Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 333 Progress and the Mechanical Tribe's Planning

"That's very good."

Chen Ming's tone was very casual.

He didn't pay much attention to the president's words that he would go down in history.

His goal has never been to leave his name in history, but to live well and live freely.

“But this is a lifelong goal for many people.”

"That's it."

Chen Ming casually replied to the president again: "I think the later research results are more important. I want to know more."

The president seemed to just mention it casually and did not continue the topic he had mentioned. Instead, he followed what Chen Ming said and said, "That depends on you."

"The Fanchao Research Institute has never been reluctant to share the results of their research, but whether or not people can understand them is not a question they have to consider."

"I will understand."

Chen Ming responded confidently, and then asked, "But then again, does the Fanchao Research Institute only deal with things related to phase technology? Aren't they interested in research on dimensional infection?"

"Of course I'm interested, but it's hard to make any progress on dimensional infection even at the Fanchao Research Institute."

"What about that special psychic you just mentioned?"

"If you had a guy who could develop a device that could send an entire space station into phase space in a day, would you let him be exposed to dimensional infection?"

The answer is obvious.

"So the Fanchao Research Institute has no advantage in the research of dimensional infection. They even came to me to ask questions about this matter."

“Although the Fanchao Research Institute is indeed very powerful, we should not over-mythologize them. There are things they cannot do.”

"We are the ones who prevent dimensional infection."

After continuing to chat with the president for a while.

Chen Ming ended the communication.

The prosthesis was continued to be assigned to work on the two research institutes.

Chen Ming must immediately start to make up for the phase technology of the Ship Research Institute. It is necessary both for use in subsequent experiments and in future wars with the mechanical race.

The progress of Chen Ming's current research on anti-mechanical weapons, or anti-mechanical psychic hive network weapons, at the Psionic Research Institute is also very important at the time when Bai Quan has decided to go to the front battlefield.

Chen Ming can't escape this.

He also has things to do on his main body side.

The first thing, of course, is the study of sample zero.

This guy was beyond Chen Ming's expectations.

Because it was in a half-dead and disabled state from the beginning, it was being harmed by its own mechanized structure every moment, and was recovering every moment because of the powerful vitality of the Zerg individuals.

Its previous recovery speed was no match for the speed of self-injury. It could be said that sample zero was moving towards death every minute and every second.

In this torture, the body tissues of Sample Zero were actively adapting to the damage caused by itself.

By continuously eating the energy crystals provided by Chen Ming, the speed of recovering from injuries was constantly accelerated.

And just like that, this guy has managed to survive to this day.

Even its overall state is better than it was after the incomplete transformation, and it has shocking vitality.

Originally, Chen Ming was still thinking about how he should create a few half-mechanical, half-biological Zerg units for research if sample zero died.

Because Chen Ming has been transforming new Zerg units in the past two days, but the situation is different from sample zero.

The vast majority of samples did not survive the transformation experiment process.

Those who survive often die within a few hours or even minutes because their injuries are too severe to recover.

None of them lasted as long as Sample Zero.

If sample zero was gone, Chen Ming would not be able to create another half-mechanical, half-biological sample that could survive for research in a short period of time.

But fortunately, sample zero is still alive.

And compare those dead samples with sample zero.

Chen Ming also learned a lot about what to pay attention to when creating a semi-biological, semi-mechanical structure.

I understand the importance of a reasonable proportion between the mechanical and biological structures, and know what structural proportion is necessary to allow a system to operate and survive for a long time while maintaining a semi-mechanical, semi-biological structure.

This is all knowledge that can be used in subsequent complete transformation experiments.

Chen Ming also took some time to study the mechanized Zerg structures.

It is to first use purely mechanized structures to meet all the needs of Zerg individuals in certain development stages.

It is similar to some factories that manufacture biochemical products, except that they have been changed into factories that directly manufacture biological organisms.

Then let the queen insect transform the factory.

Before, Chen Ming had always asked the Queen of Insects to build a biological factory directly, but the difficulty of biological construction was beyond the expectations of Chen Ming and the Queen of Insects, and there had been no progress.

That's why Chen Ming came up with this idea.

And just in these two days, he has used his understanding of the Zerg breeding process to build a mechanized breeding factory for energy crystal insects. He can breed a dragon from larvae to adults very smoothly, which is much easier than building biological buildings.

He even built a mechanical breeding factory for more than half of the types of worker insects commonly used by the Queen of Insects.

These factories are capable of cultivating a complete Zerg unit from larvae, perfectly fulfilling the needs that biological factories should have achieved.

