Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 301 Trading
Chen Ming completed the reception procedures arranged for He Gu.

The two of them came to Chen Ming's research institute together.

There is a special reception room here.

It didn't take long in total. After all, He Gu's visit was not a business visit, but a more personal one.

In addition, Chen Ming really had no experience in receiving people, so he kept everything simple.

Entering the reception room.

Without waiting for Chen Ming to make him tea or something, He Gu flatly placed the suitcase he had been carrying on the table.

"Come and see, this is what you want."

He opened the suitcase.

Inside the suitcase were two miniature life-sustaining tanks wrapped in black sponge.

Although he can completely absorb these two spiritual nerves.

"it is good."

after awhile.

He even taught Chen Ming how to use a shovel to pound the soil down to the same level as a road roller.

"Oh, I have the impression that it is something left over from that destroyed civilization. Our jar is a replica of the original."

It must have been specially cultivated and is very vigorous.

He planned to keep it for the two psyker captives he would later have.

At the same time, he pointed to the place where a bunch of small words were written on the side of the tank and said: "The instructions are here. If you want to temporarily take out the Ling Qi Nerve, remember to put it back at the end. If you leave it outside, the Ling Qi Nerve will die."

He doesn't plan to touch these two spiritual nerves for the time being.

But in his perception just now, he discovered a problem.

So at this time, the soil packed by others was different from the compacted soil on Chen Ming's side.

He Gu, who was taking another instrument out of the box, asked, "What do they look like?"

Yu Hui's spiritual enlightenment nerve looked like it was going to eat his spiritual enlightenment nerve.

Through a shell made of transparent material on the surface of the life-sustaining tank, you can see that there is a pure white artificial spiritual nerve in each of the two life-sustaining tanks, which is about ten centimeters thick and about the thickness of a little finger.

He put the tank back into the box.

"A green and black columnar thing, like a medicine bottle, with a slight curve, just enough to be held in the hand."

"I should remember it here at the branch. You can definitely get it if you think of a way. If you have any other questions, just call me."

It was as if his spiritual growth was filling a big hole with soil.

In addition to the spiritual nerve, there is also a square instrument in the suitcase. This should be the device that He Gu mentioned before that detects the psychic properties of psykers.

Chen Ming picked up a storage tank, raised it in front of him, and inspected it carefully.

Another reason is that after his mental power reached its limit, he came into contact with the scarlet dimension, which resulted in the refinement of his mental power. Absorbing other ordinary spiritual enlightenment nerves would actually lead to a decrease in his mental power.

"It's not a problem to preserve it for ten days and a half using this method. If you want to preserve it longer, you have to use a special nutrient solution."

He Gu took out the two life-saving storage tanks from the box and placed them firmly on the coffee table.

The roller master left a business card and asked Chen Ming to call him if necessary.

Chen Ming responded casually.

The Scarlet Dimension was like a steamroller running over the hole he had filled, pushing down the seemingly solid hole he had filled by manpower by dozens of centimeters.

Originally, it was good to fill the soil with shovel after shovel and pound it down with shovel after shovel.

"That's it."

Chen Ming still needs this. After all, he has come into contact with so many different types of psychic objects of different properties, but he still hasn't found anything that is completely suitable for him.

While chatting with He Gu about what he had seen and heard in Yuhui before, he continued to put his mental power thoroughly into the life-sustaining tank, carefully sensing the status of the two spiritual nerves in the tank.

But at the same time he came into contact with the scarlet dimension.

Occasionally, Chen Ming can get a large piece of pressed soil from others that is similar to the soil he fills in the pit and throw it directly into his own pit, which is to absorb the spiritual nerve.

But what He Gu gave him now was obviously more docile than the spiritual nerve that Yuhui wanted to use on him before.

There is soil everywhere, various spiritual stones and auxiliary tools to assist in spiritual training, and the boat spirit is the shovel used by Chen Ming to fill the soil.

"Speaking of which, I remember that when I was at Yuhui's place before, the equipment they used to store spiritual nerves was different from this one."

"In addition, this small jar is equipped with a filtering device. Just replace it regularly with a general-purpose nutrient solution that can be purchased outside."

