Chapter 318 Experiment

After getting everything.

Chen Ming and He Gu returned to the surface.

He Gu glanced at the current time and asked, "Shall I show you around next?"

"Although different laboratories in our institute usually work privately, there are occasionally a few public lectures on topics. There happens to be one today. It's nearby. Do you want to go?"

"The theme is the changes in the machine race compared to the past, based on the recent frontline reconnaissance results."

"Can."

Although Chen Ming can't understand too many details related to psychic energy, he can definitely learn more about the mechanical race, which will definitely help him in his future work.

So he decisively agreed and boarded the Hegu shuttle boat again.

And after getting on the shuttle boat.

He Gu suddenly sent Chen Ming a list of reports on all ongoing research topics at the Psychic Research Institute.

"I just got this. This list is relatively confidential, so it took me a while to get the authority to bring it out. Take a look, are there any projects that you are particularly interested in?"

After all, Chen Ming was an honorary member granted by the Legion Commander himself. It was previously said that Chen Ming could join any experimental group at will, as long as he did not do any purely destructive behavior.

But before, Chen Ming had no idea about the Psychic Research Institute, and he had no idea what experimental group to join, and he had no idea who was working there.

With this list, many things will be much easier to do.

Chen Ming's eyes slid down the list.

Although you can only see the titles of these projects, you can probably guess the direction of the research.

There is indeed a lot of content in these projects that Chen Ming is interested in.

Ten minutes later.

The shuttle boat is approaching its destination and is about to land.

Chen Ming also read a complete list of all the research projects of the Psychic Research Institute and turned off the terminal.

He Gu took advantage of this moment and asked, "How's it going? Is anyone interested?"

The reason why He Gu cares so much about Chen Ming's ideas is because if Chen Ming is interested in a certain research, he will definitely have to stay for a while.

Chen Ming's stay would definitely be beneficial to the Psychic Research Institute.

But He Gu must have wanted Chen Ming to stay.

But Chen Ming had already made his decision before, and he would not change it easily unless there was really a huge impact.

So now he directly replied to He Gu: "I can stay for a while."

"Because among these projects, there are indeed ones that I am particularly interested in, namely the "Technical Research on the Development of Anti-Machine Weapons and the Means of Anti-Machine Warfare" and the "Specialized Cultivation Plan for Artificial Awakening Nerves."

"But after the war started, I had to go back to the branch."

This answer was acceptable to He Gu, but He Gu asked greedily: "Can't you stay forever?"

"I need to go to the front lines."

"Pity."

He Gu originally wanted to try to get Chen Ming to move his extraordinary research institute here.

But it seemed that there was no hope, so he didn't mention it.

Chen Ming had no intention of letting He Gutai down. He added: "It's okay. I will prepare corresponding measures when the time comes. My robot will continue to stay here to do things after I leave. For me, It’s easy to do two things at once.”

With Chen Ming's guarantee, He Gu seemed to feel a lot more relaxed. After bringing Chen Ming to the project report meeting, he contacted the two project teams that Chen Ming had just mentioned were interested in.

You only need to register Chen Ming into the project team's list, and then Chen Ming can participate in these two projects.

However, both projects are currently in the early experimental stages.

Basically, the people on the project team have moved to laboratories outside the main city, which is a bit far away.

But fortunately, there is a shuttle boat. During these days at the headquarters, Chen Ming also obtained a shuttle boat driving license and took photos. With the permission to move around the planet at will, there is no problem.

After finishing things for Chen Ming.

He Gu returned to the lecture hall of the project report meeting and sat next to Chen Ming.

It can only be said that Chen Ming suddenly felt that this moment was a little familiar.

Last time, after sitting in the lecture hall with He Gu, he drove a cruiser and arrested a dozen people, causing a big wave.

This time... nothing should happen again... right?

Chen Ming doesn't know, but hopes not.

After sitting down, He Gu glanced at the stage where preparations seemed to be going on.

So I chatted with Chen Ming and said, "Have you just read all the projects? Do you have any opinions on my project?"

Although he was asking for his opinion, Chen Ming knew that He Gu was actually asking him if he had any ideas.

As for Chen Ming.

"Your project, the civilian use of psychic technology, I think is quite promising."

"The high development of psychic energy will inevitably be accompanied by its popularization, but the empire currently does not seem to have the soil for the popularization of psychic energy, so I have no plans to continue working in this area for the time being."

He Gu invited him mainly because the Purgatory core and the synchrotron core that Chen Ming had previously studied tended to move closer to civilian use.

But that was also because they had such a design, so Chen Ming chose to refuse.

He was so busy with his own things that he really didn't have time to help others get things he didn't want to get.

