Chapter 372 Battle? Test

The director of the Psychic Research Institute was very curious about the monster in the black hole.

But Chen Ming looked at his gray hair and agreed: "That place is too dangerous."

The director of the Psychic Research Institute said stubbornly: "That's why I want to go over and take a look. So far, we have never encountered psychic creatures that require more than one main battleship to deal with."

"And I am a psychic after all, I have the ability to protect myself."

Speaking of ability, Chen Ming really didn't know what kind of psychic the director of the Psychic Research Institute was.

The director of the Psychic Research Institute usually focuses on the research of various psychic technologies, and leads several teams to run several projects at the same time.

It was not until Chen Ming's project started that he stopped other work and concentrated on Chen Ming's project.

Although he didn't know the director's specific ability, Chen Ming really didn't see the director use any psychic power when doing the project.

That means the director's psychic power is not the type that can assist research, and it is most likely a combat type.

And from Chen Ming's usual perception, the director's psychic power strength is about level 4 or 5.

Although this made the words of the psychic director somewhat convincing, Chen Ming was still a little hesitant.

Because the monster was in the horizon of the black hole.

Although he would be more prepared next time he went there, he would not lack equipment to detect the horizon from outside.

But if the psychic director went there, he might want to get close to the monster, and Chen Ming might not be able to guarantee his safety.

Just looking at the psychic director's old eyes with a special desire and curiosity for the unknown, Chen Ming also found it difficult to say a direct refusal.

"You can go, but you have to do what I say after you go, otherwise forget it."

"No problem."

The psychic director's moving eyes immediately returned to their normal appearance.

He decisively agreed to Chen Ming's request. After all, it is better to go than not to go.

"After we get there, I'll leave everything to you. Just let me see that monster."

"Are you coming?"

The psychic director suddenly turned to the ship research director and asked this question, which made the ship director very annoyed and said, "If you want me to change the director, just say it directly."

"Have you finished talking? Let's go if you're done. Go get the weapons first."

After the psychic director finished explaining some work and the ship director explained the location of the Titan-class ship weapons sent by the Fanchao Research Institute,

Chen Ming used psychic energy to take the two of them to a closed galaxy near the headquarters.

This is the same area that Chen Ming rented to study the transformation of the patriarch's corpse to make a main battleship. Both are places dedicated to some research that may cause large-scale physical damage.

Chen Ming and the two directors were teleported directly to the port of the space station.

With the ship director notifying them in advance, their arrival did not cause any problems such as alarms.

Arriving at his own territory, the ship director looked around and took Chen Ming to the area where the Titan-class ship weapons were installed.

Before he took two steps, Chen Ming's eyes blurred. The light in the port suddenly began to flicker frequently. It seemed that there was a small malfunction in the lighting system.

However, everyone else in the port pretended not to see anything and continued to do what they were supposed to do.

The ship director explained: "It should be testing new weapons again. The weapons consume too much energy. It will definitely be fine after a while."

"Really?"

Just weapons can make a space station's energy supply insufficient, which makes Chen Ming look forward to it.

But after a few seconds, the lighting system that was flashing wildly suddenly went out.

The emergency lights came on after the normal lighting system went out, illuminating the port again.

"Uh, is this normal?"

The director of the ship said calmly: "It's normal. Two new weapons were sent here for testing today. They are all newly developed Titan-class weapons, not the ones installed on the space station."

He added: "These weapons are all from Fan Chao. It's normal for their weapons to have such a large consumption, and they don't have much to put into actual combat, so they have reached a cooperation with us to use these weapons on the front line."

The front line the director of the ship is talking about is obviously not the front line of the mechanical race war, otherwise why would it be sent to the headquarters.

And he just said that the weapons sent by Fan Chao are new weapons.

With the mechanical race already finished, the front line of the mechanical race has no ability to test at all.

So it's obvious who the test object is.

"I have no objection, but I'm curious about what kind of weapon can cut off the power of such a space station specially used for testing."

"We will know soon."

The director of the ship took Chen Ming and the director of the psychic power to an experimental area close to the outside of the space station.

This is a common semi-open area for testing various weapons and devices that need to be tested in space.

Standing on the ground of the space station, you can directly see the starry sky without any partitions, and this area uses a simulated gravity device to limit oxygen inside, so you can breathe without protective clothing.

However, for safety reasons, all staff working here wear heavy protective clothing and are also equipped with noise-canceling headphones.

