Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 365 Little Madman

Chen Ming found the memory about the Reaper torpedo from the corner of his memory.

Thinking back on the past, a question gradually emerged in his mind.

There seems to be something wrong with the Reaper Torpedo, right?

Three years ago, when Chen Ming just arrived in the pirate space, he got a Reaper torpedo.

Its power is indeed great, but that is relative to the frigate that can launch Reaper torpedoes. This power may threaten a cruiser, but it is absolutely impossible to sink a battleship.

The battleship can withstand attacks from main-class weapons.

No matter how many Reaper torpedoes there are, it is unlikely that they can even break through the battleship's own shield, so how can they really threaten the battleship, let alone sink it?

Moreover, Chen Ming had the impression that the battleship that was sunk was actually a battleship of the military of a star region.

There are two common types of battleships in the army, the offensive class and the legion class. The armor strength of both is very high, and they can even use the armor to withstand direct hits from Yuhui's microsievert-class light radiation cannon. How could they be sunk by a Reaper torpedo?

Even if it was a battleship that was severely damaged, it wouldn't be the Reaper torpedo that was the last straw, right?

What's more, Chen Ming remembered that this incident happened during an anti-pirate campaign.

What kind of pirate could severely damage a capital ship?

Although the pirates who can cause the army to dispatch battleships to encircle and suppress them may indeed be quite powerful, even so, it is unlikely that a battleship will be sunk by pirates, right?
At that time, Chen Ming did not have enough knowledge and understanding of battleships.

So he just treated it as a story. Anyway, the Reaper torpedo was quite useful at that time and happened to save his life when the afterglow invaded.

But now when I look back, it seems strange.

However, Chen Ming temporarily ignored the question of how the Reaper torpedo could sink a battleship.

Let’s first look at the situation of the little crazy guy the boss mentioned.

Chen Ming thought about it and felt that the little madman should not be the one who died on the battleship, but the one who sank the battleship.

The boss moved to such a remote place, it must be because he had a conflict with some powerful forces in the empire.

Combining all of this, the answer is obvious.

Chen Ming asked: "So... that little lunatic is a pirate? And he had a conflict with the army somewhere?"

"Yes." The boss answered concisely and clearly.

Chen Ming asked again: "And he is also a psychic, otherwise it would be impossible for the Reaper torpedo to sink the battleship?"

"That's right. His psychic power is very aggressive. Any damage caused directly or indirectly by him can be amplified by his psychic power. The specific degree of amplification... you can see it from the fact that the Reaper torpedo can sink a capital ship."

"So he had a conflict with the army, which eventually led to the sinking of a battleship, and he died in that battle?"

"That's pretty much it."

A few simple questions helped Chen Ming roughly understand what had happened.

The last person the boss trained, the one called Little Madman, was a pirate, or became a pirate for some reason.

Even if he wasn't the leader of the pirates, he was at least an important figure.

One day a large-scale conflict broke out, and the pirates were eventually surrounded and wiped out, but a mothership of the local army was also sunk by a death torpedo that was amplified countless times by psychic energy.

The matter of the psychic cannot be told to anyone.

So the army had to swallow the loss and spread the story of a psychic as if it were the story of an ordinary pirate, which led to a shocking scandal.

Although in the eyes of those who know about the existence of psychics, this is just a normal loss when encircling and suppressing psychics.

However, due to the huge noise, the news could not be completely suppressed.

In the end, in the eyes of ordinary people who knew part of the situation, the army was simply useless.

To put it in a bigger picture, this incident was a battleship being sunk. This was not only a loss of face for the star region army whose battleship was sunk, but also a loss of face for armies everywhere.

The person who caused this situation happened to be trained by the boss...

Whether it was the contradiction that led to the birth of the scandal in the military, or the contradiction that caused the little lunatic to die because of the military.

In short, it is impossible for the boss to continue staying in the prosperous star field.

This also explains why when Chen Ming first met the boss, the boss had no connection with the local army and had no intention of having any connection with them.

Instead, it became slightly closer to the 14th Legion, which had only been rebuilt a dozen years ago.

Although this is due to the relationship between Chen Ming and Bai Quan, it is definitely also due to the conflict that happened decades ago.

As a level 6 psychic, the Empire certainly cannot implicate the boss just because someone he trained caused trouble, but the Empire cannot ignore the feelings of its own army, so...

It can only be said that Chen Ming has experienced a lot of things, and of course he can understand why the boss came here.

After explaining to Chen Ming what happened in the past, the boss seemed a little nervous.

