Chapter 125 Self-awareness, spiritual world
Three Gauss cannonballs reached the sky above the research institute in the blink of an eye.
If there is no targeted means, then these three Gaussian shells, which are almost unaffected by resistance and even assisted by gravity acceleration, can definitely completely destroy the research institute.
At this time, Yuhui didn't seem to have enough countermeasures.
The only ones that might play a role are three giant machines that have just completed their tasks and are preparing to go dormant.
But the giant mechanical body itself is extremely heavy. Even if it can jump, it can only jump a few meters high, and basically can only move near the ground.
It is simply impossible to physically block the gauss cannon's shells.
And Gauss shells themselves rarely use magnetic materials.
Therefore, even if the giant machinery now uses electromagnetic pulses to generate high-intensity magnetic force for traction, it is basically unlikely to be effective.
Even if the cannonball fired by the ruler is really made of magnetic material, the giant mechanical body alone will basically not be able to pull the cannonball away in time. At most, the cannonball will deflect slightly before it hits the ground.
But the final speed of the Gauss cannon shell and the terrifying power brought by such speed, there is actually no difference whether it hits the research institute head-on or somewhere next to the research institute.
The result is the same anyway.
At this time, Yuhui had no other means of protection.
Since they did not stop the ruler at the beginning, it seemed destined that the ruler's shells would hit the research institute after entering the planet.
Danger is coming.
Chen Ming, who is still in the experimental area of the institute, seems to be about to become the only victim of the Gaussian cannon.
But what everyone paid attention to afterglow of these three shells did not expect.
The paralyzed Iron Mine next to it suddenly started to move on its own.
On its main control computer, which had been controlled by Chen Ming's psychic energy for a long time and was infiltrated by the persistence of psychic energy, several commands that needed to be executed appeared for no reason.
At the same time, all the equipment on the Iron Mine that had just been destroyed by the final electromagnetic pulse self-destruction of a giant machine were repairing themselves without Chen Ming's active control.
In the blink of an eye, the Iron Ore was active again.
It flew over the research institute and blocked the Gaussian shells.
And try to use the ship's ion pulse to destroy the Gauss cannon shells before the Gauss cannon actually hits.
But the Gauss Cannon shell is simply a solid, high-quality "iron block", and it is not easy to destroy such a thing.
Even though the ion pulse is pretty good for a small weapon, it is still too weak for a large weapon shell.
It has no ability to cause actual damage at all. The impact caused by an energy weapon hit can be said to be close to nothing, and it cannot miss the shells flying at high speed.
The Gaussian shells bounced off dozens of energy restraint shells fired at it with an unstoppable momentum, and hit the Iron Ore that was blocking its path.
The Iron Ore's shield was shattered instantly.
But Chen Ming's previous design and the strange situation that the Iron Ore is still independently repairing the spacecraft itself play a role.
The Iron Ore's shield was not completely shattered directly, but after eight of the ten shield layers with different amplitudes and frequencies were shattered, the Gauss cannon's shells were successfully decelerated to a barely acceptable range.
Although the Iron Ore in mid-air also lost its balance, rolling and spinning in the air.
The Iron Ore's shield has also undergone significant deformation, which may cause the shield system to completely fail at any time.
But at least it had taken the opportunity to change the direction of the cannonball's force, causing the first cannonball to turn a corner over the institute and fly to the open space in the distance.
The solid shells splashed a lot of dust when they hit the ground, even covering the research institute from a considerable distance away.
Amidst the flying dust, the Iron Mine readjusted its attitude and flew over the research institute again.
It wasn't even late enough for a complete restoration.
The second Gauss cannonball had arrived right after the first.
The Iron Ore blocked it again, and all its remaining shields were shattered, but the shells from the second Fargos cannon still hit the Iron Ore's hull unabated.
The Iron Ore had no intention of evading, and simply relied on its hull to withstand the attack of this large weapon.
The once extremely solid dolomite steel now looks a bit fragile in the face of Gaussian shells.
It had been buffered by the shield and was slightly deflected. The cannonball still caused nearly a quarter of the spacecraft to be damaged due to impact.
Even one corner of the spacecraft was completely shattered upon impact with the cannonball.
But at least the second shell was successfully deflected and landed in another direction.
Chen Ming is still safe now.
However, this safe time did not last long. The third and final Gauss cannon shell was about to arrive.
At this time, the Iron Mine could only barely support a fragile shield with only one layer.
It is an exaggeration that its shield can be opened again after withstanding the attack of a large weapon Gauss cannon.
But it continued to block the Gauss cannon without any hesitation, using itself as a buffer. Even if the ship itself was destroyed, it still had to block the Gauss cannon outside the research institute and in front of Chen Ming.