The spiritual nerve in the life-sustaining tank was the same as the spiritual nerve that Yu Hui wanted to use on him. They were both thick and fat, with some nerve branches at the tip, looking like a big white worm.

This instrument can, after the psyker detects the results, select appropriate psionic materials to make adapted weapons or other things based on his own psionic properties.

His mental strength is currently at a special critical point.

This is because his mental strength has grown to its current limit.

In other words, if Chen Ming wants to use the spiritual nerves given by He Gu to try to extract the spiritual nerves of several psykers he captured, he should also have to go through certain cultivation.

These packaged soils can no longer be easily converted into his soil, so even if he absorbs the spiritual nerves now, the spiritual nerves cannot help him break through his current limits.

Of course, this is not the key. The key is that the roller master, that is, Scarlet Dimension taught Chen Ming not only how to pound the soil solidly, but he also taught Chen Ming more.

Chen Ming's mental strength has already exceeded the normal limit.

His pit had long since been filled, and had even overflowed a lot, but he just couldn't find the place to go to the next pit to be filled.

Logically speaking, there is no problem that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, because Chen Ming has been making progress by relying purely on the growth of his mental power.

But things are very different now.

Chen Ming felt that what he needed now was not the quantity or quality of mental power.

His quantity has exceeded the point where it can be transformed into quality, and the quality has gained sufficient strength after being crushed by the steamroller.

But even if he didn't break through that limit, he still missed an opportunity.

Therefore, although absorbing spiritual nerves may still be of some use, at least for now it is of little significance.

Just leave the Qiling Nerve alone for now.

He Gu saw Chen Ming put the Qiling Nerve back into the suitcase and confirmed, "How are the things?"

Chen Ming responded: "Very good, my things are ready."

The most important part of this transaction between him and He Gu was these two spiritual nerves, and the remaining testing equipment and 3,000 contribution points were considered as extras.

There is no problem in getting the main ones, so Chen Ming will definitely have to pay for it.

Chen Ming's spiritual energy was activated and an area was vacated in the reception room.

With a wave of his hand, he transformed the metallic liquid that emerged from the void into a piece of psychic metal material.

It is square and square, with a volume of less than one meter square.

The moment this piece of psychic metal hit the ground, the whole room felt like it was sinking slightly.

"Oh!"

He Gu usually seemed to be a very stable person, but after seeing such a large piece of psychic metal, he couldn't suppress his emotions.

He moved his hands up and down on the psychic metal as if he had seen some treasure.

After stroking this treasure in his eyes for a while, He Gu turned to Chen Ming and asked, "Is this Baiyun steel material?"

"Yes."

Such a large piece of psychic metal was all made by Yan Xiong.

And due to the way Yan Xiong realizes his psychic energy, whatever metal he absorbs, the physical properties of the psychic metal finally produced will be the properties of that metal.

Therefore, Chen Ming generally would not feed Yan Xiong ordinary steel. Ordinary psychic metals are at different levels from advanced materials or super-grade materials.

So what Chen Ming finally chose to absorb in large quantities for Yan Xiong was Baiyun Steel.

The reason why other metal materials were not chosen is also very simple.

His Afterglow Fleet is about to begin its third jump on its pioneering journey abroad.

In the exploration of the surrounding galaxies during the first two jumps, the Afterglows found many locations of certain value, such as mining locations for various basic, advanced and even special ores.

Development bases were built in these places under brilliant planning, and minerals that were easily mined were collected and then continuously transported to the fleet ahead relying on the particularity of Chen Ming's psychic energy.

Metal ores such as dolomite steel, which are usually located in high mountain areas on a planet and often have patches of veins exposed on the surface, are the best source of high-grade metals for Chen Ming.

The output of Baiyun Steel will only increase, not decrease.

Even all the other high-grade minerals combined may not be as much as the dolomite steel on hand.

It’s no wonder that the value of white cloud steel is so much lower than that of other high-grade metals.

This high-grade metal is too easy to mine, but difficult to use, making it difficult to make cost-effective alloy materials.

That's why this happened.

