Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 749: Chapter 224 The Doubt of Others_2

Pang Dong suddenly felt that something seemed to be about to happen, and confirmed, ”Lou Wei?”

”Yes, it’s him. I let him in.”

As soon as Lou Wei entered the channel, he asked the same question as Pang Dong, ”What’s the situation?”

Bai Quan didn’t speak, but Pang Dong spoke on Bai Quan’s behalf, ”You’re at a temporary disadvantage on your side.”

”Disadvantage? How long has it been?”

”One day.”

”Disadvantage in just one day? Is that for real?”

”It is real. You’ll see when you look.”

After a moment of silence, Lou Wei said in a somewhat strange tone, ”How did it get to this level of disadvantage when it was four against five on the first day?”

This comment from Lou Wei was not directed at his own students.

Everyone present could tell that this was a question aimed at Bai Quan.

The underlying meaning was clearly to accuse Bai Quan of setting up Cheng Xinghai to deliberately sabotage.

Bai Quan first refused his Psychic friend’s request to join the communication channel after discovering he was kicked out, and Lou Wei also joined the communication channel.

Then he said to Lou Wei, ”See for yourself.”

”Hmm?”

Suddenly with a trace of anger in his tone, Lou Wei said, ”There should be recordings from everyone’s perspective of the past day, right? I want to see how exactly we fell into a disadvantage, could you please send it to me, Lieutenant General Bai Quan.”

As the tension in Bai Quan’s side started to escalate,

Song Pu finally finished exclaiming over Chen Ming’s powerful Spiritual Energy, contacted Chen Ming and asked, ”How’s the Spiritual Power consumption?”

”Still calculating.”

Chen Ming quickly replied, continuing to calculate the more refined loss of Spiritual Power in his mind.

The workload for this Industrial Colony is quite significant.

So, even as the expansion was still ongoing, Chen Ming had already calculated a rough consumption estimate based on the scale of the expansion, his own Spiritual Power limits, and various living and non-living things he had that helped restore his Spiritual Power, along with the boosts provided by the hive mind.

Chen Ming’s entity then conducted real-life transformation tests using similarly scaled physical objects on hand; a simple conversion could give a fairly accurate final amount of Spiritual Power consumption.

The result was unexpectedly low.

Even though Chen Ming was purely following the blueprint, basically only needing to extend and transform the original industrial structures without manufacturing much else.

Moreover, this colony industrial facility producing hulls and hull components was not as technologically advanced as other factories producing high-precision chips.

But Chen Ming always felt that the acceleration of thought had some positive effect when he used Spiritual Energy.

The acceleration of thought seemed to enhance Chen Ming’s consciousness, which in turn increased his Spiritual Strength.

This was an intriguing discovery, and Chen Ming thought he should find an opportunity to use a simulation device to deeply immerse his consciousness for a specialized test later.

But at least now, one thing was certain: expanding this colony hadn’t completely drained his Spiritual Power.

And based on Chen Ming’s calculations of his Spiritual Power recovery rate, it would take only a few hours to fully restore it for the next round of work.

So, Chen Ming quickly told Song Pu on the terminal, ”I’ve finished calculating here, we can move on to the next place.”

”Are you holding up okay?”

”The Spiritual Power consumption is about 80%, and if we fly slowly to the next site, it should almost recover enough to support the next task.”

”After that, there’s another logistics warehouse, where I can take more time to recover. We can set off now.”

Song Pu, hearing Chen Ming’s response, felt even more motivated and said, ”Great, if we continue at this efficiency, you might be quite close to the front line in a couple of days.”

”Remember to give me or the general a heads-up beforehand to avoid getting caught in any battles.”

Chen Ming asked with some confusion, ”Are we going to start fighting so soon?”

”Not necessarily, but I’m just reminding you.”

”I think it’s best for you to remain in the rear; getting involved in front-line battles isn’t a good idea.”

”Your Spiritual Energy doesn’t limit your location when you use it, so it doesn’t matter where you are, right?”

Chen Ming didn’t deny it and said, ”That’s the logic.”

But many times, he still preferred to follow the fleet personally, a habit from when he controlled fewer ships.

And now that Chen Ming had a Cruiser with a Teleportation Engine capable of multiple jumps in a short time,

there was almost no risk of getting caught while following the fleet.

The only time he almost got caught was when the Mechanical Race used a colony as bait, setting up a device that blocked the entire Star System while Chen Ming was attacking their colony.

But since he managed to escape back then, it meant he had perfected the art of escaping.

However, now that they were in a simulation device for team-based combat, Chen Ming didn’t mind being part of the team and said, ”I’ll keep that in mind. After controlling the front line colonies and warehouses, I’ll find a place where no one would expect me to be stationed.”

”That works too. With a terminal, you can always stay in touch, and with the ability for multiple teleports, you can travel around the entire Star Zone and be on-site immediately if anything happens.”