossus in production in the galaxy controlled by Huiyao, and the specific delivery date is in the future.

So Chen Ming asked Huihuang to allocate some resources to it and speed up the construction.

It just came in handy today.

And when Huihuang was arranging things to do in his own galaxy, he also arranged things for Huiyao in advance.

Huiyao now only needs to drive the ship to the designated location, and the other ships that have been assigned tasks will solve the rest.

It only needs to jump to the galaxy found by Chen Ming according to the set coordinates after the fleet is assembled.

Although Huiyao was quite dissatisfied with Chen Ming's instruction of Gamma A to deceive him.

But since it had been influenced by Chen Ming, it was somewhat dissatisfied.

Moreover, Chen Ming felt that Huiyao and Gamma A seemed to have developed some relationship beyond friendship.

Although he didn't know what kind of complicated relationship this was.

But based on his understanding of Yuhui, a species that could have emotions, he could accept any situation.

So under the premise that he arranged for Gamma A to evacuate in advance, Huiyao was now really helping Chen Ming honestly.

The Colossus was in place quickly, and the jump engine also began to resonate, taking the fleet in the galaxy away together.

At this time, Huihuang had just finished the jump and arrived at the edge of the galaxy that Chen Ming had found before.

He randomly found a planet with flat terrain without atmosphere and led the fleet to land on it directly.

It let all individuals sleep silently and wait for subsequent instructions.

And it itself moved out all the goods in the few storage spaces on its Huihuang class.

After emptying the cargo hold, it left the planet alone and sent the agreed signal to Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming received the signal, he decisively used [Repair] on the Brilliant Class.

With the rapid loss of mental power, the Brilliant Class's jump engine was also cooling at a very fast speed.

After waiting for the colossus that also jumped over, Assist Huiyao to start the work of unloading the cargo.

Huiyao started the jump engine that had been cooled for a while and jumped back to the original galaxy.

The second fleet began to be formed.

Huiyao, because it carried a lot of cargo and it took a long time to unload, gave Chen Ming a signal that needed repairs after a while.

After cooling the jump engine through repair, it returned to the galaxy where the Energy Crystal Crab was located and continued the transportation of the second batch of fleet materials.

Although the efficiency was lower than that of Huiyao, at least there were no accidents in the whole process.

Everything was moving in a good direction.

It seemed that Chen Ming didn't need to worry about these two sides for the time being. It was enough to have Huiyao in charge of the overall planning.

He only needs to provide psychic energy to repair the jump engines of the two cruisers so that they can continue to work.

So Chen Ming turned his attention to the galaxy at the border.

There is only one planet in this galaxy with individuals of Yuhui, maintaining the planet's defense and maintaining the operation of the military industry on the planet.

Chen Ming still needs to do some simple processing here.

Of course, this place cannot be done like the galaxy where Huihuang and Huiyao are now.

Because this is a strategic place for Yuhui to fight against the mechanical race, it is always in contact with the core area of ​​the Yuhui star field and Yuhui's senior management.

Many military facilities are remotely monitored to prevent the situation where the galaxy cannot actively communicate with the outside world, and they can provide support at any time.

As long as the signal is disconnected or there is an accident in any equipment, Yuhui, or even Yuhui's senior management, will find the problem at the first time and come to ask.

So Chen Ming either simply does not want the military equipment here, or delays until the end, when his actions are about to be discovered.

At least this way he can take away some things.

Chen Ming naturally chose the latter.

However, he can still do something now.

For example, form a fleet dedicated to combat.

As a colony located in the edge of the galaxy, the most core, pillar, and most important military facilities on the front line will be discovered if they are shut down.

But from another perspective, it is normal for such a special colony to suddenly form a fleet.

It is impossible for Yu Hui's senior management to come to the front line in person.

What problems and what happened here on the front line are all the orders of the leading Alpha-class Yu Hui.

Such a dedicated combat fleet can not only provide protection for Chen Ming's colony and the period before the colony is built.

Even in the past one or two days, when Chen Ming's plan encounters an accident, it can also stop Yu Hui for Chen Ming at the necessary moment.

Time has passed for more than ten hours.

The two cruisers have been back and forth several times in and out of the star field.

Although the jump is fast, it takes time to organize the fleet.

But even so, Chen Ming's mental strength has already gone down by one third.

Of course, he actually didn't know that his mental power had become so huge that it could support so many repairs on the cruiser.

You have to know that multiple jumps in a short period of time not only require maintenance to accelerate the cooling of the jump engine, but also require the engine and the warship itself to be repaired during the jump process.

It is equivalent to Chen Ming relying on mental power to do the maintenance work that should be done after the jump.

But compared with the current consumption of his mental power and the number of spaceships left in the two galaxies.

To complete his plan, he needs more mental power.

Moreover, in these two star regions, during Chen Ming's operation, which lasted almost a day, some afterglow individuals who found abnormalities had appeared.

They were investigating.

They might be private friends of some afterglow individuals controlled by Chen Ming, or afterglow from some affected places due to interrupted production.

After all, Huihuang's current computing power is only at the galaxy level.

It is already the limit to be able to handle the transportation of materials for all colonies in two galaxies at the same time and barely deliver the materials planned for external transportation within the expected time.

It is already a pleasant surprise that there are loopholes after the plan has been implemented for a day.

And Chen Ming had thought of this situation before, so he had Huihuang and Huiyao prepared means to deal with this situation.

Relying on specially prepared ships to forcibly control these afterglow individuals who were only thought to be accidents, not specifically targeted by Chen Ming, a human being, to investigate.

Let them think of a suitable reason to release them and delay time.

So far, the situation of the two galaxies has not been leaked.

But it should be soon. At the latest tomorrow morning, Yuhui will definitely notice the situation of these two galaxies.

Then it's time.

Chen Ming contacted Bai Quan through the terminal and said, "It's time, we can start."

"Understood."

Bai Quan's words fell.

A 14th Legion outside the galaxy on the edge of Yuhui suddenly made a move.

Led by two offensive-class heavy battleships, the fleet with more than 50 cruisers and more than 400 destroyers showed the iconic flicker and blur of the jump engine starting.

Except for the main battleships and some cruisers, the scale of this fleet is no worse than the last raid on Yuhui.

And last time it was a joint fleet formed by several forces.

Now it's only the 14th Legion, and only Bai Quan is dispatching.

Bai Quan is in the command room of one of the offensive-class ships.

At the moment when the efficiency of the jump engine is maximized.

He gave orders to the entire ship.

"Prepare for battle!"