Chapter 375: Nightmare of the Planes

"Weakness? Where is it?"

The survivor responded: "Since you have obtained this communicator, it means that you have fought with the Plane Nightmare and found our spaceship."

"Its weakness is at the location where you found the spaceship, near the part of the body near the intersection of the Plane Nightmare and the black hole."

"That's its weakness. Destroy this part of the body and you can kill it."

It just so happened that Chen Ming had carefully observed the appearance of the Plane Nightmare before and was able to construct its appearance in his mind.

Of course, the location of the Shining Civilization's spaceship can also be marked on the body of the Plane Nightmare model in his mind.

And this place where it intersects with the black hole can be said to be the thickest part of the Plane Nightmare.

It doesn't make people want to attack it, and coupled with the deterrence of the black hole itself, Chen Ming didn't think it would be a weakness before.

He also didn't think that the survivors would lie to him about the sincerity they said in person, which would be very easy to expose.

So basically, it can be believed that this is the weakness of the Plane Nightmare.

I didn't expect that the body that looks the fattest is actually its most vulnerable part.

"I see, I'll try it and contact you later."

Chen Ming was about to end the communication when another message came from the communicator: "Wait a minute."

"We have already informed you of our existence. Can you please tell us what kind of existence you are?"

"We want to know the difference between your civilization and ours. We don't need to be too detailed. We just need to have a basic understanding."

Chen Ming thought about whether there were any nouns or adjectives in the language of the Shining Civilization that could describe the empire.

"We are a country with a democratic system with 'human beings' as the main species, or civilization. You can call us the Human Empire."

"When we developed the ruins of your civilization, we knew that you were an imperial civilization. You should understand what I said."

In the past six months, Chen Ming had also visited the Shining Civilization Research Institute to learn the language of the Shining Civilization, and of course he had learned some of their related knowledge.

In particular, the knowledge that the Shining Civilization was actually an imperial system left him with a very deep impression.

After all, this is indeed a bit difficult.

Because the Shining Civilization calls itself Shining, not Shining Empire.

On the human side, it is an alternative democratic system with centralized military power, but it calls itself an empire.

This contrast is hard not to leave a deep impression on people.

The survivors didn't seem to pay much attention to this and quickly replied: "Yes, we can understand."

"What about you? What kind of existence are you in your civilization, and what kind of relationship do you have with the human empire?"

Chen Ming thought about it for a while and said: "This is also the question I want to ask you."

"We are just a group of hundreds of survivors with only very basic social relationships, and I am just a person with some social skills, so I am here to communicate with you."

In the survivors' response, "people" refers to the species of Shining Civilization itself, so Chen Ming directly translated it into a reference that is easy to understand.

After writing down their responses, Chen Ming also responded to this question: "I am one of the top psychics in the human empire."

"As for the relationship with the empire, it is a friendly cooperative relationship."

"Cooperative relationship?"

As an imperial civilization, Shining seems to have some misunderstanding of what the empire is like.

"In a democratic civilization, the management of some aspects is more relaxed, and not all psychics have to serve the ruling class."

The survivors seemed to be unable to accept this situation. After all, the disadvantages of letting psychics run wild are very obvious.

"Here, psychics can be equated with the ruling class. Our emperor is the most powerful psychic. Only the most powerful psychic can suppress other psychics from making mistakes."

Chen Ming asked back: "Aren't you afraid that the emperor is not capable enough? Is his virtue unworthy of the position?"

The survivors said again: "Every powerful psychic has a learning ability far beyond that of any ordinary person. The ability of a psychic who can become an emperor is definitely worthy of his position."

"Moral issues are definitely not shackles that restrict His Majesty the Emperor."

Chen Ming was not interested in arguing with them about such ideological and political issues, and directly threw out a question that he thought might be interesting.

"Then is there an emperor in your small group of hundreds of people?"

There was silence on the other end of the communicator.

There was silence for a long time, obviously choked by Chen Ming's question.

An emperor of the Shining Civilization is indeed worthy of respect. No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he can rely on his skills and power to maintain the Shining Civilization, he is a capable person, at least in terms of ability.

However, the emperor of a small group of hundreds of people mentioned by the survivors themselves is simply a big joke.

Chen Ming is equivalent to pointing at their noses and scolding them.

Whether they have an emperor or not, it is a very ridiculous situation.

If they have an emperor, it is a joke.

If they don’t, they have given up even their own system. What qualifications do they have to criticize the political system of the empire to which Chen Ming belongs.

