Chapter 366 Half a Year

Time flies.

After finishing his boss's worry, half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.

Everything went according to plan during this half year. Chen Ming successfully learned the ship technology, biotechnology, combat command technology and various psychic knowledge.

The research progress of the ongoing project to transform the corpse of the Phase Beast Patriarch is also very gratifying.

The research team established by Chen Ming spent more than a month to thoroughly figure out the condition of the Phase Beast corpse and had a sufficient understanding of the Phase Beast species.

And in the next three weeks, the processing of the Phase Beast Patriarch corpse was completed.

Useless organs and tissues, such as the special digestive system used to digest scarlet substances and supply energy to the beast, or the brain that had long been dead and slightly damaged were completely removed.

They were distributed according to the contributions made by different research institutes in the early research process.

These things are of great value to research in other directions.

Useful organs and tissues, such as muscles, bones, and various organs that maintain the life of the phase beast itself, have regained some vitality under the effect of the Zerg's ability, so that they will not completely rot.

Although under normal circumstances, the phase beast only exists in the phase space, and there are no natural microorganisms in the phase space.

But for the needs of research, the body of the phase beast patriarch needs to be intermittently brought back to the normal universe.

So naturally, some microorganisms that may cause the body to rot will also be sent into the phase space.

The entire research site of the phase beast patriarch experiment is isolated from the outside, so there is no need to worry about some microorganisms that can only be processed from the phase space causing trouble to the outside.

However, things inside must still be handled well.

Anticorrosion is obviously the first priority.

And some more important special organs on the patriarch's body, such as the long whiskers on the top of the head and the tail, and the lines on the body surface that emit light when the beast uses power.

Because these organs and tissues are judged to be the important source of power of the phase beast during this period of research. And after the death of the patriarch, these organs of power are gradually losing power.

Therefore, these special organs and tissues were specially preserved after being studied by the Psionic Research Institute, using the catalyst produced by the Zerg and the catalytic core that Chen Ming had studied almost some time ago, as well as the psychic power of a psychic.

And in subsequent tests, it was confirmed that these operations have ensured the integrity of the dimensional power of the corpse.

Ensure that the phase power of the corpse can still be used later.

As for the scarlet power of the patriarch, it has been erased by the power of the phase space after its death and no longer exists.

The impact of this is not great. Anyway, Chen Ming will find a way to add some of the power he should have to the ship in the end.

At present, the progress of the main battleship project has just completed the treatment of the patriarch's corpse.

The next step of the research direction of the basic construction of the ship has just begun.

At present, the general direction of these designs has been prepared.

The main control system is the component that the ship needs to consider first.

It is the basis for controlling all the structures of the spacecraft, especially for the main battleship whose own scale has reached a certain level, it is even more important.

The computing power of the main control is one of the most important indicators considered by the main control system.

Compared with computers, the advantages of biological brains are extremely obvious here.

So the purely mechanized main control structure was not within Chen Ming's consideration at the beginning.

However, since Chen Ming found that the brain of the patriarch's corpse was damaged in the earliest stage, it was probably damaged after entering the scarlet dimension.

As a result, the biological brain must be manufactured later.

Whether it is relying on the existing technology of the empire to manufacture biological brains or using the queen to manufacture biological brains, and conducting subsequent tests, it will take Chen Ming some time.

It happened that during this period of time, some new changes occurred in the sample No. 0.

One day, Chen Ming suddenly had a brain pull and put him in the mechanical colony to manage the personality core "Mechanical Queen" and merged with the sample No. 0.

The sample No. 0 itself is a half-mechanical and half-biological existence. It not only has the characteristics of the individual Zerg, but also has various characteristics of the mechanical unit.

Therefore, this time Chen Ming's sudden experiment was actually successful, allowing the sample No. 0, which had already begun to show characteristics, different from ordinary Zerg, and even different from the queen, to "evolve".

It became a new "Queen of Insects", the Queen of the Mechanical Clan, the real "Queen of Machinery".

It can control the power of the core of personality and help Chen Ming manage the Mechanical Clan in a more flexible and more "human" way, or in other words, "the humanity that Chen Ming needs".

Chen Ming thought it was not impossible to change to a computer controlled by the Queen of Machinery.

But after considering another key issue.

Chen Ming still chose the biological brain,

the key issue is the signal transmission issue.

