Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 373 Tearing the Space
Chen Ming watched the severed limbs pierced by the electric arc falling into the black hole.

The Zerg fleet was decisively mobilized and immediately released several Hercules-class ships in good condition to perform a short-distance jump.

It jumped close to the broken limb of the black hole monster, trying to capture it.

But the black hole monster won't just stand there and watch.

When Chen Ming's Hercules finished this short-distance jump, several limbs with the momentum to destroy everything were swung towards them.

Fortunately, I have previous experience.

Chen Ming also knew that the black hole monster had the ability to detect transition fluctuations.

So when he gave the order, he also ordered the Zerg fleet to keep moving and be ready to maneuver at any time when the jump ended.

But even so, two Hercules-class ships were still hit by the black hole monster's limbs and instantly shattered within the black hole's event horizon.

It was not that the Zerg consciousness on the Hercules did not have time to react, but that the broken line brought with it an unexpected huge gravitational force.

As a result, if Hercules dodged away from the severed limb instead of towards it, he would be unexpectedly pulled by gravity.

Fortunately, the gravity of that limb can be traced. The real trouble lies in the gravity released by the black hole monster itself.

Chen Ming can only rely on detecting the location, direction and intensity of the monster's psychic energy fluctuations to judge the actual effect of this gravity.

During this process, all approaching Zerg warships must dodge in order to get closer to the broken limb that is getting closer and closer to the black hole.

The black hole monster didn't seem to have any intention of directly devouring its own limbs like it had previously devoured the Zerg battleship.

It seemed that it wanted to let the broken limbs fall into the black hole, or wanted to use the broken limbs to attract more Zerg warships to facilitate its attack.

The situation can only be described as extremely dangerous.

Any accident may cause serious losses.

But for Chen Ming, these losses are just that.

He continued to send more than twenty Hercules-class ships forward and backward, trying to touch the stump against the madly flailing arthropods.

The loss of Hercules during the battle made the Minister of Psionics beside him feel distressed.

But Chen Ming sent them all over without blinking an eye, just to achieve his goal.

In the end, the remains of the limbs that were broken by the arc launcher were caught by the tentacles extending from a Hercules-class ship, and after a short jump, they retreated to the rear of the Zerg fleet, escaping the danger of being dragged into the black hole or swallowed by the black hole monster.

While the monster is still in its impotent rage, it is fighting with the remaining Zerg fleet in Hedong's vision.

Chen Ming quickly checked the damaged part of the severed limb.

The interior is filled with pitch-black matter, and it is impossible to tell what its nature is.

However, judging from the shape of the wound cross-section, it was a fracture caused by the breakdown of the concentrated electric arc.

Chen Ming immediately checked it several times and confirmed that this was the case. It was a pure concentrated electric arc penetration. There was no collateral damage from other weapons, nor any old injuries.

This made him a little confused about the situation. If the power of the concentrated arc launcher was really so strong, then why was the damage caused by the huge part hitting the monster's body so almost non-existent?
This seemed interesting. Chen Ming was not in a hurry to find out the cause of the problem right away. He could always investigate it in detail later.

Now, let him concentrate on solving the current problem.

Chen Ming planned to take the severed limb away and send it to another place to facilitate subsequent research.

But just as the Prometheus that captured the severed limb left the black hole's event horizon and was about to jump away.

The outer layer of the severed limb it captured, which seemed to be a fusion of cortex and keratin, suddenly dried up rapidly, and countless cracks appeared on the surface.

Some dark substance is spreading out from the cracks.

Before the spreading black matter had time to spread around, the limbs' own gravity sucked all of it back.

This limb suddenly curled up, and its size was inexplicably getting smaller, but the gravitational force it possessed was increasing in the opposite direction.

For a moment, Chen Ming seemed to see that the starry sky around the set of severed limbs seemed to be distorted.

That's a sign of light being bent by gravity.

After leaving the black hole's event horizon, the limb seemed to be about to collapse into a black hole.

It seems that the black matter in the limbs is closely related to the matter that constitutes the black hole and connects the black hole dimension.

The Minister of Psychic Powers also saw the current situation and was so shocked that he stood up directly from the main console.

However, Chen Ming waved his hand slightly and motioned him to sit down.

Even if this limb turned into a black hole, it would not be enough to threaten him.

