Chapter 194 Purgatory Core

Bai Quan looked like he had already made a guess.

Chen Ming said directly: "I feel that this thing is a bit like the one you mentioned some time ago..."

Bai Quan responded without waiting for Chen Ming to finish: "I feel the same way, so I have to ask, wait for my news."

"Okay."

Bai Quan hung up the call anxiously.

He immediately took the video Chen Ming sent to him and went to the exclusive research institute under the headquarters of the 14th Corps where he was currently.

Only Chen Ming was still thinking.

Thinking about the situation of the more than 50 cruisers and the source of danger.

First of all, Chen Ming can be sure that the more than 50 cruisers of the mechanical race, even if they were injured before arriving at the galaxy, must have been provoked by his own troubles with the mechanical race's colony planet.

It is not because they failed to target the source of danger and were driven here.

Because these more than 50 cruisers have no ability to resist in front of the source of danger.

Assuming that the mechanical race already knew about such a dangerous thing in advance, it is impossible for them to call more than 50 cruisers at one time to target this thing.

If you can't hit something, one ship is a gift, and fifty ships are also a gift.

The mechanical race will not be so stupid.

If the mechanical race does not know about this thing, the purpose of these more than 50 cruisers is indeed only Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming feels that it is very likely that the mechanical race's reinforcement fleet happened to encounter this thing on the way.

Although he is still not sure whether the mechanical race knows about the source of this danger.

But it is likely that the mechanical race's fleet has suffered a lot of losses after fighting with this thing, or being beaten unilaterally.

The remaining fleet of the mechanical race chose to continue to the destination, which is the colonized galaxy attacked by Chen Ming outside.

The city built by their colony has collapsed under the attack of the insect tide.

In the case of no return, leaving the instigator Chen Ming behind and killing him is already the best result for them.

Then it is also a good choice to divert the trouble to others when necessary.

Anyway, even if they fail, those things they have lost because of Chen Ming will never come back, so it is better to exchange greater losses for a greater possibility of killing Chen Ming.

The mechanical race was indeed ruthless.

Unfortunately, Chen Ming ran too fast.

The source of danger brought by the mechanical race was the mechanical race itself.

As Chen Ming roughly guessed the process of what had just happened, he suddenly took a deep breath again.

Because he still had many questions in his mind.

What exactly was the source of danger?

How did the mechanical race provoke this thing?

These two questions were still unanswered as always.

So Chen Ming temporarily stopped thinking about this matter and waited for Baiquan's response.

At the same time, there was another thing waiting for Chen Ming to solve.

That was that his psychic power could not control the mechanical race.

Chen Ming had tried it himself with psychic power before, and when he saw the prompt later, he basically understood the situation.

He knew exactly why he could not control the mechanical race.

In fact, the answer was very simple.

Only psychic power could fight against psychic power.

Although this sentence is not absolute, it is often reasonable.

The hive mind network between the mechanical races in the entire mechanical race star field is just like Chen Ming's own mechanical race hive network, which is linked together by psychic energy.

It is precisely because the mechanical races on Chen Ming's target planet are connected to the cruisers in the city core, and the cruisers are connected to the higher-level hive network.

So he can't control these mechanical races that have been affected by psychic energy.

The discovery of this situation also made Chen Ming figure out one thing.

In fact, he had been thinking that the metaphysical thing of hive mind should be disconnected when the distance is far enough.

What kind of hive mind can continue to be maintained across hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of light years? And it can also transmit everything that its own kind sees without any obstruction?

Obviously, the same hive mind Zerg is divided into different populations, and each population may fight internally.

Just like the mother of the queen controlled by Chen Ming found another Thorn Zerg population on the orbit of the previous independent mechanical race, and directly devoured the other population, turning it into its own nutrition, and then evolved into a destroyer.

The hive mind network among the Zerg is obviously based on the tribe.

But the mechanical tribe can be integrated into such a large star field, and there is more than one star field in the entire universe.

Only a few independent mechanical tribe clusters may not be in this huge hive mind network.

Chen Ming didn't understand it before.

Until today, he found that the answer had already been reflected in himself.

Psionic energy is the basis for maintaining such a hive mind network whose coverage is measured by the star field.

Chen Ming felt that he should have thought of it earlier.

Because the first thing related to psionic energy that he came into contact with, the Whispering Spirit Stone, was something he got from the mechanical race.

The mechanical race itself is different from Yuhui. They are the legacy of another civilization and are born with psionic energy.

So it is normal for their hive network to be built with psionic energy.

Of course, this does not mean that there is a psychic behind the mechanical race to control them.

