Chapter 325 Investigation

After Chen Ming focused his attention on the galaxy of the mechanical race.

He immediately confirmed the location of the phase behemoth through the reconnaissance fleet and bypassed it.

Although his actions were clearly seen by the reconnaissance fleet with authority from the nearby legion, no one would say anything.

So Chen Ming's fleet bypassed to another area on the planet where the destruction was the most serious.

This is probably also the place where the phase behemoth attacked and ravaged the planet in the first place.

When the reconnaissance fleet was investigating the planetary environment and moving around the planet before.

Chen Ming had seen many ruins of mechanical race buildings in this area.

Chen Ming had seen the city of the mechanical race before.

He knew the general functions of many mechanical race buildings, so when he saw this ruin, he knew that there must be something he needed here.

Although there were some buildings that Chen Ming had not seen before and did not know what they were used for.

But the buildings that Chen Ming had not seen in the mechanical race city before him must be relatively rare buildings, and they must have their own special features, so he needed to go and see them.

Chen Ming's Stardust class quickly arrived directly above the target location he found.

On this Stardust-class ship, Chen Ming used his psychic power to create a shuttle and a robot.

The shuttle can be made casually, as long as it can help him reach the planet safely.

But Chen Ming has carefully considered the style of the robot.

Just follow the robot model based on power armor that he used when he was doing things in the headquarters before, and install an additional afterglow core.

This should be called a mechanical armor body, which is small and easy to move.

In addition, Chen Ming's control of the humanoid mechanical body is more comfortable than other shapes, which is enough to complete what Chen Ming is going to do next.

After transferring the main consciousness to this robot.

Chen Ming controlled the robot to board the shuttle and rushed straight to the planet below.

After suffering some extremely sparse and scattered anti-aircraft fire attacks, Chen Ming's shuttle arrived above the destination.

Looking around, there are all metal debris and a large number of mechanical family fragments that have been crushed to pieces.

This should be a highly developed mechanical family building area, but now there is only a ruin.

But ruins don't matter. As long as it's a mechanical thing, Chen Ming's spiritual power can repair it.

Because of this, the place Chen Ming chose is also a place he carefully selected.

Here.

It is the nanorobot production factory of the mechanical race.

The mechanical race has three most critical things.

Secondary core, core chip and nanorobot.

The basic secondary core and core chip are used to ensure the operation of the mechanical race. Their manufacturing is no longer a problem for Chen Ming.

So for Chen Ming now, the key lies in nanorobots.

This is the key to ensuring the mechanical race's wartime self-repair ability and endurance combat ability.

At the same time, it can be regarded as one of the most technically valuable equipment in the mechanical race.

And it is also a limiting condition for Chen Ming's production speed of the mechanical race.

Chen Ming currently has only one nanorobot production facility.

It was found in the city of that small independent mechanical race in the past, and has been sent by Chen Ming to his new colony of the mechanical race.

The number of nanorobot manufacturing equipment limits the manufacturing speed of the mechanical race with complete functions.

If there is only one device, it can only meet the production of a number of mechanical individuals at the city level.

If you want more, then either limit the ability of mechanical individuals to reduce their maintenance requirements.

Or just ignore it and produce robots with poor endurance and maintenance performance.

Chen Ming didn't want to choose either, he wanted complete mechanical individuals.

So he found this building in space, and came here as soon as he had time.

His goal was to seize the nanorobot manufacturing equipment here.

He wanted to make the robots in his hands more "industrialized" so that the efficiency of his mechanical expansion could keep up with the reproduction efficiency of the Zerg.

Although this sounds a bit crazy at first.

The Queen of the Zerg has long been able to convert the planet into its own nutrition and into a Zerg nest, and is now undergoing a critical evolution.

And the mechanical race in Chen Ming's hands only covers the scope of a small-scale human colonial city.

The gap is not a little bit.

But Chen Ming always felt that the industrialized metal wave could compete with the unlimited proliferation of the Zerg.

It's just that the scale has not yet been established, so the efficiency is a bit slow. When the scale is established in the future, we will eventually see results.

This requires starting from the most basic equipment and building industrialization step by step.

The shuttle landed on the planet of the mechanical race.

Chen Ming immediately controlled the mechanical armor to crash the hatch of the shuttle.

Immediately, a fierce firepower of the mechanical race was output and enveloped him.

