Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 135 The Heart
G3 quickly mobilized some robots that perform auxiliary tasks within the institute and all internal monitoring equipment.

A rigorous inspection and scan of the entire cloning institute began.

Previously, G3 had placed items with their own psychic fluctuations in the research institute.

This will cause the psychic fluctuation detector inside the research institute to frequently scan for some subtle residual psychic fluctuations.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it will set an error value for the psychic fluctuation detector. Anything that does not exceed this value will be treated as an error to eliminate the impact.

And this also resulted in it not emitting that subtle periodic spiritual energy fluctuation.

However, G3 does not have this problem when I check it myself now.

He quickly eliminated the anti-interference error he had set and found the source of the psychic fluctuations.

In the freezer that I just looked at, among the corpses of the defective clones.

It was obvious that when G3 abandoned these defective products, they had injected them with a reagent that could definitely kill them.

But now, there is still a clone showing signs of life activity.

And that spiritual energy fluctuation came from the clone that was still alive.

But the strange thing is that after accurate scanning, G3 found that the clone did not show signs of life.

What really showed signs of life was something inside the clone's body.

G3 immediately called up the recorded data it had archived for each clone through the tags on the clones.

And found the clone's data on it.

From the photos in the recorded data and the actual corpses dumped here, it can be seen that the appearance of the clones seems to be fine.

But in fact, there was something wrong with the heart of this clone. In the middle period of cultivation, the heart muscle developed abnormally and grew irregularly.

So this clone was abandoned by G3 before.

G3 didn't expect that the current situation would occur after he had clearly given up on the clone.

It immediately dispatched robots to transport the frozen, hard bodies back to the room next door to the clone cultivation chambers.

There is a dissecting table covered with various tools and some mechanical arms with different functions extending out from the nearby wall.

G3 followed the prompts of the psychic detection equipment and conducted an autopsy on the corpse along the location of the psychic fluctuations.

It was discovered at the end of an inspection.

The clone's body functions had actually been completely cut off long ago, and even corpse spots appeared on the body.

The body of the clone is indeed dead. It can be said that it is completely dead and there is no possibility of struggling.

but.

The deformed heart inside the corpse maintained a weak vitality and was still beating slightly even now.

And at the moment of each beat, the heart will emit weak psychic energy fluctuations to the surroundings.

This periodic heartbeat is the source of the periodic psychic fluctuations detected by the psychic fluctuation detector that was noticed by Hui Hui.

But it’s not quite right to call this thing that emits psychic energy fluctuations a heart.

Because after G3 dissected it out and placed it on the tray next to it, you can see that it doesn’t look like a heart at all.

It was just a mass of deformed flesh and blood tissue that was still moving and emitting psychic energy fluctuations.

After the corpse was repeatedly checked by G3 several times to confirm that there was no life activity or psychic energy fluctuations, it was placed alone in an ice coffin and pushed to the corner of the room by the robot.

The deformed mass of flesh and blood was taken to another room on the other side of the anatomy room.

There are more and more complex professional equipment here than in the anatomy room.

And there are several robots delivering some new equipment here.

In addition to the most basic examination of this mass of flesh and blood, G3 also needs to conduct some research on it using other more specialized psychic detection instruments.

Soon, two complex reports were listed in G3's database.

One of them is a normal scan of this mass of flesh and blood tissue. It can be seen that this mass of flesh and blood tissue is composed of normal myocardial tissue connected abnormally.

Genetic testing of the myocardial tissue confirmed that it was Chen Ming's genes, and there were no abnormal mutations.

But the existence of this mass of still living flesh and blood tissue is the biggest anomaly in itself.

Another report from G3 is data obtained from examinations related to psychic abilities.

But it only focused on a few key lines of data in the report.

Psionic wave type, psionic wave complexity, and psionic activity.

The type of psychic energy fluctuation can be used to roughly analyze whether the detected psychic energy is an attack type, a protective type, or an auxiliary type based on the psychic energy wave itself and the location where the psychic energy wave acts.

Although Chen Ming has an auxiliary type of psychic power, the actual measurement results of G3 just now confirmed it.

The psychic energy fluctuations emitted by this mass of flesh and blood tissue with Chen Ming genes are protective.

It first protected itself under the action of the lethal injection, and then remained alive in the extremely low temperature environment. This is obviously in line with the situation investigated by G3.

