Chapter 387 Negative Matter

Chen Ming borrowed dozens of devices from the Climate Transformation Department to monitor the state of stars around stars.

They were evenly installed around the stars of the three star systems where Leviathans existed, ensuring that the monitoring of these devices would not miss any corner of the star.

As long as the Leviathans hidden inside made any move to show their heads, these devices would immediately pass the news to his mind.

As long as the radiation level in the galaxy did not go down, the threat of the three-color Leviathan would hover over his head.

He must be prepared for early warning and be prepared to respond at any time.

It's a pity that he really can't do anything about the three Leviathans for the time being.

He can only hope that the project team studying the Star Devourer will make faster progress.

As soon as possible, thoroughly figure out the structure of the Star Devourer and replicate it.

As long as this technology comes out, it will no longer be impossible for Chen Ming to enter the interior of the star directly, and the Leviathan hidden inside the star must die.

So Chen Ming was thinking, is it necessary for him to go to the Star Devourer project team to urge them?

After all, if he wants to deal with the Leviathan hiding in the star in advance, the key lies in the Star Devourer projects.

But after thinking about it, Chen Ming decided to forget it.

The project team is now on a space station in the close orbit of the star in the Gaia galaxy.

Before, Chen Ming had not been there when he was strolling around, but he knew that the Star Devourer project team on that space station had thousands of people working on different fine projects, and they also provided real-time star data to the Climate Transformation Department on a part-time basis.

He went there specifically to urge the progress, and he didn't know how many people would be in a mess.

And more importantly, he didn't have any targeted weapons.

Chen Ming was more inclined not to do it himself unless there was a direct danger.

He was worried that Leviathan might go directly to the Gaia galaxy to cause trouble, so he thought about solving it himself.

But since Leviathan chose to hide for some reason, it might as well wait and see.

See if Leviathan will make any moves recently, and see if he can get some new weapons and equipment to adapt to the jellyfish-like Leviathan in the next few days.

After waiting for the same three hours as before and confirming that the three Leviathans had no intention of coming out of the star.

Chen Ming quickly summarized what had just happened.

Then he sent the news of the appearance of the new Leviathan back to the empire.

To be honest, in addition to worrying that the Leviathan might cause him losses and accidents, Chen Ming was actually quite looking forward to what kind of benefits the Leviathan's corpse could bring him.

He had encountered a total of three Leviathans before.

Scavenger robots, nightmares of the planes, star eaters, or star eaters according to the survivors, they were all similar.

The scavenger robot gave him a broken nano forge, a nano robot self-optimization program, and a behemoth with combat power at least at the level of Leviathan.

Although the nano forge was not dismantled by Chen Ming, it can still play its due role.

Chen Ming's industrial buildings on the non-habitable planets in the Origin Galaxy and Gaia Galaxy were built with it.

The self-optimization program is still on Chen Ming's own research list as before.

As for the combat power of the scavenger himself, Chen Ming did not expect too much.

And the things that were taken from the nightmare of the plane were more in line with Chen Ming's own needs.

He learned new spatial abilities from the nightmare of the plane, including two different methods of maintaining spatial stability and forcibly tearing space.

And he also got half of the corpse of the nightmare of the plane that could be used to study other technologies.

For example, the psychic shield technology that he was most concerned about had already had practical theoretical results.

It may take time to manufacture a psychic shield generator at the technical level, but from the perspective of a psychic, it is not difficult to replicate a psychic shield.

Chen Ming has now mastered the psychic shield technology that he can use personally, which is also one of the sources of his confidence to fight Leviathan alone.

As the last Leviathan that Chen Ming solved, the Star Devourer has a slightly lower level of technological development.

But just looking at the existence of the Star Devourer fluid, it can make a Dyson sphere and provide an extra layer of protection for the Zerg fleet. It is already very good.

If he does not return the stellar matter in the egg sheath, he may have more "Star Devourer" means.

In addition to the ongoing projects...

Chen Ming was just about to think about what the three jellyfish-shaped Leviathans might bring him after they were dealt with.

The person in charge of Fan Chao took the initiative to contact him and said, "Mr. Chen Ming, our researchers have just read the information you sent."

"So?"

"So in their opinion, the jellyfish-shaped Leviathan may be some kind of electromagnetic or radiation life form, so the arc weapons carried by the Zerg fleet will be ineffective."

"From the information you sent back, only live ammunition weapons have caused real damage."

"Live ammunition weapons may be the best choice to deal with such life forms, but there are probably no live ammunition weapons that can deal with Leviathans of this size."

