The next day.
At the agreed ti, 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 sowhere, 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 mont, after two days he was more or less accustod to it.
And today, after finishing the day’s study, Chen Ming took ti during dinner to summarize the situation of the chanical beings he occasionally had to control at the Supre 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 chanical beings to control them.
Moreover, the chanical beings themselves are not dead objects and can’t be transported using industrial assembly line thods directly.
This results in Chen Ming’s control efficiency over the chanical beings being extrely low.
Even though the transportation efficiency of chanical beings improved as the number he controlled increased.
But up to now, the proportion of chanical beings he controlled in the entire chanical 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 chanical 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 chanical Race.
After all, the Insect Queen can protect the consciousness of the Insect Race individuals through the Hive Mind Network.
And the chanical beings damaged in battle can be controlled quite easily.
He might even have the Insect Queen proactively evolve so more combat-suited Insect Race individuals during the battle.
However, in the end, Chen Ming restrained himself and did not implent this idea.
Because he found a big problem with the Hive Mind Network of the chanical beings in the city.
The chanical beings here are not like the cluster of chanical 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 chanical beings.
This ans that all chanical 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 confird this during his practical control over these chanical beings in recent days.
Almost every day in the city, about ten chanical beings naturally die due to equipnt aging.
But these dead chanical beings do not revive in a factory within the city on a chanical body that does not have a chanical consciousness implanted and not completely aged to beco unusable.
In other words, there’s no occurrence of a chanical consciousness on a chanical body.
The total number of chanical beings is decreasing.
This clearly indicates that the hive consciousness constructed by those independent chanical beings lacks a powerful consciousness to dominate the entire hive network.
As a result, the chanical beings connected to the network cannot be effectively governed.
Once a chanical being dies, it’s truly dead.
This also ans that all chanical beings lost in combat will decrease the number of chanical 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 consu the chanical beings that could certainly be controlled by him in the future here.
Anyway, he still needs ti to allow the Dusk individuals under him to explore the surrounding star systems, so the control of chanical beings is not that pressing.
Besides, the universe is so vast, Chen Ming will definitely need to land on so other planets in the future. He will always encounter so dangerous collective creatures, always giving the Insect Race a chance to appear.
While Chen Ming was pondering over the matters related to the chanical beings, he quickly finished dinner.
Just as Chen Ming was preparing to continue studying the cruiser-related technical docunts Bai Quan provided earlier tonight, and ask Extraordinary so 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 docunts he originally planned to study, and then said to the director, "Alright, I’m listening, go ahead."
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