Chen Ming's refusal was not what He Gu expected.

Most psychics have not had enough time to improve themselves, and few people would think about the direction of civilianization of psychic technology.

He was just asking.

While waiting for the report meeting to start, the two chatted for a few more words.

And He Gu asked Chen Ming a new question a few minutes later: "It seems that the headquarters approved a catalytic core for you some time ago. How is the progress of that?"

Chen Ming became excited when he mentioned this and said, "It is still under research, but this thing is very interesting."

"It is currently the most technologically advanced thing in all the shining civilizations I know about."

He Gu was also aroused by Chen Ming's words.

Because he knew that the number of catalytic cores was extremely rare, and there were not many captured in the entire empire. Coupled with Chen Ming's words, it really made people very curious.

"Tell me?"

"Well..." Chen Ming thought for a while and said, "I'll show you a real thing directly."

He reached out from his pocket and took out a small bottle with a transparent liquid in it.

"This is one of the catalysts produced by the catalytic core. As for the effect... Come on, stretch out your hand."

He Gu stretched out his hand very cooperatively, and he was not worried that Chen Ming would hurt him.

Chen Ming opened the small bottle and poured a drop of liquid directly into He Gu's palm.

This drop of liquid did not have any spiritual energy fluctuations and was immediately absorbed by his skin.

"Try using spiritual energy."

At Chen Ming's reminder, He Gu immediately tried to call for spiritual energy fluctuations.

Then he found that when his mental power was converted into spiritual energy fluctuations that could be perceived, this drop of liquid absorbed by his skin was actually promoting this process.

Accelerating the efficiency of converting his mental power into spiritual energy fluctuations.

"There is no spiritual energy fluctuation but it can amplify spiritual energy, an interesting thing."

"This is the catalyst."

Although catalysts are usually not consumed, because catalysts will not participate in any reaction, or participate in the reaction, but will eventually return to their original state.

But the catalyst produced by the catalytic core will naturally annihilate and disappear directly, without any trace.

Chen Ming had no way to solve this problem, but after combining the effect of the catalyst, Chen Ming felt that this situation was still acceptable.

After all, the real effect of the catalyst is more powerful and more diverse than what Chen Ming has shown now.

It not only catalyzes the conversion of mental power into psychic energy fluctuations, it also has the ability to catalyze the conversion of psychic energy fluctuations into real effects.

The only difference is the catalytic effect specified when Chen Ming uses the catalytic core.

Any catalyst that Chen Ming needs can be produced by Chen Ming controlling the catalytic core.

Chen Ming even feels that he can use the catalytic core to create a catalyst that can promote the growth of the fairy tree.

This is also one of the sources of Chen Ming's confidence in cultivating the fairy tree.

He Gu continued to use mental power to convert psychic energy fluctuations until the catalyst was completely annihilated.

He looked up and said to Chen Ming; "To be honest, you must contact me when the results of this thing come out."

"This thing is so interesting."

"And I found that it seems that all the devices made from the Shining Civilization have the potential for ordinary people to use."

"I feel that my project can start from these aspects."

"No problem."

Chen Ming agreed.

Anyway, the final results will be submitted to the Psychic Research Institute for review, and it is completely okay to tell He Gu.

Before he finishes his research on the catalytic core, he has to find a way to grab a few more catalytic cores.

This is a real good thing.

The report started with a casual chat between Chen Ming and He Gu.

It lasted for more than two hours.

Basically, everything about the mechanical race was explained clearly compared to the Empire's previous understanding of the mechanical race.

It also included the mechanized psychic creatures and the new main weapons of the mechanical race, which He Gu had told Chen Ming last time.

There were also some more detailed changes,

such as the change in the proportion of Baiyun steel in the Baiyun steel alloy used by the mechanical race.

This means that the mechanical race can produce more mechanical bodies with less material while ensuring the strength of the individual mechanical race.

There is also the overall range of the mechanical race star field.

It can be seen that the mechanical race has actually been expanding.

Even if the Empire does not fight against the mechanical race now, the mechanical race may take the initiative to fight against them in the future.

In general, the report meeting was quite rewarding.

If there are similar reports in the future, you can listen to them more.

The academic atmosphere of the Psychic Research Institute is quite good.

And after the report meeting.

He Gu was of course ready to leave.

But before leaving, he told Chen Ming: "Both project teams have clearly responded that they welcome you."

"But overall welcome does not mean that everyone welcomes you. Some people may think that you are trying to steal the credit. Please bear with it. If you have any questions, please contact me or the president."

"Can you help me solve the problem?"

"No, but I can call the director for you."

