Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 175 Biomass Spaceship

Chen Ming held the knife in one hand, and with the other hand, three materials with a transparent amber appearance that were already in place were delivered to his hands.

According to the process recorded in the document given by the president before, he began to guide his mental power outside the body, and gradually gathered it on the material to be condensed.

The process of actively expelling mental power from the body felt to Chen Ming similar to the normal use of psychic energy, but it had no actual effect.

Nothing else is special.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Chen Ming has guided most of his total mental power out of the body.

A mass of twisted air visible to the naked eye, like a flame burning the air, has also appeared in his hand.

This is the product of highly compressed mental power, which is close to the essence.

But at this time, he still did not perceive any resonance between himself and the three materials in his hands.

Chen Ming probably had a bad premonition in his heart, but he continued anyway, channeling all his mental power into his hands.

He only relied on the little mental strength restored by the hive network of abnormal individuals to observe the materials in his hands and the highly condensed mental power group.

And the result...

The three materials did not react in any way.

They are not the materials Chen Ming needs to condense the source of spiritual energy.

So he could only give up and try to absorb his mental power again.

However, it is just as recorded in the document given by the president.

It is much more difficult to absorb the mental power that has been guided outside the body and has been exposed to the external environment than to guide the new mental power in the body.

At least he, whose mental power was nearly exhausted, had no way to maintain this mass of mental power while stably absorbing all of it back.

In the end, he only absorbed about 30% of his mental power.

This first attempt was a failure.

But Chen Ming had felt this way beforehand, so it wasn't too surprising.

If it were so easy to get it, then the source of condensed spiritual energy couldn't be so rare.

Then he can only wait for the subsequent materials to arrive and try whether the remaining two materials have any effect.

If the next two materials have no effect, he can only use the special condensed spiritual energy source as bait according to his previous idea.

During the rest of the day today, there wasn't much that Chen Ming could do.

He simply let another machine with propellers installed on its back, which Chen Ming called a tornado, carry the condensed spiritual energy source and fly around in the sky above the insect nest, intending to leave more traces of spiritual energy fluctuations.

And when this tornado passed.

Chen Ming could see directly with his naked eyes without going through the scanning array at the highest point that some insects were searching for traces of the psychic fluctuations he left yesterday on the ground.

The bait worked.

This time, Chen Ming did not let the tornado pass by. Instead, he circled a few times at a distance and returned to the landing craft, returning to the highest point.

In case the tornado, a machine that was obviously not right, was discovered by the Zerg, it would cause the Zerg to be on unnecessary alert.

After doing this.

Chen Ming also sent a few robots with several gamma cores he currently had on hand, and took another dozen or so ordinary robots to the mechanical city.

Let these robots contact the mechanical tribes with damaged circuits in the city.

Control them.

Help Chen Ming save energy and time.

By the way, when he can't find a suitable target, he can also help him transport other intact mechanical races in the city.

Go back and move to the landing craft, transport it back to the highest point, and let him control it uniformly.

After all, the appearance of these mechanical tribes was intact. If Chen Ming did not want to destroy their external armor and have a head-on conflict with the mechanical tribes, then he could only do this.

And he had already tried it yesterday.

There is no problem in letting the robots he controls come into contact with those dormant mechanical races.

All dormant machines will not react in any way when touched.

There are enough robots that can do the job, given the time.

Chen Ming will be able to evacuate the entire city sooner or later.

Anyway, there are still many dormant gamma cores in the temporary base with nothing to do.

As long as he wants, he can ship a batch over at any time.

Of course, for the sake of safety, the robots that will move the dormant robots are only responsible for sneaking into areas where they can be sure that there are no active robots.

Those areas where there are active mechanical clans will be left to the mechanical clans already under his control to handle.

The mechanical race in this city can't tell which ones are their own and which ones are abnormal individuals controlled by Chen Ming.

Even if his mechanical clan is exposed to other mechanical clans, it will not cause any problems.

It can only be said that this abandoned city no longer has a normal environment.

These mechanical tribes also seem to have lost their basic behavioral logic, and only have an instinctive consciousness to fight back when attacked.

As long as Chen Ming lets Huihuang help arrange the work to be done by each robot and intervene when necessary, there is no need to worry at all.

It would be better to worry about his process of controlling so many mechanical races.

Although he does not consume much mental energy when controlling each machine clan.

