Chapter 196 Phase Space

Chen Ming arrived at the pirate space station not long after.

The new director had already arranged for someone to squat in the special passage of the cruiser's position, and met Chen Ming and said hello.

The new director was not the deputy director who was demoted before, but the new director sent by the Xinda Company headquarters.

He was obviously very clear about the situation of the previous director, so his attitude towards Chen Ming could be said to be quite respectful.

Don't hit a smiling person.

If others give face, then Chen Ming will also give face, and greet and get to know people normally.

Anyway, as long as he and the people he knows are not offended, he doesn't care who is the director, or what the distribution of interests within the company is.

After politely declining the new director's invitation to dinner.

Chen Ming did not find the director and Lao Wu in the maintenance plant.

Instead, the bald man he had given a sum of money to before and the only newcomer who survived the military attack and whom he had trained for two days before were working in the plant.

After chatting with them for a while, Chen Ming ran directly to the hardware store in Space Arm No. 2, ready to find the boss.

However, when Chen Ming arrived, he found that the hardware store was closed.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that Baiquan's promotion ceremony was less than two weeks away, and the boss had been invited to attend, so it was normal that he was not there.

Chen Ming turned around and ran to the Administration Building again, only to find that the door of the factory director's office was also closed. He might have gone out for something.

So Chen Ming ran all the way to the bar again.

The security guard who Chen Ming didn't know at the door obviously knew Chen Ming and walked into the bar with respectful eyes.

After all, Chen Ming didn't wear protective clothing or power armor this time, so it was normal for the security guard to know him.

In the past, Chen Ming was worried about his identity being exposed and his personal safety, so he wore various protective clothing and power armor.

But now that his identity has long been made public.

And with his current mental strength, even if he doesn't have any protective equipment on his body, it is enough to react in the case of any weapon sneak attack, manually make armor, and safety is also guaranteed.

Then there is really no need to wear these things.

Chen Ming entered the bar and swept his eyes across the bar. This time he did not miss any.

Chen Ming asked the bartender for a glass of orange juice, walked a few steps to the corner of the bar, and sat down next to Old Wu who was drinking here as usual.

Old Wu, who was drinking with his head down, noticed Chen Ming at this time and asked unexpectedly: "Are you back?"

"Yes, I was chased and beaten outside, so I came back to hide for two days."

"What can chase you and beat you?"

"More than 80 mechanical cruisers."

Old Wu almost spit out a mouthful of wine. He felt that what Chen Ming said was true.

"Did you dig up someone's ancestral grave?"

"No, I dug up the foundation of someone's new house, but there's nothing else. How are you doing recently?"

Old Wu raised the glass in his hand and said: "It's still the same. I live like this every day. I do what I need to do. It's like there's a sister waiting for me to have dinner later, otherwise why would I drink so light."

Chat for a while.

Chen Ming changed the topic to business and asked, "Have the number of pirates in the star field increased in the past half month?"

Old Wu nodded and said, "A little more, and there may be more in the future."

"What do you mean?"

Old Wu took out the terminal, put a few articles on the terminal and said, "Have you read the news in recent times? There are more deformed babies born in hospitals."

"And it's not just one or two places, this situation has occurred in most areas of the entire empire."

"Then, there are rumors that the wave of deformed babies from decades ago is coming again."

"This kind of thing has endless consequences, so it makes people panic."

"The whole environment is in chaos, so it's normal for pirates to increase."

When Chen Ming looked at Old When Wu was watching the news report on the terminal, Old Wu continued, "And recently, people from Zuo Jing have also been active in the empire."

"The god of their cult is punishing humans for their blasphemy, tut tut tut..."

"But some people just believe this nonsense, what can we do?"

Chen Ming shook his head slightly and said, "Zuo Jing is really a troublesome thing."

"Who said it wasn't?"

"By the way, are there no movements from the top of the empire?"

"It seems that there is no such thing at the moment. The propaganda department has only slightly blocked some news about deformed children, but no substantive solution has been proposed yet."

Chen Ming has nothing to complain about the lack of a solution, after all, the empire can't come up with one even if it wants to.

The gaze of another dimension that Yu Hui created some time ago didn't work for anyone.

As a person who experienced the infection of the dimension, the president of the psychic association couldn't solve the gaze of another dimension, let alone other inexperienced psychics.

In the next twenty years, various contradictions will inevitably erupt within the empire.

If you want to spend these twenty years peacefully, you have to look at the means above.

But this has nothing to do with Chen Ming. Anyway, the attention from another dimension can only affect fragile newborns, and he has no intention of getting married and having children yet.

And he will continue to expand abroad in the future, so he will not be affected if he is not in the empire.

So Chen Ming did not talk much about this topic with Lao Wu, and instead mentioned the factory director.

