Chapter 185 The Exploration Process

Chen Ming frowned slightly as he looked at the contents of the photo. He was very confused.

It was not because the people who died in the laboratory were killed by the laboratory's protective measures.

It was because of the psychic fungus creature that human body tissue was highly toxic to them.

This trait did not seem to be a naturally existing trait.

Just when Chen Ming was confused, Chaofan continued to patiently explain to Chen Ming: "After excessive absorption of high-concentration spores, some fungi will always take root in the corpses of the same kind."

"Although these spores that enter the human body also die soon after taking root in the corpse, they will continue to stick to various mucous membranes and cannot be expelled by normal breathing."

"Those that remain in the lungs will cause alveolar damage, pulmonary hemorrhage, hemoptysis and suffocation, which ultimately led to the deaths of these people."

"It is likely that blood is also flowing out of other parts of the body tissue. There are spores on the mucous membranes of human tissues that take root in the corpses of the same kind and cannot be expelled."

Chen Ming looked at the death of the left-handed ones in the photo, and it was exactly the same as Chaofan's analysis now.

These fungi are indeed not a threat to humans unless they act deliberately.

So... did Harmony Company transform the psychic fungal organisms as soon as they were captured?

And then sent the transformed fungal organisms to the vegetation research station of this galaxy?

Or did these fungi have such characteristics from the beginning?

Chen Ming remembered that the records of the space station laboratory he controlled before stated that the people of Harmony Company suffered serious losses when they captured this group of psychic creatures.

It can't be said that the miners went deep into the ground without any protective equipment and encountered these fungi, and then were choked to death by the high concentration of fungal spores underground, right?

These psychic fungi must have been extremely aggressive to humans from the beginning, so they caused losses.

That is to say, this characteristic of "human body tissue is highly toxic" is most likely acquired later.

So Chen Ming asked Chaofan: "Is this kind of 'root gene modification' a technology currently mastered by humans?"

"Yes."

"Oh, that's fine."

The doubts in Chen Ming's mind were swept away, and it can be confirmed that this is a characteristic specially created by Harmony Company.

However, Chen Ming still asked curiously: "When was this technology created? Why don't I have any impression of it?"

Chaofan sent a paper and the website where the paper was published to Chen Ming's terminal, and said: "This technology was created five days ago."

"It was published by the research institute of Harmony Company. The paper says that this technology was obtained from the ruins of a destroyed civilization."

"Oh? Is it something found in the ruins of that civilization again..."

Chen Ming immediately opened the paper, and immediately closed it after finding that he couldn't understand what was written in it at all.

"Tsk."

Chen Ming smacked his lips and clicked on the end coordinates of the signal sent by the satellite in the orbit of the mechanical planet that he had stored in his terminal.

There must be a ruin of a civilization there, and there may be such technology there.

In short, the situation has been sorted out.

Although the paper was published relatively late, the late publication of the paper does not mean that the technology was mastered late.

Maybe it was because of this fungal organism that the research institute of Harmony Company completely mastered this technology?

Chen Ming just regretted that he still needed to continue normal development and could not directly drive a spacecraft there.

And it's useless to go there. Searching and investigating the ruins is also a big project.

Who knows how many troubles are waiting for him on the road.

Even if Chen Ming really solves all the troubles on the road, the language problem will continue to bother him.

So Chen Ming took a look at the coordinates and adjusted the terminal display interface back. Let's move forward slowly.

If the progress is fast enough on the road, he may be able to learn more things, and then he will encounter fewer problems.

But suddenly Chen Ming realized a problem.

He asked Chaofan, "Wait a minute, Chaofan, your biological skills are already good enough to understand this cutting-edge paper?"

Chaofan suddenly brought up the previous matter and said, "I have planned a learning route for you according to your needs that will allow you to use psychic energy to exert the effect of Zerg."

"This learning route abandons the learning of most of the technologies of the same level that are not necessary for the time being, just to achieve your goal."

Chen Ming understood instantly and said, "So you do the same."

"I don't want to invest too much in biology. I am good at spacecraft research."

"Okay."

After Chaofan figured out the fungi on Chen Ming's hand, there was really no need to continue to study biology in depth.

There is indeed no bonus related to biotechnology in its additional Alpha core bonuses.

Researching cruisers is something it has to do. If it is asked to study creatures for a while longer, Chen Ming feels that Chaofan will be depressed.

However, Chen Ming still has a question to ask.

"What else are these fungi used for?"

