Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 414 Some Changes

Chen Ming's attitude made the Minister of Psychic Power feel much more at ease.

However, he still couldn't help but say: "Our pioneering team has already set out to find the remains of the Shining Civilization, but it is too difficult to find technology from the remains."

"It is really difficult for us to make a major technological breakthrough in a short period of time if we rely on ourselves alone."

"Look at the antimatter engine from a few years ago. It has only been a few years since the army began to equip it. So far, no more than one-third of the Imperial Army has been equipped with it."

"This is just the engine. Let's not talk about whether the other things can be put into service. Even the research is still a long way off."

"We can only hope that what we find in that cultural memorial will provide some clues to help us find some truly useful and brilliant technology."

Chen Ming was also helpless about this: "It's no use for you to play the victim to me. I also want the shining technology. Haven't I shared some of my technologies?"

What the minister said is exactly what he wants.

His psychic powers can optimize a certain technology, but cannot develop technology in a new direction.

All he could do was to continue his research like other researchers. The most he could do was to be a psychic and have special psychic powers, which made his research more efficient.

But compared to other psychics, especially the researcher of Fan Chao, there is no gap at all.

Of course, he also hopes to acquire more technology and benefit from it.

But you really can't expect too much.

"cough."

The Minister of Psionics coughed and said, "In addition to searching for the Shining Ruins for technology, we also need to see if we can find the location of the survivors."

"Anyway, we still have to consider using normal means to get in touch with the survivors and get more technology from them."

“I don’t think this is a good idea.”

As the person specifically responsible for contacting the survivors, Chen Ming knows their situation very well.

"They are not very interested in contacting us. They just go through the process every month and give us some technology that is slightly useful but not very useful."

"And I told you that the brainwashed psyker is not dead. He may have hooked up with the survivors."

The Minister of Psionics refuted Chen Ming's words slightly: "As long as we get the technology, it will not be a loss for us, because as you said, the brainwashed psychics may have already come into contact with the survivors."

"There's a high chance that he'll leak out the information we use to trade with the survivors, which is basically known to everyone."

"Besides, many of the things we give out are newly compiled. We won't lose anything if we give them out. We will lose something if we don't give them out."

"What do you think those who worked so hard to compile historical records think?"

"And if the brainwashed psychic is not stupid, he would not have revealed all the secrets of the empire. These are the capital for him to get along with the survivors on an equal footing."

"You also said that you destroyed most of his external psychic effects. If he is not careful while floating in the universe, he might starve to death. Don't you want to use this information of the Empire to argue with the survivors?"

When Chen Ming heard this, he subconsciously considered the possibility of the brainwashed psychic starving to death.

I found out it really exists.

The body he controlled belonged to the leader of the negative matter research team. The leader's own spaceship was just an ordinary shuttle, not even a standard civilian-grade escort spaceship.

Even if the shuttle may have been modified, it is definitely not as good as a normal spacecraft in terms of various performance features.

It would be a blessing to be able to fly out of one or two galaxies.

Unless the survivors have the means to help him.

But the survivors are unlikely to be kind-hearted and will definitely want to obtain as much information about the Empire as possible from the brainwashed psychics.

Once the value of a brainwashed psychic is squeezed out, he will indeed starve to death outside.

The brainwashed psychic is definitely not stupid. He will definitely use the information of the Empire as a bargaining chip to contact the survivors, just as the Minister of Psionics said.

The Minister of Psionics concluded: "So the survivors must still need to trade with us. They want more information about the Empire and compare it with the brainwashed psychics."

"If we give a little more, it can also reduce the number of cards in the hands of the brainwashed psychic, so we must not miss this opportunity."

"And most importantly."

"When communicating with the survivors, attitude is important, but when 'contacting' with the survivors, efficiency is important. It's not like the two things can't be done at the same time, right?"

Seeing that the Minister of Psychic Powers had described the situation of doing business on the surface but preparing for robbery in a very refreshing and refined way.

Chen Ming would naturally not refuse to do so, but he still had some concerns: "That's true, but I wonder if the survivors also have super-body technology."

The Minister of Psionic Energy asked back: "Can Super Body defeat the Nightmare of the Planes?"

"We should be able to defeat it. The speed of the super body is too fast, which is enough to slowly grind the nightmare of the plane to death."

"If the survivors really have this technology, they will definitely kill the nightmares of the plane first, so that they can return to our side, right?"

