Chapter 239 Completed

After Chen Ming had a complete idea.

The design of the special combat unit "combat" was the simplest of the three design requirements.

The Queen of Zerg took only a few hours to create an actual sample based on the biotechnology accumulated before.

Although the initial sample was a bit rough, under the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power, all unreasonable and imperfect places were eliminated by deep repair.

Finally, standing in the deepest part of the hive was a small, only about three meters, but with a strong deterrent.

Although it was motionless now, the danger it exuded could make some bugs in the deep of the hive deliberately stay away from it even without the Queen of Zerg's special order.

And to say it was small, it was relative to other Zerg units.

A height of about three meters is not considered small from a human perspective.

The appearance of this special combat unit looks a bit similar to the Zerg power armor that Chen Ming had made before, and the overall appearance is more humanoid.

But compared with the power armor with a composite structure of machinery and bugs, it is more streamlined and lacks some offensive spikes.

Only near the joints, or under the limbs used for close combat, are there some inconspicuous spikes that can be retracted.

Because Chen Ming found that the lethal effect of the blunt blow brought by extreme strength is sometimes stronger than that of sharp weapons, so this design was made.

This is what Chen Ming wanted.

And until the stage of the finished product, there are only two problems left for Chen Ming to solve.

One of them is a problem that Chen Ming discovered when he just started designing "battle".

That is, the consciousness of ordinary Zerg units cannot support such a powerful body, and their consciousness cannot bear the strength required to control this body.

To make this body move, either the consciousness of the queen of insects will come on the stage, or Chen Ming will be responsible for it personally.

Chen Ming did not struggle with this problem. Originally, this body must be controlled by him or the queen of insects.

And it doesn't matter who goes up between him and the queen of insects, it's almost the same.

Moreover, the queen of insects itself is not very good at fighting. Most of the time, it relies on the advantage of numbers to push forward, and then counter the moves.

If there are any suitable insects, they will evolve and use them, and there is nothing else.

After all, the Queen of Insects' body is located in the heart of the biological spacecraft, just a bloated big insect, and it doesn't look like it has any combat capability.

On the contrary, Chen Ming was deeply impressed by the whip kick that almost killed him when he fought with Cheng Xinghai in the simulation.

So in the recent period, he and Bai Quan took the time to learn a few military fighting techniques, at least not without the ability to resist when fighting with people.

Combat experience is always better than the Queen of Insects who just stay in the rear to command.

It's a pity that the consciousness of those insects who fight purely by the brutal instinct of the Zerg is not strong enough, otherwise Chen Ming will definitely let these insects take over the body directly during the battle.

So in the end, this special combat unit is still controlled by Chen Ming himself.

It's just as he wished.

Then the second problem is that Chen Ming also wants the Queen of Insects' psychic effect to be permanently resident on this special combat unit.

The Queen of Insects' psychic power is a pure physical fitness enhancement.

And for the Queen of the Worm, in addition to the effect of greatly improving physical fitness when the psychic energy is activated, the Queen of the Worm's own physical fitness has also been significantly increased when the psychic energy is not activated.

This can be regarded as a passive effect of psychic energy. Chen Ming does not expect it, but Chen Ming hopes that this active effect can always be hung on the special combat unit.

And it is the kind that does not require the Queen of the Worm to pay attention to this body all the time, nor does it require Chen Ming to keep borrowing the Queen of the Worm's psychic energy.

That is, let the effect of this psychic energy always exist on this body.

Under normal circumstances, it must not be possible, because the effect of psychic energy is a combination of psychic energy fluctuations and mental power.

Mental power will dissipate, and if mental power dissipates, it will not be able to support psychic energy fluctuations.

So Chen Ming had already thought of a solution to this problem when he was studying the Purgatory Core.

Because the design of the Purgatory Core is to use isolation materials to restrain the mental power that maintains psychic energy fluctuations in the core.

Although Chen Ming is still unable to replicate the Purgatory Core and create a Zerg core that can stabilize or even amplify the Queen of the Worm's psychic energy.

But it is still possible to make a device to restrain mental power with the materials of the Purgatory Core.

Coincidentally, Chen Ming still has quite a lot of resources to apply for.

It is very simple to apply for a new Purgatory Core, or to apply for some psychic materials to make Purgatory Cores.

It can fully meet the material needs of special combat units to restrain mental power in the body for a long time.

However, while meeting this demand,

it is also important to maintain psychic fluctuations.

Because just as mental power will naturally dissipate, psychic fluctuations as part of psychic power will also be naturally smoothed out when psychic power is in effect.

When the Purgatory Core was designed, it was able to solidify psychic fluctuations using psychic materials and special structures, so only external materials were needed to solve the problem of mental power.