The only problem now is that these mechanical buildings cannot be integrated into the hive and can only exist as independent buildings rather than part of the hive.

So Chen Ming is now eagerly waiting for the Queen to complete her evolution so that she can transform the building and connect it to the biological raw material transport vessels of the hive.

Coincidentally, Chen Ming also learned some knowledge about the mutual transformation between machines and organisms from sample zero and those transformed samples that died directly.

This knowledge can be used to guide the Queen to quickly transform mechanical buildings into biological buildings.

Chen Ming even felt that he didn't necessarily have to ask the Queen of Insects to completely transform the mechanical buildings into biological buildings.

In his opinion, the integration of mechanical architecture and biological architecture is the most suitable development direction in the future.

If we talk about Zerg units, whether they are mechanized or semi-mechanized, there will be various problems due to production quantity and cost.

So for biological buildings, which are relatively few in number and serve as key structures of the hive, it is completely fine for them to enjoy some mechanized conveniences.

Of course, this does not mean that Chen Ming has completely given up mechanical architecture and biological architecture.

His idea is that he wants mechanical architecture, biological architecture, and fusion architecture.

Different structures have different adaptability environments, and using the right technology in the right place is the right approach.

In addition to the research on semi-mechanical and semi-biological structures.

Chen Ming has also been studying the mechanical spiritual activation nerves these past two days.

Of course, he was not studying the function of this thing. Most of the information about this thing itself had been told to him by the machine.

What he is studying now is how to manufacture this thing.

Through the research report on mechanical psychic creatures revealed by the Mechanical Queen, Chen Ming has already known that the mechanical psychic nerves are not transformed, but directly manufactured.

The ability of the mechanical spiritual nerves can be changed by simply changing the internal spiritual energy.

Therefore, the key to the mechanical spiritual nerve lies in the spiritual energy quality. The mechanical nerve on the outside can only be said to be the basis of the mechanical spiritual nerve.

Since it is not a mechanical spiritual awakening nerve, it is not the key, but the foundation, and the technical level it possesses is relatively low compared to what has been obtained before.

Chen Ming felt that with his current abilities, he could try to master the manufacturing technology of mechanical spiritual nerves.

This is not a mechanical biological converter. This converter involves nanorobots and the technology level is ridiculously exaggerated.

But if it was just mechanical spiritual nerve activation, Chen Ming might still be able to learn it.

However, at present he can only say that he is struggling to replicate it.

The complex structure that integrates psychic energy and mechanical structure requires various traction, locking and even processing methods that Chen Ming is completely unfamiliar with to the internal psychic materials, which is very troublesome.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had entered the Scarlet Dimension once and mastered a lot of sophisticated psychic power control techniques through the knowledge of the Scarlet Dimension, otherwise he would be completely in the dark.

And from his understanding of psychic power, these technologies are all experience-based technologies systematically summarized by the Shining Civilization, and are not purely based on talent like the psychics themselves.

In other words, as long as Chen Ming goes for further studies, there is a great possibility that he can learn these techniques.

But Chen Ming has no such plan at the moment.

This left him with no choice but to explore, research, and try to replicate it himself.

Although it is difficult, as long as it succeeds, Chen Ming's mastery and understanding of psychic energy will definitely be greatly improved and can be thoroughly digested by him.

Moreover, he can actually obtain batches of mechanical spiritual nerves.

He can implant these mechanical spiritual nerves into some Zerg bodies.

The abilities of the Zerg are already varied. It would be great if they could have various matching psychic effects, or in other words, cultivate Zerg with mechanical psychic neural abilities.

Then in ground combat or even space boarding battles, the Zerg will definitely play a greater role.

The value and significance of this are self-evident.

In addition, Chen Ming also gave Lu Kang more than a dozen mechanical spiritual nerve samples and asked them to study them on their own.

They had previous experience in cooperating with Chen Ming in conducting research on purgatory cores, synchrotron cores and catalytic cores.

These are the top researchers who are doing research on the mechanical race that the Legion has found from different places. Of course, they can study the mechanical spiritual nerves.

At that time, the research results of those people can also serve as an aid to Chen Ming's research.

It seems that the Mechanical Research Institute of the Legion has been pitifully borrowing mechanical spiritual nerves from the Extraordinary Research Institute in the past two days.

After all, the Legion's fleet had just swept through the wreckage of the Mechanical Clan's galaxy and was still on its way back to headquarters.

As a result, the Mechanical Research Institute became quite envious after hearing that Chen Ming's Extraordinary Research Institute had already obtained the mechanical spiritual activation nerves through Chen Ming's psychic power.

