Chapter 369 Darkness

Chen Ming had already prepared the wormhole locking device.

After locking the precise coordinates of the wormhole and determining the fluctuation value of the surrounding space disturbance.

He released the locking device.

Six devices with prismatic structures flew out from the highest point and flew to different locations near the wormhole in the distance.

Connecting them together, they can just form a regular octahedron, surrounding the wormhole.

However, there was no fancy light or any new changes that could be confirmed by the naked eye.

Only the signal received by the sensor can confirm that the locking device is operating normally.

Chen Ming's expression was a little tense.

Because this locking device will definitely have a considerable impact on the other side of the wormhole when it is activated, and it can definitely be detected.

If there is something on the other side of the wormhole, it will definitely come to stop Chen Ming's behavior at this time.

Suddenly, the space fluctuation data received by the sensor at the highest point was briefly disturbed.

Just when Chen Ming's expression was extremely tense and he was ready to take action at any time to prevent unknown dangers.

The space fluctuation suddenly calmed down again.

And no changes have occurred since then.

In this way, the locking device completed a successful operation.

Chen Ming's worries seemed unnecessary in the end.

After confirming that the wormhole locking device was stable and temporarily blocking the unknown dangers that might exist behind the wormhole.

He drove the High Point back to the orbit of the habitable planet.

Continue the main business he came to this galaxy to do, colonizing the planet.

This time he was no longer going to build a temporary base, but to build a complete colony in the true sense.

Before that.

Chen Ming planned to name this habitable planet first.

After he had named this galaxy Origin, this habitable planet should have been called Origin-3.

The two volcanic planets inside were Origin-1 and Origin-2 according to their distance from the star.

But this is a habitable planet after all, and the climate conditions are very suitable for human habitation, so Chen Ming still planned to give it a good name.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming finally gave it an older but more classic name, Gaia.

He did not think much about the habitable satellite of Gaia, and directly named it Gaia-1.

And the other planets in the galaxy were named after Origin-4 and Origin-5.

He only wanted to name those planets with special value and special significance.

On that planet Gaia, Chen Ming's first colony will be established.

The requirements and needs of Chen Ming's colony are obviously different from those of ordinary colonies.

There will be people and people are needed in the colonies of the empire, and they are all kinds of people.

Therefore, if the empire finds this place, it must first build government departments, administrative positions and various colonial infrastructure.

Then, with the government as the center, it will gradually expand a comprehensive colonial city.

Finally, different specialized colonies will be expanded to the surrounding planets and galaxies, and resources will be supplied to the earliest comprehensive colony, which is the capital of a star region.

But Chen Ming does not need to go through such a process.

He has Brilliance to manage administrative positions, and the entire government department can install the core of the afterglow. It is enough.

He also doesn't need so many meaningless comprehensive facilities, those things are used to create jobs.

He just needs a colony that can meet his needs.

To be specific and precise.

He needs a scientific research center that can meet all his research needs, not a laboratory with important equipment that even needs to be rented.

He wants a colony and planet that focuses on scientific research.

This is what his first colony wants to achieve.

After all, it is meaningless for one person to study alone, and communication is also the basis of progress.

Therefore, there will definitely be more than just him in such a colony, there will also be other researchers.

Each of these researchers will be invited or approved by Chen Ming himself.

In simple terms, if there is a researcher that Chen Ming has heard of with technology, he will directly dig into the corner of the empire.

Then he will call it exchange and learning.

So the infrastructure that should be on the planet must be there, he just doesn't need too much infrastructure.

Chen Ming can't just put a dry scientific research center and invite them, right?

Then the supporting facilities and various modern entertainment facilities must keep up.

The only difference is that the Empire needs to consider the population explosion in the space age, so people need to come to these places to work.

Chen Ming does not need to consider this issue, he can directly let the Yuhui core manage these things openly.

He has been preparing for this for a long time, and he will realize his idea from today.

The highest point soon returned to the sky above the planet Gaia.

Chen Ming's psychic power acted on Gaia's orbit, and sent the star gate that Chen Ming had taken from the mechanical family half a year ago and had undergone applicable transformation to the orbit.

The star gate unfolded on the orbit and gradually fixed itself in a suitable position.

The other star gate in Chen Ming's hand was located at the temporary base left by his pioneering fleet during the seventh jump.

In the earliest times, starting with the third jump of the pioneering fleet.

Every time Chen Ming jumps, he will demolish the stronghold of the earliest jump.

Because he does not have enough resources to support it, nor does he have enough afterglow to manage so many strongholds.

But starting from the seventh time, that is, the time when he was forced to jump because of the machine race.

Chen Ming's situation is different. He is no longer limited by the resources of the stronghold.

So starting from that jump, all temporary strongholds behind can be left behind.

The Zerg that sailed with the pioneering fleet and began to expand outward from these temporary strongholds could gather all the valuable materials mined during their expansion into the strongholds.

It goes without saying that the benefits of centralized management go without saying.

Not only is it convenient for Chen Ming to directly use psychic energy.

Moreover, when a situation arises that requires large-scale calls without relying on psychic energy, it is also easy to start the transfer.

Like it is now.

One of the two star gates was erected in the orbit of the planet Gaia, which Chen Ming was about to develop and needed a lot of resources.

Another star gate was erected at the seventh jump stronghold filled with resources mined by the Zerg.

This is the plan laid out by Chen Ming.

The star gate is fully expanded.

The high-efficiency energy crystals transmitted together with the star gate are also converted into energy that supplies the star gate through the conversion device.

The star gate is slowly starting up, opening a layer of mirror within the star gate frame.

Without any interference from outside forces, the mirror surface quickly solidified completely.

A Zerg battleship emerged from the mirror.