Moreover, judging from the mass of the limb observed so far, even with the blessing of psychic energy, the black hole it eventually produces may be completely invisible to the naked eye.

But they are black holes after all, and two black holes so close to each other.

So Chen Ming thought about it, activated his psychic power, and used the dimensional power he controlled to block the limb that was collapsing into a black hole.

Come when he wants to.

There is a high probability that there is a real black hole dimension behind the black hole, and the act of creating a black hole is to use the power of the dimension to open the way to the black hole dimension.

Therefore, using dimensional power to counteract the force that creates black holes is the most likely way he could think of.

Anyway, if it doesn't work, he has other means to use.

And the reality was exactly as he imagined.

The moment when the dimensional power belonging to Chen Ming blocked this limb.

The process of the limbs collapsing into black holes was directly stopped, the agitated black matter gradually calmed down, and gathered back into the limbs, returning to its original appearance.

Quietly captured by the tentacles of the Zerg battleship.

The Minister of Psychic Energy didn't quite understand what was going on, so he asked, "What just happened was..."

Chen Ming explained: "The monster's limbs seemed to have begun to transform into black holes after leaving the black hole's event horizon, so I used some tricks to lock it up. The effect is good, and it shouldn't change again."

Block the power of the black hole? It seems that there is more.

Chen Ming has the power to seal a limb, and this limb can obviously be taken anywhere.

This means that Chen Ming has mastered some of the means of utilizing the power of the black hole.

Even if it was just the simplest and crudest destructive force, he had mastered it.

The director of the psychic energy institute nodded silently, and immediately lowered his head and looked at the control console.

In order to cover up his somewhat shocked expression.

Just as he lowered his head, he happened to see the scene where all the Zerg warships that were originally in the black hole suddenly disappeared.

That was because all of Chen Ming's Zerg warships activated the biomass phase coils at the same time and entered the phase space.

Of course, the Zerg warships do not use the orthodox phase coils installed on various phase spacecraft, but organs with the same functions as phase coils that evolved after the Queen Zerg devoured the genes of the phase behemoth.

Most of the tests that need to be conducted under normal cosmic conditions have been completed.

It's time to test some new stuff.

Of course, Chen Ming would not look at the air in the normal universe, and he also entered the phase space.

The Minister of Psychic Powers glanced at the control console and suddenly couldn't sit still anymore. He said, "This black hole..."

"I noticed that."

Chen Ming responded, his eyes also fixed on the console.

Because when observing the black hole where the monster exists in the phase space, it can be found that the existence of this black hole has lost the terrifying feeling of being on the edge of the abyss that it brings to people in the normal universe.

Become just like an ordinary celestial body.

Of course, that's how it should be.

Phase space is an independent dimension with self-awareness. When there is a gap in the phase space leading to the scarlet dimension and the normal universe, it will actively let the phase beast close it.

As a celestial body that objectively exists in the universe, black holes are channels leading to the black hole dimension in the normal universe, so it is normal for this channel to be closed in the phase space.

It's normal to lose that special feeling.

After all, this is a world where psychic powers exist. No matter what unexpected situations occur in some of the things that Chen Ming originally knew, he will quickly accept them.

As he discovered this situation, he suddenly had an idea.

Chen Ming directly called upon his psychic energy to send the black hole monster's limb that he had locked up, which was being towed to a safe place by a Zerg battleship and preparing to jump, into the phase space.

And just like that, it directly unlocked the lock that was originally placed on it.

As he expected, the limb did not collapse towards the black hole again. Instead, it floated in the phase space like a real biological limb.

it is as expected.

Since the channel leading to the black hole dimension in the phase space is blocked, Chen Ming has reason to believe that the process of transforming into a black hole will also be blocked with a high probability.

So he did it.

After all, it is impossible for him to control this limb forever. Sooner or later, he will need to unblock it and start studying it.

Rather than thinking about solutions later, it is better to try it when you see the right opportunity.

He tried and succeeded.

The limbs sent into the phase space can indeed be suppressed with the help of the power of the phase space, and Chen Ming no longer needs to be distracted to take care of them. Subsequent research can also be carried out in the phase space.

The Minister of Psychic Power, who was beside Chen Ming at the highest point in the phase space, of course also saw what was happening outside through the spacecraft's sensors.