The survivors also understand this, so they gave in and said, "I am very sorry. We have offended your system abruptly."

Chen Ming himself was not interested in this topic, so he did not pursue it too much.

"I hope we can coexist peacefully, instead of clashing over unimportant things."

"Yes, that should be the case."

"Then let's talk about it later."

Chen Ming put away the terminal and looked up at the porthole at the highest point near the black hole.

The director of the psychic power next to him immediately asked, "What should we do?"

"First, go and see if the information is true, and then send back the news about the survivors of the shining civilization. I will take the communicator."

"Okay."

The director of the psychic power had no opinion. Anyway, Chen Ming had the final say on all mechanical-related things that he had touched. It was useless for others to say anything.

Chen Ming spent a little time compiling the document, recording the whole process of his investigation and discovery of the spacecraft of the shining civilization, and the discovery of the survivors.

After letting the director of the psychic power look through it and finding no problems, Chen Ming directly sent a copy of the document to everyone in his address book who was qualified to see it, and let them sort it out themselves.

By the way, Chen Ming also turned off the terminal directly to avoid being disturbed when he was doing things later.

After the news of the survivors was announced, there would be at least a platoon of people who would call him.

Chen Ming put away the terminal and asked the director of the psychic institute: "Do you want to stay and watch the follow-up?"

"Anyway, I am not responsible for studying the shining civilization. I am not in a hurry."

Chen Ming nodded, gave orders to the Queen of the Zerg, and organized a new batch of main fleets.

He roughly estimated the combat effectiveness of the Plane Nightmare, and finally decided to get 300 Zerg main battleships, which should be enough.

The newly reorganized main fleet appeared near the highest point soon after.

And after showing his face, he entered the phase space with the highest point, lurking in the phase space, preparing for another raid.

At this time, in the black hole horizon, the situation of the Plane Nightmare did not seem to have changed much compared to before.

The huge wound that almost penetrated half of its body caused by Chen Ming's Zerg fleet and various weapons in a concentrated attack has disappeared, and the wound on the back of its body has almost completely recovered.

The black hole matter that spilled out seems to have been reabsorbed by it.

This monster really has a very strong recovery ability.

However, the impact is not great. Chen Ming's target this time is not the previous wound, but its fat belly that is stuck near the black hole exit, probably the belly.

The Zerg fleet in the phase space is slowly approaching, and the director of the psychic energy suddenly whispered again: "These ships seem..."

"What's wrong?"

"It feels a little different from the ones you sent before."

"Yes."

Chen Ming admitted: "I changed some weapon distribution."

The weapons originally carried by the Zerg were all the weapons he intended to use for testing.

In the first wave of tests, Chen Ming has basically determined the effects of most of the weapons.

So taking advantage of the time to contact the survivors just now and prepare a new Zerg fleet, Chen Ming specially made a batch of new weapons that were useful in the test results just now.

It was evenly installed on half of the three hundred battleships.

As for the remaining half of the ships.

Chen Ming installed a new arc launcher that he copied after studying the principle of the arc launcher. The time that has just passed is enough for him to thoroughly understand the technology of this thing.

This has increased the total number of arc launchers by hundreds of times.

It can only be said that Chen Ming always feels that this weapon has great potential, but lacks a suitable combat environment.

Therefore, he plans to test the applicable environment of this somewhat special weapon.

It just so happens that the target has not exploded just now, and it can be tested again.

It is also because Chen Ming's Zerg fleet now has some unified weapons that the Minister of Psionics feels that the fleet seems to be somewhat different from the messy situation just now.

After explaining, Chen Ming continued to let the Zerg fleet approach the location where it was previously raided from the phase space.

In the dark, the nightmare of the plane seemed to sense the danger again.

This talent belonging to psychics and psychic creatures can tell him that danger is coming, but there is no way for him to deal with the danger.

Its limbs were waving wildly, and the cracks were constantly biting the surrounding space, but without direct contact with the phase space, it had no way to tear the barrier between the two spaces.

Chen Ming even had the time and leisure to adjust the firing time of each weapon according to the distance of each Hercules in the fleet.

Ensure that the ammunition, energy bombs or energy beams fired by each weapon, as well as any form of attack means, can hit at the same time.

Strive to take it away directly in one wave and not give it a chance to counterattack.

The Zerg consciousness in the Zerg warships is connected to each other by the hive mind, so there is no problem in doing this.

It only took less than a minute for the Zerg fleet to arrange the time to open fire.

The Purgatory Ray began to gather energy, and the other energy weapons began to show signs of charging.

