Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 384 Changes
Two months later.

Origin Galaxy, Gaia, No. 1 Research Center.

Although it is called a scientific research center, it is actually a city with complete functions.

Chen Ming, who was at the No. 1 Research Center, had just finished the work at hand.

He sent the data on the research progress of his battleship over the past two months, as well as the results report on the battleship's design to several other project team leaders.

More than a month ago, Chen Ming had built the No. 1 Research Center with the help of Yu Hui and others.

After a month of early internal opening, Chen Ming's Gaia No. 1 Research Center was officially opened to the public just a few days ago.

The news that he was building a new scientific research center with research resources that were not available in the empire had already spread.

The news that he was setting up scientific research funds within the empire and recruiting researchers and research teams on a large scale had already spread within the circle.

People are still coming to this city one after another.

The conditions offered by Chen Ming are relatively relaxed.

As long as you can pass the online review and identity check, it won’t be a problem to bring your family here.

The ancillary facilities he built in the urban area outside the No. 1 Research Center, which covers an area larger than the research center, are specifically for use here.

Researchers from outside and scientific research teams formed by the outside world can come to Chen Ming's colony, so of course his own Extraordinary Research Institute has already moved here.

At present, it is mainly managed by Lu Kang, his deputy who was promoted by him personally.

The battleship project team that was previously at the Empire also moved here.

Anyway, as Chen Ming said before, he has no shortage of energy resources.

His star gate and the legion's star gate can remain connected 24 hours a day.

His colony could be physically separated from the legion headquarters by only one door.

The star gate will only be temporarily closed if it needs to be connected to other places, but this will not affect Chen Ming's continued opening of the star gate, allowing people to travel through it at will.

It was a little idea to deliberately maintain connection with the Legion's star gate.

The star gate is in the capital of the Legion Star Domain, and anyone who wants to come through there must definitely go through a Legion inspection.

If there is a problem, the legion will not drive the person away directly, but will turn around and inform him to conduct the final review.

It can be considered as an extra layer of insurance, plus more people to help Chen Ming.

The Legion is happy to do so.

After all, the stargate leading to Chen Ming's colony can be opened anywhere there is a stargate, and no place will refuse Chen Ming's request.

But since Chen Ming is willing to open the store here, they certainly won’t drive people out.

For them, it is definitely beneficial to maintain close ties with a purely scientific research colony like Chen Ming's.

Therefore, the Legion originally even wanted to provide the resources for opening the star gate themselves.

But in the end, Chen Ming came out.

After all, Chen Ming’s energy resources are really free, but they are still very costly for the legion.

Unless some recently developed technology has a key breakthrough in a short period of time, this situation will probably continue for some time.

After the entire team of the battleship project that Chen Ming was in charge of moved to Chen Ming's colony, the overall research situation was better than before.

This project team itself is built by the cooperation of multiple research groups, which are research groups in different directions and disciplines.

Many technologies don’t know much about each other.

In addition, those who can participate in Chen Ming's project team must be those with the most advanced technical skills in each company. They always look down on each other, so the cooperation situation is not ideal.

If Chen Ming hadn't relied on the resources at his disposal and his abilities to suppress those people, the project team would have been overturned long ago.

This also resulted in the project not progressing very quickly in the early stages.

However, the entire project team has been working together for more than half a year and finally there is some sign of cooperation.

Now that they are in a scientific research environment specially created by Chen Ming, rather than an environment temporarily put together by multiple different organizations in order to cooperate in the battleship research project, their efficiency will only be higher than before.

In two months, we have made good progress.

For example, it took the project team half a year to deal with the patriarch's body, preserve his special organs, and determine the direction of the spacecraft's main control system.

Nothing else.

There is no progress on things like the spacecraft's energy source, engine, armor, and weapons.

But fortunately, the tone in these aspects has basically been set now.

It is expected that the basic framework of this battleship will be built within a few months, and what is currently a corpse will also have the prototype of a spacecraft.

With this foundation in place, subsequent complex and diverse testing will allow for more refined modifications to be made to this special battleship.

Just like what Chen Ming just did, he integrated and organized the content that had been researched over the past two months and then sent it to the respective persons in charge.

Afterwards, he will gather everyone together for a meeting to make things clear.