And as the number of abnormal sub-individuals under his control increases, his mental power will receive additional feedback from the hive mind network, so there is no need to worry about consumption.

However, the number of mechanical races in this city is more than 100,000.

Even if there are many mechanical races that have been completely damaged or partially damaged, the number of those that still appear to be intact will definitely not be less than 50,000.

In fact, it can be seen from yesterday that there are still many places in the city where the mechanical tribe has not come, but just relying on the mechanical tribe in several areas near the edge can easily completely wipe out the incoming batch of insects.

The number of mechanical tribes must be greater than Chen Ming thought.

It can only be said that not every individual of the mechanical race has very powerful computing power like Yu Hui.

Their hive mind determines that they rely on the collective, and they perform their own duties within the collective.

Therefore, the density of the distribution of the number of individuals of the mechanical race will definitely be greater than that of Afterglow.

And this huge number means that it takes a lot of time to control them.

Chen Ming's Yuhui could only use data cables to help him control those machines that were partially damaged and whose circuits were exposed.

The rest he had to get his hands on.

To control them one by one, even if there are 100,000 pigs at least, it will take a month or more.

No, pigs seem to be more difficult to deal with than these dormant mechanical races.

His psychic power can control the mechanical race with just contact, but he really can't control the pigs.

Chen Ming shook his head to get rid of the strange thoughts in his mind.

In fact, there is no need for him to be too negative about the efficiency of this matter.

As long as he can first control all the individuals in the city that can be used for combat, then won't the remaining non-combat type machines be at his mercy?

Moreover, although the city's towers have lost their ability to control the mechanical race, they still have the ability to control the city itself.

With the assistance of the tower, the core of the city, the overall efficiency is definitely not that bad.

Another day passed in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ming once again sent a group of robots with gamma-level afterglow cores to the city of the mechanical tribe to speed up the work efficiency.

At the same time, the tornado was sent to the vicinity of the insect nest again, and it was discovered that the insect race had indeed completely discovered the traces left by Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source.

Many bugs have appeared on the surface and are being searched over a large area.

It seems that as long as the spiritual energy fluctuations that condense the spiritual energy source appear again, they will swarm up.

Today, Lao Wu also sent the remaining two materials with pure white and transparent amber appearance to Space Arm No. 6.

One of them is called white resin, which is a natural resin material produced by plants that is difficult to cultivate artificially.

The other is called white amber steel, which is a by-product of the smelting of special-grade metal ore with a unique appearance.

And this time.

When Chen Ming condensed all his mental power outside his body and wrapped these two materials, he found that his mental power still did not resonate with these materials.

It seems that it has failed again. As expected, the material to condense the source of psychic energy is still not that easy to get.

Just when Chen Ming was about to give up.

The ship spirit, which had been squatting at the highest point, suddenly sprang out of the wall and penetrated into the interior of the white amber steel wrapped in spiritual power.

Immediately afterwards, changes visible to the naked eye appeared on the white amber steel that was half the size of Chen Ming's palm.

Under the influence of the ship spirit, the entire piece of white amber steel became closer to Chen Ming's appearance of condensed spiritual energy.

The slight deviation between it and the source of condensed spiritual energy has been corrected.

Moreover, Ship Spirit also took the initiative to help Chen Ming guide the spiritual power restricted in his hands into the white amber steel.

It can almost be said that he completed the process of condensing the source of spiritual energy for Chen Ming, which originally required him to complete the process of condensing the source of spiritual energy despite being extremely exhausted.

Let Chen Ming still maintain a clear consciousness.

Chen Ming read the whole process in detail and had a rough guess about this situation.

However, he was not 100% sure, so he still asked the boat spirit: "How did you do it?"

The ship spirit understood Chen Ming's words and circled several times around Chen Ming's second piece of amber steel that condensed the source of spiritual energy.

Then he straightened his phantom body towards Chen Ming, exuding a bit of pride.

"Um……"

Chen Ming translated the meaning of the boat spirit in his mind, then pointed to Bai Zhi next to him and asked: "Is this okay?"

The boat spirit immediately shook his body, exuding a negative emotion.

Then Chen Ming understood.

The properties of the white amber steel itself are actually somewhat similar to the material he used to condense the original source of spiritual energy.

Therefore, Ship Spirit can help him change the properties of white amber steel and complete the remaining operations.

The ability to change the physical properties of something.

It should... be a derivative of his [Transformation] ability.