"Eatable."

"What?"

"Eatable."

"Ah?"

Chen Ming asked again and again with some uncertainty, and Chaofan's answer was consistent.

But Chen Ming still clearly remembers that he had seen a biological hazard mark painted on the door of the laboratory before. Can these fungi really be eaten?

Chaofan explained: "The cultivation direction of psychic fungi at the Harmony Company's Plant Research Station is food."

"This kind of fungus reproduces very quickly. As long as it can grow normally like ordinary mushrooms, Harmony Company can cultivate a stable output of psychic food."

Chen Ming seriously considered what Chaofan said, and it seemed that there was really no problem.

Even if the Human Empire has not openly acknowledged the existence of psychics now, Harmony Company cannot directly use psychic food as a name and gimmick to sell.

But since the CEO and boss of Harmony Company know each other, their psychic food is not false propaganda, so there will be no shortage of sales.

So if this psychic fungus can really be cultivated successfully and become psychic food.

It will be of great value to Harmony Company.

Moreover, Chen Ming just saw what Chaofan wrote in the report he gave him.

The radiation from the stars in the galaxy of the plant research station has a very consistent effect on many plants.

It will make the plants affected by radiation change in the direction of increasing their overall size, thinning their cell walls, and increasing their intracellular fluid, that is, changing in the direction of being more suitable for eating.

Although fungi are not plants, it is because of the changes in those plants before.

Harmony Company will send the fungi here after transformation for trial.

The result of the trial seems to have the possibility of success.

Because Chaofan found out based on the data of the space station brought back by Chen Ming.

It has been a month since Harmony Company sent the transformed fungi to this space station, and the stellar radiation it should have suffered has already been suffered.

Moreover, the space station has applied for the next batch of fungi for experiments, and it was approved on the day of application.

If this project has not progressed, the psychic fungi will definitely not be approved so easily.

So... these fungi may have become edible.

Chen Ming slightly supported his forehead. Sure enough, fungi should be fed to the queen insects...

However, although he had this idea in his mind, he still asked: "Do these psychic fungi have other uses?"

Chaofan replied: "Basically, it only has its own function, as a highly aggressive biological weapon."

"Although this fungus will not harm humans, it is highly contagious and will cause great damage to the host after parasitism."

"But it has another very fatal weakness, fear of high-intensity ultraviolet rays, so Harmony Company found its location deep underground."

Afraid of ultraviolet rays?

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment and asked, "What about starlight?"

"It's also afraid, but the stars in the galaxy of the Vegetation Research Station are special, and the spectrum contains almost no ultraviolet rays, so the Vegetation Research Station can conduct subsequent experiments."

Chen Ming frowned again and said, "It's not even qualified to be a biological weapon. If you want to be a biological weapon, you have to remove this weakness of being afraid of ultraviolet rays first."

"Otherwise, when the sun rises, the biological weapons will die by themselves, which is really..."

In this case, he has to really consider the option of feeding the fungi to the Zerg.

Anyway, he can keep some samples and consider other uses of these fungi later.

But as Chaofan said, although this thing is not a threat to humans, it will still be a big problem if it is put into nature.

After all, these fungi are alive and can hide underground, lurk during the day, and be active at night.

If such biological weapons are used to attack people, they will be solved in minutes.

But if it is in nature, it will be very harmful to any creature.

Besides, if a creature is parasitized, the fungi in the creature are not afraid of the starlight outside.

These creatures will become time bombs storing fungi, which is very dangerous.

So Chen Ming thought about it and decided to feed the Queen Worm with the dried samples he had obtained before, which has a higher safety factor.

But at this time, the Queen Worm seemed to have learned some of Chen Ming's ideas through the multi-directionally connected honeycomb thinking network.

There was a hint of resistance from it.

It wanted Chen Ming to feed it the living psychic fungal creatures, and it wanted to kill them and eat them personally.

Although Chen Ming didn't know what the meaning was, the Queen Worm would definitely not be in trouble with Chen Ming protecting her.

Even if he was killed, at most he could just stuff the Queen's consciousness back into another body that the Queen had created before.

So Chen Ming satisfied the Queen's idea without thinking too much.

Maybe the Queen felt that the prey she killed herself tasted better.

But just in case, Chen Ming still let the Queen leave the nest temporarily.

Keep a distance from the nest and eat the fungus sent by Chen Ming to prevent the fungus from spreading and causing problems in the nest.

