Chapter 207 Prosthesis
Chen Ming left the bar where Lao Wu drank and stood on the street outside.
He shook his head slightly, like a man recovering from drunkenness.
However, there was no drunken stupor in his eyes at all, instead he was as sober as usual.
After identifying the direction.
Chen Ming walked into the city on the street where the entire space station lowered the overall lighting brightness at night.
The factory director's home is near the center of the space station, very close to the administration building. It seems to be the employee dormitory of the administration.
To be honest, Chen Ming didn't even know how the second-generation factory director, the son of a chairman of a large company, could master maintenance skills and be willing to actually work in the maintenance factory.
And he usually lives in this kind of humble place compared to his status. Although the staff dormitory seems to be pretty good, something doesn't look right.
But this is the factory director's private matter, and Chen Ming won't ask any more questions.
At this moment, Chen Ming suddenly remembered that the company seemed to have arranged a special dormitory for him before.
Although he didn't ask for it, the factory director seemed to have withdrawn it during a chat before, and the dormitory was still reserved for him.
Forget it, it doesn't matter, Chen Ming didn't bother to go and take a look.
He still has to go to the factory director.
When Chen Ming came to the company's employee dormitory, it was because Chen Ming told the factory director in advance that he was going there.
The factory director also took Chen Ming directly to his residence at the gate of the community and stayed in his study.
After asking the same question as Lao Wu, Chen Ming also gave the same answer.
Chen Ming just casually chatted with the factory director about the recent situation.
By the way, I also asked how the repair shop's business was.
At any rate, it was a place where he stayed for a while, and he had some feelings for it.
But while chatting, Chen Ming noticed that the factory director looked at him strangely.
Chen Ming thought the factory director had noticed something and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay."
The factory director shook his head and continued chatting with Chen Ming.
But after a while, he said to Chen Ming hesitantly: "I want to ask you something, what are your plans for the future?"
"After what?"
"That's after the colony was established."
Chen Ming still followed the idea of chatting and said casually: "I haven't thought about it yet, but colonization is not that easy. It is possible in a few years or more. I will definitely think about it by then"
"You will definitely be able to continue your career smoothly. Then...is it almost time to start a family?"
Chen Ming pointed to his face with some confusion and asked: "Am I very old?"
“I just think it’s almost done.”
"Then I can only say that I don't have this idea yet,"
Chen Ming pulled up a schedule for his period on the terminal, placed it in front of the factory director, and said, "Look, where do I have time to do other things?"
The factory director asked: "You will do it if you have time?"
"You have to have time. And I'm not saying that I resist it completely, but I really don't have the time."
"Oh, that's it."
"Yes, that's it. Why do you ask so suddenly?"
The factory director extended his thumb and gestured to the door of the study room and said: "You know I'm married. Sometimes I talk about you with my wife, and then we get involved in this aspect by the way. She asked me to take care of you. Take care.”
Chen Ming smiled and said: "There's nothing I can do about it, right? It's still my own problem."
"Yeah, you have to put your career first."
Chen Ming chatted with the factory director for a while and then left.
Finally, go to the boss.
At the entrance of the hardware store in Space Arm No. 2, Chen Ming happened to see the boss closing the store when he arrived.
Chen Ming searched around for everyone he knew, and when he finally arrived at the boss's place, it was almost late at night.
Chen Ming stopped.
However, the boss noticed Chen Ming and waved to him to let him pass.
When he approached the hardware store, the boss suddenly looked Chen Ming up and down and asked, "Why do you feel like you are a little nervous?"
Chen Ming explained casually: "I just completed an experiment. The experimental process was a bit difficult, but the results were pretty good."
When Chen Ming was talking, the boss could feel that he calmed down quickly and said nothing.
After a few brief chats.
Chen Ming took the initiative to leave here, and time did not allow him to continue disturbing others.
And when the boss disappeared from his sight.
Chen Ming suddenly let out a long breath, and then walked all the way back to the highest point.
Boarded the spaceship and went to the captain's cabin of the spacecraft.
There is someone waiting for him here.
And this person looks exactly like Chen Ming.
To be precise, Chen Ming on the spaceship is the real Chen Ming.
And the "Chen Ming" who had just gone out to meet with Factory Director and Boss Wu and the others was just a prosthesis that looked exactly like him, controlled by Chen Ming's consciousness.
This is not a cloning technology, but a technology mastered by the insect queen.