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Yes, but it's hard to say whether they will have anything else."

The Minister of Psychic Powers spread his hands, indicating that he had no way to deal with the situation.

He really felt that sometimes Chen Ming really liked to think about all kinds of bad consequences. If he really wanted to confirm whether the survivors had powerful military means similar to super bodies, he could only go and see it himself and try it.

No one knows what kind of cards the survivors have until they try it themselves.

Anyway, if you can beat them, just rob them. If you can’t beat them, then try to improve your skills in other aspects first, and then rob them.

No matter how powerful the survivors are, they can never be much stronger than the Nightmare of the Plane. This is indirectly proved by the fact that they have been staying in the world behind the wormhole and have not returned.

Comparing the mechanical race and the nightmare of the plane who are eyeing the empire covetously, it is clear that everyone has a basic idea of ​​what to do.
After discussing technical issues with the Minister of Psychic Powers.

Chen Ming did not stay in the empire any longer and turned around and returned to his own territory.

Back at the giant dock above the orbit of Gaia in the Origin Galaxy, his spaceship, which was still under construction, naturally did not undergo any changes.

After all, he had only been out for one day.

Then Chen Ming stuffed the super body into the dock.

He left a detailed instruction document and gave it to the director of the Legion Psychic Research Institute who was busy here and the director of the ship next door.

Then he broke free from the two directors who wanted to hold him down in the dock and explain to him what this super body was all about. He did not stay in the giant dock for long and found a shuttle boat to leave.

The researchers in the giant dock were left with a lot of questions in their heads.

Of course he will do the super body work when he comes back.

However, his main battleship has now entered the final stage of completion, and if he wants to cram some new things into it, it will have a significant impact on the overall design of the spacecraft.

Therefore, Chen Ming did not intend to apply the super body technology to his battleship.

But there are still many technologies worth studying in super bodies, which may come in handy in the future.

Moreover, the super body itself also has its special value.

Before that, Chen Ming planned to visit the satellite in the orbit of Gaia in the Origin Galaxy, which he had not visited for some time.

This satellite has always been under the charge of Tian Zhan.

In the past six months, he has devoted almost all his attention to the design of the spacecraft, so that the spacecraft can leave the port in a few months.

During the spacecraft design period, at most he would occasionally look at documents and pay attention to the general progress of the planet. He basically had never visited the actual situation in person.

The spacecraft design was finally nearing completion and he had some time again.

As a result, he was just about to go and see how Tian Zhan had been doing in the past six months, and he happened to encounter the incident of Yu Hui's disappearance.

As a result, he had no choice but to turn around and take care of Yu Hui's affairs.

Although Yu Hui didn't get it back, he was definitely free.

He also estimated that Yu Hui would never be found in this lifetime.

Because the disappearance of the afterglow core is not something that just happened.

Although Chen Ming handled the matter very efficiently, he figured out how Yuhui disappeared in just one day and eliminated the super body that caused Yuhui to disappear.

But Super Body had actually already wiped out Yu Hui's escort fleet, and had long since forced Yu Hui to dismantle its core and load it onto the ship for evacuation.

Although Super Body went towards the direction of that empire after dealing with the Afterglow battleship.

But it was not until Chen Ming and the legion commander arrived at the site and discovered what was left of the Yuhui Fleet that any movement took place.

Such a long time is enough for the afterglow to completely disappear in the universe.

God knows what the mechanical people will do with it after taking it away.

Moreover, both the Legion Commander and Chen Ming sent fleets to search in the direction where the Afterglow Core was being transported after the crisis of the super body was resolved.

As a result, Chen Ming had no intention of continuing to care about this matter and returned here.

Now that he has finished all the important things, he must go and check the situation of the satellite.

Chen Ming had an idea, and drove the shuttle from the giant dock to the other side of Gaia's orbit.

Gaia's satellites cannot be seen from the normal universe.

But you can see a large space station suspended in the orbit of Gaia, orbiting towards the transparent satellite.

The scale of this space station is larger than that of the pirate space station, and its structure is also very special. There is a section in the center of the space station that divides it into two.

One side of the cross section is a normal space station, while the other side is transparent.

The transparent side also exists in phase space like a satellite.

When Chen Ming first built this space station, it was mainly used by Tian Zhan and his team.