"But there is a project team on the Plane Nightmare that we are connecting with you that may have some effect."

Chen Ming immediately recalled the sub-projects on the Plane Nightmare Space Station and asked, "Psychic gravity weapons?"

The person in charge of Fan Chao said: "Yes, our researchers analyzed your video and believed that large-volume and large-mass physical attacks might be effective."

"Psychic gravity weapons can give live ammunition additional gravity, which is a significant improvement on live ammunition weapons."

"With the high-precision video you brought back, we can use the data in the video to simulate and confirm whether those weapons can really cause damage to Leviathan."

"I have no objection."

After Chen Ming agreed to Fan Chao's invitation for cooperation.

He stayed in Fan Chao's research institute for five consecutive days.

I have to admit that the research environment here at Fan Chao's research institute is indeed much better than his.

It is at least a direct research institute of the empire, and it has been run for many years. It is not more academic than Chen Ming's research center, which has only been open for less than half a month.

However, Chen Ming has nothing to be discouraged. He always believes that he can build his colony.

However, during the process of cooperative research, something happened that surprised both Chen Ming and Fan Chao.

On the first day of the cooperation.

Chen Ming and a research team from Fan Chao spent some time together to conduct an in-depth analysis of the video and various data he brought back.

Combined with Chen Ming's own direct experience of fighting Leviathan, they combined the judgment and came to a conclusion.

That is, although this Leviathan does exist physically, its entity is more similar to the nightmare of the plane, and is transformed from the existence of other levels.

It sounds a bit abstract.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this conclusion is most likely correct.

The reason lies in the earliest situation when Chen Ming recorded it.

The birthplace of the blue jellyfish Leviathan is a pulsar.

And pulsars are a type of neutron star, with a density so terrifying that it is close to a black hole.

How could a Leviathan born on such a planet be harmed by ordinary live ammunition? Why can live ammunition cause damage to a Leviathan that can be born from a neutron star with a density close to that of a black hole?

But the fact is that the live ammunition fired by Chen Ming's Zerg fleet really caused some visible damage to the body of the blue jellyfish Leviathan.

Although the damage recovered quickly, it is obvious that its body density and strength are not that high.

Is this reasonable?

This is completely unreasonable.

It's just that both Chen Ming and the top researchers of the Fan Chao Research Institute subconsciously ignored this point before.

After all, Leviathans like the Plane Nightmare can be damaged by live ammunition, so no one thinks there is anything wrong with live ammunition weapons hurting this Leviathan.

But the situation of the Plane Nightmare is very special. It is the product of the existence of the black hole dimension after entering the normal universe. It is not a black hole itself.

Even if its body can be transformed into black hole matter, it is actually only related to the black hole dimension and does not have the density of a black hole.

Therefore, the difference in existence between the Plane Nightmare and the new jellyfish Leviathan may only be that one is in another dimension and the other is a thing in an existing dimension.

So after combining these news, Chen Ming and Fan Chao both believe that the entity of Leviathan is not important.

That was just its concrete appearance.

It might actually be some kind of electromagnetic, radiation or optical creature.

After all, it gave birth to two similar creatures with different colors. The only difference between them is the color of light, that is, the frequency of light.

If you want to hurt it in the true sense, you can't start from its entity, but from its essence.

So the next day, Chen Ming and Fan Chao's people completely overturned the direction of research that had been decided at the beginning, and changed the direction of what kind of weapons were suitable for attacking Leviathan.

After a few days, there was a rough direction.

It started with three aspects: stopping the electromagnetic frequency band, absorbing the radiation band, and forcibly changing the frequency of light.

Fan Chao originally wanted to say that large-scale energy hedging might be effective, but seeing the actual results of Chen Ming's subsequent thousands of battleships self-destructing as if they were free, this approach doesn't seem to work.

Maybe there is some special protection method or there is some special property that allows Leviathan to ignore the damage of self-destruction.

We still have to use several newly speculated methods to target Leviathan.

Although this basically makes the previous research worthless, the research that is meaningless in itself has no value.

At most, Chen Ming has to spend a few more days on research.

Fortunately, there has been no movement from the Jellyfish Leviathan in the past few days, otherwise Chen Ming would have to go into battle himself before he could come up with the targeted technology.

Chen Ming, who is currently in Fanchao, still plans to continue working on targeted weapons.

Some researchers in Fanchao are not psychics and need sleep.

But he can go without rest for a long time when necessary.

After all, he is not physically tired, and the only thing that is really tired is his spirit.