All the live ammunition weapons opened fire earlier than the energy weapons. When the live ammunition that almost formed a wall of steel in the phase space hit the Plane Nightmare and tore the Plane Nightmare's gelatinous skin.

A red ray accompanied by hundreds of concentrated arcs that seemed to illuminate the purple black hole hit the wound torn by the live ammunition weapon almost without any time difference.

It penetrated the fat body.

The plane nightmare, which was still twisting to defend because of sensing danger, froze, but did not stop.

Its body... its corpse was thrown out with inertia, and it was separated from the half of its body stuck in the black hole.

The activation of the Zerg Hercules class directly cut it in half.

The lower half of the body was directly sucked into the black hole.

And its upper half of the body twitched a few times, and black hole matter flowed out from the gap.

Immediately, a gravitational storm was caused within the black hole's horizon.

Chen Ming immediately used psychic energy to teleport himself to the black hole's horizon. The psychic energy released dimensional power to block the surrounding space, and all the black hole matter ejected from the corpse was restrained, sent into the phase space, and sent to the origin galaxy at the other end of the wormhole.

Although only half of the body of the Plane Nightmare was left, he still had to ensure the integrity of the body to prevent the remaining half from falling into the black hole like the lower half.

He still had a use for this body.

The gravitational wave in the horizon gradually subsided.

Chen Ming also returned to the highest point and said to the director of the psychic power institute: "It's solved. There is no problem with the intelligence. That is its weakness."

"Let's continue to talk to the survivors... Wait."

Chen Ming's movements suddenly stopped because he noticed that the position of the wormhole that brought him here on the sensor at the highest point was undergoing unprecedented changes.

It was moving.

It was no longer being pulled by the gravity of the black hole, but was like a spaceship, heading to other galaxies.

"This..."

Chen Ming and the director of the psychic power institute looked at each other, and it was obvious that neither of them understood what was going on.

This strange situation made him alert.

He immediately released his psychic power to detect what was happening on the wormhole. At the same time, he also observed the situation of the wormhole at the other end.

However, Chen Ming did not sense any special situation, nor did he find any changes on the other side of the wormhole.

But the wormhole seemed to be moving, and the nearest galaxy in the direction of movement seemed to be a galaxy with dim stars.

At the current speed of the wormhole, it would take at least a few days for it to reach that galaxy.

Chen Ming told him that he could come back later to see what would happen.

"Let's continue to talk to the survivors."

Chen Ming said so, and the Minister of Psychic Energy certainly had no objection.

Chen Ming also took out the terminal that had just been closed and sent a message: "The Nightmare of the Plane is dead, and there is no problem with the information you provided."

The communicator replied quickly: "Okay, then in your opinion, have we shown our sincerity?"

"No problem, I can have a certain degree of trust in you."

"So, how do you want me to show my sincerity?"

The survivors seemed to have thought of a way and said: "We can trade."

"You know our situation. Our ancestors came here to avoid some unknown things, and because of the Nightmare of the Plane, they can no longer return to the original world."

"We don't know what happened in the past tens of thousands of years, nor do we know what kind of existence you are."

"So we can trade some information."

"Use your information and the information of tens of thousands of years that have passed to trade with us."

"We are the survivors of the Shining Civilization, and we have a lot of things that can be used to trade with you."

It seems to be fine.

The survivors hold the resources left by the Shining Civilization, and it is normal to use these resources to trade for information they cannot obtain.

Just like Chen Ming is actually very curious about the survivors of the Shining Civilization, it is reasonable for them to be curious about human civilization.

And they also said that they could not return to their original place because of the nightmare of the plane.

Even if the nightmare of the plane has been killed by Chen Ming now, it is the same.

Because after Chen Ming killed the nightmare of the plane, Chen Ming became the one who might threaten them.

They can only hope to get more information from Chen Ming.

Then Chen Ming must not really tell the news directly, he can't just trade like this.

The transaction between civilizations is definitely not just a transaction, it involves too many things.

He can't make a decision alone.

So he has to leave this matter to someone capable.

After considering it, Chen Ming responded: "This matter is of great importance, I need to discuss it with the empire."

The director of the psychic power on the side looked relieved.

The survivors did not seem to be too anxious, and responded normally: "We are waiting for your good news."

After the communication ended.

In the universe outside the observable universe of the empire behind the wormhole.

In a dark star field, a space station floats here.

The space station is dead silent at this time, with no signs of biological activity.

But in a small room in the temporal part of this space, a communicator exactly the same as the one in Chen Ming's hand is lit, and a newly recorded recording is transmitted from it.