Fixed phase equipment is arranged on it to send half of the space station into the phase space, making it convenient for people to enter and exit the phase space at any time and work on the satellites in the phase space.

It’s the same design idea as the space station that Chen Ming built near the wormhole, half of which is located in the Origin Galaxy and half in the Gaia Galaxy.

He had made this structure himself, so he was not surprised at all and just landed at the port of the space station.

Chen Ming entered the space station and looked around after landing. The port was barely busy.

At least compared to any other space station on Chen Ming's territory, this place can be considered lively.

After passing through the port and walking into the space station, you can see the city located in the center of the space station and the residents living in this city.

From the low and sparse buildings on the edge to the high-rise buildings in the core area, and then to the shuttles filling the sky in the city.

All of this shows that this city is full of vitality.

It can be said that the structure of the entire space station is almost exactly the same as that of the pirate space station.

Just like what you see from the outside, the other half of the space station exists in phase space.

The reason for such a strange design, rather than having obvious structural differences and partitions between two different space areas like a wormhole space station, is quite simple.

As for the construction expenses of the entire space station, Chen Ming only built a framework and gave a general direction for the internal structure.

It was the Empire that actually built the environment inside the space station.

The secondary purpose of building this space station is to accommodate people from the Empire.

For volunteers who voluntarily go to phase space to settle down.

A long time ago, when Chen Ming just discovered the connection between phase space and scarlet dimension, the Empire had already proposed this idea and started testing.

Test whether humans can live in phase space for a long time.

This space station was built with this purpose in mind.

In fact, there was a test project related to phase space earlier, which was to send pregnant women from areas with serious sequelae of scarlet infection into phase space. It can be said that almost anyone from anywhere in the empire can enter.

Ensure the condition of the fetus in the womb.

The sequelae caused by the Scarlet Dimension have caused the empire's overall fetal malformation rate to reach over 95%, and it is now completely uncontrollable.

This experiment at that time was the hope for mankind to avoid extinction.

Chen Ming had also paid close attention to this experiment before.

He knew the experiment was going very well.

Even if the embryo has been affected by the sequelae of dimensional infection, as long as it has not yet differentiated into obvious abnormal structural sequelae, the sequelae can be suppressed after entering the phase space.

And there is a follow-up to this experiment.

Pregnant women who stayed in the phase space all gave birth smoothly afterwards.

As long as the baby is born successfully in the phase space, there will be no signs of being affected by the scarlet.

Only a small number of fetuses were deeply affected by scarlet before entering the phase space. For example, some embryos that entered the phase space more than four or five months later resulted in stillbirth.

But overall it is much better than letting pregnant women stay in the normal universe.

Overall, this lab was extremely successful.

Since the end of the experiment, the Empire has begun to set up phase space stations throughout the Empire and countless large residential space stations installed in different galaxies.

The Empire paid to ensure that all fetuses could grow up smoothly, so that the sequelae of the scarlet infection would have almost no impact on the Empire afterwards.

Therefore, after the previous experiments, the Empire will continue to find ways to conduct in-depth research in phase space.

As long as we can find a way to send the entire empire into the phase space and start developing from the phase space, we will be able to gain an advantage in the fight against Scarlet.

It just so happened that Chen Ming had a ready-made planet that had been sent into the phase space, and there was also a matching space station, which was simply the best place to conduct experiments.

Although the Empire can build a space station and send it into phase space, it is still too outrageous to put a planet into phase.

Even Chen Ming had to tear open the space crack and push the satellite in as a last resort.

As a result, he was targeted by a brainwashed psychic, who attracted Scarlet over and started a big fight.

It is almost impossible to replicate it again.

And it is unknown how long it will take for phase technology to advance sufficiently to send planets into phase space.

So the Empire came to find Chen Ming.

Chen Ming didn't mind the Empire using his places, whether it was a space station or the planet itself.

There is nothing much to say about the space station. It is just a space station. It is used as an entrance to phase space and you can live there casually.

And the planet...

The satellite that was sent into the phase space was already on the verge of destruction and was almost torn apart by the influence of negative matter.

Later, Tian Zhan awakened his psychic power to forcibly suppress the negative matter and stabilize it, and is now relying on the subsequent Gaia seeder to repair the planet.

Chen Ming is also curious about whether living on a planet that has been transformed into Gaia will have any impact on humans.

