Chapter 198 Cooperation Intention

Early the next morning.

A new week has begun.

As usual, Chen Ming read the situation of the individual investigation of Yuhui that Huihuang was still arranging while he was resting last night.

Although his main energy in the first two weeks was focused on the mechanical race found during the exploration and the subsequent research and technological improvement of the mechanical race and the insect race.

But the development of the galaxies around the temporary base has never been neglected.

After all, this is Chen Ming's goal all along.

All the other things he did in the middle were paving the way for this goal.

The daily report sent by Huihuang showed that it was calm last night and nothing happened.

It's a pity that the Yuhuis did not gain much from the investigation of the galaxy near the previously discovered empty fish skeleton, and still did not find any traces of the empty fish school.

And the skeleton has been bombarded by a lot of space radiation and various particles, and has lost its original properties. Except for the skeleton, it can be seen that it is an empty fish, and it has no value to feed the queen worm.

However, the Yuhui individuals who were still investigating outside last night basically returned safely. There were not many damaged ones, not to mention the losses.

So it doesn't matter if you can't find the empty fish, there will be opportunities to find it later.

This morning, Huihuang listed the material consumption list for the previous week as of last night.

It can only be said that the amount of material consumption is still as shocking as last week, and even much more than last week.

There are currently more than 50,000 Yuhui individuals in the temporary base.

There are about 20,000 individuals actually active outside, and more than 2,000 individuals are doing logistics work in the temporary base.

The rest are all in hibernation.

As a backup guarantee when necessary.

And, during the second jump, the main force to develop the second temporary base.

So when the star port of the temporary base was built, it was not built according to the goal of carrying all the more than 50,000 afterglows.

Then this star port would not be built in a few weeks.

But even so, the amount of fuel consumed by the more than 20,000 afterglows that drove out in destroyers at most is not a small number.

If the amount of materials is converted into money according to the market price, it will be even more huge.

Add to that the consumption of Chen Ming and the mechanical race...

That really makes Chen Ming heartbroken every time he sees it.

Fortunately, Chen Ming still has the support of the boss behind him, and can purchase a large amount of supplies in batches at a very low price.

Otherwise, he would have started to reduce the number of afterglows active outside.

The bold words before leaving the empire finally had to bow to the reality of money and material consumption.

But continuing like this for a long time is definitely not a solution. Chen Ming is a little uncomfortable looking at a colony that only sees input but no output.

Although the boss doesn't seem to have any objections, he has been silently preparing new supplies for Chen Ming according to the material consumption list sent back by Chen Ming every week.

But Chen Ming couldn't take it for granted.

That's why he improved the technology he had researched before and published it to make money.

That's why he tried to improve the antimatter technology and let Chaofan study the antimatter engine.

Although this investment is also huge, it is greater than the material consumption of more than 20,000 Yuhui per week in a short period of time.

But Chen Ming believes that his current investment will definitely make back in the end, and make back more.

After all, this is an antimatter engine, with a special antimatter fuel.

In the same stroke, the output power is higher, the speed is faster, and the fuel mass consumption is less.

The improved antimatter engine will only be more cost-effective.

And the antimatter engine itself can also use ordinary fuel, but the conversion efficiency of ordinary fuel is lower.

But even if it is lower, it is not much lower, at least it is more efficient than ordinary engines in converting ordinary fuel.

While studying the antimatter engine, Chen Ming's plan to study the expansion of the Zerg nest and the mechanical city was also a decision made for the growth of his own mental power and thinking speed.

After all, now the core of the entire Yuhui, the entire mechanical race, the entire Zerg and the entire development process is himself.

And he can rely on other ways besides training-accepting the feedback of the honeycomb network of the mechanical race and the Zerg to become stronger.

So it is a normal choice to develop the Zerg and the mechanical race in order to develop itself in the process of development.

And there is another benefit to developing the Zerg.

That is, after swallowing the energy crystal crab, the Zerg can produce Zerg energy crystals.

A product with better output, output stability and output difficulty than the energy crystal crab.

Moreover, energy crystals are basically pure energy aggregates, but the part that condenses into crystals may be mixed with some substances that represent the species of the producer.

But as long as Chen Ming lets the Queen of Zerg make some simple modifications to the Zerg energy crystals that are specifically produced, the traces of the Zerg can be erased from the energy crystals produced.

