Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 194 Purgatory Core

Bai Quan looked like he had already made some assumptions in his mind.

Chen Ming said directly: "I feel that this thing is a bit like what you said some time ago..."

Bai Quan responded before Chen Ming finished speaking: "I feel so too, so I have to ask and wait for my news."

"Row."

Bai Quan hung up the communication with some eagerness.

He immediately took the video sent to him by Chen Ming and went to the exclusive research institute under the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps where he was currently located.

Only Chen Ming was left thinking.

Consider the situation of those fifty-odd cruisers and that source of danger.

First of all, Chen Ming was certain that even if the more than fifty cruisers of the Mechanical Tribe were injured before arriving in the galaxy, they must have been caused by his troubles on the Mechanical Tribe's colonial planet.

It's not that he was driven here because he failed to target the source of danger.

Because these more than fifty cruisers have no ability to resist in front of the source of danger.

Assuming that the mechanical race knew such a dangerous thing in advance, it would be impossible for them to mobilize more than fifty cruisers to target this thing at once.

Anything that cannot be captured can be given away by one ship or by fifty ships.

The machine race wouldn't be so stupid.

If the machine clan didn't know about this thing, the purpose of these more than fifty cruisers would indeed be Chen Ming's.

Therefore, Chen Ming felt that it was very likely that the reinforcement fleet of the mechanical tribe happened to accidentally encounter this thing on the way here.

Although he is still not sure whether the mechanical tribe understands the source of this danger.

But there is a high probability that the fleet of the mechanical race fought with this thing, or was beaten unilaterally, and suffered a lot of losses.

The remaining fleet of the mechanical race chose to continue to their destination, which was the colonial galaxy outside that was attacked by Chen Ming.

The cities they built as colonies have collapsed under the attack of the insect swarm.

Leaving the instigator Chen Ming behind and killing them when it is irreversible is already the best result for them.

So it is also a good choice to divert trouble to the east when necessary.

Anyway, even if they failed, they would never be able to get back what they had lost because of Chen Ming. It would be better to exchange greater losses for a greater possibility of killing Chen Ming.

The mechanical tribe is indeed cruel.

Unfortunately, Chen Ming ran too fast.

The source of danger brought by the Machine Tribe was the first to be targeted by the Machine Tribe itself.

As Chen Ming roughly guessed what had just happened, he suddenly took a deep breath.

Because he still has many questions in his mind.

What exactly is the source of the danger?

How did the Machine Tribe provoke this thing?

These two questions remain unanswered as always.

Therefore, Chen Ming temporarily stopped thinking about this matter and waited for Baiquan's response with peace of mind.

At the same time, there is another matter waiting for Chen Ming to solve.

It's the fact that his psychic powers can't control the mechanical race.

Chen Ming personally tried using psychic energy before, and when he saw the prompt later, he basically understood what was going on.

It became clear what was the reason why he couldn't control the machine race.

In fact, the answer is very simple.

The only thing that can fight against spiritual energy is spiritual energy.

Although this sentence is not absolute, it makes sense many times.

The hive mind network among the mechanical races in the entire mechanical race star field is the same as Chen Ming's own mechanical race hive network, which is linked together by spiritual energy.

It is precisely because the machines on Chen Ming's target planet are connected to the cruiser in the core of the city, and the cruiser is connected to the higher-level hive network.

That's why he can't control these machines that have been affected by spiritual energy.

The discovery of this situation also made Chen Ming figure out something.

He had actually been thinking before that metaphysical things like the hive mind should be disconnected when the distance is far enough.

How can a hive mind continue to be maintained across hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of light years? And can it transmit everything seen by the same kind without any obstruction?

Obviously the same hive mind Zerg is divided into different groups, and there may be internal fighting between each group.

It's like the mother of the insect queen controlled by Chen Ming discovered another group of Thorne Zerg on the track of the previous independent mechanical tribe, and directly devoured the other group and turned it into her own nutrition, and then Evolved into a destroyer.

The hive mind network among the Zerg is obviously based on the group.

However, the mechanical race can be integrated into such a large star field, and there is more than just this star field in the entire universe.

Only a very small number of independent mechanical clusters may not be in this huge hive mind network.

Chen Ming never understood it before.

It wasn't until today that he discovered that the answer had already been reflected in himself.

Psionics are the basis for maintaining such a hive mind network whose coverage is measured by the star field.

Chen Ming felt that he should have thought of it earlier.

Because the first thing related to psychic energy that he came into contact with, the Whispering Spirit Stone, was something he got from the Machine Tribe.

The mechanical race itself is different from Yuhui. They are the legacy of another civilization, and they are born with psychic powers.

