Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 566 - 179: Yan Xiong’s Application Method

The next day.

According to the scheduled time, Chen Ming dialed Bai Quan’s number.

According to Bai Quan’s previous suggestion, the best way to teach commanding techniques was through a video call.

So Chen Ming did exactly that.

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

Without wasting any words, Chen Ming said directly, "I’m ready on my end, we can start now."

"Okay."

Bai Quan responded, but nothing else happened.

This prompted Chen Ming to ask with some confusion, "Where’s the teacher who’s supposed to teach me?"

Bai Quan pointed to himself and said, "I’ll be teaching you personally."

"Uh... aren’t you dealing with your matters? Isn’t your promotion ceremony going to take a while to complete?"

"No problem."

Chen Ming stared at the video, looking at Bai Quan in formal attire as if ready to go somewhere, and asked again, "Are you sure it’s really not an issue?"

"It’s really not an issue."

"Alright."

Since Bai Quan put it that way, there was nothing more for Chen Ming to say.

Chen Ming projected the image of Bai Quan from the terminal onto the wall beside him and proceeded to pick up another terminal, saying, "I’ve already received the teaching materials here. Where do we start?"

Bai Quan also took out the teaching materials he had extensively revised, based on Chen Ming’s performance in a few recorded battles he had participated in before. He said, "The basics of command terminology."

From the time Bai Quan began formally teaching Chen Ming.

Two days passed by quickly.

Even though Chen Ming was busy almost every moment, after two days he had already adapted somewhat.

After finishing today’s lessons, Chen Ming casually tabulated the Mechanical Race he had to periodically control at the Supreme Point warehouse in between studying over the past two days while eating dinner.

It could only be said it was still because he was limited by the need for physical contact with these Mechanical Race to exert control over them.

Additionally, since Mechanical Race were not lifeless objects, they couldn’t be transported in an industrial assembly line manner.

This resulted in Chen Ming’s control over the Mechanical Race being extremely inefficient.

Even though the efficiency of transporting Mechanical Race improved as Chen Ming controlled more of them.

The portion of Mechanical Race he controlled still only accounted for just over twenty percent within the entire Mechanical Race city.

If the efficiency could continue increasing at the current rate of growth, it would still take at least half a month to completely control the city’s Mechanical Race.

This inefficiency made Chen Ming consider using the Insect Queen he had at hand to lead his newly cultivated Insect Race to actively attack the Mechanical Race.

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

Once Mechanical Race were damaged in battle, they were also very easy to control.

It’s even possible that the Insect Queen could actively evolve some Insect Race individuals more suitable for combat during the battle.

However, Chen Ming ultimately restrained himself from executing this idea.

Because he discovered significant problems in the Hive Mind Network of the Mechanical Race in the city.

The Mechanical Race here were different from the clustered Mechanical Race faced by the Empire; they were independent entities.

Their Hive Mind Network was confined to these entities already scattered outside, and did not have a sufficiently strong main consciousness to guide the Mechanical Race here.

This meant that once any Mechanical Race individual died, its consciousness would not be preserved by the Hive Network awaiting implantation into a new body.

Instead, it would die completely without a chance of reincarnation.

Over the past few days, Chen Ming confirmed this while actually trying to control these Mechanical Race.

Almost every day in the city these past few days, around ten Mechanical Race died naturally due to aging equipment.

However, these dead Mechanical Race did not revive inside any factory within the city, on a body that had not had a Mechanical Race consciousness implanted and was not so old that it was unusable.

In other words, there wasn’t a single body with the emergence of Mechanical Race consciousness.

The overall number of Mechanical Race was dwindling.

This accurately indicated that none of the independent Mechanical Race building the hive consciousness possessed a powerful consciousness that dominated the entire Hive Network.

This resulted in the Mechanical Race connected to the network being unable to be effectively regulated.

Once a Mechanical Race died, it was truly dead.

This also meant that all Mechanical Race lost in battle would result in a reduction in the number of Mechanical Race Chen Ming controlled subsequently, ultimately leading to a decrease in Spiritual Power feedback.

Once the battle started, it wasn’t something Chen Ming could stop just by thinking about it.

So for those Mechanical Race he was sure he could control in the future, he’d rather not have them wasted here.

Moreover, he still needed time to let his underling, Dusk, explore the surrounding Star Systems; controlling the Mechanical Race wasn’t that urgent anyway.

Besides, with the vastness of the universe, Chen Ming would eventually land on other planets and encounter some dangerous creatures in clusters, giving the Insect Race its opportunity to appear.

While Chen Ming was contemplating matters regarding the Mechanical Race, dinner was soon finished.

Just as Chen Ming was about to continue going over the Cruiser-related technical documents Bai Quan had given him earlier tonight and ask Extraordinary a few questions to address problems from the previous day.

Chen Ming suddenly received a communication from the factory director, which came after several days.

"Xiao Ming, my side has almost finished reviewing the information."

Since that was the case, Chen Ming didn’t rush. He prepared all the documents he planned to study, and then said to the factory director, "Alright, I’m listening, go ahead."