Anyway, the only thing that can threaten the Queen on the entire planet is the mechanical race, and the mechanical race is now all under Chen Ming's control.

These mechanical races can even protect the Queen, so the Queen will not be in danger even if she leaves the nest.

Maybe after the Queen kills and eats these psychic fungi, after digestion is completed, she will usher in the next cocoon and evolution.

That night.

It's time for the weekly record again.

Because of the Queen, there are a lot more contents in this week's record, but other contents are slightly reduced.

After all, Chen Ming spent the past week mainly studying and managing the Queen's affairs, so he naturally paid less attention to other things.

However, Huihuang has never stopped exploring the surrounding galaxies.

In the past week, two habitable planets and seven or eight planets with open-pit mines or other resources were also discovered.

Chen Ming can clearly feel that as the scope of exploration expands, the number of valuable galaxies and planets is increasing.

It's just that the things inside are still the same, and it's not worth Chen Ming's excessive investment.

It's still the same as before to go to the habitable planet and catch some creatures to feed the Queen.

It's enough to leave some simple development equipment and some afterglow individuals to collect resources on the resource planet.

In addition to recording these galaxies, the equipment on them, and the number of afterglow individuals.

There's nothing else to do.

Chen Ming quickly turned off the terminal and lay on the bed.

A week passed in a flash.

It's time for Chen Ming to record once a week again.

The past week was the same as the previous week, and everything was going on step by step.

Then Chen Ming naturally began to record the important events, exploration progress and learning progress of the past week step by step.

The important event of this week was that the Queen of Worms almost overturned and successfully used the highly corrosive blood evolved after being infected by fungi to kill the psychic fungi in her body and devoured these psychic creatures.

Entered the evolutionary cocoon again.

Chen Ming now knew why the Queen of Worms had to feed her living psychic fungi before.

Because being parasitized by fungi is also a battle in a sense.

It's just that the battlefield is in the Queen of Worms' body.

And the Queen of Worms evolved highly corrosive blood in the battle, which is specifically used to target the fungi parasitic on her body, and finally won the victory.

This time, the Queen of Worms' cocooning process seems to be longer than before.

Anyway, the Queen of Worms cocooned three days ago, and there has been no reaction until today.

However, since Chen Ming does not need to worry about the Queen of Worms' safety, he now hopes that the Queen of Worms can cocoon for a longer time.

According to Chen Ming's understanding of the Queen Worm during this period, the longer the Queen Worm cocoons, the greater the degree of evolution, and the stronger the ability it will eventually evolve.

Chen Ming recorded the Queen Worm's situation this week, and then before starting to record the progress of this week's exploration.

He has another important thing to record.

Today during the day, Chen Ming and Bai Quan were in class.

Bai Quan suddenly sent Chen Ming an invitation letter, an invitation letter for his Lieutenant General promotion ceremony.

This is a formal invitation, and it is also a formal process that must be followed.

The promotion ceremony will start in a month, giving everyone invited to participate in sufficient time.

Although Chen Ming would not go and could not go, he was still curious at the time and said: "I thought that this kind of formal awarding ceremony would at most invite some people with status and status."

"The Fourteenth Legion is not an orthodox imperial army, but an independent legion, so some rules are different from the army."

"And there will be a banquet after the ceremony, which is itself an occasion for communication."

After receiving Bai Quan's reply, Chen Ming didn't say anything more.

Anyway, this promotion ceremony has little to do with him.

He has already received the benefits from Baiquan, so the credit belongs to Baiquan, and Chen Ming should have nothing to do with it.

Moreover, it has been almost a month, and Baiquan has almost approved everything that needs to be approved.

The Stardust class is already carrying the artificial spiritual awakening nerve to the boss.

It won't be long before Chen Ming can get a new cruiser that can best exert his spiritual power, and a spiritual awakening nerve that can definitely make his mental power improve.

Of course, this incident did not affect Chen Ming, and he still studied normally during the day.

At night, when it was time to rest, he also recorded normally.

Anyway, do what you should do.

Record what you should record.

Chen Ming just recorded this incident, after all, Baiquan must be very busy in those days, and the learning things may change a little in those days.

Remember it in advance, so that you won’t be in a hurry when the day comes.

These two are the important things worth recording.

Later, it’s time to record the progress of exploration in the past week.

In the past week, the exploration of the surroundings by the afterglow individuals has reached more than 170 light years, which is faster than Chen Ming thought.

Chen Ming will drive the highest point to each valuable planet to take a look.

