Chapter 350 Shadow

The jump was over soon.

A new galaxy appeared in front of Chen Ming.

There are mechanical space buildings everywhere in a galaxy, and every planet inside it has traces of mechanical development, and there are mechanical colonies in many places.

But this galaxy is now in ruins.

Everything in the galaxy, whether in space or on the planet, related to the mechanical race, has become a ruin.

And if you take a quick look, you will find that these buildings have not been in ruins for a long time, at least not more than half a year.

The mechanical race seems to have abandoned this place. Not only did no mechanical race come to clean up the ruins, but there were even no monitoring facilities for the galaxy that should have been there.

It is hard to imagine that there would be such a place in the core area of ​​the mechanical race star field.

Chen Ming recorded the coordinates of this galaxy and immediately looked for the traces of the phase behemoth that had just jumped here.

Soon he found that the phase behemoth was not far away, and the phase behemoth also noticed the spaceship that Chen Ming drove over.

Then the Phase Beast was once again in confusion and bewilderment, as if it could not understand what was happening to Chen Ming in front of it, and how he suddenly changed from a robot to this.

The Phase Beast seemed to think seriously for a while, and it was unknown what it thought of, and suddenly it chirped at Chen Ming again.

Although the Phase Beast and Chen Ming's cruiser are now in the vacuum of the universe, the medium in the phase space has the ability to transmit sound in the phase space, allowing Chen Ming to hear the Phase Beast's voice clearly.

And the sound it made at this time was different from when it communicated with Chen Ming before.

It was full of warnings and concerns, and it was obvious that it wanted Chen Ming to leave.

Of course, Chen Ming could not leave at will. He did not want to see the only phase beast he had contacted and was quite friendly do something dangerous.

Continue to let the spacecraft approach, try to communicate with the Phase Beast, and let it contact the nerve for communication that Chen Ming asked the Queen to make.

However, the Phase Beast was still very resistant to this.

It flicked its two slender tails, turned its posture, and a purple light shone on its body. It called on the power of phase and entered the jump again, disappearing in front of Chen Ming.

By investigating the jump traces, Chen Ming once again determined the destination of the phase beast's jump, which was still inside the star field of the mechanical race.

He also started the jump engine and chased after it.

However, this time, his spaceship had an accident when it was jumping.

Before the spaceship landed, a phase force had already repelled him frantically at the end of the jump.

A surging repulsive force was surging frantically, trying to squeeze Chen Ming's spaceship out and not give the spaceship a chance to jump to the destination.

Even this repulsive force was acting on the spaceship while acting on Chen Ming's consciousness.

Just like the last time the phase space and the scarlet dimension clashed in his consciousness space, it once again caused damage to Chen Ming's consciousness space.

Just when Chen Ming thought that the coordinates where the phase beast was heading to were the territory of the phase beast alone, and other creatures were not allowed to enter.

The blue light in his consciousness space suddenly lit up, protecting his consciousness space and reducing the impact he received to the minimum.

This is not the phase space rejecting him, and the phase beast does not have such power. What is going on?

As the jump progresses.

Chen Ming feels that not only his consciousness and warship are being rejected by this force, but even the entire space is rejecting him and his warship.

The phase space at the destination seems to be incompatible with the ordinary phase space. Only by thoroughly mastering the power of the phase can one try to accommodate this repulsive force and avoid being squeezed out.

But Chen Ming can't do it now.

He only has the mark of the phase power, and he himself does not have any of this power.

And at the end of the jump, his robot and spaceship arrived at the destination.

In a short time that Chen Ming could hardly react, the spaceship was squeezed out of the phase space by this force that he could no longer resist and returned to the normal universe.

And then in the next moment, his robot and the cruiser on which the robot was riding were instantly destroyed by a huge force.

The wreckage of the spacecraft was also annihilated by an unprecedentedly aggressive phase force, and it could not even be repaired.

He completely lost the vision of that galaxy and lost the tracking of the phase beast.

The last picture Chen Ming saw through the robot and the spacecraft was only a shadow covering the sky.

Chen Ming frowned and created a new cruiser in the area where his spacecraft had passed before.

He made a jump again.

And this time, Chen Ming didn't even have time to see clearly what happened before the spacecraft was destroyed. He couldn't observe any useful information at all, and the spacecraft's recording equipment didn't record anything valuable.

He could only be sure that the spacecraft was destroyed by brute force, and then completely destroyed by a special and extremely special aggressive phase force.

If he guessed correctly.

This should be done by the same kind of phase beast.

Should I try again?

Chen Ming thought about it and gave up the idea.

