Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 382: Advances in Technology

The death of the Star Eater caused the wormhole in the corner that Chen Ming had not noticed, which was originally rotating steadily in the same and corresponding orbit as the planet Gaia, to once again move away.

But this time, Chen Ming will not let it run away again.

The moment he arrived at the wormhole wearing the biological armor, his psychic energy fluctuations directly wrapped around the wormhole and acted on it.

The power of his psychic energy prevents him from directly controlling the wormhole, and he can only use the power he learned from the Nightmare of the Plane to maintain the stability of the wormhole.

But he has another way to limit wormholes.

He used the method he learned from the Nightmare of the Planes after he mastered the dimensional power.

The psychic energy fluctuations released by Chen Ming, which were invisible to the naked eye, seemed to be stained with a hint of blue that was observable and full of destructive aura in an instant.

And this blue existence, under his control, tore the space apart, creating a spherical crack from the normal universe to the phase space, trapping the wormhole in the space crack.

Wormholes that are born based on normal cosmic physics and space rules cannot enter the phase space, otherwise the intersection of the two spaces will cause the wormhole itself to collapse directly.

Regardless of whether this wormhole, which can be regarded as a wonder of the universe, has its own consciousness like the planet Gaia, or is simply acting according to some rules that Chen Ming does not understand, it is impossible for it to enter the phase space.

Because it belongs to the normal universe, while the phase space belongs to another dimension.

Just as Chen Ming thought.

The wormhole is locked in the only space in the spherical space crack that is still a normal universe, and it cannot leave any further.

But it is impossible for Chen Ming to maintain such a space rift forever.

Not to mention the problem of mental energy consumption, it would definitely not be a good thing if the partition between spaces was destroyed.

Whether it is the dangerous scarlet or the safe phase, there should be no direct spatial integration with the normal universe.

It shouldn't be a big deal if he does it temporarily, but if he keeps doing it, it will definitely cause huge trouble.

So immediately afterwards, Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations acted near the wormhole again.

This time, Chen Ming's psychic power was much milder. He only sent four devices called space solidification anchor points, each about one cubic meter in size, here.

Their functions are already revealed in their names.

It is used to solidify space and prevent the properties of space from changing.

Specifically, it has two basic functions. One is to build a safe zone within a space to protect some key areas of the empire from being forcibly entered by external jumps.

Some semi-permanent areas, such as various important political and military galaxy planets, can be installed.

The legion branch in Gallo has this device installed, and it successfully prevented a desperate attack by the mechanical clan.

Blocking a large area such as a planet or a galaxy requires a large number of solidification anchor points.

However, if you just want to block off a small area of ​​space and solidify the anchor points, a group of four is generally enough.

Just like Chen Ming has only prepared four now.

Because his purpose is the same as another basic function of the solidification anchor point, which is to block the wormhole, which can be achieved with only four solidification devices.

A blocked wormhole can have its singularity extracted relatively easily.

However, Chen Ming did not intend to extract the singularity from this special wormhole. He just needed to block the wormhole and fix it in place.

Chen Ming solved the problem of wormholes having long legs and being able to run by tearing the space, thus avoiding the problem of the anchor point being unable to be installed.

The singularity inside the wormhole will not be solidified, which means that fixing the position of the wormhole will not affect the operation of the wormhole itself.

What is solidified is only the properties of space, not the things in space. Anything that does not utilize the properties of space to carry out activities will not be affected.

It is equivalent to suppressing the ability to utilize only spatial activities.

In the only area of ​​intact space in the spherical crack, the four locking anchor points surrounding the wormhole were quickly activated.

Completely surround the wormhole trapped within.

The built-in high-efficiency solar panels can keep the entire device running for a considerable period of time, and only regular maintenance is needed to keep this space solidified.

The wormhole, which was originally moving in a narrow space, gradually stabilized and its speed was getting slower and slower.

After confirming that the equipment has been successfully running and has achieved the desired effect.

Chen Ming was also ready to start repairing the space rift he had just torn open.

Just as he had this thought, he noticed that the speed of the wormhole suddenly stopped decreasing after reaching a certain level.

Just keep moving in the torn space at a very slow but still mobile speed.

It is moving in an entire space solidified by a space solidification device.

This situation made Chen Ming at a loss for words for a moment.

He could only say that this wormhole was indeed a cosmic wonder.