The thin shield was shattered the moment it came into contact with the Gauss cannonball, failing to have any effect.
The speed of the shells did not slow down at all. This third Gauss shell hit the Iron Ore head-on after shattering the shield.
A frigate was hit head-on by a large weapon without any means of protection other than armor. The results can be imagined.
But what the Iron Mine was trying to do has been successful.
Although the Gaussian shell did not perform anything when it hit the shield, the shell was indeed affected and deflected when it hit the Iron Ore hull.
In the end, the shell hit the work area diagonally opposite to the experimental area with less destructive force.
The structure of the institute itself is quite solid.
The Iron Ore had previously smashed the dome and blasted open the door.
Now the Gauss cannon's shells hit an area after weakening their power to a certain extent.
Under such circumstances, the institute still remains standing.
Only some industrial equipment was damaged near the entire institute.
As well as the Iron Ore itself.
The Iron Ore was completely destroyed after withstanding a frontal attack from Gauss shells, leaving only shattered wreckage scattered throughout the research area.
At this time, Zhang Feng had confirmed that the source of the positioning signal had disappeared, and retreat became the only thing they needed to do now.
The entire combined fleet covered each other and jumped away from here.
A large number of shipwrecks were left floating in space.
The Afterglow Fleet organized a smaller fleet to patrol the interior of the galaxy, and also arranged more other ships to search in other surrounding galaxies in case the United Fleet made other moves after the jump.
After the ships responsible for the battle left, a large number of Yuhui responsible for logistics began to control various engineering ships to clean the battlefield.
Recover the wreckage of the ship, find the core that has not been destroyed, capture the human prisoners who escaped through the escape capsule, and collect the corpses of the dead humans.
The latter two are bargaining chips that can be used to exchange things with humans later.
At this time, G3 had just moved his perspective away from outside the institute and back to Chen Ming, who was prone to accidents.
Obviously, it was not normal for the nerve to be suddenly severed just now.
It was Chen Ming who had an unknown influence on the Liar Stone after activating it.
Moreover, after Chen Ming fell into coma, G3 was quite confused by the iron ore ship that started to move outside.
It must submit a complete and clear report on this.
Fortunately, it doesn't need to worry too much now. Other afterglows in space are unlikely to give humans a second chance to attack the surface of the planet when there are already precedents.
The only thing it needs to worry about is that Chen Ming may have actively stimulated the nerves just now, which may cause deviations in the final results of the use of this device, eventually leading to his death.
So G3 immediately controlled the robot to start a more detailed inspection of Chen Ming in all aspects.
It needs to ensure that there are no problems with Chen Ming's body functions.
At the same time, he also wanted to confirm whether Chen Ming had really passed out and whether it was him who had just controlled the Iron Mine.
In addition, it also had to confirm whether there was anything weird hidden in Chen Ming's body.
To avoid the possibility of accidents in the use of the device occurring again.
Soon, G3 confirmed that Chen Ming's physical condition was in good condition, and his brain waves were consistent with those of a person in a coma. Only his mental power fluctuated significantly.
However, fluctuations in this area are normal when using psychic equipment. As long as it does not exceed a certain peak value, there will be no problem.
And while G3 confirmed Chen Ming's physical condition, it also confirmed that in addition to the lie stone, there was also a lower quality spiritual stone hidden in Chen Ming's body.
This is actually the most surprising point of G3.
Because it had never thought that Chen Ming would carry high-intensity spiritual stones with negative effects, and there were two more.
Even one of them did not take any safety measures and was carried directly close to the body without any concern for the negative effects.
This also explains why Chen Ming's mental power has improved far beyond expectations during this period.
A psyker who carries this thing every day either goes crazy because of the psychic pulse, or his psychic power increases significantly because he resists the psychic pulse.
G3 is still quite suspicious that Chen Ming's ectoplasm stone has special effects that it doesn't know yet.
Because before this, the detection equipment inside the institute could not detect the existence of this spiritual stone at all.
The weak ectoplasmic stone was placed in a box made of silent alloy and could not be detected.
There must be some special reason why this powerful ectoplasmic stone was not detected even though it was placed in his pocket.
As the responsible individual on Chen Ming's side, G3 must investigate it clearly and give a reasonable report.
But all he can do now is arrange robots to collect the fragments of the Iron Ore scattered throughout the institute.
At the same time, he kept an eye on Chen Ming's physical indicators in case something happened to Chen Ming suddenly.
The reason is that Yu Hui currently only knows how to use this device, but not its principles
So when they encountered unexpected situations one after another.
For example, a sudden attack by humans forced them to activate their psychic equipment before it was at its optimum level.