Therefore, it is normal for their hive network to be constructed with psychic energy.

Of course, this does not mean that there is a psyker behind the machine race controlling them.

When Chen Ming tried to control the cruiser with his own hands before, he could feel that the psychic energy of the mechanical race was a dead thing, not an extension of a psyker's will.

The boss, Yan Xiong, and even the insect queen that Chen Ming had contact with were different.

When a psyker or psionic creature uses psionic energy, they emit psychic waves that reflect the state of the psyker's own mind.

Other psykers can sense the emotions of the psyker emitting the psychic waves through these psychic waves.

No matter how calm a psyker is, when he uses his psychic energy to emit psychic energy fluctuations, his psychic energy fluctuations will also bring with him a hint of calmness.

Even if you are not a psyker, but an ordinary person, you will still have subtle feelings when exposed to psychic energy fluctuations, and you can understand the emotions of the psyker.

Although Chen Ming didn't know much about psychic powers, he had used them many times in front of Lao Wu and the factory director.

In the past, when we occasionally chatted, I happened to learn these strange and strange knowledge about psychic powers from them.

So if such a mechanical race all over the universe is controlled by a living psyker, then Chen Ming would not dare to touch these mechanical races.

However, when Chen Ming tried to control the mechanical race before, he did not detect any emotional fluctuations in the hive mind network.

What constructs the mechanical hive network is a dead object, a mechanical device similar to a psychic pulse generator.

And it is not difficult to crack a dead object.

The Mechanical Tribe relies on psychic energy to link, but not every Mechanical Tribe individual can use the psionic energy of the hive mind network to do things to resist the control of Chen Ming's psionic energy.

It's just that the instinctive protection of the psychic hive mind network prevents Chen Ming's tentative, non-forced control from taking effect directly, that's all.

Chen Ming only needs to let his spiritual power show aggression and forcefully destroy the original network connection of the mechanical tribe, and the rest will be easy to handle.

So even before, when Chen Ming was standing on the mechanical cruiser.

As long as he wanted to, he could directly eliminate the influence of the mechanical clan's spiritual energy on them and control the ship personally.

The mechanical race has lost a lower-level core of the hive mind, so the remaining mechanical race is also in Chen Ming's pocket.

The reason why Chen Ming didn't do this was because the matter was not that simple, and there would be other consequences later.

The Machine Race is the mechanical life form of the hive mind.

Destroying the hive mind network of the machine race is tantamount to directly digging out a piece of the machine race's brain.

Although this is just a city of mechanical people, it is not fatal to the mechanical people, but the damage is absolute.

And it's still an extremely serious injury.

And all intelligent species basically have a common problem.

Those who have helped themselves will be forgotten after a while, but those who have hurt themselves will never be forgotten in this life.

This means that if Chen Ming does this, the entire machine race will know of his existence and the fact that Chen Ming has caused serious harm to them.

More than 50 cruisers had just come to chase them. If they continue to cause trouble, the mechanical race may not be the real capital ship that will come over the next time they meet.

And if the mechanical tribe only knew that Chen Ming was a person with considerable combat ability and could control the Zerg.

Then next, the Machine Race will discover that he is a psyker who can cause fundamental destruction to the Machine Race.

Just like when Yuhui discovered him.

But Chen Ming was still relatively weak before, and Yu Hui and humans did not have such an extreme conflict as the machine race and humans.

That's why Yuhui and humans exchanged some prisoners and supplies.

That's why when Yu Hui discovered Chen Ming, he immediately wanted to take Chen Ming away, try to recruit him, or extract the spiritual nerve.

But if the mechanical tribe knew of Chen Ming's existence, they would never give Chen Ming any chance, and they would definitely pursue him with the highest standards.

A psyker who can cut off the machine hive network knows best how big a threat they are.

Once Chen Ming is caught, his life will definitely be lost.

Therefore, if he really destroys the mechanical clan's hive network, it will definitely be very dangerous in the future.

He had to think again.

Anyway, the mechanical cruiser that Chen Ming took away has been damaged, and the mechanical race individuals on it have also been cleared away. There is definitely no way to escape on your own.

Chen Ming also brought the mechanical cruiser to the empire.

Even if the machine race had hive consciousness, it would be impossible for them to actually pursue the cruiser if they knew its location.

Therefore, as long as Chen Ming does not take the initiative to provoke the Machine Clan, the Machine Clan will have no other influence at all except knowing that he is now in the Human Empire.

Moreover, the location of the temporary stronghold has not been exposed, and it is impossible for the mechanical tribe to find trouble in his temporary stronghold.

Chen Ming still had time to think about whether he should be burdened with such a trouble.

Then he would not be in a hurry to come to a conclusion immediately.