Because you can see all kinds of large-scale machinery in operation everywhere in this area, your ears are filled with the roar of various mechanical operations anytime and anywhere.

Without noise-canceling headphones, ears could retire decades earlier than humans.

At this time, the emergency lights here were on just like the port outside, and everyone was running around in a hurry, obviously affected by the power outage.

Chen Ming and his party did not stay at the entrance for long, and soon, led by the ship director, they reached the heights of this area.

A command room with direct observation of the entire experimental site.

The command room was also extremely busy. There was a middle-aged researcher in a white coat who was constantly giving various instructions.

It is necessary to temporarily stop the testing process and wait until the space station's circuit system returns to its original condition before testing.

The ship director waited for a while until the emergency situation eased and the middle-aged researcher no longer needed to hold on to several walkie-talkies to give orders.

He walked forward and asked: "How is the situation?"

The middle-aged researcher who was in front of the podium immediately turned around and saw his boss, Chen Ming, and the psychic director next door.

He quickly said: "Director Wang, Director Chen, and Director Gan, the space station has just been overloaded because it is equipped with two new Titan weapons at the same time."

"Only some less important lines need to be replaced. After uninstalling one door, the lines will be restored quickly and the problem will be solved immediately."

The ship director nodded slightly and said, "That's just right. We will take away the unloaded door."

"That's it, right?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the two doors that could be seen outside the command room window and were installed side by side in the space. At this time, there was a giant weapon that was being disassembled and was thousands of meters long, comparable to an ordinary cruiser.

"Yes, those two are the newer models of Titan-class weapons that were just delivered, purgatory rays."

Chen Ming on the side has been focusing on the two giant weapons from the moment he arrived at the experimental area to the moment he entered the command room.

When he heard the researcher mention their names, he immediately asked: "Is it related to the Purgatory Core?"

"Yes."

The psychic director who came with Chen Ming helped explain: "These two purgatory rays use light beams as aggregation carriers of entropy. When launched, they can converge all the energy that escapes, concentrate all the damage, and cause extraordinary damage. Powerful energy damage and heat damage.”

No wonder the energy consumed is so huge. It not only needs to emit a powerful energy beam, but also be able to stimulate the effect of the purgatory core. It's no wonder that it doesn't consume much.

Chen Ming couldn't help but said: "What kind of ship can sustain such a huge energy consumption?"

The ship director also explained: "The Titan-class spacecraft is equipped with an antimatter reactor and an antimatter fuel engine of sufficient scale, coupled with energy crystallization technology, which can minimize the loss of energy circulating in the spacecraft."

“The calculation is theoretically possible on paper.”

"We already have weapons. If we want to build ships later, we must build them on a scale that can afford these weapons."

"You don't have to worry about whether you can afford it or not. The key is whether it is useful."

"The number of purgatory cores is limited."

"So what Fanchao sent last time was a weakened version of this purgatory ray, called hellfire ray."

"If there are enough purgatory rays, the hellfire rays will mainly be installed on the space station."

"If it's not enough, the hellfire ray will have to hit the Titan ship in the future."

"I remember we also have two hellfire rays here. I'll go get one later."

Chen Ming listened silently to the introduction of the ship director. Seeing that he seemed to have a good grasp of what he said, he asked, "Is there any difference?"

"The difference is that there is no purgatory core in the ion cannon. The thing in it that has a similar effect to the purgatory ray is made by imitating the purgatory core."

Chen Ming was suddenly surprised: "Counterfeiting? Have you started to be able to imitate?"

"Yes, technological advancements are often unexpected."

"The normal number of purgatory cores cannot take care of all the space stations on the empire's border. Imitation is the best solution."

"It's been almost a year since you published a technical article about Purgatory Core. After a year, there must be some movement, right?"

Too.

Chen Ming didn't dwell too much on this matter. On the contrary, he was very happy to see it happen.

Technological progress is definitely not a bad thing, at least not purely bad.

at this time.

Someone suddenly pushed open the door of the control room and said: "The line review report has come out, the damaged lines have been replaced, and the circuit system can be restarted at any time."

Hearing the familiar voice of the speaker, Chen Ming immediately looked back.

Sure enough, it was He Gu whom he had not seen for some time.

Chen Ming immediately stepped forward to say hello and asked: "Are you working on this project now?"