For example, Chen Ming anticipated their methods in advance and responded accordingly. As a result, they could only forcibly control Chen Ming and conduct experiments instead of relying on drugs to make Chen Ming coma first and then conduct experiments.
Another example is that Chen Ming, whose mobility was restricted, still had the ability to use the ectoplasm stone to fight back, which eventually led to an accident in the device startup process.
After encountering these things, all Yuhui and the others can do is wait and hope that the final result will favor them
After G3 arranged for the robots of the institute to start cleaning the wreckage of the Iron Ore around the institute and clearing the ruins of the work area.
While paying attention to Chen Ming's situation, he began to write the report he wanted to submit.
"The Ling-Qing Nerve Extraction Equipment was not activated at the highest point of psychic energy fluctuation intensity, and the actual success rate was reduced between 20% and 30%." "The artificial ineffective Ling-Qing Nerve was stimulated and broken by the lying ectoplasm stone carried by Chen Ming , failed to maintain normal operation, and the broken part completely entered Chen Ming’s body and could not be recovered.”
"It is impossible to confirm whether the artificial ineffective spiritual nerves have successfully absorbed Chen Ming's spiritual nerves before Chen Ming wakes up."
"But the equipment program is still running, and follow-up reactions need to be observed."
G3 finished writing the summary, and then began to add more details to the report, and also attached various complex data recorded in the equipment.
And when Chen Ming had fallen into a coma and his brain waves were completely calm, the Iron Mine moved on its own to protect the research institute and Chen Ming.
Currently, G3 is also collecting the wreckage of the Iron Mine for investigation. However, like Chen Ming's current situation, it will also take time for follow-up monitoring.
G3 is observing Chen Ming.
Chen Ming, who was under observation, was having a hazy dream in a hazy state.
He dreamed of a chaotic steel jungle composed of mechanical equipment, worn-out metal, and a large number of spacecraft wreckage.
And he was wandering among them like a lost traveler, holding a cup of fairy leaf tea inexplicably in his hand.
Chen Ming, who was completely confused about the situation, drank the tea in his cup in one gulp and gradually accelerated his pace, walking through the steel jungle.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming found a special open space in the steel jungle.
It is an open space of about 0.5 square kilometers, approximately the size of a cruiser.
In the center of this open space, there is a hill piled up by the wreckage of various spaceships.
Chen Ming took a closer look and found that the wreckage of the spacecraft on the wreckage mountain were all spacecraft that he had personally controlled.
The relatively flat open space under the wreckage mountain was actually the top armor of the Refraction-class ship he had recently controlled.
However, as Chen Ming took stock of all the wreckage, he found that there was one missing ship on the mountain of wreckage that he had personally controlled, the Iron Ore.
The wreckage of the Iron Ore does not appear here.
Although there are many spacecrafts that Chen Ming indirectly controlled through Yuhui individuals that did not appear here.
But the Iron Ore is his first ship, so this shouldn't be the case, right?
Chen Ming approached the peak of the spacecraft wreckage with doubts and stood here thinking for a while.
But before Chen Ming could figure out the reason, a man who looked exactly like him suddenly walked out from behind the mountain of debris.
His eyes were full of longing, as if he wanted to take his place.
If Chen Ming hadn't just seen from a distance that this thing that looked like a person was transformed from a white, tender and fat giant nerve like a worm.
Moreover, the maintenance technician Chen Ming in the current Chen Ming's memory has long been completely assimilated by the current Chen Ming in the process of learning technology through memory.
Chen Ming really almost thought that the maintenance engineer Chen Ming had faked the corpse.
So when facing this monster that looked exactly like him, Chen Ming hesitated for a while, then drove the complete iron ore that suddenly appeared in his dream and crushed it.
Chen Ming didn't know where the Iron Mine came from or how he got on the Iron Mine.
But anyway, that's what he did.
And after he did. The crushed meat suddenly turned back into the fat nerve it had been before.
Although it was still crushed, it moved like a living creature.
It decomposed into the smallest fragments, penetrated through the Iron Ore's armor like some kind of fluid, and gradually stuck to Chen Ming's body.
At the same time, it began to gradually shrink into normal-sized nerves, following Chen Ming's palm and drilling into his body from the position where he used his ability to transport materials over long distances.
Chen Ming felt no pain or danger during this process.
This crushed nerve is like a docile dog, no longer looking like it was about to eat people.
When the nerves completely penetrated into Chen Ming's body.
The dream suddenly stopped.
Chen Ming immediately opened his eyes.
He subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his eye socket where the nerve penetrated.
