Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 183 The past week

Upon the arrival of a completely sealed ship carrying the psionic fungal creatures.

Chen Ming besides transferring it to Chaofan.

He also transformed some research equipment that he purchased a few days ago that were the same type as the research equipment he saw at the Plant Research Station into the spacecraft that transported psychic fungi.

It was handed over to Chaofan to assist it in biological research.

As for the first batch of research equipment that Chen Ming bought, it can only be said that it may be because he bought too much and the supply was not enough, so it has not yet been sent to the boss.

We can only let Chaofan wait for two more days.

After completing this matter, Chen Ming had finally finished dealing with the matter of the left path occupying the space station.

Then he picked up the terminal again and began to record other things that happened in the past week.

Chen Ming has now developed a habit of recording some important things regularly to avoid forgetting them suddenly in the future.

By the way, it can also remind him of what he needs to do every week, such as providing the boss with the highest operating data that Shao Yang needs.

And this past week.

Except for the day before when Chen Ming went to play with Zuo Jing, he was very busy at other times.

Especially learning.

In the past week, every morning during the day was a high-intensity military command course taught by Bai Quan himself.

In fact, according to Bai Quan's original plan, Chen Ming needed to learn commanding techniques from him all day long.

But because on the first day, Chen Ming spent one day successfully learning the content that might have taken a week to learn in the Baiquan plan, so...

Although Bai Quan also believed that Chen Ming did not have the various foundations of militarized management and command in the military academy, so he put a lot of basic content in the textbook.

But Bai Quan was very surprised that Chen Ming's learning efficiency was so outrageous.

So much so that Bai Quan wanted to directly speed up the entire learning process, but Chen Ming did not agree.

Because on the first day, he wanted to confirm his efficiency in command learning through a day of study, so that he could re-plan his previously arranged schedule and try to keep the progress of the three aspects he currently wanted to learn basically consistent.

After all, he had to learn how to conduct, but he certainly couldn't leave behind other things.

You have to learn cruiser-level technology, and you have to learn the basics of biology.

Over the years, Chen Ming has almost forgotten the biology he learned before. He has never been exposed to biology since college, and there is nothing in his memory.

Everything has to be patched up.

Bai Quan wants to speed up the command course to squeeze out all his time.

Therefore, Chen Ming's last request was that within the limited time he planned for one day, that is, one morning, Bai Quan could teach as much as he wanted and cram in as much as he wanted.

He studied as hard as he could, and he had other uses for the rest of his time.

At that time, Bai Quan seemed to have assumed the role of instructor, and asked: "You can leave everything to your Yuhui to handle, right? What else do you have to do?"

So Chen Ming packed up all the things he wanted to learn, including spaceships, biotechnology, and various documents that Chaofan wrote specially for Chen Ming to learn cruiser technology and transform the spacecraft, and sent them to Bai Quan. .

Then Bai Quan had no objection.

So Chen Ming was a little miserable because of the intense study every morning these days.

However, being able to feel my progress during the learning process can make up for the painful feeling.

In addition, Bai Quan specifically asked Chen Ming what he was doing studying biology.

Then Chen Ming said that he should know about it after a while.

If Chen Ming remembers correctly, Bai Quan will definitely know about it within this month.

Of course, Chen Ming was not referring to the biological spacecraft.

The bioship is too important and bizarre, and too closely related to the Zerg, to be exposed now.

What he was referring to was the large-scale cultivation of crystal crabs that would definitely be carried out after his colony was established.

This is a long-term process that Chen Ming will use for his own use and maintain contact with the empire to a certain extent.

After all, Chen Ming couldn't really rely on himself to earn the supplies needed to maintain a colony, nor could he really rely on the support of his boss.

Colonies must have their own industries.

Then Chen Ming didn't know what kind of colony he could find.

The Crystal Crab, which has been cultivated by Yuhui and can be mass-produced and reproduced on a certain scale, and is not yet available in the empire, is obviously a very good choice.

It just so happens that the boss now has two crystal crabs and two eggs that Chen Ming gave to the boss as souvenirs.

The boss will definitely give the pair of energy crystal crabs to Bai Quan during Bai Quan's promotion ceremony later.

Chen Ming had previously heard from Bai Quan that he invited his boss to attend the promotion ceremony, and his boss agreed.

Although Chen Ming initially gave the crystal crab to his boss, he actually had no intention of letting his boss take it out during the promotion ceremony.