But Chen Ming couldn't completely replicate the Purgatory Core, especially the most complex and difficult to replicate core part, so he had to use other means to try to solidify the Queen's psychic fluctuations.

So Chen Ming now not only needs restraint materials, but also an energy source that can maintain psychic fluctuations.

Coincidentally, Chen Ming has an extremely suitable thing on hand.

Condensed psychic source.

The nature of this thing itself can be used to create a stable psychic fluctuation environment.

As long as it is simply adjusted, it will definitely not be a problem to stabilize the psychic fluctuations of the Queen, who is closely related to Chen Ming.

Originally, this thing was said to absorb psychic fluctuations for the Queen, but now it seems that it has to be used as the biological core of the Zerg special combat unit.

But just when Chen Ming was thinking about the general structure of the simplified version of the Zerg core.

The Queen connected with Chen Ming's consciousness and understood his thoughts.

Then, it suddenly sent a special emotion.

It wanted Chen Ming to hand over the condensed psychic source to it.

Chen Ming thought about it for a while, and took out the condensed psychic source that he personally condensed from the main body.

In fact, he had never thought about the purpose of the condensed spiritual energy source. After all, he was quite interested in the several uses mentioned by the president before, so it was not easy to choose.

But since the Queen of Insects now took the initiative to bring it up, and it was indeed valuable and qualified to get this thing from him.

Then Chen Ming would not mind choosing to give the condensed spiritual energy source to the Queen of Insects.

Ordinary creatures can become psychic creatures by swallowing the condensed spiritual energy source.

And if the psychic creatures swallowed the condensed spiritual energy source, they would be connected to the creator of the condensed spiritual energy source in terms of mental power.

And this connection is controlled by the creator of the condensed spiritual energy source.

So the president of the Psychic Association told Chen Ming this way of use.

A psychic creature with a similar consciousness and completely obeying the creator of the condensed spiritual energy source is indeed good.

Especially the psychic creature that swallowed his condensed spiritual energy source is the Queen of Insects.

As for the condensed psychic energy source that Chen Ming chose, which he personally condensed, it looked more ordinary than his other condensed psychic energy source obtained from the dimensional infection, after all, there was no mini iron ore in it.

But it was also more closely related to Chen Ming.

If the condensed psychic energy source was to be used on the queen of insects, this condensed psychic energy source was obviously more suitable than the other one.

After getting Chen Ming's consent, several queen of insects tentacles grew on Chen Ming's wrist.

The queen of insects controlled these tentacles to wrap around the condensed psychic energy source, gradually devouring the condensed psychic energy source.

At the moment when the last trace of condensed psychic energy source disappeared in the tentacles.

The queen of insects, who had a spiritual connection with Chen Ming, had completely synchronized her mental power with Chen Ming.

Symbiotic with Chen Ming, and amplifying each other with Chen Ming.

In just this moment, the various amplifications that Chen Ming obtained from the original Zerg hive mind network, including mental power, psychic energy fluctuation intensity and thinking speed, instantly increased by 50%.

Of course, if you look at it as a whole, it's not that exaggerated.

If all the increases in Chen Ming's current aspects are taken into account, the overall increase is about 10%.

But this is already exaggerated enough.

Because it is this act of letting the Queen of Insects absorb and condense the spiritual energy source that allows Chen Ming to fully control eight cruisers from the original limit to nine.

It is only the last step away from the critical node of ten ships that Chen Ming feels.

And this is the benefit of the proper use of the condensed spiritual energy source.

Chen Ming silently adapted to the changed thinking speed again and put his attention back on the Queen of Insects.

This time, the Queen of Insects did not form a cocoon as before when there was a major evolution, and just completed the synchronization with Chen Ming's mental power in such an ordinary way.

It also gained great benefits from the synchronous connection between Chen Ming and its mental power.

Almost all of Chen Ming's additional increases can appear in the Queen of Insects in a certain proportion.

Presumably, for a long time to come, the Queen of Insects' spiritual energy will be significantly enhanced.

The Queen of Insects also adapted to the increase obtained from Chen Ming soon after.

Then its body suddenly vomited a sticky mass.

It exuded a rich psychic fluctuation that blended the psychic fluctuations of the Queen Worm and Chen Ming.

From what Chen Ming observed, the nature of this thing was somewhat similar to that of a sub-individual that condensed the source of psychic energy.

And it also possessed the psychic properties of two psychic energies at the same time.

This means that this sub-individual can be more in line with the Queen Worm's psychic energy when providing the effect of maintaining psychic fluctuations for the Zerg core, and the efficiency of maintaining the Queen Worm's psychic operation will be higher.

Chen Ming immediately used psychic energy to imitate the design of the Purgatory Core and transformed the same isolation material of the Purgatory Core around this sticky mass.

This slightly disgusting thing was gradually transformed into the appearance of a bionic heart that can be manufactured by current medical technology.

