Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 367 Scavengers

There is a wormhole in the galaxy chosen by Chen Ming.

Whether it is a normal wormhole or a wormhole that moves around a star like it does now, it means that the galaxy that Chen Ming named Origin is connected to a galaxy in the universe.

And the other galaxy connected to such a special wormhole is likely to be an extremely special galaxy.

Chen Ming decided not to approach the wormhole for the time being, but to see if other planets had similar problems.

The Supreme Point shut down all of its non-essential devices and activated its galaxy-level sensors at full power to conduct an ultra-high-power scan of the Origin Galaxy.

After scanning, Chen Ming did not find any problems with most of the planets in the galaxy.

Only here, there are many spacecraft wreckages in the orbit of the habitable planet and its habitable satellite.

The wreckage of the Mechanical Clan's spaceship.

After confirming that there were no signs of any active activity in the area where the debris was gathered, the highest point slowly approached.

They got so close that Chen Ming could see the ship graveyard through the porthole with his naked eyes.

The graveyard looked strange because all the spacecraft wreckage in it was incomplete.

Of course, wreckage is supposed to be incomplete, but the missing parts of these spacecraft wreckages are surprisingly consistent.

All the spacecraft were missing two important components: their weapon systems and main control systems.

All the spaceships seemed to have a piece of them dug out by something.

It is on this basis that the ship has other deficiencies.

So that's weird.

Under normal circumstances, if a spacecraft is sunk, it is indeed possible to lose its weapon system and main control system, but it is obviously wrong that all the spacecraft that sank here lost these two parts.

Chen Ming immediately sent out several small boats to capture the wreckage of several spaceships and dragged them to the vicinity of the highest point. He then inspected the wreckage of the spaceships, trying to figure out what was going on.

However, whether it was the wreckage that Chen Ming dragged to the highest point, or all the wreckage in this graveyard, none of the ships had a main control system left.

None of the wreckages left any clues that could help him figure out how the ships had ended up there.

After all, the main control system is gone, along with any other storage units and any devices that could leave any clues.

Even if Chen Ming wanted to use repair psychic power to restore the contents recorded in certain recording devices, he had to at least find the original device.

He couldn't use other materials to repair the damaged storage units, and then recover the previous data from these things that were indistinguishable from newly manufactured ones and had never stored any content.

That's not relevant at all.

He couldn't find any clues either.

He had no idea how this ship graveyard was formed, nor did he know who the ships here had clashed with that led to this outcome.

Looking at the angles of the damaged ships, Chen Ming even felt that this might have been caused by a civil war within the mechanical race.

He suddenly remembered that in the ruins half a year ago, there were some nanorobots stored for defense, which had the logical program to destroy the mechanical race.

Previously, Chen Ming thought that the nanorobot was damaged after being stored for too long.

But look at the situation here.

In the entire cemetery, he only saw the wreckage of the Mechanical Clan's ships. Only the Mechanical Clan's spaceships were lost here, so it seemed that there was indeed a possibility of a civil war.

I just don’t know what kind of high-temperature weapons the Mechanical Clan used, which caused many of the ship wreckages to show signs of melting.

This is true even of the wreckage of some capital ships that sank here.

Chen Ming drove the spaceship into the cemetery area and observed everything around him.

He suddenly discovered that the positions of some of the debris in the cemetery seemed wrong.

It doesn't look like it was pulled into this state by the gravity of the planets below and the satellites nearby.

It was as if some huge monster passed through the wreckage, causing the positions of some of the spacecraft wreckage to change unexpectedly.

Chen Ming carefully analyzed the data of the trajectory of the ship wreckage he had just obtained, and found that the wreckage area seemed to have been disturbed by some huge external force.

It was a real behemoth, much larger than the warships of various levels and even the wreckage of the main battleships suspended in the planet's orbit.

The power possessed by such a being must be extremely terrifying.

However, Chen Ming did not feel fear or any other negative emotions.

Instead, he wanted to try to find some clues on the wreckage.

But no matter how Chen Ming searched or how he asked the spacecraft to scan, he could not find any traces of external objects on the wreckage.

He could only find traces of the wreck itself and some things from other ships.