This is how the ship spirit embodies the psionic nature of the psyker. Although this method is a bit difficult for Chen Ming, after all, he cannot change the physical properties of something at all, at least not now.

But Chuan Ling just did it.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, at least it lets Chen Ming know the possibility and direction of the subsequent development of his psychic powers.

It also let Chen Ming know that the upper limit of transformation is not limited to what he currently knows.

Chen Ming reached out and touched the place on the boat spirit's shadow that was probably the head, feeling a little happy unconsciously in his heart.

It was precisely because of the help of the Ship Spirit that he was able to complete the condensation of the source of spiritual energy even when the materials were wrong.

And also knows the direction of future development of psychic abilities.

Everyone is happy to come.

The boat spirit noticed Chen Ming's joy, and seemed to be infected by Chen Ming's emotions. It returned to the highest point with the same joy and its own somewhat proud emotion.

The second piece of condensed spiritual energy was obtained, and the bait was prepared, but Chen Ming could not take action directly yet.

He still needs to wait for the recovery of his mental power.

So for the rest of the day, he was still doing the same work in the mechanical city as yesterday.

It's another day.

Chen Ming's mental power returned to its peak again.

Then it's time to start setting up traps to lure the Zerg out.

The layout is actually relatively simple.

It only takes one psychic creature to definitely attract the Zerg's attention.

Of course not Xiaoshi, but something else.

This Chen Ming is ready.

But before starting to set up the trap, he had to leave a way to protect the valuable bait.

Chen Ming knocked on the wall at the highest point, and the ship spirit poked his head out of the wall.

Looking at the confused ship spirit in front of him, Chen Ming suddenly noticed that it seemed to be getting more and more solid during this time.

Although the shape is still a virtual shadow and has not yet been finalized, the opacity of the virtual shadow has become higher and higher, and it should not be long before it becomes completely opaque.

This shouldn't be a bad thing for Ship Spirit.

Chen Ming took out his second piece of condensed spiritual energy, tapped it lightly and said, "Come on, go in, help me protect it, don't let it be absorbed by other things."

The boat spirit naturally would not refuse Chen Ming's request and got in obediently.

With the protection of the ship spirit, Chen Ming does not need to worry too much about condensing the source of spiritual energy in the future.

Next comes the final step in preparing the trap.

Chen Ming needs to feed this thing to a flying creature.

As for what specific creatures to feed.

When Chen Ming used the Supreme Point to scan the planet before, he had scanned a variant of the empty jellyfish.

It can only be said that the empty jellyfish is a relatively special creature.

Because it has the ability to travel in space.

Especially older individuals.

Hollow jellyfish gradually increase in size as they age.

The gas mass in their bodies will become lighter and their body tissues will become thinner, but the strength of their body tissues will increase.

They can actively eject violent airflow that can make them exceed the second or even third level of cosmic speed.

These empty jellyfish will land on other planets and then die.

After death, it leaves behind empty jellyfish eggs that breed the next batch of empty jellyfish, and then uses its own gelatinous body to provide nutrients for the new empty jellyfish before they can float.

Therefore, even planets that humans have not set foot on often have traces of their existence.

And they themselves are actually not very harmful. As long as they are not allowed to come into contact with fire, there is almost no threat.

In addition, they do not need to consume too many substances to survive. The substances that make up their body tissues are also very easy to degrade and will have almost no impact on the ecosystem.

If the number of empty jellyfish is large enough, it can promote ecological air purification.

It can only be said that if they are not of the nature of exploding when exposed to fire, then Chen Ming should be able to see them in many colonies or space stations.

In addition, Chen Ming had seen before when browsing research reports on various websites that some biotechnology company research institutes were trying to genetically modify empty jellyfish.

Let it lose its ability to explode and maintain its ability to purify the air.

It's just that the progress doesn't seem to be ideal, and it has nothing to do with Chen Ming.

As someone who studies spaceships, he probably won't need any biological-related technology in his life.

In short, after having these basic understandings of empty jellyfish, and scanning the empty jellyfish group at the highest point.

Chen Ming already had a complete idea in his mind.

He wanted an old empty jellyfish to eat the condensed spiritual energy source that hosted the ship spirit, so that it would emit the same spiritual energy fluctuations that the insect swarm had experienced several times in the past few days, attracting the insect race to space.

Of course, not all old empty jellyfish will choose to enter space, and some will stay on the planet to wait for death.