When Chen Ming tried to control the cruiser himself before, he felt that the psionic energy of the mechanical race was a dead thing, not an extension of the will of a psychic.

The boss, Yan Xiong and even the Queen of Worms that Chen Ming had contacted were different.

When a psychic or a psychic creature uses psionic energy, the psionic energy fluctuations it emits will reflect the state of the psychic's own mind.

Other psychics can sense the emotions of the psychic emitting psionic fluctuations through these psionic fluctuations.

No matter how calm a psychic is, when he uses psychic energy to emit psychic energy fluctuations, his psychic energy fluctuations will also carry a trace of the psychic's calm emotions.

Even if he is not a psychic, but an ordinary person, he will also have subtle feelings when he comes into contact with psychic fluctuations and can feel the emotions of the psychic.

Although Chen Ming does not know much about psychic knowledge, he has used psychic energy many times in front of Lao Wu and the factory director.

In the past, when he occasionally chatted, he happened to learn about these strange knowledge about psychic energy from them.

So if such a mechanical race that spreads throughout the universe is controlled by a living psychic, then Chen Ming dare not touch these mechanical races.

But when Chen Ming tried to control the mechanical race before, he did not find any emotional fluctuations from the hive thinking network.

The mechanical race's honeycomb network is built by a dead object, a mechanical device similar to a mind pulse generator.

And it is not difficult to crack a dead object.

The mechanical race relies on psychic chaining, but not every mechanical race individual can use the psychic power of the hive mind network to do things to resist the control of Chen Ming's psychic power.

It's just because of the instinctive protection of the psychic hive mind network that Chen Ming's attempted control without force cannot be directly effective, that's all.

Chen Ming only needs to make his psychic power aggressive and forcibly destroy the original network connection of the mechanical race, and the rest will be easy.

So even before, when Chen Ming stood on the mechanical race cruiser.

As long as he wanted, he could directly solve the influence of the mechanical race's psychic power on them and control the ship himself.

The mechanical race lost a lower-level core of the hive mind, so the rest of the mechanical race was also in Chen Ming's pocket.

The reason why Chen Ming didn't do this was because things were not that simple, and there would be other impacts later.

The mechanical race is the mechanical life of the hive mind.

Destroying the hive mind network of the mechanical race is tantamount to directly digging out a piece of the mechanical race's brain.

Although this is just a city of mechanical tribes, it is not fatal to the mechanical tribes, but the damage is absolute.

And it is extremely serious damage.

And all intelligent species basically have a common problem.

Those who have helped you will be forgotten after a while, but those who have hurt you will never forget in this life.

This means that if Chen Ming does this, the entire mechanical tribe will know his existence and know that Chen Ming has caused serious damage to them.

There are just more than 50 cruisers coming to chase and kill them. If they continue to make trouble, the mechanical tribe may really send a main battleship to come when they meet next time.

And if the mechanical tribe only knows that Chen Ming is a person with considerable combat ability and can control the Zerg.

Then next, the mechanical tribe will find that he is a psychic who can cause fundamental destruction to the mechanical tribe.

Just like Yu Hui found him before.

But Chen Ming was still weak before, and Yu Hui and humans did not have such extreme conflicts as the mechanical tribe and humans.

So Yu Hui and humans will exchange some captives and supplies.

That is why Yu Hui wanted to take Chen Ming away as soon as he found him, to try to recruit him, or to extract his spiritual awakening nerves.

But if the mechanical race knew of Chen Ming's existence, they would never give Chen Ming any chance, and would definitely hunt him down with the highest standards.

They knew best how much of a threat a psychic who could cut off the mechanical race's honeycomb network would pose to them.

Once Chen Ming was caught, his life would definitely be gone.

So if he really destroyed the mechanical race's honeycomb network, it would be very dangerous afterwards.

He had to think about it again.

Anyway, the mechanical cruisers that Chen Ming took away were already damaged, and the mechanical individuals on them had been cleaned up, so he would definitely not be able to escape by himself.

Chen Ming also brought the mechanical cruiser into the empire.

Even if the mechanical race has a hive consciousness and knows the location of the cruiser, it is impossible for them to really chase after it.

So as long as Chen Ming does not take the initiative to provoke the mechanical race, the mechanical race will not have any other influence except knowing that he is now in the human empire.

Moreover, the location of the temporary base has not been exposed, and the mechanical race is unlikely to cause trouble for his temporary base.

Chen Ming still has time to think about whether to take on such a trouble.

Then he is not in a hurry to give a conclusion immediately.

It is better to take a break first and wait until his mental state returns to the best before thinking about this problem.

