Chapter 416 Urban Planet

The dark space station that Chen Ming had just discovered was disappearing in front of him.

Of course, he couldn't just stand there and watch.

The speed of the super body played an extremely critical role at this time.

It allowed Chen Ming to rush to the vicinity of the space station immediately.

A large amount of metal liquid was released from the super body, and with the help of the time flow core, it formed a huge mouth and bit down quickly in the direction of the space station, trying to capture some traces left by the space station when it disappeared like dust.

However, at the moment when the metal liquid bit the dusty space station, the dust scattered by the space station suddenly disappeared without leaving any trace of existence.

It was as if the space station had never appeared in this galaxy or appeared above the orbit of this planet.

But the surface of the metal liquid did leave traces of contact with these dust.

Chen Ming looked at the location where the space station disappeared with some regret.

Even at such a fast speed, it still couldn't catch up with this time.

The clue slipped away from his hands.

But the absence of clues is actually a clue.

This space station obviously existed here a long time ago. It didn't disappear earlier or later, but just disappeared when he arrived at this galaxy. Chen Ming didn't believe it if it had nothing to do with the survivors.

The disappearance of the space station was definitely the work of the survivors.

This is the clue.

It proves that Leviathan and the survivors are definitely closely connected.

It is even possible that Leviathan was developed and manufactured by the survivors and released outside.

Of course, the latter idea is only Chen Ming's guess at present.

But this at least proves that the survivors must have discovered his whereabouts and knew that he had discovered this place.

The survivors will definitely take action later.

Although Chen Ming seems to be in a very stable period now, without any enemies jumping in front of him, his confrontation with the survivors has begun from this time.

Chen Ming calmed down and planned to continue doing what he should do now.

He didn't know much about the real survivors, and most of it came from the survivors' own words.

It is obviously wrong to use his random speculation as the real situation. The best choice is to remain unchanged in the face of changes.

Moreover, since the survivors had made the space station disappear, it was obvious that they did not want him to contact the space station.

The more the enemy did not want him to do something, the more he would do it.

Although the space station above the planet's orbit had disappeared, the city ruins that Chen Ming had just scanned on the planet had not undergone such changes.

He could also go to the planet to look for possible clues.

Find out what Leviathan is and what kind of existence the survivors related to Leviathan are.

Chen Ming immediately changed his goal and controlled the super body to enter the atmosphere of the planet.

The surrounding yellow sand enveloped the super body, and it was almost impossible to see any scenes outside with the naked eye.

The sensor was able to clearly scan some relatively high buildings protruding from the yellow sand on the surface.

This allowed Chen Ming to accurately control the super body to hover directly above the building.

Then, he wore biological armor, left the cabin directly, and landed rapidly towards the surface.

The time acceleration effect stopped instantly after Chen Ming left the spacecraft, and the original pressure on his consciousness disappeared instantly.

Chen Ming got back to his previous feeling after a little adaptation.

Just like that, he landed hard on the planet and crashed into the building protruding in the yellow sand.

As soon as he landed.

Chen Ming smashed through several floors of the building and fell directly into the yellow sand of the lower floor of the building.

He fluttered in the sand twice and successfully climbed along the gap he had just smashed to the place on the previous floor that was not completely covered by the yellow sand.

This building seemed to be bigger than he imagined.

Moreover.

Chen Ming half-crouched on the ground and stretched out his hand to pinch the yellow sand that was shaken up on the ground of this floor of the building. The expression under the armor changed from the original calm to the direction of shock.

He climbed up again along the floor until he climbed to the highest place that could be climbed to where the building was completely exposed outside the yellow sand.

Standing next to the wall that was now completely hollowed out and only the frame that barely supported the building structure was left.

Chen Ming looked up outside the building. The yellow sand all over the sky made his expression a little difficult to suppress.

"This is really..."

The planet where Chen Ming was at this time was earthy yellow from the orbit.

The spacecraft sensors also scanned a large amount of sand and dust being blown up by the strong wind, occasionally revealing the ruins of the city below, but then it would be covered by the yellow sand blown from other places.

It looks like a very standard desert planet, but it only looks like that.

When Chen Ming touched the yellow sand, he found that it was not yellow sand, but iron sand.

He grabbed a handful of "yellow sand" from the ground again, and saw that the yellow sand melted into a pool of bright metal liquid in his hands.