"I just went to the factory director's office. Where is he?"

"He should be..."

Before Lao Wu could finish his words, the terminal on Chen Ming suddenly rang.

The factory director's phone.

Chen Ming picked it up and immediately heard the factory director's voice: "Xiao Ming, I heard that you are back. Can you come to my office?"

"Okay."

Chen Ming agreed, shrugged at Lao Wu, and then stood up and turned to the door of the bar.

But before he took two steps, he suddenly remembered something. He turned around and looked at Lao Wu with a smile and said, "I almost forgot."

Chen Ming took out the backpack he was carrying when he got off the spacecraft, and then took out a green gel-like thing in a refrigerated box and handed it to Lao Wu.

Lao Wu took it and asked, "What is this?"

"Local specialties brought from outside, tastes good."

Although Lao Wu usually investigates various intelligence, he obviously does not have a deep understanding of the food of the Thorn Zerg, which is already an endangered species.

Even if it is said that one of the reasons for the destruction of the space station where Chen Ming stayed before was the Zerg.

It is almost enough to know what kind of creature the Zerg is, and there is really no need for a deeper investigation.

It was only because Chen Ming happened to see the shellac before and had the Zerg on hand that he would find out what kind of food the ordinary individuals of the Zerg usually eat.

Lao Wu obviously would not do this specifically.

So now he is not clear about what Chen Ming gave him.

Seeing that Old Wu looked suspicious, Chen Ming waved his hand and said, "It just so happens that I have to go find the factory director. I'll give him a portion when the time comes."

"If you want more, come to me. I have some on hand."

Watching Chen Ming turn around and leave the bar, Old Wu touched his chin and opened the refrigerator box. Chen Ming's smile, which seemed to be cunning, flashed through his mind again.

However, this food should not be a rip-off for him, so he opened his mouth and took a bite of shellac. An unexpected and surprised expression appeared on his face, and he quickly ate the whole ball of shellac.

After staying in the bar for more than ten minutes, Old Wu covered his stomach and went into the toilet of the bar.

Of course, at this time, Chen Ming didn't know that Old Wu was also very lucky to become the 0.2%.

He just arrived at the building of the Administration and came to the factory director's office.

Here, Chen Ming saw people from Xinda Company again.

The factory manager spread his hands and said, "They said they would send you money, so I called you here."

The person from Xinda Company immediately handed a card to Chen Ming with the corners pinched in both hands when he heard this, and said, "Mr. Chen Ming, this is your first installment of patent fees. The antimatter engine has begun mass production and large-scale testing."

Although Chen Ming already knew about this, he still cooperated and said, "So soon?"

"Yes, the antimatter engine currently seems to be the most promising technology in the empire. Now many people are waiting for the results of this large-scale test."

"If the results are good, antimatter technology will be widely promoted throughout the empire, and the empire may have another technological eruption."

"Is that so."

Chen Ming nodded slightly. It seems that the importance of the antimatter engine is more important than he thought.

Then his decision to keep the antimatter engine patent was indeed correct.

Chen Ming inserted the card into the terminal. When he saw the 30 billion inside, Chen Ming's breathing became a little heavier.

This money is more than he thought.

After all, the patent for antimatter technology is not in his hands alone. The proportion of patents held by other researchers and the company itself is higher.

It is a pleasant surprise to have 30 billion, not to mention that the people of Xinda Company also said that this is only the first phase, and there will definitely be more in the future.

So Chen Ming accepted the money that can relieve his pressure for a long time in the future.

Seeing that Chen Ming had confirmed the situation of the savings card and there was no dissatisfaction on his face, the people of Xinda Company bowed to Chen Ming and said: "Then I won't bother you any more. Goodbye, Mr. Chen Ming."

He left the office and left very straightforwardly.

"Uh..."

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he looked at the closed office door.

He thought that Xinda Company was going to take this opportunity to talk to him, but the people just left.

It would be fine if they just transferred the money to his card directly, and I don't know why they made a special trip.

But since everyone had left, Chen Ming didn't say much and turned to sit in front of the factory director's desk.

The factory manager handed Chen Ming a cup of tea and asked, "How long do you plan to stay this time?"

Chen Ming took a sip of tea and replied, "The situation outside is good, and it doesn't matter whether I'm outside or not."

"So I plan to stay in the space station for two days and do something."

Although as the exploration progress of the temporary base increases, the Supreme Point almost always needs to fly outside to open up routes.

However, Chen Ming is aware of this, so in the week before the attack on the mechanical city, he specifically asked the Supreme Point to open up routes day and night with high intensity.

For the use of the low-level Yuhui ships for the subsequent exploration, it should be enough to last for half a month.

It's not a big problem not to go back during this period.

And he is really bored to death outside.

The exploration is fresh at the beginning, and it is really boring day by day.