And since he has returned to the empire and is now at the edge of the galaxy of the pirate space station, he must go back to the space station.

And just now the patrol team in the galaxy came over and wandered around, took a look at Chen Ming's fleet and ran away.

Although Chen Ming did not know the people of the patrol team of the pirate space station, they all knew Chen Ming and knew the situation of these cruisers.

So Chen Ming was left at the edge of the galaxy.

But they will definitely pass on the news of Chen Ming's return.

So Chen Ming must go back and say hello to everyone he knows.

But before returning to the space station, he still has one thing to do.

Count the harvest.

Originally, Chen Ming's target this time was mainly the mechanical individuals, which were used to expand his own hive network.

The second was the mechanical colonial cruiser, which would definitely help Chen Ming's own colonization in the future.

The other gains in the process of fighting with the mechanical race were indeed unexpected surprises.

So now the overall harvest is simply calculated.

The most important thing is the mechanical individuals whose total number has exceeded 30,000, all of which are parasitized by the desperately multiplying parasites and cannot move.

It can only be said that Chen Ming does not know how so many mechanical races were stuffed into two cruisers, but in short, he did it.

Although these parasites have basically entered hibernation without subsequent nutrition supply, while they are hibernating, they can also force all mechanical activities of the mechanical race to stop.

Those mechanical races, except for still maintaining normal individual consciousness, are almost equivalent to dead mechanical bodies that are completely unable to move.

Chen Ming can just find a place to store them first.

After Chen Ming is ready to control the mechanical race, he will control them in batches.

Finally, send these mechanical races to the city on the planet where the mechanical races in Chen Ming's hands are located.

Chen Ming estimates that after he controls this batch of mechanical races he just captured, he should be able to completely build the honeycomb network of the mechanical races he controls.

Let him be able to produce the individual consciousness of the mechanical races by himself like the Zerg network.

In this way, as long as he can supply enough materials to the mechanical race in the future, the number of mechanical races will also begin to surge like the number of Zerg.

It's just that this material is a bit troublesome.

After all, the main material of the mechanical race itself is high-grade metal Baiyun steel.

If there is no stable output of ore veins, the money spent on simple acquisition is really too much.

Moreover, Chen Ming's colony has not yet found a suitable galaxy, and has not officially started construction. It is not a good idea to spend money on the mechanical race.

So the expansion of the mechanical race will have to be considered again.

However, as long as the consciousness of new mechanical individuals can be produced, even if the mechanical race in his hands falls on the front line, he can still use psychic energy to recycle all the materials, and there is no need to worry too much about losses.

Anyway, they can all be recycled and reused.

As long as the scale of the battlefield does not exceed the number of mechanical races currently controlled by Chen Ming.

It doesn't matter if it exceeds. In addition to the mechanical race, Chen Ming also has the Zerg to serve as the combat power of the ground battlefield.

In addition to the individuals of the mechanical race, Chen Ming's second largest harvest this time is the mechanical race's cruisers.

In addition to the colony ship that Chen Ming took away on the ground.

There are also eight cruisers from the second wave of reinforcements from the mechanical race.

Five of them were blown to pieces in Chen Ming's meteorite fighter sea.

The internal cores of these five cruisers were damaged in the explosion and lost the psychic protection of the mechanical race.

Therefore, the remaining large pieces of wreckage had been dismantled into materials and sent to the temporary base, which made up for the Baiyun steel materials he urgently needed recently.

Although the remaining three ships were not blown up together, they had basically lost their combat capabilities under the attack of the meteorite.

They were previously tied to several other cruisers by Chen Ming using a crude method.

Then they were taken to the galaxy where the pirate space station was located during the jump.

Before, Chen Ming was not sure what kind of mental power would be consumed in the subsequent battle.

At that time, he did not waste mental power to control the three cruisers that had lost their combat capabilities and even their ability to move.

So he didn't notice that his psychic power couldn't control those mechanical races.

Now Chen Ming also tested it a little and found the same result.

Just like the other mechanical races, these three cruisers are also under the protection of the mechanical race's psychic hive network and cannot be controlled.

However, after Chen Ming's subsequent scanning, he found that the three mechanical race cruisers were all combat-type cruisers.

The internal structure is similar to that of ordinary mechanical race individuals. In addition to various devices that realize the functions at the beginning of the design, the remaining are three cores.

A core chip, a secondary core, and a device for storing nanorobots, all of which have been upgraded to the cruiser level.

Overall, it is actually an ordinary cruiser.

And they are three identical standard cruisers, with no special system devices on them.