Even after they were turned down by Lu Kang, Wu Hao, the director of the Mechanical Research Institute whom Chen Ming had met before, came over in person to borrow two from Chen Ming.

After all, Chen Ming and Wu Hao knew each other before and there was no conflict. Chen Ming always had to respect the older generation of mechanical researchers.

Of course, the two mechanical spiritual nerves that were loaned out also helped Chen Ming get some information that could only be read by people inside the Mechanical Research Institute, as well as a share of the scientific research funds issued by the legion.

Chen Ming will definitely not suffer any loss.

In addition to the mechanical spiritual nerves and related research, another thing Chen Ming is doing is targeting the black fog psychics.

The status of the Black Mist Psychic had been determined before.

They can survive, but not many.

A psyker can indeed survive after having his psychic nerves removed, but will fall into a deep coma for about three months.

In essence, it is no different from being dead. In order to make use of the last energy of the Black Mist Psychic, Chen Ming had decided beforehand that he had to find a way to transform the Black Mist Psychic into one of his prostheses.

The method is also very simple, which is to use the Zerg.

Among the Zerg units there is a type of Zerg called Parasites.

Of course, this parasite is not the kind that can cause problems to people at most, but a kind of insect that is so powerful that it can even parasitize mechanical races.

It played a very crucial role when Chen Ming attacked the mechanical race's planet.

Now, this parasite has become stronger after many generations of cultivation by the Queen. It is only a very simple matter to implant it into the body of a Black Mist Psyker and gradually assimilate the Black Mist Psyker into a part of the Zerg.

Moreover, the parasites had already been implanted under Chen Ming's arrangement, and the transformation process was already underway.

As long as the transformation is completed, the existence of the Black Mist Psychic will completely disappear, leaving only Chen Ming's prosthesis.

but.

Chen Ming is not yet ready for what to do after the conversion is completed.

His plan was to make the Black Mist Psyker a prosthesis after the transformation was complete, which he would use to test the abilities of the fusion of bio-mechanical and psychic powers.

Now that the living creatures exist, even if the Queen of Insects is evolving, Chen Ming can still control many of the powers that belong to the Queen of Insects.

But machinery and psychic power are not yet settled.

Chen Ming wanted to experiment with the implantation of a semi-mechanized structure and multiple mechanical spiritual nerves on the Black Mist Psychic.

But now he didn't dare to stuff the Black Mist Psychic into the one-third conversion device.

It wasn't just because the results of the large number of failed experiments Chen Ming had conducted on those Zerg units were warning him.

At the same time, it was because he had actually used his own prosthesis. That is, there was no Zerg gene, it was just an ordinary person's prosthesis that was stuffed into the transformation device for testing.

All I can say is that the results were a bit disappointing.

All of them are ordinary prostheses belonging to Chen Ming, and do not have the same strong vitality as the Zerg units.

That is to say, once there is a problem in the conversion process, it must be a big problem.

Those prostheses usually die suddenly without any chance of survival.

Moreover, the transformation process of the equipment on people seems to be very special.

It doesn't start from the body surface and limbs, but from the organs inside the body.

And this organ does not include the brain, which seems to be the last organ to be transformed.

The reason why it is said to be seemingly is that ordinary prosthetic experiments all have problems in the first step of organ transformation, and the prosthesis dies before it has time to transform too much.

The brain is the organ that remains intact when all prostheses die, so Chen Ming made this guess.

As for the rest...

It can only be said that there is no way to do any research on these corpses. Even if the bellies are cut open, the most you can dig out is a pile of bloody and messy metal parts.

This transformation process, which is completely different from that of other organisms, also makes Chen Ming a little unsure.

Every day he could only watch as batches of corpses of unknown creatures with his face were sent to the digestion tank for digestion, but there was no progress at all.

So it is impossible for Chen Ming to stuff the Black Mist Psychic in now.

Besides, in addition to transforming the Black Mist Psychic, Chen Ming also wanted to transform the spiritual awakening nerve extracted from the Black Mist Psychic, turning it into a Black Mist core and some Black Mist spiritual energy.

Chen Ming has also been thinking and preparing these two days.

However, the transformation of the spiritual awakening nerves also requires complete facilities. If you want the facilities, you have to steal them from the mechanical clan.

Although Chen Ming has some experience in robbing the mechanical tribe, his imperfect experience may sometimes lead to mistakes.

Plus, I was really too busy in the past two days.

The matters of mechanical Zerg construction and replicating mechanical psychic nerves occupied a lot of his time and attention. Chen Ming could only arrange for the Zerg to do the transformation of the Black Mist Psyker and his psychic nerves, as well as the transformation of Zerg units. He himself had no free time at all.

