Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 371 Borrowing
Chen Ming's idea is very clear.

But the problem is also obvious, how to get rid of this monster?

What has been confirmed so far is that the monster stuck in the black hole is a psychic species with a tangible physical body.

But it is not necessarily a living organism, and it does not necessarily possess the life-sustaining organs of normal organisms. This means that Chen Ming is currently unclear about where its fatal weakness lies.

Moreover, a monster of this size cannot be broken through by just any means.

Even if you know the weakness, you may not be able to use it to eliminate it.

Chen Ming has just tried the effect of ordinary weapons. All he can say is that ships below the battleship level should not even look at them. There is no point in giving them away for free, and they are not even meaningful as cannon fodder to attract firepower.

In fact, the Expulsion Guards could have been used as cannon fodder, especially when Chen Ming did not find that the monster had any long-range attack methods other than firing gravity psychic energy beams from its mouth.

Arranging more small boats in the fleet can help large ships attract some firepower.

But environmental constraints make this idea not so applicable.

The huge gravity environment and the gravity psionic power possessed by the monster can destroy any spacecraft that is not strong enough in one encounter.

There was no point in the boat getting involved.

Even the most powerful Stardust that Chen Ming is most used to using now cannot be considered as effective combat power.

You can only use other spaceships to participate in subsequent battles.

The most powerful Zerg currently available to Chen Ming will also be limited by environmental conditions.

Because the Zerg fleet has a large number of carrier-based aircraft, that is, Zerg flying units, their condition in the black hole event horizon will obviously not be very good.

Even though the Zerg themselves have greater physical strength and are backed by the Queen's psychic energy, their performance when they get really close to a black hole is at best only slightly better than the Meteor Fighter, which was designed to self-destruct.

However, there is one method that Chen Ming has not tried yet, which is to use phase space to fight the monsters in the black hole.

The power of phase space is also very significant.

He could launch another tentative attack to see if the monster could effectively counter the power of the phase.

But this can wait a little longer. It is not profitable to launch an attack just for one target.

What Chen Ming wanted to find out was not just whether the phase attack method was effective.

He also wanted to figure out what kind of weapon could definitely cause effective damage to it.

At present, it seems that the means of stimulating high-energy particles to launch attacks by using the Tachyon Lance is very subtle.

However, the actual effects of energy restraint bombs and high-energy lasers, which are also classified as energy weapons, have not yet been tested.

Moreover, there are live ammunition weapons, chemical weapons, and explosive weapons that have not been tried.

You have to take turns.
It just so happened that this monster's means of attack were very simple, and its body was confined to the black hole and unable to move, making it simply the best target.

He was not in a hurry and wanted to completely transform the Zerg battleship before starting the next experiment.

Reduces the number of small Zerg units carried.

And install different types of weapons on different Zerg battleships.

And because the Zerg's battleship was modified from the Mechanical's mothership, its main weapons operate in the same way as the Spine Cannon.

It is by relying on the gradual increase of energy that the ultimate powerful brick-flying effect is produced.

It is actually not very suitable for the Zerg battleship, but it is convenient for Chen Ming to modify it at this time.

Although using such a ship to fight the monster may result in some losses, it is far less than the results that can be gained in the process.

And the spaceship that had been pierced into the monster's body for tens of thousands of years and had withstood the tearing of the black hole's gravity for tens of thousands of years, but still maintained its overall structure intact.

He could totally accept this loss.

and many more.

Speaking of this spaceship, Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

The spaceship penetrated the monster's body, as if relying solely on the solidity of its hull.

Although the spaceship of the Shining Civilization is quite sturdy, it also means that this monster may not be very resistant to sharp-pointed live ammunition weapons.

Chen Ming knew a lot of weapons of this type, such as the very common Storm Needle, or the mechanical clan's live ammunition type Spine Cannon.

Even some of the ship-borne spiked bullets fired by Zerg warships, which are made of Zerg keratin as raw material, can be considered as such weapons.

And judging from the arthropod limb near the spaceship that had lost signs of activity, it was most likely a limb that was destroyed before the Shining Civilization spaceship pierced into it.

So this monster must have weaknesses and can definitely be killed.

He might be able to start directly with the ship and the dead limb.

Use this spaceship to confirm how the Shining Civilization caused that limb to lose its vitality.

Later, when he arranges the weapons of the Zerg battleships, he can also focus on this direction.

It would be even better if we could kill the monster directly during the test.