The yellow sand of the entire planet is all iron sand condensed after the nanorobots rusted.

This planet, which seems to be covered by sand, is actually covered by these abandoned nanorobots.

Unfortunately, the structure of the nanorobot is too small. Once rusted, the erosion of time will be very serious. The nanorobots covered with yellow sand can no longer be repaired to their former appearance.

The most Chen Ming can do is to recycle the materials used to make nanorobots.

The yellow sand covering the entire planet can almost be regarded as a resource treasure house for obtaining metal materials of different grades.

But there is no rush.

Chen Ming did not use his psychic power to directly transform the yellow sand into materials, but followed the ventilation frame of the building and climbed to the edge of the highest point of the collapsed high-rise building under his feet.

He looked around and could only see endless yellow at a glance.

He could only lower his head and look at the yellow sand below.

Jump down.

The biological armor on his body had extra weights, which made him sink directly into the yellow sand the moment he removed the sand layer.

After slowly sinking at least three hundred meters in the yellow sand, he once again felt that he was standing on something substantial.

Chen Ming immediately used his psychic power to perceive the surrounding environment and eliminated the influence of the surrounding yellow sand.

Let him clearly "see" the surrounding environment.

He was not standing on the ground, but on the top of a relatively low building ruins that was still more than thirty stories high.

And around him, all the places that could be clearly perceived by his spiritual power were only the ruins of various buildings, without any trace of nature.

Chen Ming continued his previous actions at the bottom of the yellow sand.

He jumped off the low building under his feet and came to the road between the building ruins that could barely be walked.

Although most of this road had been buried by the ruins, and the upper layer of yellow sand continued to cover it.

But Chen Ming could still rely on his powerful mental power to identify the approximate direction deep underground.

He just moved rapidly in the yellow sand with the power brought by his spiritual power, constantly expanding his perception range, trying to figure out the situation of the entire planet.

The more he expanded his perception range, the more shocked Chen Ming felt.

Because every inch of land where his perception expanded was full of various man-made buildings, and every inch of land was developed and utilized to the extreme.

Until Chen Ming spread his mental power to the entire planet, he did not find any non-man-made things.

The yellow sand all over the sky and the building ruins under the yellow sand that he had just scanned in the sky were just the tip of the iceberg of the entire planet.

There is no place on this planet that is not covered by urban buildings.

This is a completely urban planet of the Shining Civilization... ruins.

These ruins have been silent under the yellow sand for many years.

After figuring out the situation of the planet, Chen Ming no longer wasted time and activated the effect of his own psychic power again.

At the beginning, there was no obvious change in the position.

But soon, the surface of the accumulated yellow sand on the surface of Chen Ming's position showed some sedimentation.

Some yellow sand sank into the ground and no longer continued to be blown by the wind and flew all over the sky.

Although the traces of the yellow sand settlement were quickly covered up.

But as time passed, more and more yellow sand sank into the ground, and the gaps on the surface that appeared at the beginning due to the lack of yellow sand could no longer be buried by the yellow sand blown by the wind from other places.

These yellow sands are disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Gradually, a vortex like quicksand appeared at the bottom of the sinking yellow sand pit, constantly drawing the surrounding yellow sand into the vortex, and the ruins of the buildings were not affected by the vortex at all.

The edge of the vortex is the earthy yellow of the desert, but the center of the vortex is the metallic color of the yellow sand formed by these nanorobots.

Although this vortex is only a drop of water in the ocean compared to the desert covering the entire planet.

But this drop of water is swallowing up the entire ocean at an unprecedented speed.

The nanorobots on the entire planet are being disassembled into the most basic materials by psychic energy and sent to other places.

Just a casual estimate, Chen Ming feels that the materials of these dismantled abandoned nanorobots can build a satellite for his planets.

Unknowingly.

The vortex has formed a huge pit with a diameter of several kilometers and a depth of hundreds of meters in the desert, and it is still expanding rapidly.

Although some buildings in the vortex have not been directly affected by the vortex, a considerable number of buildings have lost the filling support of the internal yellow sand and suddenly collapsed.

A series of chain reactions have also occurred with the surrounding building ruins, creating a larger area of ​​building ruins in the sand layer.

But this did not affect the vortex in the yellow sand, it is still growing.

When the depth of the vortex was enough to completely remove the yellow sand covering the surface of the planet.