Only the colony ship is slightly special, and its internal structure is very different from other mechanical race cruisers.

Anyway, Chen Ming didn't just throw the colony ship to Huihuang for research.

Let Huihuang figure out how to use the mechanical colony ship, and then combine Yu Hui's own colonization method with the early colony construction plan that Chen Ming obtained from the empire.

Combine the three to develop a plan that can adapt to Chen Ming's future colony construction.

Chen Ming believes that Huihuang will definitely develop a result.

When he actually colonizes in the future, he will be able to reflect his true value.

In addition to the spacecraft.

Chen Ming also gained something special this time.

The special individual of the mechanical family.

Because this mechanical family is directly controlled by the cruiser, there is no core chip installed, and there is no consciousness of the mechanical family on it.

So Chen Ming can directly control it without any restrictions.

And its name also appeared in front of Chen Ming.

[Mechanical Heavy Machinery·Purgatory Demon King]

[Energy Reserve: 27%]

[Main Weapon: Imperial Industry Cannon]

[Secondary Weapon: Charged Shock Cannon*2, Charged Machine Gun*2]

[External Armor: Mechanical Heavy White Cloud Steel Armor]

[Self-awareness: None]

[Important Equipment: Purgatory Core (in operation), Core Chip (missing), Personality Secondary Core (in operation), Nano-level Maintenance Machinery (33%), Thermal Energy Solidification System (in operation), Thermal Energy Extraction Device (in operation)]

[Available Operations: Repair (deep repair)/modification/disassembly]

Chen Ming took a quick look at the things on the panel, and then clicked on the [Purgatory Core] in the [Important Equipment] column of this mechanical body named Purgatory Demon King.

Although there is no detailed introduction to this thing on the panel.

But Chen Ming can understand its function by his own understanding.

He is the source of the Purgatory Demon King's ability to control and influence thermal energy. He is the real core of the Purgatory Demon King compared to the core chip and the secondary core, and he is also a special relic of another civilization in the true sense.

Just like the cryogenic computing engine that Chen Ming had heard about from Bai Quan.

The cryogenic computing engine is a supercomputer that the destroyed civilization uses to calculate combat-type events.

It needs to absorb heat to maintain the high-speed operation of the computer. While completing its main tasks, it can also achieve the outrageous effect of entropy reduction, which violates the laws of physics.

Although the Purgatory Core is not as exaggerated as entropy reduction, it can also control entropy increase and the steady-state distribution of entropy in the environment.

It changes the surrounding environment on a large scale, making it more suitable for silicon-based life such as the mechanical family, and not suitable for any carbon-based life.

Chen Ming has seen it before.

What he wants to know now is whether this core can play a greater role in his hands.

For example, mass production.

For Chen Ming, even if it is a relic of another civilization, as long as it is in his hands, it can be controlled by his psychic power.

Then the psychic energy will automatically let him master the use of the things he controls.

When the use method is clear and the internal structure can be analyzed through three-dimensional imaging.

Chen Ming can completely analyze the internal structure of this Purgatory Core.

From the outside to the inside, they are the outer shell, isolation layer, operating layer and core layer.

There is nothing much to say about the outer shell, which is a variety of interfaces and protective core shell.

When Chen Ming saw the isolation layer, he was stunned for the first time.

This isolation layer can isolate high temperature from the outside.

And from the inside, it can isolate the psychic fluctuations emitted by the internal operating layer and core layer.

Chen Ming blinked his eyes to confirm that he was not wrong.

The operation of this Purgatory Core relies on psychic energy.

Its operating layer and core layer are all made of pure psychic materials to form a complex mechanical device.

Although Chen Ming can see the structure of the entire core clearly, without understanding the principle, there is only one question left in his mind.

How did this happen?

Chen Ming carefully checked it again and again, confirming that there was no trace of any psychic creatures or spiritual nerves in the core.

This is really an object that can produce psychic effects, made purely by technology and psychic materials.

An object that can allow mechanical life such as the mechanical race to control psychic energy.

Chen Ming did not change on the surface, but his mind was already full of thoughts.

The most frequent one was the galaxy marked by the coordinates he had obtained from the mechanical race's satellite.

He must go there.

There must be something more outrageous than the Purgatory Core or even the Cryogenic Computing Engine.

Chen Ming took a deep breath for a few seconds and suppressed his unrealistic thoughts.

He put his attention back on the Purgatory Demon King itself.

In addition to the core, there are some other valuable things on it.

For example, the Imperial Industry Cannon.

This thing is also very special.

Because Chen Ming also found a mechanical structure made of psychic materials inside this weapon.

This thing is a psychic weapon.