But since it happened to be at this time, even if Chen Ming didn't mean it, he still had to mean it.

By then, it would make sense for Chen Ming to study biotechnology, and Bai Quan would naturally not think too much about it.

He would only think that Chen Ming wanted to use this opportunity of the Fourteenth Legion to help publicize the existence of crystal crabs in advance.

Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about the two crystal crabs and the two eggs causing the crystal crab cultivation method to be leaked.

Yuhui had been researching for so long before he was able to stably cultivate crystal crabs in an artificial environment.

The empire only has two crystal crabs and two eggs for research, so it's impossible to make it faster than Afterglow.

Even if it were really possible, for example, if there were some great biological researchers in the empire who relied on cloning technology to mass-breed crystalline crabs for research, maybe the results would really come out.

But Baiquan will definitely help contain this matter, and will never give others the opportunity to learn more about it and obtain crystal crab samples.

After all, Chen Ming wants to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Baiquan Fourteenth Army to expand the spread of his future colonial industry, so he will definitely need to give Baiquan some benefits.

Baiquan can benefit from it himself, so why should others get a share of the pie?

It would be better to say that it is possible for the Fourteenth Legion to conduct internal research on crystal crab technology.

However, this also means that Chen Ming and the Fourteenth Legion will conflict and their relationship will become very bad.

The benefits of a crystal crab and the friendship of a psyker.

Baiquan can definitely make a reasonable choice.

But this is what happens in the future. The specific date of the promotion ceremony in Baiquan has not been announced yet, and Chen Ming's colony is still far away.

We can talk about everything later.

In short, Chen Ming now has nothing but conductor study at Baiquan in the morning.

The cruiser skills I learned in the afternoon also improved by leaps and bounds under the extraordinary guidance.

At least now, Chen Ming has no problem with the basic knowledge of the cruiser class.

Some basic transformations that break through the output limits of the power grid under normal circumstances can be carried out at any time.

It can only be said that Chen Ming still prefers this kind of overclocking modification he learned from Zuo Jing, because his ability can ensure his safety after overclocking the spacecraft.

Therefore, such transformation has almost no negative effects on Chen Ming.

Even Chen Ming has recently asked Lao Wu to collect some information about the left path, preferably about their strange technology for ship modification.

Although the teachings of the Luddites are extremely averse to technology, they have made good progress in carrying out destruction or some extreme technologies.

Chen Ming can definitely try to recreate it.

During the day, Chen Ming was learning command skills and ship technology.

Every night, Chen Ming spends time studying biological technology.

Due to the recent increase in the number of machines he controls, his learning efficiency has also increased significantly, and he still has some vague memories about the subject of biology in his mind.

Chen Ming spent three days remastering everything from elementary school to high school.

In the remaining four days of the past week, I was studying some other basic subjects required for biotechnology starting at the university level, and I am currently almost one-third of the way through.

Once he has mastered the subject at the university level, Chen Ming can then study biotechnology in more depth.

Chaofan even relied on his more exaggerated learning efficiency than Chen Ming to master more advanced biotechnology faster than Chen Ming.

So it directly helped Chen Ming plan the path Chen Ming would take in biology.

By the way, he also helped Chen Ming think about some biotechnologies that Chen Ming must master in advance.

It is the biotechnology that allows Chen Ming to transfer the insect queen to him wherever he needs it.

Two in total.

One is a biomass clump.

A solid material formed by condensation of high-concentration biomass belonging to the Zerg race.

It is used by Chen Ming to use the honeycomb network to transmit the queen, supplement the queen with nutrients, and cultivate the Zerg.

It is equivalent to a kind of compressed biscuit exclusive to the Queen of Worms.

The second type is shellac.

This is the food of the Zerg and the "fuel" for the Zerg creatures.

Ordinary Zerg do not have a rigid digestive sac that can eat anything like the Queen.

Therefore, ordinary Zerg must eat normal food, animal carcasses or various plants, or Thorne Zerg shellac produced by a specialized trophic insect within the Zerg.

In other words, as long as Chen Ming can come up with these two technologies.

You can rely on these two abilities and some body tissues of the insect queen.

Create a Zerg army with sufficient combat capabilities in any place.

As long as he can bring the Insect Queen's consciousness to him through the hive network and provide enough nutrition, the Insect Queen will help Chen Ming take care of the rest.