The forged Zerg energy crystals are the result of the energy crystal crabs.

As long as the existence of the Zerg energy crystals produced by the energy crystal crabs, which are all-round crushing in terms of output, is known, and can be used with the antimatter engine that can greatly improve the performance of the spacecraft.

It will definitely be welcomed by the empire and widely spread.

Soon, Chen Ming will have a new fund in his hand.

And as long as the output of energy crystals is still controlled by Chen Ming, then this amount of funds input to him will definitely continue for a long time.

Even if the Empire has energy crystal crab samples, it will take at least several years to start mass breeding of energy crystal crabs.

But by that time, not to mention the problem of production, Chen Ming's own bugs that produce energy crystals may have changed several generations.

It is impossible to keep up with his progress if he starts research and development slowly from energy crystal crabs.

Chen Ming sorted out his current ideas a little, and after confirming that there were no mistakes or omissions, he put down the daily report sent by Huihuang.

Then he continued to confirm other situations last night.

Before Chen Ming rested yesterday, he promised Chaofan one thing.

He had deliberately found a gamma afterglow for a test.

Although Chen Ming fainted in the middle, the deep maintenance did not stop.

And when Chen Ming looked over now, the changes in the gamma afterglow were indeed very gratifying.

According to Chen Ming's observation and comparison, the structure on the core of this optimized gamma afterglow has been basically optimized.

The running logic circuit is obviously much simpler, and its running speed has also been greatly improved, with an increase of about 50%.

And the changes of the entire core did not have any impact on the individual afterglows inside the core, and even made this gamma core feel comfortable.

I can only say that the effect is very good.

Although Chen Ming is not sure whether the Alpha-level afterglow core will have such an excellent optimization effect when it is deeply repaired, and it is not clear whether there will be new changes.

But even if it is only 1% optimized, Chen Ming must also give his several Alpha-level afterglows in his hand a deep repair one by one, so that their abilities can be further improved.

Chen Ming has not forgotten that he has not chosen the appropriate Alpha-level core bonus for the Alpha-level afterglows in his hand except HR.

If Chen Ming can make the enhancement of the ability of the Alpha-level afterglow obtained by optimization superimpose with the enhancement of the core bonus, even if it is not multiplied, then the overall improvement of each afterglow core is extremely obvious.

Chen Ming is the core of the entire development plan.

And the Alpha Afterglow in his hand is the trump card in the core's hand. It's no problem to strengthen it when there is a chance to strengthen it.

What's more, the consumption is only the remaining mental power before resting every day.

And with Chen Ming's successful strengthening of the Afterglow Core last night, another thing happened smoothly.

It's a little different from the way Chen Ming imagined.

Because he still hasn't waited for his paper to be published in that journal today, and hasn't waited for the reviewer's reply.

Instead, he waited for Bai Quan's contact.

Before the daily command teaching time started, Bai Quan took the initiative to call him.

Chen Ming answered the phone immediately and said, "Bai Quan?"

The voice on Bai Quan's side seemed a little noisy, but it soon quieted down. Bai Quan was heard saying, "Chen Ming, I'm here to discuss with you the technology you told me about before."

Chen Ming immediately became alert and asked knowingly, "What's wrong?"

"Your technology... our Fourteenth Corps is very interested."

Chen Ming smiled a little and said jokingly, "You didn't say that two days ago."

Bai Quan said without blushing, "The situation will always change with time."

To be honest, when Chen Ming said that he had a potential person who was researching technology, Bai Quan didn't think much about it at first. After all, Chen Ming's technology was just like that. He just thought Chen Ming had some strange invention.

A few days later, Chen Ming confidently mentioned in class that his research had been completed. When he wanted to publish it, he also mentioned that someone he knew could help speed up the review.

Who made him happen to know that one of the reviewers of the journal that Chen Ming was going to publish was from their Fourteenth Corps.

After Baiquan explained it to others, he basically forgot about it.

But then something unexpected happened.

This is the reviewer that Bai Quan found. He is not always at work. His main job is still the director of the research institute under the 14th Corps. He just has a name on the journal and occasionally reviews two papers.

At the same time, he does have some power to give some papers sent to the journal for review to those who are actually reviewing, so that they can review them in advance.

When Bai Quan came to him and mentioned Chen Ming's paper, he remembered this matter, but did not help immediately.