This is the biological core to be installed in the body of the special combat unit.

Just after Chen Ming finished his work.

The Queen Worm controlled the flesh and blood tissue of the biological spacecraft around her to extend a flexible tentacle, picked up the biological core on the ground and directly stuffed it into the heart of the special combat unit.

The muscles and organs in the special combat unit are wriggling, adapting to the foreign matter in its heart that is extremely beneficial to it.

When it completely adapts to the foreign matter, the Queen directly covers the special combat unit with the psychic fluctuations of the maximum strength it can now.

The psychic fluctuations are working.

Because the genes of the Queen are mixed in the genes of the special combat unit, the friendly psychic fluctuations instantly strengthen the physical strength of the special combat unit to the extreme.

The Queen can provide everything needed for the operation of the Zerg core in a more efficient way through the mass it spits out.

Chen Ming never thought that the Queen would have such an ability.

But since the Queen has shown it now, and has given him everything by condensing the psychic source before showing this ability, what can he say now?

It is not something Chen Ming likes to do to get the advantage and still act cute.

Soon.

The psychic fluctuations on the Queen's body are gradually becoming weaker.

But the psychic fluctuations belonging to the Queen on the special combat unit have always been at their peak with the assistance of the Zerg core.

This is the effect Chen Ming wants to see.

The next step is the last step.

Chen Ming's eyes are focused on the special combat unit.

Its body suddenly began to shrink, just like dehydration, and it shrank slowly. In a dozen seconds, it shrank to the size of a normal person, and it also had a human form.

To be precise, it is a prosthesis about 1.9 meters tall.

It is not a completely anthropomorphic prosthesis like Chen Ming in the 14th Legion. This prosthesis is just a thing with a prosthetic shell.

Under this anthropomorphic shell, all the tissues and organs that can be quickly manufactured belonging to the special combat unit have been transformed into the most basic nutrients, and all the things that are not convenient to quickly manufacture are all curled up in the body of the prosthesis.

As long as Chen Ming wants, he can instantly release the original monster in the prosthesis.

Of course, it can only be released from this prosthesis.

What this special combat unit has is not comparable to other mass-produced Zergs, but it can't be manufactured as casually as the power armor Chen Ming wears.

It is now the strongest ground combat force at Chen Ming's disposal.

It is also the key to what Chen Ming is going to do next.

Although Chen Ming had considered the burden of multiple prostheses on mental power before.

But this prosthesis does not need to do mental work like the prostheses of the main body and the 14th Legion, so after a simple calculation, Chen Ming was sure that he could control it without any burden.

In addition, this prosthesis was not made by Chen Ming using his own genes.

Instead, it was a completely independent prosthesis made by the Queen of Insects imitating his genes.

In other words, although this prosthesis looks like a person, it can also be seen as a person when passing through most detection devices.

Including the most stable gene detection method, it is also a person, but there is no one with such genes in the empire.

The appearance of the prosthesis also looks ordinary under Chen Ming's design.

Although he originally wanted to make it according to Hu Yi's face, because Bai Quan had shown Chen Ming Hu Yi's photos before.

Chen Ming had no pressure at all to do things with Hu Yi's face.

But after thinking about what the prosthesis would do later, he still didn't do it.

In short, in this case, no one can suspect Chen Ming of what the prosthesis did.

It can allow Chen Ming to appear in the empire with a new identity and do things that he and his other prosthesis are not easy to do.

Chen Ming named this prosthesis An Wuping.

Because he has no talent for naming, he changed the order of Lao Wu's name and used it, which was surprisingly nice.

An Wuping will soon leave the Queen of Insects and step into the territory of the empire.

It won't take long for it to play its role.

After arranging An Wuping.

Chen Ming's research on special combat units came to an end.

Then he picked up the daily report as usual.

At the same time, the contents of the report from the past few days flashed through his mind.

The situation in the past few days is the same as Bai Quan said. After Bai Quan completed the internal purge, the negative public opinions about Bai Quan outside subsided in an instant.

Because Bai Quan really made sure that every asset of the 14th Corps that passed through his hands was actually put into practice.

Although he told Chen Ming some time ago that it was normal for the army to resell some obsolete military supplies.

But after Baiquan fully disclosed the financial statements of the 14th Corps branch, everyone could see that every account Baiquan handled was clear.

Compared with those other people, it can be said that there is an extremely huge gap.

Moreover, in the 14th Corps headquarters, Baiquan's faction and his old boss also cooperated with Baiquan very much.

After Baiquan proved himself, he took the initiative to conduct a similar internal investigation within the headquarters to clarify the unclear accounts of the 14th Corps in recent years.

Then the signs of this matter were suppressed in an instant.

The reason is conceivable.

Of course, the old boss did not receive any other unfair treatment.