Chen Ming frowned and thought for a while, and finally thought of a solution that might be useful.

He used his psychic power to recreate the four anchor points and made some modifications to them.

By utilizing the devices developed in the last six months that can help the normal universe and phase space communicate, as well as some previously existing phase technologies, these four new anchor points have the ability to connect the normal universe and phase space.

All of these four new anchor points are connected to the four existing anchor points, and they can recognize each other and be judged as a group during operation.

Therefore, when Chen Ming restarted the anchor point and sent it into the phase space.

The space corresponding to the location of the wormhole in the phase space is also blocked.

Chen Ming utilized the corresponding anchoring capabilities of the two spaces to strengthen the solidification capabilities of the device.

This time, with the assistance of phase space.

The wormhole finally stopped moving and was truly fixed in the space surrounded by the solidified anchor point.

Chen Ming relaxed a little.

After confirming that the wormhole would not move again, he released psychic energy fluctuations and began to repair the space rift that he had just torn.

But he suddenly stopped the repair process and frowned.

Because he suddenly had a feeling that something was wrong.

He felt that the space he was repairing was experiencing slight vibrations that he had not expected.

If his entire attention had not been focused on this space, he would not have been able to feel the vibration at all.

An inexplicable force came from an unknown corner that Chen Ming could not directly sense, acting on the space that he had just torn apart and repaired.

Chen Ming suddenly felt an extra pressure in his heart. He immediately suppressed the tremor and restored it to normal. At the same time, he sped up the process of repairing the space that had just been torn.

The force that was shaking the space was warning him that he should avoid actively tearing the space, or even better, not do it at all.

Of course, the more likely possibility is that it is not a warning, but a sign of some kind of danger.

After locking the wormhole.

Chen Ming spent a little more time adjusting the trajectory of the wormhole so that it could continue to revolve.

In other words, let the solidified anchor point located in the normal universe and phase space that restricts the wormhole begin to revolve.

Now that he had already started, Chen Ming might as well do it more decisively.

Instead of letting the wormhole revolve with the planet Gaia, he dragged the wormhole into the orbit of the planet Gaia.

It began to orbit around the planet Gaia from the ecliptic plane and became a "satellite" of the planet Gaia.

This allows the spacecraft from the Origin Galaxy to reach the planet Gaia as soon as possible after passing through the wormhole, without having to travel for a period of time.

If there is time and extra energy later, Chen Ming will also move the wormhole on the other side of the Origin System to the planet's satellite orbit.

Solved the wormhole problem.

Chen Ming returned to the spaceship.

The Minister of Climate Transformation was looking at the images sent back by the sensor in a daze, feeling both nervous and excited.

Obviously he saw everything Chen Ming had just done, including using psychic energy to lock the wormhole, forcibly tearing and repairing the space, and finally dragging the wormhole to the orbit of the planet Gaia.

He had seen psychics and knew how powerful psychics were in terms of personal combat power.

He had also heard of Chen Ming's abilities and knew that Chen Ming was currently one of the strongest psychics in the entire empire and had not yet reached his limit.

Now that he had personally seen what Chen Ming had done, he finally understood what the strongest meant, and his eyes towards Chen Ming were filled with even more awe.

Chen Ming didn't care about other people's opinions. He just saved the whole process of what had just happened.

Including his discovery of the planet-eating body to his final solution to the planet-eating body.

However, he cut off the part where he tore the space apart and repaired it.

He already had enough achievements in the Empire to prove himself and did not need any additional performance.

Any more will only create unnecessary fear in people's hearts.

After saving all the contents, Chen Ming did the same as the last time he encountered the Nightmare of the Planes and sent a copy of the file he had just saved to everyone who should receive it.

"The matter should be settled now. I have to go back to the empire. Do you want to come with me?"

The Minister of Climate Change responded to Chen Ming's question immediately: "Okay, I have to go back and prepare the equipment for later use. It's enough for me to go back. Can the rest of you stay here?"

"No problem, I will be responsible for their safety."

Chen Ming said as he stood up and pressed on the shoulder of the Minister of Climate Transformation.

In just a blink of an eye, he and the minister appeared at the space station port of the Climate Transformation Department.

Only non-researchers and some robots are working here at this time.

"Contact me when you're ready."

Chen Ming patted the minister on the shoulder, waved at him, and disappeared from the space station in a blink of an eye.

Two weeks later.

