The next day.
As scheduled, Chen Ming dialed Bai Quan’s number.
According to Bai Quan’s previous suggestion, teaching command skills is best done through a direct video call.
So, Chen Ming did just that.
Bai Quan’s image quickly appeared on the terminal screen.
Without wasting words, Chen Ming said directly, "I’m ready here, we can start now."
"Okay."
Bai Quan responded, but didn’t make any other moves.
This made Chen Ming ask in slight confusion, "Where’s the teacher who’s supposed to teach ?"
Bai Quan pointed at himself and said, "I’ll teach you personally."
"Uh... aren’t you handling your matters? Your side of things should be pretty important, not easily resolved, right?"
"It’s fine."
Chen Ming looked at the video call showing Bai Quan dressed as if he had important things to do and asked again, "Are you sure it’s okay?"
"It’s really fine."
"Alright."
Since Bai Quan insisted, Chen Ming didn’t press further.
Chen Ming projected Bai Quan’s video image onto the wall for easier viewing.
Then he casually took out another terminal and said, "I’ve received the teaching materials here, where do we start?"
Bai Quan also brought out teaching materials he had revised extensively based on Chen Ming’s recorded battle performances, saying, "The fundantal terminology of command."
Once Bai Quan started formally teaching Chen Ming,
Two days passed quickly.
Although Chen Ming was busy almost every mont, after two days he more or less adjusted.
Today, after finishing his day’s studies, Chen Ming tallied up the tis he had to frequently visit the Supre Point’s warehouse to control those chanical Race units during als.
It turned out he was still constrained by the need for physical contact with the chanical Race for control.
Additionally, as the chanical Race is not lifeless, they can’t be transported like industrial assembly lines.
This resulted in very low efficiency in Chen Ming’s control of the chanical Race.
Even though the number of chanical Race units he controlled increased, thereby improving transportation efficiency,
he only managed to control just over twenty percent of the chanical Race in the entire city until now.
If efficiency continues to grow at the current rate, it would still take over half a month to completely control the chanical Race in the city.
This inefficiency made Chen Ming consider having the Insect Queen lead his newly cultivated Insect Race to actively attack the chanical Race.
After all, the Insect Queen could protect the consciousness of individual Insects through the Hive Mind Network.
And damaged chanical Race units during battles are quite easy to control.
There might even be a chance for the Insect Queen to actively evolve so Insect Race units more suited for combat during battles.
However, in the end, Chen Ming refrained from executing this idea.
Because he discovered a significant problem with the chanical Race’s Hive Mind Network in the city.
The chanical Race here is different from the cluster faced by the Empire; they are independently outside.
Their Hive Mind Network is limited to their dispersed individuals, without a strong enough main consciousness to guide them.
This ans all chanical Race offspring, after their corporal death, would not be preserved by the Hive Network to await new assimilation into new bodies.
They face complete and absolute death.
Chen Ming confird this during his control attempts over the past few days.
Almost every day, around ten chanical Race units naturally die in the city due to equipnt aging.
But these dead chanical Race units don’t revive within any uninhabited, still functional chanical Race bodies in the city’s factories.
Nor does any consciousness appear in any chanical Race body.
The overall number of chanical Race units is declining.
This clearly indicates that within the hive consciousness built by those independent chanical Race, there isn’t a strong consciousness guiding the entire hive network.
This results in connected chanical Race units being unable to receive efficient control.
Once a chanical Race unit dies, it’s truly dead.
This ans that every chanical Race unit lost in battle results in a reduction in the chanical Race units Chen Ming can control afterward, which then reduces the feedback to his Spiritual Power.
Once a battle breaks out, it can’t just be stopped by Chen Ming’s wishes.
Therefore, he doesn’t want to waste his future controllable chanical Race units through internal conflict here.
Besides, he still needs ti for his subordinate Dusk entities to explore the surrounding Star Systems; controlling the chanical Race isn’t that urgent.
Anyway, the universe is vast, and Chen Ming will definitely land on other planets in the future, surely encountering so cluster of dangerous creatures where the Insect Race will have their chances to act.
While Chen Ming contemplated matters regarding the chanical Race, he soon finished his dinner.
Just as he was about to continue with the technical docunts about cruisers that Bai Quan had given him, and ask Extraordinary so questions to resolve the pending issues from yesterday,
Chen Ming unexpectedly received communication from the factory director after a few days.
"Xiao Ming, the interrogation on my side is nearly complete."
So Chen Ming wasn’t in a rush anymore. He prepared all the docunts he originally planned to study and then said to the factory director, "Alright, I’m listening. Go ahead."
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