At most, this can only prove that a close-range battle broke out between these ships, but it cannot prove what kind of giant creature left such traces.

This actually further illustrates the possibility of a civil war among the mechanical race.

There is no way to determine what left such a mark.

All we can say is that there are always many unknown things in the universe, making it impossible for people to figure out the reasons for their existence.

Chen Ming had no fear of the unknown, only curiosity.

However, curiosity alone is useless. Without any clues, there is nothing you can do.

Then Chen Ming could only temporarily put aside his curiosity about the wreckage of the spacecraft in orbit and go to the planet first to see if there would be any new clues there.

Chen Ming approached the atmosphere of the habitable planet below, and after passing through the atmosphere, he once again activated the sensor at the highest point and scanned the planet.

In the scanning results, Chen Ming found that there were a few traces of buildings just below the wreckage area.

The entire planet is basically covered with dense vegetation, and this building area is no exception.

However, most of the buildings have collapsed due to the growth of vegetation.

Only a large group of buildings that look identical in appearance still stand there.

Although a lot of vegetation has climbed up the walls of these buildings, at least for now these buildings have not collapsed.

After a quick scan to confirm there is no activity or danger.

Chen Ming let the highest point land nearby.

He put on his armor, got off the ship and approached the building complex alone.

In front of a building at the very edge, Chen Ming saw a series of simple closed rolling doors.

He repaired the rolling door that had long been rusted and then opened it.

The light of the stars shines into the interior of the building.

Chen Ming was able to see that the building was filled with metal plates of a uniform style that filled the entire interior space.

These buildings are warehouses.

Chen Ming closed the rolling door and went to the building next door, where he repaired and opened a rolling door as well.

It was the same inside, with the same specifications of metal plates piled up, but the material was different.

He continued to walk towards the interior of the building complex, opened the doors of a few warehouses at random, and found that every closed warehouse was filled with various metal materials.

They are all neatly arranged metal plates of the same specifications, which looks very satisfying to people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Just as Chen Ming continued to open the doors of the warehouses one by one.

An alarm suddenly sounded in a warehouse he opened.

He immediately gave up the idea of ​​entering the warehouse and prepared himself for trouble and battle.

However, he waited outside for a few minutes and still did not see any threats or protective measures for the warehouse.

There was no movement at all from his danger-sensing psychic powers.

Chen Ming was a little confused.

However, the current situation is not without explanation.

That is, the defense system of the alarm link has been damaged over an endless period of time.

So Chen Ming temporarily put aside his excessive vigilance and walked into the warehouse where the noise had just been heard.

Then he couldn't help but let out a sound of surprise.

"Turtle."

The warehouse is also filled with metal sheets of the same specifications.

But it's more than that.

These metal plates are all made of special-grade metals. This is a warehouse filled with special-grade materials.

The value it possesses may even be higher than the value of the resources Chen Ming's pioneering fleet spent all the way here.

At this moment, Chen Ming could no longer hold back his eager hands.

But he still didn't rush to take action.

After all, he hasn't seen anything that could take these resources away so far.

And judging from the architectural style of these warehouses, they are definitely things left behind by the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming felt that there were two possibilities for the source of these warehouse materials.

One possibility is that these resources are materials that were prepared long ago when the Shining Civilization wanted to develop this area.

Based on Chen Ming's understanding of the richness of resources in the Shining Civilization, this is not impossible.

Let’s combine it with the situation when Chen Ming obtained the coordinates of this galaxy.

That is, Chen Ming obtained the coordinates of this location from a satellite left behind by a brilliant civilization on Ramu.

This means that it is very likely that these resources are used in the development process of the planet and the galaxy under Chen Ming's feet towards Ramu.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly thought.

The satellite he discovered at the time should also be considered a legacy of the Shining Civilization.

Although it was damaged, if it had been preserved until today, he could try to repair the satellite.

And since the satellite of the Shining Civilization has determined the coordinates of the signal it sends, it means that the signal it sends cannot be an ordinary signal, but a signal that can definitely exceed the speed of light.

Otherwise, by the time the signal slowly arrives, the development of the Shining Civilization may have been going on for hundreds or thousands of years.

This shows that the technological content of that satellite is also terrifying.

This is a device that can be used at the border and abroad.