This is the situation caused by a small number of mechanical race individuals who were not affected by the attack of the phase beast and found the exact landing position of Chen Ming among the ruins during the landing of the shuttle.

Although it is a small number, this small number is compared to the time when the mechanical race city was not destroyed before.

A small part of a city is already an unattainable part for an individual.

So now, Chen Ming has been surrounded by a large number of mechanical individuals.

Countless electromagnetic weapons are constantly hitting the mechanical armor and the shuttle beside it.

Although these mechanical weapons are of no use to Chen Ming, they can indeed suppress Chen Ming's next move.

And in a very short time, two main ground combat units of the mechanical family, the mechanical centipede, are approaching Chen Ming.

One is equipped with a charge cannon, and the other is equipped with a charge machine gun.

The moment Chen Ming was discovered, the heavy artillery warhead of the charge cannon was instantly fired and hit the shuttle behind Chen Ming.

The devastating explosion and flashing arcs completely enveloped the figure.

The shuttle was immediately destroyed.

But the figure of the mechanical armor controlled by Chen Ming was still moving at high speed in the arc and smoke.

He avoided this sudden and powerful attack.

But the other centipede was not a useless person.

The charge machine gun immediately followed Chen Ming's footsteps, and countless charge warheads fell on the footprints that Chen Ming had just stepped on.

The arcs that exploded after the charge warheads hit the target seemed to leave a lightning trail behind Chen Ming.

It looked extremely gorgeous, but also extremely dangerous.

However, the ability of the mechanical armor body controlled by Chen Ming was different from that of ordinary power armor.

Without the restriction of the internal driver, with the increase of Chen Ming's spiritual power, and the maintenance spiritual power to ensure that the internal devices were not damaged at all times.

The comprehensive combat power it can exert is more than five times that of normal circumstances.

Even if Chen Ming was forced into a dead end, there was a jet backpack that could force acceleration and break through the upper limit of the efficiency of moving by relying on ordinary limb structures.

The ground firepower of the mechanical race was not enough to pose any threat to him.

Today is different from the past.

Soon, the round of bullets of the mechanical centipede charge machine gun was fired.

Taking advantage of the gap between reloading the charge machine gun and charging the warhead.

Chen Ming finally had time to stand on the ground steadily. A large amount of metal liquid overflowed from the feet of the mechanical armor body and covered the entire ruins.

All the mechanical individuals nearby, including the two centipedes, were all stained with these metal liquids in just a dozen seconds.

Just a moment.

Their movements became stiff and they stopped attacking Chen Ming.

And inside them, their connection with the honeycomb thinking network of the mechanical family was instantly disconnected and no longer existed.

The data on the chip became disordered, and the operation of the secondary core produced a little stiffness.

And after this brief moment of chaos.

They connected to a new honeycomb network.

They became abnormal sub-individuals.

They turned to defend Chen Ming from the mechanical family approaching the area that was farther away and not covered by the metal liquid.

Of course, this is not that Chen Ming's psychic power can be controlled through non-afterglow derivatives.

In fact, this is just a derivative ability he has achieved by using psychic effects.

Chen Ming's current psychic power can transfer the afterglow core.

This means that all places where Chen Ming's spiritual power is affected can have afterglow cores, and can indirectly become the medium for Chen Ming to control new things.

Unlike before, once Chen Ming is not in a place, or there is no afterglow core, and the distance is too far, then Chen Ming can only use various means to send the afterglow core or himself there before he can control it.

But now it is different. Chen Ming can transfer the afterglow core to any place where there are things under his control.

Then only a simple data line is needed, and a robot equipped with afterglow core can help Chen Ming do many things.

Of course, it is easy to say, but it is actually difficult to contact mechanical equipment through data lines.

Limited by the environment where there may not be data lines, Chen Ming's own technical ability and the ability to finely control spiritual power were insufficient some time ago.

If you really want to use spiritual power to control, you still have to look at the specific situation.

If Chen Ming takes the initiative to sneak in, he has the opportunity to slowly do things.

But if it is a head-on battle, no mechanical family will give Chen Ming the opportunity to access the data line, unless he has already defeated the mechanical family.

Therefore, Chen Ming came up with a more advanced way of using it.

That is, in these seemingly ordinary metal liquids, there are data lines with the thickness of only a single molecule.

As long as they are covered by metal liquid, the hidden single-molecule data lines will forcefully penetrate into the interior of the mechanical device like a beast that has found its prey and control it.