The ruins of the most basic building on the planet appeared at the bottom of the vortex, and Chen Ming stood in the ruins.

Although the vortex continued to expand, Chen Ming had already moved.

His perception had scanned the buildings under the yellow sand.

There is always a most dense area of ​​the city ruins covering the entire planet, and the advanced level of the buildings is obviously higher than other places.

This place is most likely the center of the entire urban planet.

And this place is at its feet.

Chen Ming returned to the vicinity of where he had landed just now, and the vortex also expanded here with his footsteps.

Next to the tallest building on the entire planet that he had seen so far, he could already see the whole building with his naked eyes.

And a huge metal monument stood in the center of the giant square in front of the building.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to enter the building that he had stabilized with metal liquid.

Instead, he entered the square first and approached the metal monument.

As soon as he touched the body of the monument, Chen Ming discovered that the material used in this monument was the same material used to build the hull of the super body.

Such materials are extremely resistant to the effects of the passage of time, and are strong enough to resist all kinds of external wind and rain erosion.

And it seems to be the reason why this monument has been buried deep underground, and it has suffered minimal effects from weathering and corrosion.

Chen Ming can still clearly see the words engraved on the metal tablet.

"Merge the world into one city, and make one city into the world."

Chen Ming didn't know what thoughts the people who built such a special planet had in mind when building the planet, nor what thoughts they had in mind when they carved this sentence in this place.

But he should know right away.

According to Chen Ming’s own knowledge about Shining Civilization.

The tallest building he saw at this time should be the shining civilized government building, which they called the Governor's Palace.

This is the core of this urban planet.

Chen Ming stood next to the metal monument and stared at the Governor's Mansion in the distance. In addition to thinking about what caused the planet to fall into such a situation, Chen Ming was thinking about it.

Also thinking about another thing.

He remembered finding the scavenger robot near the wormhole he discovered leading to this area of ​​the universe, and the large amount of materials it had prepared for developing the world behind the wormhole.

This shows that the Shining Civilization was just beginning to develop the galaxy behind the wormhole at that time.

But the Governor's Mansion here and the planet below clearly indicate that this place has undergone a high degree of development and is in conflict with the situation over there with the scavenger robots.

There was a conflict with Chen Ming's cognition.

The reason... may have been buried in history.

Or maybe...in this building.

now.

The yellow sand around the building has completely faded.

The surrounding sky has become clear again because of Chen Ming, and there is no longer the same breathless feeling under the yellow sand.

The star's light penetrated the atmosphere and illuminated the land.

It makes the environment that is still full of decadence even after the yellow sand has dispersed become less psychologically stressful.

Chen Ming walked quickly across the square and walked into the Governor's Palace building.

The lobby on the first floor is full of toppled building debris, and there is no trace of the former prosperity.

But buried in the tight yellow sand, these decays did not affect something special.

Like a guidance robot that fell in the lobby.

The technology of this robot is not very advanced, and even some aspects of its design are not as sophisticated as those of the Empire's robots.

But it has been preserved until now, and Chen Ming can even repair it.

Chen Ming was able to learn about the general structure of the Governor's Mansion through this robot.

He came directly to the outside of the building, and the biological armor helped him lift to the height of the building.

Chen Ming roughly identified the number of floors, entered the building directly from the outside, and entered the Planetary Governor's Office in the Governor's Mansion.

The burial of yellow sand often gives people a feeling of despair.

But when it comes to preserving something, the extremely pure yellow sand composed of these nanorobots plays a very critical role.

Isolating air and microorganisms prevents these devices from being indelibly marked by time even after tens of thousands of years.

Let Chen Ming use his spiritual power to bring back to light those records that are about to disappear in time.

Chen Ming quickly found information about the planet beneath his feet in a device similar to the empire's computer in the governor's office.

A blueprint for planetary planning.

This planet is indeed named Urban Planet.

The entire planet is completely covered with various urban buildings and industrial clusters.

As for specific types of construction and industrial clusters…

Chen Ming took a rough look at the blueprint.

It can only be said that this is a planet that integrates the crystallization of countless shining civilization technologies.

Almost all the technologies belonging to the shining civilization have been preserved on this planet.

Almost everything for the entire civilization is on this planet.

Countless outstanding industrial buildings belonging to shining civilizations and countless scientific research centers of shining civilizations can all find their place on the planet.