Therefore, Chen Ming's next plan for biology is to only learn the knowledge points related to these two technologies, and not learn the others for the time being. He will figure out how to make up for it later. It can only be said that the Zerg race is indeed a little troublesome. After all, they are living creatures, completely different from the mechanical race next door that can also transmit consciousness through the hive network.

Although the machine race itself is indeed relatively complex, especially the core chips, secondary cores and nanorobots that are most critical to maintaining the operation of the machine race.

Especially nanobots.

Chen Ming's technology has been moving toward macro-technologies such as cruisers and battleships. Micro-technologies such as nanorobots can only be said to be completely confusing.

Fortunately, nanorobots are a detachable component for the mechanical race as a whole, so Chen Ming does not actually have to master the technology of nanorobots to create a mechanical race.

Remove the components from the corpses of other mechanical clans, and then reinstall them.

If it doesn't work, Chen Ming simply won't install these nanorobots.

His own psychic powers can replace the functions of these nanobots.

As for the design of the machine race itself... it can only be said that the empire has integrated many designs of the machine race into the empire's own related textbooks on the way to development.

For Chen Ming, it is not difficult to learn.

Therefore, the mechanical race's reliance on his spiritual energy for teleportation was realized much earlier than the Zerg race's reliance on his spiritual energy for teleportation.

But there are always things about living things that machines cannot match.

Therefore, even if Chen Ming's progress in learning Zerg-related biotechnology is very slow, he can still accept it.

Anyway, he only spent a relatively short period of time in the evening.

The total time spent in the morning, afternoon and evening during the day is not short at all. It can even be said to be fully arranged.

It really put a lot of pressure on Chen Ming.

But once you get used to it, the rest won't matter.

And although he was very busy, Chen Ming still managed to find time to visit the galaxy where Chen Ming's afterglows discovered habitable planets last week.

And entered the atmosphere of that habitable planet. During the study, he was distracted and controlled the highest point to conduct several high-power scans of the planet.

Robots controlled by Yu Hui were even arranged to conduct multiple surveys of the planet's soil, water quality, atmosphere, and various local organisms at different longitudes and latitudes.

The final result can only be said that the planet is not bad. This habitable planet is not as dangerous as Ruimu and can be judged as a level 4 planet.

But the galaxy where the planet is located is not very good, according to the survey data of other planets in the galaxy that Chen Ming sent to his boss.

The boss responded that it was barely possible to assign this galaxy to level 3 because, except for the habitable planet, there were almost no resources that could be developed in the galaxy.

I can only say it's a pity, but it's still okay.

Anyway, Chen Ming doesn't plan to build a colony here. Someone will always be interested in a level 4 habitable planet there.

This is the same even if this galaxy is outside the afterglow star field.

Because Chen Ming heard some special news from Lao Wu these days.

The empire has been in a stalemate on the front line with Yuhui headquarters for a long time, and seems to have plans to put its focus in the direction of the Gallo Star Territory.

Chen Ming still remembers clearly what Huihuang once said to Chen Ming.

The moment the empire really turns its iron fist here, it will be the moment when the final countdown of Yuhui's life in this star field begins.

If the afterglow here is eliminated, then the star field outside itself has value, but because of the existence of the afterglow, the value of galaxies that are not that high will naturally return to the price they should be at.

But one thing is clear to Chen Ming, that is, any slight movement in such a huge empire will definitely take a lot of time.

The empire didn't start attacking this afterglow star field so quickly.

So Chen Ming still has some time to do something with his Yuhui individuals who barely survived the internal massacre by Yuhui.

Of course not now, now he still has things to do to study, develop and build colonies.

As for the planet data collected by Chen Ming during the development process, the boss will collect it first and will not sell it immediately.

The boss will wait until Chen Ming continues to develop and Yuhui and Ren are gone before processing this batch of data, which will not affect Chen Ming's work.

Except last week Chen Ming's afterglow was surveying the surrounding galaxies.

In the past week, Chen Ming’s afterglow continued to explore the outside world.

And just at the beginning of last week, the construction of the star port over the temporary base had just been completed.

Under the brilliant planning, the entire star port can carry the upper limit of the number of spacecrafts that are constantly taking off and landing.

In the past week, all galaxies with the possibility of habitable planets within a full 110 light-years surrounding Chen Ming's temporary base have been investigated.

The efficiency can be said to be very high.

