Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 328 Questions
According to what Chen Ming knows.

Except for human psykers, no other psionic creatures have psychic nerves.

The source of their psychic energy is themselves. It can be said that the body of each psychic creature is their "spiritual nerve."

Since the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race have mechanical psychic nerves, they must have a source.

Chen Ming previously believed that the mechanical psychic creature transformation facility concentrated all the psychic energy originally existing in the body of the psychic creature during the transformation process and constructed a new spiritual awakening nerve.

But now it seems that things are not as he imagined.

Sample Zero does not have any mechanical spiritual nerves.

Although this may be because Chen Ming only obtained one third of the device, which lacks the function of converting spiritual nerves.

However, through studying the entire transformation process, Chen Ming is more inclined to believe that the facility will not aggregate the psychic energy of psychic creatures to form mechanical psychic nerves during the transformation.

When it was transforming the body tissues of the Zerg individuals covered by the power of the Queen, it had no intention of gathering the psychic energy at all.

The device itself is not made of a material like Silent Alloy that can isolate the spillover of psychic energy fluctuations, nor does it appear to be able to gather psychic energy again at the end of the conversion process.

The spiritual energy in the transformed body tissues dissipated during the transformation.

Zerg units are part of the Queen, so they can use the Queen's psychic powers.

If spiritual energy can really be accumulated, the spiritual energy of these insect queens should be accumulated.

But the facility didn’t do that.

Therefore, Chen Ming felt that the mechanical spiritual nerves were not transformed from psychic creatures.

This equipment should not be called "Mechanical Psionic Biological Transformation Facility" but "Mechanical, Psionic, Biological Transformation Facility".

The key lies in the bioconversion facility.

So the question is, where do these mechanical spiritual nerves come from?
Chen Ming felt that this needed to be determined by contacting the existing mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race.

He immediately went to the warehouse at the highest point, where there were about hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures on standby, and three special destruction creatures were waiting for him.

These mechanical psychic creatures are essentially no different from all mechanical units; even their panels are exactly the same.

It's just a different name and an extra mechanical spiritual nerve.

Therefore, if one wants to study these things, one must start from the biggest difference between them and ordinary mechanical beings, the mechanical spiritual nerves.

Although the mechanical spiritual awakening nerves are called spiritual awakening nerves, they are actually very different from ordinary spiritual awakening nerves.

The biggest difference is the appearance.

The spiritual awakening nerves of ordinary psychics grow in the brain. The thickest one is only one-third the diameter of the little finger and the length does not exceed 20 centimeters.

And the mechanical spiritual nerves...

Chen Ming can say this with certainty through his observations of the hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures he captured.

The mechanical spiritual nerve is more like a mechanical spine.

And its internal structure is very similar to the core of Purgatory.

Of course, this does not mean that the Mechanical Spiritual Nerve is the Purgatory Core, but its operating logic structure is very similar to the Purgatory Core.

The difference is more obvious in that the Purgatory Core is the ability to control entropy purely through internal structure and psychic materials.

There are indeed some special substances inside the mechanical spiritual nerves.

Chen Ming randomly found a mechanical psychic creature and disassembled its mechanical psychic nerves.

And used psychic power to extract the special substances inside.

This is a psychic substance that is invisible to the naked eye, but can be sensed with mental power, and mental power can be used to block it to prevent it from dissipating in the air.

And just when Chen Ming used his mental power to sense this thing, he suddenly felt that it was very familiar.

He should have been in contact with her before... No, he should have been in contact with her all the time.

Chen Ming remembered.

All of these psychic substances are psychic energy.

Spiritual energy is the substance that constitutes the spiritual stone and the essence of the spiritual stone.

In other words... the mechanical spiritual nerve is actually similar to the spiritual stone? And is it made of spiritual stone?
Chen Ming felt that it was a little bit different.

Spiritual stones are formed when extreme emotions accompany the fluctuations of spiritual power when a person dies and gather on nearby stones.

The spiritual energy in the mechanical spiritual nerves is also quite different from the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone.

