Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 416 Urban Planet
The dark space station that Chen Ming had just discovered was disappearing in front of him.

Of course he couldn't just sit there and watch.

The speed of the super body plays an extremely critical role at this time.

This allowed Chen Ming to rush to the vicinity of the space station immediately.

A large amount of metallic liquid was released from the super body, and with the assistance of the time stream core, it formed a huge mouth, biting rapidly towards the direction of the space station, trying to capture some traces left by the space station as it disappeared like dust.

However, at the moment when the metal liquid bit into the dusty space station, the dust scattered around the space station suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace of its existence.

It was as if the space station had never appeared in this galaxy, or in the orbit of this planet.

But the surface of the liquid metal does indeed leave traces of contact with the dust.

Chen Ming looked at the place where the space station disappeared with some regret.

Even at such a fast speed, we still couldn't catch up with this time.

The clue just slipped out of his hands.

But the absence of clues is itself a clue.

This space station obviously existed here for a long time. It disappeared neither earlier nor later, but just when he arrived at this galaxy. Chen Ming didn't believe it if he was told that it had no connection with the survivors.

The disappearance of the space station was definitely the work of the survivors.

That's the clue.

This proves that Leviathan and the survivors are definitely closely connected.

It is even possible that Leviathan was developed and manufactured by the survivors and released into the wild.

Of course, the latter idea is just Chen Ming’s guess at the moment.

But this at least proves that the survivors must have discovered his whereabouts and knew that he had discovered this place.

The survivors will definitely take action later.

Although Chen Ming seems to be in a very stable period now, with no enemies jumping around in front of him, his confrontation with the survivors has already begun from this time.

Chen Ming calmed down and decided to continue doing what he should do.

He didn't know much about the real survivors, and most of what he knew came from the survivors' own statements.

It is obviously wrong to take your own random speculation as the real situation. The best choice is to remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing circumstances.

And since the survivors made the space station disappear, it was obvious that they didn't want him to come into contact with it.

The more the enemy doesn't want you to do something, the more he will do it.

Although the space station above the planet's orbit has disappeared, the city ruins that Chen Ming just scanned on the planet have not shown such changes.

He can also go to the planet to look for clues that may exist.

Find out what Leviathan is and what kind of beings the survivors related to Leviathan are.

Chen Ming immediately changed his target and controlled the super body to enter the planet's atmosphere.

The surrounding yellow sand covered the super body, and it was almost impossible to see any scenes outside with the naked eye.

The sensor can clearly scan some taller buildings protruding from the yellow sand.

This allows Chen Ming to accurately control the super body to hover directly above the building.

Then, wearing biological armor, he left the cabin directly and landed rapidly towards the surface.

The effect of time acceleration stopped instantly after Chen Ming left the spacecraft, and the original pressure on his consciousness disappeared instantly.

After a little adaptation, Chen Ming regained his previous feeling.

It just landed hard on the planet and crashed into the building that protruded from the yellow sand.

As soon as it hit the ground.

Chen Ming smashed through several floors of the building and sank directly into the yellow sand on the lower level of the building.

He fluttered in the sand twice and successfully climbed along the gap he had just made to the place where the previous layer was not completely covered by the yellow sand.

The building seemed even larger than he had imagined.

and.

Chen Ming half-knelt on the ground, stretched out his hand and picked up a handful of yellow sand that was shaken up on the ground of this floor of the building. The expression under the armor changed from calm to shocked.

He climbed up again along the floors until he reached the highest point within the building where it was completely exposed from the yellow sand.

Standing next to the wall that has now been completely hollowed out, leaving only the frame that barely supports the building structure.

Chen Ming raised his head and looked outside the building. The yellow sand all over the sky made his expression somewhat difficult to control.

"This is really..."

The planet where Chen Ming is at this moment appears khaki in color when viewed from orbit.

The spacecraft's sensors also detected a large amount of sand and dust being blown up by the strong wind, occasionally revealing the ruins of the city below, but then being covered by yellow sand blown in from other places.

It looks like a very standard desert planet, but it only looks that way.

When Chen Ming came into contact with the yellow sand, he discovered that it was not yellow sand, but iron sand.

He grabbed a handful of "yellow sand" from the ground again, and saw that the yellow sand melted into a pool of bright metallic liquid in his hands.

