Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 670: Chapter 204: Wealth

The morning time passed quickly.

Bai Quan wrapped up his communication with Chen Ming after summarizing the issues encountered in the previous simulated combat.

Then he saw a message from Cheng Xinghai sent during the morning class on his terminal.

The content was quite long, mostly complaining about the freakish extent of Chen Ming’s spiritual energy.

Bai Quan summed it up with one sentence.

”Losing is just losing, truly winning is when you can mock back.”

This was a response to Bai Quan’s words of comfort to her yesterday. It seemed Cheng Xinghai had completely overcome her isolation, much faster than before.

And at the end of this message, Cheng Xinghai also wrote: ”Don’t tell Cheng Xinghe about this match.”

Bai Quan smirked and put away the terminal.

Previously, he might have indeed told Cheng Xinghe the news, as he enjoyed seeing Cheng Xinghe and Cheng Xinghai compete with each other.

But now, with Chen Ming present, and having other plans in mind, he simply let Chen Ming compete with Cheng Xinghai.

Cheng Xinghai would definitely continue to look for Chen Ming; he just needed to occasionally help stir up things.

Although Bai Quan himself didn’t really understand these matters, he was married, so he had external help, and in such things, following his wife’s advice was never wrong.

Just thinking of this, Bai Quan instinctively related it to the Empire’s wave of children with deformities, frowning involuntarily.

This was a matter he had to consider at his current age.

But for now, he had no suitable solutions.

While Bai Quan was troubled by child-related issues, Chen Ming was also reviewing his own mistakes in the simulation thoroughly to ensure they wouldn’t happen again.

He also went over his understanding of the Mechanical Race and his related knowledge.

Everything was clear in his mind, just waiting for tomorrow when Bai Quan would call someone over for explanations.

He had to manage this carefully, as some things shouldn’t be revealed.

After sorting out what needed to be done next, Chen Ming planned to take this opportunity to summarize the power he possessed.

Since he decided to join this war, he had to start making the necessary preparations.

Although Chen Ming said he wouldn’t proactively help the Fourteenth Legion in battles, large-scale operations were beyond his current capabilities, but he would definitely have opportunities to reap some benefits.

Accurately assessing his own abilities and choosing the right time to insert himself was what he had to do.

However, before Chen Ming started this, he suddenly received a phone call.

A clear and lively female voice rang through the terminal: ”Hey hey, how are you, Chen Ming?”

”Cheng Xinghai? What’s up?”

”Are you free now? Can we play another round?”

Chen Ming considered briefly.

Assessing his strength wasn’t urgent, since his abilities wouldn’t suddenly disappear, and the Empire’s war against the Mechanical Race was still in its very early stages.

Therefore, he agreed: ”Sure.”

A dozen minutes later.

Chen Ming’s consciousness once again delved into the simulation equipment at the Fourteenth Legion Branch.

But unlike last time, when Chen Ming’s consciousness appeared in the command room of the flagship, he suddenly heard Cheng Xinghai’s voice: ”Hey hey, can you hear me?”

Chen Ming tried speaking directly with his consciousness immersed in the simulation equipment in the command room, ”Can the simulation equipment actually allow conversation?”

And Cheng Xinghai’s voice sounded again: ”Yeah, normally communication between opponents in battles isn’t enabled, but in private battles, it’s fine to leave it on.”

”You can use it to trash talk, or to communicate tests if you want.”

Chen Ming felt that Cheng Xinghai had the order of those two uses reversed, but that wasn’t the issue, the issue was: ”Why did you leave it on?”

”Haha, that depends on the situation.”

Cheng Xinghai chuckled softly, quickly adopting a serious tone from the previous session and asked Chen Ming: ”Are you ready?”

Chen Ming didn’t respond immediately but first reviewed the simulation rules this time.

It was largely similar to the previously constrained rules set by Bai Quan.

But the difference this time was that in addition to fifty destroyers and two hundred fifty frigates, there was also a cruiser on each side.

Perhaps Cheng Xinghai felt that without a cruiser, the small-scale battle couldn’t truly showcase her command abilities, so she made some modifications.

Chen Ming looked at that special model of the Ruler from the Fourteenth Legion, then at the unlimited logistics and unrestricted maintenance capabilities.

”I’m ready.”

”Then let’s start, I won’t lose again this time.”

”Hmm.”

Chen Ming replied briefly.

With the Ruler initiating a sudden warp to the front of Cheng Xinghai’s fleet, the terrifying frontal firepower under spiritual energy control instantly cleared out a large batch of lower-tier ships that had just engaged in battle from the rear of Cheng Xinghai’s fleet.

Cheng Xinghai didn’t fully understand Chen Ming’s methods, she had no idea he would play like this.

But she reacted quickly, commanding the Fourteenth Legion’s similarly modified Ruler at the fleet’s center to immediately change direction and absorb most of the damage.

Meanwhile, the other ships maneuvered to the flanks, trying to exert some side or rear pressure on the Ruler with formidable front firepower.

However, Chen Ming wasn’t concerned about the damage those small ships inflicted on the Ruler; he even endured the damage, specifically targeting those small ships daring to come close.