Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 238 Ultimate Power

Three days later in the morning.

Chen Ming looked at the insect queen as usual.

The appearance of the piece of meat that had been cultivated a few days ago had changed significantly.

The original messy muscle tissue and redundant scales and wings have all disappeared, and the entire piece of meat is wrapped in a new carapace that combines the advantages of the Zerg carapace and Aurora Wind Spirit scales.

It looks much more pleasing to the eye than it did a few days ago.

It is obvious that the survivability of this sample has been improved after yesterday's in-depth patching.

At this time, the insect queen also noticed that Chen Ming was paying attention here. It immediately controlled the unique organs derived from the Aurora Wind Spirit gene on the meat block, and created a large amount of plasma around the meat block.

In the brightly colored plasma, the intact pieces of meat are in sharp contrast with the surrounding environment covered by the insect queen's carpet, which is constantly being destroyed by plasma.

And Chen Ming also noticed that plasma existed at a very high density around the meat.

The biological spacecraft can launch these insect eggs at high speed, and these insect eggs will hatch during the flight.

He can breed some plasma self-destructing flying insects that are purely used for self-destruction.

Chen Ming's research and guarantee of individual survivability in special operations has been completed.

It is a self-destructing plasma insect that completely abandons all other abilities, including self-protection capabilities, and focuses on strengthening its plasma production capabilities.

This kind of flying insect was originally a type of Zerg combat unit that Chen Ming was more optimistic about.

During Chen Ming's research on plasma genes this time, when he saw the bugs that the insect queen had failed to create and were burned to death by the plasma she created, he had new ideas in his mind.

Chen Ming's hard work these days was not in vain.

It's the color of the carapace covering this piece of meat.

Moreover, the genes on this piece of meat that have been optimized by Chen Ming's spiritual energy have also been completely obtained by the Queen of Insects.

At this time, the carapace of the meat block is different from the original pitch-black carapace of the Zerg. It has undergone some noticeable changes after Chen Ming used his spiritual power.

Since the Aurora Wind Spirit's scales are colorful and similar to Aurora, after the genetic fusion, the carapace of this piece of meat was also made colorful.

Fortunately, the color traits displayed by the carapace and muscles were not important genes. The queen quickly changed it back according to Chen Ming's request, returning to its previous dark and chilling appearance.

He got the inspiration from the previous attempts by the Queen to create mixed-gene meat pieces.

Although this carapace can't kill this mass of meat, that's all.

However, the damage caused by disposable consumables such as self-exploding flying insects in a short period of time will definitely be much more powerful than that of serious plasma flying insects.

Moreover, Chen Ming's research this time has some additional by-products.

Only now there's a problem.

A weapon that can be used on the Queen's biological ship.

It can be seen that the basic physical strength of these organizations has also been strengthened to the extreme.

But even so, these plasmas did not cause any damage to the meat.

Of course, normal ones have perfect plasma control and plasma protection capabilities, and pure evolved flying insects, plasma flying insects are also in Chen Ming's plan.

And that's it for now.

But it's not a big problem, at least the other Zerg races still have what they should look like.

The biological spaceship of the Zerg Queen can be regarded as the template for the biological spaceship that the Zerg can now cultivate.

The carapace on the meat block cannot completely protect it, so there are still some muscle tissues and mucosal tissues on the meat block that are directly exposed to the plasma.

It flashes under the action of plasma, just like an LED light.

Even the muscles under the carapace show different body color characteristics.

In other words, Chen Ming can now ask the Zerg Queen to replace some of the genes that make up the body tissues of all Zerg races, so that the average combat ability of all Zerg races can be improved to a higher level.

The insect queen continued to conduct tests on the piece of meat in front of Chen Ming, including but not limited to crushing with heavy objects, corrosion with strong acid and alkali substances, explosion of unstable energy crystals, and various attack methods possessed by the Zerg.

It not only ensures the original resistance to plasma, but also has stronger resistance to other attacks. This is the evolution after genetic fusion.

These hatched bugs can quickly grow into a large number of flying bugs with the ability to interfere with or destroy the shield and armor of the spacecraft, and continue to rush towards the enemy at high speed in space with the power of launch, similar to an assault boat.

Chen Ming is now very much looking forward to seeing these bugs that can withstand plasma attacks appear on the ground battlefield.

Survival is definitely not what Chen Ming needs to worry about next.

The body of the Zerg can survive in the space environment, after it has the ability to resist plasma attacks.

After the energy crystal, a thing that concentrated a large amount of energy, was found, he had also asked the insect queen to re-breed several generations of more powerful flying insects.