Not to mention planning a surprise attack.

It just so happens that all that’s left for the mechanical Zerg building today is to complete the verification process.

The mechanical spiritual nerve just happened to have a replication experiment today, which only required hands-on work and no brainpower.

So Chen Ming can free up some of his brain... no, the capacity of his consciousness to use in this area.

If you want to attack the mechanical race.

The first thing to do is to consult the doctor's opinion.

Two days ago, Chen Ming threw a mechanical colony to the Queen of Machinery for her to manage. After these two days, the management should have begun to show results.

There should be extra computing power after the machine is installed, which can be used to help Chen Ming do some things.

Chen Ming's consciousness switched and he came to the mechanical colony that belonged to the Mechanical Queen where he was at the moment.

There was only one city here before, but starting from two days ago, it has become an entire mechanical city complex.

And because Chen Ming robbed a pioneering colony of the mechanical race, at this time Chen Ming's mechanical colony also had almost everything he needed.

Whether it was the various buildings to support the infrastructure, the factories to produce the mechanical family, the raw materials, or even the mechanical family itself, they had all been packed up by Chen Ming before.

New development started again in a new location.

Although there are many differences between the mechanical race's planet and Chen Ming's planet, some problems arose when the colony was violently relocated by Chen Ming.

For example, some buildings that were originally mines of the Mechanical Clan were no longer located on the mines after being moved away by Chen Ming, and useless ores were being mined.

Or the original transportation route was destroyed by some uneven terrain or too loose geology.

These problems are very common.

But the problem can be quickly solved with just some modifications and relocation.

Not only was the problem solved, but when Chen Ming came here today, the entire colony had expanded by about 10% in area compared to before.

This only took two days.

Moreover, judging from the various increases Chen Ming obtained from the mechanical race's hive mind network, the number of the mechanical race has also increased considerably.

At least in terms of numbers, it is almost catching up with the time when the Queen of Zerg entered its prosperous period of expansion.

These changes are the result of the Queen's constant adjustments as the master controller of the colony.

Before that, Chen Ming had simply given Xie Hou the task of managing the colony.

The post-processing of the machine is so perfect, I believe that when doing other things, I can have the same ability and efficiency.

Chen Ming observed his thriving mechanical colony for a while, and then contacted the Queen of Machinery.

Since the Mechanical Queen was just a pure machine, Chen Ming did not chat with her first as he did with the Insect Queen or the Brilliant Superhuman, but went straight to the point.

The Queen provided Chen Ming with information about the current strength of his fleet, the external environment, and the war situation between the entire empire and the mechanical race.

And his need to use violence to seize the mechanical psychic biotransformation facilities of the mechanical race.

After providing this information to the mechanics.

Chen Ming wants to let the machine do the analysis later.

Through the Queen's understanding of everything about the Mechanical Clan's star field and its powerful capabilities, a roughly usable raid plan was analyzed.

Then Chen Ming will take this plan and look for the right person or Yu Hui Core to make some revisions.

You can find Baiquan or HR, one is an Imperial Vice Admiral, and the Imperial Vice Admiral will give you an Alpha-class afterglow core that is capable of controlling a battleship.

HR was slowly moved by the methods arranged by Chen Ming after having a bad relationship with him for a long time, and now it has expressed its loyalty to Chen Ming.

In short, with their assistance, a reasonable solution can definitely be found.

If it really doesn't work, Chen Ming will ask both sides, and then combine two different modification plans to determine the final plan.

This is what Chen Ming thought.

However, the final response he received was not what he expected.

After analyzing for a while, the Queen of Machinery gave Chen Ming not an action plan to attack the Mechanical Clan, but a full page of situation analysis.

The analysis is not about the possibility of Chen Ming's attack, but the possibility of what the mechanical race might do next.

Judging from the report given after the machine.

The Machines have no rescue efforts for the galaxies being overrun by phase monsters.

There was no time to develop the ruins of the Shining Civilization while Chen Ming and the Empire's attention was focused on a certain galaxy.

There was also no obvious movement on the front line between the Empire and the Mechanical Race.

This is not normal.

It is impossible for the mechanical race to have no reaction to what is happening in their star field at this moment.

They must be planning something.

After combining what we learned from the machine, we found that the mechanical star field here is connected with the mechanical star fields in other places, and other mechanical star fields also provided additional support.

After the analysis, it seems that there is a high possibility that the mechanical race did not take any action.

They were the ones planning the actions against Chen Ming.

(End of this chapter)