The density of the white cloud steel armor of the mechanical family cannot resist Chen Ming's power at all.

As long as Chen Ming is given the opportunity to get close, there will be only one outcome.

Use it for him.

Of course, there are also restrictions on this method, that is, the metal liquid must be connected to the source, that is, the afterglow core, and the data line must not be broken.

Many times, the enemy is not a fool in most cases, and will hide when seeing a large area of ​​metal liquid splashing over.

Anyone who knows the function of Chen Ming's metal liquid will often deliberately avoid it and will not give the metal liquid a chance to contact it.

However, there is a solution to this.

Chen Ming can make a large area of ​​metal liquid as an open means, and then make a few more single-molecule data lines to ambush in secret.

It is too easy to be discovered directly using the data line, and the data line itself is too fragile, but if both are used at the same time.

As long as they are not extremely sensitive to psychic fluctuations, can see single-molecule data lines with the naked eye, or can sense data lines, all other mechanical enemies are not to be feared.

Chen Ming felt that the mechanical race would most likely not give him the opportunity to get close to them like now.

This time, the phase behemoth broke through the mechanical race's defenses in front and completely defeated the mechanical race, so Chen Ming could pick up the leaks later.

Otherwise, given the mechanical race's full preparations for the previous raid on his fleet, there must be a lot of defenses waiting for him here.

Of course, now it is a situation where Chen Ming can do whatever he wants.

Even if the mechanical race wants to send reinforcements, they have to consider the behemoths that are wreaking havoc on the planet.

So after Chen Ming's metal liquid was released to control the surrounding mechanical race, this factory area has become Chen Ming's territory.

The metal liquid expanded again, gradually bringing the entire factory building into his psychic control range.

After repairing the equipment in several nanorobot factories, these important equipment immediately disappeared in the collapsed factory building.

Chen Ming sent them all the way to his mechanical tribe's base.

Some of the nearby manufacturing plant facilities were also related to mechanical tribe manufacturing, and Chen Ming also repaired and packed them up and took them away.

He now has the amount of a mechanical tribe city on hand, whether it is the number of mechanical tribes or the number of facilities supporting the mechanical tribe.

The mechanical tribe city he controlled before was just a small border base of the Shining Civilization, not even a sentry post.

The number of equipment it has is pitifully small, and many of them are equipment that Chen Ming has found ways to make and replenish.

It would definitely be a good thing if it could be replenished here.

Chen Ming's psychic energy swept out again, directly clearing the surrounding area completely, leaving only the ruins of useless building materials.

After confirming that there was nothing nearby, Chen Ming looked at a slightly farther place.

If these facilities here are one of the reasons why Chen Ming chose this place as the landing site.

Then another reason is that the nearby area is an area that was rebuilt at the fastest speed after the ravages of the phase behemoth.

There are many mechanized psychic creatures that are still alive, as well as dead individuals.

Chen Ming can obtain a considerable number of mechanized psychic creature samples.

Although the Legion will most likely obtain a considerable number of samples when it comes here, a considerable portion will definitely be given to him in the end.

After all, he is now the person who has gone the furthest in the research of the mechanical race.

But if he has to wait until the Legion gets it, he doesn't know how long it will take.

It is better for him to come here in person and find a way to take some away.

Chen Ming is very curious whether this mechanized psychic creature is manufactured or transformed from a biological creature into a mechanical race by some device.

As long as he can figure out the principle, maybe he can replicate it.

If he can replicate a new mechanized Zerg...even if this effect can be applied to humans...

Chen Ming suddenly dared not imagine what would happen.

He slightly restrained his divergent thoughts.

Chen Ming controlled the mechanical armor body to approach the place where the mechanized psychic creatures gathered.

He could see from space just now that these mechanized psychic creatures seemed to be protecting a facility.

Originally, Chen Ming speculated that it was a factory used by the mechanical race to manufacture or transform mechanical psychic creatures.

But when Chen Ming came here, he observed from a low angle.

Something seemed wrong.

This place didn't look like a factory, but rather a machine room, or rather a control center.

Although it was half collapsed, a large number of mechanical individuals were desperately repairing the building.

A large number of mechanical individuals, no matter what type of individuals, as long as they had some combat ability, all gathered nearby.

Protecting the building.

A considerable number of mechanical individuals had already begun to think about Chen Ming approaching.