This is considered a normal situation. After G3 marked it, he continued to look at the next line of important data, the complexity of psychic fluctuations.

Psionic Wave Complexity is a set of data that can be seen through the details of the amplitude of the Psionic Waves.

It's not that the greater the amplitude, the higher the complexity, but the faster and more obvious the amplitude changes, the higher the complexity of the psychic fluctuation will be.

The higher the complexity of psychic energy fluctuations, the more complex the final realization of psychic energy will be, and the effect may be stronger.

However, under normal circumstances, after a psyker uses psionic energy, the intensity of the psionic effect can be seen just by looking at it, and a rough estimate of the complexity will give the result.

It is generally not used much, after all, the ultimate strength of a psyker's psionic power does not depend solely on complexity.

Just because this mass of flesh and blood only instinctively and passively uses psychic energy, G3 needs to confirm this.

Now it seems that compared with the complexity of this mass of flesh and blood tissue and Chen Ming's own psychic fluctuation, one can be said to be elementary school arithmetic, while the other can probably write a paper on linear algebra.

Moreover, the complexity of Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations has been increasing, especially after the first failed extraction of spiritual nerves.

In addition, various studies have shown that psykers and psyker clones have almost no psychic connection.

So no matter how big the gap is between the complexity of the psychic fluctuations of this mass of flesh and blood tissue with Chen Ming's genes and Chen Ming himself, it seems normal to G3.

In addition to confirming the psychic strength of flesh and blood tissue, it wanted to see the difference between psykers and clones of psykers.

And then it did see it.

If it hadn't known it in advance, it would have been impossible to imagine that this mass of flesh and blood tissue was cloned using Chen Ming's genes.

G3 continued to mark this line of content and looked at the last important data.

Psychic activity.

This is a value similar to a psyker's psionic strength, but is the same standard used to differentiate between psykers and psionic beings.

Because only humans can acquire and master spiritual energy through spiritual enlightenment nerves. Other psychic creatures do not have such things as spiritual enlightenment nerves. They themselves are their own spiritual enlightenment nerves.

Obviously, this mass of deformed flesh and blood tissue was not formed after the clone became a psyker, but was an independent "psionic creature" from the beginning.

Although G3 does not know the specific criteria for judging psionic creatures, in its opinion, this thing is definitely more like a psionic creature than a psyker.

It can only be said that cloning is not a normal reproductive process after all. Different tissues and organs of the clone require differentiation and cultivation of original stem cells to form.

So in the process of formation, there is indeed a certain probability that this situation will occur.

But then there was a problem in front of G3.

What on earth affected this mass of flesh and blood tissue to produce psychic energy?
This obviously can only be clarified by more in-depth research.

At this time, the equipment of the cloning research institute was only equipped with some equipment for daily testing of Chen Ming, and could only conduct some ordinary research.

If you want to understand the principle of the formation of this mass of flesh and blood tissue, these alone are definitely not enough.

So G3 must notify higher levels of this matter.

And it itself has no right to make decisions on how to study this organization.

After all, this was the first instance of their afterglow producing psychic individuals in clones.

Even if a clone psyker is not produced, it is just a body tissue of the clone.

But the first example is the first example and holds considerable value.

Therefore, after apologizing to Huihuang, G3 asked Huihui to exit the connection and asked Huihui to keep it confidential.

It needs to reach out to senior management to decide what to do next.

Under normal circumstances, if Huihuang is an individual with normal afterglow, then keeping this matter secret is naturally what it should do.

But now, Huihuang will only go to Chen Ming as soon as possible to tell the matter.

After all, this is Chen Ming's clone showing psychic powers, and it is also part of the clone's body tissue.

No matter how you look at this situation, even in brilliant eyes, it is very strange.

It's best to notify as soon as possible.

At this time, some time had passed since Chen Ming and Bai Quan had chatted.

Chen Ming is studying a way to circumvent his ability to replenish spacecraft fuel.

He wanted to try to directly use the transformation function to complete this idea.

But nothing has been found that can be directly transformed or manufactured using fuel as a material, and the transported gaseous materials cannot be conveniently stored.

Even for left-wing self-destruction ships, fuel is generally only used as an additional filler for the space of the ship, rather than a necessity.