As long as the spirit can hold up, it is not a problem to stay awake until the end of time.

But just before Chen Ming did this.

He suddenly received a message from the Afterglow Core, which is responsible for controlling the Plane Nightmare Space Station.

A research team has an application that needs to be submitted to him for his personal approval.

Sent with their application was an abbreviated version of their research report.

After seeing the contents of the research report, Chen Ming had already noticed that it was the application of the group that had applied for research facilities with him a few days ago.

And judging from the content of their research reports.

They conducted several batches of experiments on the space station with the help of previously applied equipment.

Finally, they successfully analyzed a special substance that existed objectively in the corpse of the Plane Nightmare but had not been discovered until now. The team called it negative matter.

Judging from the report, this research team believes that negative matter can be regarded as a special kind of antimatter.

But it will not be annihilated when it comes into contact with normal matter, but will merge with it.

The nature of the fused things will change. There will be no structural changes, but the overall structure will become tougher. It is the same as almost everything, and it is very valuable for research.

Chen Ming immediately found this thing very interesting. It happened that most of the members of the research team he was working with had gone to rest, and only a few who worked the night shift were still processing the data that should have been left during the day.

Chen Ming can go there in person if he has time.

Anyway, no results have come out here yet, and it won’t take long to go to the space station.

After Chen Ming greeted the people, he directly used his spiritual energy to arrive at the Nightmare Space Station.

We went to the newly expanded area of ​​the space station and found the research team working in the laboratory separated in this area.

The team that had been notified of Chen Ming's arrival were already waiting at the entrance of the laboratory.

After Chen Ming said there was no need to be so solemn, the team leader asked the team members to do their own thing, while he took Chen Ming to their usual place of work and showed the results of their research.

Some materials fused with negative matter stored in the vacuum isolation layer include a piece of pure iron with a mass of one kilogram, soil of the same mass, other materials of the same mass, etc.

and a control group with identical materials that was also stored in a vacuum isolation layer.

Through the data left on the console next to it, Chen Ming could easily see that the properties of the materials in the experimental group and the same materials in the control group had changed in quality. Although it was extremely subtle, there were indeed changes.

And next to the console is a detection device that the team built with the help of Afterglow that can be used to detect negative matter.

The object of detection is the entire space station.

Judging from the results displayed by the equipment, the entire space station has been completely saturated with negative matter.

But Chen Ming was unable to specifically perceive this substance. No matter how much he tried with his own perception, he could not perceive the existence of this negative substance.

And if it’s just data on paper, it can’t explain anything.

So Chen Ming turned to the team leader and asked, "How did you find out?"

The team leader shook his head and said: "We didn't discover it, it was this substance that came to us on its own initiative."

"We just applied for a batch of materials a few days ago, and found that the materials changed within a few days after being transported from other places."

"We originally thought it was a material problem, but we applied for a new batch of applications and the results were still the same except for the problem. The problems were exactly the same."

"Then there is the third batch of materials. This time we asked the cargo ship to wait outside the space station. We went up to test it in person and there was no problem before sending it... No, we asked Yuhui to send the things up, but..."

"So we wondered whether there might be an unobservable substance in the Nightmare of the Planes that is similar to antimatter."

"Then we borrowed some equipment from other groups and tested it more, and the results confirmed that this substance does exist."

Chen Ming lowered his head and looked at the floor of the space station under his feet, stimulating his spiritual energy and personally feeling the quality of the materials that made up the structure of the space station.

It turned out that, as the team leader said, the physical strength of all materials existing on the space station had changed.

This kind of negative matter really exists, and it has been integrated into the entire space station.

Even though he cannot directly feel this negative substance, it does exist.

Chen Ming's eyes suddenly turned to look at the control group in the vacuum isolation layer next to him.

"Negative matter cannot propagate in a vacuum, right?"

"Yes, that's why we put these things here for comparison."

"OK."

Chen Ming was slightly relieved.

Because so far, the Nightmare Space Station has only transported things from the outside in, and has never taken things out.

Therefore, the negative matter contained in the Plane Nightmare should only be found on this space station.

At most, there may be some left on the shining civilization spaceship that Chen Ming pulled out of the Plane Nightmare.

However, the spaceship Chen Ming did not fly everywhere, and it was also left on the Nightmare Space Station as a research object.

"So your application..."

The team leader immediately said: "We hope to reach the ground and conduct larger-scale experiments."

"You see, since the space station has been fully integrated with this negative material for so long, nothing has happened, so we think we can temporarily treat this material as not very dangerous."