Countless people and countless efforts have been invested in this project. Now it is not only Chen Ming's own project to build battleships, but a testing ground for the entire empire to test the most advanced ship technology.

But these things are not about now.

Now he had to go next door and do something else.

Chen Ming got up and left the office, leaving the building where he worked.

Like an ordinary researcher, he used the ready-made commuter system on the terminal to call a shuttle and set his destination.

Although he could use psychic power to get there directly, Chen Ming suddenly wanted to get there slowly.

He personally commanded the Afterglows to build this city according to his needs, and he also lived in this city for several months, but it seemed that he had never done so before and had never experienced life in the city personally.

So, since what he had to do was not urgent, he might as well take this opportunity to take a look at the city he had built himself.

The shuttle took off into the air.

In order to prevent some unexpected situations, a large number of ground orbital defense facilities have been built on the planet, and there are also orbital defense systems prepared in space.

Therefore, no matter what spacecraft it is, it needs to go to a special area to enter and exit the planet's atmosphere, otherwise it will be attacked.

Although Chen Ming has absolute control over those defense facilities, there is no need for him to deliberately go against the norm at this time.

This also makes it easier for him to observe the city that belongs to him.

Chen Ming already knew the layout of the city by heart. After all, the entire city was designed bit by bit according to his needs, and he watched it being designed with his own eyes.

At least he knows something about urban planning.

Although he only knew about industrial city planning, the knowledge is universal and he always has some experience.

More involved in the project than anyone else in a similar position.

However, it is one thing to see it on the blueprint, but it is another to see it in reality.

When the shuttle took off, the first thing Chen Ming saw out through the window of the spacecraft was emptiness.

Although there were tall buildings in the city, the deserted streets and only a few sparse spaceships flying in the sky gave him such a feeling.

When it was first designed, the No. 1 Research Center was a city that could accommodate tens of millions of people.

In the first place, even with the afterglow, it would not be easy to build a city of this size in just three months.

Generally speaking, there must first be a city center, and then gradually expand from the center to the periphery.

But with the assistance of Chen Ming's spiritual power, everything went so smoothly.

It was fast and it was outrageous.

This has resulted in the entire No. 1 Research Center being ridiculously empty today.

Although Chen Ming's review standards for the people who can come here have been much more relaxed than before, there are only a little over 10,000 scientific researchers working here.

Including some people who have decided to settle down and bring their families over, the total number is only about 30,000.

There were no human figures to be seen almost anywhere, only robots responsible for maintaining the city were operating.

Chen Ming has tried his best to settle the people who are now in the city together, but the effect...

But it's not a big problem.

His No. 1 Research Center has only been open to the public for over a month and to the public for less than two weeks, so it is normal that there are so few people.

Chen Ming could no longer remember how many people there were in the empire. Even if scientific researchers only accounted for a small part of the empire's population, they would definitely be enough to fill up his colonies.

There is no need to rush, just do what needs to be done.

The shuttle circled over the city, and after reaching an area where one could enter and exit the planet, it flew straight into space.

In a blink of an eye, the shuttle broke through the atmosphere of Gaia and saw the starry sky outside, as well as the half-corpse of the Plane Nightmare floating in the starry sky and orbiting the planet Gaia.

Next to the half body, there was a space station that was about the same size as the body of the Plane Nightmare, which half-surrounded the body for easy research.

This space station, like the city on the surface, was built by Chen Ming using psychic power.

However, he is only responsible for the construction process, and the subsequent maintenance is left to Yu Hui and various mechanical devices, robots and the like.

Although the destination of the commuter shuttle that Chen Ming was riding was not the Nightmare Space Station of this plane, Chen Ming chose to slightly change his authority, allowing the shuttle to change direction and arrive at the port of the space station.

Of course, Chen Ming could enter and exit his own space station at will, and he soon saw the current appearance of the space station.

The situation here in the space station is much better than on the ground.

Although the port is not too busy, it is still popular.

After all, this place is not as big as the cities on the surface, and a group of people organized by him have arrived here before.

Stayed at the port for a while.

Chen Ming was about to leave when he suddenly saw the director of the psychic power driving a small car out of the passage leading to the interior of the space station from the port of the space station and came to Chen Ming.

Jumping off the vehicle inside the space station, the director of the psychic power institute said to Chen Ming, "I just received the things you sent me. I was wondering when you would gather everyone to prepare for the back. Why are you here now? And why are you here?"

