Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 372 Battle? Test

The director of the Psychic Research Institute is very curious about the monster in the black hole.

But Chen Ming looked at his gray hair and agreed: "That place is too dangerous."

The director of the Psychic Institute said stubbornly, "That's why I want to go over and take a look. So far, we have never encountered a psychic creature that requires more than one capital ship to deal with."

"Besides, I am a psychic after all. I have the ability to protect myself."

Speaking of abilities, Chen Ming really didn't know what kind of abilities the director of the Psychic Research Institute had.

The director of the psychic power institute usually focuses on the research of various psychic power technologies, and leads several teams to run several projects at the same time.

It was not until Chen Ming's project started that he stopped other work and concentrated on Chen Ming's project.

Although he was not clear about the director's specific abilities, Chen Mingming had never seen the director use any spiritual powers when working on the project.

That means the director's psychic power is not the type that can assist in research, but is most likely of the combat type.

And from Chen Ming's usual perception, the director's psychic power strength is probably around level 4 or 5.

Although this made the director of the psychic institute's words somewhat convincing, Chen Ming was still a little hesitant.

Because the monster is within the event horizon of the black hole.

Although he will be more prepared next time he goes there, he will not be short of equipment to scout within the field of vision from outside the field of vision.

But if the director of the psychic institute goes there, he might want to get in close contact with the monster, and Chen Ming may not be able to guarantee his safety.

However, looking at the special desire and curiosity about the unknown in the old eyes of the director of the psychic institute, Chen Ming found it difficult to say a direct refusal.

"You can go, but you have to do what I say when you get there, or forget it."

"no problem."

The director of the psychic institute's moving eyes suddenly returned to their normal state.

He decisively agreed to Chen Ming's request. After all, being able to go was better than not being able to go.

"Once we get there, I'll leave everything to you. As long as I can see that monster, that's fine."

"Are you coming?"

The director of the Psychic Institute suddenly turned to the director of the Ship Research Institute and asked such a question, which made the director of the Ship Research Institute very annoyed and said: "If you want me to change the director, just say it directly."

"Are you done? If you are, go ahead and get your weapons first."

After the Director of Psychic Powers explained some tasks and the Director of Ships explained the location of the Titan-class ship weapons sent by the Fanchao Research Institute.

Chen Ming directly used his psychic power to bring the two of them to a closed galaxy near the headquarters.

This place is the same as the area that Chen Ming rented to study the transformation of the patriarch's corpse into a battleship. Both are places specifically used for research that may cause large-scale physical damage.

Chen Ming and the two directors were teleported directly to the port of the space station.

The ship's chief had been notified in advance, and their arrival did not cause any problems such as alarms.

When the ship director arrived at his own territory, he looked around and took Chen Ming to the area where the Titan-class ship weapons were installed.

Before he took two steps, Chen Ming's eyes blurred and the lights at the port suddenly began to flicker frequently. It seemed that there was a minor problem with the lighting system.

However, everyone else at the port pretended not to have seen anything and continued doing what they were doing.

The ship's director explained, "They are probably testing new weapons again. The weapons are consuming too much energy. It will be fine after a while."

"is it?"

Weapons alone can cause a space station to have insufficient energy supply, which makes Chen Ming look forward to it.

But within a few seconds, the lighting system that was flashing wildly suddenly went out.

Emergency lights came on after the normal lighting system went out, illuminating the port again.

"Uh, is this normal?"

The director of the ship said calmly, "Normally, two new weapons were sent over for testing today. They are all newly developed Titan-class weapons, not the kind installed on the space station."

He added, "These weapons are all made by Fan Chao. It's normal for their weapons to be consumed so much, and they don't have much to put into actual combat, so they reached a cooperation with us to bring these weapons to the front line for use."

The front line the captain of the ship was talking about was obviously not the front line on the side of the mechanical war, otherwise why would it be sent to the headquarters.

And he just said that the weapons sent by Fan Chao were new types.

With the Mechanical Clan already destroyed, the front line on their side had no ability to test at all.

So it is obvious who the test is for.

"That's fine with me, but I'm curious as to what kind of weapon could knock out the power of a space station designed specifically for testing."

"We'll find out soon enough."

The ship director brought Chen Ming and the psychic director to an experimental area close to the outside of the space station.

This is a very common semi-open area for testing various weapon devices that need to be tested in space.

Standing on the ground of the space station, you can directly see the starry sky without any obstruction. This area uses a pseudo-gravity device to confine oxygen inside, so you can breathe without protective clothing.