After all, the effects of the things Chen Ming brought back are there, and no matter who uses them, the emotions will be the same.

The boss quickly calmed down, put his hand on Chen Ming's shoulder, and said solemnly: "I have to go out in the next few days. If there is a result, I will tell you as soon as possible."

"Thank you."

A few minutes later.

Chen Ming left his boss.

After finishing these extra things, it was time to start his real work.

Chen Ming made some plans for himself and divided the things he needed to do into two parts: internal and external.

The external part, which is what he had just thought of, is the construction of new battleships.

Of course, Chen Ming first has to figure out the feasibility of this research project.

It is not the feasibility that Chen Ming himself knows, but the reasonable feasibility that he wants others to believe when he looks for others to cooperate with him.

It shouldn't be a big problem.

The semi-biological and semi-mechanized technology he mastered has already been put into initial use.

As long as the technology is shared and a little experimentation is done, it can be confirmed that the technology he has mastered is completely correct.

Chen Ming also doesn't mind sharing his technology, as technology can only progress through sharing.

He didn't know when his own research would be successful, so it would be more efficient to share it with others for help.

And the reason why sharing is called sharing is because others will also share the technology that Chen Ming does not have.

Chen Ming will definitely not lose money.

Of course, Chen Ming will also let An Wuping intervene in this matter, so as to help him explain why he has mastered certain biotechnology.

It can also help Chen Ming explain why he deliberately took away a lot of biotechnology information from the empire some time ago.

An Wuping's presence can also help Chen Ming say some things that he is not easy to say.

As for An Wuping's own biological technology and some ship design technology.

Chen Ming could also explain it by saying that he was the one who personally taught An Wuping's Zerg to master the shipbuilding technology.

In short, as long as Chen Ming’s acting skills are good enough, An Wuping’s joining will only be beneficial.

And he believed that when he placed the body of the phase behemoth leader in front of the people he wanted to invite, even if his idea was not feasible, someone would try their best to make his idea feasible.

However, Chen Ming felt that he needed to consider another issue.

That is, the development direction of the military's ship technology is basically biased towards frontal combat.

Therefore, when designing a ship, the military's frontal armor, frontal firepower, and coordination with other ships on the frontal battlefield are all points that take a relatively large proportion into account when designing a spacecraft.

Not to mention the 14th Legion.

The Fourteenth Legion has several different types of specially modified ships, even battleships.

These ships modified by the Fourteenth Legion often have a larger hull, thicker armor, and more powerful frontal firepower than ordinary models.

Chen Ming even knew that some of the phase ships that the legion had developed had space reserved for military armor.

This made Chen Ming a little worried that if he only communicated with the legion to design the direction of his ship, he would be led astray.

The final boat design will deviate slightly from his ideas.

The battleship he wanted definitely could not be of the military type.

Although he will contact the Ship Research Institute and the Psychic Research Institute at that time, and also invite the Biological Research Institute to cooperate in research and development.

By the way, he will also visit other related departments, but he cannot guarantee whether the other research institutes have the same habit.

So Chen Ming felt that it would be better for him to find some other people, not from the legion or the army, to participate in his project.

But he has been cooperating with the Legion, and it would be a bit unreasonable for him to look for other people if he wants to borrow the Legion's facilities, resources and information.

This gave him a little headache.

But Chen Ming thought about it carefully again.

Suddenly I had a new idea.

That is, he could make some use of his Extraordinary Research Institute.

Although the Extraordinary Research Institute is affiliated with the Fourteenth Legion, and is currently labeled with several research labels such as "psychic energy", "mechanical race" and "special devices".

But this does not mean that his research institute can only cooperate with the Legion’s research institute, or can only study these things.

He can invite other research departments to cooperate in the development of a new project in the name of his institute.

This should be the most appropriate approach.

Although Chen Ming is the only one in the entire Super Research Institute who can participate in this project, after all, the researchers in his institute were not recruited to research spacecraft.

But anyway, he just wants an excuse, so it's not impossible.

This way he can invite more people to participate.

For example, Xinda Company.

Since the last time the chairman came to attend Chen Ming's engagement party and his relationship with Chen Ming eased, Chen Ming believed that the research institute at Xinda Company should be very willing to invest resources and participate in the research project newly initiated by Chen Ming.

Although the Sinda Company does not have phase technology and has more mass-produced ships, it is a more commercial research institute.

But Chen Ming still likes the ships of Xinda Company themselves and they are very easy to use.

In addition, although Sindar Corporation does not have phase ship technology, it has mastered battleship-level technology and can also participate in the design of battleships in this regard.

