Chapter 183 The Past Week

After the completely sealed spaceship carrying the psychic fungus arrived.

Chen Ming not only handed it over to Chaofan.

He also transformed some research equipment he bought a few days ago, which was the same model as the research equipment he saw at the plant research station, onto the spaceship that transported the psychic fungus.

It was handed over to Chaofan to assist him in biological research.

As for the first batch of research equipment that Chen Ming bought, it can only be said that it may be because he bought too much and the supply was not enough, so it has not been delivered to the boss yet.

Chaofan can only wait for two more days.

After doing this, Chen Ming also dealt with the final part of Zuo Jing's occupation of the space station.

Then he picked up the terminal again and began to record other things that happened in the past week.

Chen Ming has now developed a habit of recording some important things regularly to avoid sudden forgetting in the future.

By the way, he can also remind his boss of what he needs to do every week, such as providing the boss with the operating data of the highest point that Shao Yang needs.

And in the past week.

Except for the day before when Chen Ming went to visit Zuo Jing, he was very busy the rest of the time.

Especially studying.

In the past week, every morning was a high-intensity military command course taught by Bai Quan himself.

In fact, according to Bai Quan's original plan, Chen Ming needed to learn command techniques from him all day.

But because on the first day, Chen Ming successfully learned the content that might take a week to learn in Bai Quan's plan in one day, so...

Although Bai Quan also thought that Chen Ming did not have the various foundations of military management and command in the military academy, so he put a lot of basic content in the textbook.

But Chen Ming's learning efficiency was so outrageous that it still surprised Bai Quan.

So much so that Bai Quan wanted to speed up the entire learning process directly, but Chen Ming did not agree.

Because he wanted to confirm his efficiency in command learning through one day of study on the first day, so as to re-plan his previously arranged schedule and try to keep the progress of the three aspects he currently has to learn basically the same.

After all, command must be learned, but he must not fall behind in other things.

He had to learn cruiser-level technology and the basics of biology.

Chen Ming had almost forgotten the biology he had learned over the years. He had not been exposed to biology since college, and he had no memory of it.

He had to catch up on everything.

Bai Quan was going to speed up the command course to squeeze out all his time.

So Chen Ming's final request was that Bai Quan could teach him as he wanted and cram as much as he wanted in the limited time he had planned for the day, which was one morning.

He tried his best to learn, and he had other uses for the rest of the time.

At that time, Bai Quan seemed to have taken on the role of an instructor, and asked, "Your affairs should all be handled by your Yu Hui, right? What else do you have to do?"

So Chen Ming packed up everything he had to learn, including spacecraft, biotechnology, and various documents Chaofan had written specifically for Chen Ming to learn cruiser technology and transform spacecraft, and sent them to Bai Quan.

Then Bai Quan had no objection.

So Chen Ming had a bit of a hard time because of the high-intensity study every morning these days.

However, being able to feel my own progress in the process of learning can make up for the pain.

In addition, Baiquan also specifically asked Chen Ming why he studied biology.

Then Chen Ming said that he should know it after a while.

If Chen Ming remembered correctly, Baiquan would definitely know it within this month.

Of course, Chen Ming was not referring to the biological spacecraft.

The biological spacecraft was too important and bizarre, and it was too closely related to the Zerg, so it was best not to expose it now.

He was referring to the large-scale breeding of energy crystal crabs that his colony would definitely carry out in the future.

This is a long-term process that Chen Ming will use for himself and keep in touch with the empire to a certain extent.

After all, Chen Ming can't really rely on himself to earn the materials needed to maintain a colony, nor can he really rely on the support of the boss.

The colony must have its own industry.

So when Chen Ming doesn't know what kind of colony he can find.

The energy crystal crab, which has been cultivated by Yuhui and can be mass-produced and reproduced on a certain scale, and is not available in the empire, is obviously a very good choice.

It just so happened that the boss had two crystal crabs and two eggs that Chen Ming had given to him as souvenirs.

And the boss would definitely give the pair of crystal crabs to Bai Quan at Bai Quan's promotion ceremony.

Chen Ming had heard from Bai Quan that he had invited the boss to attend the promotion ceremony, and the boss agreed.

Although Chen Ming did not intend to let his boss take out the energy crystal crab at the promotion ceremony when he first gave it to his boss,

But since it happened to be at this time, even if Chen Ming did not intend to do so, he must have this intention.

