Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 762: Chapter 227: The Plans of the Government Army and the New Rebel Army_2

”Whether we win or it’s a draw depends on whether my teammates have a way to deal with the Mechanical Race.”

”Kidnapping me doesn’t seem to have much point, and it just led them to find a more suitable method.”

Chen Ming disagreed with Cheng Xinghai’s statement and said, ”The situation is always changing. Who can guarantee that if I hadn’t captured you, you would’ve thought of using this method in the first place? Thankfully, this is just a simulation.”

Cheng Xinghai had no intention of making excuses for her teammates and said, ”Yeah, otherwise, they’d at least be charged with crimes against humanity.”

”It should be over soon. I didn’t expect it to be a lying-win game, a bit boring, like watching you play for a month in a game without getting to play myself.”

Chen Ming looked at Cheng Xinghai oddly and asked, ”You’re a military academy student, a soon-to-be graduate, someone who’s been to the battlefield and will go again, yet you still have time to play games?”

”Why is that your main focus right now?”

”Just curious. Is it something you can talk about?”

”How amazing it is that you even have time to ask about this now.”

Cheng Xinghai shook her head, but still answered Chen Ming’s question seriously, ”As long as it’s not during combat, isn’t it normal to slack off and play games?”

Chen Ming nodded and then asked, ”I have one more question. If a teammate dies, do they exit directly, or can they still observe the perspectives of other surviving members?”

”The latter. If your teammate dies, they can watch through the perspective of the living ones, but only the teammates, not the enemy.”

Cheng Xinghai pushed her wheelchair behind Chen Ming, patting his back and said, ”Alright, alright, it should be over now.”

”Just wait a moment.”

Chen Ming waved his hand, indicating Cheng Xinghai not to interrupt him.

”I’m thinking now, how exactly they managed to accomplish this, what did we overlook to lead to this situation?”

Why didn’t the Mechanical Race come initially? Why are they here now? What’s the difference? Why didn’t we suspect the Mechanical Race from the beginning?

Cheng Xinghai tilted her head, looking up at the ceiling with a speechless expression.

She reached into her pocket to retrieve the terminal she had just tucked in, and opened the game’s interface.

As soon as the game started, she got kidnapped by Chen Ming, and the terminal was confiscated. She couldn’t see anything and naturally was unaware of her teammates’ plans.

However, Chen Ming didn’t rely on her, remaining seated with his head bowed in contemplation.

The first three questions Chen Ming couldn’t figure out right away, but he knew the answer to the last one.

They hadn’t suspected that the enemy might engage the Mechanical Race because the Mechanical Race didn’t dare to invade the Empire’s territory proactively.

So why didn’t the Mechanical Race dare to invade the Empire proactively?

A response had already formed in Chen Ming’s mind.

”That Main Ship...”

Cheng Xinghai heard Chen Ming murmuring and looked up from her game terminal, saying, ”What Main Ship?”

Chen Ming glanced at her and said, ”The Main Ship inside the giant dock.”

”The reason the Mechanical Race doesn’t invade the Empire lies in the deterrence of the Main Ship and the support from the surrounding Star Zones.”

”If they want to invade, they’d have to use their own Main Ship. As long as our Main Ship can hold them off until reinforcement from nearby Star Zones arrives, they would be done for on the spot.”

After figuring this out, Chen Ming finally understood why that disappearing Main Ship was here two days ago and then vanished completely.

If this Main Ship was damaged within the Empire’s borders or even exploded on site.

The Mechanical Race would absolutely not allow this incident, nor would they gamble on whether this was an Empire conspiracy.

So, it would be impossible to invade directly.

But if this Main Ship exploded in front of the Mechanical Race, and they learned from the wreckage that there was a rebellion happening in this Star Zone.

The consequences would be evident.

”The Government Army used that Main Ship, deliberately sending it to the Mechanical Race’s territory.”

”They broke the initial deterrence, allowing the Mechanical Race an opportunity to invade, using a borrowed knife to kill people and eliminate the Rebel Army.”