Although a large part of these surface and shallow dolomite steel mined from various planets will be used in the expansion of Chen Ming's own machine family.

But there is still a lot left over, and feeding it to Yan Xiong is no problem.

As for higher-grade metals, although they do exist, they can indeed be fed to Yan Xiong to create higher-grade psychic metals.

But Chen Ming felt that after he sold this large piece of white cloud steel psychic metal to the Psychic Research Institute of the Fourteenth Legion, he could wait a little longer and wait for a price to sell it.

He Gu, after staring at the large piece of white cloud steel psychic metal for a long time, finally looked away reluctantly.

Chen Ming asked appropriately: "Do you need me to help you transport it out?"

"It's troublesome."

Chen Ming activated his psychic energy again and converted a whole piece of dolomite steel psychic alloy into a metallic liquid, which flowed outside the laboratory and was sent to the shuttle boat that carried He Gu to his dome.

After confirming that there was no overload, Chen Ming took a photo of the shuttle boat and showed it to He Gu.

A few minutes later.

He Gu was quite satisfied with Chen Ming's debugging of the instrument for detecting the nature of psychic energy and handed it over to Chen Ming.

"Input mental power into the instrument, record your psychic energy fluctuations, and inject a small amount of blood. The results should be available in five minutes after starting the device."

"The device is not connected to the Internet, and the chip inside has recorded all the psychic properties that have been recorded in the empire's database so far for retrieval."

"You will be able to see your psychic properties after activation, and the results should come out quickly."

"Then I'll avoid it first."

He Gu stood up and prepared to leave the reception room temporarily.

However, before walking out of the reception room, he suddenly turned around, pointed at the instrument in Chen Ming's hand and said, "You can press the buttons next to it in sequence to destroy the internally recorded data, or you can simply destroy it physically."

Chen Ming nodded.

After He Gu left, he pressed the start button on the instrument.

Another wave of spiritual energy immediately flowed out from the inside of the instrument, following the mental power and spiritual energy waves left by Chen Ming and wrapping around his body.

I saw two or three lines of text appearing on the instrument's display screen.

The first line is the psychic properties that match Chen Ming's nature.

The next few lines are the location of materials or equipment with such properties that the instrument searched in the database of the instrument chip based on the psychic properties that match Chen Ming.

To put it simply, it is a database that will inform the user where there are recorded suitable and obtainable psychic materials.

Chen Minggang wanted to take a closer look.

But at the next moment, the text on the display screen changed and turned into a new psychic nature.

Before Chen Ming could react, he saw another change on the display screen.

And it continues.

The results displayed on the display screen kept changing, and each result appeared for less than half a second, as if it couldn't stop at all. "this……"

Is this because he has not found the psychic properties that suit him? That's not right...

Chen Ming waited another two minutes with doubts, but the situation did not change.

The content on the display screen was still changing and did not provide Chen Ming with a reasonable result at all.

Chen Ming had no choice but to open the door of the reception room.

He Gu, who was looking down at the terminal, immediately turned around and asked, "Is it done?"

"No."

He Gu's question was meaningless. He really didn't expect that Chen Ming didn't get it right.

"what happened?"

Chen Ming directly handed the instrument back and said, "Take a look."

He Gu took it and frowned at the text that kept beating on it.

Chen Ming asked: "Is this because the instrument has not found the psychic properties that suit me?"

"Probably not."

He Gu denied Chen Ming's idea and said: "Because in the past when the database was imperfect, there were many suitable psychic properties that were not discovered when detecting psychic properties.

"So when this happens, there will be a prompt. Generally, multiple approximate properties will be displayed together to facilitate comparison and speculation."

"Even if there is nothing similar, you shouldn't be jumping around like this. In this case...could it be that the equipment is broken?"

"..."

Chen Ming suddenly had a feeling in the silence that the instrument was not broken, but his problem.

It should be just as he had guessed before.

As a mentally violent entity and a chaotic existence, how could he have an adapted psychic nature?

And if you think about it carefully, since there are one or several psychic materials with good compatibility for psykers, it is also normal to have psionic materials with poor compatibility.