"I came to take a look when I passed by. You know I have always been concerned about this project." Chen Ming has been paying attention to the development of ship psychic shield technology based on the psychic shield of the Nightmare of the Plane.

After all, the Zerg really need shields.

The research progress of the psychic shield project can be said to be very ideal.

The principle of how the Planar Nightmare uses psychic energy to create a passive gravity shield has been figured out, and the laboratory is trying to replicate it.

With the psychic theory and technology exchanged from the survivors some time ago, it is only a matter of time before practical results are achieved.

It won’t be long before the finished product of the psychic shield generator that can be tested will appear in Chen Ming’s hands.

With the optimization of his psychic powers, the technology of truly usable psychic shield generator will mature immediately.

The Queen will also obtain this thing shortly afterwards and use it to generate shields for the Zerg fleet.

Although the Queen's psychic power is to strengthen the body, judging from the results of the psychic shield research team, the effect of the psychic shield depends on the nature of the psychic power, not whether the psychic power has such a function, so there is no need to worry about not being able to use it.

The psychic shield generator technology optimized by Chen Ming's psychic power will also be returned by Chen Ming later.

He no longer hides this part of his optimization technology capabilities.

Because now at least no one in the empire can do anything to him.
What he does is to try his best to optimize the technology he needs, as for some other advanced and valuable technologies, whether they are optimized or not.

He doesn't care.

The Empire cannot force him, so it can only support him and wait for him to actively optimize some technologies that may not mean much to him but will be valuable to the Empire.

He doesn't mind optimizing a few things every day.

A few a day won't take much time.

So after learning about Chen Ming's attitude, the Empire even set up a special warehouse for Chen Ming to prepare the technologies that needed to be optimized.

This is also beneficial to Chen Ming to a certain extent, at least he can discover some interesting things that he has never heard of before.

It can only be said that Chen Ming occasionally comes up with some fancy things, and new technologies are acquired through exchanges between the Empire and the survivors, as well as the application of various technologies developed by the Empire itself.

It can be said that the Empire is currently in an era of technological boom.

Whether it is Chen Ming's psychic shield, or the psychic technology in other places, especially the more extensive psychic knowledge at the Fanchao Research Institute, they are all developing rapidly.

As well as the various disciplines in which the empires have exchanged technology from the survivors, there have been new developments and they are able to break through the shackles of the past.

In the Mechanical War that is already coming to an end, the Empire has already occupied most of the Mechanical star field, and the state of the entire Empire can be said to be very good.

At least it's better than before.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Chen Ming for the time being. He just habitually follows a line of thought to think about a bunch of things.

Now he was still chatting with the Minister of Psychic Powers about his sudden visit.

The Minister of Psychic Energy also believed Chen Ming's excuse of stopping by to take a look, and said, "Old An has been keeping a close eye on it, so you don't have to worry too much about it."

"To be honest, you are really too busy. There are things you need to do everywhere. I think you should find a chance to rest."

Chen Ming immediately said: "I'm fine."

"But I feel like you can't hold on any longer. I feel like your spiritual power hasn't changed in a long time."

"You're a psychic. Psychic power is the most important thing. You put all your energy into other things. Is that okay with you?"

"Forehead……"

Chen Ming's spiritual power actually changes.

He has been using the scarlet rift in his own consciousness space to enter the scarlet dimension and seize the power therein.

He never stopped, whether in the past six months or two months.

As long as his condition is good enough, he will think about going to the Crimson Dimension to steal some things to improve himself.

He even encountered the eye that was peeking out from the rift while he was constantly diving into the scarlet dimension.

Even now, his mental strength almost collapsed when he touched that eye. Fortunately, the phase power that belonged to him helped him.

After that, Chen Ming's mental strength had undergone a very obvious qualitative change, just like the first time he entered the Scarlet Dimension.

Maybe the next time we meet there will be a different result.

However, the change in the quality of mental power alone is not so easy to see.

Moreover, most of the improvements gained from entering the Scarlet Dimension are pure improvements in psychic knowledge.

Only when he had time to acquire Scarlet's knowledge would Chen Ming go back to absorb some of Scarlet's power and strengthen his own power.

But he would not mobilize the scarlet power easily, so it was normal that others could not see the changes.

