Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 239 Completed
After Chen Ming had a complete idea.

The design of the special combat unit "combat" is actually the simplest of the three design requirements.

It only took the insect queen a few hours to create an actual sample by relying on the biotechnology accumulated previously.

Although the initial samples were a bit rough, under the influence of Chen Ming's spiritual energy, all the unreasonable and imperfect areas were erased by in-depth repairs.

The last person standing in the deepest part of the nest was a small, terrifying creature that was only about three meters in size, but had powerful intimidation.

It was obviously motionless now, but the danger it exuded made some bugs deep in the nest deliberately stay away from it even without special orders from the queen.

And to say it is small is compared to other Zerg units.

The height of about three meters is no longer small from a human perspective.

The appearance of this special combat unit looks somewhat similar to the Zerg power armor that Chen Ming made before, and the overall appearance is more humanoid.

However, compared to the mechanical and insect composite structure, the power armor is more streamlined and lacks some offensive spikes.

So in the end, this special operations unit was still controlled by Chen Ming himself.

And for the insect queen herself, in addition to the effect of greatly improving her physical fitness when the psychic energy is activated, the physical fitness of the insect queen itself also increases significantly when the psychic energy is not activated.

And it is the kind of mount that does not require the Queen of Bugs to keep an eye on this body, nor does Chen Ming need to keep borrowing the Queen of Bugs' spiritual energy.

So in the recent period, he and Bai Quan had taken the time to learn a few fighting moves in the army, at least not to the point where they would not be able to resist when fighting with people in hand-to-hand combat.

Maintaining psychic energy fluctuations is also an important point.

When the Purgatory Core is designed, it can solidify psychic energy fluctuations using psychic materials and special structures, so only external materials are needed to solve the problem of mental power.

Because the design of the Purgatory Core is to use isolation materials to restrain the mental power that maintains psychic fluctuations within the core.

It can fully meet the material needs of special combat units to restrain their mental power in the body for a long time.

This is what Chen Ming wants.

It's a pity that the consciousness of those bugs that purely rely on the ferocious instinct of the Zerg to fight is not strong enough, otherwise Chen Ming will definitely let these bugs take over the body directly during the battle at least.

It would definitely not work under normal circumstances, because the function of psychic energy is a combination of psychic energy fluctuations and mental power.

Chen Ming doesn't expect this passive effect, which can be regarded as psychic energy, but Chen Ming hopes that this active effect can always be attached to the special combat units.

Then there is the second question, which is that Chen Ming also wants the psychic effects of the Insect Queen to be permanently stationed on this special combat unit.

Combat experience is always better than that of the insect queen simply waiting in the rear to command.

It's just that the consciousness of ordinary Zerg units cannot support such a powerful body, and their consciousness cannot bear the intensity required to control this body.

Because just like mental power will naturally dissipate, when psychic energy acts, the psychic energy fluctuations that are part of the psychic energy will also be naturally smoothed out.

After all, the insect queen's body is located at the heart of the biological spacecraft. It is a bloated big insect, and it does not look like it has the ability to fight at all.

One of them is a problem that Chen Ming discovered when he just started the design of "Battle".

The psionic power of the Insect Queen is a pure increase in physical fitness.

Chen Ming was not entangled in this issue. Originally, this body must have been controlled by him or the worm queen.

It is very simple to apply for a new purgatory core, or apply for some psychic materials to make the purgatory core.

Because Chen Ming discovered that the killing effect of blunt blows brought by extreme power is sometimes stronger than sharp weapons, this is why he came up with this design.

Therefore, Chen Ming now not only needs restraint materials, but also an energy source that can maintain psychic fluctuations.

Moreover, the insect queen itself is not very good at fighting. Most of the time it fights by relying on its numerical advantage and then taking advantage of it.

Only near the joints, or under the carapace of the limbs used for close combat, are there some inconspicuous spikes that can be retracted.

At this point when the finished product comes out, there are only the last two problems left for Chen Ming to solve.