But as soon as he moved, he discovered that he was still lying on Yuhui's psychic device. Although the restraints on his hands and feet had been removed, they were still cuffed to it by the shackles that came with the device, making him unable to move.
The chapped lips told Chen Ming that he had been unconscious for at least four hours.
And everything on him that Yuhui had not carefully checked before was also taken away.
The pistol, the Whispering Stone, and the portable psychic wave generator equipped with the Whispering Stone were all gone.
But Chen Ming doesn't care about these external things now.
After all...
"I'm actually still alive."
Chen Ming tried to struggle a few times, but found that he couldn't get away, and Yu Hui didn't show any sign of wanting to talk to him.
He simply threw his head back and closed his eyes.
Concentrate on what just happened.
First of all, he was certain that the thick nerve that changed into his appearance in the dream must be the severed nerve that drilled into his eye socket before he fell into coma.
The longing in its eyes after it became a human was directed at Chen Ming himself.
Maybe it's a parasite that controls the body.
It may also be some kind of insect related to psychic energy, which has some special effect on psychic energy.
After all, the device itself emits psychic fluctuations, and this nerve also emits psychic fluctuations.
Then the problem arises.
What does the steel jungle he was in just now represent? What does that mountain of debris in the steel jungle represent?
What concept does it symbolize? Or is it his spiritual world?
Although Chen Ming doesn't know the specific situation now.
But he was certain that this steel jungle was most likely a place related to his psychic powers and his brain.
Maybe you can ask your boss later.
When it comes to psychic abilities, the boss definitely knows a lot more than he does.
For now, Chen Ming plans to treat this steel jungle as his spiritual world for the time being.
From this point of view, the nerve first physically penetrated into his eye socket and into his brain.
Entered his spiritual world and wanted to replace Chen Ming's existence.
The result was naturally a failure.
It was completely crushed to death by the Iron Mine that suddenly appeared, and was finally absorbed in reverse by Chen Ming.
But thinking about it this way, that nerve should still be in your mind, right?
Chen Ming tried to use his mental power to gradually emanate from his brain.
But he didn't feel anything strange, nor did he find anything in his mind that didn't belong here.
Rather.
Chen Ming felt that his mental power had greatly increased, and his spiritual power seemed to have also been enhanced a lot.
And it's either temporarily enhanced through various equipment, or it becomes stronger in a practical sense.
It seems to be the result of that nerve being absorbed.
Chen Ming immediately checked his panel, which could most intuitively reflect the intensity of his psychic energy.
Then he discovered that the number of controllable spaceships jumped from 4 to 10, more than tripling.
You must know that the number of controllable spaceships is linked to Chen Ming's mental power.
Since the number of controllable spaceships has doubled, his mental power should also have doubled.
Chen Ming immediately thought about modifying something and testing it.
But when he selected the target, he discovered that the Iron Ore had disappeared from the list of spacecraft controlled by him.
Was it demolished by Afterglow?
This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind.
Then he suddenly noticed that he seemed to be able to sense the remaining fragments of the Iron Ore.
On the planet he is on now, in a factory in the colony on the planet.
Although only the wreckage of the Iron Ore is left, although it does not have any monitoring equipment to record the footage.
But Chen Ming directly saw the situation around the wreckage of the Iron Mine.
This should also be the effect brought about by the increase in spiritual power.
These scattered fragments, which add up to thousands of pieces, were separated by Yuhui into different parts of the factory, but they were in the same situation, that is, they were also surrounded by a large amount of equipment.
Sunset seemed to be studying the wreckage.
Chen Ming took a quick glance and found that the black box of the Iron Ore was still there.
He can even read the data directly with his brain.
This kind of reading would not have any impact on the device itself, so he did it directly.
Chen Ming skipped a lot of useless data recorded in the black box and jumped directly to after he was unconscious.
At this time, the Iron Ore was like a normal spaceship, paralyzed in place after losing Chen Ming's remote control.
Contrary to Chen Ming's expectation, the three giant machines did not directly dismantle the Iron Mine, but stood by in place.
Many robots in the institute took advantage of this moment to swarm out and repair the entrance to the institute and the dome outside.
Everything looked very peaceful, with no sign that the Iron Ore would be violently destroyed.
In addition to the ongoing battle in space.
Although Chen Ming couldn't see the specific battle situation clearly, he could still see the continuous explosions that stretched across the entire front.
This must have been a mistake on one side, causing the battle to become one-sided.
As for who made the mistake.
Chen Ming knew it when he saw the familiar appearance of the Gauss cannon shells coming straight to the research institute from space.
This was launched by the Fourteenth Army Corps and was used when the possibility of rescue was finally lost.
The shells used to take him out.
(End of chapter)