Chapter 391 Testing

The memorial hall that Chen Ming discovered stores a large number of artifacts that belong only to the Shining Civilization.

The era of the latest relics is after the era that the survivors said.

This situation makes the survivors' previous statements seem a little untenable.

Chen Ming is now basically certain that the survivors must not know that there are these things in this place, otherwise he would not have been able to come into contact with it.

It must be extremely well protected, and it is definitely not something that Chen Ming can find by just wandering around with a few spaceships.

This means that the survivors are lying.

It also means that Chen Ming's previous suspicion that Leviathan is related to the survivors can be regarded as a wrong guess.

If Leviathan is really made by the survivors, it is impossible for such a place to be unknown in the same galaxy.

Although Chen Ming still has some doubts that these Leviathans are related to the Shining Civilization.

After all, the scavenger, a robot that can be regarded as a Leviathan-level robot, was made by the Shining Civilization.

There are spaceships of the Shining Civilization in the Nightmare of the Planes, and the survivors of the galaxy in the Devourer are monitoring it every day.

Even in the galaxy where the current Leviathan first appeared, there is such a memorial-like place.

But these cannot serve as decisive evidence.

All situations can be explained by coincidence, which is not far-fetched.

Then how Leviathan came about made Chen Ming even more curious.

And Chen Ming has another thing that is even more curious.

What is the true history of the Shining Civilization and the Survivors?

Why did the Shining Civilization perish?

Why is their civilization memorial here?

Why don't the survivors know about this place?

What role did the survivors play in it?

Have they really lost their past history as they once said?

In fact, if according to the survivors, they have lost their past history.

That can indeed explain some things, such as why they don't know about this place.

But there are also many situations that cannot be explained, that is, why did someone they don't know build this place? Haven't they been building the only way to get here?

Also, where did the Shining Civilization people who built this civilization memorial go?

Chen Ming wants to try to find the past history through this relic.

But even the texts of the most recent history have all been corroded by time and cannot be recognized.

The texts used to record the history of cultural relics are too small compared to the text carved on the rock at the entrance, and there is no possibility that they can be preserved after tens of thousands of years.

It is impossible to figure out what happened in the past just by relying on the relics of the commemorative era.

Chen Ming could only suppress his doubts temporarily and continue to search for other valuable things in this memorial hall.

By the way.

Chen Ming had noticed the existence of electronic mechanical structures inside the memorial hall when he entered.

These structures, as he thought, have been rusted beyond recognition.

Although he could not use ordinary repair psychic energy to repair them to their original appearance, he could use deep repair psychic energy to optimize the now completely damaged facilities and let them operate in their current state.

Metal liquid gushed out from the void beside Chen Ming, gradually covering the entire underground memorial hall.

Let the previous one pass.

But now, let alone completely repair it, at least it cannot be allowed to continue to deteriorate.

At least all the cultural relics and relics of the shining civilization that Chen Ming saw now must be preserved.

As the metal liquid spread, every inch of the ruins was observed and recorded.

For

These relics carrying culture and history are very important.

Even if they don't mean much to Chen Ming, he is willing to spend a little more energy to preserve them.

And I don't know whether it is an accident or a coincidence.

When Chen Ming's metal liquid took pictures and recorded every corner of the ruins, he found that this memorial hall was not only the vertical passage he saw now, which was dug by the mechanical units, and the layers of cultural relics around the passage.

There is also a hidden area deep underground.

And the entrance to this area is in a corner of a certain layer close to the bottom of the entire memorial hall.

Chen Ming immediately came to the location where the secret passage was discovered.

He saw the passage carved directly out of the rock layer with his own eyes.

Following the passage all the way to the deepest part, he could see a closed rusty metal door.

After Chen Ming used his psychic power to control and open the door.

A slightly larger hall appeared in front of him.

This hall is only part of the underground building, and there are many closed and rusty metal doors around it.

It can be said that the entire underground environment is made of metal.

At this time, the entire hall looks empty, even a little empty and uncomfortable, and there is nothing to attract attention.

Except for the walls and the ground, which have also been completely rusted.

The rust of some metal buildings outside is not as serious as the area hidden in the hidden corner deep underground that Chen Ming saw at this time.

It makes people wonder what happened here.

Chen Ming did not rush in, but released a little metal liquid suspended in the air, flew in from the door that had just been opened, and observed the area around.