If there are any suitable bugs, they will evolve and be used, but other than that, they will be gone.

Just as he wished.

Gather the source of spiritual energy.

It just so happened that Chen Ming had something extremely suitable on hand.

And he and the Insect Queen are the same, almost the same.

Fortunately, Chen Ming still has a lot of resources to apply for.

It is to allow the effect of this psychic energy to always exist on this body.

But since Chen Ming was unable to completely reproduce the core of Purgatory, especially the most complex and difficult to reproduce core part, he had to use other means to try to solidify the psychic fluctuations of the Insect Queen.

Therefore, Chen Ming had already thought of a solution to this problem when he was studying the core of Purgatory.

If you want to make this body move, either the consciousness of the insect queen comes into play, or Chen Ming takes charge personally.

On the contrary, it was Chen Ming, because when he fought with Cheng Xinghai in the simulation, the whip kick that almost killed him really left a deep impression on him.

However, while fulfilling this requirement,

But it is still possible to create a device that restrains mental power by relying on the materials of the Purgatory Core.

Although Chen Ming is still unable to replicate the Purgatory Core and create a Zerg Core that can stabilize or even increase the Insect Queen's spiritual energy.

The mental power will dissipate, and once the mental power dissipates, there will be no way to support the psychic energy fluctuations.

The nature of this thing itself can be used to create a stable psychic fluctuation environment.

As long as simple adjustments are made, it will definitely not be a problem to stabilize the psychic fluctuations of the insect queen who is closely related to Chen Ming.

It was originally said that this thing was going to absorb psychic energy waves for the insect queen, but now it seems that it has to be used as the biological core of the Zerg special combat unit.

But just when Chen Ming was thinking about the general structure of the simplified version of the Zerg core.

The insect queen understood Chen Ming's thoughts by connecting with his consciousness.

Then, a special emotion suddenly came over it.

It wants Chen Ming to hand over the source of condensed spiritual energy to it.

Chen Ming thought for a moment and took out the condensed spiritual energy source that he personally condensed on his body.

In fact, he has never thought about the use of condensing the source of spiritual energy. After all, he is very interested in several uses mentioned by the president before, and it is not easy to choose.

But since the Insect Queen now takes the initiative to bring it up, and it is indeed valuable and qualified to get this thing from him.

Then Chen Ming wouldn't mind choosing to hand over the source of condensed spiritual energy to the Insect Queen.

Ordinary creatures swallow the condensed spiritual energy and become psychic creatures.

And if a psychic creature devours the source of condensed psychic energy, it will be connected to the creator of the condensed psychic energy in terms of mental power.

And this connection is controlled by the creator who condenses the source of psychic energy.

That's why the president of the Psychic Association told Chen Ming how to use it.

A psychic creature with connected consciousness and completely obedient to the creator of condensed psychic energy is indeed good.

Especially the psychic creature that devoured the source of his condensed psychic energy was the Insect Queen.

As for the condensed spiritual energy source that Chen Ming chose that he personally condensed, although it looks more ordinary than his other condensed spiritual energy source that he obtained from dimensional infection, after all, there is no mini iron ore ship in it.

But correspondingly, it is also more closely related to Chen Ming.

If you want to use the condensed spiritual energy source on the insect queen, this condensed spiritual energy source is obviously more suitable than the other one.

After getting Chen Ming's permission, several queen-worm tentacles grew on Chen Ming's wrist.

The insect queen controlled these tentacles to wrap around the source of condensed spiritual energy, gradually swallowing the source of condensed spiritual energy.

At the moment when the last trace of condensed spiritual energy disappeared into a few tentacles.

The Insect Queen's mental power, which had a spiritual connection with Chen Ming in the first place, was completely synchronized with Chen Ming's.

Symbiosis with Chen Ming, mutual amplification with Chen Ming.

In this instant, the various increases that Chen Ming obtained from the original Zerg's hive mind network, including mental power, psychic energy fluctuation intensity and thinking speed, increased by 50% in an instant.

