Chapter 342 Transformation Experiment

"Are you announcing the psychics right now?"

Bai Quan responded to Chen Ming's question: "You can't say right now, the propaganda has been prepared long ago."

"Not only will the contributions of psychics be highlighted, the empire will also highlight the contributions of ordinary people who have made outstanding contributions in the war."

"Put ordinary people and psychics together for publicity, and treat psychics as ordinary people with special abilities, just like those officers with excellent command abilities."

"'They are all ordinary people, but with different abilities'."

"This is the plan that the empire has been planning for the past few decades."

"Psychics have existed for a long time. In the beginning, the news was sealed tightly, but later the control of psychic news was gradually relaxed."

"Some news about psychics was even leaked by the empire, making psychics gradually become an urban legend, and letting the people of the empire gradually adapt to the existence of psychics in a subtle way."

"The psychics themselves are very powerful. The abilities of psychics are too beyond the cognition of ordinary people, and things beyond cognition will bring fear to people. "

"Through subtle influence, people will gradually lose their fear of psychics, and then find a suitable time to announce the existence of psychics. This is the complete plan."

"The suitable time is now, this must-win war between us and the mechanical race."

"You will also be used as a special propaganda example and will be released with me."

"Including what you and I will do in this war, the last time I cooperated with you to attack Yuhui's giant dock, will be promoted together."

"The empire also wants to create more heroes to further divert the attention of the people in the country."

"Minimize the impact of dimensional infection."

Chen Ming listened carefully to Bai Quan's words, and the thousands of words he wanted to say could only be summed up in one sentence: "Good guy."

It can be said that psychics have always been a troublesome group.

This arrangement of the empire can be said to have completely integrated the concept of psychics into the people and into the concept of the empire itself.

The Empire can even have a legitimate reason to look for those psychics hidden among the civilians, or those who have psychic talents.

No longer need to do it secretly, no longer need to avoid the negative effects caused by the influence of psychics.

Although such operations seem to be shaping heroes, the key is not "heroes" but "characters".

This will strip away the "divinity" possessed by psychics, who have supernatural powers.

Psychics are human beings.

This matter has both good and bad sides.

But for Chen Ming, it should be generally good.

So he has no objection.

Baiquan continued, "By the way, there may be some gossip about you, that is, the news about you and Xinghai."

"The Empire will leak some of your daily life through some low-level channels, so that more people know that psychics are just ordinary people."

"Not just you, there are many psychics whose daily lives will be spread in a secret way when the propaganda department thinks it is appropriate."

"Further reduce the public's vigilance and fear of psychics."

"Of course, if you mind, I can mention it to the propaganda department. If you don't release it, the effect may not be very good, because only you are the most outstanding psychic who can be promoted now."

Chen Ming thought about it and said, "As long as it is not too private, I don't care. Anyway, I don't show up in public. What is Xinghai's opinion?"

"I asked her, and she has no objection."

"Okay, then just show it to me before the news leaks out."

"No problem."

The communication ended.

Chen Ming immediately anticipated what would happen next.

The news would first be spread through Baiquan's mouth.

The Empire will certainly invest some resources to investigate, and in the end, it will definitely find An Wuping, who is absolutely related to the Thorn Zerg.

As long as Chen Ming does a good job with An Wuping, the Zerg will only be connected to An Wuping and cut off from Chen Ming himself.

Of course, if the Empire really finds some additional information that makes him related to the Zerg again, he also has backup means to explain and separate the relationship.

Chen Ming put away the terminal.

He focused his attention on the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility that was just installed after the call with Bai Quan ended.

Next, it is time to start the experimental process that was not completed last time due to the damaged equipment.

Speaking of experiments, Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at Sample Zero, who has been on the spacecraft recently.

This guy is the first Zerg individual to undergo transformation, and he is also the only individual who survived Chen Ming's many transformation experiments in the past few days.

Compared with the previous few days, its condition is much better.

It is no longer constantly causing harm to itself because of the mechanized structure in its body.

Survival crisis is no longer a possible reason for the death of Sample Zero.

It was still only a disabled individual.

But it did not give up struggling.

The natural adaptability and evolutionary ability of the Zerg allow it to continuously evolve in the process of fighting against itself, and constantly adapt to its body that is a random mixture of machinery and biology.

At least now, compared with when it just crawled out of the transformation facility, it can already carry out some simple activities, unlike before when it could only crawl.