The original generation of insect queens used this method to switch from the original abandoned spaceship of the space station to the spaceship of the pirates who listened to the rescue signal and came to take advantage of the fire and ran all the way outside the empire.

This situation clearly told Chen Ming that not only the outer carapace, but also the other tissues of this piece of meat had a certain degree of plasma resistance.

Chen Ming didn't like Zuo Jing very much, but he always thought the techniques related to self-destruction he learned from Zuo Jing were good.

There is another kind, which is some insect eggs that are about to hatch on the side of the biological spacecraft.

As for the weapons on the Queen's spaceship, except for the acid jet capsule that Fela was unable to bear and had long ago.

The insect queen can create similar existences at any time.

So this idea naturally appeared in his mind and was perfected.

With these two technologies, if you really want to fight later, you will first release a wave of plasma self-exploding flying insects to destroy the shield armor.

Then the plasma flying insects enter the field and are responsible for ending the battle.

Follow this train of thought.

Chen Ming also thought of another direction that he had not thought of before.

Those eggs launched by biological spacecraft can carry parasites, parasites that can directly control individuals of the mechanical race.

These parasites do not need to hatch on the way to space. As long as the eggs can hit the target, the parasites can use the energy of the energy crystals they carry to grow and parasitize within the spacecraft.

Use parasites to control your spaceship.

Although it may be a bit difficult, after all, the size of the parasite is comparable to that of ordinary mechanical units, but it is still a bit difficult to face the spaceship.

But even so, Chen Ming still feels that this solution is valuable. Even if it cannot control the entire spacecraft, controlling a part of it and causing interference to the driving of the spacecraft should not be a problem.

Chen Ming has already thought of names for these three new types of biological spacecraft weapons.

[Biological Missile·Parasite], [Biological Missile·Plasma Self-destructing Flying Insect] and [Biological Warplane·Plasma Flying Insect].

They all have practical application value.

Chen Ming even felt that he should let the biological spacecraft of the Insect Queen specifically develop in this direction, which should be regarded as an aircraft carrier.

Relying on self-destructing flying insects and other combat flying insects, a combat method combining missiles and fighter planes was established.

But this is just an idea for now.

The most important thing now is to get the special operations units out.

The survivability of the special operations units has been guaranteed, and then the next stage begins.

But there is still no rush to start.

Because it's still early morning.

After Chen Ming got up and washed up, he quickly sent someone a breakfast, and then picked up the daily report sent from Baiquan today.

Ever since Bai Quan gave him this report for the first time a few days ago, he has been studying the contents of this report all day long.

After all, this allows him to learn a lot of information without leaving home, and some of it can also be verified through his relationships outside the home.

Especially for some changes in public opinion, Chen Ming can understand very clearly.

After all, the public opinion that Baiquan mismanaged the Fourteenth Army branch and seemed to be suspected of corruption was not so easy to ignore.

It can be said that this kind of news is spreading throughout the entire star field.

Even the report given by Bai Quan clearly stated these contents.

Chen Ming went out of his way to verify it, and indeed found that such public opinions were spreading in many places.

This is not just the timely transmission of information from Lao Wu and Glasses.

There must have been others who contributed to the spread of these messages.

Only then can people outside the Fourteenth Legion learn about this false news so quickly and promptly.

However, Bai Quan must have seen it before him, and Bai Quan was still the same when he was teaching, so Chen Ming didn't ask any more questions.

It just so happened that Bai Quan asked him for a day off today, saying that he had something to do in the morning and would make up for the morning lessons in the evening.

By the way, he also asked Chen Ming if he was free to attend a meeting he was going to have today.

They said they were going to announce new rules, regulations and regulations for the branch.

Chen Ming can actually go over and listen to military meetings, but Chen Ming has basically never touched on such obviously political matters.

In addition, Bai Quan just said it casually and did not say that Chen Ming must be what he was in the past, so Chen Ming refused.

Anyway, he could tell from these actions that Bai Quan must be pushing for something.

Now that things are progressing, there is no need for Chen Ming to focus all his thoughts on this matter.

He just spent this morning doing research.

After Chen Ming had breakfast, he opened the terminal and played Baiquan's meeting.

While listening half-underlying to the content of Baiquan's meeting, he was doing his own thing.

In the past few days, in addition to the research conducted by the Insect Queen, Chen Ming was also conducting research on simulation experiments.

The main reason is that the data previously tested in the simulation must be reproduced.

But this is quite simple. As long as you have the initial idea, write down the rest that you will use later, then throw it into the computer and let the computer do the math.

In just a few days, Chen Ming had already reproduced most of the research processes done in the simulation.

What follows is all new research.