The yellow sand on the entire planet is all iron sand condensed from the rusting of nanorobots.

This planet, seemingly covered by sand, is actually covered by these abandoned nanorobots.

Unfortunately, the structure of the nanorobot is too small. Once it rusts, the erosion of time will be very serious. The nanorobot covered with yellow sand can no longer be restored to its former appearance.

The most Chen Ming can do is to recycle the materials used to make nanorobots.

The yellow sand that covers the entire planet can almost be regarded as a treasure trove of resources for obtaining metal materials of different grades.

But in no hurry.

Chen Ming did not use his spiritual power to directly transform the yellow sand into materials. Instead, he followed the ventilation frame of the building and climbed to the edge of the highest point of the collapsed high-rise building under his feet.

He looked around, and all he could see was endless yellow.

He could only lower his head and look at the yellow sand below.

Jump down.

The biological armor on his body had extra weight, allowing him to sink directly into the yellow sand the moment the sand layer was removed.

After slowly sinking at least three hundred meters in the yellow sand, he once again felt that he was standing on something substantial.

Chen Ming immediately used his spiritual power to sense the surrounding environment and eliminated the influence of the surrounding yellow sand.

It allows him to clearly "see" the surrounding environment.

The place where he was standing was not on the ground, but on the top of a relatively low building ruin that was still more than thirty stories high.

And around him, all the places that could be clearly perceived by his spiritual power were only the ruins of various buildings, without any trace of nature.

Chen Ming continued his actions at the bottom of the yellow sand.

He jumped off the low building at his feet and came to a road between the ruins that was barely passable.

Although most of the road has been buried by ruins, the upper layer of yellow sand continues to cover it.

But Chen Ming can still rely on his powerful mental power to identify the approximate direction deep underground.

He moved rapidly in the yellow sand relying on the power brought by psychic energy, constantly expanding his perception range, trying to figure out the situation of the entire planet.

The more he expanded the scope of his perception, the more shocked Chen Ming felt.

Because every inch of land to which his perception expanded was filled with various man-made buildings, and every inch of land was developed and utilized to the extreme.

Until Chen Ming spread his mental power to the entire planet, he had not discovered the existence of any non-man-made things.

The yellow sand and the ruins of buildings beneath the yellow sand that he had just scanned in the sky were just the tip of the iceberg of the entire planet.

There is no area of ​​the planet that is not covered by urban buildings.

This is a complete ruin of an urban planet belonging to the Shining Civilization.

These ruins have been lying dormant under the yellow sand for who knows how many years.

After figuring out the situation of the planet, Chen Ming no longer wasted time and once again activated the effect of his own psychic power.

There was no obvious change in the initial position.

But soon, the surface of the accumulated yellow sand where Chen Ming was located began to settle slightly.

Some yellow sand sank into the ground and no longer flew all over the sky being blown by the strong wind.

Although the traces of the yellow sand settlement were quickly covered up.

But as time passed, more and more yellow sand sank into the ground, and the gap on the surface that was initially caused by the lack of yellow sand could no longer be buried by the yellow sand blown by the wind from other places.

The yellow sand is disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Gradually, a vortex like quicksand appeared at the bottom of the sinking yellow sand pit, constantly drawing the surrounding yellow sand into the vortex, while the ruins of the buildings were not affected by the vortex at all.

The edge of the vortex is the khaki color of the desert, but the center of the vortex is the metallic color of the yellow sand formed by these nanorobots.

Although up to now this vortex is only a drop of water in the ocean compared to the desert covering the entire planet.

But this drop of water is swallowing up the entire ocean at an unprecedented rate.

The nanorobots on the entire planet are being disassembled into the most basic materials by psychic energy and sent to other places.

Just making a rough estimate, Chen Ming felt that the materials from these dismantled discarded nanorobots could be used to build a satellite for his planets.

Unknowingly.

The vortex has formed a huge pit in the desert with a diameter of several kilometers and a depth of hundreds of meters, and it is still expanding rapidly.

Although some buildings in the vortex were not directly affected by the vortex, a considerable number of them lost the support of their internal yellow sand and suddenly collapsed.

This caused a series of chain reactions among the surrounding building ruins, creating a larger area of ​​building ruins in the sand layer.

But this did not affect the vortex in the yellow sand, it continued to grow.

The moment when the vortex is deep enough to completely expel the yellow sand covering the surface of the planet.