But Chen Ming has been exposed to so many psychic-related things of different natures, and it seems that none of them have any obvious differences with him.

This seems to explain the problem to a certain extent.

Although Chen Ming also doubted whether it was a problem with the prosthesis.

But the mental power stored in the device is his, the psychic energy fluctuations are his, and the blood is exactly the same as his body, not to mention the genes.

Therefore, he ruled out the possibility that the prosthesis caused the problem with the instrument.

In this case, Chen Ming felt that he could just use whichever one had the strongest spiritual energy fluctuations, and there was no need to consider the issue of compatibility at all.

If you really want to find a suitable compatibility, maybe you can find it in the scarlet dimension.

Of course, this is just Chen Ming's guess. His use of the scarlet dimension is to transmit other things with closed senses.

On the premise of retaining his own consciousness, he can only enter the scarlet dimension for half a second. What he wants to do in the scarlet dimension is definitely not something he can do now.

Just think.

In Chen Ming's silence.

He Gu reached out and used the general recovery method using electronic equipment on the instrument, which was to take a few shots.

But this method obviously didn't work. The instrument's display screen continued to jump between various results.

"The instrument should be broken."

He Gu said: "I took it out from the warehouse. Those instruments and equipment may have been produced for several years and may have been broken. I will inform you to go back and prepare another one for you, and then have someone prepare a receipt for you." Compensation for damaged equipment has arrived.”

"Compensation? The kind that gives you ten for every fake one?"

"Ha ha……"

He Gu laughed awkwardly and said, "I don't think so, but I can give it to you."

Although he knew it might not be the fault of the instrument, Chen Ming couldn't tell the truth, so he silently accepted the benefit.

The three thousand contribution points had been received before. Although there was a slight hiccup in this transaction, the main transaction was completed.

It doesn’t matter if there is no result in the follow-up.

Anyway, he already had the answer in his heart.

The two of them did not struggle with the instrument for too long. After He Gu handed the instrument to Chen Ming and Chen Ming turned it into a piece of scrap metal in front of He Gu, the two ended their formal conversation. We chatted about our respective affairs.

Although He Gu and Chen Ming have not known each other for a long time, and they have not met too many times.

But both of them are researchers in a certain technical field, and they still have many common topics in research.

There will always be something to talk about.

After a few chats.

He Gu suddenly asked Chen Ming, "Do you have any plans next?"

"Planning?"

Of course Chen Ming has a plan.

After the incident in Caimo Star Territory is over, he needs to become familiar with the effect of his spiritual energy being strengthened by the power of the scarlet dimension as soon as possible, thoroughly digest the unique "knowledge", and improve his abilities.

He had never had a sense of crisis before, but since he learned about the levels of psykers, and he was still at level 5, the sense of crisis has increased.

Especially after An Wuping tried to sneak attack Hu Yi.

After discovering the psychic gap between 5th level psykers and 6th level psykers.

It was impossible for Chen Ming's mentality not to change slightly.

Although sneak attacks can make up for the gap between psychics to a certain extent and even give Chen Ming a certain possibility of killing Hu Yi, he cannot always have the opportunity for sneak attacks.

He didn't want someone to trouble him again one day and he couldn't do anything.

It's not like he can completely get rid of the empire.

So if he doesn't make some preparations, he will face such a day sooner or later.

He must digest the power obtained from the scarlet dimension as soon as possible, improve himself, and prepare for the next contact with the scarlet dimension.

Anyway, the steamroller master... The Scarlet Dimension has left him a name tag, and the closed rift that exists in his consciousness space is the key to the Scarlet Dimension.

Since he can't hide or avoid it, he'd better take the initiative to contact him.

At least this way he is doing things proactively rather than being forced to do things.

Prepared action is always more appropriate than unprepared hasty response.

What's more, contact with the Scarlet Dimension is not without benefits. Everything in the Scarlet Dimension is composed of "knowledge". The longer he can stay in the Scarlet Dimension, the more power he can gain.

Moreover, he has been stuck at the limit of controlling nine cruisers at the same time for a long time.

It is extremely important to continue to break through.

Chen Ming could feel that when he broke through to the point where he could control ten cruisers at the same time, it was the moment when his spiritual power made great progress again.

