Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 186 New Discovery

The cracked shellac in Chen Ming's hand looks really delicious.

And his instinct did not tell him that eating this shellac was dangerous.

How about... give it a try?

This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

He recalled the Zerg research report he had seen before by the scientific research bosses in the empire.

The research report records that this kind of Zerg food can also be eaten by humans.

And very delicious.

And based on experimental records.

This thing is basically confirmed to be non-toxic.

Only 0.2% of tens of thousands of volunteers suffered from mild food poisoning due to personal physical conditions.

However, in the second test, the conditions of these 0.2% people were normal again.

Food poisoning caused by shellac is random poisoning and may be related to personal constitution and is not fixed.

Therefore, although there is a possibility of food poisoning, shellac is indeed an edible food.

After all, many people are allergic to peanut butter, and some are even allergic to raspberries, which is actually similar to food poisoning, probably.

And this 0.2% probability is a bit low...

So Chen Ming made up his mind and finished the shellac with great enjoyment.

After half an hour.

Chen Ming walked out of the hospital at the highest point.

He washed his own stomach with the help of a robot.

It can only be said that a very unfortunate thing happened just now, and there was a 0.2% probability that he encountered it.

At this moment, the scene where Old Wu once said that he had a crow's mouth flashed through Chen Ming's mind again.

So without thinking, he wrote down in his notepad that he would send a copy of shellac as a souvenir to Lao Wu later, and also listed it in the column of important events.

In short, the other things that still need to be recorded were almost done before he got food poisoning.

So today, Chen Ming chose to rest just like before.

the next day.

That is the first day of the new week.

Chen Ming completely recovered from the food poisoning, regained his energy, and started studying with Bai Quan early in the morning as usual.

But just half an hour after Chen Ming and Bai Quan started, Huihuang suddenly sent a message that needed to be received by Chen Ming personally.

Chen Ming skillfully divided his mind into two tasks.

While continuing to teach normally with Bai Quan, the other side directly used psychic energy to read the information sent by Huihuang in his mind.

Just now, Huihuang received news from a Yuhui individual who was out exploring.

The afterglow individual discovered a planet where a mechanical race was suspected to exist.

Chen Ming didn't show any special expression on his face, but he immediately put the picture of the spacecraft sensor controlled by Yuhui in front of his eyes.

Although he can no longer use the faster-than-light communication network within the empire after being far away from the empire.

But he can also build a communication network based on his psychic power between different Afterglow individuals.

As long as he allows it, different afterglows can communicate directly with each other.

Therefore, the information collected by the outgoing spacecraft does not need to come back to be conveyed. Instead, as soon as it is discovered, Huihuang can receive the information as soon as possible.

This is also the reason why Chen Ming only has these Afterhui individuals on hand, but his exploration efficiency is pretty good.

And Chen Ming sent back the picture through the sensor of the spacecraft controlled by Afterglow that he was observing at this time.

It can be seen that the spacecraft is parked near the middle of the galaxy at this time, and is not too close to the interior of the galaxy.

Obviously, the spacecraft left the hyperspace channel and entered the galaxy. After a while, the afterglow above discovered that something was wrong inside the galaxy.

It is the third planet from the inside out among the six planets in this galaxy not far from the spaceship.

There are obvious mechanical creations in the orbit of such a planet that has no atmosphere and whose surface looks like an earthy desert when viewed from space.

But I can’t see exactly what it is.

After all, the Yuhui entity currently controlled by Chen Ming is only driving a destroyer.

That's why Huihuang said just now that he suspected that he had discovered traces of the existence of the mechanical race.

As for why Huihuang immediately suspected the mechanical race.

It's because many years ago, the empire had put its focus on dealing with Afterglow due to the two problems of low income from continued development and the trouble of Afterglow.

As for Yuhui, he has just recently emerged from the trouble left by Chen Ming.

Although the removal was not that complete, at least Yuhui's side seemed to feel that they had completely cleared out all Yuhui individuals who might have had contact with Chen Ming.

They are undergoing post-disaster reconstruction at this time, and there is no way they would appear in this damn location.

Then the only things left may be the remains of another civilization and the mechanical race that is closely related to them.

As for the glory, why don't you suspect that this is the relic of another civilization.

It's because the spacecraft currently controlled by Chen Ming captured a scene.

Just now, something that was probably a spaceship on the surface of the planet brought a mechanical creation to the orbit and pushed it into orbit.