By then, it would be reasonable for Chen Ming to study biotechnology, and Bai Quan would not think too much about it.

He would only think that Chen Ming wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the 14th Legion to help publicize the existence of energy crystal crabs in advance.

Chen Ming did not have to worry that these two crystal crabs and the two eggs would lead to the leakage of the breeding method of energy crystal crabs.

Yu Hui spent so much time studying before he could barely breed energy crystal crabs stably in an artificial environment.

The Empire only had two crystal crabs and two eggs to study, so it was impossible to do it faster than Yu Hui.

Even if it was really possible, for example, if there was a biological research master in the Empire who used cloning technology to breed energy crystal crabs in batches for research, it might really produce results.

But Bai Quan would definitely help to curb this matter, and would never give others the opportunity to understand it in depth and obtain energy crystal crab samples.

After all, Chen Ming wants to use the opportunity of Baiquan Fourteenth Corps to expand the spread of his future colonial industry, so he must give Baiquan some benefits.

Baiquan can benefit from it himself, why should others share a piece of the pie?

It is possible that the Fourteenth Corps will study the energy crystal crab technology internally.

However, this also means that Chen Ming and the Fourteenth Corps will conflict and their relationship will become very bad.

The interests of energy crystal crabs and the friendship of a psychic.

Baiquan can definitely make a reasonable choice.

But this is a matter for the future. The specific date of Baiquan’s promotion ceremony has not been announced yet, and Chen Ming’s colony is still a long way off.

Everything will have to be said later.

In short, Chen Ming now has to study command in Baiquan in the morning.

The cruiser technology he studied in the afternoon has also made rapid progress under the guidance of Chaofan.

At least now, Chen Ming has no problem with the basic knowledge of the cruiser level.

Some basic transformations that break through the output limit of the power grid under normal circumstances can be carried out at any time.

It can only be said that Chen Ming still prefers the overclocking modification learned from Zuo Jing, because his ability can ensure the safety of his spacecraft after overclocking.

So such a modification has almost no negative effect on Chen Ming.

Even Chen Ming has recently asked Lao Wu to collect some information about Zuo Jing, preferably about their strange technology for ship modification.

Although the doctrine of Lude Zuo Jing people is extremely disgusted with technology, they have made good progress in destruction or some extreme technologies.

Chen Ming can try to replicate it.

During the day, Chen Ming is learning command technology and ship technology.

And every night, Chen Ming spends time studying biological technology.

Relying on his recent increase in learning efficiency due to the increase in the number of mechanical races controlled, and some vague memories of the subject of biology in his mind.

Chen Ming spent three days to re-master all the knowledge from elementary school to high school.

In the remaining four days of the past week, he was studying some other basic subjects required for biotechnology starting from the university level, and the current progress is about one-third.

After he has mastered the university-level subjects, Chen Ming can then study the subject of biotechnology in more depth.

In fact, Chaofan has mastered more advanced biotechnology faster than Chen Ming with its more exaggerated learning efficiency than Chen Ming.

So it directly helped Chen Ming plan the path he would take in biology in the future.

By the way, it also helped Chen Ming think of some biotechnology that Chen Ming must master in advance.

It is a biotechnology that allows Chen Ming to transfer the queen to his side wherever he needs it.

There are two in total.

One is a biomass condensate.

A solid material condensed from high-concentration biomass belonging to the Zerg.

It is used to supplement the nutrition of the queen after Chen Ming uses the honeycomb network to transfer the queen and cultivate the Zerg.

It is equivalent to a compressed biscuit exclusively for the queen.

The second is shellac.

This is the food of the Zerg and also the "fuel" of the Zerg.

Ordinary Zergs do not have a rigid digestive sac that can eat anything like the Queen.

So ordinary Zergs must eat normal food, animal corpses or various plants, or Thorn Zerg lac produced by a special nutritional worm within the Zerg.

In other words, as long as Chen Ming can come up with these two technologies.

He can rely on these two abilities and some of the Queen's body tissues.

Create a Zerg army with sufficient combat capabilities in any place.

As long as he can bring the Queen's consciousness to him through the honeycomb network and provide enough nutrition, the Queen will help Chen Ming with the rest.

Therefore, Chen Ming's next plan for biology is to learn only the knowledge points related to these two technologies, and not to learn other knowledge for the time being, and to find a way to make up for it later.