He immediately understood the situation and didn't say much.

He also wanted to take a closer look at the monster in the phase space and see how Chen Ming would deal with it.

Although he has always believed that the Fanchao Research Institute is at the forefront of understanding the unknown, and their Psychic Research Institute is on the front line.

But compared to now, when he personally followed Chen Ming to a place outside the observable universe, he knew what the real situation was.

The Zerg fleet regrouped at the edge of the black hole horizon in the phase space. However, the black hole monster could not perceive this, and it even thought that all the Zerg fleets had disappeared and left.

After showing some helpless rage at being unable to move even though the enemy could leave at will, it continued its meaningless struggle at the mouth of the black hole.

Chen Ming's fleet quietly approached the center of the black hole and lurked behind the monster.

They slightly dispersed the formation and aimed all the weapons they could use at those parts of the black hole monster's body where the limbs were most densely distributed.

That is the upper part of the torso close to its head as judged by Chen Ming.

The dark monster in the normal universe seemed to move its messy limbs a little uneasily.

next moment.

The firepower that erupted from a dimension that it was completely unfamiliar with instantly covered its body, severely damaging it in the blink of an eye.

A huge amount of black hole matter ejected from the wound of the black hole monster that was almost pierced in half.

The terrifying, distorted, chaotic gravity, along with these randomly shaped black hole materials, fills the entire black hole horizon.

However, Chen Ming's Zerg fleet was not affected in the slightest.

The effect of phase space's suppression of normal dimensions is incomprehensible from the existence in the black hole dimension, which is completely isolated from the normal universe.

The attack of Chen Ming's Zerg fleet continued, and the wound continued to expand.

The black hole monster twisted its body with difficulty and opened a crack in the direction of the attack source.

Just when Chen Ming thought it was about to release the psychic gravity beam.

Its big mouth suddenly bit down on the purple ball of light in the crack.

When it opened its huge mouth again in the next moment, a violent circular gravity field suddenly spread out.

It was like a roaring sound wave visible to the naked eye, sweeping across the entire black hole's event horizon, and even affecting a large area outside the black hole's event horizon.

“There is actually such a method.”

If Chen Ming relied on the number of his fleet to advance right from the start, no matter how many spaceships came, they would likely be destroyed in this attack.

Fortunately, Chen Ming was prepared. He chose to test the monster repeatedly, and actually launched the attack in the phase space.

Therefore, his Zerg fleet remained unaffected.

He even felt that he might be able to take this opportunity to kill the monster directly.

The province has long nights and many dreams.

So Chen Ming stopped firing slightly, preparing to focus his fire on the wound that was being repaired by the black hole matter and blow it up in one go.

But just as the second wave of fire from the Zerg fleet poured out, the first laser beam attack hit.

A sense of danger suddenly surged into the perception of the robots Chen Ming left on each Zerg warship.

The black hole monster was seen tearing its head, which had suffered countless injuries, towards the location of the Zerg fleet in the phase space.

It didn't bite into empty space, but it seemed as if it was really biting into something substantial.

At this time in the normal universe, the reconnaissance equipment left by Chen Ming discovered that a part of the front part of the monster's head was missing.

It wasn't that its head was shattered by the raging fire.

Instead, its head has penetrated into the phase space, and a part of it is in the phase space!

It opened its huge mouth again towards the Zerg fleet.

"this!"

The director of the psychic institute really couldn't sit still this time, and a fierce psychic energy wave flowed through his body.

He couldn't understand what the black hole monster was doing, but he knew they were in trouble.

Chen Ming understood what this monster had done.

It's easy to say.

First of all, phase space suppresses the normal universe.

Things that only exist in phase space can actively contact things in phase space, but things in the normal universe cannot do the same thing in reverse.

The same is true even for inanimate objects. As long as inanimate objects only exist in phase space, they are pure suppression of things in the normal universe.

But the monster took a chance.

Chen Ming took the initiative to attack it, and the chance that the means of attack had to touch it, allowing the dimension to suppress it, was almost non-existent at this moment.

The black hole monster itself has the ability to pass through the black hole dimension and come to the normal universe. Although it is stuck here now, it naturally masters the power of part of the dimension.

So, at the moment the phase space caused damage to it existing in the normal universe.

It took advantage of the moment when things in the phase space came into contact with things in the normal universe, and tore apart the space where the brief contact occurred.