Anyway, Chen Ming only provides mental strength for the exploration. People are the same wherever they are, so it's better to run around and do something else.

After understanding, the factory manager did not continue to ask Chen Ming what he was going to do, but just said: "If you need any help, just tell me."

"I will."

Chen Ming then chatted with the factory manager for a while about what happened during this period and left the factory manager's office.

After receiving a batch of daily necessities that Lao Wu temporarily transferred to him, he returned to the highest point.

After calling his boss and telling him that he was going back to the space station to stay for a few days.

Chen Ming planned to start what he was going to do after his unexpected return.

Although some things can be done anywhere, some things will be more valuable after returning to the empire.

For example, using psychic energy to deeply repair some technologies.

As for what technology to deeply repair, Chen Ming had already thought about it before.

First of all, it must be the technology of antimatter reactors and antimatter engines that the empire seems to be vigorously promoting now.

All technologies cannot be very mature when they appear.

They must be gradually updated after a lot of tests and experiments.

And Chen Ming's psychic energy can skip these steps.

Therefore, when Chen Ming conducts deep repairs on antimatter-related technologies, the benefits should be the greatest.

It just so happens that he has a Stardust with an antimatter engine installed.

And because Chen Ming's deep repair psychic power only works on the target, any parts that can be disassembled at will will not be deeply repaired along with the target of Chen Ming's psychic power.

This means that the Stardust-class engine has not been deeply repaired so far, and can be disassembled at any time for related experiments.

And this is also the reason why Chen Ming drove the Stardust-class back to the space station instead of returning to the temporary base with other ships.

In addition to antimatter technology, there is another thing that Chen Ming also plans to deeply repair.

It is Chen Ming's self-developed unstable hyperspace channel jump engine.

Although the inspiration came from the abandoned case of Yuhui's research that Chen Ming got from Yuhui before.

But the subsequent ability to build this thing mainly depends on Chen Ming's repair psychic power without fear of loss, the modification psychic power to adapt at will, and his understanding of the hyperspace technology that is now popular and not too advanced.

Chen Ming had a good idea at first, which was to use hyperspace to make the spacecraft achieve an effect similar to jump.

Unfortunately, he was still limited by his technical level some time ago, which made the final product very unstable.

Chen Ming did not achieve the jump effect he wanted, but instead achieved a weird random teleportation effect.

His long-lost Refraction was lucky to land in the gap between the Mechanical Clan, Yuhui and the Human Empire after carrying this thing. If he was unlucky, he might have been teleported to some dangerous place.

Chen Ming only used it once, and he had no time to conduct in-depth research and testing afterwards.

So this technology has been hidden until today.

However, Chen Ming believes that as long as this technology has been deeply repaired by his psychic power, the effect will definitely change significantly.

Of course, it is not impossible to start researching this thing again with Chen Ming's current technical level, but it will definitely take a long time.

Since psychic power can save time, Chen Ming feels that he doesn't need to study it honestly.

Knowing the answer and inferring in reverse is much easier than calculating it slowly by yourself.

Anyway, the research results he finally obtained must be correct, and he did not steal the fruits of others' labor, so no one can say that he was wrong.

When the time comes, Chen Ming should publish this result in a scientific research journal in the empire under his own name.

After all, Chen Ming still has some aspirations, and gaining widespread recognition in technology is what he has always wanted to do.

Of course, there is another reason why Chen Ming wants to publish his research results.

He is short of money.

Even if Xinda Company just gave him 30 billion, he still lacks it. The consumption of development is much more than he imagined.

Moreover, the materials consumed in the previous battle with the mechanical race are far more than he had estimated before.

Chen Ming has only been out for less than two months, and has only made one jump, built a temporary base, and explored less than 80% of the galaxies within 400 light years.

But the amount of materials consumed can be said to be very huge.

And the colonized galaxy that Chen Ming is targeting is at least seven or eight extreme jumps away.

Not to mention that he has another target, the coordinates of the mechanical satellite transmitting communication signals.

That is even beyond thirteen extreme jumps.

Even if Chen Ming's way to find the colony coincides with the way to the coordinates of the mechanical family, the consumption in between is definitely not enough for 30 billion.

He can't really live on the patent of antimatter technology. What he develops himself is what really belongs to him.

The next day.

Before Chen Ming found Bai Quan to start a day of teaching, Bai Quan called him.

And he came up and said: "I have already asked about the matter yesterday, and there is a result, but if I tell you in detail, you need to sign a contract."

Bai Quan sent Chen Ming an electronic contract, which was a confidentiality agreement.

Chen Ming looked at it and signed it directly.

After confirming, Bai Quan organized his words and said: "Let me tell you a basic concept first, phase space."

"This is a unique space independent of the normal universe and hyperspace."