After all, someone wanted to publish a paper in that top scientific research journal through Bai Quan's relationship. If the content is a mess, it will not only fail, but may also affect Bai Quan's reputation.

Although he is not responsible for the review of Chen Ming's paper, it is better for an insider to check it in advance than to let it go out and embarrass himself.

Originally, he just took a look.

But after actually seeing the content of the paper, he found that the situation was different from what he thought.

This paper is not a paper that is published in a journal through relationships. The technology in this paper has been truly tested and has a considerable degree of value.

Asking Bai Quan to use his relationship is just to speed up the review, that's all.

So the researcher of the 14th Corps went directly to Bai Quan and explained the situation.

Then Bai Quan found that although he had been increasing his attention to Chen Ming, raising the upper limit of Chen Ming's psychic power in his cognition, and incidentally raising his understanding of Chen Ming's own abilities.

But his understanding of Chen Ming was still not perfect, and even a little low.

Bai Quan's cognition of Chen Ming was mainly psychic power, not Chen Ming's own ability.

Of course, he did not look down on Chen Ming. After all, the psychic power of a psychic is of course the ability of a psychic, and Chen Ming is very good.

And Chen Ming's terrifying learning ability shown in recent times is indeed exaggerated.

But Chen Ming's learning ability is more in the learning of command technology, and other aspects of learning...

Although Bai Quan also knows that Chen Ming is really learning, no matter what, before becoming a psychic, Chen Ming was just the leader of a logistics maintenance team in a space station in the marginal star field of a branch of the Xinda Company.

His technical ability is still okay, but it's just so-so when you look at it in a magnified way.

Chen Ming had never shown any research ability before, and he only made up for it later. To be honest, it was really hard to convince people.

But now, the director of their 14th Corps' direct research institute came to see Chen Ming in person for his paper, which made Bai Quan's evaluation of Chen Ming higher again.

Not only in terms of psychic power, but also in other abilities as an ordinary person.

Bai Quan was ready to talk to Chen Ming about this matter again.

So when facing Chen Ming's seemingly teasing words now, Bai Quan could only be thick-skinned and pretend that nothing happened.

After all, since Chen Ming had taken the initiative to mention this matter to him before the paper was completed, it meant that he had the idea of ​​making a deal with the 14th Corps.

And this paper that made the director of the institute come to see him in person and the technology contained in the paper, he could not take the initiative to push it away no matter what.

Just like Bai Quan thought, Chen Ming didn't talk too much. He adjusted his mentality and said to Bai Quan formally: "So what do you think?"

Bai Quan cleared his throat again and said: "First of all, let's make sure of one thing. Did you develop this technology yourself?"

"Of course, you must have checked it, right?"

"Indeed, we didn't find any similar research."

This is nonsense.

Chen Ming checked it before deeply repairing this technology and conducting research. No one in the empire has ever conducted similar research.

What's more, the research plan of this entire technology was inspired by the samples of Yu Hui's abandoned research plans when Chen Ming was still with Yu Hui.

If Yu Hui's abandoned plans were mastered by humans, then Yu Hui in this star field would have died out long ago.

How could Chen Ming be the one to study it?

Although it was a plan abandoned by Yu Hui, after Chen Ming's development and deep repair, the effect was amazing enough.

Chen Ming's technology, called the Stable Hyperspace Channel Jump Engine, is actually not so much an engine as it is an additional device mounted on the engine, similar to a hyperspace channel system.

The effect after stabilization is also very simple and crude.

With only one coordinate and a much higher fuel consumption than normal space travel, the spacecraft equipped with this device can jump in hyperspace.

There is nothing to say about the effect of the jump. It is a cruiser equipped with a jump engine.

The real unique and powerful thing about this hyperspace channel jump engine is that it can be installed on a frigate.

Allowing frigates to jump.

It can only be said that Chen Ming has found a lot of relevant information.

It is found that many people have tried to conduct lightweight and miniaturized research on jump engines.

But no one has done it so far, no one has succeeded in research, and no one has thought of using hyperspace to achieve an effect similar to jump.

And Yu Hui thought of a similar way, but Yu Hui's research also failed, and it may be due to the problem of thinking that they did not continue, leaving the inspiration and failure of the research process to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming actually failed at the beginning. If the unstable hyperspace channel jump engine is used carelessly, it is actually almost like suicide.