It can only be said that the Zerg is indeed a little troublesome. After all, it is a biological creature, which is completely different from the mechanical race next door, whose consciousness can also be transmitted by Chen Ming through the honeycomb network.

Although the mechanical race itself is indeed more complicated, especially the core chips, secondary cores and nanorobots that are the most critical to maintaining the operation of the mechanical race.

Especially nanorobots.

Chen Ming's technology has been moving towards macro-technologies such as cruisers and battleships, and the micro-technology of nanorobots can only be said to be completely incomprehensible.

Fortunately, nanorobots are a detachable component for the mechanical race as a whole, so Chen Ming does not actually have to master the technology of nanorobots to manufacture mechanical races.

Remove the components from the corpses of other mechanical races and then install them.

If it really doesn't work, Chen Ming simply won't install these nanorobots.

His own psychic power can replace the role of these nanorobots.

As for the design of the mechanical race itself... it can only be said that the Empire has already integrated many mechanical race designs on the road of development and stuffed them into the Empire's own relevant textbooks.

For Chen Ming, it is not difficult to learn.

So the mechanical race relied on his psychic power to teleport, which was realized much earlier than the Zerg relied on his psychic power to teleport.

But there are always places where biological beings cannot be compared with machines.

Therefore, even if Chen Ming is learning the Zerg-related biotechnology, the progress is very slow, he can still accept it.

Anyway, he only spent a relatively short time at night.

Even the time of the day, afternoon and night added together is not short at all, and it can even be said that the arrangement is full.

It really put a lot of pressure on Chen Ming.

But as long as you get used to it, the rest will not matter.

And although he was very busy, Chen Ming still forced himself to take time to visit the galaxy where Chen Ming's afterglow discovered the habitable planet last week.

And entered the atmosphere of the habitable planet. While studying, he distractedly controlled the highest point to conduct several high-power scans of the planet.

Even arranged for a robot controlled by Yuhui to conduct multiple surveys of the planet's soil, water quality, atmosphere, and various local creatures at different longitudes and latitudes.

And the final result can only be said that the planet is okay. This habitable planet is not as dangerous as Ramu, and can be judged as a level 4 planet.

But the galaxy where the planet is located is not very good, according to the survey data of other planets in the galaxy sent by Chen Ming to the boss.

The boss responded that this galaxy was barely assigned to level 3, because except for the habitable planet, there are almost no resources that can be developed in the galaxy.

It can only be said that it is a bit of a pity, but it is still okay.

Anyway, Chen Ming does not plan to build a colony in this place. There will always be people interested in a level 4 habitable planet.

Even if this galaxy is outside Yuhui's star field.

Because Chen Ming heard some special news from Lao Wu these days.

The Empire has been deadlocked for a long time on the front line of the battle with Yuhui's headquarters, and it seems that there is a plan to shift the focus to the direction of the Galo star field.

Chen Ming still remembers what Huihuang once said to him very clearly.

When the Empire really turned its iron fist here, it was the moment when the final countdown of Yuhui's life in this star field began.

If Yuhui here is killed, then this star field outside has its own value, but because the value of Yuhui's existence is not so high, the galaxies will naturally return to their price.

However, there is one thing that Chen Ming is clear about, that is, any slight action of such a huge empire must take a lot of time.

The Empire has not started to take action against this Yuhui star field so quickly.

So Chen Ming still has some time to do something with his Yuhui individuals who barely survived Yuhui's massacre of the interior.

Of course not now, now he still has things to learn, explore and build colonies to do.

And those planetary data that Chen Ming collected during the exploration, the boss will collect them first, and will not sell them immediately.

The boss will wait until Chen Ming continues to explore and the people and Yuhui are gone before processing this batch of data, which will not affect Chen Ming's work.

Except for the investigation of the surrounding galaxies by Chen Ming's Yuhui last week.

In the past week, Chen Ming's Yuhui is still continuing to explore the outside world.

And just at the beginning of last week, the starport at the temporary base was just completed.

Under the brilliant planning, the entire starport can carry the upper limit of the number of spacecrafts to continuously take off and land.

In the past week, all galaxies with the possibility of habitable planets within 110 light years around Chen Ming's temporary base have been fully investigated.

The efficiency can be said to be very high.