Chen Ming even had to spend some time thinking about what content he had not done yet and needed computer simulation.

So he can put it into the computer to calculate, add it to the content he has studied, and ask Lou Wei to pay more.

Research on other synchrotron cores is also progressing steadily.

It's just that it still has the same shortcomings as when I studied the Purgatory Core before.

Since this task was assigned by Bai Quan, Chen Ming does not need to spend money to buy equipment or anything else. He just needs to tell Bai Quan and wait for it to be delivered. It should arrive tonight or tomorrow.

However, judging from Chen Ming's current research on synchrotron cores, he can clearly feel that the emphasis of synchrotron cores and purgatory cores is different.

The main focus of the latter is combat.

As for the former, after these two days of superficial research.

Chen Ming can basically confirm that it is used in logistics. There are also backdoors for psykers on the synchrotron, which should also be used to enhance logistics capabilities.

Moreover, it seems to have some important connections with the nanorobots that are inseparable from the mechanical family.

Of course, Chen Ming can't do further research now, so he still has to wait.

So now, the research on Zerg units is more important.

Chen Ming's three requirements for Zerg special operations units are survival, activity and combat.

Survival is no longer a problem, so activities are the next problem to be solved.

Chen Ming wants more than just giving special operations individuals the ability to carry out normal activities.

After all, ordinary activities on the ground must be no problem now.

Even if it is the piece of meat lying there now, as long as it is slightly adjusted to make the muscle tissue normal, it will not be a problem to move.

And considering the physical strength of that piece of meat, the mobility is definitely not bad.

Therefore, Chen Ming wanted more.

He wanted to follow Yan Xiong's original standards.

Let this special combat unit have the ability to physically break through the gravity of the planet and move in the space environment.

It sounds like the biological spacecraft actually meets this condition.

If you want to physically break through the atmosphere and escape the gravity of the planet, you can rely on the [Biomass Propeller] and the biological engine [Rigid Digestive Sac].

Equipped with a [hyperspace stable connective tissue] that is equivalent to a hyperspace channel engine system and evolved from a generation of insect queens, it can even physically enter hyperspace.

It can indeed meet Chen Ming's needs.

But what Chen Ming wants is a special unit specialized in ground combat that is more flexible, smaller, and more capable of comprehensive combat capabilities.

Battleships cannot always replace ground units. Chen Ming just needs the special combat units he is currently researching to have the ability to move in space and avoid interception.

To satisfy this idea, it means that the size of the entire special operations unit must be miniaturized.

All body tissue parts must be stuffed into a body with a maximum size of no more than eight meters.

This is Chen Ming’s ideal body shape.

It is also the size of a general shuttle craft that can land on a planet and take off again.

If you can continue to shrink, then shrink as much as possible, preferably to the size of an ordinary person.

Anyway, the main attack method of the final special operations unit will definitely be plasma. Such a large-scale attack method really does not require a large size.

So Chen Ming’s needs are very clear.

All the large-volume organs possessed by the biological spaceship must be reduced to a size that can be used in the body of a creature of several meters in size, and it must also be ensured that these organs can still play their original role.

As long as the original function can be ensured, it is enough, and the remaining organs will play their due role on their own.

Now that he has the idea, Chen Ming already has ideas for actually doing it.

Chen Ming communicated with the Insect Queen, and soon asked the Insect Queen to create a new body size of about twenty meters, a piece of meat slightly smaller than the size of an ordinary frigate.

But it's different from the previous one.

The inside of this piece of meat is no longer pure muscle tissue and some life-sustaining tissues, but various materials that are stuffed in at extremely high density under the deliberate design of the insect queen to create special combat individuals. organ.

These crowded organs are constantly repelling each other, squeezing and hurting each other.

Over time, there will either be problems with the internal organs or with the outer layer of epidermal tissue.

This is the most intensive way the insect queen can currently design the arrangement of organs in an organism.

This is what Chen Ming wants.

Such a design is obviously very unreasonable, so next, as long as he uses the spiritual power of deep repair, his spiritual power will optimize this obviously unreasonable structure.

Chen Ming has mastered the power of deep repair for some time.

Naturally, he knows the effects of how to use psychic energy.

Such a design would definitely allow his spiritual power to gradually and rationally shrink every structure without losing functionality.

This is Chen Ming's control and use of his spiritual energy.

The day passed quickly.

Early the next morning.

Chen Ming once again turned his attention to the Insect Queen.

This time, the optimization was not as successful as the previous piece of meat with chaotic genes. The optimization was indeed successful.

But deep repairs don’t go far enough.

The mass of meat, which was more than 20 meters in size, had not shrunk much, only the internal organs in its body had been shrunk a lot, and were arranged very reasonably and perfectly within the body of the meat.