This can also be said that the Zerg individual controlling Sample No. 0 has a strong consciousness and a strong desire to survive.

Therefore, after being sent into the body of Sample No. 0, there will be changes that other individuals do not have.

So Chen Ming has been raising Sample No. 0, and it will not consume any more resources.

Maybe it will bring him some unexpected surprises later.

After reading Sample No. 0.

Chen Ming still focused his attention on the complete transformation facility in front of him at the moment.

Use the complete facility for the first time.

This time Chen Ming did not plan to transform the Zerg first, but chose to transform one of his prostheses.

After all, the situation when he transformed his prosthesis before was much worse than that of the Zerg. Not only was the average survival time shorter than that of the transformed Zerg individuals, but there was not even an individual that survived for more than an hour.

So this time, he had to start with a "human" like the prosthesis.

After sending the prosthesis in, Chen Ming began to wait patiently.

The transformation process was exactly the same as before, that is, using nanorobots to transform biological tissues into machines bit by bit.

Chen Ming could see the entire process.

As before, the transformation started from the organs in the body.

All organs for survival were removed, and only the basic organs that maintained the human body's ability to move were retained after being transformed into machines.

And some cavities in the body were not retained during the transformation.

This made the entire prosthesis look extremely thin when it was halfway transformed, more like a mechanized skeleton than a mechanized person.

The human body was simply transformed into a mechanical individual similar to a human form, which seemed to be able to be modified with various devices at any time, and there was nothing special about the rest.

But this is not over yet.

After the transformation of most organs and body was completed, the transformation facility finally reached the last step, which was the brain part that Chen Ming guessed last time.

Some unexpected situations occurred when the facility was transforming the brain.

Of course, it was not a real accident, but there were unexpected situations in the transformation facility that exceeded Chen Ming's expectations.

The prosthetic, mechanized head was suddenly opened during the transformation process, and the brain, which was still in a good biological state, was extracted separately by the nanorobots.

Those nanorobots gathered on the brain, penetrated into the brain, and gradually transformed the brain into something Chen Ming had seen before.

A thing called the secondary core of personality that he had found on the Purgatory Demon King.

The secondary core of personality is different from the personality core of the mechanical queen.

Its appearance is not the sphere of the personality core with several extended columnar structures.

Instead, it has more various dense line arrangements while barely maintaining the basic appearance of the brain.

So it is mainly a type of secondary core, and has nothing to do with the personality core.

Secondary cores have different levels and are installed in mechanical units of different levels. The highest level is the personality secondary core.

Chen Ming actually thought the shape was a bit strange before, but he didn't think much about it at the time.

Not only because he didn't really connect the personality secondary core with the brain, but also because he couldn't produce secondary personality cores at that time and now.

All the information about the secondary cores of the mechanical race that he obtained from the mechanical race.

There are only manufacturing plans for secondary cores from basic secondary cores to advanced secondary cores.

And advanced secondary cores can just be installed in combat units such as centipedes, which are the mainstay of the mechanical race, and there are no higher-level ones.

Of course, the mechanical queen should know the manufacturing plan for the personality secondary core, but Chen Ming didn't ask.

Because he didn't have many purgatory cores on hand, and the Zerg was more suitable than the mechanical race in ground combat, he didn't have the idea of ​​manufacturing advanced ground units of the mechanical race.

Even if he got a higher-level secondary core, there would be nowhere to use it.

So he didn't study it, and he didn't rush to ask the mechanical queen.

After all, the machine is there, just ask when you need it.

If you ask when you don't need it, you may end up with a bunch of information that you don't need for the time being, but you still have to spend time to sort out.

Therefore, Chen Ming never thought that the manufacturing process of the secondary core of personality is actually related to humans.

It is even quite directly transformed through the human brain.

He was wondering why the highest-level secondary core would be the secondary core of personality, and now he has got a partial explanation.

This also further proves that the extinct existence of the shining civilization is definitely closely related to humans.

There is another point worth noting.

That is, this secondary core of personality is damaged, a broken secondary core of personality.

It is not running.

Obviously, this device is a complete device that Chen Ming has just obtained, and it has even been repaired, and there is no trace of the destruction of psychic fluctuations.

Logically, there should be no problem of transforming a damaged device.

But a damaged secondary core of personality was produced.

Why is this?

