Chapter 406 The Disappearing Afterglow

Chen Ming did not pay too much attention to the Empire's affairs.

He had done everything he should do.

He should always pay attention to his own affairs.

He could remember all the scattered things he was doing or arranging others to do.

He would check on them from time to time to see the progress.

As time passed.

Chen Ming had more and more people to use.

The only project he really needed to keep an eye on was his own battleship design project.

And the progress of the battleship project was approaching the end as half a year passed.

Before, Chen Ming spent half a year planning and deciding the type of the main control system of the spacecraft, and then spent several months deciding the direction of the spacecraft's energy source, engine, armor and weapons.

In the past six months, he would naturally decide all these things.

The energy source of the battleship was always the antimatter engine when it was first considered. Compared with any technology of the same era, this thing is a dimensionality reduction attack.

As long as it can be matched with a biomass engine that plays an auxiliary role to ensure that the spacecraft will not be in a critical situation of energy shortage at any time, it can almost be said to perfectly meet Chen Ming's needs.

However.

The engine that was finally decided to be installed was a composite engine that Chen Ming had made experimentally, which combined the effects of antimatter engines and biomass engines.

Once the mechanical and biological fusion technology is mastered, it must be used.

The final test results of such a composite engine are indeed very good.

But when Chen Ming brought out the engine, many researchers in the project team who were responsible for the engine were worried about the stability and adaptability of this half-mechanical and half-biological technology.

Chen Ming actually had a similar idea at the beginning.

But after he replicated several composite engines and tested them on spacecraft of different models and levels.

No one had this problem.

The composite engine of the spacecraft is equipped with the latest battery technology based on energy crystal technology.

This battery technology uses not only the energy crystals made by Chen Ming himself.

Since he shared some biological technologies including energy crystal technology with An Wuping some time ago, almost all technologies have undergone several iterations.

Energy crystal technology has just been developed, and there is a lot of development prospects.

The empire is so big that there must be someone who can see these and develop the energy crystal technology in a very short time.

Today, the energy crystal worms that produce energy crystals have undergone many extractions and fusions of species genes that are rare in the empire. The crystals produced have greatly improved the energy storage limit and efficiency compared to the previous ones, and the energy self-dissipation efficiency has been extremely reduced.

After further battery packaging, the energy dissipation efficiency of the crystal battery is almost close to zero.

It has very good performance in terms of long-term endurance of spacecraft and short-term high-energy use.

Even in the design of the main battleship, the energy crystal technology has been iterated several times.

The original engine and supporting equipment that had been installed on the spacecraft were removed several times, which was a little time-consuming.

But this time is definitely worth wasting.

The spacecraft's engine is of course equipped with additional functional engine accessories.

Including the hyperspace channel engine and jump engine, as well as the hyperspace channel jump engine that has also been iterated several times.

However, the spacecraft does not carry a phase engine.

The reason is also very simple.

This battleship built from the corpse of the leader of the Phase Beast has that power.

It just so happens that the Empire's psychic technology has also been developing rapidly in recent times.

Chen Ming relies on psychic power to study and interpret various relics such as the Purgatory Core and the Synchrotron Core obtained from the Shining Civilization, as well as the psychic theory that the Empire has exchanged from the survivors.

The Empire has a way to start studying various psychic things.

In the beginning, just follow Chen Ming's initial thinking of studying the Purgatory Core, and later there will be people who will integrate these technologies and study other things to produce results.

The Empire has many ways to replicate these psychic creations.

Although the effect may not be as good as the original product of the Shining Civilization, this is only the first step taken by the Empire.

And these methods can be completely transformed into power for regulating the phase power of the Phase Beast after special research.

Although the phase power of the Phase Beast is not psychic power, this special power is similar to psychic power in nature.

It is precisely because of the special advantages brought by the structure of the spacecraft itself that the type of Chen Ming's battleship has basically been determined at present.

Phase battleship.

The specific name has not been decided yet. Chen Ming just has some ideas. It depends on his mood to see how it will turn out.

The battleship not only has engines, but its armor has also been improved during this period.

The innermost layer of the spacecraft's composite armor is the phase behemoth scales on the corpse of the phase behemoth patriarch, which have been modified by the queen.

These scales not only have a protective effect, but they are also the basis for the phase behemoth to use phase power to a certain extent.