Therefore, Chen Ming had to let the insect queen master the manufacturing methods of these various organs that had shrunk a lot, and then repeat the previous steps.

Chen Ming estimated that it would take a few days, not too long.

Today, the research equipment needed for the synchrotron core has also been transported here.

And it was sent through a transfer station previously set up by Baiquan.

After what happened before, Bai Quan was indeed constantly optimizing various situations on Chen Ming's side and doing his best to ensure Chen Ming's safety.

That's just right, the time can be staggered, and the in-depth optimization of the synchrotron core and special operations unit activity capabilities can be carried out at the same time.

Time flies.

A week passed in a blink of an eye.

It took a little longer than Chen Ming thought to complete the "activities" of the special operations unit as envisaged by Chen Ming.

Because after Chen Ming optimized to the original level, he was still thinking about whether he could continue to optimize.

So I spent a few more days doing in-depth repairs.

It took a few more days and the effect was very satisfactory.

In the end, the minimum size of the piece of meat was reached by Chen Ming to about three meters.

And under this premise, the overall ability has not been significantly reduced.

Rather, the convenience brought by the reduced body size is definitely greater than the slight difference in combat effectiveness caused by the original size.

This is the special combat unit that Chen Ming wants.

2. On the same day that the "activity" design of the special operations unit was completed.

Chen Ming still read the report that Bai Quan sent every day without hesitation.

Baiquan has made new moves in the past week.

He began an internal purge.

All financial statements and all administrative documents of the branch were disclosed to the headquarters of the Fourteenth Army.

Bai Quan has secretly calculated every account within the Fourteenth Legion and put it in the eyes of everyone.

What this means is very clear to Chen Ming.

The entire branch of the Fourteenth Army was arrested everywhere, and all those who had made mistakes were captured without exception.

It even included some of Baiquan’s own people.

Several staff members from Chen Ming's side were also taken away and never appeared again.

And their jobs were quickly taken over by some people who seemed to be transferred from the headquarters and had very innocent identities and backgrounds, which basically did not affect their work.

Presumably it's the same elsewhere.

Although Chen Ming didn't care, others seemed worried.

Moreover, Bai Quan's actions made the public opinion that had been rising in the past even more uproar. The whole matter has never been less popular, and the public opinion attacking him has become more obvious.

Chen Ming went to ask specifically.

As a result, Baiquan said that everything was under control and it would be over soon.

Chen Ming did not continue to ask any more questions.

Continue to immerse yourself in your research.

Obviously, before Bai Quan can solve this matter, all other matters can only be put aside.

Then the new needs of the Zerg combat units were naturally placed in front of Chen Ming.

fighting.

Once survival and activity are met, combat becomes the final condition that needs to be met.

Under the premise of having the previous foundations.

There is nothing much to say about the most basic melee combat ability of the special Zerg unit. After all, this is where the Zerg is most powerful.

And although Chen Ming did not consider the blessing of the Insect Queen's psychic energy when designing, the Insect Queen's psychic blessing will definitely be indispensable during actual combat.

It is no longer a problem that the physical strength of the physical body that can withstand plasma is combined with the psychic power of the Insect Queen. It is stronger than pure sky steel, the top of the advanced materials.

Even some materials with relatively weak strength among special materials can completely surpass it.

For example, Chen Ming has been carrying a chainsaw made of special materials in the repair kit he has carried with him since a long time ago.

This thing is made of relatively low-strength special materials. Under normal circumstances, it can directly cut through the rear armor of the cruiser. Of course, forget about the front armor.

But the rear armor of the cruiser is also the armor of the cruiser, so its value lies there, which is proof of Sindar Company's wealth.

So with physical strength that exceeds the strength of this chainsaw, there's really nothing to say about the hand-to-hand combat capabilities of the special operations unit.

So with this foundation, Chen Ming doesn't plan to add too many other attack methods.

Three are enough.

There's nothing much to say about plasma, the main means of large-scale attack.

One of the two remaining methods, Chen Ming's choice is [Parasite].

This thing's ability is very useful when facing the mechanical race.

It just so happened that Chen Ming couldn't indirectly control the mechanical race through afterglow or other means, he could only do it in person, so the parasite was very valuable.

The last resort is to cooperate with the creep of other Zerg units.

In fact, it’s not quite right to say that these two are attack methods. After all, parasites are not considered attacks, and creep is the basic ability of current Zerg units.

Therefore, the special combat unit designed by Chen Ming is actually very simple.

Extreme physical strength combined with extremely destructive plasma, this is what Chen Ming wants.

(End of this chapter)