The mechanical spiritual nerves seemed to be forcibly locked into this spiritual energy by something.

It is not naturally formed like spiritual stone.

Chen Ming didn't want to delve too deeply into where these spiritual energies came from, because if he did, it would probably touch upon his blind spots in knowledge again.

It was enough for him to know that it was this substance that gave this mechanical spiritual nerve its specialness and endowed the mechanical creature with spiritual power.

In addition, Chen Ming also noticed that the structure of the mechanical spiritual nerves installed in different mechanical psychic creatures is the same, but the internal spiritual energy quality is different.

As long as you replace some other spiritual energy into a mechanical spiritual nerve, it can immediately become a mechanical spiritual nerve with other effects.

This standardized structure makes these mechanical spiritual nerves look like a mass-produced device belonging to the mechanical family.

As for more information, Chen Ming couldn't analyze it.

The overall technical level of the mechanical race was higher than his, so he couldn't go any further.

But Chen Ming suddenly remembered something.

In his hand, he had a personality core that he had just snatched from the Mechanical Clan, the Mechanical Queen.

As the core of the mechanical mothership and the core of colony construction during the pioneering period, it should have knowledge about the mechanical race.

How come he almost forgot this?

Chen Ming immediately contacted the machine remotely and asked it what the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical clan were all about.

After the machine was repaired, the response was very fast.

But what Chen Ming didn't expect was that the queen didn't reply to his question, but a complete document, which she also translated into the language of the empire.

This document actually explains in detail what the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race are and how they are created.

Chen Ming looked at the document in silence.

There was silence for a long time.

He suddenly sighed and said, "Why don't I just ask directly?"

Fortunately, the impact is not big.

Chen Ming also gets a deeper impression if he studies it on his own than if he reads the documents directly.

In addition, he started his research only after conducting experiments.

These documents do not clearly state the results of all failed experiments.

Nor would he teach Chen Ming how to create a half-biological, half-mechanical individual to gain the advantages of both.

After all, Chen Ming had learned something new from the experiment just now, so it wasn't a disadvantage for him not to ask.

After adjusting my mindset.

Chen Ming carefully studied the document on the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race.

About a few years ago, the Mechanical Clan found the mechanical psionic biological transformation facilities in the ruins of the Shining Civilization.

After a period of searching their own stored memories, the mechanical race regained control of how to use this facility.

Seeing this, Chen Ming paused for a moment.

Because he found that according to the documents, the transformation facility did have the ability to transform things related to psionic energy.

However, instead of transforming psionic creatures into mechanical psionic creatures, psionic creatures are transformed into a psionic core and produce some related derivatives, namely psionic energy.

This facility extracts all the psychic energy of psychic creatures and fuses it into a special object.

If the Spiritual Awakening Neural Extractor is used against psychics, then this conversion facility is used against psychic creatures.

The transformation facility also has a variety of transformation modes. Transforming organisms into mechanical organisms and transforming psychic organisms into psychic cores are just two of the most basic functions.

The other conversion methods could not be used only because Chen Ming's machine had lost too many external devices.

As for other conversion methods, what are they?

Chen Ming continued reading.

Not long after the mechanical race found and figured out how to use the conversion facilities, they created a dimensional infected entity.

Of course, it is not the mechanical star field near the empire, but a mechanical star field somewhere in the more distant and profound starry sky.

So it had no impact on the empire at all.

In short, the ability of the dimensional infected entity created by the mechanical race is destructive.

But the mechanical race felt that it was too dangerous, so they used a converter to transform this dimension-infected entity, turning it into a core of destruction and some accompanying creatures, that is, the spiritual energy of destruction.

These spiritual energies cannot be wasted, so the mechanical race created a new one... no, it should be considered an old one, a thing that belongs to the Shining Civilization and is compatible with the mechanical spiritual energy biological conversion facility, namely the mechanical spiritual nerve.

As long as a little bit of spiritual energy is put in, the mechanical clan can create a new mechanical spiritual nerve.