Just like what the Destruction Core had done before, it tore a rift between the normal universe and the phase space and probed into the phase space.

A deep purple beam swept directly towards the Zerg fleet through the dimensional gap.

Although Chen Ming is temporarily unable to use psychic power to directly control these Zerg warships, his consciousness link with the Zerg Queen can still share the situation at the fastest speed.

This gave the Zerg warships some time to counterattack. Although seven Hercules-class ships were still hit by the psychic gravity beams, the sudden damage was reduced to a minimum.

However, the situation has not yet eased.

Chen Ming had never expected that the space would be torn apart.

Moreover, within his consciousness space, the power originating from the phase space seemed to be calling him, asking him to repair the crack that had just been torn.

Chen Ming does have the ability to repair it.

The gap between the phase space and the normal universe is very easy to repair. After all, the phase space does not invade, so it can be repaired casually.

But the black hole monster is now clinging to the crack and is trying to expand the crack in order to explore the phase space.

The danger of this thing is still very scary.

Moreover, Chen Ming felt that the phase space also regarded him as a phase beast.

But at least he did benefit from the phase space, so there was no problem in helping to maintain the phase space.

Not to mention that his fleet is now still using the special features of the phase space to unilaterally suppress the monster.

If this monster is allowed to enter the phase space, it will be in big trouble if it escapes from the black hole.

No matter what, we must try our best to prevent this from happening.

Chen Ming first calmed him down as his body began to change, as if he had the psychic power of physical mutation type psychic power, and told him not to rush into action.

Then, Chen Ming's Zerg fleet suddenly rushed to the gap one after another. Even at the risk of being crushed by gravity and psychic energy, they still crashed into the gap with all their might.
A giant ball of pure white light exploded, completely covering the body of the black hole monster.

In fact, it was not a ball of light.

Instead, the Hercules class converted all the nutrients of all tissues and organs into pure energy crystals, and Chen Ming's psychic power also transported a bunch of stored energy crystals, which were activated when they were about to impact, and triggered the results when the impact occurred.

The devastating impact dealt a heavy blow to the black hole monster.

And the number of battleships that a Zerg of this size can use for self-destruction is more than seventy.

One after another, balls of light appeared on the body of the black hole monster, and the powerful impact repelled the part of its body that had probed into the phase space.

Chen Ming's psychic power immediately followed up, using the matter that the phase space itself possessed, that is, those omnipresent media to repair the phase cracks torn open by the black hole monster.

Of course, the black hole monster would not be willing to be defeated like this.

It opened its bloody mouth again, trying to tear the rift between dimensions again.

But several Zerg battleships left the phase space, carrying a belly full of energy crystals, and exploded face to face with it.

It was just this short moment of obstruction that allowed Chen Ming to successfully repair the crack completely.

Without contact between dimensions, dimensional suppression comes into play again.

The black hole monster could only bite randomly in the void like a mad dog and had no way to directly tear apart the barriers of space.

Chen Ming also took this opportunity to gather his troops and move away from the black hole area.

He was not in a hurry to continue attacking for the time being.

At least he was not prepared to attack until he thought of a way to stop the black hole monster from tearing space apart.

Otherwise, if it is torn open again, who knows what this monster will do next, and whether it will have any more troublesome means.

And he has collected enough data, both on black hole monsters and weapons.

He has to go back and process this data.

What's more, the purpose of his trip has always been to obtain the spaceship of the shining civilization that pierced into its body.

And when the monster destroyed the Zerg warship he had let go, his main goal had been achieved.

The Zerg matter has already drifted over and can be used as an anchor point in space, allowing Chen Ming to send the afterglow core over and completely control the spacecraft.

And just when Chen Ming ordered a retreat.

Chen Ming's psychic power also acted on the Shining Civilization spaceship that pierced into the body of the black hole monster, bringing it into the body of the black hole monster and to his highest point.

And he also learned the name of the spaceship at this time.

["Shining" wormhole reconnaissance frigate]

This is just a frigate.

But it possesses a hull, structure, and armor that are unmatched by any human spaceship, even a battleship, or even a theoretical battleship design.

To the Shining Civilization, it might be just an ordinary spaceship, but everything used on it is the crystallization of the Shining Civilization's technology.

(End of this chapter)