Under the premise of having the main control, the next issue in the design of the battleship is the signal transmission line issue.

This was also an important issue when the battleship technology was developed.

And Chen Ming's ship was originally intended to use the mature line technology to build the signal line when it was first planned.

But soon, with the study of the corpse of the Phase Behemoth Patriarch, Chen Ming discovered that the Phase Behemoth's own nerve signal transmission efficiency is higher than all the currently known lines.

In addition, Chen Ming himself has long solved the problem of converting pure electrical signals to bioelectric signals.

So his main battleship can completely use these nerves as signal transmission lines.

However.

Chen Ming found a faster way to transmit signals.

That is, the Zerg nerves strengthened by the Queen after absorbing the Patriarch's genes have a faster bioelectric signal transmission speed.

Enough to replace the Patriarch's nerves.

It's just that the Patriarch's own nerves are absolutely the most suitable for his body, and using a little improvement in exchange for a decrease in adaptability may not be a suitable choice.

At that time, almost all the researchers in Chen Ming's research institute quarreled over these two choices.

In the end, Chen Ming decided to use the Zerg to solve the problem of nerves or signal lines.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Ming would definitely be sprayed by those who support using the Patriarch's original nerves.

But in the end, everyone agreed with Chen Ming's decision without any objection.

Because the Zerg can make the already fast signal transmission efficiency even higher than it can be.

That is to use the hive mind.

The existence of the hive mind can make the signal completely synchronized during transmission, without the need for the transmission process.

It is precisely because of this situation of the Zerg.

Even if the mechanical race merges the zero sample with the mechanical queen and gives the mechanical race a real mechanical queen, it can also use the hive mind to eliminate the signal transmission process.

But at present, neither the Empire nor Chen Ming has developed a signal line that can rival biological nerves.

So in the case of an adaptive choice, the ship's main control system finally chose the Zerg brain, and the signal line also chose the nerves made by the Zerg Queen.

Although the signal transmission inside the ship can rely on the hive mind, some not-so-important places can still use the Zerg Queen nerves.

This is the current research and development progress of the main battleship.

These alone have taken Chen Ming half a year.

And then there are many problems such as energy sources, engines, armor, weapons, etc. waiting for him to deal with.

Thinking about it makes Chen Ming a little headache and excited.

To be honest, he hadn't felt any challenges in doing things for a while.

This kind of research, where psychic power can only play a supporting role, is something that he can devote himself to and makes him feel that his life is extremely fulfilling.

The research on the battleship will definitely take a long time.

But Chen Ming is not only busy with the battleship.

In addition to the progress on the ship, he has also made considerable progress in his own abilities.

His power has been completely integrated, and he has been constantly gaining power from the scarlet dimension by contacting it during this period.

In terms of power strength alone, his psychic power strength has more than doubled compared to before.

But he looks less and less like a psychic.

Because he is more restrained in normal times and does not show any performance.

He no longer needs to show his power in the empire, and no one will provoke him.

Except for some times when psychic power must be used, such as when his project needs to test some psychic technology that can be used on the battleship.

Other times, other people can't even tell that he is a psychic.

He has passed the time when he needs to show his edge.

He needs to settle down.

In addition, since his prosthetic ability has been exposed, it doesn't matter to him whether he has a prosthesis or not. He no longer needs more prostheses to cover up anything.

So he replaced all the prostheses, except An Wuping, with robots.

Only one body with a normal appearance that was made before and has been constantly changing during this period is left to act outside.

Doing so can also weaken the impression that Chen Ming relied on An Wuping to make a biological prosthesis.

Eliminate the extremely small possibility that other people may associate An Wuping with himself because of these prostheses.

In addition.

There are some other things happening in the past six months.

Because the combat effectiveness of the mechanical race has collapsed completely, the empire has been extremely successful in the war.

Chen Ming has heard of many battle results that civilians talk about at different times and places.

And things related to psychics are increasingly revealed in the perspective of ordinary people.

With the preparations made by the empire in the past, and the excitement brought to the people of the empire by the current advantages of the empire and the mechanical race in the war,

the existence of psychics is really gradually integrating into the society of the empire.

There are negative situations as well.

Some places are extremely disgusted with the existence of psychics and are quite unimpressed with the Empire's promotion of psychics.

It may be the influence left over from some psychics committing crimes in the past or in history.