If it is the relics of that civilization, it is impossible not to know what is still being built in the orbit of the planet after so many years.

So it can only be the mechanical race.

Anyway, at least for now, Chen Ming doesn't know that besides the humans of the empire, the afterglow of the afterglow, and the mechanical race of the mechanical race, there are other things in the entire universe that have intelligence and already have a civilized structure.

In short, it is best to prove all doubts with facts.

So Chen Ming directly modified an additional large-scale sensor for the destroyer on the spot to confirm the real situation.

Although the sensor couldn't fit inside the spacecraft, Chen Ming had to modify it to the outside of the spacecraft, making the entire spacecraft look like it had a bloated organ.

But there's nothing the spacecraft needs to do now. It can just stop and observe quietly. It doesn't matter if there are multiple things.

And with the activation of large sensors.

The appearance of those things on the track gradually appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.

It looks like some kind of combined large satellite composed of multiple satellites, orbiting the planet at a certain distance.

Each satellite has a completely white appearance and is obviously made of dolomite steel.

Moreover, these dolomite steels are still pure white, and there is no green appearance caused by the oxidation of the dolomitic steels that Chen Ming has seen among the independent mechanical tribes.

It seems that there is indeed a mechanical race on this planet, and it is still a well-maintained mechanical race.

Chen Ming gradually became excited.

Although the machine race is difficult to control, if he can continue to control it, it will be of great significance to his machine race hive mind network.

So he was thinking, even if his main task now is to continue to develop, should he give it a try?

Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Ming saw a flash of fire appear on the surface of the planet.

At this time, another satellite happened to be carried into space by a spacecraft and entered the orbit of the planet.

After putting the satellite into orbit, the spacecraft turned around and left.

The satellites that remained in orbit adjusted their orientation and were combined with the original satellites in orbit to form a larger satellite.

It seems that the satellites themselves have different modules, and their complete functions can only be realized when they are all assembled.

It was just through Chen Ming's observation of the large combined satellite that had been completely assembled.

He found that each large satellite combined did not seem to have complete functions.

It seems that several satellites must be connected together to be considered an overall facility.

According to the empirical analysis in Chen Ming's mind, this seems to be some kind of orbital defense system that is still in the early stages of construction.

However, he can currently see that the satellites in orbit have only almost filled one-fifth of the orbit above the planet's equatorial plane. There is still a lot of work that needs to be completed. It is obvious that it has only been built not long ago.

As for why the mechanical race wants to build such a thing, I am afraid we can only find the answer from the planet below.

The planet below can be seen as an uninhabitable planet from its appearance and lack of atmosphere.

Simple observation can also tell that the terrain of the planet is very flat.

Near the planet's equator, there are some areas that look like buildings.

As for more information, it cannot be seen by relying on sensors alone.

At least not in the current position of the spacecraft.

But Chen Ming doesn't dare to let the spacecraft get too close now.

After all, it was a surprise that this spacecraft had come all the way from outside the galaxy without being discovered.

If we get any closer, God knows if the mechanical tribe will react suddenly and destroy the spacecraft.

Although Chen Ming could dismantle the afterglow core and leave it alone outside to take away, he didn't have to worry about losing the afterglow.

Then he personally controlled the spacecraft to approach it and conduct observations.

Even if it was destroyed, it would only be a matter of one destroyer.

But since the Machine Tribe has not discovered the existence of this spaceship until now, there is no need for him to expose it so early.

It's better to wait and see if we can get more information without exposing it.

Find out what the mechanical race is doing in this position.

This way he can have more time to choose how to deal with these mechanical tribes.

If the machine race discovers this spaceship and is alert, it will not be so easy.

And some things can’t be understood without going in person and investigating.

It can also be analyzed based on some external conditions.

Just now.

After Chen Ming confirmed the existence of the mechanical race, he opened a star map.

It was discovered that this galaxy happened to be located far behind the mechanical star field adjacent to Afterglow and the Empire relative to the Empire. Although there is a slight deviation from the location of the mechanical race's star sector on the star map, it has already exceeded the star sector drawn by the empire where the mechanical race has frequent activities.

But based on the relative position of this planet and the mechanical race's star area, Chen Ming can basically determine that this planet is an independent planet of the mechanical race.

Why is this planet independent? Is it still at least two hundred light years away from the star field occupied by the Machine Tribe itself?