Of course, if you look at it as a whole, it's not that exaggerated.

If Chen Ming's current increases in all aspects are taken into account, the overall increase will be about 10%.

But this is exaggerated enough.

Because it was this act of letting the insect queen absorb and condense the source of spiritual energy that allowed Chen Ming to fully control eight cruisers from the original limit to nine.

It was only the last step away from the critical node that Chen Ming felt was ten ships.

And this is the benefit brought by the serious use method of condensing the source of spiritual energy.

Chen Ming silently adapted to the changed thinking speed again, and returned his attention to the Insect Queen.

This time, the insect queen did not form a cocoon as soon as there was any major evolution like before, and just completed the synchronization with Chen Ming's mental power in an ordinary way.

It also benefits greatly from the synchronized connection between Chen Ming and its spiritual power.

Almost all the additional increases that Chen Ming possesses can appear on the Insect Queen in a certain proportion.

Presumably, for a long time to come, the insect queen's spiritual power will be greatly enhanced.

The insect queen soon adapted to the increase obtained from Chen Ming.

Then its body suddenly spit out a bunch of sticky stuff.

It exudes a rich spiritual energy fluctuation that combines the spiritual energy fluctuations of the Insect Queen and Chen Ming's spiritual energy fluctuations.

Judging from what Chen Ming observed, the nature of this thing is somewhat similar to a sub-individual that condenses the source of spiritual energy.

And it also possesses the psionic properties of both psionic powers.

This means that when this sub-individual provides the effect of maintaining psychic energy fluctuations for the Zerg core, it can be more in line with the psychic energy of the insect queen, and the efficiency of maintaining the psychic energy of the insect queen will be higher.

Chen Ming immediately used his spiritual power to imitate the design of the Purgatory Core, and transformed the same isolation material of the Purgatory Core around the sticky thing.

This slightly disgusting-looking thing was gradually transformed into a bionic heart that can be manufactured with current medical technology.

This is the biological core to be installed in the body of the special operations unit.

Just after Chen Ming finished his work.

The insect queen controlled the flesh and blood tissue of the biological spacecraft around her to extend a flexible tentacle, picked up the biological core on the ground and stuffed it directly into the heart of the special combat unit.

The muscles and organs in the special combat unit's body are squirming, adapting to the foreign matter in its heart that is extremely beneficial to it.

And when it completely adapted to the foreign object, the insect queen directly covered the special combat unit with the extremely powerful psychic fluctuations it could achieve now.

Psychic waves are at work. Due to the genes of the insect queen contained in the genes of the special combat units, the friendly psychic fluctuations instantly strengthen the physical strength of the special combat units to the extreme.

The worm queen can provide everything needed for the core operation of the zerg in a more efficient way through the mass it spits out.

Chen Ming never thought that the insect queen would have such abilities.

But since the Queen of Insects has shown it now, and before she showed this ability, she had handed everything over to him by condensing the source of spiritual energy, what else can he say now?

Being nice while getting a bargain is not something Chen Ming likes to do.

soon.

The psychic energy fluctuations on the Insect Queen's body are gradually becoming weaker.

However, the psychic fluctuations belonging to the insect queen in the special combat units have always been at their peak with the assistance of the insect core.

This is the effect Chen Ming wants to see.

Next comes the final step.

Chen Ming's eyes focused on the special operations unit.

Suddenly, its figure began to become shriveled, and it was slowly shrinking as if it was dehydrated. It took more than ten seconds to shrink to the size of a normal person, and it also had a human shape.

To be precise, it is a prosthesis about 1.9 meters tall.

It's not the completely anthropomorphic prosthesis that Chen Ming had in the Fourteenth Legion. This prosthesis is just a thing with a prosthetic shell.

Under this anthropomorphic shell, all the tissues and organs belonging to the special combat unit that could be quickly manufactured were turned into the most basic nutrients, and all the things that were inconvenient to be quickly manufactured were curled up in the body of the prosthesis.