Moreover, Chen Ming felt that he could also change the plan slightly and no longer prioritize killing the monsters and then capturing the spaceship.

Instead, we should first find a way to pull the boat out, and then consider solving the problem of the monster itself.

Of course, the vaccination must still be done, and the necessary tests must still be done.

Anyway, he is still not afraid of any loss as always, but he doesn't need to make some insignificant losses.

Therefore, if a subsequent battle really takes place, Chen Ming's plan is to only send out Zerg troops.

Although the scavenger seemed to be able to fight the monster, Chen Ming still had the same idea as before and did not intend to let it go to the battlefield.

What it possesses is worth far more than the battle it fights.

Moreover, scavengers are not psychic machines, so to fight this kind of battle involving psychic energy, one must rely on the Zerg who also have psychic powers.

In fact, Chen Ming has a new idea.

The idea is to simply pile up the bodies to create new Zerg individuals.

However, the feasibility, rationality, and strength of the physiological structure of organisms of this size cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

You can try it later.

Now we just need to call over the Zerg's battleship, Hercules-A.

The scale of this exploratory battle will be just a hundred battleships.

Chen Ming silently thought in his mind about the number of battleships that might make the empire feel scalp tingling.

He does have such a large number of battleships, and he can also produce far more battleships than this number.

I can only say that this is the power of the Zerg.

When Chen Ming completely mastered the technology of battleships and the technology of allowing the Zerg to build battleships, no one could threaten him anymore.

After all, no one knows how many Zerg nests are desperately expanding in the endless universe.

No one knows how many Zerg fleets are standing behind Chen Ming.

Anyway, judging from the number of Zerg cruisers that appeared before, we can tell that there will definitely be a lot of them.

Chen Ming knew that there seemed to be several discussions about him in the Empire, or to be more precise, about him and An Wuping.

After all, there are many ways to deal with a powerful psyker empire, but if a powerful psyker's psionic power is to possess an endless fleet, then the empire has no effective way to counter it.

The only way to deal with this situation is to eradicate it early.

The empire either suppressed Chen Ming from the very beginning and did not give Chen Ming the opportunity to grow.

Either assassinate Chen Ming before he grows to a point where he cannot be dealt with, that is, before he masters the means to manufacture battleships.

In fact, the empire had made such an arrangement a long time ago, when Chen Ming was just taken away by Yu Hui.

If Chen Ming stayed in the empire, a lot of things would definitely happen.

But there happened to be a major general who was not so well prepared. For some more personal reasons, Chen Ming eventually left the empire alive and spent his weakest and most dangerous period with Yu Hui.

This temporarily allowed Chen Ming to grow to a point where he could no longer be easily dealt with.

Later, when Chen Ming and Bai Quan started their cooperation, he had Bai Quan's guarantor, and he stayed in the laboratory every day doing research, never going out of the door, so no one could contact him at all.

Except for the time when Zuo Jing infiltrated by using a brainwashed psychic, no other means could contact Chen Ming at all.

Even if they made contact, it would not be Chen Ming himself who remained in the branch, but his prosthesis.

As time went by, Chen Ming got to know more and more people and his abilities became stronger and stronger, making it increasingly difficult to touch him.

Gradually, Chen Ming no longer needed to rely on his body to survive, but instead relied on his consciousness to survive.

When Chen Ming captured the mechanical clan's mothership, it was the last chance to kill him.

As long as they can realize that Chen Ming and An Wuping are the same person, after killing all of Chen Ming's prostheses including An Wuping, and eliminating all the Zerg that can still be traced, and after killing the Zerg, they will also kill all the mechanical races controlled by Chen Ming, and Chen Ming will of course die.

However, no one could seize this opportunity and could only watch Chen Ming continue to grow.

At this point, the combat capabilities of Chen Ming and An Wuping, who are closely connected with the Zerg nest, may even make it possible for them to overthrow the imperial regime on their own.

The Empire never had a chance to change this situation.

These things were discovered by Chen Ming himself.

But he didn't say anything, and he was too lazy to let An Wuping say anything.

But it seems that some smart people in the empire have already thought of this. Minister Lu Han of the Psychic Population Management Department, who had previously clashed with An Wuping, seems to have resigned.

By the way, Chen Ming also saw that the outdated webpage of the Psychic Census Network was rebuilt and optimized into a comfortable interactive page.

It's also gratifying.

It successfully alleviated the feeling Chen Ming had when he first used this website and was disgusted by the simple page.