"No, I'm still working on the previous project, but now I'm here to communicate."

"The research progress is not going well?"

"yes."

He Gu admitted this point generously: "The main reason is that there are only a few people working on this project of civilianization of psychic devices, and there is no precedent to refer to."

"It just so happened that I heard that the Fanchao Research Institute was preparing to militarize and mass-produce psychic devices, and sent a few more weapons over, so I applied for academic exchanges."

"I feel like we can start with this, after all, many civilian devices are derived from military devices."

"Very good, I wish you success."

After delivering the documents, He Gu turned around and left quickly.

The middle-aged researcher in charge of commanding this experimental site also quickly told Chen Ming that the Purgatory Ray had been unloaded and could be taken away at any time.

Another Hellfire Ray had also been unloaded, just on the other side of the space station, and could also be taken away.

Chen Ming, of course, went there without hesitation and took control of the two new weapons.

Before leaving here, he asked the ship director if there were any other weapons that needed to be tested.

So he added a pair of miscellaneous things to the list of weapons he took away with his psychic power.

Among them, there were two weapons that Chen Ming found more interesting, one of which was the arc launcher carried by the cruiser.

The other is a modular weapon similar to that of the mechanical family carried by the main battleship, the focused arc launcher.

That is, the enhanced version of the arc launcher.

It is said that it can theoretically directly penetrate the target's shield and hull, causing arc damage directly acting on the hull structure.

However, it is said that the effects of these weapons in the previous experiments seem to be somewhat unsatisfactory.

The team that developed this weapon seems to have given up.

But Chen Ming still paid special attention to it, because he thinks these two things seem to have some potential.

After everything was ready.

Chen Ming took the director of the psychic power to jump again and arrived at his highest point.

At this time, only two hours had passed since he entered the wormhole and left from the other end of the wormhole to encounter the monster in the black hole.

His highest point was still in place, observing the situation of the black hole from a distance.

After confirming that he had arrived at the place.

The director of the psychic power immediately determined his coordinates, and his confirmation method was also very simple and effective.

"Where is this place?"

"I don't know yet."

Chen Ming knocked on the control console of the spaceship in front of him, signaling the director of the psychic energy to come and take a look.

"Do you see that wormhole? That's where I came out. As soon as I came out, I was attacked by the thing in the black hole."

"So I plan to kill that thing first to confirm the safety of the surrounding area and then confirm the specific location."

"However, all the observable galaxies nearby have been recorded, and it is confirmed that there is no familiar galaxy structure."

"I can be sure that we are still in our universe, but we are also outside our universe."

That is, outside the observable universe.

The director of the psychic energy helped Chen Ming fill in the last self-evident sentence in his heart.

And he roughly understood why Chen Ming had to deal with the monster first.

After all, the entrance and exit of this place need to pass through the wormhole. Although Chen Ming can use psychic energy to move directly, it is definitely more stable to use natural wormholes to move.

Chen Ming did not chat with the director of the psychic energy for much.

Under the effect of his psychic energy, all the weapons that were previously sent to the colony at the other end of the wormhole appeared near his spaceship.

Like a floating gun, it was suspended in the surroundings, facing the direction of the black hole.

Because the types of weapons obtained from the empire were too complicated, it was too troublesome to install them one by one on the Zerg spacecraft, so Chen Ming planned to use these weapons directly.

Only the other types of weapons that he wanted to test before were tested by modifying the Zerg warships.

However, Chen Ming always remembered the purpose of his coming this time.

The main purpose was to seize the spacecraft of the Shining Civilization, and testing weapons was secondary.

After all, as long as the technology of the Shining Civilization spacecraft was available, a better design than the existing spacecraft would no longer be a problem.

After all the suspended weapons were charged out of thin air.

With the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power again.

Hundreds of Zerg battleships also appeared in the galaxy together.

The director of the psychic power beside Chen Ming looked at such a large fleet with some amazement, and couldn't help but sigh at Chen Ming's current strength.

In his understanding, even the empire that had reached its peak in the pioneering era seemed to have never had a main fleet of this scale.

However, the fact that Chen Ming has such a fleet is already known to many people, but he has seen it with his own eyes now.

There is nothing to say.

Chen Ming has such power and is willing to get along with the Empire normally, which is a very good situation for the Empire.

If he doesn't give face, it will be a pure brainless behavior.