These were implanted into the bodies of some organisms, and these organisms were transformed again by transformation facilities and became mechanical organisms.

These creatures will be able to master the power of psychic energy through the transformation of facilities.

Implanting mechanical spiritual nerves into ordinary creatures and transforming them is similar to installing a Purgatory Core into the Infernal Lord and debugging it.

As for why not directly give the mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves to other mechanical races.

There is also an explanation in the document.

The technical capabilities of the Mechanical Enlightenment Nerve itself are not as good as something like the Purgatory Core.

So although it is a machine, it needs to assimilate with the object into which it is implanted.

Ordinary mechanical creatures cannot assimilate psychic energy; only living creatures can assimilate psychic energy with spiritual nerves.

After assimilation, the mechanical race can further transform the organisms.

This is why mechanical psionic creatures appeared.

Chen Ming asked where the mechanical race got so many psychic biological transformations from.

It is basically a psychic creature that can transform into a core and psychic energy that can replicate multiple mechanical spiritual nerves.

This method of using companion organisms to mass-produce multiple spiritual awakening nerves only uses relatively simple devices such as mechanical spiritual awakening nerves, so the upper limit of psychic power will be much lower than that of normal psychics.

As for the purpose of the psychic core.

There was not much written in the document, just a simple statement.

The psychic core is an alternative combination of the spiritual nerve and the spiritual stone.

In short, after obtaining this information, some questions that Chen Ming had not been able to answer were finally answered.

Let’s not talk about how the mechanical race created the dimensional infection, and how they stuffed the most important source entity of the dimensional infection into the conversion device.

In short, the mechanical race created the destruction core and some derived destructive spiritual energy through the entities infected by the transformation dimension.

Then, these destructive spiritual energies became the contents of some mechanical spiritual nerves.

These destructive spiritual nerves carry a portion of the power of dimensional infection, and when implanted into the bodies of ordinary creatures, they will of course cause those creatures to be infected.

This infection process is probably also a process of assimilation in the eyes of the mechanical race.

After the assimilation was completed, these creatures infected by the dimension were sent into the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility and became what Chen Ming saw.

Fortunately, after the second transformation, the remaining destructive spiritual energy is truly pure spiritual energy and no longer has the power to infect and erode any dimension.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would have to worry about the problem of dimension infection marking.

As for the mechanical psychic creature conversion facilities of the mechanical race, and the technology to convert psychic creatures into psychic cores... it seems... a bit dangerous.

There are two kinds of dangers. One danger is that this shows that the mechanical race near the empire is still connected with the mechanical races farther away, and the war between the empire and the mechanical race is likely to involve more than just one star field.

Another danger is the danger of the Empire to psykers within the Empire.

Humans are also living beings, and Chen Ming does not believe that this transformation facility has no effect on humans.

It's simply that humans or human-like existence are rather special, so the Shining Civilization, a civilization that is absolutely inseparable from "humans", would specifically study equipment such as the Spirit-Awakening Nerve Extractor for human psychics.

Most of the time, Chen Ming doesn't want to think too much about this kind of thing, but now it's really hard for him not to think about it.

This kind of psychic core can extract psychic cores from psychics, mass-produce various degraded psychics while obtaining psychic cores, and can even recycle the mechanical psychic nerves of psychics.

The emergence of this technology is extremely threatening to the existence of psychics.

Even more dangerous than the Qi Ling Neural Extractor.

It must be sealed up. Chen Ming must not let it fall into the hands of the empire.

At this time, Chen Ming still had a question in his mind. After the mechanical race transformed the dimension-infected entities, where did the most important destruction core go?
Chen Ming asked the machine.

After the machine was installed, Chen Ming was given a blueprint.

A blueprint for the Spine Cannon, a mainstay weapon of the Mech Clan.

"Turtle, give me everything."

Chen Ming sighed.

There was no response after the machine.

Because it is just machinery, all it does is follow orders.

It seems that in the future, as long as there is something I don’t understand about anything related to the mechanical race, I can try to find it out from the Queen of Machinery.

Not all questions can be answered, but most certainly can.