However, for safety reasons, all the staff working here wear heavy protective clothing and are equipped with noise-canceling headphones.

Because in this area, all kinds of large-scale machines in operation can be seen everywhere, and the ears are filled with the roar of various machines in operation at any time and anywhere.

Without noise-canceling headphones, ears could retire decades earlier than humans.

At this time, the emergency lights were on here, just like the port outside. Everyone was running around in a hurry, obviously affected by the power outage.

Chen Ming and his party did not stay at the entrance for long. Soon, led by the captain of the ship, they arrived at a high point in the area.

A command room with direct observation of the entire experimental site.

The command room was also extremely busy, with a middle-aged researcher in a white coat constantly issuing various instructions.

The testing process needs to be temporarily stopped until the space station's circuit system returns to its original state before continuing the test again.

The ship's director waited a while until the emergency eased and the middle-aged researcher no longer needed to hold onto several walkie-talkies and give orders.

He walked up and asked, "How's the situation?"

The middle-aged researcher who was sitting in front of the command desk immediately turned his head and saw his boss, Chen Ming, and the director of the psychic institute next door.

He quickly said, "Director Wang, Director Chen, Director Gan, the space station was overloaded just now because it was carrying two new Titan weapons at the same time."

"Only some unimportant lines need to be replaced. After removing one door, the line will be restored quickly and the problem will be solved immediately."

The ship's director nodded slightly and said, "That's perfect. We'll take the unloaded door with us."

"That's it, isn't it?"

As he spoke, he pointed to two weapons that could be seen outside the command room window. They were installed side by side in space, one of which was being dismantled. They were giant weapons that were over a thousand meters long and comparable to ordinary cruisers.

"Yes, those two are the updated models of Titan-class weapons that were just delivered, the Purgatory Rays."

Chen Ming, who was standing by, had been focusing on the two giant weapons since he arrived at the experimental area and entered the command room.

When he heard the researcher mention their names, he immediately asked, "Is it related to the Purgatory Core?"

"Yes."

The director of the Psychic Institute who came with Chen Ming helped explain: "Both of these Purgatory Rays use light beams as carriers of entropy aggregation. When they are launched, they can converge all the dissipated energy and concentrate all the damage, causing very powerful energy damage and high temperature damage."

No wonder the energy consumed is so huge. It has to emit energy beams of sufficient power and be able to trigger the effects of the Purgatory Core. It would be strange if the consumption is not high.

Chen Ming couldn't help but say, "What kind of ship can sustain such a huge energy consumption?"

The director of the ship also explained: "The Titan-class spacecraft is equipped with an antimatter reactor and antimatter fuel engine of sufficient scale, and combined with energy crystal technology, it can minimize the loss of energy circulating in the spacecraft."

“Paper calculations are theoretically possible.”

"We already have the weapons. If we build ships later, we will definitely build them to a scale that can support these weapons."

"Don't worry about whether you can afford it or not. The key is whether you can use it."

"The number of Purgatory Cores is limited."

"So what Fan Chao sent last time was a weakened version of the Purgatory Ray, called the Hellfire Ray."

"If there are enough Inferno Rays, the Inferno Rays will mainly be installed on the space station."

"If it's not enough, then the Hellfire Ray will have to be used on the Titan ship in the future."

"I remember we have two Hellfire Rays here, I'll go get one later."

Chen Ming listened to the ship captain's introduction silently. Seeing that he seemed to have finished speaking, he asked, "Is there any difference?"

"The difference is that the ion cannon does not have an Inferno Core. The thing inside it that has a similar effect to the Inferno Ray is made to imitate the Inferno Core."

Chen Ming was immediately surprised: "Imitation? Can you already imitate it?"

“Yes, the progress of technology is often unexpected.”

"It is impossible to take care of all the space stations on the border of the empire with the normal number of Purgatory Cores. Imitation is the best solution."

"It's been almost a year since you published the technical article about the Infernal Core. There should be some movement in this year, right?"

Also.

Chen Ming didn't dwell on this matter too much. On the contrary, he was very happy to see it happen.

Technological progress is definitely not a bad thing, at least it is not a purely bad thing.

at this time.

Someone suddenly pushed open the door of the control room and said, "The line inspection report has come out. The damaged line has been replaced. The circuit system can be restarted at any time."

Hearing the familiar voice, Chen Ming immediately turned around.

It turned out to be He Gu, whom he hadn't seen for some time.