In short, the Empire had no objection to Chen Ming's subsequent affairs.

Chen Ming also continued to get along with the empire in this arguably strange way.

As long as no one causes trouble, as long as no one disgusts him, he has no intention of changing the status quo.

He never thought that he was a genius who could do everything well. The most he could do was to do well in what he liked and was interested in.

He really has nothing better to do than to overthrow the empire. He doesn't have the time to do things that the emperors take turns to do.

Moreover, although the Human Empire is called an empire, it is not an imperial system, but a more abstract democratic system.

Because there was a period of war in the early stages of the empire.

At that time, there was a man who unified the war-torn Earth and proclaimed himself emperor after the unification, and made the unified country the Human Empire.

Of course, this perverse behavior came to an end soon after.

But because of this, civil war could break out again at any time.

Thus, just as the empire is shifting conflicts abroad today, a nominally democratic system that combines military power was born.

The ruling class's approach is to use the collective military force to expand and transfer internal contradictions to external contradictions, which is also one of the causes of the last pioneering era. And in the end, power is only a kind of power. In this world where individuals surpass the power of the group, power is really not an important thing, at least for Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming didn't care what the situation of the empire was like or what its political system was.

He only cares about himself and the people around him, nothing else matters.

Of course, his “what matters” can also include some things that are helpful to what he wants to do.

For example, the rapid development of technology.

Therefore, war is definitely not what he wants to see.

Only stable internal peace and controllable external war can enable a country to develop rapidly.

Chen Ming patted his head and shook off the random thoughts that were starting to come to his mind.

He had to continue to explain his requirements to the Queen of Insects and dispatch enough modified battleships.

However, due to the limitations of Chen Ming's current psychic state, he cannot directly use his own psychic power to assist in the control of the battleship.

He can only use his own command skills to command the Zerg fleet, just like commanding the Empire's army.

To put it simply, Chen Ming was originally playing a real-time strategy game when he controlled the Zerg fleet.

And when it is temporarily impossible to control the battleship, the real-time strategy game turns into a simulated military sandbox.

The difficulty is not on the same level.

But Chen Ming did learn the legion’s university command techniques from Bai Quan.

It would not mean that you would be completely in the dark when your own spiritual power cannot be used due to some restrictions.

He still has plenty of fighting power.

Chen Ming also had another idea.

So why did he have to face the trouble alone?
It's not like he's the only one with a brain who can come up with a solution.

Chen Ming turned around and went back to the research institute.

He ran to the Legion, to the laboratory he rented from the Legion.

Of course, it is called a laboratory, but in fact it is a colony on a satellite inside a galaxy that is closed to the outside world and close to the main galaxy.

After all, it involves phase behemoths and battleships, so of course a suitable experimental site is needed.

And in this laboratory.

Chen Ming also arranged a place specifically for some important personnel currently involved in his battleship project.

When he came back at this time, the director of the Psychic Research Institute and the director of the Ship Research Institute were resting here.

Both directors greeted Chen Ming.

The director of the Psychic Research Institute saw that Chen Ming had returned in person and subconsciously asked, "Are you done with your work? Can you come back to work again?"

"Not yet, but more."

"what happened?"

Chen Ming was very prepared and took two sensor videos of the two behemoths he encountered inside and outside the wormhole on the table in the room.

The scavenger robot and the monster in the black hole.

The two directors, who were resting and leaning lazily on the sofa, immediately sat up straight.

"what is this?"

"One is a giant robot left behind by the Shining Civilization, and the other is a being that is suspected to exist in the black hole dimension."

The director of the Ship Research Institute asked casually, "Can't you beat him?"

"Do you think that iron guy needs to be beaten?"

"I know, so I'm talking about the thing in the black hole."

Chen Ming explained: "I sent two ships to investigate, but they both failed there. I was just about to cause trouble for it again."

"But cruiser-class battleships can no longer cause effective damage, so I plan to test what weapons are effective against them."

"Then kill it. Otherwise it will affect my work."

"But I'm not sure if a capital ship can defeat it, so I came to ask if the Empire has any good stuff they're researching that I can use."

The two directors looked at each other, and the director of the Ship Research Institute turned to Chen Ming and said, "I'll go ask for you."

"Really?"

"Um...how should I put it..."

The director looked a little embarrassed.

Chen Ming said again: "Just say it."

"Type, that is, before, the Mechanical Race destroyed their own planet in order to deal with your Zerg invasion, right?"