From the perspective of the metal liquid, this area is somewhat like a dormitory area.

The middle is the hall, and the small rooms around it are each person's individual dormitories.

However, apart from the rust on the walls and the ground, Chen Ming did not find any remaining traces in the entire environment.

So he was not sure whether this was a dormitory or whether anyone had lived here before.

There was a high probability that there was.

After all, this is a memorial hall, and there will always be people from the Shining Civilization supervising the construction of this memorial hall.

Unfortunately, no matter who he is, he is probably dead now.

Chen Ming controlled the metal liquid to go around and did not find any danger.

So he stepped into this area.

And at the moment when Chen Ming stepped on the rusty metal floor.

He once again found some unexpected situations.

He half-crouched on the ground, stretched out his fingers and wiped the ground, taking away some rust.

Then he looked at the wall next to him, and also reached out to wipe some rust on his hand, twisting it repeatedly.

Sure enough.

This is not just ordinary metal rust.

Because all the structures in this entire area are made of nanorobots.

After crossing the closed door, Chen Ming saw everything.

Whether it was the walls, the ground, the ceiling, or the doors of those rooms, they were all rusted nanorobots.

Chen Ming knew that the nanorobot technology of the Shining Civilization was very powerful.

Not only did each individual of the mechanical race have nanorobots to maintain it, but the scavenger Leviathan that Chen Ming sprayed later even had nanorobots that could optimize themselves.

But at this time, the nanorobots in this place that Chen Ming saw were obviously all shut down.

And the downtime was also counted in tens of thousands of years.

And these nanorobots, like the relics of the mechanical race that Chen Ming came into contact with today, had no possibility of repair.

There was only one thing he could do for these rusted nanorobots, dismantle them and recycle the materials.

Chen Ming stepped into this nanomechanical building that was probably a dormitory.

The metal liquid also followed his footsteps and dispersed towards the environment in the dormitory, and began to record the environment of places that might also have certain value.

Chen Ming looked around, and then randomly found a room closest to the door and walked over.

When he tried to push open the rusted door at the entrance of the room, the door collapsed with a bang, and the entire building made of rusted nanorobots collapsed under the impact of the collapse.

The metal liquid immediately poured out to the surroundings, supporting the room that was originally supported by the rusted nanorobots.

Then the metal liquid gathered all the rusted nanorobots, making it convenient for Chen Ming to proceed with the next step.

Whether to collect them or simply dismantle and recycle the materials.

However, Chen Ming chose not to do either.

Because he noticed that among the nanorobots collected by the metal liquid, there was a nanorobot that did not seem to be rusted.

This was not because Chen Ming had sharp eyes, nor was it that the metal liquid could accurately distinguish which nanorobot was not rusted among countless rusted nanorobots.

Instead, he took a look at the panel that he had not seen for a long time, and found the tens of billions of rusted nanorobots and the single complete nanorobot listed on the panel.

Among the countless nanorobots that made up the walls and the ground of this room, there was a nanorobot that was still intact.

In other words, it was protected by countless nanorobots until today.

This nanorobot is very special.

Because the material that makes it up is a very unique memory metal material.

Ordinary memory metal has the ability to restore its own structure, while the memory metal technology of the Shining Civilization has the ability to store everything that the nanorobot should remember.

The reason why Chen Ming knows this is because the Shining Civilization spaceship he got before just happened to apply this technology.

Although it is not used on nanorobots, but on spaceships, it is enough to see the common points between them.

So.

This should be the self-protection method of this nanorobot cluster.

It gathers the maintenance capabilities and energy of all nanorobots to protect one of the nanorobots that uses special memory materials to record everything of the entire nanorobot cluster.

When the environment of the nanorobot cluster is suitable, the only surviving nanorobot will begin to replicate itself. This ability is considered the basic ability of the nanorobot.

Finally, it relies on its own memory material to restore to the past.

Chen Ming can't read everything about the nanorobots in this area stored in these memory materials like a nanorobot.

But he can control this nanorobot.

No intervention, just provide resources and energy for it to recover.

Wait until it confirms that the environment is safe, replicates itself, and recovers to its previous state.

Chen Ah will be able to figure out what is inside sooner or later.

Chen Ming carefully stored the nanorobot in a separate container to avoid accidentally losing the nanorobot that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

In the container, he provided everything he needed to create nanorobots in his own mechanical family nanorobot factory.