But these are only a minority after all.

Psychics will surely be able to truly appear in the public eye soon.

There is also good news.

Chen Ming's previous efforts to create the Black Mist Zerg were not in vain.

After Chen Ming's extremely deliberate reminder, the Empire really found signs of Zuo Jing's activities around some high-level officials in the territory.

They began to pay attention to Zuo Jing's existence again.

Although the real brainwashed psychic has not yet been investigated, the resurgence of Zuo Jing has been anticipated.

Now is not the period when the entire Empire was stagnant before.

The Empire will never allow Zuo Jing to run out and cause trouble at a critical moment.

Of course, there have been bad things in the past six months.

These are the two natural disasters that Chen Ming mentioned that may come in the future.

The situation of the mechanical race cannot be determined for the time being, but the space gap in the mechanical race star field is real.

Although the gap leading to the three dimensions is already under the surveillance of the Empire, the gap may collapse at any time.

Therefore, Chen Ming's current project related to the phase space of the phase beast is also a key project of the Empire.

Even though the relationship between the Empire and him is a bit subtle at present, the Empire still gave Chen Ming the green light in all aspects.

After all, other results brought about by this research process can also be applied to aspects related to dimensional gaps.

In addition to funding Chen Ming's research, the Empire has indeed been working hard on this research.

Trying to carry out Baiquan's previous suggestion to Chen Ming, sending the entire Empire into the phase space to avoid the sequelae of the invasion of the Scarlet Dimension.

However, Chen Ming still has the same indescribable strange feeling as before, which makes him somewhat reluctant to send the Zerg into the phase space to develop.

There is nothing to say in detail.

In addition, the Empire is also trying to send out enough reconnaissance fleets that may never return, trying to confirm the movements of the mechanical race outside.

But this may be a project that takes longer than Chen Ming's project.

In the past six months, there have been about these things that Chen Ming can remember.

And today.

Chen Ming just received a new piece of good news.

That is, his pioneering fleet has made six more jumps in half a year, and the total number of jumps has reached thirteen times.

It can only be said that the efficiency of exploration and jumps has made a qualitative leap after the Zerg joined.

The next jump, the fourteenth jump, which is enough to jump to the location set by Chen Ming three years ago, can start today, at this moment.

Chen Ming directly returned to the pioneering fleet.

He boarded the Supreme Point, which he had not returned to for a while because he was busy with the main battleship.

Chaofan was also taken to the headquarters by Chen Ming because Chen Ming arranged the main battleship laboratory site at the headquarters.

So only Huihuang was waiting for him on the Supreme Point.

"Let's get started."

Chen Ming didn't say much nonsense, came to the captain's room, and gave orders to Huihuang.

After receiving Chen Ming's order, Huihuang sent the first batch of reconnaissance fleets to the destination of this jump.

After getting the result that there was no danger in the jump landing.

A small group of fleets carrying basic construction materials followed the Supreme Point, resonated with the engine of the Supreme Point, and began the formal jump.

Of course, neither this time nor the reconnaissance jump just now was a direct jump to the planet of Chen Ming's destination.

Because Chen Ming originally obtained the coordinates of this location from the mechanical race.

God knows whether there will be troubles from the mechanical race waiting for him at the destination.

Even though the star map that Chen Ming got from the mechanical race showed that there were no mechanical races near this area, and the mechanical race might not be able to defeat him, he still needed to be prepared.

Caution is the most important thing.

Therefore, the destination of this jump was determined by Chen Ming to be a nearby galaxy that was some distance away from the real target and had not found any obvious problems in Qianmian's astronomical optical observations.

The jump ended quickly.

The landing point of the jump was still some distance outside this nearby galaxy, and this was also done to ensure safety.

After confirming again that there was no danger nearby, Chen Ming drove the Supreme Point towards the interior of the galaxy.

After approaching the outermost planet of the galaxy.

Chen Ming activated the galaxy-level sensor of the Supreme Point and scanned the galaxy.

He did not find the existence of the mechanical race in the galaxy.

But he found some interesting things.

There were several moving objects in the galaxy.

And there was an unknown space signal fluctuation far away outside the galaxy.

The things in the galaxy are definitely not mechanical races according to Chen Ming's understanding of the mechanical race.

And the space signal fluctuations outside the galaxy are in the direction of the galaxy where Chen Ming's real target for this jump is.