The power of that huge phase beast was so strong that he couldn't even resist it now.

He felt that unless he took out the Zerg fleet to try again, there was no way to get in with the ships he controlled alone.

If he tried to get in again, it might affect the original plan of the small phase beast that had already entered and communicated with him.

It had snatched the scarlet meat from the hands of this phase beast that Chen Ming couldn't even resist twice... and it might be the same this time.

It was the current situation that made him very curious about one thing.

How did the small phase beast get in?

Is it because the phase beast is born to control the power of phase?

Chen Ming didn't understand.

He could only wait and see.

Wait for two days, if the small phase beast didn't come back, he would try again.

Chen Ming recorded the coordinates of the place where the small phase beast went.

At the same time, he also arranged several ships in the decadent mechanical star field to go there, preparing to investigate the cause of the decline of this galaxy.

Chen Ming couldn't get to the place where the small phase beast went, but the place it went to last was not affected, so he could start from here.

After the investigation, he would throw some insect eggs there. This place should also be the base for his work in the mechanical star field.

Chen Ming's spaceship immediately began to investigate the planets one by one.

Soon he confirmed that all the damaged mechanical buildings and all the mechanical colonies in the galaxy were destroyed by something with brute force.

It can be basically confirmed that the entire galaxy was destroyed by the phase beast, and judging from the traces of the ruins, it should be the work of the huge phase beast.

After scanning in space, Chen Ming let a spaceship land on a planet in a galaxy, preparing to land among the ruins.

However, the spaceship had just landed and touched the ground, and before it could stop completely, the ground sank significantly, and pieces of ruins collapsed again, and smoke and dust covered a large area.

Chen Ming immediately let the spaceship hover and looked at the ground under the spaceship.

The underground structure of the ruins seemed extremely soft.

Chen Ming asked the spaceship to scan it immediately with some confusion, and then he found a place that shocked him.

That is, the underground of this ruin is not filled with damaged mechanical structures and rocks, but with dried flesh and blood tissue.

All of them are the products of dimensional infection.

When the spaceship directly scans from a distance in space, it cannot be observed. Only when it gets close can it find these distorted things hidden under the ruins.

Chen Ming immediately asked all the spaceships in the galaxy to scan the nearest planet at close range.

The result is the same.

Traces of such dried flesh and blood tissue were also found on other planets.

This is probably the original place where the mechanical race created the dimensional infection.

It’s just that Chen Ming doesn’t understand how the dimensional infection grew on the territory of the mechanical race.

If we say that the only existence that can provide flesh and blood for the scarlet dimension for proliferation is probably the phase behemoth.

Could the scarlet dimensional infection that appeared in this mechanical race’s galaxy be related to the phase behemoth?

Phase space, phase behemoth, dimensional infection, and destroyer seem to be connected in this galaxy.

But Chen Ming did not find anything else on all the planets in the entire galaxy except these dried flesh and blood, and there was no clue for further research.

He could not make an accurate judgment now.

He needed more information.

And the information could only be obtained from the database of the phase beast or the mechanical family later.

Now, he could not continue the investigation.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye.

Baiquan had already gone to the front line of the Galo star field.

And Chen Ming also returned to the front line with Baiquan, leaving only the robot at the headquarters.

In the two days before leaving.

Chen Ming arranged the follow-up of most of the things he needed to do at the headquarters.

Make sure that after he left, the robot can continue to participate in the research of several new projects he will participate in later.

And he also took advantage of these two days to arrange things in other places, such as the pioneering fleet that had been advancing for several days on the main body.

Chen Ming's pioneering fleet itself stayed at the third and fourth extreme distance jump positions.

Because of the relationship with the mechanical family, it directly advanced three extreme distance jumps to the target galaxy originally set by Chen Ming, and arrived at the distance of seven extreme jumps.

This decision now seems very wise.

Because when Chen Ming launched the Zerg fleet to attack the Mechanic race,

some monitoring facilities he left near the original location of the pioneering fleet discovered that the Mechanic race's fleet had searched there, just in vain.

But if Chen Ming had not retreated, he believed that the Mechanic race's destroyer would have been in his face at that time.

At present, Chen Ming has also let the pioneering fleet find a new suitable planet for stationing, and began to explore the surrounding star fields to find places for resource mining.

At the same time, the application of new technologies has also begun.

Of course, when we say technology, it actually means to let the Zerg race participate in the pioneering plan.

The Zerg has a strong ability to mine resources, converting all visible objects into their own nutrition.