After sending the container to a safe place.

Chen Ming turned around and left the collapsed dormitory, continuing to wander around the underground memorial hall.

Wanting to see if there was anything else like this secret room that he had missed.

But he didn't find anything hidden anymore.

The only useful things he could get were what he saw now.

So Chen Ming used psychic energy to seal off the memorial hall before leaving.

After all, it seems that the survivors do not know the existence of this ruins at present, but Chen Ming is not sure whether the survivors will discover this place later, so it would not be wrong to protect it.

And after returning to his hometown.

Chen Ming also immediately contacted the Minister of Imperial Psychics.

It turns out that the empire specially arranged people to connect with Chen Ming.

It's just that although the authority of the person who contacted Chen Ming was high, it was not high enough. Discussions often had to be reported to superiors.

But Chen Ming had the phone number of that person's superior psychic minister.

Therefore, in many cases, it is more convenient for Chen Ming to make a phone call than to ask the person to report the matter slowly.

So the person who is now in contact with Chen Ming becomes the minister of psychic energy, Luo Yi.

When Chen Ming called this time, the minister of psychic energy seemed to be resting. It took a while before Chen Ming answered the call.

Chen Ming also knew that it was not good to disturb others, so he asked with the idea of ​​​​solving the problem quickly: "Is the next time to trade with the survivors coming?"

"Three more days."

"That's just right. I need to specify the content of the next transaction."

The Minister of Psychics is also a decisive person, and the empire has taken the initiative to ask Chen Ming to specify the direction of the transaction before, but Chen Ming refused before, so this time it can just meet Chen Ming's needs.

So he immediately agreed: "Okay, what do you want?"

"You will know after reading this."

Chen Ming easily killed three Leviathans, and then sent the records of the Civilization Memorial Hall in the galaxy where Leviathan first appeared.

As before, some content that cannot be sent has been deleted.

At this time, the Minister of Psychics, who had just sat up from the bed, began to get dressed hurriedly as he watched. At the same time, he also took out another terminal and started to contact the person to be contacted.

Because he found that Chen Ming didn't really want the technology that belonged to Shining Civilization when he called this time.

But he knew how the things he recorded needed to be used by the empire.

It is precisely the existence of this record and that memorial that makes the next transaction between the empire and the survivors must involve things related to history and culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to test the survivors.

However, the minister still asked defensively: "Are these true? Is it possible that the survivors are deliberately setting out bait?"

"Fidelity."

Because all the structures in that ruins have been tried to be repaired, but all of them cannot be repaired due to the passage of time.

If this is a misleading trap by the remnant, then either the remnant began to set up traps against him tens of thousands of years ago, or the remnant deliberately disguised this ruins with something like a destroyer.

In either case, the odds are against it.

And deliberately making things old is meaningless in the face of Chen Ming's spiritual power.

The existence of this place is due to the negligence of the survivors.

Three days later.

Chen Ming ran to the headquarters of the Psionics Department.

It is still up to him to conduct the transaction with the survivors.

When the time came exactly one hundred and twenty days after the first transaction between the former empire and the survivors.

The survivor contacted me on time: "What do you need this time?"

Chen Ming looked around at the experts in linguistics, culture, and civilization who were surrounding him, and thought about the general meaning of what these experts told him.

Then he responded on the communicator: "Let's not rush into the transaction. Before the transaction starts, I want to tell you something."

"you say."

"This is the fourth time this kind of transaction has happened, but I think you can feel that the relationship between us has not improved. This is contrary to what you thought at the beginning."

When the survivors communicated with Chen Ming, they made it clear that they wanted the empire to help the Shining Civilization preserve the history of Shining, so as to prevent the Shining Civilization from completely disappearing after the demise of these survivors.

However, at that time, the survivors expressed that they could not completely trust Chen Ming and the Empire, so they wanted to use some transactions and other means to enhance the trust of both parties.

It's certainly okay to talk about this kind of thing, but in practice it can only be said that everyone has their own agenda.

The Empire can find that the survivors obviously have other purposes, and the survivors also know that the empire cannot allow the survivors to continue to exist.

Therefore, there is definitely no possibility of increasing trust through transactions alone.

Unless the Empire is truly a Marist civilization, the possibility of the Empire and the survivors trusting each other is zero.