Chen Ming immediately stepped forward and took the initiative to greet him and asked, "Are you working on this project now?"

"No, I'm still working on the previous project. I just came here to exchange ideas."

"Research progress is not good?"

"Yes."

He Gu admitted this generously: "The main reason is that I and a few other people are the only ones working on this civilian use of psychic devices, and there are no precedents to refer to."

"It just so happened that I heard that the Fanchao Research Institute was preparing to militarize psychic devices and mass-produce them, and they sent a few weapons over, so I applied for academic exchange."

"I think this is a good place to start. After all, many civilian devices are derived from military devices." "That's great. I wish you success."

After He Gu handed over the documents, he turned around and left quickly.

The middle-aged researcher in charge of the experimental site also quickly told Chen Ming that the Purgatory Rays had been unloaded and could be taken away at any time.

Another Hellfire Ray has also been unloaded and is located on the other side of the station and can also be taken away.

Of course Chen Ming went there without hesitation and took control of the two new weapons.

Before leaving, he asked the captain of the ship if there were any other weapons that needed to be tested.

So a pair of miscellaneous items were added to the list of weapons he had taken away with his psychic powers.

Among them, there are two weapons that Chen Ming finds more interesting, one of which is the arc launcher carried by the cruiser.

The other is the modular weapon carried by the battleship, similar to that of the mechanical family, the concentrated arc launcher.

This is an enhanced version of the Arc Launcher.

It is said that it can theoretically penetrate the target's shield and hull, causing arc damage that directly acts on the hull structure.

However, it is said that the effects of these weapons in previous experiments seemed to be somewhat less than ideal.

The team that developed this weapon seemed to have given up.

But Chen Ming still paid special attention to it, because he felt that these two things seemed to have some potential.

After everything is ready.

Chen Ming and the director of the psychic institute made another leap and reached his highest point.

At this time, only two hours had passed since he entered the wormhole and left from the other end and encountered the monster in the black hole.

His highest point was still at the same place, observing the black hole from a distance.

After making sure you have arrived at the place.

The director of the psychic energy institute immediately determined his coordinates, and his method of confirmation was very simple and effective.

"What is this place?"

"Don't know yet."

Chen Ming knocked on the control console of the spaceship in front of him, signaling the director of the psychic institute to come over and take a look.

"You see that wormhole? That's where I came out. As soon as I came out, I was attacked by the thing in the black hole."

"So I plan to kill that thing first to make sure the surrounding area is safe, and then confirm the specific location."

"However, we have recorded all the observable galaxies nearby, and confirmed that there are no familiar galaxy structures."

"I'm sure we're still in our universe, but we're also somewhere outside of our universe."

That is, outside the observable universe.

The director of the psychic energy institute helped Chen Ming add the last self-evident sentence in his heart.

And he also roughly understood why Chen Ming had to prioritize dealing with that monster.

After all, the entrance and exit of this place both need to pass through wormholes. Although Chen Ming can use psychic power to move directly, it is definitely more stable to use natural wormholes to move.

Chen Ming didn't chat much with the director of the psychic institute.

Under the influence of his psychic power, all the weapons that had been sent to the colony at the other end of the wormhole appeared near his spaceship.

It was floating around like a floating cannon, facing the direction of the black hole.

Since the types of weapons obtained from the Empire were too complicated, it was too troublesome to install them one by one on the Zerg spacecraft, so Chen Ming planned to use these weapons directly.

Only other weapon types that he had wanted to test earlier were tested by modifying Zerg warships.

However, Chen Ming always remembered the purpose of his visit.

The main purpose is to seize the spaceship of the shining civilization, and testing weapons is secondary.

After all, as long as we have the technology of that shining civilization's spaceship, designing better spaceships than existing ones will no longer be a problem.

After all the suspended weapons were charged out of thin air.

With Chen Ming's spiritual power taking effect again.

Hundreds of Zerg battleships also appeared in the galaxy.

The director of the psychic institute next to Chen Ming looked at such a large fleet with some amazement, and couldn't help but feel a little impressed by how powerful Chen Ming is now.

As far as he knew, even the empire that had reached its peak during the pioneering era had never had a main fleet of this size.

However, the fact that Chen Ming owns such a fleet is already known to many people, but he just saw it with his own eyes now.

nothing to say.

Chen Ming possesses such power and is willing to get along normally with the empire, which is a very good situation for the empire.

If you don't give me face, it would be pure brainless behavior.

Moreover, the reason why Chen Ming gathered so many battleships together at this time was to face a more terrifying enemy.