Of course, they can also not transform, leaving those high-value minerals, and only maintain life by eating soil and rocks.

Therefore, Chen Ming believes that the current Zerg is capable of undertaking large-scale material mining.

All mineral resources can be mined by the Zerg.

Although there are no large-scale industrial mining facilities, the efficiency of a large number of Zerg in large-scale resource development is not low, which is much better than Chen Ming's previous smaller-scale mining equipment left on different planets.

In addition to the role of resource developers, the Zerg can also play another key auxiliary role in the development of the machine itself.

That is, by allowing the Zerg to transform to the highest point, the Queen of the Zerg can master the manufacturing method of the biological exploration ship, so as to replace the role of the several highest points in Chen Ming's fleet, further speed up the efficiency of opening up hyperspace channels, and improve the overall development efficiency.

Of course, Chen Ming does not need to be responsible for this matter. He only needs to tell Huihuang about the Queen of the Zerg's ability, and then let Huihuang arrange all the rest.

Chen Ming himself is still doing more of his own things.

In addition to the research project on the headquarters prosthesis, Chen Ming has never stopped the research project on the main body.

Including optimizing the Guard Zerg and continuing to study the manufacturing plan of the semi-mechanical and semi-biological structure.

At the same time, Chen Ming has been paying attention to the situation of sample zero.

Sample zero is still alive and getting better and better.

The consciousness of the Zerg unit in sample zero is just a very standard and ordinary Zerg unit consciousness.

But as it has undergone transformation in the body of sample zero, and has also experienced subsequent struggles with its own imperfect semi-mechanized structure relying on its body.

It can be seen that it is completely merging with its body, and its own consciousness strength is also increasing in this process.

It is already different from any other Zerg.

Even Chen Ming found that the IQ of sample zero is getting higher and higher, and it can already recognize some simple texts.

And it is also trying to imitate the voice of Chen Ming who often observes it by actively evolving complex vocal organs.

It is not known whether it has evolved such an ability by itself, or it is the credit of its semi-mechanized structure.

In short, its existence has obvious value.

Chen Ming planned to keep it for a while longer to see if there would be any new changes in the future.

And at noon the day before Chen Ming was to leave with Bai Quan.

Chen Ming also received a call from Bian Gaoxuan, the head of the Fanchao Research Institute where Chen Ming had used a robot to participate in the phase space and scarlet dimension interaction experiment, and he also received a gift by mail.

There was an invitation letter outside the gift box, inviting Chen Ming to visit the Fanchao Research Institute.

Chen Ming was quite interested to be honest, but he couldn't do it recently.

He told Bian Gaoxuan about the reasons on the front line on the phone, and received a reply from Bian Gaoxuan that he was welcome at any time.

Then Chen Ming opened the gift box sent by Bian Gaoxuan.

There were two things in it, one was a storage device, which stored the blueprints of various weapons and spacecraft under test.

Bian Gaoxuan left a message in it saying that these were some scientific research blueprints that their institute had approved and allowed to be shared with similar people who were friendly with the Fanchao Research Institute.

And the other thing. It was a spirit stone with the nature of "eating spirits".

Although this spiritual stone is only the size of the tip of the little finger in normal state, which makes its strength very low, this thing is very special.

According to Chen Ming, there are many different types of spiritual stones with different properties. Some belong to human characteristics, and some belong to human-related properties.

And some are related to "spirit".

Such spiritual stones are definitely not bad, even if they are small.

Although its strength is indeed not enough for Chen Ming now, it also has its own functionality.

It can give Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations a special property. As long as it comes into contact with psychic-related matters, it will actively devour some external psychic fluctuations to nourish itself and provide additional mental recovery and endurance.

As for the negative effect, it is a hobby for high-concentration psychic fluctuation environments.

Chen Ming's body stays in a high-concentration psychic fluctuation environment every day, and the negative effect is equal to no.

Although the positive effect does not seem to be very obvious, it will definitely give him some unexpected refinement in battle.

The things given by others to repay the life-saving grace determine how precious their lives are in their own eyes.

Bian Gaoxuan was just a researcher with some experience in the Fanchao Research Institute, and he was still an ordinary person. These were the most valuable things he could find.

After the headquarters had dealt with all these things.

The warship that Chen Ming and Bai Quan were riding on at this time, as well as the fleet where the warship was located, also arrived at the Galo star field through the star gate.

Chen Ming did not go directly to the branch with Bai Quan.

Although going to the branch can first understand the movements of the mechanical race on the side of the empire, Chen Ming still chose to return to the pirate space station not far from the branch.

