Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 332 Contact
After Chen Ming decided to contact the phase beast, he immediately confirmed the location of the phase beast through the reconnaissance fleet he left behind in the galaxy of the Mechanical Clan.

At this time, the phase beast was still staying above the planet of the mechanical race.

Although the Phase Beast was confused because Chen Ming took away an entire colony, it was not confused for too long.

The scene shows that the mechanical buildings and units on the planet that have not been completely destroyed before are being destroyed by unknown external forces.

It can be seen that it is still doing what it was doing before.

After locking onto the position of the phase beast, a phase ship controlled by Chen Ming immediately arrived within the galaxy under the influence of his psychic power.

Of course, it did not get too close to the planet where the phase beast was located, but kept a considerable distance.

immediately.

Chen Ming started the phase ship using the control method he had just learned at the ship research institute.

Under the joint excitation of the phase coil and various phase devices, the phase ship successfully entered the phase space.

Although this boat looks shabby, it is quite usable.

The spacecraft's sensors were also activated after a brief debugging.

At this moment, Chen Ming finally saw the full picture of the phase beast hidden in the phase space.

It was a giant beast that looked like a manta ray, with a body length comparable to that of a cruiser, but several times larger.

It has extremely obvious lines of alternating dark blue and dark purple, and beneath the lines are fine and hard scales.

It's not smooth skin like a manta ray.

However, the biggest difference between it and the manta ray is that it has not just one tail, but two.

Moreover, at the ends of these two tails there are circles of purple ring-shaped lines extending all the way to the base of the tails.

These ring-shaped patterns flash rhythmically like breathing, emitting the same purple light as the phase coils when they are operating.

It seems that the tail is the source of power for the phase beast to survive in the phase space.

However, Chen Ming did not sense any fluctuations in psychic energy, which meant that the power of the Phase Beast was something it was born with.

In addition, there are two tentacles similar to the end of the tail extending from the top of the Phase Beast's head. They also have ring-shaped purple lines that glow intermittently like the tail.

And the tentacles are constantly waving like those of an ant. It seems that these two tentacles not only have the same functions as the tail, but also serve as its sensory organs.

Apart from these two characteristics, the rest of the Phase Beast's body probably doesn't look very different from a manta ray.

wrong.

Chen Ming suddenly noticed.

Just as the phase behemoth was traveling in the medium of phase space.

For a brief moment its front was overtaking his phaser.

And at this moment, Chen Ming saw the front of the phase beast's head.

Its mouth is not located underneath its body like a manta ray.

Like other common mammals, the mouth is relatively close to the bottom of the eyes and nose, and has a head that is relatively close to the normal human concept.

This type of head structure is generally used for biting or chewing, and it is unknown what the Phase Beast uses it to bite.

Other than that, there shouldn't be anything special about it.

Just as Chen Ming was carefully observing the phase beast.

The phase behemoth seemed not to notice Chen Ming and continued to destroy the mechanical race.

Chen Ming chose to continue observing for a while and recorded all the actions of the phase beast.

Because the Empire doesn't seem to have any actual images of the Phase Beast, the last time Chen Ming encountered a Phase Beast, and when the Empire sent a fleet over, the Phase Beast had already run away.

This time, Chen Ming seized the opportunity.

The video data he recorded will definitely be very valuable.

After obtaining enough information.

Chen Ming didn't continue to waste time.

He activated something he had left on the planet that was controlled by his psionic powers.

Keeping a certain distance from the phase monster, a new robot was built in a normal space environment and asked to take the walkie-talkie.

Although the planet of the Mechanical Clan is not a habitable planet, it has an atmosphere and air that is not suitable for human breathing.

It doesn’t matter if it’s not suitable for breathing, as long as there is a medium, sound can be transmitted.

This planet can easily solve the problem of Chen Ming's voice being transmitted after it is delivered to the phase space.

After preparing the robot, Chen Ming made a few preparations and then transferred his consciousness to the robot he had just created.

This direct transfer of consciousness will create a link between the robot and Chen Ming.

It is this connection that allows the Phase Beast to sense Chen Ming's existence and the existence of the scarlet dimensional rift in Chen Ming's consciousness space.

At the same time Chen Ming did this, the phase behemoth that was originally cleaning up the scattered mechanical clan members on the mechanical clan's territory suddenly stopped.

It immediately changed direction and flew towards Chen Ming's robot.

It was very fast, and if it was not restricted, it would directly crash into Chen Ming's robot like the previous few times.

But this time, Chen Ming was prepared.