Therefore, he can only choose to use the method of transporting raw materials to supplement fuel.

After several attempts he just made.Transferring the solid and liquid materials needed to make fuel is now a no-brainer.

Of course, Chen Ming had actually transferred materials so many times before, and he already knew whether solid and liquid things could be transferred, but he just wanted to confirm again.

But gaseous materials are different. They are much more troublesome than solid and liquid materials.

Although Chen Ming's mind has changed now, he thinks that his ability can now produce spacecraft fuel. This method can be used to ignore the problem of difficult storage of gaseous materials.

But Chen Ming is not the only one who needs to use fuel in the future. The actual use of gaseous materials is far more than fuel.

Moreover, the spacecraft fuel itself is designed to be a very versatile fuel.

In addition to being on the spaceship, it can also be used in various places in the colony.

Therefore, under the premise that Chen Ming has plans to develop colonies in the future, batch transportation of fuel and gaseous materials has become something he must do.

If Chen Ming chooses to manufacture the finished product directly around him, it is equivalent to doing manufacturing and transportation together.

But you must know that as Chen Ming's spiritual power increases, he has mastered the most basic repair and transformation abilities from the beginning, which is the basis for Chen Ming to transport materials over long distances.

The mental power consumed by these two methods of using psychic energy has been decreasing.

This is not a decrease in proportion that Chen Ming feels due to the increase in his own mental power, but a real decrease in consumption.

That's why Chen Ming had the confidence to provide material transportation for a colony by himself.

But there is no such change in the [Manufacturing] ability, at least not yet.

The consumption of mental power is about five times that of the two basic abilities when Chen Ming first mastered psychic powers.

That is at least twenty times more than it is now.

If the two things were done at the same time, he would definitely not be able to supply the mental energy consumed by the production alone.

Therefore, Chen Ming can only choose to transport raw materials, even if the gaseous materials are difficult to preserve, he must do so.

Tasks such as mass manufacturing that place a huge burden on mental energy still have to be left to professional industrial facilities.

His psychic powers can only be used in emergencies at most. If he really has to rely on the extremely consuming manufacturing function to maintain the transportation of materials and the operation of the colony for a long time, just think about this kind of thing.

So Chen Ming was thinking.

Can he modify it inside a large gas storage tank so that the modified gas can be stored in it?

Anyway, he can extract the contents inside through the gas tank. As long as the gas can be stored, it makes no difference to him no matter where it is stored.

Chen Ming thought about it for a while, but didn't expect there was anything wrong with this idea.

So he just did it.

The ability to create psychic objects out of thin air consumes many times more mental power than other abilities, but the effect is really useful.

As long as there are enough materials stored around him or on the spacecraft he controls, he can manufacture them at will based on the technology he has mastered in his mind. There are no restrictions at all except mental power.

Of course, Chen Ming would not use the materials on the Afterglow spacecraft he controlled to avoid exposing the situation of the Afterglow he controlled in advance.

There are materials that he can use around him or on the ship in the pirate space station.

Although during this period of time, because he was already dead, he did not let Lao Wu do anything to seek death, such as hunting pirates.

But he can still collect some materials that are also used by repair shops through Lao Wu's help, so there will be no problem.

Just like the materials used to make fuel.

So Chen Ming made a cooling device he knew in the gas tank he just made.

The interior of this device uses a liquefied gas needed to make fuel, which has a good effect in absorbing heat energy.

When Chen Ming saw a long device filled with liquid appearing inside the transparent gas tank, he knew he had succeeded.

As long as he casually modified an openable opening on the cooling device, and then installed the remaining part inside the gas tank.

Liquefied gas can leak directly from the inside of the device to the gas tank.

And every time he repairs the cooling device in the future, the liquefied gas will fill the entire device again, and as the opening he modified opens, it will spread to the entire storage tank again.

The mental energy consumed is much less than having to create fuel or such a cooling device every time.

After confirming that there was no problem with the design, Chen Ming once again modified it on the spot and sent these things back to the pirate space station on the spot without leaving any trace.

Of course, it means leaving no trace on the ground beside Chen Ming.

There's nothing we can do if things like surveillance are recorded.

Moreover, Chen Ming conducted such an experiment around him instead of on any ship he controlled, because he actually wanted to show Yu Hui.

