Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 369 Darkness
Chen Ming is now ready with the wormhole locking device.

After locking the precise coordinates of the wormhole and determining the fluctuation value of the surrounding space disturbance.

He released the locking device.

Six devices with prismatic structures flew out from the highest point and flew to different locations near the wormhole in the distance.

Connecting them together would form a regular octahedron that surrounds the wormhole.

However, there were no fancy lights or any new changes that could be confirmed with the naked eye.

The normal operation of the locking device can only be confirmed through the signal received from the sensor.

Chen Ming's expression was a little tense.

Because when this locking device is activated, it will definitely have a significant impact on the other side of the wormhole, and it will definitely be detectable.

If there is something on the other side of the wormhole, it will definitely come over at this time to stop Chen Ming's behavior.

Suddenly, the spatial fluctuation data received by the apex sensor was briefly disrupted.

Just when Chen Ming's expression was extremely tense and he was ready to take action at any time to prevent unknown dangers.

The spatial fluctuations suddenly calmed down again.

And nothing has changed since then.

In this way, the locking device completed a successful operation.

Chen Ming's worries seemed unnecessary in the end.

After confirming that the wormhole locking device is stable and temporarily blocking out unknown dangers that may exist behind the wormhole.

He turned around and drove the Zenith back into the orbit of the habitable planet.

Continue with the main task he came to this galaxy to do, colonize the planet.

This time, what he had to do was no longer to build a temporary base, but to build a complete colony in the true sense.

And before that.

Chen Ming plans to name this habitable planet first.

After he had named the star system Origin, the habitable planet should have been called Origin-3.

The two inner volcanic planets are named Origin-1 and Origin-2 according to their distance from the star.

But this is a habitable planet after all, and the climatic conditions are very suitable for human habitation, so Chen Ming still plans to give it a good name.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming finally came up with an older but more classic name, Gaia.

He did not give much thought to the habitable satellite of Gaia and simply named it Gaia-1.

The other planets in the galaxy are deduced in the same way as Origin-4, Origin-5, and so on.

He only wanted to give names to those planets that had special value and significance.

Chen Ming’s first colony will be established on the planet Gaia.

The requirements and demands of Chen Ming's colony are obviously different from those of ordinary colonies.

There will be people in the empire's colonies, and there will need to be people, and all kinds of people.

Therefore, if the empire discovered this place, the first thing it would do would be to build up government departments, administrative positions, and various colonial infrastructures.

Then, with the government as the center, a comprehensive colonial city began to gradually expand.

Finally, different specialized colonies were expanded to the surrounding planetary systems, and resources began to be supplied to the earliest comprehensive colony, which was the capital of a star region.

But Chen Ming doesn't need to go through this process.

He has brilliance to manage administrative positions, and the entire government department's computer room that can install the Yuhui core is enough.

He also doesn't need so many meaningless complexes, those things are meant to create jobs.

He just needed a colony that would meet his needs.

To be specific and precise.

He needed a scientific research center that could meet all his research needs, rather than a laboratory that even had to be rented for important equipment.

He wanted a colony and planet focused on scientific research.

That’s what his first colony was intended to achieve.

After all, it is meaningless for one person to study alone, and communication is the basis of progress.

Therefore, there would definitely not only be him in such a colony, but also other researchers.

Each of these researchers will be invited or approved by Chen Ming personally.

To put it simply, if Chen Ming heard of any researcher who had technical skills, he would poach the talent from the Empire.

Then they call it exchange and learning.

So the planet must have the necessary infrastructure, it just doesn't need too much of it.

Chen Ming couldn't just go and invite them with a dry scientific research center, right?

Then the supporting facilities and various modern entertainment facilities must keep up.

The only difference from the Empire is that the Empire needs to consider the population explosion in the space age, so it needs to have people come to these places to work.

Chen Ming does not need to consider this issue. He can directly let Yu Hui Core manage these matters openly.

He has been preparing for this for a long time, and he will start to realize his idea from today.

The zenith soon returned to the sky above the planet Gaia.

Chen Ming's psychic power acted on Gaia's orbit, and teleported the star gate that Chen Ming had taken from the mechanical clan half a year ago and had undergone applicable transformation into orbit.

The Stargate unfolded in orbit, gradually fixing itself in place.

The other star gate in Chen Ming's hand is located at the temporary base left behind by his pioneering fleet during the seventh jump.

At the earliest time, it started from the third jump of the pioneering fleet.

Every time Chen Ming leaped, he would demolish the base of the earliest leap.

Because he did not have enough resources to support it, nor did he have enough residual energy to manage so many strongholds.

But starting from the seventh time, when they were forced to jump because of the mechanical race.

Chen Ming's situation is different. He is no longer limited by the resources of the stronghold.

So starting from that jump, all the subsequent temporary bases can be left behind.

The Zerg that sail along with the pioneering fleet and expand outward from these temporary strongholds can concentrate all the valuable materials mined during their expansion here.

The benefits of centralized management are self-evident.

Not only is it convenient for Chen Ming to use spiritual power directly.

Moreover, when a situation arises that requires large-scale mobilization without relying on psychic energy, the transfer can be started very conveniently.

Just like it is now.

One of the two star gates was erected in the orbit of Gaia, a planet that Chen Ming was about to develop and required a large amount of resources.

Another stargate was built at the stronghold of the seventh jump, which was filled with resources mined by the Zerg.

This is the plan arranged by Chen Ming.

The star gate fully opened.

The high-efficiency energy crystals that were transmitted along with the star gate were also converted into energy to supply the star gate through a conversion device.

The star gate is slowly starting up, and a layer of mirror is opening within the star gate frame.

Without any external interference, the mirror surface quickly became completely solid.

A Zerg battleship emerged from the mirror, followed closely by more Zerg battleships of the same model.