"We want to conduct larger-scale experiments and based on the conclusions drawn from the experiments, we can conduct stable detection and follow-up research on negative substances."

Chen Ming confirmed: "Are you sure it's safe?"

"Yes, look at our experiment log."

The team leader clicked a few times on the console next to him and released a densely written log with hundreds of pages.

The contents are all the results of various fusion experiments.

It was obvious that none of the experiments had problems.

It can only be said that Chen Ming created a large amount of spare space when he expanded the space station, and because this group was the first to apply, Chen Ming deliberately gave them too much space.

As a result, this group has ample experimental space, and almost all places are used by them.

And it seems from these experimental logs.

This group also has some more detailed results that are not written down in a simple research report.

For example, they judge that negative matter is most likely a medium in the black hole dimension, similar to the medium in phase space that blocks the dissipation of radiant energy.

Human beings are currently unable to explore the dimensions of black holes, but they can indirectly explore the dimensions of black holes through negative matter and study black holes indirectly.

And after matter is fused with negative matter, in addition to changes in physical properties.

These substances also exhibit a unique stability in the spatial dimension.

A kind of stability that is more difficult to be affected by jump fluctuations, like being stabilized in place by some force.

They also found out through research that negative matter has no direct effect on living beings.

They can only fuse dead objects, and currently there seems to be no disadvantages, only benefits.

Such valuable negative matter forced Chen Ming to consider setting up an experimental site on the planet.

But the relationship between the negative matter and the black hole dimension studied by this group is still a bit too dangerous.

It was unlikely that Chen Ming would directly arrange them into the No. 1 scientific research center area.

But Chen Ming also immediately thought of an alternative.

He could place the group on a satellite of Gaia.

Gaia's satellite is also a habitable planet, and Chen Ming has not yet thought of any use for it.

Since there is demand, why not just create a new experimental site specifically for testing this group.

Chen Ming has no shortage of resources and has no problem setting up a separate testing ground.

So Chen Ming agreed.

But he also gave very strict conditions.

That is to say, the entire security transportation process of experimental materials is handed over to the Afterglow Center. The entire experiment also needs to be carried out under surveillance. It is prohibited to take out the Nightmare of the Plane substances and other things that may lead to a larger-than-expected leakage of negative substances. Situation statements are restricted.

And Chen Ming also said that it would maintain close surveillance of the team, both for the safety of the experiment and their safety.

The team leader had no objection.

So Chen Ming turned around and left the space station, and began to prepare to study the environment of negative matter.

The team leader quickly summoned about twenty team members and said, "Director Chen agreed, we can proceed with the next step of research."

After a small burst of cheers, the team leader explained: "Take safety measures and don't let those substances leak out for no reason."

The team members agreed without hesitation.

Although the negative matter produced by the body of the Plane Nightmare in their research is not dangerous, but is very stable.

But no one knows whether there will be other impacts later, so this is the safest way.

"Pack it up, we'll go to the ground tomorrow."

The next day came in a blink of an eye.

The team leader and team members have arrived on the surface of the Gaia satellite.

Here Chen Ming specially prepared a complete and safe experimental place for them, a double-layered dome.

This is the building that Chen Ming often stayed in before, and it has very good isolation between the inside and outside.

This double layer is Chen Ming's transformation of creating a vacuum between the two layers of domes.

After all, it seems that vacuum is a very effective means of isolating negative matter. Otherwise, the plane nightmare in the black hole would have spread negative matter throughout the universe.

The team leader was currently standing on a hill near the dome observing the dome environment.

At the same time, he was also watching an extremely heavy spacecraft slowly descend to the ground.

And under the protection of a large number of mechanical bodies, a fragment of the corpse of the Nightmare of the Planes stored in the vacuum isolation chamber was transported into the laboratory in the dome.

"What are you looking at?"

A team member's voice suddenly sounded behind the team leader.

The team leader responded without looking back: "I'm looking at where the safety measures may not have been done well. If the negative material leaks out, we will be doomed even if nothing happens."

"If a problem is found, I plan to apply for additional reinforcements from above."

The team member said indifferently: "Team leader, you are really too worried. I have never seen you like this on the space station."

"With such a big corpse, there's so much negative matter that is normally emitted. If something happened, it would have happened a long time ago. How can we wait until we get to the planet?"

The team leader's eyes suddenly became a little confused, but soon returned to normal.

"Indeed, but security measures must be taken, preferably stricter."

The team member shrugged: "As long as you like."

It shouldn't hurt to have a safe layout.