There is a phase ship outside the space monitoring the real-time position of the phase beast, and Chen Ming's robot also holds the walkie-talkie tightly in his hand.

Just at that moment, the phase monster entered the range where the sound of the walkie-talkie could be transmitted the farthest.

Chen Ming played a sound clip that he had recorded earlier.

By using the Phase Beast's own voice, after a little processing and interacting with the power of the Scarlet Dimension, it can deliver a warning and alert voice.

Just at the moment when the sound spread to the phase beast.

The Phase Monster actually slowed down immediately.

Chen Ming felt relieved immediately.

The Phase Beast can be slowed down by his voice, which proves that the Phase Beast is a creature that can communicate.

This is definitely a good thing for him.

Chen Ming also slowed down the tone of the sound he was playing and changed the emotions mixed in it, replacing it with vigilance and confusion.

The Phase Beast continued to slow its movements further, and it also made a confused sound.

Its body kept turning, as if looking for the source of the sound.

Chen Ming immediately asked the robot to repeat the sound and continue to move in a small area, trying to attract the attention of the phase beast.

at last.

The Phase Beast noticed the tiny presence on the ground.

Noticing that it was this tiny being that emitted the aura that attracted it and made the sound that communicated with it.

Sounds of confusion and curiosity were emitted from the phase behemoth's vocal organs.

It crawled cautiously on the ground, and its pair of eyes protected by a protective film stared at the robot in front of it.

Although the robots cannot see the phase monster directly, the scene seen by the phase ship in space and the sinking ground and surging air waves in front of them cannot be false.

The huge difference between this huge body of over a thousand meters and the robot in front of it which was only over two meters in size made Chen Ming a little nervous for a moment.

This kind of scene of facing the once unimaginable giant is the same for everyone.

Although Chen Ming has come into contact with many large spaceships.

But a spaceship is a spaceship, and a creature is a creature.

The spaceship was just a dead object that he could control, and the feeling it brought him was completely different from the creature in front of him, which he didn't know whether it was a friend or an enemy.

Just when Chen Ming had this idea.

The ship spirit, which also had a close consciousness connection with Chen Ming, suddenly jumped in Chen Ming's mind, as if expressing its dissatisfaction.

Chen Ming immediately retracted his thoughts and calmed down the upset boat spirit.

After calming it down.

Chen Ming continued to communicate further with the Phase Beast.

At least so far, everything is moving in the right direction.

Chen Ming thought about the current situation for a moment.

The Phase Beast was puzzled and curious as to why this robot could do what it saw and heard at this moment.

It is definitely impossible to communicate such detailed things with simple tonal language alone.

So Chen Ming simply let the robot make the same confused and curious sounds.

And let the robot move carefully towards the phase monster crawling on the ground, trying to touch it.

The Phase Beast looked at the robot that was getting closer and closer, and one of the tentacle on its head suddenly dropped down and hung in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming roughly understood what it meant. He controlled the robot to slowly stretch out its hand and grab the tentacle.

That's when the robot grabbed the tentacles.

Chen Ming actually sensed a phase force through the robot.

Obviously, the robot was in a normal cosmic environment, but Chen Ming felt the familiar pressure from the phase space from the robot, pressing on the scarlet dimensional rift in his consciousness space.

The Phase Beast possesses not only the power to survive in the phase space, but it truly possesses the power of phase.

It’s just that the pressure is much smaller than when Chen Ming’s robot is in the phase space.

This phase behemoth is not yet comparable to the phase space.

And just as Chen Ming felt the pressure.

The phase behemoth suddenly made a sound of surprise and joy.

It seemed that at the same time it also felt the existence of the scarlet dimension from Chen Ming.

It tried to move towards Chen Ming's robot on the ground.

But its size and mass caused the nearby ground to vibrate violently, and the robot couldn't even keep its balance and fell to the ground.

It quickly stopped its movements, lowered its tentacles into the hands of Chen Ming's robot again, and continued to try to communicate with Chen Ming.

And this time, it was no longer through sound but through the tentacle that was in contact with the robot.

The phase monster transmitted emotions to Chen Ming through the power of phase.

It first gave Chen Ming a pitiful and somewhat aggrieved apology, and then an emotion with obvious interest.

What followed was a complex mixture of anger, fear, and greed.

Finally, there is the emotion of anticipation.

Chen Ming could understand the feelings of grievance and interest. But the latter three intertwined emotions couldn't possibly mean that the Phase Beast was interested in the Scarlet Dimension, angry and fearful at the same time, and even greedy for it, right?
"..."

It seems that this is really possible.