After the communicator repeatedly plays the complete communication between Chen Ming and the survivors.

A hand suddenly reached out from the darkness and turned off the communicator.

This small space station lost all its light.

This was a special hand, its skin changing back and forth between the luster of metal and rust.

And this hand seemed to have a liquid metal-like quality, but it looked very different from Chen Ming's liquid metal.

The owner of this hand said: "We have initially won his trust."

Another person hidden in the darkness asked: "How long will it take to advance the next plan?"

"Patience, patience."

"The queen is still sleeping, we still have time."

Not long after.

Chen Ming and the director of the psychic power returned to the legion headquarters together.

Then they were taken to the Shining Civilization Research Institute together.

The main conference hall of the institute was already full of people, not only the legion, but also a group of familiar faces of Chen Ming, and people from the Empire's special research institute on Shining Civilization.

They surrounded Chen Ming as soon as they came up, so that Chen Ming had to work hard to walk to the stage of the conference hall.

After sending out the new communication record, Chen Ming transferred most of his consciousness, leaving only a part of his body consciousness here to answer other people's questions.

Anyway, the control of the communicator is in his hands, and the Empire will find the most suitable transaction method from his transaction with the survivors.

This is the situation he wants to see most after passing the information of the survivors back.

Chen Ming's main consciousness soon came to the Origin Galaxy.

In the phase space here, half of the body of the nightmare of the plane is placed.

Surrounded by various detection devices controlled by the extraordinary people in the legion headquarters with the help of Chen Ming's power, they are detecting the state of the body and confirming the effects of the weapons used before.

Although there are different weapons suitable for different enemies, these data can also be used as an important reference.

Chen Ming took out the results of the previous test, put them together with the results of the second test that ended almost instantly, and compared them slightly.

The situation of the new data is basically the same as before.

Basically, Titan-level weapons, live ammunition weapons and arc weapons performed the best.

However, Chen Ming knew that the performance of live ammunition weapons was good because the situation was special.

Because Chen Ming has discovered that there is a layer of gravity shield on the surface of the nightmare of the plane, and the gravity shield has an excellent distortion effect on the entity, so the actual effect of live ammunition weapons is not very good.

The reason why live ammunition weapons are easy to use.

That is because the nightmare of the plane itself is under the gravity restriction of the black hole, and it cannot control the gravity of the black hole, otherwise it would have come out long ago.

Therefore, even if the nightmare of the plane itself has a layer of shield to block live ammunition, the live ammunition will fly towards the vicinity of the black hole under the traction of the gravity of the black hole.

The effect of live ammunition is very obvious in the end.

And the purgatory ray is purely a powerful brick flying.

So in the end, the best effect of all weapons is the arc weapon.

Although the performance of the arc weapon was not good at the beginning.

But as the subsequent experiments progressed, Chen Ming also found some other damage caused by the arc on the body of the nightmare of the plane.

It can be seen that these injuries are deep and shallow, heavy and light, very strange, as if the damage of the arc weapon is random.

And in fact, it is indeed the case.

The nature of the concentrated arc launcher is to imitate the arc that erupts when the radiation energy system of the spacecraft is overloaded.

This arc can indeed penetrate the armor directly, and even penetrate the shield that has not been completely dissipated. It is not just empty talk, and it can indeed cause damage.

But the arc generated by this overload, or all the arcs generated for this reason, are random and unpredictable.

No one knows the angle of the arc that erupts, the intensity of the arc, and whether it can penetrate directly after hitting or only hit a part, causing a little damage.

It is this nature that makes the damage caused by the arc launcher very random.

When it is weak, it may not even penetrate the steel plate. When it is strong, it can directly penetrate the limbs of the nightmare of the plane, and even kill it directly after concentrating firepower.

So Chen Ming feels that this weapon is really one of the most valuable and potential weapons he has ever seen.

It can ignore the gravitational field, armor and shield to cause the final damage.

Then this randomness becomes an acceptable problem.

Because when there are enough ships equipped with arc launchers, the expectation of this randomness will become more and more stable.

It can be said that it is a perfect match for the number of ships that the Zerg fleet has the most.

Chen Ming felt that he could ask the designer if he had any ideas for cooperation.

After reading the value of using the Plane Nightmare as a target.

Chen Ming focused on the value of the Plane Nightmare itself.

For this kind of thing that is roughly considered a psychic species, whether it is a psychic creature or a psychic, Chen Ming just happened to have a way to deal with them.