They are all Hercules-B class biological freighters created by the Zerg in the past six months.

It is the result of various improvements and modifications to the mechanical mothership that was assimilated by the Queen of Insects.

Of course, Chen Ming still used his psychic power to block his control over these Zerg battleships.

It’s not that Zerg battleships are not good.

The Hercules-B class is no less capable in transport and loading than the Empire's capital ship-class cargo ship, the Astra class.

Even the Hercules-B class can utilize the characteristics of the Zerg flesh and cooperate with the port's cargo structure to efficiently transport cargo, and create special separate isolation layers in the internal storage cavity according to the size of the cargo to maximize the cargo carrying capacity.

And there is more than one type of Zerg, the Hercules-B.

To be precise, there is more than one cargo model of the Hercules class.

When Chen Ming asked the Queen to modify the battleship, he would of course take different uses into consideration.

The combat capability of the combat model of the Hercules-A class is definitely not inferior among ships of the same class.

The reason why Chen Ming did not directly control the Zerg's battleship was to avoid the position of the first battleship he controlled being occupied.

His choice has been made.

And these battleships are only used to transport resources.

Transport and supply resources for subsequent operations of the stargate and colonial construction.

Chen Ming's plan is very clear.

His psychic power is only responsible for providing the first batch of initial energy, and is only used to supply the first activation of the star gate.

From then on, the transportation of materials will be entirely handed over to the Zerg and Stargate.

He had said long ago that he wanted to create a colony that could continue to operate without him.

Now it seems that at least he has successfully taken the first step.

At least with the arrival of this batch of Zerg main-class freighters, the material consumption for activating the stargate will no longer be a problem for his colony.

When the first batch of Zerg motherships all entered the galaxy and began to transport supplies to the planet, the star gate continued to operate.

The star gate will not be temporarily closed until all the supplies to the temporary base No. 7 are transported.

And later, Chen Ming teleported the star gate to base No. 8 and restarted it.

Until all the materials piled up in the frontier bases are transported to Gaia.

And at the same time.

The subsequent pioneering fleet also jumped to the Origin System after the reconnaissance force ahead confirmed the safety of the system.

The resources are there, the labor force is there, and the command is already in place.

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about the rest.

He handed the task to Huihuang and turned to study a problem that he would have to face sooner or later.

Wormhole.

The wormhole objectively exists there, so Chen Ming cannot just ignore it.

Sooner or later he would have to figure out what was behind the wormhole.

Why not break the point and start trying to explore the wormhole now?

The Empire has the technology to capture the core singularity of a wormhole and use it to create things, and of course it also has the technology to explore wormholes.

And Chen Ming naturally mastered these when he was learning the technologies related to the star gate.

If you want to explore a wormhole, you have to go through it.

This process requires facing the force of the wormhole that distorts space.

This force cannot be resisted by ordinary warships, and the spacecraft needs to be equipped with a space stabilization device similar to the one-way locking device he just used on the wormhole.

As long as the force of a natural wormhole to distort space can be stabilized, it is possible to pass through the wormhole safely.

Alternatively, it is possible to rely on the sheer strength of the ship itself to get through.

At least there have been successful examples of this in the past.

When Chen Ming heard the news, he immediately guessed which ship had this capability.

Obviously, it was an offensive-class ship specially modified by the Fourteenth Legion.

Then the protection strength to withstand the impact of wormholes is not a problem.

Of course, Chen Ming would not really do that. Although he had not prepared any special equipment to deal with wormholes before, it was almost enough for him to prepare from scratch during the time he spent dealing with the scavengers and preparing resources for colony construction.

Chen Ming has obtained the space stabilization device through channels within the empire and has installed it on three cruisers.

One Zenith he was driving, and two Stardusts he was controlling.

He wants to go through the wormhole himself and go to the other end.

There's no particular reason, I just wanted to.

In the past, Chen Ming was very afraid of death because he often missed a lot of interesting things.

Now that he has finally gained the ability and is no longer afraid of death, of course he wants to personally experience many scenes that he could not experience before.

Just like now.

The three cruisers soon arrived in front of the wormhole again.

The locking device surrounding the wormhole is a one-way lock and does not affect the passage of this section of the wormhole.

Although it would be a bit troublesome to come back through the wormhole, Chen Ming felt that he should not need to go through this wormhole to come back.

He just needs this wormhole to help him get through.

Chen Ming was mentally and physically prepared.

He activated the space stabilization device and entered the spiral wormhole that looked like a miniature nebula.

The spatial force of the wormhole tore his spaceship apart, but it was all offset by the space stabilization device, so that Chen Ming's body was not affected at all except for a slight feeling of nausea.

But think about it from another perspective. If the power of the wormhole can make Chen Ming's body feel slightly nauseous, then it is obvious what the effect will be for ordinary people.

So in Chen Ming's impression, people who go through a wormhole to investigate what is behind it are generally soldiers who have undergone rigorous training, or scientists who are willing to investigate despite such serious reactions.

Chen Ming was thinking about all sorts of things in his mind while waiting silently.

And while waiting.

Chen Ming's danger-sensing spiritual power, which had been silent for a long time, finally started to move.

He felt a sense of danger that completely enveloped him and a sharp danger appeared in his perception at the same time.

He immediately perked up and looked at the readings returned from the highest point.

It was discovered that the coordinates of the wormhole landing point calculated by the spacecraft's computer were shifting due to a strange gravitational force.

Chen Ming didn't know what was going on, but he was ready to face the danger.

And the moment the three spaceships passed through the wormhole.

A world so dark that it seemed as if all light had been swallowed up appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.

No, this is not a dark world.

This is a black hole that appears outside the wormhole.

Appeared in front of Chen Ming.

(End of this chapter)