Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 546 - 179: Yan Xiong’s Application Method

The next day.

At the agreed time, Chen Ming dialed Bai Quan’s number.

According to Bai Quan’s previous suggestion, it’s best to conduct the command techniques teaching via direct video call.

So that’s exactly what Chen Ming did.

Bai Quan’s face soon appeared on the terminal screen.

Without wasting any words, Chen Ming said directly, "I’m ready here. We can start now."

"Alright."

Bai Quan responded, but made no other moves.

This made Chen Ming a little puzzled and he asked, "Where’s the instructor?"

Bai Quan patted his chest and said, "I’ll do it myself."

"Um... Aren’t you handling your stuff? Your Vice Admiral promotion ceremony can’t be settled that quickly, right?"

"No problem."

Chen Ming stared at Bai Quan, who was in formal attire seemingly ready to go somewhere, and asked again, "Really no problem?"

"Really no problem."

"Okay."

Since Bai Quan reassured him, he had nothing more to say.

Chen Ming projected the image from Bai Quan’s terminal onto the wall beside him, and took out another terminal, saying, "I’ve received the teaching materials. Where do we start?"

Bai Quan also took out a newly compiled teaching material that had been extensively modified from the basic teaching materials, based on several recorded battles Chen Ming had participated in. He said, "The basic terminology of command."

Once Bai Quan officially started teaching Chen Ming.

Two days flew by.

Although Chen Ming was busy almost every moment, after two days he was more or less accustomed to it.

And today, after finishing the day’s study, Chen Ming took time during dinner to summarize the situation of the mechanical beings he occasionally had to control at the Supreme Point’s warehouse during the two days of learning.

It can only be said that it’s still because he’s restricted to physical contact with these mechanical beings to control them.

Moreover, the mechanical beings themselves are not dead objects and can’t be transported using industrial assembly line methods directly.

This results in Chen Ming’s control efficiency over the mechanical beings being extremely low.

Even though the transportation efficiency of mechanical beings improved as the number he controlled increased.

But up to now, the proportion of mechanical beings he controlled in the entire mechanical city is only a little over twenty percent.

If the efficiency continues to increase at the current rate, it would still take at least half a month for him to complete control over the mechanical beings in the city.

This level of efficiency almost made Chen Ming consider having the Insect Queen lead his newly bred Insect Race to actively attack the Mechanical Race.

After all, the Insect Queen can protect the consciousness of the Insect Race individuals through the Hive Mind Network.

And the mechanical beings damaged in battle can be controlled quite easily.

He might even have the Insect Queen proactively evolve some more combat-suited Insect Race individuals during the battle.

However, in the end, Chen Ming restrained himself and did not implement this idea.

Because he found a big problem with the Hive Mind Network of the mechanical beings in the city.

The mechanical beings here are not like the cluster of mechanical beings the Empire faces, they are independent.

Their Hive Mind Network is confined to these dispersed individuals without a powerful main consciousness to guide these mechanical beings.

This means that all mechanical beings’ subunits will not be stored in the hive network waiting to be implanted in a new body after their body’s death.

They will be totally dead.

Chen Ming confirmed this during his practical control over these mechanical beings in recent days. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Almost every day in the city, about ten mechanical beings naturally die due to equipment aging.

But these dead mechanical beings do not revive in a factory within the city on a mechanical body that does not have a mechanical consciousness implanted and not completely aged to become unusable.

In other words, there’s no occurrence of a mechanical consciousness on a mechanical body.

The total number of mechanical beings is decreasing.

This clearly indicates that the hive consciousness constructed by those independent mechanical beings lacks a powerful consciousness to dominate the entire hive network.

As a result, the mechanical beings connected to the network cannot be effectively governed.

Once a mechanical being dies, it’s truly dead.

This also means that all mechanical beings lost in combat will decrease the number of mechanical beings Chen Ming controls afterward, ultimately resulting in reduced feedback of spiritual power.

Once combat breaks out, it cannot stop just by Chen Ming thinking about it.

So, he doesn’t want to consume the mechanical beings that could certainly be controlled by him in the future here.

Anyway, he still needs time to allow the Dusk individuals under him to explore the surrounding star systems, so the control of mechanical beings is not that pressing.

Besides, the universe is so vast, Chen Ming will definitely need to land on some other planets in the future. He will always encounter some dangerous collective creatures, always giving the Insect Race a chance to appear.

While Chen Ming was pondering over the matters related to the mechanical beings, he quickly finished dinner.

Just as Chen Ming was preparing to continue studying the cruiser-related technical documents Bai Quan provided earlier tonight, and ask Extraordinary some questions to solve yesterday’s remaining issues.

Chen Ming suddenly received a communication from the director after a few days of silence.

"Xiao Ming, I’ve almost finished interrogating the news here."

Then Chen Ming no longer hurried, prepared all the documents he originally planned to study, and then said to the director, "Alright, I’m listening, go ahead."