You know, Chen Ming has not yet fully mastered the battleship-level technology.

It is definitely the right idea to find more different people to brainstorm.

Anyway, with the body of the Phase Beast Chief there and the semi-biological and semi-mechanized technology that Chen Ming is willing to give away, there should be no problem finding someone to cooperate with.

Who knows, Tachyon Technology, or even the Fanchao Research Institute might be able to get some people over.

The battleship development process may take several months or even years.

Anyway, Chen Ming is not in a hurry.

After he finished fighting with the mechanical race, he had nothing important to do, so he had plenty of time to study and build this special phase battleship himself.

As for everyone else.

Although the war between the Empire and the Machines has essentially ended, the war process will continue.

During the war, no matter which force it was, there was a great desire to research weapons for war. Even if the final research results were Chen Ming, the technology developed in the middle was real.

For those who have been in research institutes for many years, this amount of time should not be a big deal.

The design of the new battleship was an external matter in Chen Ming's plan.

And the internal things.

Chen Ming has finally determined the limits of his own abilities.

Of course, what Chen Ming meant was that after the fusion of his triple power, he would be able to see that limit, not that he had already reached the limit.

And this limit refers to the limit of ability, not the limit of strength.

So, Chen Ming felt that it was time.

It's time to start systematically learning about psychic powers.

Chen Ming has always followed the barbaric growth path of the psychic society.

Rely on your own understanding and extremely small but crucial guidance to become stronger.

This allows him to fully develop his talents and potential, but it may also cause some deviations in his understanding of some systematic knowledge.

Some details about psychic powers, or knowledge unrelated to one's own psychic powers, as well as some more miscellaneous psychic knowledge will basically have errors and omissions.

Therefore, when a psychic's abilities are developed to their limits, or when he can see his own limits like Chen Ming is now.

It is very necessary to carry out systematic learning.

These problems can be corrected through systematic study.

It is equivalent to making up for all of Chen Ming's shortcomings in psychic power.

Moreover, the knowledge of psychic powers is not just what Chen Ming himself has come into contact with, and it will probably take quite some time to learn.

Therefore, Chen Ming felt that it was time for him to restrain himself and be quiet for a while.

He needs to study formally and learn serious psychic knowledge.

So Chen Ming sent a message directly to the president, asking if he had any way to find him a teacher.

The president responded quickly and said that it was not necessary.

He simply sent a bunch of information to Chen Ming and asked Chen Ming to learn it by himself.

If we are looking for a teacher, let’s not talk about who will come or who dares to be Chen Ming’s teacher. The teacher’s teaching efficiency may not even be as high as Chen Ming’s self-study efficiency.

Anyway, if you think about the difference between Chen Ming before and now, you will know what level Chen Ming's learning ability is at.

Just ask if you really don’t understand something. You can ask the president or the boss.

In the end, no one can be Chen Ming's teacher.

Chen Ming had no objection. Self-study and learning from others simply depended on whether one could gain some extra experience while learning.

Just like he learned conducting techniques from Baiquan, when he finally conducted, he would always incorporate some of Baiquan's conducting style.

Of course, this is not a bad thing. Although Baiquan has an adoptive father who is a lieutenant general, he also worked his way up from the grassroots level to the level of lieutenant general. There is no problem in learning some of Baiquan's command techniques and style.

Moreover, Chen Ming basically didn't need to use these techniques when he was really fighting. Most of the time, he relied on absolute military force to crush the enemy.

Command? What is that? At most, he can make some tactics in the overall situation, but there is no such thing as command in the actual battle.

However, this kind of thing is not so good when it comes to psychic power.

The president is not mainly worried that Chen Ming will be influenced by his teacher when he is learning psychic powers.

Instead, he was worried that the teacher would be influenced by Chen Ming while teaching him.

In short, let Chen Ming learn it slowly on his own.

Anyway, he now not only has to learn about psychic powers, but also battleship technology, various warships, the construction and use of megastructures, various biotechnologies, and so on.

That's not a big deal.

Chen Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After getting all the information, he went about his business.

He then spent two days preparing some resources that would be attractive enough to lure different departments into participating in his proposed plan.

Then, he went to find Baiquan.

Bai Quan stayed in the distributed command center as usual. He temporarily took over the job of Qiu Bowen, who had disappeared for the past two days.

When Chen Ming saw him, he found that his expression looked a little uneasy.

Chen Ming didn't think much about it, he sat down next to him and asked, "What's wrong? Isn't the situation pretty good recently?"

After Chen Ming destroyed all the main forces of the Mechanical Clan, the war situation between the Empire and the Mechanical Clan became really one-sided.