Chen Ming looked through the files on the terminal in his hand and could see that a lot of things had happened in the past half month.

The most important thing is how to deal with the corpse of the Star-Eater.

Chen Ming used the same method as the Nightmare of the Plane.

He would take out some samples and send them to the empire for research, while keeping most of the corpses in his own hands and using them as bait to attract talents.

This time, the research on the Star Devourer was more difficult than that on the Plane Nightmare. The limbs of the Plane Nightmare only needed to solve the gravity problem of its corpse.

But the corpse of a star-eating organism needs an environment of thousands of degrees Celsius to be preserved, otherwise it will melt.

The only natural, ready-made high-temperature environments are stars.

Therefore, this time the research institute that studies part of the body tissues of the Astrophotium was built in a galaxy similar to the star of the planet Gaia within the territory of a certain empire.

Not on the Legion's territory.

This situation is not only because the legion does not have similar stars, but also because the Fanchao Research Institute signed an agreement with the 14th Legion and Chen Ming.

The Fanchao Research Institute is directly under the Empire, so it can also be regarded as an agreement reached between Chen Ming, the Empire and the Legion.

It can even be directly regarded as an agreement between Chen Ming and the Empire.

At the beginning, it was the Fanchao Research Institute who took the initiative to approach him. They wanted to cooperate with Chen Ming.

They contributed manpower, money and effort, Chen Ming provided samples for their research, and they shared the results together.

There is a strong idea of ​​letting Chen Ming break away from the legion and become independent.

The Legion remained silent throughout the whole process.

Because the legion's scientific research resources are indeed not as good as Fan Chao's, it would definitely not be a good choice to use Bai Quan's favor to communicate with Chen Ming, so it is better to just wait for Chen Ming to make his own decision.

Of course, Chen Ming rejected this type of cooperation proposal offered by the Fanchao Research Institute.

Not just because of the relationship with the Legion, but also because of other reasons.

The cooperation he wanted was to be carried out in the same way as before, with his laboratory as the main focus and his research center as the basis.

At most he could provide some scraps for the empire's research, but the real big deal had to remain in his hands.

He wants to train his own scientific researchers.

Of course, Chen Ming is not saying that he will not give others any chance at all.

He still agreed to open his research center in the Origin System to the empire after it was officially opened to the public. Anyone who passed the review could participate in the project in the name of academic exchange.

Chen Ming could even give the Fanchao Research Institute some of the same privileges that he had agreed with the 14th Legion in advance, which could be considered as some preferential treatment.

The reason why he did this was very simple.

That is, the research center he built on Gaia, which almost covers the entire planet, cannot be composed of only his own project team.

He must build a scientific research center full of academic atmosphere that can continue to operate without the various resources he provides.

For this reason, in the early stages of the operation of this scientific research center, he had to relax some of the conditions a little and recruit some peripheral members to populate the planet.

Prepare for the transition into the future.

Therefore, Chen Ming is also secretly setting up a scientific research fund to support some potential independent research institutes within the empire.

When the scientific research center opens, all the research institutes he has supported will become part of it.

Therefore, all the agreements Chen Ming wanted to sign with the Empire were prepared for this purpose.

Neither Fan Chao nor the Empire could do anything to Chen Ming.

Because Chen Ming has mastered the most advanced research resources.

Fan Chao had no choice but to sign this agreement. After all, Chen Ming still gave him some preferential treatment. At least when the institute was only open internally, there would be researchers from Fan Chao Institute among the earliest members.

As for how much can be brought back after going to Chen Ming's side, it depends on the abilities of Fanchao Research Institute and Chen Ming.

Anyway, Chen Ming always insisted on sitting on the chair of the empire.

He has never had any independent ideas, so the interactions among researchers can only be regarded as job-hopping, and there is no strange title involved.

Whether or not a researcher can be retained really depends purely on the salary.

Also in the past half month.

On a newly opened research space station located near a star within the Empire.

Research on organisms such as asterisms and substances such as asterism fluid are also being formally carried out.

Research on other forms of life has shown signs of moving towards cutting-edge technology.

Even the Dyson Sphere Project, which the Empire had once carried out but was not researched sufficiently due to insufficient technological level, was brought back from the grave by the part of the Planet-Eating Organization that Chen Ming brought back.

The emergence of the StarEater indirectly supported countless researchers.

In addition to the new research project on the Star-Eating Body that has just been launched, many previous projects on the Nightmare of the Planes have also made initial progress after half a month.