However, this project is mainly to test whether the planets in phase space can support long-term human survival, and whether there will be obvious differences from the space stations located in phase space.

Although there are planets in the phase space, it is in contrast to reality.

But the only planet that exists in the phase space is Chen Ming.

There has always been a dispute in the Empire over whether the final stage of this project should only send humans into phase space, or send everything humans are involved in into phase space.

Maybe we can draw some conclusions from this project experiment.

So they also need such a place.

If the Empire wants to conduct experiments, it can't just throw people over here. They must prepare considerable supporting facilities and send them over, and they must also settle a large number of personnel. Chen Ming will definitely not refuse.

After all, this prosperous territory is his.

Therefore, the people living on this space station are probably the researchers from the Empire, as well as some of the researchers’ relatives and friends.

Chen Ming did not restrict or close the space station's external traffic. He even took the initiative to open several flights to the Origin Galaxy and the Gaia Galaxy.

Try to make the personnel flow freely. Only in this way, more and more people will stay with him permanently in the future.

That's what the future holds.

Chen Ming did not stay for long after entering the city. After taking a rough look at the lives of the residents here, he quickly passed through the wall that could send people into the phase space and ran to the other side of the space station city.

He boarded a shuttle from the port on the other side and left the space station.

Here, Chen Ming saw the satellite that was sent into the phase space.

Viewed from orbit.

The planet that was infected by scarlet half a year ago and was left with only earthy brown and sparse light green has now undergone a drastic change.

The entire planet is almost completely occupied by vast expanses of azure blue, filled with a vitality that can be sensed throughout the universe.

This color is extremely familiar to Chen Ming.

This is the color of the Gaia plant on the planet Gaia.

Chen Ming controlled the shuttle into the atmosphere and could see that almost every place within his field of vision was covered by vegetation of different types but the same color.

And among these vegetations, almost every hundred kilometers or so, you can see a giant mushroom-shaped structure installed on the surface, spewing out some azure powdery substances.

This device is the Gaia seeder that Tian Zhan has been researching for several years and has finally produced results.

It can spread Gaia's spores throughout the planet, continuously providing external assistance to the planet.

It looked a bit monotonous at first glance, and an earthquake occurred where Chen Ming landed just as his shuttle landed.

But this is a necessary step in the planetary transformation plan.

The condition of the planet itself is not very good. After being affected by negative matter, the entire planet can be said to have a small earthquake every three days and a large earthquake every five days. Volcanoes also pop up from unknown corners from time to time.

The planet's geological conditions must be stabilized before subsequent climate and planetary transformations can be carried out.

Therefore, the Gaia seeder currently installed on the planet is still only in the first stage, which is to completely cover the entire planet with Gaia spores so that Gaia can have a foothold on the entire planet.

Once the situation on the planet gradually stabilizes, we can start converting the Gaia seeder to the second stage, and only then will we truly begin transforming the planet.

Of course, the Empire has already arranged people on the planet and built a city in the center of a plate that is still relatively large after the continental plate was broken.

The empire itself has the technology to monitor these natural disasters, and some ordinary earthquakes will not have such a big impact on the city.

And the existence of the Gaia Seeder ensures that these problems will not be a problem in the future.

Chen Ming simply wandered around the planet.

It has been confirmed that the consciousness of the planet Gaia has appeared on this planet and can begin to adjust the planet's climate environment to create an environment most suitable for human survival.

In addition, a large number of Gaia plants have gone deep underground and started to repair the plates deep in the earth.

Even the negative matter on the planet has completely stabilized.

It can give people a softer spiritual auxiliary effect.

The existence of negative matter itself can bring people mental calmness, but when there is no stable negative matter to bring people mental calmness, it can also cause people mental pressure.

With the stabilization of Tian Zhan's psychic energy and the influence of Gaia, the calm feeling of this negative matter no longer brings extra mental pressure to people as before.

This planet, which has been contaminated by negative matter and is now seeded with Gaia, gives Chen Ming a more comfortable feeling than the planet Gaia.

After understanding the general situation, Chen Ming did not go out of his way to disturb Tian Zhan.

Soon left here.

Returned to his office.

After dealing with the documents that had piled up over the past two days, he left the office again.

Prepare to deal with the matter that the Minister of Psychic Power had told me before, which involves the ruins of the Cultural Memorial Hall and the star map projection therein.

(End of this chapter)