So they cannot be replaced.

And if it is just used as the lining of the armor, there is really no better material.

In the armor outside the innermost layer, it is covered with the most common biological material Chen Ming currently has, the Zerg carapace, with an additional buffer layer inside.

Although the Zerg carapace is a very common material, the Zerg carapace itself has a very powerful effect.

Moreover, the Zerg carapace arranged in the armor is a new type of Zerg armor that cannot be effectively used on medium and low-level spacecraft and specially strengthened by the Queen for the main battleship.

The name is still the same, but the difference in strength is huge.

The outer armor is still the metal armor like other spaceships.

The outermost layer of the spaceship armor is coated with a layer of artificial star-eating fluid, which can also be regarded as a layer of star-eating armor after solidification.

The existence of this layer of star-eating armor is not to allow the main battleship to enter the star, but for other purposes.

Because the material ratio of the artificial star-eating fluid has also changed in the past six months.

The original effect of the star-eating fluid is simply to prevent the high heat and radiation of the star.

But someone in the empire saw an opportunity and changed the actual direction of the star-eating fluid by changing the ratio.

The liquid that originally prevented the effects of energy such as heat and radiation can limit the actual effects of energy weapons to a greater extent.

Only a thin layer is needed to reduce the direct hit effect of most energy weapons by more than 20%.

This layer of star-eating fluid armor itself is an additional attachment and can be easily repaired.

And this is the overall structure of the armor.

There is no need to mention the biomass material inside the armor.

The best shell material that the queen can make will be used on it, and Chen Ming has repeatedly optimized and strengthened it, so the quality is there.

The metal material of the spacecraft armor is even more outrageous.

When Chen Ming first built this battleship, he thought of it as his most important spaceship and the flagship of the fleet.

In addition, the corpse of the leader of the phase behemoth is not an easy material to get. Chen Ming can't kill the behemoth that protects the phase space as material after getting the phase from the phase space.

Therefore, when he designed and built this battleship, he did not consider the issue of mass production at all. He just piled up materials wherever he could.

In the end, the proportion of ordinary materials in the spacecraft armor layer was less than 20%, and high-level materials accounted for 46%. The rest were all special-level materials that Chen Ming invested in without considering the cost and only looking at the best effect.

The manufacturing cost is extremely high, and the maintenance cost is even more endless.

But Chen Ming also thought clearly that if he only had one such spaceship, it would be no problem with the support of the entire Zerg and the afterglow that is now developing rapidly.

There were many people in the project team who complained that Chen Ming was squandering resources. After all, those high-level and special materials could be used to build more battleships.

However, as Chen Ming later made public the situation of several conflicts between the Zerg battleship and Leviathan, such voices became much less.

How important it is to have a top combat force of equal strength when facing the top combat force.

Whether this top combat force is a psychic or a powerful spaceship.

But even so, there are still people who say something nonsense.

For example, why didn't Chen Ming use such materials to build Titan-class ships.

Let's not talk about whether there are phase monsters that can reach the size of Titan.

The size difference between the battleship and the Titan alone can cost Chen Ming half his life, and he can't get so many materials at all.

The subsequent maintenance and repairs can completely drag down Chen Ming's economy.

What's more, the theory of Titan-class ships was only half a year ago, and the theoretical research has not been completed yet. It's all nonsense to build Titan ships.

Chen Ming was too lazy to pay attention to them and continued to do what he should do.

Anyway, he is the leader of the project, and his ideas are the most important in the design of this battleship.

So the shield of this battleship was also installed with a psychic shield under Chen Ming's mandatory request.

The shield was one of the earliest issues discussed at the beginning of the design of this spacecraft.

But Chen Ming looked down on most of the shields at that time.

So he forcibly suppressed the problem of shields.

Until the Plane Nightmare was killed, the Empire had a certain degree of psychic knowledge after studying the Plane Nightmare's psychic shield, which was enough to replicate the psychic shield.

Chen Ming decided the direction of the development of the spacecraft shield.

This decision was absolutely correct.

The Empire had no shield that could match the effectiveness of the psychic shield.

As for weapons, which can be regarded as external objects compared to the main battleship itself, Chen Ming has been developing them.

Main weapons can't just be used by amplifying the power of large weapons.

When designing each main battleship, there will be a dedicated person to design various weapons specially used to match the main battleship.