But Chen Ming’s empty jellyfish was caught just as it was about to enter space.

Therefore, Chen Ming does not need to worry about the empty jellyfish being given away for free.

Of course, the source of condensed spiritual energy itself must be protected by the ship spirit. It cannot be really taken away by insects, nor can it absorb too many spiritual energy fluctuations by the empty jellyfish.

All preparations have been completed.

Then Chen Ming stopped wasting time and started making arrangements directly.

It is not difficult to use the living habits of the empty jellyfish to pass over the areas where the Zerg have settled.

Next, if the bugs want to capture the empty jellyfish, they must send out something that can fly.

Chen Ming wanted to see how the bugs flew.

Chen Ming was sitting at his study table.

Holding his psychic weapon in hand, Ming.

After taking the time in the past two days, he compressed the mad words ectoplasm stone to a suitable size and embedded it into the psychic weapon.

Chen Ming can clearly feel that when he holds a psychic weapon, his mental power and psychic strength will increase additionally.

The original psychic weapon increased the power by about 1.1 times, but after inlaying the ectoplasm stone, the intensity of the mental power was about 1.3 times.

The effect can be said to be quite obvious.

But for what he was going to do now, no amount of preparation was too much.

Chen Ming stared intently at the old empty jellyfish through the scanning array at the highest point, watching it pass at low altitude above the Zerg nest according to Chen Ming's arrangement, and then fly high into the sky.

The Thorn Zerg took the bait almost instantly. Among the bugs searching outside, some bugs immediately fanned the elytra on their backs and chased after the old sky jellyfish that was flying high into the sky.

Chen Ming immediately planned to intervene a little to prevent these bugs from catching the empty jellyfish before it rose to a high enough height.

But what surprised Chen Ming was that the old air jellyfish suddenly sprayed out a violent airflow, and instantly accelerated to a high altitude.

The speed was even faster than those Zerg that Chen Ming had never seen before, with huge elytra on their backs, slender bodies, and very nimble appearance.

Even without Chen Ming's coercion and help, it was still doing what Chen Ming wanted to see it do.

Go to space.

It is nearing the end of its years and it needs to be bred.

The reproductive instinct forces it to behave like this.

And this is exactly why Chen Ming chose it.

As the air jellyfish gains altitude, the surrounding atmosphere becomes thinner.

Those Zerg individuals that relied on elytra to fly have gradually lost the ability to continue flying upward.

This conspicuous psychic wave is about to enter the outermost part of the atmosphere.

This meal is about to be eaten by the Zerg, and the Man-Han banquet will soon run away.

The moment Chen Ming was sure that the Zerg flying bugs had completely lost the ability to catch up with the sky jellyfish.

The scanning array at the highest point that was still scanning the planet suddenly sent back a special signal.

The ground is shaking.

It's the insects underground that are becoming active.

Within the range covered by the tower's surveillance, countless mechanical tribes suddenly woke up and prepared for battle.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had thought before that the Zerg's actions might affect the robots in nearby cities, so he did not arrange for his robots to enter the city today.

So he was not affected and did not need to deal with things in a hurry.

And deep underground at this time.

Inside the insect nest displayed by the scanning array.

What Chen Ming had seen before was that the huge organism located at the core of the insect nest was undergoing violent...evolution.

Evolving towards something that Chen Ming is very familiar with.

Watch the rapid changes taking place on this giant organism.

Chen Ming's heartbeat began to accelerate, and his emotions gradually became excited. He subconsciously said to himself: "Yes, that's it."

Originally, this giant organism that protected the insect queen inside was only relatively symmetrical and narrow in appearance, and looked like a spaceship.

But now, the changes happening to it are highlighted.

Chen Ming is 100% sure that this giant creature itself is a biomass spacecraft.

It only temporarily degraded part of its abilities in order to build a nest underground.

Combined with the clues that Chen Ming had learned before.

He was certain that the Thorn Zerg must rely on these biomass spacecraft to fly in space.

These biological spacecraft themselves definitely have the ability to accelerate in space to close to the speed of light, and even enter hyperspace.

Then the situation of the Zerg's space navigation carrier has been determined.

It is a biomass spacecraft evolved by the Zerg themselves.

At this time, Chen Ming, who was very emotional, had only one question left in his mind.

Based on his psychic ability, is such a biomass spacecraft considered a spacecraft that he can control?

He is extremely curious now.

(End of this chapter)