”As soon as the Rebel Army loses its leadership, the new rebellion can temporarily ally with the remnants of the Government Army against the external enemy due to the Mechanical Race’s invasion.”

”This excuse is quite perfect.”

”With enough cooperation, the new rebels and the old government can form a new government.”

”Then, the newly formed government can request aid from outside, as the adjacent Star Zone and the Gallo Star Realm belong to the same Battle Zone, they will assist.”

”As for the now-dead old rebels, they’re dead, and no one will speak for the deceased.”

”As long as the new government doesn’t oppress civilians like the old one, those previously benefiting from the old rebels will gradually forget them.”

”In this way, future issues are mostly resolved, and the new rebels can use their resources and the old rebels’ legacy to trade space for time, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.”

”Once the Mechanical Race is cleared out, all that’s left is logistics issues.”

”And the Star Systems destroyed by the Mechanical Race have no survivors, making stability remarkably stable.”

Listening to Chen Ming’s explanation, Cheng Xinghai roughly understood what her teammates had done.

At the same time, she realized under such circumstances, what her teammates most needed to do next was to handle the stability of the colonies.

After all, these Star Zones were tortured in turn by the Government Army, Rebel Army, new rebels, and the Mechanical Race, so improving stability would be quite challenging.

She immediately thought of a method to address stability: ”If it were me, I’d directly insert my fleet into the rear of the Mechanical Race while reinforcements from frontline Star Zones confront them and raid everything they possess.”

”It’s best if the Mechanical Race sends a defensive response.”

”As long as they do, our support will have arrived, ensuring the Mechanical Race doesn’t get another chance to invade.”

”We can rely on our logistics and the resources from colonies in star systems destroyed during conflict to rebuild the remaining, existing colonies.”

”The efficiency of the Mechanical Race in killing is extremely high, and aside from ecological damage, they have little impact on the existing Planets.”

”Resources can almost be completely transferred, which is beneficial for post-war reconstruction.”

Cheng Xinghai continued describing another possibility: ”If the Mechanical Race doesn’t respond defensively, then simply use the fleet to plunder their resources.”

”Once reinforcements from other Star Zones eliminate them, using plundered resources can stabilize local populations as the territory of the Mechanical Race is relatively affluent.”

”This is the way my teammates turn the tables.”

”The only problem is whether their speed of development can keep up, and whether they can temporarily block the Mechanical Race until reinforcements arrive.”

”This is probably the most fundamental test.”

Cheng Xinghai recalled the logistics people among her called-in friends, thinking it seemed somewhat unlikely.

However, Chen Ming’s words surprised her: ”The new rebels developed extremely quickly, and according to earlier estimates, their military power now should suffice to slightly hold off the Mechanical Race with preparation.”

”Additionally, since we’re being used as a scapegoat, the Government Army has an easier task.”

Although Cheng Xinghai found it strange, she didn’t comment.

Perhaps her teammates had a sudden bout of brilliance since she was captured at the start.

Cheng Xinghai looked toward Chen Ming and asked, ”Now that you know all this, is it really useful to you? Do you have another way to turn the tables?”

Chen Ming turned in his chair, leaned against the workbench, and looked at Cheng Xinghai, saying, ”The Rebel Army’s headquarters may be destroyed, but they aren’t utterly wiped out. The game isn’t over yet.”

He reached onto the workbench behind him and tapped a few times, projecting a three-dimensional image onto the workbench, though he blocked the projection from view.

Cheng Xinghai couldn’t see the details of the projected object, instinctively tilting her head.

Curious yet thinking of peeking past Chen Ming to see what he was projecting.

Chen Ming slightly moved aside to allow her a clearer view.

Upon seeing the three-dimensional image and her eyes slightly widening as she seemed to realize a possibility, he said to her, ”Several weeks ago when I was just reaching Song Pu’s side, I went to a few local labs, and you were right by me then.”

”I didn’t let you know what kind of labs they were, and when you asked about what I was exchanging in the lab, I didn’t say.”

”That was an Alpha Core.”