Just when Chen Ming was thinking, the Queen Worm suddenly sent a message that made him understand what was going on.

That is, when the transformation facility was transformed into the brain.

The Queen Worm's consciousness on the prosthesis felt like it was being pulled out.

The Queen Worm did not allow the consciousness to be pulled out, and because of the transformation process, the consciousness automatically detached, and then it became like this.

Then Chen Ming understood.

It should be that during the transformation, part of the brain's consciousness would be saved by the nanorobots, and after the brain was completely transformed into the secondary core of the personality, the saved consciousness would be stuffed in.

The consciousness on the prosthesis was temporarily filled in by the Queen Worm, and there was no consciousness that could be separated separately, which led to this situation.

Chen Ming immediately conducted a replica experiment again to verify his conjecture.

And this time, the prosthesis was filled with the consciousness of an ordinary Zerg unit.

This Zerg individual said that it had no objection.

And during the transformation process of the equipment again, the prosthesis was transformed into a mechanical state, and the Zerg individual consciousness inside the prosthesis was also completely transformed into the consciousness inside the personality core.

This time the secondary core was not damaged, and it began to operate normally.

The consciousness inside the prosthesis still exists, and what exists is not the honeycomb thinking network of the mechanical race that Chen Ming has, but the honeycomb thinking network of the Zerg race that it originally belongs to.

It's outrageous.

This situation means that as long as Chen Ming installs this secondary core on any demon king, this demon king is equivalent to relying on the Zerg honeycomb thinking network, not the honeycomb thinking network of the mechanical race.

This situation subconsciously gave Chen Ming a few more ideas.

And he immediately tried it.

Use psychic energy to tune the consciousness in this secondary core, and use the special characteristics of the honeycomb thinking network of the mechanical race to balance the thinking fluctuations of this individual with those of the mechanical network.

Try to connect this individual that originally belongs to the Zerg race to the honeycomb thinking network of the mechanical race.

The result... It actually works.

This individual can even share the consciousness communication in the two networks at the same time and benefit from the honeycomb thinking network.

However, Chen Ming immediately terminated this connection.

Because he was worried that something bad would happen.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the two honeycomb networks will conflict or something, he will sense the risk of conflict at the first time.

He was referring to other aspects.

The mechanical hive mind network is something that the mechanical race has, and after Chen Ming captured the mechanical race, he could also show it with reasonable reasons.

Several people had already provided Chen Ming with ideas for the development of psychic power in this area, but Chen Ming had never shown it.

He wanted to treat this ability as a trump card that could be revealed to others.

The Zerg race is another trump card, and it is a trump card that needs to be revealed by An Wuping. He can't always link the two together.

Otherwise, An Wuping, who he worked so hard to create, would lose a large part of his meaning of existence.

Moreover, if the mechanical race and the Zerg race are mixed together, the current allocation of authority and interference in the functions of the controllers of the two hive mind networks will be more troublesome.

Although Chen Ming needs an individual with sufficient autonomy and loyalty to him to help manage the mechanical hive mind network, it is not a pure machine without its own thoughts like the Queen of Machinery, and the Queen of Zerg just meets the conditions.

But the Queen of Zerg knows little about mechanization.

The Queen of Insects only understands the operating principle of the machine and knows how to reproduce it, but she can never innovate in the field of machinery or manage a purely mechanized regional colony.

Therefore, Chen Ming does not plan to study the situation of the mutual transformation between machinery and biology, and even the connection of two hive mind networks.

Maybe there will be a chance in the future.

But he has to wait until the mechanical race in his hands is fully developed and the existence of half-biological and half-mechanical individuals is truly studied.

At least he understands what the secondary core of personality is.

It's just that this result is a little scary.

The current secondary core of personality can be said to be transformed by the mechanical race using dying humans, so what about the past? What about the shining civilization?

What is the situation of the shining civilization? What kind of existence are they?

Sure enough, I have to go to the Shining Civilization Research Institute later.

Chen Ming thought so.

But now this situation that does not affect his work for the time being should be put aside for the time being.

As for the personality transformed by the consciousness of the Zerg... No, it is the secondary core of the Zerg.

It seems to be inferior to personality in terms of ability.

But it is better than using people to convert.

Some of the top mechanical units need this secondary core. Chen Ming can't go to any prison in the empire to ask for death row prisoners to convert...