Although the efficiency will certainly decrease as the distance of exploration increases.

And some places have already appeared hyperspace channels that need Chen Ming's Supreme Point to open up in order to clear them.

If we continue to go out, the possibility of encountering hyperspace clouds blocking the channel will become higher and higher.

After that, the Supreme Point may have to be responsible for opening up the road for the spacecraft behind 24 hours.

But fortunately, the Supreme Point has an automatic driving system, and there are also extraordinary people on the spacecraft, so there shouldn't be any big trouble.

As for the declining efficiency, Chen Ming can only say that this is also a necessary part of the road to exploration, just get used to it.

And this week, in the exploration of the 110 light years around the temporary base.

The results of the investigation by the Yuhui individuals are still the same as last week, not very ideal.

Even though the search distance has been more than doubled and the search range has been expanded several times.

In the end, Chen Ming found only one habitable planet.

However, there are four other planets with open-pit mineral veins that can be easily discovered.

These four planets together almost perfectly cover the veins of basic metals such as iron, aluminum, tungsten, etc. that Chen Ming will need to build colonies in the future.

Even Chen Ming found a high-level metal material on a planet, solid gold.

It is a synthetic material called gold crystal, which is also a high-level material and is often used in high-precision sensors of various combat types of spacecraft.

The demand is not big, but not small.

Although it looks okay, that's all.

After all, the hundreds of light years of a limit jump plus the more than 100 light years explored by Chen Ming are not far from the border of the empire in practical terms.

And in such a place where the border of the empire, the border of the afterglow and the border of the mechanical race meet, a planet with good things should have been discovered long ago.

The planet with an independent mechanical race before was already a pleasant surprise.

Now, it can only be said that the data of the planet has been collected and the value can be judged as a success.

Although there are not many valuable planets, when Chen Ming went to the planet he discovered last week, he also went to several valuable planets and galaxies discovered this week.

With automatic driving and supernatural powers, Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about anything.

And although he can't invest too many resources to mine the mineral veins that Chen Ming needs.

But leaving some open-pit mining equipment and afterglow individuals on these mineral planets, it is always no problem to mine some open-pit mineral veins on a small scale.

The difficulty of mining open-pit mineral veins is low, and Chen Ming can provide various support remotely.

Mining is not a loss.

Moreover, Chen Ming has almost learned some simple basic equipment for colonies in the past few days.

He can even directly transform industrial equipment on the spot with those afterglow individuals, and rely on psychic energy for remote supply of maintenance and fuel.

Even if it is simply to exchange some high-level mineral veins with some fuel and mental power, it is not a loss for Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming makes the next extreme distance jump and is ready to leave, when the boss sells the data of the galaxy planet, he will withdraw the equipment here.

Anyway, the equipment can be dismantled and taken away, and the materials can be transformed and transported directly.

For the afterglow individuals here, let them drive the spacecraft back by themselves, or Huiyao will pick them up.

In the future, if he encounters a similar planet with some resources that can be easily developed, Chen Ming will treat it in the same way.

Chen Ming always feels uncomfortable if he doesn't pick up something when passing by.

Except for the four planets with open-pit mines.

The habitable planet is quite special.

Because it is a planet dominated by large arthropods.

In short, it is a planet similar to the ancient Earth, but the main species is not dinosaurs, but insects.

Chen Ming made special arrangements and spent some time to catch dozens of giant insects of various shapes, preparing to take them back to feed the Queen Insect.

The Queen Insect is still on the planet of the mechanical race in the past few days, continuing to expand the population and the scope of its territory by swallowing various creatures on the surface and underground and various things it can digest.

In the past few days, in addition to controlling the mechanical race every day, Chen Ming is also trying to communicate with the Queen Insect to see if it can actively evolve some abilities.

Although the Queen Insect's response in consciousness is a bit vague, Chen Ming still understands what it means.

The Thorn Zerg is a very powerful species, and the source of its power is the special evolutionary ability they possess.

And the main way to show this evolutionary ability is in battle.

In battle, some Zerg individuals will show evolutionary adaptation to battle.

These evolutions will be extracted, saved, and recorded by the Queen, and then applied to each Zerg individual.

And the other one is actually related to battle.

In battle, the Zerg will instinctively release the abilities hidden in their genes, showing the powerful traits deep in their genes.

As for the source of the traits in these genes...

There is only one, eat.