Even if he can't continue to break through, he must at least be able to recall the entire Afterglow Fleet operating outside at any time.

In this way, he has the ability to take a share of the mechanical clan war.

And in the process of digesting "knowledge" and constantly becoming stronger.

What Chen Ming has to do as a fake in the 14th Legion is to continue to study the various special devices provided by the Legion.

The research progress of the catalytic core is slower than he previously expected, but the gains from the catalytic core and the value of the catalytic core itself are also more than he previously imagined.

Apart from research, I just continue to take classes.

His psychic powers have been improving, and his thinking speed has been increasing.

His learning efficiency is also getting higher and higher.

The speed at which he is learning now has drastically changed compared to the speed at which he just started learning from Bai Quan.

Even Cheng Xinghai mentioned this when he was teaching Chen Ming, saying that Chen Ming needed to learn more every day.

Chen Ming didn't mind either. Anyway, this knowledge of military command could help him gain an advantage in the war.

In addition, Chen Ming estimated that there should be a reconnaissance mission in the future, allowing Chen Ming to personally control the spacecraft to have close contact with the mechanical race.

Bai Quan promised before and he should not break his promise.

And Chen Ming's other prosthesis is over there, An Wuping.

You have to cooperate with the president first. After the president gets it done, you can go to Aodan.

The Odan Star Territory is closer to Garro than Benu, and it is even more impossible to escape from the next mechanical war.

Chen Ming needs to let An Wuping integrate into Aodan as soon as possible, get familiar with Aodan as soon as possible, and find a suitable excuse for An Wuping to participate in the mechanical war;
As I said before, An Wuping can help Chen Ming do a lot of things that he can't do himself.

As for the body...

Planning and development is still planning and development, learning spaceship knowledge is still learning spaceship knowledge.

His current study of cruisers is almost coming to an end.

Give Chen Ming another month or so and he will be able to thoroughly master the basic knowledge about cruiser design and modification.

At that time, whether you follow Chaofan to further learn higher-level battleship technology, or study cruiser technology horizontally, you will have a choice.

In addition to these, there are two important things on the main body's side.

One is that he is going to take the two Ling Qi Nerves he just got, as well as the Ling Qi Nerve Extraction Device stored in Yuhui's place, and secretly follow the Ling Qi Nerve cultivation technology from Yu Hui's place to carry out the Ling Qi Nerve cultivation technology. Extraction experiments.

Another is that the insect queen has to start migrating.

The mechanical race that was previously on the same planet as the Insect Queen had been taken away by Chen Ming and found a new planet farther away from the empire and closer to the Afterglow side to station.

But the migration of the insect queen is very troublesome.

Because the insect queen has turned almost the entire planet into an insect nest.

Of course, it only looks like this. In fact, except for the place where the insect queen first built her nest, only a part close to the surface became the insect nest, not the entire planet was hollowed out.

But it's outrageous enough. Such a huge number makes it difficult for the Zerg to migrate and avoid the empire's troops waging war against the Machine Tribe.

Therefore, Chen Ming fed the Queen a Defender some time ago.

I want the insect queen to evolve into a cruise-level biological battleship.

But now the evolution of the insect queen is coming to an end.

It's almost there.

Now there is only one last key thing left, the jump engine.

Although Chen Ming was talking nonsense to Niu Xin before, he said that the Worm Queen had already completed the jump engine.

But in fact, the jump ability he used was the hyperspace channel jump he developed himself.

Only when the Insect Queen is finished can the real biomass jump engine be applied to An Wuping.

An Wuping's own abilities will be greatly improved.

To be honest, An Wuping's fake body is very strong.

Chen Ming even had some ideas for similar transformation of himself.

Of course it's still in the conceptual stage.

An Wuping was able to do this because the insect queen could make a bunch of prosthetics similar to Chen Ming's for experiments.

He must be careful when he does such a thing.

He had to operate on three lines, which was a headache just thinking about it.

But the problem is not big. Problems are meant to be solved. He has had headaches not once or twice. Which time did he not solve the problem?

(End of this chapter)