In some ways, the empire would actually be losing money just by relying on such a transaction, because the empire only received technology and failed to learn about the Shining and the Survivors.

So now that the empire has obtained three relatively important and critical technologies: psionic theory, capital ship-level ship design technology, and energy weapon design technology through three transactions.

Then the value of the technology acquired later will not be that high, and it may not be possible to rely on

"Change the way, trade more specific things, not just technology"

The survivors seemed to be eager and asked quickly: "Specific things?"

"Not actual materials, but other things that can be recorded in writing and communicated with communicators."

The survivors who had been very enthusiastic and wanted to build a good relationship with the empire and said they wanted to entrust the remaining civilization and culture seemed to become cold in an instant.

After a long while, he asked, "For example, what?" Chen Ming replied, "For example, your historical records." "I remember you said at the beginning that the purpose of communicating with the Empire was to give your history and culture to the Empire for deposit, so that even if you die, the Shining Civilization will not completely die." "This is something that is to be given to the Empire for deposit." "You gave it to us for free after you had trust, and now you directly trade it with us. It is essentially the same. You can even get something you couldn't get by trading it." "For example, about our history." "Although our cultures are different, our histories are always similar. Maybe we can find some common points and promote the trust between us in disguise." Chen Ming didn't blush when he talked about these nonsense. The survivors also knew that these words were nonsense, but the relationship between the two sides could be regarded as serious diplomacy. It was impossible to tear each other apart when both sides needed each other. They had to seriously consider the proposal made by Chen Ming. "Please let us think about it, but before that we would like to ask which period of our history you need most."

The survivors had only said before that they were missing a part of history, which was the history of the period when the Shining Civilization perished, and the rest was not missing.

If it was missing, then the survivors could not be called survivors.

Chen Ming recalled the time of the carving on the top of the vertical stone pillar found in the underground memorial hall, and said a close time point.

The empire needs the history before this time point.

The survivors immediately responded: "At that time, we had not even become the main species of the planet, and we had not evolved enough brains."

The expressions on the faces of several experts around Chen Ming's ruins changed, revealing a little smile.

It seems that the era recorded in the ruins of the memorial hall is fine.

The survivors have helped to confirm this.

Chen Ming continued to respond on the terminal: "But this is also part of your civilization, isn't it?"

Anyway, after confirming that there is no problem with those artifacts and time records, the empire can give the survivors false historical records at will, and they have no way to investigate.

But if the survivors give a fake one, then as long as they compare and verify it with the artifacts in the ruins, there is a high probability that the problem can be found.

The survivors were silent for a while, and finally unified the request to change the content of the transaction.

They did not have any special reaction, and it was basically confirmed that they had nothing to do with the ruins.

As for the historical records of the empire that the survivors wanted to take, they were in the last fifty years.

Of course, the empire gave all fabricated things, and the empire had people to help the survivors write these things.

The historical records given by the survivors will be confirmed in the memorial hall underground on the planet of the pulsar galaxy under the leadership of Chen Ming soon.

It's a pity that Chen Ming still couldn't confirm the specific location of the survivors.

Although the survivors seemed to be very interested in material transactions, the more the enemy was interested in something, the less Chen Ming would do it.

So he still had to wait for the nanorobot he got from the ruins to replicate itself and rebuild into a group.

Then he could thoroughly understand the history of the shining civilization among these nanorobots, and understand what kind of existence the survivors were through history.

With the end of the transaction.

Everything is back on track again, both for the Empire and Chen Ming.

The Empire is continuing to increase the positive impact of the war on the mechanical star field, and continue to reduce the sense of danger brought to ordinary people by the unique identity of psychics.

At the same time, it is also continuing to expand outward, and continues to study things about dimensional infection and the final measures to deal with dimensional infection.

Chen Ming can concentrate on the promotion of scientific research projects of different Leviathans, the expansion of the colony population, and the development of resources in surrounding star fields and galaxies.

After those three Leviathans were solved, could there be stronger Leviathans nearby?

His work focus is also on development.

Without external threats, when else should we do it?

Everything is developing steadily and well.

More than 20 days have passed quickly.

Chen Ming is writing a notice about the cooperation project of two experimental groups while working every day.

One is the experimental group of negative matter, and the other is the climate transformation department that jumped from the Empire, and now it is the responsible group of the Gaia project under Chen Ming.