At the bottom of the vortex appeared the ruins of the most basic building on the planet, and Chen Ming standing among the ruins.

Although the vortex continued to expand, Chen Ming had already started moving.

His perception had already scanned the buildings beneath the yellow sand.

These urban ruins covering the entire planet always have one area where they are most densely populated and where the level of architectural sophistication is significantly higher than in other areas.

This kind of place is most likely the center of the entire urban planet.

And this place is right at its foot.

Chen Ming returned to the place where he had landed just now, and the vortex expanded here with his footsteps.

Next to the tallest building on the entire planet that he had seen so far, he could already see the entire building with his naked eyes.

And a huge metal monument standing in the center of the huge square in front of the building.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to enter the building that he had stabilized with liquid metal.

Instead, he entered the square first and approached the metal monument.

As soon as he touched the body of the monument, Chen Ming discovered that the material used to build this monument was the same material used to build the hull of the super body.

Such materials are extremely unaffected by the passage of time, and their own strength is sufficient to withstand various external wind and rain erosion.

It seems that this is also the reason why the stele has been buried deep underground, so it has been less affected by weathering and corrosion. Chen Ming can still clearly see the words engraved on the metal stele.

“Integrate the world into one city, and build a city for the world.”

Chen Ming didn't know what ideas the people who built such a special planet had when they built the planet, nor did he know what ideas they had when they carved these words in this place.

But he should know soon.

Based on some knowledge Chen Ming had learned about the Shining Civilization.

The tallest building he saw at this moment should be the government building of the shining civilization, which they called the Governor's Palace.

This is the core of this urban planet.

Chen Ming stood beside the metal monument and stared at the Governor's Palace in the distance. In his mind, he was wondering what had caused the planet to fall into such a state.

Also thinking about another thing.

He remembered finding the scavenger robot near the wormhole leading to this area of ​​the universe, and the large amount of materials it had prepared for developing the world behind the wormhole.

This shows that the Shining Civilization was just beginning to develop the galaxy behind the wormhole at that time.

But the Governor's Palace here and the planet under our feet clearly indicate that this place has undergone a high level of development, which has conflicted with the situation of the scavenger robots.

There was a conflict with Chen Ming's cognition.

The reason behind this...may have been buried in history.

Or maybe... right in this building.

now.

The yellow sand around the building has completely faded.

The surrounding sky became clear again because of Chen Ming, and there was no longer the previous feeling of difficulty breathing under the yellow sand.

The light from the stars penetrates the atmosphere and shines on the earth.

It makes the environment, which was still filled with a decadent atmosphere even after the yellow sand has dispersed, less psychologically stressful.

Chen Ming walked quickly across the square and into the Governor's Palace building.

The first floor hall was littered with collapsed building debris, without any trace of its former prosperity.

However, buried in the dense yellow sand, these decays did not affect some special things.

For example, a guide robot fell in the hall.

This robot's technology is not considered advanced, and in some places its design is not as sophisticated as that of the Empire's robots.

But it has been preserved until now, and Chen Ming can even repair it.

Through this robot, Chen Ming was able to understand the general structure of the Governor's Palace.

He came directly to the outside of the building, and the biological armor helped him rise to a high place in the building.

Chen Ming roughly identified the number of floors and entered the building directly from outside and entered the office of the planetary governor in the Governor's Mansion.

Being buried in yellow sand often gives people a feeling of despair.

But when it comes to preserving some things, the extremely pure yellow sand formed by these nanorobots plays a very crucial role.

Isolating from air and microorganisms, these devices have not been indelibly marked by time even after tens of thousands of years.

Allow Chen Ming to use his spiritual power to bring to light those records that are about to disappear in time.

Chen Ming quickly found information about the planet beneath his feet in a device similar to the Empire's computer in the Governor's office.

A blueprint for planetary planning.

The planet is indeed named Urban Planet.

The entire planet is completely covered by various urban buildings and industrial clusters.

As for the specific types of buildings and industrial clusters...

Chen Ming took a quick look at the planning blueprint.

All we can say is that this is a planet that integrates countless brilliant technological achievements of civilization.

Almost all the technologies belonging to the Shining Civilization have been preserved on this planet.

Almost everything in civilization is on this planet.

Countless excellent industrial buildings and countless scientific research centers belonging to the Shining Civilization can find their places on the planet.