Chen Ming did not rush to the next galaxy immediately, but first increased the power in this galaxy and scanned the specific situation of the objects moving in the galaxy.

And the result of the scan.

Those objects moving in the galaxy are all the combination of some kind of spacecraft and engineering equipment, which should be some kind of drones.

Chen Ming even felt that these drones were quite familiar, because most of the equipment they were equipped with were mining-related equipment, but they were more advanced and more automated.

They should be some kind of mining drones.

From what Chen Ming scanned at this time, they seemed to have been wandering inside the galaxy.

Mining minerals in the asteroid belt within the galaxy, and some exposed minerals on the surface of planets without high-risk environments.

This should be a mineral mining machine left behind by the Shining Civilization, which is still operating today.

Judging from the results of the planet scan just now, almost every planet has a large number of open-pit mineral resources, as well as a large number of traces of being mined by something.

Apparently, these mining drones did this.

And this galaxy is a galaxy that is extremely rich in mineral resources that have been mined by robots left over from the era of shining civilization and are still not completely mined today.

Chen Ming immediately captured a mining drone, and after controlling it with psychic energy, he confirmed the place where these mining drones would return after collecting enough resources.

It is also the location next door that Chen Ming decided on more than three years ago.

Chen Ming no longer hesitated.

Let the Supreme Point start the jump engine again and go to the galaxy named ZI-X.

Generally speaking, only colonized galaxies will have unique names rather than code names, and the earliest colonists have the qualifications to name galaxies and planets.

Of course, Chen Ming's naming of such a galaxy that is extremely far away from the empire does not require the empire's approval.

So Chen Ming directly named this galaxy when he saw it.

Origin Galaxy.

The reason why Chen Ming named it directly was because at the moment the jump ended, a huge galaxy with eight planets and three satellites appeared in his eyes.

Although Chen Ming knew that this destination had multiple planets and satellites during previous observations.

But it wasn't until he actually came here that he understood the specific conditions of these planets and their value.

This is a perfect galaxy.

Starting close to the star and working from the inside out.

They are two volcanic planets with a large amount of valuable mineral resources that can be seen from outside the planet. They can not only serve as military planets, but also use the high heat of the planet itself to become a specialized smelting planet.

Outside, there are habitable planets with habitable satellites one after another. The value of such habitable double galaxies is self-evident.

Then there are two ordinary terrestrial planets. Although ordinary, that is relative to other planets.

The two planets themselves also have a certain level of resources.

Moreover, the two planets themselves are relatively large in size, and the planet itself is also a type of resource.

Further out, there is a gas giant planet and an ice giant planet, which have extremely rich gas resources.

The gas giant even has two moons.

Both satellites are wrapped in a thick atmosphere, but the surprising results of the scans showed that the planet has many special pore-like structures.

These two satellites can produce a lot of high-quality gaseous resources.

The outermost one is an ice planet that looks equally ordinary, with nothing special about it.

However, according to Chen Ming's scanning results at this time, there is an ecosystem on this planet.

These creatures living in extreme cold have considerable research value.

This is a perfect galaxy.

A self-sufficient, perfect capital galaxy.

According to the classification of galaxy levels that Chen Ming once learned about.

This galaxy is definitely a Category 6 galaxy.

but.

There is a very serious question before Chen Ming.

That is, there is a wormhole in this galaxy until the orbit of the habitable binary galaxy corresponds to the stars.

And it is still moving around the star like an ordinary planet.

"This...should be considered a wonder galaxy..."

Brilliant replied: "According to the standards of the Human Empire, yes."

Wonderful galaxy.

Chen Ming had known it before.

It is defined as strange phenomena in the universe that cannot be explained by current technology, which are collectively referred to as wonders of the universe.

Since its existence cannot be denied and the reason for its existence cannot be understood, it can only be called a spectacle.

And wonder galaxies are galaxies where such wonders of the universe exist.

There used to be a Harmony Company that had some relationship with its boss. Their plant plant research institute was located in a galaxy whose stars had no ultraviolet light. It was a galaxy of wonders.

At first, Chen Ming felt that there was something wrong with the existence of such a thing, but when he thought carefully about it, he had never seen any psychic energy before, and a star without ultraviolet light was not unacceptable.

The current wormhole that is cyclically moving around a star is obviously a wonder of the universe.