But with Chen Ming's advance preparation, the metal liquid had already penetrated from underground.

When the mechanical family approached, large groups of mechanical families immediately turned against them and turned their guns to their own people from the previous second.

Those mechanical families near the building didn't even have time to respond, and countless single-molecule data lines invisible to the naked eye had already spread out from underground, completely controlling the situation.

Chen Ming immediately looked at the panels of those mechanical psychic creatures through the panel.

Overall, it was similar to the panels of ordinary mechanical families.

The first line is the name [Psychic Mechanical Creature], followed by the name of the prototype of this mechanical psychic creature.

The rest are basically the same.

Only the most critical line [Mechanical Spiritual Nerve] is significantly different from the ordinary mechanical race.

It can only be said that mechanical psychic creatures are very special.

Because normal psychic creatures do not have spiritual nerves, this mechanical spiritual nerve is definitely worth studying.

However.

Chen Ming did not rush to study these psychic mechanical creatures immediately.

Since these things have been controlled by him, they will be his sooner or later.

Now, he wants to take a closer look at the building in front of him.

The metal liquid swept up again, completely covering the entire building.

Then.

Chen Ming unexpectedly discovered that this building was not the factory for the mechanical race to manufacture or transform mechanical psychic creatures as he had previously guessed.

It is actually the central node of the mechanical race, the core of this mechanical colony.

From space, 80% of the planet's area has become the coverage of the mechanical race.

Among them, it can be divided into three large colonies and some scattered small colonies.

This is the core of a large colony, the largest one.

It can only be said that many mechanical race buildings are of the same height. Chen Ming can only recognize the factory after repeatedly observing the details of the mechanical race buildings.

Other buildings may not be recognized correctly.

And this building is indeed a building that Chen Ming has never seen.

Fortunately, the impact of the mistake is not great.

Chen Ming still successfully controlled the entire building.

And found an empty slot in the core area of ​​the building where the "mechanical queen" should have been installed.

And in this central node database, a complete plan for the construction of the mechanical race colony.

The mechanical race has already planned the next development route.

These plans and routes are all displayed in front of Chen Ming.

Chen Ming noticed that in addition to asking the mechanical race to develop to the neighboring galaxies, there was also an inexplicable planned route in this development plan, which extended straight from this galaxy to dozens of galaxies.

The lieutenant general had no foothold, as if he was going to directly develop such an "enclave".

What does this mean?

Chen Ming continued to search in the database, and soon he found the reason why the mechanical race did this.

Because in that galaxy, there was an undeveloped coordinate of the remains of the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming was a little surprised to learn this result.

Because his fleet did find some remains when exploring nearby galaxies.

But those and basically have been annihilated by time, the kind that Chen Ming's psychic power can't save.

Unexpectedly, there are still remains that he hasn't found.

However, when Chen Ming's fleet was investigating, it was impossible to scan all the planets, or even the deep underground of the planets, so it was normal to miss some.

Chen Ming guessed that the remains should be deep underground and just escaped the scan.

That's normal.

Although the mechanical race is a relic of the Shining Civilization, they have indeed lost a lot of the Shining Civilization's technology.

So they do need to develop the ruins of the Shining Civilization. Only in this way can they retrieve some of the lost things. This is normal.

The mechanical race should want to gain a foothold here before developing the ruins and building a new development base on the basis of the ruins.

Chen Ming just doesn't understand why the mechanical race doesn't go there directly.

But since the mechanical race did this, they must have their reasons.

There may be troubles there that require the mechanical race to develop for a period of time to deal with.

Of course, they don't have to deal with it now.

After being attacked by the phase behemoth, the mechanical race's power in this area has been reduced to a low point.

So Chen Ming will help them solve the ruins.

After collecting all the information.

Chen Ming also decisively transferred the entire database and everything he obtained.

And immediately built a new shuttle and took off.

The database contains the mechanical race's development plan, and of course the construction plan of the entire mechanical race colony.

So Chen Ming has now figured out the construction rules of the entire mechanical race colony.

His shuttle flew in the direction of the mechanical race's building for manufacturing mechanical psychic creatures.

The shuttle was slightly closer to the location where the phase monster was rampaging, which the reconnaissance fleet was really paying attention to.

Chen Ming also heard the call that seemed to come from the deep sea again, just like before.

But Chen Ming had no way to respond.

He could only record this audio that only he could hear, and save it for later to figure out the reason.