It is better to take a rest first and wait until the mental state returns to its best before thinking about this issue.

And since he has returned to the empire and is still on the edge of the galaxy of the pirate space station, he must make a trip back to the space station.

Moreover, the patrol team in the galaxy just came over and wandered around, took one look at Chen Ming's fleet and ran away.

Although Chen Ming didn't know the people on the pirate space station's patrol team, they all knew Chen Ming and knew what was going on with these cruisers.

So Chen Ming was left to stay at the edge of the galaxy.

But they will definitely send back the news of Chen Ming's return. So Chen Ming must go back and say hello to everyone he knows.

But he still had one thing to do before returning to the space station.

Count the harvest.

Originally, Chen Ming's target this time was mainly mechanical race individuals to expand his own hive network.

Secondly, there is the mechanical colonial cruiser, which will definitely be helpful for his future colonization.

The other gains during the battle with the mechanical tribe were truly unexpected.

So now the overall harvest is simply calculated.

The most important ones are those mechanical race individuals whose total number has exceeded 30,000, all of which are parasitized by parasites that are desperately breeding and unable to move.

It can only be said that Chen Ming didn't know how he crammed so many mechanical races into two cruisers, but he did it anyway.

Although these parasites basically enter dormancy without subsequent nutrient supply, while they are dormant, they can also forcibly stop all mechanical activities of the mechanical family.

In addition to maintaining normal individual consciousness, those mechanical tribes are almost equivalent to dead mechanical bodies that are completely unable to move.

Chen Ming could just find a place to store them.

After that, Chen Ming is ready to control the mechanical family, and then he will control it in batches.

Finally, these mechanical tribes were sent to the city on the planet where the mechanical tribe in Chen Ming's hand was located.

Chen Ming estimated that after he finished controlling the batch of machines he had just captured, he should be able to completely build the hive network of machines he controlled.

Allowing him to produce the individual consciousness of the mechanical race on his own like the Zerg network.

In this way, as long as he can supply enough materials to the mechanical tribe in the future, the number of the mechanical tribe can start to skyrocket like the number of the Zerg.

It's just that this material is a bit troublesome.

After all, the main material of the Machine Tribe is high-grade metal dolomite steel.

If there is no mine with stable output, the money it would cost to simply acquire it would be really exorbitant.

Moreover, the Chen Ming colony has not yet found a suitable galaxy and has not officially started construction. It is not a good idea to spend money on the mechanical race.

Therefore, the expansion of the mechanical clan will have to be considered again at that time.

However, as long as he can produce the consciousness of a new individual of the machine race, even if the machine race in his hand falls on the front line, he can still use spiritual energy to recycle all the materials, and he does not have to worry too much about losses.

It can all be recycled and reused anyway.

As long as the scale of the battlefield does not exceed the number of machines currently controlled by Chen Ming, it will be fine.

It doesn't matter if it exceeds the limit. In addition to the mechanical race, Chen Ming also has the Zerg race that can serve as combat power on the ground battlefield.

In addition to the individuals of the Machine Tribe, Chen Ming’s second most harvest this time was the Cruiser of the Machine Tribe.

Except for the colonial ship that Chen Ming took away on the ground.

There are also eight cruisers from the second wave of reinforcements from the Machine Tribe.

Five of them were blown to pieces in Chen Ming's meteor fighter sea.

The internal cores of these five cruisers were damaged in the explosion, and they lost the psychic protection of the mechanical clan.

Therefore, the remaining large pieces of debris had been dismantled into materials and sent to the temporary stronghold, which made up for the white cloud steel material he was in short supply of recently.

Although the remaining three ships did not explode together, they basically lost their combat capabilities under the attack of the meteor.

Previously, Chen Ming had tied him to several other cruisers using local methods.

Then when they jumped again, they were brought to the galaxy where the pirate space station was located.

Previously, Chen Ming was not sure what mental consumption would be incurred in the subsequent battles.

At that time, there was no immediate waste of mental energy to control the three cruisers that had lost their combat effectiveness and even the ability to move.

So he didn't notice that his spiritual power couldn't control those mechanical races.

Now Chen Ming also tested it a little and found that the results were the same.

Just like the other mechanical tribes, these three cruisers are also protected by the mechanical tribe's psychic hive network and cannot be controlled.

However, Chen Ming's follow-up scan of the three mechanical cruisers revealed that they were all combat cruisers.

The internal structure is similar to that of an ordinary machine race individual. In addition to various devices that realize the originally designed functions, the rest are three cores.

A core chip, a secondary core, and a device for storing nanorobots, all upgraded to the cruiser level.

Overall, it's just an ordinary cruiser.