It was not until this technology was deeply optimized by psychic energy that he achieved this goal that no one has been able to achieve so far.

Although Chen Ming's technology is basically used up by any frigate without antimatter engines, as long as it performs a hyperspace jump, the fuel will basically be exhausted.

But this is the limitation of physical rules.

Moreover, the hyperspace channel jump engine does not directly use the jump engine that can be used in the normal universe, but uses the gravity well of hyperspace to achieve pseudo jump, so it is normal that the energy consumption is larger.

But whether there is any remaining fuel after the jump is used up is a matter of time, and whether it can jump is another matter.

A jump means an opportunity, which may be an opportunity to escape or an opportunity to win.

So this cause is also valuable for frigates.

It goes without saying that destroyers above.

Its equivalent is enough to support the consumption of the hyperspace channel jump engine technology, unlike the frigate that needs to be considered.

And higher-level ships can do it more casually.

Because the technology of the hyperspace channel jump engine is not the same system as the jump engine used by normal cruisers.

There is no conflict between them.

This means that any cruiser and above can choose to install two systems.

Use the hyperspace jump engine first, and then use the ordinary jump engine.

This is the value of Chen Ming's research.

Of course, this thing also has disadvantages.

For example, it takes time to cool down like a normal jump engine.

At the same time, because Chen Ming designed the equipment based on the gravity well of hyperspace, it is limited by the system design.

So even if the jump is made in a hyperspace that is smaller than the normal universe environment, the actual jump efficiency is not as good as the genuine jump engine.

The limit of hyperspace jump is about half of the limit jump distance in a normal universe environment.

In addition, the coordinates of the hyperspace jump engine are also limited.

Although the hyperspace and normal universe environment are similar, they are basically proportionally enlarged and reduced.

However, due to the influence of various strange curvatures caused by the gravity of various planets and other cosmic environments, the actual coordinates in hyperspace are not completely consistent with the coordinates of the normal universe. Instead, it can be said that there must be deviations.

This means that the hyperspace channel jump engine must have very accurate coordinates to jump.

Otherwise, once there is a deviation, the end point of the jump may appear in a high-density hyperspace channel cloud and be struck half to death by hyperspace lightning.

It may even be directly sucked into the gravity well of a star in a galaxy and torn into pieces.

But in general, as long as there are accurate coordinates, there will be no problems.

So this system can be used in any galaxy that humans have set foot on and recorded hyperspace information, and there will be no problems.

And this system has another disadvantage.

It is carried on the hyperspace channel system, and like the hyperspace channel system, it is easily interfered with.

Any blocking device of the hyperspace channel system can directly stop its jump process.

Compared with the jump that requires the entire galaxy to be blocked before it can be used, it is extremely fragile.

However, even if this system has various disadvantages, adding them up cannot cover up its advantages.

The coordinates of hyperspace can be obtained, the fuel can be solved by logistics, and the military can definitely deal with the interference problem.

As for the problem of only being able to jump once, it is not a problem at all.

Because so far, almost all spacecraft can only jump once under normal circumstances.

How can this extra time be considered a disadvantage? On the contrary, it has obvious strategic significance for military operations at any time.

In the case that not everyone can use the jump device almost unlimitedly like Chen Ming, the opportunity of multiple jumps is definitely very important.

So it is reasonable for Bai Quan to come here personally to deal with it.

After confirming with Chen Ming, Bai Quan also told his, or the 14th Legion's, idea.

"For your technology, our current decision is to cooperate with you to develop this technology, and then block this technology from the outside world, and only use it within our army."

Chen Ming just opened his mouth to speak, and Bai Quan said first: "We can see that the potential of your technology is definitely not just at the military level."

"It is a top technology that is enough to allow the entire empire's low-level spacecraft to take a big step forward in mobility."

"But because of this, we must limit it."

"You may not understand it, but the Empire has been deliberately restricting the development of civilian hyperspace channel technology."

Before Chen Ming asked the question, Bai Quan explained: "Because the Empire's civilian hyperspace channel technology has now developed to a sufficient level."

Chen Ming interrupted this time and asked: "Enough?"

"Yes."

"Military spacecraft can use jump engines and star gates to move far beyond the speed of hyperspace, while civilian ships can only move after a long approval process or slowly sailing in hyperspace. This is enough."

"Why? What is the reason behind this? I think you should understand."