As long as Chen Ming wants to, he can instantly release the original monster in this prosthetic body.

Of course it can only be released from this prosthesis.

What this special combat unit possesses is not comparable to other mass-produced Zerg, and it cannot be manufactured at will like the power armor worn by Chen Ming.

It is now the strongest ground combat capability at Chen Ming's disposal.

It is also the key to what Chen Ming will do next.

Although Chen Ming had previously considered the mental burden brought by multiple prostheses.

But this prosthesis does not require the same mental work as the main body and the prosthesis of the Fourteenth Legion, so after a simple calculation, Chen Ming was sure that he could control it without any burden.

In addition, this prosthesis was not made by Chen Ming using his own genes.

Instead, he asked the insect queen to imitate his genes and create a completely independent prosthesis.

In other words, although this prosthesis looks like a person, it can still be seen that it is a person when passing through most detection devices.

Including the most stable genetic testing methods, those detected are also individuals, but there are no people with such genes in the empire.

The appearance of the prosthesis also looks ordinary due to Chen Ming's design.

Although he originally wanted to pinch Hu Yi's face because Bai Quan had shown Chen Ming Hu Yi's photo before.

Chen Ming felt no pressure at all when doing things in front of Hu Yi.

But after thinking about what he had to do after the prosthesis, he still didn't do it.

In short, in this case, no one can blame Chen Ming for what this prosthesis did.

It allows Chen Ming to appear in the empire with a new identity and do things that he and his other prosthesis are not easy to do.

Chen Ming named this prosthesis An Wuping.

Because he had no talent at all in naming, he used Lao Wu’s name in a different order, and surprisingly it sounded pretty good.

An Wuping will soon leave the Insect Queen and step into the territory of the empire.

It won't take long for it to work.

After making arrangements for An Wuping.

Chen Ming's research on special operations units has come to an end.

Then he picked up the daily report as usual.

At the same time, the contents of the reports from the past few days flashed through his mind.

The situation in the past few days is the same as what Bai Quan said. After Bai Quan completed the internal purge, the negative public opinions about Bai Quan from outside subsided in an instant.

Because Bai Quan truly made sure that every asset of the Fourteenth Legion that passed through his hands was actually put into effect.

Although he told Chen Ming some time ago that it is normal for the army to resell some outdated military supplies.

But after Bai Quan fully announced the financial statements of the Fourteenth Army Division, everyone could see that every account Bai Quan handled was not unclear.

Compared with the others, there is an extremely huge gap.

Moreover, at the headquarters of the Fourteenth Army, the faction to which Bai Quan belongs, his old boss is also very cooperative with Bai Quan.

After Bai Quan proved himself, he took the initiative to conduct a similar internal investigation within the headquarters to clarify the ambiguous accounts of the Fourteenth Army in recent years.

Then the signs of this incident were suppressed in an instant.

The reason is obvious.

Of course, the old boss did not receive any other unfair treatment at all.

After all, this is Baiquan's peak moment, and no one dares to touch this bad luck.

And on the day Chen Ming saw the news, Bai Quan couldn't hold back the corners of his mouth during class, and he was so happy.

Therefore, Baiquan's positive reputation in public opinion becomes even more difficult to suppress.

Chen Ming has seen that Bai Quan has a winning chance in this incident.

And just today, Chen Ming noticed that there was a record in the report that another wave of public opinion was rising.

Public opinion about Zuo Jing.

Now that Bai Quan's public opinion problem has been resolved, Chen Ming will know who this public opinion is directed at.

The finger in Bai Quan's hand has begun to point at the other party's senior management, and the opposite party has an affair with Zuo Jing.

Anyway, the captured Zuo Jing is in his hands, so whatever he wants to say is what he wants.

If it were the previous Bai Quan, he might have convicted leftist elements and related personnel first, and then investigated the people behind them.