But why didn't the Phase Beast have such emotions towards him who had the power of the Scarlet Dimension?
Chen Ming didn't understand.

At the same time, I don't understand what the Phase Beast wants to do specifically.

And although he can sense the emotions of the Phase Beast through his tentacles, he cannot give feedback through his tentacles, at least the robot can't
So Chen Ming thought about it and continued to make a confused sound.

The Phase Monster also gave Chen Ming a confused look through its tentacles.

However, the man and the beast did not fall into an endless cycle of asking each other questions.

The Phase Beast's huge eyeballs turned a few times, and its huge body slowly floated into the air and circled around Chen Ming's robot.

The two tentacles on its head trembled a few times, emitting a slightly brighter purple light.
But this time Chen Ming didn't hear any sound, nor did he feel anything at all. He could only continue to make puzzled sounds.

The Phase Monster suddenly seemed to understand something, and its tentacles rubbed its forehead twice deftly, just like a human scratching his head.

Its tentacles scratched off a few scales and landed in front of Chen Ming's robot.

Then the phase monster suddenly took off into the air, leaving the range of the planet's gravity.

A burst of purple light burst out from its body and it disappeared in front of Chen Ming.

It leapt away.

Only Chen Ming's robot was left, crushed to the ground by the surging air wave when it was lifted into the air.

"?"

Now Chen Ming was really confused.

There was no reason why the Phase Beast suddenly ran away. It was definitely not because Chen Ming’s question mark stimulated it, but for some other reason.

Chen Ming could not catch up with the speed of the phase beast, and the transition fluctuations of the phase beast in the phase space were quickly smoothed out by the medium that had just been rolled up.

He couldn't even track it through the jump traces.

He had completely lost track of the Phase Beast.

However, Chen Ming suddenly realized something and quickly asked the robot to search nearby for the scales of the phase monster that were blown away by the air wave.

Although Chen Ming's robot is in the normal universe environment, things in the phase space do exist in the normal universe environment, they are just invisible.

Through the reconnaissance of the phase ship in space, Chen Ming quickly found three scales of the phase beast, two blue ones and one purple, all the size of a human head.

This was left behind intentionally by the Phase Beast.

Because the Phase Beast had been wandering around the Mechanical Clan's territory for so long, constantly using its body to destroy the Mechanical Clan's buildings and units, but not a single scale was left.

Even at the place where the mechanical race's phase weapons had attacked the phase beast, there was nothing left.

If it could leave scales behind, it must have left them there intentionally.

There must be some effect.

However, Chen Ming didn't know what this scale meant, nor did he know whether the phase beast would come back.

There was nothing he could do.

However, the harvest from these three scales is real, and he can feed the scales to the Queen Insect after it wakes up from evolution.

These scales must contain the genes of the Phase Beast.

Chen Ming continued to let the robot wait in place for a while, but even when the remaining units of the mechanical race came to encircle and suppress his robots, the Phase Beast still did not return.

Chen Ming had no choice but to give up waiting and left there temporarily.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

The Legion's fleet finally arrived at the Mechanical Race's galaxy after frequent jumps.

The mechanical race seemed to have given up on protecting this galaxy, without any reinforcements, leaving it to fend for itself.

Only those mechanical individuals on the planet that had not been completely destroyed were still resisting stubbornly. After the Legion's fleet arrived, they lasted about ten minutes before being completely wiped out.

The Legion's fleet immediately dispersed and dealt with everything belonging to the mechanical race in the entire galaxy.

Everything of value was taken away by the Legion.

The data of all galaxies and planets are recorded by the Legion.

Even several legions from nearby galaxies went over to take a look, but it was a pity that the Mechanical Race seemed to have really given up on this place. Despite all the actions taken by the legion, there was no response at all.

It was impossible for the legion's fleet to stay behind the enemy for long. After spending a day taking away everything that should be taken and leaving some interesting things behind, the fleet chose to flee.

And on the same day, the Legion's fleet arrived behind the Mechanical Clan's galaxy.

Chen Ming received two pieces of news.

One is the news that Baiquan will return to the front line in a week.

This shows one thing.

The head-on war between the Empire and the Machines is about to begin.

The other one was a message from the president.

The phase space dimension infection interaction experiment is ready.

To be precise, it has already begun, or even ended.

Because just the day before yesterday, the president successfully used his psychic powers to capture the dimensional infected entity over in the Caimo Star Region.

And as soon as it was captured, the president sent the entity directly into the phase space, verifying that everything Chen Ming said was true.

Dimensionally infected entities that enter the phase space will be suppressed and killed by the power of the entire space and will not be able to survive.