Chen Ming thought so and carefully checked the blueprint.

If the Mechanical Queen can give him the blueprint, it means that the Mechanical Clan used the Destruction Core on the weapon in the blueprint, which is a very understandable way of using it.

However, Chen Ming suddenly frowned.

Because the blueprint of the Ridge Peak Cannon he was seeing at this moment was not the new weapon possessed by the Mechanical Clan that He Gu had told him about some time ago, which was discovered by the Empire.

It is a truly new weapon that is still unknown to the Empire.

Spine Peak Cannon Head: The Destroyer.

This is a little scary.

While it is known that the Mechanical Race possesses a new type of psychic weapon, it turns out that they are hiding a more threatening weapon.

Although the destruction of the spiritual nerves by the scraps was nothing to Chen Ming, they were already "destructive" enough for ordinary people.

And the destruction of the main weapon level of the battleship...that would be really fatal.

And I'm afraid it's not just about destruction. If the destruction core is installed, it will be a destroyer. What about the other cores? What effect will it have?
and many more.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that he seemed to have thought of something extraordinary, if other psychic cores could also be installed on weapons with similar designs.

That is to say, the new mechanical weapon investigated by the Empire may be just one of this batch of weapons.

It was just that the Mechanical Clan deliberately released information about a certain weapon, making the Empire believe that they only had this one new weapon.

The rest remained hidden, and would be taken out when necessary to inflict heavy damage on the empire.

Chen Ming quickly sent a copy of the document to the Legion's prosthesis.

He must spread the news. This kind of... this kind of destructive psychic weapon must be known to the public.

After Chen Ming urgently sent the file to Bai Quan, he immediately received a call from Bai Quan.

"What was that thing you just sent?"

Chen Ming responded: "I can't say anything else. I can only tell you that these are solid intelligence. The Mechanical Clan definitely has more than one new weapon."

"Don't ask me anything. I don't want to say anything."

"I understand, thank you."

Bai Quan didn't ask any further questions. He just thanked him and hung up the phone.

He was no longer surprised that Chen Ming would occasionally come up with some unexpected surprises.

Just take it. Can Chen Ming cheat him?
Chen Ming looked at the phone call that was decisively hung up, and estimated that Bai Quan would probably be busy for a few days.

Then he simply turned off the terminal.

After all, everything he gave was real, and the weapon designs of the mechanical race were also real.

The design is so detailed that it can be directly reproduced one-to-one. No matter whether it is the Psionic Research Institute or the Ship Research Institute, there will definitely be more than one person who wants to contact him.

Chen Mingcai didn't want his phone to be bombarded with calls.

After closing the terminal.

Chen Ming continued to think about the machine and asked a question.

It is a plan to repair the conversion facilities.

This time, the machine did not provide any documents, but only gave an answer after requesting the current 3D scanning image of the conversion facility.

Cannot be repaired.

Because the conversion facilities possessed by the mechanical star field close to the empire are sourced from other mechanical star regions in more distant places.

The mechanical race over there can only use those from the ruins of the Shining Civilization as replacements, and they are also unable to be repaired.

However, after the machine

An alternative plan was given, asking Chen Ming to go to the nearest mechanical galaxy for replacement, where there was another conversion facility.

Even the machine queen gave Chen Ming an exact coordinate.

Chen Ming stared at the coordinates in silence for a while.

Asked the last question.

A few seconds later.

He obtained the detailed star map of the Mechanical Clan and mastered the precise deployment of the Mechanical Clan's fleet.

Looking at the star map and defense map, Chen Ming suddenly sighed again: "What a pity."

The first thing the Mechanical Clan will do after losing their weapons is to change the overall defense of the Mechanical Clan star field that the Mechanical Clan knew about.

If Chen Ming could seize the weapons when the real war broke out, the war could probably end half of the time earlier.

But now, it’s such a pity…

However, Chen Ming had no way of predicting this in advance.

At least after having this star map, he knew the coordinates of some important galaxies of the Mechanical Clan, which could not be relocated.