But it's different now. Bai Quan has already completed the investigation, but he hasn't made a direct conclusion. Instead, he still wants to put a blame on the other side.

Anyway, the words are not dead, Bai Quan's outward expression is just suspicion, hoping that the other party can give some explanation.

Then there is a rumor circulating that in order to delay the date of the gambling agreement, Lou Wei deliberately relaxed the control of Zuo Jing and allowed Zuo Jing to attack Chen Ming's dome.

The two messages appeared together, one above and one below, completely making it impossible for the other party to explain clearly.

Combined with the previous high-profile scolding of Bai Quan, high-profile purges, high-profile work, and then high-profile review of Zuo Jing's series of actions.

Public opinion on this matter can no longer be suppressed.

"So this is what you did?"

Chen Ming raised his head from the report, looked at Bai Quan who had just opened the door and walked in, and continued: "Transfer the pressure of Zuo Jing's public opinion to the opponent?"

"Yes, this is what I should do."

Bai Quan nodded and said: "Under normal circumstances, the public opinion I will actively spread later will not ferment so quickly, nor will it spread so widely."

"Even if I point the finger at the opponent in advance, the opponent can just slap his hands and kill him."

"But if they want to take advantage of my decline to expand public opinion, then there will no longer be a possibility of suppressing this matter."

"They still treat me as someone who doesn't understand anything, so they have to pay the price."

Chen Ming finally understood Bai Quan's arrangement for more than half a month today and said, "Now it's the other side's turn to be worried."

"That's right, someone from their side will give an explanation soon. Otherwise, the one at the top will be the one who should give an explanation."

At this time, Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possible development in the future and asked: "But why do I still feel the same as before? This public opinion alone should not be enough to directly bring down the opponent, right? Anyone who can be brought down can Or the people down there.”

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming as if he understood Chen Ming very well and said: "You have never been in the political field and you don't know. How can you succeed in overthrowing the opponent in one go? It's not something that directly involves the highest level of the opponent. Sexual evidence.”

"You have to think about the difference between now and before. Before, our investigation revealed the results. The people below them suffered, and then they were fished out by the people above."

"Now, it's us who push the problem to their top management, so that the top management is forced to let the people below suffer. It's completely different."

"And it's not just the bottom level. The emergence of a left path within our Fourteenth Army also has an impact on the top level."

"If I don't handle Zuo Jing's affairs well, then I will be responsible for it. If they don't handle it well, they will also have to be responsible."

"Look at me, how many people were scolding me when I was cleaning up internally a few days ago? They said I was not strict in management? What about now?"

"Anyway, it's not me who caused the problem, but other people. Let them bear the pressure of public opinion."

"In a civilized society, public opinion also has its weight."

Listening to Bai Quan's tirade, Chen Ming covered his forehead and said, "I have a headache just listening to it."

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming and thought of his previous self for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I will be able to solve this kind of thing in the future."

"Ah, right."

Bai Quan suddenly coughed dryly and said, "Xinghai asked me to ask you, when will you be free to play simulated battles?"

"It's been half a month since the last in-depth simulation, and she hasn't played a single ordinary simulated battle. She's a little itchy."

Chen Ming asked, "Why didn't she just call and ask?"

"She said she was worried that you were too busy doing research, and she also said that you basically ignored her when doing research in the simulation, so she stopped being rejected and asked me to help her ask."

"Oh, it seems true."

Chen Ming thought about the previous simulation. All he could think about was using the simulation equipment to steal more information and conduct more experimental simulations. He was just subconsciously chatting with the idle Cheng Xinghai.

It’s normal to be too immersed sometimes and not hear.

Bai Quan suddenly mentioned this matter. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ming did not refuse and said, "I'm usually free."

"Okay, that's what I'll tell her."

Bai Quan immediately followed the words, not giving Chen Ming a chance to regret.

At the same time, he mentioned another thing: "Things with Lou Wei should start soon."

(End of this chapter)