It was just because the president couldn't obtain any valuable data by doing this, so he specially waited for two days.

Wait until the ship research institutes in other places prepare the phase ship, wait for Chen Ming to send the ship to the vicinity of the Caimo star field, and use the phase ship equipped with various detection devices to send the dimensional infected entities into the phase space.

The president is already doing this and the results will be available in a short time.

And the result will of course be the same.

But the process will be a little different.

A large amount of data will be obtained, enough to prove that everything Chen Ming said before was correct.

In addition, a group of one hundred pregnant women have been taken into the phase space by a phase ship.

The Caimo Star Region confirmed the candidates for this group of pregnant women by accurately finding out the specific time points of brain and nerve development of the fetuses in their wombs.

Although some people raised objections when Chen Ming proposed this idea before.

But despite their opposition, they still honestly followed Chen Ming's suggestions to find this group of pregnant women, and sent them into the phase space at this time to conduct experiments.

According to the president, this group of pregnant women reported a slight heaviness in the fetuses in their belly the moment they entered the phase space, which coincidentally corresponds to what Chen Ming said before.

Today, several pregnant women have fetuses that have developed brain nerves without any deformities.

Although the number is still relatively small, judging from the situation on the president's side, we can basically judge in advance that the experiment is successful.

Even if someone is affected by the aftereffects of the dimensional infection, as long as they can enter the phase space, all the influences will disappear.

However, there is no way to verify whether the fetus will continue to be deformed if the pregnant woman is taken out of the phase space.

No one dares to do such an experiment.

It won't work if you use animals, because animals won't be affected by the aftermath of the dimensional infection.

This was confirmed after the last dimensional infection incident. It is speculated that the key to dimensional infection is cloning the human body, and the scarlet dimension marked the human body but not other creatures.

So the aftermath will only affect humans.

There is no way to verify it, so there is no way to verify it. Anyway, the current results are enough.

This is enough to prove that Chen Ming is right.

Phase space can suppress the scarlet dimension, at least in phase space.

"how?"

After receiving the message from the president, Chen Ming directly sent these two words to the communication group he had set up before, which was already filled with various data and files.

The head of Caimo Star Region immediately stated: "Thank you for all your efforts in the interactive experiment of phase space and dimensional infection. We in Caimo Star Region will always remember your contribution."

Those who had previously questioned Chen Ming, especially those from Caimo Star Domain, also followed suit and apologized to Chen Ming.

The president also sent a message to Chen Ming again: "The follow-up experiment is over. It is completely the same as what I brought in before. There is nothing to say. Someone will take the initiative to promote the research of phase space later."

"But the research on dimensional infection still depends on us."

Chen Ming immediately responded: "I know, I will do it too."

"Oh, by the way, this joint organization you created this time has also attracted the attention of the Fanchao Research Institute."

"They have mastered the phase technology and have developed a relatively large-scale device that can send things into the phase space and then bring them out."

Large scale?
Chen Ming asked, "I just said a few days ago that the Empire currently does not have a large-scale device for sending items into tight phase space? It seems that the research progress and speed of the equipment are not enough, so the focus is not here. Why is it today?"

"That's enough for now." The president said, "The results that Fanchao Research Institute has just developed are enough to send a small space station with a diameter of about 5,000 meters into phase space."

"?"

Chen Ming didn't quite understand what the president meant by "enough now", and asked, "Were they already researching this before, and then the Fanchao Research Institute joined in to speed up the research?"

"Do not."

The president denied it, saying, "It was after the Fanchao Research Institute learned about what you had done that they developed it based on the existing phase technology."

"You mean it only took one day to make this thing?"

"Correct."

"..."

President Chen Ming thought it was normal to remain silent. He had the same reaction when he first learned about the situation at the Fanchao Research Institute.

"The situation at the Fanchao Research Institute is like this. They have a very special psychic. There is no need to compare with them."

"All you need to know is that they are going to conduct a large-scale experiment next. They are going to stuff a large number of captured dimensional infected individuals into the space station and then send the space station into the phase space."

Chen Ming asked, "Is this laying the groundwork for the future?"

"Yes. If dimensional infection occurs again in the future, we can try to send the planet directly into phase space for protection. This is our initial attempt."

Chen Ming couldn't help but sigh: "It's really... such an exaggerated efficiency."

"This is the Fanchao Research Institute."

"There should be further tests in a couple of days, and you may be invited to come over. Just go there with your robot as a witness."

"You are the initiator of this research. As long as the empire exists, your name will be remembered forever by future generations."

(End of this chapter)