Wait, it seems that it is not impossible.

But in any case, it is not a loss to have one more way to obtain it.

And Chen Ming has another magical idea.

He took out this personality secondary core separately and sent it to the Queen.

The Queen has already devoured a wave of resources that the Hive Planet originally had and is ready to start migrating.

But it still has time to help Chen Ming do some small things.

For example, convert this mechanical insect grid secondary core back to the state of a creature.

Although the secondary core is small, the difficulty of transformation still exists, even greater than the transformation of the jump engine.

However, the Queen of the Worm did not take much time to complete the transformation process.

The Queen of the Worm, who evolved by devouring the fairy tree species, has changed its transformation ability.

And the result of the transformation... is a brain.

The consciousness of the Zerg unit is still stored inside, and the consciousness of this Zerg unit has not changed at all. .

The Queen of the Worm just transformed the consciousness that originally existed in the data level back, and can also treat the transformed consciousness as an ordinary Zerg individual consciousness and put it into the body of other Zerg units.

Even after being stuffed into the body of other units, this Zerg unit can still reconnect with the mechanical honeycomb network.

Of course, Chen Ming still stopped this operation immediately.

It's still the same problems as before.

All have to be left for later.

After saving and sealing the relevant data.

Chen Ming is ready to start the next experiment.

That is to transform ordinary Zerg units into machines.

The process is smooth.

But the result is not ideal.

The effect is too poor.

The mechanized Zerg units created do not have any new abilities, they simply changed from biological Zerg to mechanical Zerg.

And because of the complete mechanization, even if these Zerg units maintain contact with the Zerg hive mind network after becoming mechanical creatures, they can no longer call on the psychic energy of the queen.

Unable to obtain the improvement of organ tissue strength.

Although some of Chen Ming's psychic energy can still be used, compared with the biological state, which only consumes energy to use Chen Ming's psychic energy, repairing in a completely mechanized state requires additional materials, which is completely meaningless.

Even insects in a semi-mechanized state like Sample Zero can use energy to directly repair those mechanical organs and tissues.

This complete mechanization, Chen Ming can't see any important meaning and value.

It's a bit interesting, but not much.

The most Chen Ming can think of is that when the mechanical race is in urgent need of troops, it can be used to quickly transform the Zerg units into mechanical units.

But that is for a single mechanical race, and the mechanical race can transform other creatures into its own combat power.

Chen Ming doesn't need to transform the Zerg into the Mechanoids before he can go to the battlefield.

As expected, he still has to transform the Spiritual Awakening Nerve in the end.

This is the main function of this device.

And the Black Mist Spiritual Awakening Nerve that Chen Ming had extracted some time ago has always been intact and can participate in this experiment at any time.

It can only be said that Chen Ming's time in the Psychic Research Institute and the project has not been in vain.

Through his learning in the project, he has been able to maintain the Spiritual Awakening Nerve for a long time, and will no longer die because the Spiritual Awakening Nerve is separated from the human body for too long.

Until today, the Black Mist Spiritual Awakening Nerve can finally be used.

Chen Ming directly used psychic energy to take the Black Mist Spiritual Awakening Nerve stored in a canned device from the cultivation room of the spacecraft and sent it to the transformation device.

The transformation device immediately received the Spiritual Awakening Nerve and began to operate.

This time the transformation process was quite fast.

In just a blink of an eye.

The Black Mist Spiritual Awakening Nerve completely disappeared.

What was left was a ping-pong-sized black spherical object emitting psychic energy fluctuations.

This is the Black Mist Core.

The psychic energy and other byproducts emitted by the Black Mist Spiritual Nerve during the transformation process were collected by the facility.

They were injected into several mechanical spiritual nerves that Chen Ming had successfully replicated.

Chen Ming has not yet thought about the use of the Black Mist Core. After all, the Destruction Core made by the Mechanical Clan is used to be installed in the cannon head of the Spine Peak Cannon.

He does not have a Spine Peak Cannon at hand now.

So for the time being, just use it as an additional psychic ability trigger.

This thing is somewhat similar to the source of chaos, but there is no need to worry about triggering any situation that will cause a mental runaway entity.

As for the Black Mist Mechanical Spiritual Nerve.

Chen Ming has already thought about the use.

They will become what Chen Ming had thought about before. The special individuals of the Zerg can also be regarded as part of the individual abilities of the Guards.