This cannot be analyzed by analysis.

Chen Ming could only make a random guess that it was a fallback path left by the Machine Clan, or that it was a direction they were exploring, or that there were some rare things here that were worthy of being developed by the Machine Clan.

Although the guessed answer may not be accurate, it should be close to ten.

After all, no matter who you are, as long as you are a conscious being, you always have to have a reason for doing things.

For such an independent planet to be occupied by a mechanical race, there are only three possibilities that Chen Ming just guessed.

He could try to figure out which one it was.

At this time, Chen Ming was still learning conducting lessons from Bai Quan.

While he began to control the high point that continued to help Huihuang and other Afterglow individuals open up hyperspace routes, he turned around, started the jump engine, and headed for this galaxy.

During the process, only one satellite was brought into orbit by the spacecraft and connected with other satellites that had begun to be combined.

However, there is still no way to piece together a complete large-scale combined satellite, and the efficiency seems to be a bit low.

If we make a simple calculation based on the number of satellites currently seen and the current efficiency of satellites in the sky.

Then the earliest date that the mechanical race on this planet appeared here was half a year ago.

It was earlier than the Queen of Insects landed on the planet where the mechanical race existed. The coming of the mechanical race to this planet should have nothing to do with the Queen of Insects.

But the more specific reason why the machine race came here has to be investigated by the Supreme Point.

It didn't take long for the Supreme Point to reach the target galaxy during the jump process of the jump engine that required almost no cooling time.

Chen Ming also deliberately made the Supreme Point jump outside the galaxy in order to hide.

And at the end of the jump, after accelerating to a certain speed in the direction of the galaxy, the engine was directly turned off.

Choose to glide through space all the way to the edge of your target galaxy.

The scan array is then started.

Although Chen Ming was a little worried that the scanning of the scanning array would be discovered by the mechanical clan.

But without scanning, he would now have no suitable means of investigating the planet's situation.

Now that the machine race can build a defense system in orbit, all options for close investigation have been eliminated from the beginning.

The most stable means of remote investigation is the scanning array at the highest point, and no other means will work.

In any case, this Supreme Point is a prototype designed by a psyker and funded by the Psychic Association.

The scanning array has a special design and the probability of being discovered is extremely low.

Anyway, Chen Ming saw it written in the driver's manual.

And this is indeed the case, the scan of the highest point was not discovered.

At least when Chen Ming checked the suspected construction areas on the planet through the scanning array.

The mechanical race on the planet is still working normally in a city that is under construction with a mechanical race cruiser as the core. It is not like being suddenly scanned by a strange spacecraft signal.

As for the ship located in the city of the mechanical tribe, according to Chen Ming's understanding from reading various papers before, it should be a colonial ship of the mechanical tribe.

This planet is a colonial planet that has just been colonized by the mechanical race.

Chen Ming instantly understood that the methods used by the mechanical tribe to develop were similar to the methods used by the empire.

Find a galaxy with relatively abundant resources to start colonizing first, build this place into a bridgehead, and then gradually spread out with this place as the core.

Then this planet suddenly attracted Chen Ming's attention even more.

Since the mechanical tribe can build a colony here, it also serves as a bridgehead for regional development.

Then it shows that the value of this planet has reasons for them to do this.

Moreover, the machine race itself is of value to Chen Ming in building a hive mind network.

And because Chen Ming did not control enough machines in the machine city he discovered, he is currently unable to use the hive mind network to build new individual consciousness like the Queen of Insects.

Therefore, in order to complete the construction of the individual consciousness of the machine race as soon as possible, the machine race is no longer limited to the numbers on hand.

He has to do something here.

And so is the mechanical colonial cruiser.

Putting aside the value of the cruiser itself, the fact that this cruiser was a colonial ship already made Chen Ming a little itchy.

The most indispensable thing on a mechanical colony ship is the facilities for manufacturing mechanical species.

Chen Ming now has two relatively difficult points in manufacturing machinery.

One is the core chip of the mechanical family, and the other is their secondary core.

These two things are the core of the mechanical family.

Although Chen Ming had the drawings, it was quite difficult to get through the drawings when he had no language barrier but only mathematics.

If there were special equipment for direct production, it would be much easier than Chen Ming spending half a day learning.

He can even do something with the help of the mechanical clan's ship.

This mechanical colony ship will always have most of the things needed to build a mechanical colony. At most, it will require some subsequent investment in resources.