Moreover, Chen Ming gathered so many battleships together at this time to face a more terrible enemy.

After the Zerg fleet arrived, Chen Ming activated the updated reconnaissance device, which can directly observe the situation inside the black hole's event horizon outside the black hole's event horizon.

The new sensor screen immediately appeared on the spacecraft console.

I saw that the monster was still struggling at the mouth of the black hole, trying to break free from the black hole's shackles, and the limbs waving wildly seemed to vent its emotions.

But it can only vent.

It can't break free from the shackles of the black hole at all.

"The psychic detection device has recorded the psychic fluctuations it emits when using psychic energy."

"All the data are available. You can check them out yourself."

Chen Ming said a few words to the director of the psychic energy institute, and then used psychic energy to control various reconnaissance devices to spread out around the black hole to record the actual combat data of various weapons in the future.

The main fleet of the Zerg also began to approach slowly, and various weapons for testing that Chen Ming had modified himself were ready to go.

However, those weapons that were purely suspended in the universe entered the horizon close to the black hole at a faster speed.

The monster in the black hole seemed to have discovered the approaching weapons very early because Chen Ming had harassed it before.

The big mouth on its head split open to 180 degrees again, and the dark purple light ball appeared in its mouth again.

In a blink of an eye, a gravity beam swept towards the approaching group of weapons.

However, as long as the monster's beam still needs to rely on its own head rotation to locate, it will not be able to hit these weapons with Chen Ming's psychic energy as a report.

All weapons controlled by Chen Ming successfully entered the black hole's horizon.

And after entering their respective ranges, they opened fire directly.

Energy, live ammunition, chemical, explosion, all types of weapons are tilting ammunition and energy towards the monster.

Although the accuracy of all weapons in the black hole's horizon will be affected.

However, the monster itself exists on the black hole and is connected to the black hole. All things affected by the black hole's gravity will get a certain degree of accuracy correction.

This results in some weapons that may have failed to hit due to accuracy errors to hit the monster more accurately.

After the first wave of bombardment, the explosions or flames caused by the impact of various weapons had not had time to completely dissipate, and the Zerg's main fleet followed closely and stepped into the black hole's horizon area.

Launched a second wave of more terrifying firepower.

But in a colorful fire, a beam of deep purple light suddenly shot out.

All Zerg battleships on this deep purple beam immediately made a short-distance jump, but two Zerg battleships were still hit.

Even though the two battleships directly cut off the part of the tissue that was hit.

But the gravity psychic fluctuations continued to entangle the battleships like a thorn in the flesh, as if they would not stop until the entire battleship was crushed into a bloody ball.

After discovering this situation, the two Zerg warships did not hesitate for a moment and started the jump engine again, jumping to the part of the body that was extremely close to the monster and the black hole.

The monster seemed to have sensed the jump fluctuations approaching it in advance.

At the moment when the jump of the two battleships ended.

It suddenly pulled its terrifying arthropod limbs towards them.

The Zerg carapace, which was extremely solid in Chen Ming's cognition, was shattered, and the two battleships broke near the black hole.

Then they were swallowed by the monster.

Only some debris fragments were floating outside.

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the result.

At the same time, he took a quick look at the data that had been obtained.

It was just as he had guessed before.

Most weapons will be affected by a strong gravity field when approaching the monster, and cannot play their full role.

This means that although the colorful smoke and dust just now looked powerful, the damage caused was not ideal.

On the contrary, in the second wave of attacks, the sharp live ammunition weapons carried by Chen Ming's Zerg battleships had a very good effect on it.

Almost all of them penetrated its skin that seemed to have the characteristics of maggots and leeches.

However, when facing a creature of this size, it is really hard to see the specific damage caused by live ammunition.

And looking at the movements of the monster, it seems that it has not caused enough damage, let alone any fatal injuries.

However, there are two weapons that are exceptions.

One is the Titan-class ship-borne weapon Purgatory Ray, and the other is the seemingly unpopular concentrated arc launcher.

The Purgatory Ray left a huge burning mark on the monster's body, and the limbs growing near the burning mark twitched faster than the limbs in other places.

Obviously, the Purgatory Ray really hurt it.

The situation of the concentrated arc launcher is quite special.

Although the arcs that hit the monster's body directly the first few times were not ideal, the arc that hit the monster's limbs directly penetrated the limbs and successfully broke them.

The broken limb was now slowly falling into the black hole.