This means that Chen Ming has found the biggest gain from his arrival this time.

Although there will definitely be irreparable damage to the buildings on the planet.

But... Chen Ming has already found the offices of the corresponding departments in the Governor's Mansion. These places also have enough blueprints to rebuild the industrial buildings on the entire urban planet.

This is what Chen Ming and the Empire have been looking for, the technology of a shining civilization.

It simply fell into Chen Ming's hands.

To be honest, Chen Ming is really worried about whether this might be a trap set by the survivors.

But look at the center of the whirlpool that is moving away towards the horizon.

As well as these documents and blueprints, you can really feel the authenticity of these technologies just by looking at them.

Chen Ming felt that the possibility of this situation should be very small.

Chen Ming copied a file from the Governor's Mansion computer.

Whether it was files that were not damaged after he repaired the computer or files that he used his psychic powers to repair files that had been damaged in the past, they were all in his hands.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ming separated some metallic liquid and went to different offices on different floors of the Governor's Mansion.

Repeat what he just did.

On the computer in the History and Culture Office, Chen Ming suddenly noticed a rather special file.

One copy, Planet Chronicle.

It records the development of the planet.

But it happens that it is encrypted with ciphertext.

Chen Ming couldn't even use his spiritual power to forcibly decipher this document. He had to find a professional cryptographer to decipher the records of this historical document.

However, Chen Ming can already roughly guess the situation of this urban planet.

There is a high probability that the true survivors of the Shining Civilization built such a planet and placed everything belonging to Shining on this planet.

Chen Ming temporarily handed over the encrypted document to Yuhui in his hand to decrypt it.

And he continued to search these files to see if there was any other valuable information.

Soon, he found another document that had not been worn away by time.

A wanted document.

The wanted content is that the Governor-General requested the army to deal with a group of people who resisted their rule.

These people call themselves.

survivors.

"Resist the rule?"

Chen Ming frowned and continued to read the documents by himself.

After all, this was so different from the survivors he knew.

In his opinion, the political system of this planet is not the imperial system that has been continued by the Shining Civilization itself.

Rather, it is a centralized parliamentary system.

Although it is just like that, it is obviously more flexible and more democratic than the imperial system.

Do the survivors want to resist such rule because they want to be restored?

Or are they a group of people who have learned about a more advanced social system, so they are suppressed by the ruling class?

Chen Ming thought about the previous conversation with the survivor.

The attitude they showed was probably the former.

Chen Ming took this document out separately and kept it. It might be useful later.

Then he continued to find what he had been looking for in the docking office between the Governor's Mansion and the military.

Leviathan Project Proposal.

However, Chen Ming did not go directly to the documents of the Leviathan Project.

Because he suddenly found traces of a group of survivors of a shining civilization in other searched databases through psychic repair.

This is a deleted letter.

The content of the letter is not the content of the exchange between that group of survivors and the survivors of the shining civilization on this planet.

It was a farewell letter to the group of survivors and the planet at Chen Ming's feet.

Determined to get out of here, these people sent their last letter.

This letter, judging from the system time, was deleted just after it was received.

More and more mysteries shroud the history of Shining Civilization.

However, Chen Ming did not find any valuable information in this regard.

He could only put aside the pursuit of shining history for the time being.

First, let’s complete the other purpose of his coming here.

Chen Ming rode the super body to the orbit of the planet and looked at the planet, which had now changed from earthy yellow to bright gray. There were only a few places where the yellow areas were gradually being erased.

This entire urbanized and mechanized planet has a very high value.

No matter how I express myself, I don’t want to give up any part of it.

just.

Chen Ming's psionic power has a special joint effect. When controlling a complete device, he can use the psionic effect to derive control of surrounding things.

For example, if a piece of fixed equipment is installed in a factory, Chen Ming's psychic power can only control the mechanical equipment itself.

However, he can use the derivative effects of psychic energy to control the factory building where the mechanical equipment is installed.

Chen Ming has mastered this psychic effect for a long time and is still using it.

For example, several colonies of the mechanical tribe were moved away by him using this psychic effect.

so……

Half an hour later.

The entire planet's yellow sand has completely disappeared in the whirlpool.

A wave of metal rolled through the wreckage.

The moment when this metal wave completely covered the planet.

The entire planet disappeared into the galaxy.