The Empire needs to rely on superluminal communication base stations for superluminal communications, but the satellite of the Shining Civilization does not have any similar hanging devices and relies on the satellite itself to transmit signals.

So its value is definitely not low.

however.

Chen Ming originally dismantled the satellite and broke it into some basic materials.

By now he should have taken those materials to space with the Iron Ore.

So... Chen Ming shook his head and put the past out of his mind.

It is impossible that the Shining Civilization only left some things on Ramu.

There must be something better and more technologically advanced somewhere else waiting for him to find.

As for now, Chen Ming believes that there is another possible source of these materials in the warehouse of the Shining Civilization.

This is closely related to the mining drones he discovered that are still in operation today.

Those mining drones have been mining resources for countless years, and there is absolutely reason and time to fill up all these warehouses.

The metal resources piled up in these warehouses may be all the exposed mineral resources that have been mined in this galaxy and neighboring galaxies over the years.

And this mining process is still continuing today.

Of course, the real situation may be a combination of both of what Chen Ming guessed.

The reason why he had such speculation.

Because when you get closer to the interior of these warehouse complexes.

Chen Ming discovered that part of the warehouse was still in relatively good condition.

Just like the warehouse where the alarm sounded after Chen Ming opened it, it was one of the warehouses that was still relatively well preserved.

Some of these relatively well-preserved warehouses even have doors that definitely do not look like they are from ancient times.

Not only is there no rust, but there are also signs that it has been recently replaced and maintained.

Rust only occurs in warehouses that are completely full.

All these signs told him that the warehouses here were being maintained and materials were constantly being added to them.

It’s just that after these materials were filled up, no one used them anymore.

So after combining the automated mining robots he saw when he jumped to the next galaxy just now, he felt that these mining robots were maintaining these warehouses.

There is just one question that Chen Ming is not sure about.

Those automatic mining robots are purely mining robots in terms of structure and do not have any smelting functions.

He also did not find any traces of a smelting plant nearby.

How do the ores get transformed into these smelted metal plates?

He may need to continue investigating nearby.

But these resources are real.

Chen Ming had just decided that even if there was a strange wormhole in the galaxy, he planned to start colonizing from here and regard this place as the first step in his development and construction of a colony.

He can fully utilize the resources here.

Anyway, the alarm just now didn't seem to attract anything.

Even if he took away all the resources, the Shining Civilization would not rise from the grave to cause trouble for him.

and many more.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something else.

If he had found a way to come here after confirming the coordinates, could he have directly used the resources here and started development from scratch?
Could the empire have grown on its own even at a very early stage?
Considering the number of these resources, it does seem possible.

However, if Chen Ming had come here directly at the beginning, he might have ended up in depression.

His psychic power should not be at the current level.

It can only be said that the more powerful he becomes, the more Chen Ming feels that he cannot escape the concept of being human.

After a slight sigh, Chen Ming was ready to turn around and take control of the entire warehouse area.

Then, based on the warehouse, build the initial base.

however.

Huihuang suddenly reminded Chen Ming that a large-scale jump fluctuation suddenly appeared in space.

And this transition fluctuation soon stopped.

Chen Ming immediately walked out of the warehouse and raised his head.

A huge light source like a star was discovered in the sky.

It seemed like a searchlight powerful enough to be used on a cosmic scale, or like a huge shining eye, staring straight at the warehouse area and at him outside the warehouse from space.

Chen Ming suddenly felt something was wrong.

This might be something that happened because he had just opened the alarm in the warehouse that was storing all kinds of special metal materials.

He immediately switched his perspective to several warships in space.

Then he discovered that what had jumped into the planet's orbit was not a huge light source or a searchlight.

It's a giant mechanical body.

A gigantic machine made from thousands of capital ships and even more battleships.

Its overall shape is roughly an irregular sphere, and it is surrounded by a large number of tail-like structures that are surrounded by gravitational fields, magnetic forces, or some special means.

Make it look like the whole thing is not heavy at all, but unusually flexible.

It looks like a mountain of garbage, but the "garbage" it carries is all things picked up from various warships.

Whether it is armor, weapons, engines or some other structures, all can be seen on this giant mechanical body.

Makes this thing look like something less than benign.