This means that Chen Ming has found the biggest gain of his visit this time.

Although the buildings on the planet may definitely be damaged beyond repair.

But... Chen Ming has already found the offices of the corresponding departments in the Governor's Palace, and these places also have enough blueprints to rebuild the industrial buildings on the entire urban planet.

This is what Chen Ming and the Empire have been looking for, the technology of the Shining Civilization.

It just fell into Chen Ming's hands so easily.

To be honest, Chen Ming is now really worried whether this might be a trap set by the survivors.

But look at the center of the vortex that is moving away towards the horizon.

And these documents and blueprints, which you can just glance at to really feel the reality of these technologies.

Chen Ming felt that the possibility of this situation should be very small.

Chen Ming copied a file from the Governor's Office computer.

Whether it was the files that were not damaged after he repaired the computer or the files that were damaged in the past that he repaired using his psychic powers, they all came into his hands.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ming divided some of the metal liquid and went to different offices on different floors of the Governor's Palace.

Repeat what he just did.

In the computer in the History and Culture Office, Chen Ming suddenly noticed a rather special file.

A copy of Planetary Records.

It records the development of the planet.

But it is encrypted in ciphertext.

Chen Ming couldn't even use his psychic powers to forcibly decipher the document, so he had to find a professional cryptographer to decipher the records of this historical document.

However, Chen Ming could already roughly guess the situation of this urban planet.

There is a high probability that the real survivors of the Shining civilization built such a planet and placed everything belonging to the Shining on this planet.

Chen Ming temporarily handed the encrypted file to Yuhui in his hand to decrypt it.

He continued to search the files to see if there was any other valuable information.

Soon, he found another document that had not been worn out by time.

A wanted document.

The content of the wanted notice was that the Governor's Office asked the army to eliminate a group of people who resisted their rule.

These people call themselves.

The survivors.

"Resisting the rule?"

Chen Ming frowned and continued to look at the document himself.

After all, this is quite different from the survivors he knew.

In his opinion, the political system of this planet is not the imperial system that has been passed down by the Shining Civilization itself.

It is a centralized parliamentary system.

Although it is just like that, it is obviously more flexible and democratic than the imperial system.

Are the survivors trying to restore the monarchy by rebelling against such rule?

Or are they a group of people who know about a more advanced social system, and that is why they are suppressed by the ruling class?

Chen Ming thought about his previous conversation with the survivors.

The attitude they showed was probably the former.

Chen Ming took out this document separately and saved it, as it might be useful later.

Then he continued to find what he had been looking for in the liaison office between the Governor's Palace and the military.

Leviathan Project Proposal.

However, Chen Ming did not directly look at the documents of the Leviathan Project.

Because he suddenly discovered traces of a group of survivors of the Shining Civilization in other search databases through psychic repair.

This is a deleted letter.

The content of the letter was not the communication between that group of survivors and the survivors of the shining civilization on this planet.

Rather, it was a farewell letter from the group of survivors and the planet beneath Chen Ming's feet.

Determined to leave, these men sent one last letter.

And judging from the system time, this letter was deleted just after it was received.

More and more mysteries shroud the history of the shining civilization.

Unfortunately, Chen Ming did not find any valuable information in this regard afterwards.

He could only put aside the pursuit of shining history for the time being.

First, complete another purpose of his coming here.

Chen Ming rode the super body to the orbit of the planet and looked at the planet, which had changed from khaki to bright gray. Only a few yellow spots were still there, which were gradually being erased.

This entire urbanized, mechanized planet is of very high value.

No matter what, Chen Ming didn't want to give up any part.

just.

Chen Ming's psychic power has a special chain effect. When controlling the complete equipment, he can use the effect of psychic power to control the surrounding things.

For example, if a fixed device is installed in a factory, Chen Ming’s spiritual power can only control the mechanical equipment itself.

However, he can use the derivative effects of psychic power to control the factory building where the mechanical equipment is installed.

Chen Ming has mastered this psychic effect a long time ago and has been using it all the time.

For example, he moved several colonies of the mechanical race using the effects of this psychic power.

and so……

After half an hour.

The yellow sand of the entire planet has completely disappeared in the vortex.

Amid the wreckage and ruins, a wave of metal was rolling.

The moment when this metal wave completely covered the planet.

The entire planet disappeared into the galaxy.

(End of this chapter)