Chapter 1114 - 316: Immortal Spirit Ancient Tree
After watching the people from the Empire disappear near the banquet hall.
Chen Ming returned to the banquet hall.
Together with Cheng Xinghai, they started toasting every table of guests present.
The other ceremonies had been completed beforehand, and after finishing a round.
The engagement party was essentially over.
The wedding banquet after the engagement will have to be postponed for some time.
Perhaps soon, perhaps a long time.
It depends on the situation of the war with the Mechanical Race.
If things go smoothly, Chen Ming should be able to return to headquarters to marry after the war ends.
Anyway, there is no chance or time to do it right now.
Cheng Xinghai needed to return to school.
Because the current time had reached Earth Standard Time’s June.
Normally, summer vacation was about to begin.
However, Cheng Xinghai is now a third-year student, and also a student at a specialized military school, required to go to the battlefield after the fourth year.
Therefore, during the summer break at the end of the third year, the school would conduct concentrated officer training to cope with actual battles.
At least she definitely won’t have any free time within a year.
And Chen Ming’s situation was similar.
Although he did not have any missions, he had his own requirements.
He needed to quickly familiarize himself with the three research institutes where he had honorary member status.
Because these three institutes would provide him help in the upcoming war with the Mechanical Race.
This was only what he needed to do at headquarters; other places like An Wuping’s, his distant entity outside the Empire’s borders, and the Insect Queen’s planet had similar situations.
He and Cheng Xinghai couldn’t always be like real young couples who were glued together all day long; they both had things to do.
And besides doing the things he had just thought of and some extra preparations, Chen Ming had one more urgent matter.
And that was deciding his future path.
Whether to stay at headquarters.
Or return to the branch.
This question could actually be answered very easily.
The war with the Mechanical Race was about to break out, and the Gallo Star Realm was to become the front line.
The branch was ultimately where he had to go; he couldn’t stay at headquarters once the war started.
Plus, Chen Ming had previously promised Bai Quan to use spiritual energy to control the whole branch, something he had to do.
At this stage, there would likely be nothing more at headquarters, only at the distant branch might there be others with different ideas.
In addition, after Cheng Xinghai completed the training, she’d be on the battlefield, and Galor was that battlefield.
Chen Ming had to go over.
But although he liked having to make decisions immediately, carrying out those decisions wasn’t urgent.
The war hadn’t begun yet.
After he confirmed his ideas, the only urgent matter was controlling the branch.
And besides Chen Ming himself going back to control the branch, there’s another way through Dusk’s core.
Whether it’s devices, equipment, or buildings, as long as it’s something with an electronic system, once connected to Dusk core controlled by Chen Ming, it would fall completely under his control.
The branch itself was built under the dome on a volcano planet, and a dome like this was full of electronic systems; a Dusk core could easily control them.
Just after Chen Ming experienced the grind in the Crimson Dimension.
His spiritual energy could already enclose the Dusk core spiritually, transmitting it through the Crimson Dimension.
The number and locations of Dusk cores were no longer limitations on Chen Ming’s spiritual energy range.
Thus, Chen Ming could entirely entrust the branch there to a robot equipped with a new Dusk core.
The control power of Dusk core was enough to control a branch.
Not to mention Bai Quan’s tacit approval.
Once the war begins in the future, he needs to go to the branch, the headquarters could then switch to robots in reverse.
That was Chen Ming’s plan.
With the general plan in place, all that was left was to fill in the details.
But as Chen Ming sat alone in the corner of the banquet hall pondering the future.
Cheng Xinghai’s voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "Here you are."
Chen Ming looked up and asked, "What’s up?"
"Of course, I’m looking for you; what else? As soon as you finished eating, you vanished, leaving me to search for you outside for ages, only to find you hiding here."
Cheng Xinghai sat beside Chen Ming, leaned closer, and after finding a comfortable angle, pressed her entire weight against Chen Ming.
She whispered softly to him, "I’m about to go back to school."
"I know."
"I need to attend the training camp, under strict management, three months, roughly one day off a month, when I can make calls and such."
Chen Ming pondered what he should say at this moment and said, "Can you play games?"
Cheng Xinghai laughed abruptly at Chen Ming’s question, "That’s not a question I expected you to ask."
"Can’t I just suddenly want to play games?"
"Of course, you can."
With a gentle smile on her face, Cheng Xinghai hugged Chen Ming tighter.
Chen Ming followed suit and embraced her shoulder, saying, "Remember not to take off the wristband when the time comes."
"The instructors of training camp might be strict."
"No worries, I’ll drive a cruiser over and have someone allow you to wear that wristband."
"You really are... don’t joke around like that."
Cheng Xinghai lightly punched Chen Ming on the arm.
Even though she restrained herself, Chen Ming still felt a sense of pain.
Cheng Xinghai also felt Chen Ming’s body slightly tremble and asked, "Did I hurt you?"