And on the front side, the structure that Chen Ming thought was a searchlight emitting bright light was not really a searchlight on the mechanical body.

It was actually the grand light emitted by a furnace.

At this moment, Chen Ming understood.

This mechanical object was the one he had seen in orbit before, the one that had carved a path through the wreckage of the spacecraft.

No wonder Chen Ming didn't find any foreign traces. There were only remnants of other spacecraft wreckage on the wreckage.

Looking at this giant mechanical body formed by countless mechanical warships, there is certainly no possibility of any other foreign traces in the ruins.

And it is no wonder that Chen Ming had noticed that some ships' structures showed signs of melting.

He thought it happened during the battle, and was still wondering what weapons could cause some battleships to suffer high-temperature attacks.

He even suspected that the damage was caused by the method used by the mechanical race to transport stellar matter.

The result turned out to be this situation.

There is a huge furnace inside the body of this mechanical body, and the high heat it emits affects part of the wreckage.

In addition, Chen Ming also noticed that around this giant mechanical body, there were a large number of mining robots using it as a platform to take off and land, depositing ore and transporting the smelted metal plates to the planet below.

This mechanical body, which is hundreds or thousands of times larger than a battleship, is the furnace of the automatic mining robots.

And returned to this galaxy just after receiving the alarm.

But I don’t know why.

It did not launch a direct attack.

Instead, after observing in space for a while, it suddenly sent a signal to Chen Ming's cruiser.

Chen Ming immediately tried several different ways to decipher the signal.

Soon he discovered that it was a string of characters, written with the words of a shining civilization.

Chen Ming also learned some of the language and writing of the Shining Civilization in the past six months, so he was able to translate this sentence by himself.

The translated content asked Chen Ming to provide an identification code.

Sure enough, this is something left behind by the Shining Civilization.

Of course Chen Ming does not have such authority, but he does not need it.

This giant machine is a mechanical creation. As long as we can control it, everything will be fine.

Liquid metal appeared in Chen Ming's palm in an instant.

But before taking action, he suddenly hesitated.

Is this thing... a capital ship?

Although this machine looks powerful, it would be a loss to use it as the first capital ship...

But this thing, which is not sure whether it is a robot or a collection of spaceships, is not compatible with Chen Ming's own power.

At least there will definitely not be a battleship that is based on the corpse of the Phase Beast Chief, and that he researched and built bit by bit.

Moreover, it is also a huge question whether its actual combat capability will be as high as the battleship that Chen Ming finally built.

Although body size and combat effectiveness are linked, they are not the same.

Moreover, the main body of this thing should be just some kind of mechanical device, just mounted with many wreckage parts of spaceships and even battleships. Although it looks very imposing, its actual combat effectiveness...

However, when Chen Ming thought about it carefully, he felt that this mechanical body should not be considered a battleship. After all, the battleship parts on it were all mounted on it, so it should not be considered a battleship, right?
Nothing.

Chen Ming felt that he just needed to carefully sense the control process as it went through, and stop the control process if there was any problem.

It would not be possible to let him really control the first battleship.

However, despite this, Chen Ming still did not choose to directly control this giant mechanical body.

This was not only because he had considered the question he had just thought about, but there was another reason.

Something suddenly occurred to him.

In the database of the ruins where he obtained the resurrection mechanical fluid.

Chen Ming remembered that after he took control of the entire laboratory, he found a special identification code that could be recognized by all defense facilities and all research facilities in the laboratory.

Although Chen Ming doesn't know the meaning of this identification code, maybe it will be effective if used in this place?

So Chen Ming made preparations for both situations at this time.

He sent the identification code over and prepared the metal liquid to be transmitted to the giant mechanical body at any time.

He was prepared to take immediate action if any problems arose.

The giant mechanical body was silent for a while, and suddenly replied to Chen Ming with a message.

The translated content is: Authorization authentication has passed.

Really?
Chen Ming was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it was a laboratory that studied important things like resurrection mechanical fluid, so it was normal for this identification code to have the authority to control the mechanical body in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, this giant mechanical body completely handed over its authority to Chen Ming.

And Chen Ming also learned its name from here.

【Junk Scavenger Robot】

(End of this chapter)