It can maximize the advantages of the main battleship.

For example, the main offensive weapon that Chen Ming is most familiar with, the thermal pulse laser.

This thing has a very terrifying energy consumption, and when used, it occupies most of the energy supply of the spaceship.

General spacecrafts will have a higher radiation value when firing. Only battleships like the Offensive, which have extremely thick armor and almost useless shields, can save a lot of energy to adapt to such weapons.

So when Chen Ming designed his own battleship, he fully considered the nature and advantages of the ship, as well as his own ideas.

In the end, based on his knowledge of space and the power of phase space, he developed a space distortion generator called "Chaos".

Weapons that attack from the spatial level.

It is equivalent to an extension of some of Chen Ming's abilities.

Although the effect of space distortion was not very good when fighting the jellyfish Leviathan some time ago, the jellyfish Leviathan is an electromagnetic life.

Space weapons are definitely the best choice for most types of enemies.

To this day.

Most of the structures of the battleship designed by Chen Ming have been manufactured, and only the last few steps of the ship development stage are left, and the assembly, optimization, and factory process can be carried out.

At the latest in three months, the development process of this battleship will be completely completed.

In Chen Ming's office.

Chen Ming closed the reports that the main battleship project teams had recently sent out on his computer and breathed a sigh of relief.

That's about it for today.

He will have more time to look at these things when he starts to finish the phases in a few days.

Thinking about this, Chen Ming stood up from his desk and prepared to leave.

Although he can now focus on doing only one thing for about ten days without sleep.

But his life is not just about work, and he is not alone now.

Moreover, before the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Clan began, Chen Ming had already discussed the time of his wedding with Bai Quan.

Since the war ended faster than expected, the wedding should be brought forward accordingly.

The wedding is still three months away.

Chen Ming raised his mouth slightly and was about to turn off the computer.

Suddenly, he saw two messages sent in succession on the computer at this time.

One from the Minister of Psychic Power and one from the Fourteenth Legion.

Thinking of dealing with distant things before dealing with nearby things, Chen Ming first looked at the message from the Minister of Psychic Power, which contained a document.

The content of the document is the archaeological progress inside the Shining Civilization Cultural Memorial Hall that Chen Ming discovered some time ago in the underground of a planet in the pulsar system where the jellyfish Leviathan first appeared.

The Empire sent a total of two teams to investigate this relic.

One team went from the beginning of the Shining Civilization historical record to the end, and the other team went from the end to the beginning.

The team from the beginning to the end has determined the history of the Shining Civilization in the primitive biological period and the intelligent life period, and will soon be able to study the history of the Shining Civilization entering civilization.

This has little to do with Chen Ming, but the big deal is the group that studies from the bottom, that is, from the period of the demise of the Shining Civilization.

Their progress is not as ideal as the other team.

After all, the past era does not necessarily require text to be recorded in detail.

The span of the early era is long, and biological evolution can be traced. As long as there are enough antiquities, something can always be analyzed.

But starting from the bottom to study the end of the Shining Civilization must be coordinated with text.

And the text in this relic has been worn out by time, and there is no clue at all.

The relics of the Shining Civilization in other places do not have any text records like this relic.

It can only be said that the pulses of pulsars in the galaxy have a great impact on many things, causing electronic equipment to be damaged and rusted, and also causing these words to be worn out and completely unreadable.

Even so.

This archaeological team is still trying hard to rely on the Empire's understanding of the Shining to conduct research.

Moreover, recently, they found a strange place on the bottom floor of the Shining Civilization Cultural Center.

In a certain layer of this cultural center close to the bottom floor, there is a row of rusted equipment.

Through an investigation with a device specially used for archaeology, the team members found some kind of imprint on the wall next to it.

That is, there is a device that creates three-dimensional projections for a long time nearby, and then leaves projection imprints on the wall.

The archaeological team took all the photos and handed them over to their superiors, and finally to the Minister of Psychic Power.

The reason why the Minister of Psychic Power sent the photos to Chen Ming.

It was the appearance of those projected imprints.

When Chen Ming read the document to the end, he had already discovered that the appearance of these imprints was the appearance of Leviathan he had seen.

Chen Ming had seen a total of four types of Leviathan before.

Scavengers, nightmares of planes, planet eaters and tricolor jellyfish.