The battle between the Empire and the Machine Race is a simple one. It is impossible for an Empire to lose when facing a star field.

Coupled with Chen Ming's trouble later, it would be strange if the mechanical clan could win.

Chen Ming has also seen a lot of good news in the past two days.

Basically everything is included, including where victory was won, where and who achieved results, and which psychics made contributions in the war.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like Baiquan should have this expression.

Baiquan explained: "The front line is indeed fine overall, but the main problem is in the back."

"There was corruption in the rear, which led to the failure of the war in this place."

Bai Quan pointed on the screen in front of him and told Chen Ming the location where the battle was lost.

All we can say is that the empire has never been a monolithic entity.

Where there is light, there are of course dark places.

Pretending to obey but actually disobeying, secretly making trouble, and profiting from the war, this kind of thing is too common.

But what does this have to do with Chen Ming?
There is no need for him to worry about this. The Empire should handle its own affairs.

If handled well, the empire can have a second life; if handled poorly, the empire will be buried along with the mechanical race.

Of course, there are some things Chen Ming is still very curious about.

"Does the Empire have any thoughts on the news I announced yesterday?"

He was quite curious about what decision the empire would make in the face of natural disasters.

"I heard they take it very seriously and are preparing to make it big."

"The Empire can go 20 years without a newborn, but it cannot go 200 years without one. We must find a way to avoid the effects of the aftereffects of the dimensional infection."

"Haven't you pointed out a way before? The phase space."

Phase space will simply cause the spacecraft's radiation energy to be unable to dissipate.

There is basically no impact on other things, so Chen Ming's Zerg warships can attack the mechanical race at will in the phase space.

Therefore, it is feasible to consider a way to migrate the Empire to phase space.

Phase space can actively affect the normal universe, and can also make normal use of things in the normal universe, but the existence in the normal universe cannot see the phase space.

The others have no impact.

In fact, Chen Ming also thought about stuffing the Zerg into the phase space and starting to expand from the phase space.

But Chen Ming always felt that something was not right if he did so. The part of the dimensional power he mastered made him somewhat averse to such an approach, so he did not do so in the end.

Of course, if the Empire did this, Chen Ming would not stop it. After all, this seems to be the only way to organize the impact of the sequelae of dimensional infection.

Chen Ming nodded in understanding and said, "Then let's not talk nonsense. I came here to talk to you about something."

"what's up?"

"My Extraordinary Research Institute wants to apply for a project in cooperation with an outside organization."

Bai Quan's serious expression suddenly collapsed: "Don't be idle and come to apply for this kind of thing. Why don't you just go and do it?"

"This involves the outside world and other research institutes in the Corps. Am I worried about being rejected?"

"Why would the Legion refuse?"

Baiquan asked back: "I know how important the corpse of the Phase Beast Chief is. Do you think anyone would refuse it?"

"Besides, when you work on a project, you will always come up with some new technologies and new things, right? No one will refuse it."

"If you have anything to say, just tell the Legion. You know there are a lot of people trying to curry favor with you right now."

"If you have any requests, just ask. The Legion will help you do what it can."

"Oh, then I'll just say it straight..."

"No, I'll give you a phone number and you can find someone to discuss it yourself."

"Row."

Two days later.

Chen Ming has already contacted most of the organizations and people he wants to invite.

We also rented an additional laboratory at the legion headquarters.

Started preparation work before the project started.

And just today, the boss, who had been away from the hardware store for a few days, seemed to have finally got news and asked Chen Ming to go over.

There was nothing much to say about Chen Ming, so he just walked over.

As soon as you enter the hardware store.

Chen Ming saw the resurrection mechanical fluid he had given to the boss on the table in front of him. It must have failed to be used.

But there was no disappointment on the boss's face, but a hint of smile.

Chen Ming greeted him and asked, "How's the situation?"

"That's good. When the person is resurrected, the device will first show the genome of the resurrected person and what he will look like after resurrection."

"That wasn't the body of the little lunatic I found."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and asked cautiously: "Um...is it possible..."

"Will not."

The boss denied it directly: "If the body of the little lunatic is not there in the place I found, then he must still be alive."

"Everyone thought he was dead, but he wasn't dead, at least not at that time, but I don't know where he is now."

"You can take this back."

Although the resurrection mechanical fluid failed, it did put the boss's mind at ease.

Chen Ming put away the resurrection mechanical fluid, chatted with the boss for a few words and then left.

This is the end.

He really has taken care of almost everything.

I can really devote myself to the long process of research and learning.

(End of this chapter)