What Chen Ming is most concerned about is of course the research progress of the psychic shield.

This is a project that studies how the Planar Nightmare uses its own psychic energy to build a passive gravity shield around its body.

Gravity psionics is unique to the Nightmare of the Plane, and using gravity psionics to construct a gravity shield is also part of its ability.

But as long as the principle behind it can be studied clearly, the theory of psychic shield can be extended.

Other psykers or psionic devices can also create similar shields.

Chen Ming had previously felt that the Zerg fleet needed a shield, and this attack on the Planet Eater further confirmed this idea.

So he has been paying close attention to this project and continuously increasing his investment in it.

He needs this technology.

In addition to these researches invested by Chen Ming and supported by Empire.

Some research that Chen Ming is fully responsible for has also made progress.

It's about the projects of scavenger robots.

The nanorobots on the scavengers have been self-iterating and updating over tens of thousands of years to develop a digital optimization program.

It can analyze and optimize its own functions according to how it is used, achieving an effect similar to Chen Ming's deep repair psychic ability, constantly adjusting itself and approaching "perfection" in its own functionality.

Although Chen Ming mastered such psychic power, he knew that it was impossible for him to optimize everything in the entire empire.

He knows his abilities have limits, but his skills do not.

Therefore, Chen Ming is studying how to template and modularize this optimization program, trying to reduce its complexity in mathematical operations, so that it can adapt to more low-end environments and be applied to more environments.

Rather than being limited to nanorobots.

He wants to continuously lower the threshold for using this program, and eventually allow this program to penetrate into countless fields.

In addition, Chen Ming has another research plan.

That is to apply this optimization process to psychic power.

But this is more complicated, and he has no idea yet.

However, he felt that if his two ideas were combined, He Gu, who was working on the civilian use of psychic technology, would probably be more interested.

However, He Gu seems to still be researching those things under the guise of Fan Chao's plan to militarize psychic weapons, so he should not have time for the time being.

When he is free in the future, Chen Ming will go to He Gu to take over this project.

Anyway, the optimization program can only be regarded as a secondary research project of his.

His main research area is still nano forging.

The Scavenger's body contains a broken Nanoforge, which has yet to be repaired.

The reason is very simple, Chen Ming's spiritual power does not work.

It's not that the nanoforge was attacked by destructive psionics or anything like that, but rather that it was attacked by time.

It was damaged too long ago, and Chen Ming's spiritual power cannot reach ancient times ten thousand years ago, so it is impossible to restore it to its original appearance.

But at least it is still usable, and it can be used for colony construction.

With enough materials, it can build a new industrialized colony in a few days.

However, judging from the results of Chen Ming's analysis, the industrialized colonies that were finally established must be the industrialization of the Shining Civilization. It cannot be directly applied to humans.

So he is trying to figure out how to change the Nanoforge from the Shining Civilization's Nanoforge to the Human Civilization's Nanoforge.

The progress is quite obvious.

Because the iterative updates of the scavengers' own nanorobots have also optimized the nanorobots in the nanoforge.

They are able to adapt and learn Imperial technology very quickly.

The industrial buildings built by themselves are also optimized.

And this is not the kind of optimization that is fully accepted, but a fusion optimization after integrating Shining Technology and Human Technology.

The final result can combine the advantages of both parties.

Not only will it make the colony more promising, but it will also allow Chen Ming to master more advanced technology to a certain extent.

All I can say is that the value of these giant beasts is truly terrifying.

Each one is like a treasure trove.

As long as their troubles can be solved, all that remains are benefits.

This time, after Chen Ming brought back the news about the Star-Eating Body and held a meeting.

These behemoths, including the Planar Nightmare and the Star Devourer, are all collectively called Leviathan.

Scavenger robots are also included.

These research processes related to Leviathan are collectively referred to as the Leviathan Project

He has the highest level of authority in the entire empire, and the empire will do its best to meet any needs.

It can be seen that the empire is now truly focusing on development, and has not been carried away by its great victory in the war against the mechanical race.

The top brass of the empire are also aware that there are countless beings in the universe that threaten the survival of the empire.

Of course, Chen Ming is also happy to accept the current situation.

In addition to progress in theory and scientific research.

In the past half month, some substantive plans have also been promoted, such as the climate transformation plan that Chen Ming is most concerned about.

(End of this chapter)