"The mothership destroyed the planet's land plates, damaging the planet's core and causing the planet to collapse. This method is quite efficient. Even the Empire seemed to have only used its main weapons to clean up the planet before, right?"

"Yes, the Empire has no real weapons that can destroy planets."

"So someone proposed to develop a highly efficient star-destroying weapon."

Oh, now Chen Ming knew why the two directors looked a little embarrassed.

Because star-destroying weapons are essentially designed to target the Zerg.

Then, the two of them, as one of the controllers of the Zerg's power, at least in the eyes of outsiders, talked about weapons against the Zerg. It would be strange if they were not embarrassed.

"You didn't keep this kind of thing a secret from me?"

"Because this weapon can be used to target dimensional infection, it's impossible to keep it secret from you."

Chen Ming didn't care. No matter how many Colossus-class spaceships there were, they could not pose a real threat to his Zerg.

His Zerg is not like the dimensional infection which needs to develop slowly.

“Are there any early concept drawings?”

"Have."

The director of the Ship Research Institute took out the terminal and sent Chen Ming a concept map.

When Chen Ming saw the concept map for the first time, he couldn't help but say, "It's so big."

Chen Ming, who had just seen the size of the scavenger and the black hole monster, couldn't help but say this. You can imagine the size of this thing.

"It is quite large. Its working name is also Colossus-class."

"I know about the Colossus-class freighter."

"The Colossus-class freighter is a cruiser-class ship. This Colossus-class is above the cruiser-class and main force-class."

"I know."

Chen Ming said this casually and continued to look at the concept map.

The Colossus in this concept art does not have any superfluous equipment.

Some of them had the thickest ship armor, hull structure, most powerful shields, and most powerful engines that Chen Ming had ever seen.

Combined with the colossus-class weapon tentatively named Earth-shattering Star, it possesses a powerful deterrent power.

But it is a ship type designed specifically for destroying planets.

It has no actual combat capability.

It does not meet Chen Ming's needs.

Even if such a Colossus-class creature was created, there was a high probability that it would be destroyed before it could get close to the monster in the black hole.

It feels a bit out of place.

I saw Chen Ming's expression was a little disappointed.

The director of the ship research institute, who was extremely familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Colossus class, immediately came up with a blueprint that was more detailed than the Colossus class's concept map.

"In fact, there is another type of ship that is also in the production stage, the Titan class."

"This is a standard combat spacecraft. We are currently planning to use it as the flagship of the main fleet."

"Because of what you said about the Mechanical Tribe, the Empire is already preparing ships for use in larger-scale wars."

"Although the material strength is not enough, I estimate it will take more than ten years to produce a sample."

"But weapons of this level already exist."

"?"

Chen Ming asked: "How come the weapons are already there when the ship hasn't even landed yet?"

"Because Titan-class weapons can be installed on space stations."

"The space station has enough volume and energy to use these weapons."

"From the Fanchao Research Institute?"

"Yes, because the empire has this demand now, so Fan Chao acted quickly."

"You also know that the mechanical tribe is now fighting guerrilla warfare with us, making it possible for many of our space stations to be targeted. As long as we can install this kind of weapon and cooperate with the patrol team, there will be no problem in defending it temporarily."

Chen Ming has hardly paid any attention to the war among the mechanical race in recent times.

Because the war between the mechanical races no longer seemed interesting to him.

He had basically taken all the benefits he was supposed to take, and the only one worthy of his attention was Cheng Xinghai.

There's no need to be idle and pay attention to this.

The director also knew that Chen Ming was a very busy man. He was not only busy with research in various aspects, but also with outside affairs. It was normal that he didn't know about it.

He explained it to Chen Ming and said, "If you need it, I can transfer one to you right now."

"Okay, as soon as possible. This thing is a good target. If I kill it accidentally, I may not have a chance to test it."

"Row."

The director of the Ship Research Institute did not ask Chen Ming for any rent or guarantee. This was not the first or second time they had done so.

Anyway, Chen Ming will send the data back for everyone to study together.

At first, Chen Ming would take the initiative, but later on, as time went by, the process became simpler.

This can be regarded as a tacit understanding between Chen Ming and the Empire.

At this moment, the director of the Psychic Research Institute, who had been staring at the monster in the black hole for a long time, suddenly said, "I'm very interested in this thing. Can I go and take a look at it myself?"

(End of this chapter)