He also knew very clearly where his bottleneck was, so his behavior really seemed like he didn't care about psychic power itself, but about something else.

"Don't worry, I have a plan."

After Chen Ming said this, the director of the Psychic Institute certainly didn't say anything more: "Okay, you don't need any advice from me anyway, so I'll get back to my work."

"wrong."

The director of the psychic institute, who had just turned around, suddenly stopped, took out the terminal, clicked a few times, and sent a document to Chen Ming.

"Look at this."

Chen Ming did not take out the terminal. His psychic power allowed him to directly see that what the director of the psychic power institute sent him was an application report.

It is on this Nightmare Space Station that a research team wants to use a device that is not available on the space station to study the corpse of the Nightmare.

The equipment is not difficult to get, it is available in the No. 1 Research Center.

But the problem is that there is no such equipment on the space station, and there is no extra space on the space station to install this new equipment.

Therefore, the research team applied to bring some materials of the corpse of the Plane Nightmare to the ground, and they needed to use the fixed equipment of the scientific research center to conduct research.

This kind of thing involves a lot of issues, so even if Chen Ming doesn't come to rely on him today, the director of the Psychic Institute will hand the application over to Chen Ming to decide.

Chen Ming first retrieved the applicants’ information and looked at their past experiences.

This group was a scientific research group that was previously unknown.

I have been quietly conducting research related to antimatter technology.

Just a few days before Chen Ming's research center opened to the public, they published a structural optimization plan for the antimatter fuel storage device.

Both the Empire and Sinda extended olive branches to them, but they ultimately took the initiative to choose Chen Ming's side.

Originally, Chen Ming would just assign them to the main battleship project team.

But their team leader said that they were actually more interested in the Nightmare of the Planes project.

Although antimatter technology and the Nightmare of the Planes seem to have nothing in common, Chen Ming still arranged them into the Nightmare of the Planes project out of respect for these researchers with reliable research results.

After confirming that the group members applying for this have no identity issues.

Chen Ming seriously considered the possibility and impact of doing so.

Currently, the project team of the Nightmare of the Planes has developed a technology that can stabilize the corpse of the Nightmare of the Planes and prevent it from transforming into a black hole without Chen Ming having to do it himself. It is feasible to study the theory on the ground.

It won’t be too dangerous, and if there is any danger, Chen Ming can rush there to solve the problem as soon as possible.

However, for Chen Ming, instead of considering solving the problem one at a time, it is better to consider solving the problem from the root.

For him, passing this approval and ensuring safety after approval is far less easy than expanding the space station and providing more space for installing equipment.

So Chen Ming directly activated his spiritual power.

He had no shortage of materials, no shortage of design plans, no shortage of mental energy and free time.

Of course, he could just expand the space station further.

The space station, which originally only half-surrounded the body of the Plane Nightmare, completely wrapped the body in just a few tens of seconds.

Chen Ming has installed everything that needs to be installed inside the new space station area, and even the afterglow core that is responsible for this area has been sent to the place where it should be.

"Okay, I'll reject this application. Ask him to apply to install new equipment in a new area of ​​the space station. We still have the funds. If you need more, come back to me."

"Row."

The director of the psychic energy institute turned and left.

Chen Ming did not stay on the space station any longer.

He boarded the shuttle again, left the space station, and began to orbit Gaia.

It wasn't long before the shuttle had circled to the other side of the planet.

And here should be the wormhole that Chen Ming spent a lot of time and energy to migrate to.

But now, the location of the wormhole has been covered by a huge space station.

And the wormhole itself is right in the center of the space station.

Chen Ming's psychic power has already stabilized the space station. Combined with some of the empire's own technologies, it is theoretically feasible to build a space station near a wormhole.

And judging from the current well-functioning space station, it is actually feasible.

The construction of this space station was initially purely for the purpose of screening and recording the personnel passing through the wormhole.

However, the actual situation was slightly different from what Chen Ming had initially thought.

The shuttle soon entered the port.

Chen Ming's spacecraft was allowed to go, but Chen Ming did not go directly into the wormhole at the core of the space station through the port. Instead, he found a space and stopped.

After disembarking.

What Chen Ming could see was not just a space station with cold equipment.

Instead, it is a space station with a full atmosphere of life, similar to the central city of the pirate space station where Chen Ming had been before.

(End of this chapter)