He could try to attack and seize the transformation facilities.

But there is no rush for now. He still has a lot of things to do and has no time to raid the mechanical tribe.

Chen Ming thought so and suddenly started the terminal again.

While no one had called him yet, he quickly sent the star map and the mechanical clan's defense map to Bai Quan.

Bai Quan immediately called again. This time he didn't say anything, but Chen Ming could understand what he meant from his silence.

A simple, powerful question mark.

"Don't ask. The only thing I know is that I have someone in the Mechanical Tribe."

"By the way, that defense map became invalid about an hour ago. The mechanical tribe should have changed their defenses by now."

"If there is any urgent action, you can try it during this last bit of time."

Bai Quan really wanted to ask Chen Ming how he got this extremely important thing, but he restrained himself and said, "If it's okay, you can think about what level of merit you want. I will try to get you two special levels."

Baiquan hung up the call.

After Chen Ming seriously considered what he would exchange for his special merit, he returned his consciousness to his main body.

Chen Ming also figured out the whole situation of the things he had obtained.

Next, there are four things he needs to do on the main body's side.

Prepare an attack on the Mechanoids and seize the transformation facility.

Take a stroll around the ruins of the shining civilization discovered by the Mechanical Clan and see what information the Mechanical Clan originally planned to explore as the second place.

Use sample zero from the transformation facility for further research.

By the way, let’s see if the mechanical spiritual nerves can produce something interesting.

The first two of these four things don't need to be done immediately.

Whether it is breaking into the mechanical race's star field or heading towards information that the mechanical race is afraid to directly go to, it requires time to prepare.

The last two things can be started now and continued.

After figuring out the principle of the mechanical spiritual nerve, Chen Ming became quite curious about this thing.

He has always wondered whether mechanical spiritual nerves could be implanted into prostheses?

An Wuping is not very mobile, so he can only get a new prosthesis.

Prosthesis. Chen Ming was actually considering whether he should find a way to transform the Black Mist Psychic into his prosthesis.

This guy hasn't woken up since Chen Ming saved his life last time.

The reason is very simple. When his spiritual nerves were still active, his consciousness was strong and his body could support such a high level of consciousness.

But now his spiritual awakening nerves are gone, and although the intensity of his consciousness is gradually decreasing, it is still not something that a body without spiritual awakening nerves can support.

He will only fall into a coma before his consciousness level drops, and this will last for about three months.

To be honest, it's no different from being dead.

As long as the psychic's spiritual nerves are extracted, even if he is rescued, he will be just an ordinary person at most.

So Chen Ming wanted to let the Black Mist Psychic make use of his last bit of energy.

This was also a plan he had considered carefully.

While Blackmist Psyker is a Squasi-Psionicist and is dead, he can indeed be a prosthetic.

Because Chen knew clearly that Zuo Jing had not been completely destroyed, they had just lost some of their exposed power.

Even if the Black Mist Psyker is discovered, his existence can be used to remind those in the Empire who are committed to destroying the Left Path that it still exists.

Just Chen Ming needs to be careful.

If An Wuping's relationship with him were discovered, the most that would happen would be that someone would scold him.

But if the relationship between him and the Black Mist Psychic was discovered, Chen Ming would be involved in a lot of trouble.

Of course, it is just a trouble and can be solved.

In addition, Chen Ming had another idea, which was to transform the black fog awakening nerve into a black fog core.

The converted scraps are then used to create a Black Mist Mechanical Spiritual Awakening Nerve, which is then implanted into the body of the Black Mist Psychic.

This should be interesting.

Then he can apply some of the mechanical and Zerg research results from sample zero to himself, making Black Mist's prosthesis a prosthesis that integrates multiple capabilities, different from An Wuping who combines the power of Zerg and the origin of chaos.

At that time, this prosthesis can also become a special prosthesis for Chen Ming to operate in the mechanical star field.

The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more interesting it became, and he immediately started preparing.

At this time, his shuttle at the headquarters finally arrived at the Ship Research Institute.

(End of this chapter)