The boss who had been busy outside for a while had returned here a few days ago, and Chen Ming had to go and see him.

When Chen Ming returned to the hardware store in the No. 1 Industrial Space Arm again.

He saw that the boss was still sitting behind the counter as before.

But the previous boss used to wear sandals and short sleeves, and looked like he was doing nothing, lying flat.

But the current boss has changed his dressing style. Although he is still wearing casual clothes, he seems to be more energetic and has a goal.

After Chen Ming walked into the hardware store, the boss looked Chen Ming up and down, without any sense of unfamiliarity after not seeing him for a long time, and asked casually: "Is this true or false?"

"Fake."

"It looks real."

Chen Ming casually pulled a chair from the side and chatted: "Boss, what have you been doing recently? The matter of Caimo Star Domain should have ended long ago, and you didn't even come to the engagement party."

"I also wanted to come back early, but the president stopped me and asked me to help study the mental state of the entity infected by some dimension."

"And didn't I record my face on video at the engagement party?"

"You have been very active recently. I have heard a lot about you outside. Tell me?"

Chen Ming nodded.

He could hide his purpose, plan, preparation and arrangement from anyone else, but there was no need for the boss.

The boss was his guide on the path of psychic power and his mentor who helped him achieve today's results. There was no need to hide it from the boss.

"I have indeed done a lot of things recently."

"I used An Wuping's fake identity to cooperate with the Zerg to attract the attention of the Empire and the Mechanical Clan to the border of the Mechanical Clan star field, and then used the Zerg to attack the Mechanical Clan's logistics galaxy at the same time."

The boss seemed to be a little excited beyond Chen Ming's expectations when listening to Chen Ming's story, and motioned Chen Ming to continue to talk in detail.

Chen Ming did not hide it either. He told the boss in detail about the movements of the Mechanical Clan, his thoughts on the Mechanical Clan's mothership and star gate, the source of the Zerg's ability, the situation of entering the scarlet dimension again, and the matter of the phase behemoth.

Just as the boss was very satisfied with Chen Ming's experience during this period.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

The boss's ability is related to consciousness and mind, so can the boss contact the phase behemoth?

Chen Ming asked immediately.

The boss was quite interested in this and asked, "How can I contact the phase beast here?"

"My psychic power can now directly teleport people."

"By what means?"

"The Scarlet Dimension."

Chen Ming left the boss's hardware store shortly afterwards.

He boarded a spaceship to go to the branch.

On the way, he received a message from Cheng Xinghai.

He learned that Cheng Xinghai had finished the training camp and would go to Galo after two days of rest.

Cheng Xinghai's training camp was over, which meant that the backbone of the empire was ready to go to the front line.

Before, the empire's troops to deal with the mechanical race were all vanguards used for trial.

Now they have to use serious military forces.

But even though they only used vanguards, the empire's war against the mechanical race was still victorious all the way. Even Chen Ming, who knew the overall situation of the war and the situation behind it, found it difficult not to doubt what preparations the mechanical race was making.

The mechanical race could not wait to die. Even if the logistics were beaten and collapsed by him before, the mechanical race would at least find a way to fight the empire desperately. It is impossible that there would be no movement.

He felt that he really had to wait for the Zerg to develop again, and then send a ship to each star system of the Mechanical Clan for reconnaissance.

Chen Ming had just been thinking about it, and there were a lot of messages from Cheng Xinghai in the terminal in his hand, telling Chen Ming about the pain of the training.

Chen Ming comforted her while continuing to think about the war.

Not long after.

Chen Ming arrived at the star system where the branch was located.

There have been huge changes here compared to the last time he left.

The branch is no longer limited to a volcanic planet. All the planets in the star system have traces of development and have a foundation for construction.

Chen Ming's spacecraft landed on the only volcanic planet in the star system, which is the headquarters of the branch.

He was immediately taken to the headquarters.

On the way, Chen Ming saw that everyone was in a hurry, and their faces were tense, as if something had happened.

Speaking of which, he suddenly remembered that he saw a large number of fleets coming in and out outside before landing.

He thought it was normal, but now it seems not.

As for what happened specifically, he should know it soon.

Chen Ming was soon taken to the command center in the newly built headquarters building.

There were many people in the command center, and dozens of light screens were flashing on different devices.

Qiu Bowen, who had not been seen for a while, was sitting in the main seat of the command center, and Bai Quan was sitting in his deputy's seat.

Seeing Chen Ming come in.

Bai Quan greeted Qiu Bowen and greeted Chen Ming.

"What happened?"

"The mechanical race finally took action. They raided a planet on our border."