In the past six months, when he asked Yuhui to start exploring the surrounding galaxies, he encountered two more, and he killed them all.

They were a Leviathan hatched from an egg that disguised itself as a habitable planet but actually devoured all the creatures on the planet.

And a crystalline Leviathan that existed in the asteroid belt of a certain galaxy.

At the beginning, Chen Ming did not think that the latter was a Leviathan, but just some kind of space creature.

Because they were scattered in the asteroid belt at the beginning.

But when Chen Ming was dealing with them, they suddenly merged into one, forming a crystal monster.

Of course, this did not affect Chen Ming's final solution to it.

And dragged the bodies of the two Leviathans back to the Gaia galaxy, threw them into orbit and built a space station dedicated to studying them.

During this period, the two new Leviathan space stations also had their own results.

The Leviathan in the egg is very special.

It will find some suitable planets and inject eggs into the planets, and then the eggs injected into the planets will convert the interior of the planet into nutrition for the Leviathan in the process.

And this kind of nutrition is a very scarce volatile liquid resource in the empire, even the gaseous state is very valuable.

This Leviathan space station studies the principle of this conversion.

And the other crystal Leviathan space station has recently made a spacecraft crystal coating.

Just a small layer can improve the structural strength of the hull to a certain extent.

Of course, Chen Ming used this technology in the design of his main battleship.

So he has a deep impression of all Leviathans.

Even if he only saw a silhouette, he could be sure that these marks were the marks of Leviathan.

In addition to the nightmare of the plane, he saw the traces of other Leviathans in the photos recorded by these archaeological teams.

And there are more Leviathans that Chen Ming has never seen.

There are at least hundreds of them in a row.

And at the edge of this row of Leviathan projections, there is a very blurry projection of a star map.

The archaeological team is not sure what the star map means.

After all, the star map should be three-dimensional, and it is really difficult to see anything with a two-dimensional projection.

But since this star map is placed next to these Leviathan projections, it means that these star maps are definitely related to these Leviathans.

The Minister of Psychic Power hopes that Chen Ming can check the star map to see the situation.

After all, this may mean that Leviathan has a close relationship with the Shining Civilization.

If this relationship really exists, then Leviathan is likely to be related to the survivors, which can explain quite a lot of things.

Chen Ming thought for a while and replied to the Minister of Psychic Power that he knew the news.

He will do it, but not in a hurry.

Then.

Chen Ming opened the message sent by the Fourteenth Legion.

The message from the 14th Legion was not sent by Baiquan, but by the legion commander.

Although the legion commander stayed at the front line between the Empire and Yuhui all year round, Chen Ming had not met him many times, but Chen Ming still had a very good impression of the legion commander.

He came here at this time, probably because he had something to ask.

Chen Ming looked at the content of the message.

There were no documents this time, and it was basically the content dictated by the legion commander.

It was probably about the fact that Yuhui was preparing to retreat when the Empire won the war with the mechanical race and showed its determination to deal with the nearby enemies.

At that time, the Minister of Psychic Energy came to ask Chen Ming about this matter.

Chen Ming had no objection anyway.

He only controlled the part that Yuhui had separated, and did not control the main force of Yuhui.

Especially after Yuhui confirmed his existence, they were very wary of the foreign Yuhui.

Chen Ming's attempts were stopped several times, and the distance was too far, so Chen Ming was too lazy to care about them.

What's more, he already had a replica of Kletka.

This replica only needs to be optimized by his psychic power, and it can do everything that Kletka can do.

He even thought that when the Empire pursued Yuhui's army, he could take advantage of it and get some cores that did not need to be used in the Empire but could be taken away.

So he had no objection to this matter.

So the Fourteenth Legion was responsible for the pursuit.

Yuhui and the Empire had been in friction for so many years, and if they wanted to escape, they had to get the Empire's consent first.

The pursuit has been going on for the past six months.

But just a few days ago.

Yuhui, who was still retreating, suddenly became silent.

They disappeared on the way of escape.

Only countless supplies piled up in different star systems were left, allowing the Empire's pursuing troops to seize them.

Chen Ming thought of many situations.

For example, Yuhui completely surrendered and reintegrated into the Empire.

Or collective suicide, rather die than surrender.

But losing was something Chen Ming had never expected.