Let them hurry up and analyze what his spiritual power can do.

Maybe they thought that Chen Ming's spiritual power could continue to grow, so they slowed down his subsequent actions?
Although Chen Ming also felt that there was a high probability that it was impossible, he would not do it until he made it clear. Anyway, the manufacturing capability itself was limited by the technology Chen Ming mastered.

Like the transformation ability, it can basically only be used on spacecraft below destroyers, or other non-combat aspects.

As for Chen Ming, the only thing that really has strategic significance and can change the situation of a battle is the ability to repair.

But Yuhui has known about this ability for a long time, and there is no need to hide it.

Therefore, Chen Ming now has a casual attitude towards revealing the abilities he possesses.

Even if you know it, you still have to have countermeasures.

As for what Yuhui can call a countermeasure now, the most it can do is non-contact.

But for now, it seems that non-contact countermeasures are meaningless. Chen Ming has spread the afterglow he controls throughout the afterglow star field.

After Chen Ming tested his ability.

He also plans to talk to his boss about handing over the top job at that time.

The boss said that the ship has been sent to the Pirate Space Station, but there is no detailed process for the handover.

So this matter must be prepared first.

Because Chen Ming would definitely be chased by Yu Hui, and he didn't want to hastily change boats and escape when he was being chased.

And he can also take advantage of this last period of preparation time to look for Baiquan again.

Because just after Chen Ming agreed to Bai Quan's request, he directly started investigating the Yuhui battleship.

Relying on the Yuhui individuals controlled by Chen Ming all over the Afterglow star field, he actually found the location of Yuhui's battleship, and there was even a new type of battleship that he had never seen before.

In addition to the radiation level that was previously fighting against the Fourteenth Legion, Chen Ming also discovered a capital ship that was being manufactured in a galaxy and was tentatively named the New Star Unmanned Battlecruiser.

Although the design and manufacturing process of this capital ship are fully closed management, and the various departments responsible for manufacturing are also isolated from each other, the information about the spacecraft is kept highly confidential.

However, the production of a capital ship inevitably requires the transportation of a large amount of external materials.

It was these Yuhui individuals responsible for material transportation who let Chen Ming know the news, and also knew the location of this new-star shipyard, a giant shipyard.

Chen Ming also quietly took a few photos using the afterglow entities mixed in, and instantly transferred them to his mule stage parked on the pirate space station by modifying the function of the storage module.

After deleting the photo that Yuhui had in hand that originally took the photo.

Chen Ming read the storage module he had just transformed.

It can be seen that the design of the new star is very distinctive, it is an "X" shape like a section of intertwined genes.

There are two huge slots in the upper right corner of the "X" for installing main weapons, while there are some slots in the upper left corner that are smaller than the main weapons, but larger than the large weapons.

Chen Ming couldn't see what the use was for a while.

It can only be said that this is another asymmetric design.

Chen Ming always felt that Tachyon Technology liked this kind of asymmetrical beauty. No, it seemed that the spaceships designed by many companies had asymmetrical models.

It can only be said that it is the afterglow of independence from humans, and it will still look like this even after going out.

However, the asymmetric design itself is no problem in space.

Such a design can bring about more complex changes in ship capabilities, and does have some advantages in combat.

However, it was not easy for Chen Ming to detect more specific information about this new starship.

And even Huihuang Lai wouldn't work in this regard. After all, Huihuang had no reason to touch this ship for no reason.

So in terms of intelligence, this new ship must be more difficult to obtain than the Radiant class.

However, this is a capital ship that is under construction and has never appeared on any battlefield. , the results of destroying it will definitely be greater than destroying the radiation level.

With this as the goal, the greater the results Baiquan can achieve.

Chen Ming wrote down all the information about the new star, and it will be up to Bai Quan to make his own choice.

speak up.

Chen Ming suddenly discovered that many forces were designing their own capital ships recently.

Not only afterglow, but also from Sindar Company. The Conqueror class is the most obvious example.

The government heard that it has also recently designed two battleships for logistics support.

I just don’t know if the military and Tachyon Technology are there anymore.

But that's going too far.

Chen Ming still had to focus on the things in front of him.

In fact, when he saw this giant shipyard, some thoughts came to his mind.

Like controlling this new star.

(End of this chapter)