"Things inside the phase space cannot be observed by ordinary means, but things in the phase space can affect the normal universe and hyperspace under certain circumstances."

"This is the basis of the phase spacecraft we are developing."

Chen Ming interrupted and asked: "Is this technology also the legacy of that civilization?"

"Obviously not, otherwise the mechanical race, as another legacy of that civilization, would not have no way to deal with things in the phase space."

"The source of our contact with the phase space is just an ordinary researcher."

"He conducted some research in the hyperspace ”

“Following this signal, he discovered something that could not be observed by normal means, and he reported his discovery to the higher authorities.”

“Then the Empire began to study phase space.”

Chen Ming suddenly asked again: “What did the researcher discover?”

“I don’t know.”

“I don’t know?”

“Yes, because when our phase technology developed to the point where we could investigate phase space, the object that allowed us to discover phase space had long disappeared, and the question of what it was has not been answered yet.”

“Okay.”

Chen Ming thought for a while and asked again: “Who was the discoverer?”

“An ordinary researcher from Tachyon Technology, he did not participate in the subsequent research, so What special value does he have? "

After waiting for a while and seeing that Chen Ming had no follow-up questions, Bai Quan said: "Have you finished asking? Then I will continue. "

"According to our research over the years, the inside of the phase space is exactly the same as the normal universe, except that the phase space can affect the normal universe, while the normal universe cannot affect the phase space. "

"And we have never found any existence that is unique to the phase space in the phase space. "

"So some research institutes have the idea of ​​treating the phase space as a unique environment to create unique spacecraft. "

Bai Quan paused for a moment to give Chen Ming time to digest and absorb, and then continued: "The situation is different now. Your discovery can basically confirm that something in the phase space is in It affects the normal cosmic environment."

"And the way that thing moves looks like some kind of creature, so it is temporarily named the phase beast, waiting for a more precise investigation before giving a scientific name. "

"By the way, let me tell you first, we determined the location of your video based on the situation of the starry sky in the video you sent."

"So... uh... you know..."

"It's okay."

Chen Ming said casually: "I jumped back to the empire directly in front of the phase beast."

"If you move faster, you don't even need to analyze the video, just go to the location where I jumped back to determine my jump trajectory and you will know where I came back from."

"And I asked you to help me cover up the jump traces before, so it doesn't matter if you know it."

"So, how do you deal with this phase beast?"

Bai Quan hesitated for a moment and said: "There is no way to deal with it."

"Although our research progress on phase technology is okay, the phase spacecraft itself is still in the experimental stage, and the size of the phase beast is at least the level of a cruiser. "

"It's just a fantasy to go to the mechanical tribe to deal with the phase beast. At most, some spacecraft will go there to investigate and find a way to obtain data."

Chen Ming asked with a little concern: "What if it comes to the empire? Is there no way to deal with it?"

"That's not the case. "

"Although the research on phased spacecraft has not yet reached the level of practical application, a lot of phased weapons have been developed long ago. If it doesn't work, we still have psychics."

"Besides, the phased behemoth in the video is completely relying on its body to attack the mechanical fleet, without any non-melee attack methods."

"If it weren't for the fact that it is in the phase space, it would just be an ordinary space behemoth."

"Although we can't say that we can completely let down our guard against it, it seems that it is just like that at present."

Chen Ming asked back: "You mean that there is actually no need to worry about it, right?"

"Yes."

"That's fine."

"I'll tell you if I encounter a phased behemoth later."

After all, Chen Ming himself has no way to deal with this thing. If the empire can find a way to deal with the phased behemoth, it will not be bad for him.

Of course, if you don't encounter it, it would be even better. It would be best if the phased behemoth goes to trouble the mechanical race, so as not to disgust him.

After finishing the topic of the phase behemoth, Chen Ming suddenly said: "I want to ask you something, Bai Quan, will your military accept some spacecraft technology or something?"

"What do you mean? Have you figured it out?"

"No, no, no, it's just that I have a research direction here, I think it's special, and it should be valuable."

Bai Quan blinked his eyes. He knew everything about Chen Ming from birth to today, and knew what Chen Ming's technical level was.

Although Chen Ming's technology has surpassed many people now, there is still a gap compared with cutting-edge scientists.

So he said tactfully: "Just find some official websites or magazines to publish."

"The military has always been paying attention to research in all walks of life. If it is valuable to the military, they will contact the author directly."

Chen Ming could hear the meaning of Bai Quan's words, and Chen Ming didn't find it strange.

After all, who would have thought that a psychic who could only control spacecraft at the beginning would one day have such an outrageous ability to perform conceptual deep repairs on various mechanical equipment and even on living things.

It's normal that Bai Quan doesn't completely believe him.

But Chen Ming believes that time will give the answer.