After the Zerg fleet arrived, Chen Ming activated the updated reconnaissance device, which was able to directly observe the conditions inside the black hole's event horizon from outside the black hole's event horizon.

The new sensor image immediately appeared on the spacecraft console.

I saw that the monster was still struggling at the mouth of the black hole, trying to break free from the constraints of the black hole, and its limbs waving wildly seemed to be venting its emotions.

But it's just a way to vent.

It simply cannot escape the constraints of a black hole.

"The psychic detection device has recorded the psychic fluctuations emitted when it used psychic power."

"The data is all there, you can check it out yourself."

Chen Ming said a few words to the director of the psychic power institute, and then used his psychic power to control the various reconnaissance devices and spread them out to the vicinity of the black hole to record the actual combat data of various weapons in the future.

The main Zerg fleet also began to approach slowly, and various weapons that Chen Ming had modified himself for testing were ready to go.

However, those weapons that were purely suspended in the universe entered the event horizon of the black hole at a faster speed.

The monster in the black hole seemed to have discovered the approaching weapons very early because Chen Ming had harassed it before.

The big mouth on its head opened 180 degrees again, and the dark purple ball of light appeared in its mouth again.

In a blink of an eye, a gravity beam swept towards the approaching group of weapons.

However, as long as the monster's beam still relies on the rotation of its head to locate itself, it will not be able to hit the weapons that are reported by Chen Ming's psychic power.

All weapons controlled by Chen Ming successfully entered the event horizon of the black hole.

And after entering their respective firing ranges, they opened fire directly.

Energy, live ammunition, chemical, explosive, all types of weapons are pouring ammunition and energy towards that monster.

Although the accuracy of all weapons within the black hole's event horizon will be affected.

However, the monster itself exists on the black hole and is connected to the black hole. All things affected by the black hole's gravity will be corrected to a certain degree of accuracy.

This results in some weapons that might have missed the target due to accuracy errors being able to hit the monster more accurately.

After the first wave of indiscriminate bombardment, the explosions caused by various weapons or the flames produced by the impact had not yet completely dissipated, and the Zerg's main fleet followed closely and stepped into the black hole's event horizon.

A second wave of attacks with even more terrifying firepower was launched.

But in the midst of the colorful flames, a beam of deep purple light suddenly shot out.

All Zerg battleships on this deep purple beam immediately performed short-distance jumps, but two Zerg battleships were still hit.

Even if both battleships directly cut off the part of the tissue that was hit.

But the gravity psychic energy fluctuations continued to linger on the battleship like a thorn in its side, and it seemed that it would not stop until it crushed the entire battleship into a ball of flesh and blood.

After discovering this situation, the two Zerg warships started their jump engines again without a moment's hesitation, and jumped to the part of the monster's body that was connected to the black hole.

The monster seemed to have sensed the warp waves approaching it in advance.

At the moment when the two battleships completed their jump.

Then it suddenly pulled out its horrifying articulated limbs towards them.

The Zerg shell, which Chen Ming knew was extremely strong, was shattered, and the two battleships broke apart near the black hole.

Then he was swallowed by the monster in one gulp.

Only some fragments of wreckage were scattered outside.

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the result.

At the same time, he took another quick look at the data he had acquired.

Just as he had guessed before.

Most weapons will be affected by a strong gravity field when close to monsters and cannot play their full role.

This resulted in that although the colorful smoke and dust just now looked huge, the damage it actually caused was not ideal.

On the contrary, in the second wave of attack, the sharp live ammunition weapons carried by Chen Ming's Zerg battleships had a very good effect on it.

Almost all of them penetrated its skin, which seemed to combine the characteristics of maggots and leeches.

However, when facing creatures of this size, it is difficult to see the specific damage caused by live ammunition.

And judging from the monster's actions, it didn't seem to have caused enough damage, let alone any fatal injuries.

However, there are two weapons that are exceptions.

One is the Titan-class ship-borne weapon, the Inferno Ray, and the other is the concentrated arc launcher, which seems to be not very popular.

The infernal rays left a huge burning mark on the monster's body, and the limbs near the burning mark were twitching significantly faster than the limbs elsewhere.

Apparently the infernal rays had really hurt it.

The situation of the focused arc launcher is rather special.

Although the first few times the arcs directly hit the monster's body, the effect was not ideal, but the arc that hit the monster's limbs directly penetrated the limbs and successfully broke it.

And the broken limb was now slowly falling into the black hole.

(End of this chapter)