He Gu raised his mouth and said: "Just kidding, because I used to do research with the director, and later I became independent to do civilian psychic technology, so other people will give me face more or less."

"There will be someone to receive you when you go."

"But people also need time to prepare. If you go there today, at most you can just look around there by yourself, nothing more."

Chen Ming readily agreed and said, "Then I'll go tomorrow, I can just arrange the time."

"Well, remember to come and see me when you have time after you finish the two projects over there."

"I will."

He Gu turned and left, disappearing around the corner of the lecture hall.

Chen Ming also left the lecture hall and boarded his own shuttle.

He then took the initiative to contact the two departments he was going to join.

It's not a good time to go there today, but it's always a good idea to contact them in advance.

After the contact.

There should be nothing important here at the headquarters for the time being.

The rest is the same as before, do what you should do.

The prosthesis left at the headquarters is conducting research on a closer relationship with the mechanical family.

The robots in the branch continue to study the catalytic core under his control.

The characters have been assigned, so they can proceed step by step.

Chen Ming finally has enough experience to do a few things that he can't wait for, and the Queen of Insects can't wait for either.

Chen Ming, who was on the shuttle, took out the two fairy tree seeds he had just received.

Although the fairy tree seeds that emitted fluorescence were held in his hands, he did not feel anything special at this time, as if it was just an apple-sized nut. Apart from emitting fluorescence, it seemed to have no feeling with spiritual energy and fairy trees, and there was no spiritual energy fluctuation.

However, as long as the fairy tree seeds were scanned by mental power, it would be found that the shell of the seeds almost blocked all the penetration of mental power.

I don’t know how the Queen of Insects sensed that this fairy tree seed was very special.

It was also fortunate that he deliberately changed two, one of which was used to feed the Queen of Insects who was already impatient.

After Chen Ming released his attitude to the Queen of Insects that he could feed it.

There was a joyful mood from the Queen of Insects.

However, this time the Queen of Insects did not grow tentacles directly on Chen Ming, but wanted Chen Ming to send the fairy tree seeds to her side.

Chen Ming would definitely meet this small request.

His mental power was immediately activated, and the fairy tree seeds were sent to the Queen of Insects’ planet.

By the way, he took a look at the planet where the Queen of Insects was.

It can only be said that the expansion of the hive planet is still continuing, and the hive is still expanding deeper underground.

Although Chen Ming had already prepared for the queen to migrate at that time, it can only be said that the existence of a large number of Zerg individuals made the Zerg unable to stop gnawing on the planet.

Zerg need nutrition to survive.

So Chen Ming acquiesced to the Queen's behavior, and was also thinking about how to slightly limit the appetite of the Zerg.

Anyway, after the Queen has completed the transformation of the jump engine and moved to a new place, the Zerg can eat any planet at will.

There are planets for the Zerg to eat in the entire universe.

But the problem is that the assimilation efficiency of the jump engine is very low. Chen Ming has fed the entire cruiser to the Queen for almost half a year.

All the other things added up only took three or four months, but the transformation of this jump engine took up a considerable amount of time.

Even the Queen would come to Chen Ming from time to time to ask some questions about the jump engine technology.

Obviously because of the transformation problem of the jump engine.

If it was a general question, it would be fine. Chen Ming has mastered all the basic technologies of the cruiser level and can easily give an answer.

But the Queen of Worms is not good at language. Chen Ming has been teaching for a long time, but the Queen of Worms still can't speak.

This makes Chen Ming very tired every time he communicates with the Queen of Worms, especially the complex technology of the jump engine. It is really a headache to explain it to the Queen of Worms.

But fortunately, Chen Ming can barely explain the problem clearly every time.

Although the Queen of Worms has not yet come up with a result, it should be soon.

At this time.

With Chen Ming's spiritual power, the fairy tree seeds were sent to the Queen of Worms.

The Queen of Worms shook her bloated body and opened her mouth to swallow the seeds.

However, it did not swallow it directly, but began to chew it.

Chen Ming was a little surprised to see this scene.

Because this was the first time he saw the Queen of Worms eating with her body.

And it was a complete process of swallowing, chewing, swallowing, and digestion.

Normally, the Queen of Insects would use several tentacles with mouthparts to swallow the food in a few bites, and then use the special characteristics of the Zerg and Chen Ming's psychic power to transform the food into what she needs.

And today's way of eating is obviously a special case.

I don't know what kind of changes the Queen of Insects will have after eating the fairy tree seeds.

Just when Chen Ming was looking forward to it.

He suddenly saw that the shell on the head of the Queen of Insects suddenly cracked.

And under this crack, a plant-shaped bud grew out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

What Cordyceps sinensis?

A strange idea just appeared in Chen Ming's mind.