What followed were more Zerg battleships of the same model.

They are all Hercules-B-class biological cargo ships that the Zerg have built in the past six months.

It is the result of various improvements and modifications to the mechanical race mothership that was assimilated by the Insect Queen.

Of course, Chen Ming still used spiritual energy to block his control of these Zerg battleships.

It's not that Zerg warships can't work.

The transportation and loading capabilities of the Hercules-B class are no worse than the Astra class, the capital ship class cargo ship that the Empire also has.

Even the Hercules-B class can use the characteristics of the Zerg flesh to coordinate with the cargo structure of the port to transport cargo efficiently, and create a special separate isolation layer according to the size of the cargo in the internal storage cavity to maximize the carrying capacity of the cargo. quantity.

And the Zerg can not only have one model of Hercules-B class.

More than one cargo variant of the Hercules class, to be precise.

Of course, Chen Ming would consider different uses when asking the insect queen to modify the capital ship.

The combat effectiveness of the combat model Hercules-A is definitely not bad among ships of the same class.

The reason why Chen Ming did not directly control the Zerg battleship was to avoid taking the position of the first battleship he controlled.

His choice was made.

And these capital ships are only used to transport resources.

Transportation supplies resources for subsequent operations of the stargate and colonial construction.

Chen Ming's plan is very clear.

His psychic energy is only responsible for providing the first batch of initial energy, and is only used to supply the first activation of the star gate.

After that, the transportation of materials will be completely handed over to the Zerg and Stargate.

He had said long ago that he wanted to create a colony that could continue to function without him.

Now it seems that at least he has successfully taken the first step.

At least with the arrival of this batch of Zerg main-class cargo ships, his colony will no longer have a problem with the material consumption of activating the star gate.

And when all the first batch of Zerg motherships entered the galaxy and began to transport supplies to the planet, the star gate continued to operate.

The star gate will not be temporarily closed until all materials for the temporary base on the 7th are transported.

And later when Chen Ming teleported the star gate to stronghold No. 8 and restarted it.

Until all the mountains of materials from all the pioneering bases are transported to Gaia.

And at the same time.

The subsequent pioneering fleet also jumped to the origin galaxy after the reconnaissance force ahead confirmed the safety of the galaxy.

The resources are there, the labor force is there, and the command is already there.

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about the rest.

He handed over the task to Brilliance and turned around to study a problem that he would have to face sooner or later.

Wormhole.

If the wormhole is objectively there, then Chen Ming cannot regard it as nothing.

Sooner or later he had to figure out what was behind the wormhole.

That's not the break point, let's start trying to explore the wormhole directly now.

The empire has the ability to seize the singularity at the core of the wormhole and use it to create it. Of course, it also has the technology to explore the wormhole.

Of course, Chen Ming also mastered these when learning the technologies related to the Star Gate.

If you want to explore a wormhole, you have to go through it.

This process requires confronting the power of wormholes to distort space.

This force cannot be blocked by ordinary battleships. The spacecraft needs to be equipped with a space stabilizing device similar to the single locking device he just used on the wormhole.

As long as the force of natural wormholes that distort space can be stabilized, one can pass through the wormhole safely.

Alternatively, it is not impossible to rely on the sheer strength of the ship itself.

At least there have been examples of this being done successfully.

When Chen Ming heard the news, he immediately guessed which ship had this capability.

Obviously, it was the offensive-class specially modified by the 14th Legion.

The protective strength to resist the impact of the wormhole is not a problem.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't really do this. Although he didn't prepare special things to deal with wormholes before, he had almost prepared from scratch during the time of dealing with scavengers and preparing resources for colony construction.

Chen Ming had obtained the space stabilization device through channels within the empire and installed it on three cruisers.

One was the High Point he drove, and two were the Stardust he controlled.

He wanted to personally go through the wormhole and go to the other end of the wormhole.

There was no special reason, just wanting.

In the past, Chen Ming was very afraid of death, because he often missed a lot of interesting things.

Now that he finally has the ability and is not afraid of death, of course he wants to personally experience many scenes that he couldn't experience before.

For example, now.

The three cruisers soon arrived in front of the wormhole again.

The locking device surrounding the wormhole is a one-way locking device, which does not affect the passage of this section of the wormhole.

Although it would be a bit troublesome to go back through the wormhole, Chen Ming felt that he should not need to go through this wormhole to come back.

He just needed this wormhole to help him go through.

Chen Ming was mentally and physically prepared.

He activated the space stabilization device and entered the spiral wormhole that was like a miniature nebula.

The space force of the wormhole tore his spacecraft, but it was all offset by the space stabilization device, so that Chen Ming's body was not affected except for a little nausea.

But think about it from another angle. If the power of the wormhole can make Chen Ming's body feel a little nauseous now, then it will be obvious what the effect will be for ordinary people.

So in Chen Ming's impression, people who go through the wormhole to investigate what is behind the wormhole are generally hard-trained soldiers, or scientists who have to investigate with such serious reactions.

Chen Ming thought about it in his mind while waiting silently.

And while waiting.

Chen Ming's danger-sensing psychic power, which had been silent for a long time, finally started to move.

He felt a danger that completely enveloped him and a sharp danger that appeared in his perception at the same time.

He immediately perked up and looked at the readings returned from the highest point.

He found that the coordinates of the wormhole landing point calculated by the computer of the spacecraft were shifting because of a strange gravitational force.

Chen Ming didn't know what was going on, but he was ready to face the danger.

And the moment the three spacecraft passed through the wormhole.

A world that was so dark that it seemed that all the light was swallowed up appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.

No, this is not a dark world.

This is a black hole that appeared outside the wormhole.

Appeared in front of Chen Ming.