After all, this is the time when Baiquan is in the limelight, and no one dares to touch this bad luck.

And on the day Chen Ming saw the news, Bai Quan couldn't hold back the corners of his mouth during class, and he was so happy.

Therefore, Baiquan's positive reputation in public opinion becomes even more difficult to suppress.

Chen Ming has seen that Bai Quan has a winning chance in this incident.

And just today, Chen Ming noticed that there was a record in the report that another wave of public opinion was rising.

Public opinion about Zuo Jing.

Now that Bai Quan's public opinion problem has been resolved, Chen Ming will know who this public opinion is directed at.

The finger in Bai Quan's hand has begun to point at the other party's senior management, and the opposite party has an affair with Zuo Jing.

Anyway, the captured Zuo Jing is in his hands, so whatever he wants to say is what he wants.

If it were the previous Baiquan, he might have convicted leftist elements and related personnel first, and then investigated the people behind them.

But it's different now. Bai Quan has completed the investigation, but he has not made a direct conclusion. Instead, he wants to blame the other party.

Anyway, the words are not dead, Bai Quan's outward expression is just suspicion, hoping that the other party can give some explanation.

Then there is a rumor circulating that in order to delay the date of the gambling agreement, Lou Wei deliberately relaxed the control of Zuo Jing and allowed Zuo Jing to attack Chen Ming's dome.

The two messages appeared together, one above and one below, completely making it impossible for the other party to explain clearly.

Combined with the previous high-profile scolding of Bai Quan, high-profile internal purges, high-profile work, and then high-profile review of Zuo Jing's series of actions.

Public opinion on this matter can no longer be suppressed.

"So this is what you did?"

Chen Ming raised his head from the report, looked at Bai Quan who had just opened the door and walked in, and continued: "Transfer the pressure of Zuo Jing's public opinion to the opponent?"

"Yes, this is what I should do."

Bai Quan nodded and said: "Under normal circumstances, the public opinion I will actively spread later will not ferment so quickly, nor will it spread so widely."

"Even if I point the finger at the opponent in advance, the opponent can just slap his hands and kill him."

"But if they want to take advantage of my decline to expand public opinion, then there will no longer be a possibility of suppressing this matter."

"They still treat me as someone who doesn't understand anything. Then they have to pay the price."

Chen Ming finally understood Bai Quan's arrangement for more than half a month today and said, "Now it's the other side's turn to be worried."

"That's right, someone from their side will give an explanation soon. Otherwise, the one at the top who should give an explanation is the one at the top."

At this time, Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possible development in the future and asked: "But why do I still feel the same as before? This public opinion alone should not be enough to directly bring down the opponent, right? Anyone who can be brought down can Or the people down there.”

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming as if he understood Chen Ming very well and said: "You have never been in the political field and you don't know. How can you succeed in overthrowing the opponent in one go? It's not something that directly involves the highest level of the opponent. sexual evidence.”

"You have to think about the difference between now and before. Before, our investigation revealed the results. The people below them suffered, and then they were fished out by the people above."

"Now, it's us who push the problem to their top management, so that the top management is forced to let the people below suffer. It's completely different."

"And it's not just the bottom level. The emergence of a left path within our Fourteenth Army also has an impact on the top level."

"If I don't handle Zuo Jing's affairs well, then I will be responsible for it. If they don't handle it well, they will also have to be responsible."

"Look at me, how many people were scolding me when I was cleaning up internally a few days ago? They said I was not strict in management? What about now?"

"Anyway, it's not me who caused the problem, but other people. Let them bear the pressure of public opinion."

"In a civilized society, public opinion also has its weight."

Listening to Bai Quan's tirade, Chen Ming covered his forehead and said, "I have a headache just listening to it."

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming and thought of his former self for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I will be able to solve this kind of thing in the future."

"Ah, right."

Bai Quan suddenly coughed dryly and said, "Xinghai asked me to ask you, when will you be free to play simulated battles?"

"It's been half a month since the last in-depth simulation, and she hasn't played a single ordinary simulated battle. She's a little itchy."

Chen Ming asked, "Why didn't she just call and ask?"

"She said she was worried that you were too busy doing research, and she also said that you basically ignored her when doing research in the simulation, so she stopped being rejected and asked me to help her ask."

"Oh, it seems true."

Chen Ming thought about the previous simulation. All he could think about was using the simulation equipment to steal more information and conduct more experimental simulations. He was just subconsciously chatting with the idle Cheng Xinghai.

It’s normal to be too immersed sometimes and not hear.

Bai Quan suddenly mentioned this matter. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ming did not refuse and said, "I'm usually free."

"Okay, that's what I'll tell her."

Bai Quan immediately followed the words, not giving Chen Ming a chance to regret.

At the same time, he mentioned another thing: "Things with Lou Wei should start soon."