I saw that the bud quickly grew into a plant, and a small flower bloomed at the tip.

And at the same time as the flower withered.

A large amount of biomass overflowed from the Queen of Insects' body, completely wrapped up the Queen of Insects, forming a huge cocoon.

The Queen of Insects once again entered the evolutionary state.

Although the evolution of the Queen of Insects is definitely a happy thing, Chen Ming just planned to migrate recently, why did it evolve at this time?

But it's not a big problem.

The cocoon, which was different from the past and emitted a faint fluorescent light, not only wrapped up the entire Queen Worm, but also wrapped up the cruiser-level biological spacecraft that the Queen Worm now had.

Of course, it also included the jump engine that had not been completely transformed.

Perhaps soon, the Queen Worm would appear in front of him with a biological cruiser with complete jump functions.

After confirming that the Queen Worm still had the ability to protect herself,

Chen Ming turned his attention back to his body.

In addition to the Queen Worm, Chen Ming's own body also had one thing to do.

Something related to the awakening nerve.

Chen Ming should have three awakening nerves, two of which he had obtained before, and one he had just obtained.

However, one of the ones he had obtained before was fed to the Queen Worm, and Chen Ming had been cultivating the other one in the afterglow method.

It can be used for the extraction experiment of the awakening nerve at any time.

And Chen Ming had two psychics in the refrigerator... in the low-temperature hibernation chamber.

The black fog psychic and the heart psychic.

The psychic powers of both of them are very valuable.

As for who to choose as the first guinea pig, Chen Ming also had a suitable candidate in mind.

At this time, above the orbit of the temporary base of Chen Ming's Yuhui Fleet after the third jump.

At the highest point.

Chen Ming was walking out of his specially divided study room.

The outside was decorated by him so that the overall decoration looked like the corridor of a laboratory.

At the end of the corridor was the experimental area where all the research equipment that Chen Ming could collect to help him and Chaofan's research was installed.

This place has been isolated and partitioned by Chen Ming using high-strength composite glass materials and silent alloy interlayers.

Because different experiments have different environmental requirements.

So Chen Ming even modified part of the experimental area.

When necessary, these areas can even move part of the experimental area to the outside of the spacecraft through changes in the structure of the spacecraft.

In the experimental area, most of the area has been filled with various experimental equipment.

But in the center of the experimental area, there is an area that Chen Ming deliberately left empty.

This is where he installed the Qiling Neural Extractor.

Chen Ming walked to the vacated area.

He activated the psychic power that he had controlled the Qiling Nerve Extractor more than a year ago.

In a warehouse in Yuhui, Yuhui Star Region, the Qiling Nerve Extractor just disappeared there.

It appeared in front of Chen Ming.

Yuhui has been maintaining this equipment, and it is well maintained and can be started at any time.

With the arrival of the Qiling Nerve Extractor, a frozen fresh-keeping cabin was also transported to the side by Chen Ming, who controlled the equipment on the spacecraft.

This first experiment started with the Black Mist Psychic.

The hibernation function of the low-temperature hibernation cabin was turned off by Chen Ming.

The Black Mist Psychic gradually woke up from the freezing.

As soon as he woke up, he reached out to his waist, but his long sword had disappeared.

"Are you looking for this?"

Chen Ming's voice sounded in his ears.

The Black Mist Psychic looked in the direction of the sound, and Chen Ming was holding his sword in his hand.

His face changed, and he said nothing, just wanting to activate his psychic power and escape.

But he couldn't do it.

An extremely terrifying spiritual pressure was locked on him, suppressing his spiritual power.

It was a pure mental suppression, and he could not resist at all.

The black mist psychic said in a deep voice: "What are you going to do?"

"It's just a small operation."

"Don't worry, it's just like drawing blood, it will be over soon, as long as you cooperate."

Chen Ming still remembers the steps when Yu Hui conducted experiments on him.

It is best to ensure the activity of the spiritual power of the psychic whose spiritual nerves are extracted.

Then Chen Ming must first thaw the black mist psychic to ensure that his mental state is fine.

"If I cooperate, will you let me go?"

"You are not qualified to bargain with me."

Chen Ming said threateningly: "You can only choose to cooperate, or I will help you cooperate."

The black mist psychic was captured alive by Chen Ming when he was hiding from Chen Ming.

From his perspective, he was captured alive and woke up here immediately after being frozen.

He didn't know how much time had passed outside.

He only knew that Chen Ming was much stronger than before.

He was powerless to resist.

He didn't have the courage to commit suicide.

He could only be forced to accept all this and accept the experiments that Chen Ming might conduct on him.

He never thought that he, as Zuo Jing, would have such a day.