In a sense, what Chen Ming lacks most now is material investment.

Such a colonial ship seemed to be able to do something special when combined with the machines he had on hand.

Such as occupying a magpie's nest in a new place.

Of course, Chen Ming thought it was very simple, but in practice it was definitely not as easy as he said.

Such a pioneering bridgehead colony, which is still under construction in its early stages, is definitely a very important place for the mechanical race.

Chen Ming could imagine if he had just placed all the afterglows somewhere and started the early construction of the colony.

Just as they were building a base and mining, they were suddenly robbed by the machine tribe.

It would be strange if he didn't fight against the machine clan.

So even if Chen Ming has any thoughts about this place now, he must carefully consider the mechanical tribe's subsequent counterattack.

The mechanical race here is not independent from the entire mechanical race cluster like the mechanical race on the planet that Chen Ming found before.

The mechanical race here is connected to the mechanical race star area next to it.

Holds extreme hostility towards humans and anything created by humans.

If Chen Ming appeared here and attacked the Machinery Clan, a bunch of Machinery Clan would probably fly over from the Mechanical Clan Starfield to cause trouble for him.

He must get rid of these troubles first before he can achieve results on this earth-yellow planet.

Therefore, when he is bound to encounter an increase in the number of members of the mechanical tribe, he must first consider the possibility of failure and the path of retreat.

Then consider attacking the Machine Tribe colony, capturing Machine Tribe individuals, and controlling the Machine Tribe cruiser.

Attacking is also not a simple matter.

This mechanical city under construction is completely different from the abandoned city that Chen Ming discovered before.

The defense facilities are complete, and there are a large number of surviving mechanical race individuals, and each one has complete combat effectiveness and complete logistical support.

So how to attack? Where to attack? How to gain maximum benefits and control the largest number of machines? How to disarm the mechanical cruiser in the center of the city?

It's all problems.

Of course there is one thing that can be determined without thinking about it.

The main force attacking the mechanical colony must be the Zerg led by the Insect Queen.

Since the machine race is still unable to create new individual consciousness, it cannot afford to lose.

It is not easy for Chen Ming to spend a lot of mental energy to create and control an army of robots to continuously attack the colonies of the mechanical tribe.

So Zerg is definitely the best choice.

But there is one thing you need to pay attention to when using Zerg.

From Chen Ming's previous review of the videos saved in the abandoned city of the Machine Tribe, it can be seen that the Machine Tribe has a very keen awareness of the Zerg.

The insect queen had just entered the atmosphere and before landing, the mechanical race on the surface of the planet had already begun to mobilize.

If the insect queen hadn't run so fast, Chen Ming wouldn't have the insect queen in his hand today.

Combined with what Chen Ming had noticed before, the blood of the Zerg has a very special effect on the machine. Chen Ming did not believe that nothing had happened between the Zerg and the machine.

Therefore, it seems that the Zerg and the Machine Race also have some kind of innate hatred, which is combined with the Machine Race's hatred of humans.

It is even more likely that the reinforcements coming from the mechanical tribe will become more dangerous.

And when the time comes, Chen Ming will definitely intercept the support of the mechanical tribe in space, and the insect queen will go down to prepare for the attack.

He was not worried about the Insect Queen on the planet. Since the mechanical race on that planet was completely controlled by Chen Ming, there were no restrictions from the outside world.

The bugs in the queen's nest almost care about the exponential growth, and the expansion speed is getting faster and faster day by day.

As long as Chen Ming's mental power is enough to maintain the transportation of Zerg energy crystals and maintain the speed at which the queen breeds Zerg individuals.

Attacking a mechanical city that has just begun to colonize shouldn't be a big problem.

But it's different in space. Will the support from the mechanical tribe be large? Did it come quickly? Can you beat it?

These are all issues that Chen Ming must consider.

Although not everything gives him time to think about how to deal with it.

But since I can take some time to think about it now, it’s better to think about it.

Moreover, the core Zerg queen, who is the main force in the landing operations, is still dormant and evolving in the cocoon.

There is definitely no rush to attack.

So Chen Ming does still have some time to think about it.

The direction of consideration is naturally how to let the insect queen arrive at the planet of the mechanical tribe first and develop for a period of time without being discovered by the mechanical tribe.

With the supply of Chen Ming's energy crystals, a group of Zerg species were reproduced.

(End of this chapter)