Moreover, they are still three cruisers of the same standard, with no special system devices on them.

Only the colony ship was slightly special, and its internal structure was very different from other mechanical cruisers.

Anyway, Chen Ming just left the colonial ship to Hui Hui to study.

Let Hui Hui figure out how to use the mechanical tribe's colonial ship, and then combine it with Yu Hui's own colonization method and Chen Ming's early colonial construction plan obtained from the empire.

The three were combined into one to develop a plan that could adapt to Chen Ming's future colonial construction.

Chen Ming believes that Huihuang will definitely produce a result.

When he actually colonizes in the future, he will be able to show his true value.

Except for the spaceship.

Chen Ming also gained something special this time.

That special individual of the machine family.

Since this machine race is directly controlled by the cruiser and does not have a core chip installed, there is no consciousness of the machine race on it.

Therefore, Chen Ming can directly control it without any restrictions.

And its name immediately appeared in front of Chen Ming.

[Heavy Machinery of the Mechanical Family·Purgatory Demon King]

[Energy reserve: 27%]

[Main weapon: Imperial Artillery]

[Secondary weapons: charge blast cannon*2, charge machine gun*2]

[External armor: Mechanical family heavy dolomite steel armor]

[Self-awareness: None]

[Important equipment: Purgatory core (in operation), core chip (missing), personality secondary core (in operation), nano-scale maintenance machinery (33%), thermal energy curing system (in operation), thermal energy extraction device (in operation) middle)】

[Available operations: repair (deep repair)/modification/disassembly]

Chen Ming briefly looked at the things on the panel, and then clicked on the [Purgatory Core] in the [Important Equipment] column of the machine called the Purgatory Demon King.

Although there is no detailed introduction to this thing on the panel.

But Chen Ming can figure out its function just by relying on his own understanding.

He is the source of the Purgatory Demon King's ability to control and influence heat energy. It is the true core of the Purgatory Demon King compared to the core chip and secondary core, and it is also a special relic of another civilization in the true sense.

Just like the low-temperature computing engine that Chen Ming heard about from Bai Quan.

The cryogenic computing engine is a supercomputer used by the destroyed civilization specifically to calculate battle-type events.

It needs to absorb heat to maintain the high-speed operation of the computer. While completing its own tasks, it can also achieve the outrageous effect of entropy reduction, which violates the laws of physics.

Although the purgatory core is not as exaggerated as the entropy decrease, it can also control the entropy increase and the steady-state distribution of entropy in the environment.

Change the surrounding environment on a large scale, making the environment more suitable for silicon-based life forms such as the mechanical race, and not suitable for any carbon-based life forms.

Chen Ming has seen it before.

What he wants to know more now is whether this core can play a greater role in his hands.

For example, mass production.

For Chen Ming, even if it is a relic of another civilization, as long as it comes into his hands, it will be controlled by his spiritual energy.

Psionics then automatically allow him to master the use of the things he controls.

When the method of use is clear and the internal structure can be resolved through three-dimensional imaging.

Chen Ming can completely analyze the internal structure of this purgatory core.

From the outside to the inside, they are the shell layer, isolation layer, operation layer and core layer.

There is nothing much to say about the outer shell layer. Above it are the various interfaces and the protective core shell.

When he saw the isolation layer, Chen Ming was stunned for the first time.

This isolation layer can isolate high temperature from the outside.

Internally, it can isolate the psychic energy fluctuations emitted from the internal operating layer and core layer.

Chen Ming blinked to confirm that he had read it correctly.

The operation of this purgatory core relies on spiritual energy.

Its operating layer and core layer are all made of pure psychic materials to form a complex mechanical device.

Although Chen Ming could clearly see the structure of the entire core, without understanding the principles, there was only one question left in his mind.

How is this done?

Chen Ming carefully checked it several times again and confirmed that there were no traces of psychic creatures or spiritual nerves in the core.

This is really an object that can produce psychic effects purely relying on technological level and psychic materials.

An object that allows mechanical beings like the Machine Tribe to control psychic energy.

Chen Ming didn't change much on the surface, but there were already thousands of thoughts in his mind.

Among them, the one that appears most frequently is the galaxy marked by the coordinates he obtained from the mechanical tribe's satellite.

He must go there.

There must be something more outrageous than the purgatory core or even the cryogenic computing engine.

Chen Ming took a deep breath for a few seconds and suppressed some of his unrealistic thoughts.

He returned his attention to the Purgatory Demon King itself.

In addition to the core, there are other valuable things on the body.

For example, the Imperial Cannon.

This thing is also very special.

Because Chen Ming also discovered a mechanical structure made of psychic materials inside the weapon.

This thing is a psychic weapon.

(End of this chapter)