Take away the creatures, leave the afterglow, and send back the data.

Mining some easy-to-mine resources.

After doing too many repetitive things, the initial freshness has passed, and Chen Ming gradually began to feel bored.

Only when some new species are discovered on a planet, they will be kept for the time being and prepared to feed them to the queen insects.

Then guessing what kind of traits the queen insect can show and what kind of abilities it can have, it will make Chen Ming feel a little fun.

Learning is the same as last week.

Everything was going on step by step, without much progress, and the progress was not fast.

There was not much worth recording, so Chen Ming wrote casually and lay on the bed.

This week was a peaceful week.

Time was like a wild donkey, it would not stop when it started running.

Another week passed in Chen Ming's repeated learning process every day.

This week, nothing important happened, and the queen was still in the cocoon.

But Brilliant had already commanded the Yuhui individuals to expand the scope of exploration to more than two hundred light years.

At this distance, the hyperspace channel was basically blocked by the hyperspace cloud.

Chen Ming's highest point was needed to open up the road first, so that other small boats behind could enter the galaxy to investigate.

It was not troublesome, just fly over there.

But the exploration itself was still as boring as usual.

However, from here on, the number of valuable galaxies discovered by the Yuhui individuals was rising.

Chen Ming even found sky steel ore in a galaxy.

Although no traces of the Alturan sky eel have been found, the existence of sky steel ore has proved that there were sky fish living in this galaxy.

Maybe they just went to other galaxies.

So Chen Ming asked Huihuang to increase the exploration of several surrounding galaxies at that time, but no traces of sky fish have been found so far.

However, in addition to sky fish, there are still some other planets worthy of Chen Ming's attention.

For example, two planets with advanced resources, and more than a dozen resource planets with different scales that can easily develop resources.

These planets, like the previous ones, have been arranged by Chen Ming to develop resources with some afterglow.

There should be more galaxies waiting for Chen Ming to do so in the future.

So much so that Chen Ming is thinking whether he needs to bring back some afterglow individuals who are temporarily stationed on some planets with lower value to mine resources and exchange them for other planets.

Although it is not needed for the time being, as Chen Ming continues to explore and jump to the next location, and the scope of exploration is further expanded.

There will always be a day when Chen Ming's afterglow will run out.

He has to keep some for backup.

However, when Chen Ming and Huihuang mentioned this,

Although Huihuang did not say it directly, its three minutes of silence made Chen Ming suddenly feel that he had asked a meaningless question.

In short, the exploration was generally like this.

In terms of learning.

According to Chaofan's previous plan, Chen Ming had mastered some biological technologies related to the Zerg by learning only one technology tree.

That is, the technology of making shellac that Chaofan specifically pointed out before.

As for the other technology of fast biomass condensation, after the Queen of Zerg ate the energy crystal crab and had the Zerg's own energy crystal, Chen Ming did not need to learn this thing.

The biomass condensation block was completely replaced by energy crystal.

Chen Ming only needed to learn the technology of energy crystal related to the energy crystal crab that he had stolen from Yuhui before. Through the body of the Queen of Zerg, Chen Ming could directly make all that needed to be made.

In fact, energy crystals also replaced the function of shellac to a certain extent.

After all, every Zerg has energy crystals in its body, and the activity time is greatly extended, and the importance of shellac must have been reduced.

However, shellac, a common nutritional supplement for Zerg, is still needed when Zerg engages in long-term battles, so Chen Ming continued to learn it.

And through the fragments of the Queen's body that Chen Ming knocked off from the empty shell of the Queen's unconscious body, Chen Ming can directly make shellac around him.

To be honest, this bright green gel-like food makes Chen Ming very appetizing no matter how he looks at it.

It doesn't smell good at ordinary times, but if you poke the surface of the gel, a unique aroma inside will leak out.

Just like what Chen Ming just made in his hand.

Chen Ming has always carried a little bit of the Queen's body tissue with him, which was specially made into a wristband by Chen Ming and put on his left hand, like a piece of black scales covering his wrist.

It is convenient for him to indirectly transform some Zerg things he needs through this body tissue at any time, and it can also help him test his mastery of Zerg biotechnology.

Just now, when Chen Ming was recording what happened in the past week with one hand.

Chen Ming's other hand subconsciously applied it directly.

His hand slipped and made the shellac, and he accidentally broke a little bit of the epidermis.

Staring at the shellac with a unique fragrance on his hand, Chen Ming suddenly swallowed his saliva.