Although the efficiency will definitely decrease as the exploration distance increases later.

And in some places, hyperspace channels have appeared that need to be opened up by Chen Ming's highest point before they can be dredged.

Continuing outward, the possibility of encountering hyperspace clouds blocking the channel will become higher and higher.

After that, the highest point may have to be responsible for helping open the way for the spacecraft behind it 24 hours a day.

But fortunately, there is an autopilot system at the highest point, and there is Chaofan staying on the spaceship, so there shouldn't be any big trouble.

As for the declining efficiency, Chen Ming can only say that this is also a part that must be experienced on the road to development. Just get used to it.

And during this week, we were exploring the one hundred and ten light-year surroundings of the temporary stronghold.

The results of the investigation by the Afterglow individuals were still the same as last week, which was not very satisfactory.

Even though the search distance has more than doubled, the search scope has expanded several times.

In the end, Chen Ming found only one habitable planet.

However, there are four other planets with open-pit mine veins that can be easily discovered.

Together, these four planets almost perfectly cover the mineral veins of iron, aluminum, tungsten and other basic metals that will be greatly needed to build colonies after Chen Ming.

Chen Ming even found a high-grade metal material, solid gold, on a planet.

It is a synthetic material that is also an advanced material, called gold crystal, and is often used in high-precision sensors on various combat types of spacecraft.

The demand is big or small, or small.

It looks okay, but that’s about it.

After all, the several hundred light years of a limit jump plus the more than one hundred light years that Chen Ming explored were not far from the empire's border in a practical sense.

And in such a place where the empire border, the afterglow border and the machine race border meet, a planet with good things should have been discovered long ago.

The previous planet with an independent mechanical race was an unexpected surprise.

For now, we can only say that if we have collected planet data and can judge the value, we will be successful.

Although there are not many valuable planets, when Chen Ming went to the planet discovered last week, he also visited several valuable planets and galaxies discovered this week.

With automatic driving and transcendence, Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about anything.

And although it is impossible for him to invest too many resources in mining these mineral veins that Chen Ming needs.

But leaving some open-pit mining equipment and afterglow individuals on these mineral vein planets, and mining some open-pit mineral veins on a small scale is always no problem.

The difficulty of mining open pit veins is low, and Chen Ming provides various remote supports.

Mining never loses money.

Moreover, Chen Ming has almost learned some simple basic equipment used in the colony in the past few days.

He can even directly transform industrial equipment on-site by relying on those Afterglow individuals, and provide remote supply of maintenance and fuel purely through spiritual energy.

Even simply exchanging some fuel and mental power for some high-grade mineral veins would not be a loss for Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming makes the next extreme distance jump and is ready to leave, and when his boss sells the data on the galaxy and planet, he will remove the equipment here.

Anyway, the equipment will be dismantled and taken away, and the materials will be directly transformed and transported.

For the Yuhui individuals here, it’s okay to just let them drive the spaceship back by themselves, or Huiyao can pick them up.

If he encounters the same resource planet that can be easily exploited in the future, Chen Ming will treat it the same way.

Chen Ming always felt uncomfortable if he didn't pick up something when passing by.

Except for the four planets with open pit mines.

That habitable planet is quite special.

Because this is a planet dominated by large arthropods.

To put it simply, it is a planet that is similar to the ancient earth, but the main species are not dinosaurs, but insects.

Chen Ming made special arrangements personally and spent some time catching dozens of giant insects of various shapes, ready to feed them to the queen.

In the past few days, the insect queen is still on the planet of the mechanical tribe, continuing to expand the scope of the population and its territory by devouring various creatures on the surface and underground and all kinds of things it can digest.

In the past few days, in addition to controlling the mechanical clan every day, Chen Ming was also trying to communicate with the insect queen to see if he could let it actively evolve some abilities.

Although the insect queen's conscious reply was a bit vague, Chen Ming still understood its meaning.

The Thorn Zerg species are very powerful, and the source of their power is their special evolutionary ability.

The most important way to display this evolutionary ability is through combat.

During the battle, some Zerg individuals will show evolution adapted to combat.

These evolutions will be extracted, saved, and recorded by the Zerg Queen, and then applied to every Zerg individual.

The other kind is actually related to combat.

Zerg will instinctively release the abilities contained in their genes during battle, showing powerful traits deep in their genes.

As for the origin of the traits in these genes…

There is only one, eat.

(End of this chapter)