A pure fake body created through Chen Ming's genes and using it to create ordinary Zerg.
The effect of the prosthetic body is simple and direct, and he has experienced it personally just now.
This prosthetic technology is a technology that Chen Ming specially asked the Insect Queen to develop some time ago.
That was the only thing that he thought the insect queen was doing some time ago that could be considered good news.
Originally, the Queen of Insects was doing two things, one was to cultivate Zerg biological structures, and the other was to cultivate special individuals of Zerg.
Biological buildings are extremely difficult to build, and the efficiency of advancement is very low. Chen Ming has no good solution for the time being.
And the process of another special individual is also difficult to achieve the ultimate goal that Chen Ming wants to achieve, which is to cultivate high-intensity fighting individuals.
The Zerg are a species that wins in numbers, relying on their strong reproductive ability to crush them.
It is also very difficult to start cultivating high-strength combat individuals out of thin air that the Zerg do not need.
But in the process of cultivating special individuals.
Chen Ming suddenly had an idea. Could the Zerg use human genes to make Zerg individuals show some human characteristics?
Although the human body itself is too weak, and the developed human brain can only serve as a carrier for the hive mind Zerg, it is of no significance to the Zerg.
But Chen Ming just wanted to try.
Even if the insect queen is like him, she has to do several things well at the same time.
Because he saw a glimmer of possibility in this idea.
And after Chen Ming fed the insect queen with his own blood, he came to a definite answer.
The insect queen can indeed manually create some human organs and body tissues, but many Zerg genes will be mixed into them, causing the final product to be very weird.
But at least it means it's doable.
Then Chen Ming asked the insect queen to try a further idea that he had thought of from the beginning.
An idea that would better ensure his own safety.
Make a prosthesis just like him.
Such a new idea that is independent of a special individual.
The Zerg race created by the Queen of Insects will be affected by the Queen of Insects and controlled by Chen Ming.
Then the "people" created by the insect queen should have the same effect.
So Chen Ming has been letting the insect queen try it, and has been paying attention to this matter.
The number of failures in this research is far behind compared to the biological buildings the Insect Queen is working on.
Moreover, if the research on biological architecture failed, it would only result in more growths and undigested energy crystals.
But once Chen Ming's prosthesis failed during the experiment, it would often produce many weird and twisted things with his face.
Finally, it will be wrapped in a carpet of bacteria and re-digested into the most basic nutrients. The process makes Chen Ming feel a little bit sanity.
His own body, which had died so far, could almost circle the highest point together.
However, after seeing his grotesque corpse too many times, Chen Ming no longer felt anything.
In other words, he has been used to it since Yuhui used his genes to clone and produced a bunch of weird clones that were infected by the dimension.
So when the insect queen found a pile of his corpses, Chen Ming felt weird at first, but then it didn't matter at all.
Sometimes he would even point at his mutilated body in order to clearly explain his needs and thoughts to the insect queen.
Today, the experiment finally succeeded, when Chen Ming used the cellular network to control the prosthesis.
His mentality in controlling the prosthesis is the same as using a piece of biological armor, without any fluctuations.
It can be regarded as training Chen Ming's resistance when facing various strange things.
He can control his prosthesis and go out to meet people without changing his expression.
Originally, Chen Ming wanted to give the people he knew a little surprise and see if he could be noticed as abnormal.
But... no one seemed to realize that he was a fake.
The prosthetic effect is really good.
Moreover, Chen Ming also used the prosthesis to confirm the sensory issues.
It is certain that he can share the senses of the prosthesis and can actively accept or resist it.
In other words, after the prosthesis eats food, Chen Ming can directly taste the taste of the food, and the same goes for the taste of alcohol.
However, the effect of alcohol on the prosthesis will not affect Chen Ming.
Even if it is death, it is only prosthetic death
Therefore, the prosthesis is also an excellent substitute for Chen Ming.
During this process, when he approached the factory director and was stared at with strange eyes, Chen Ming thought he had been exposed.
It turned out not to be the case. The factory director only came to urge the marriage.
Only the last time he went to see his boss was the most nervous moment in this test.
As a result, his subconscious nervousness on the prosthesis was seen, but the boss didn't even notice that the prosthesis was fake.
Because Chen Ming's consciousness controls this prosthesis through the hive mind network link.
Chen Ming's hive mind network was constructed using his own psychic energy, which meant that his psychic energy completely enveloped the prosthesis, allowing the prosthesis to possess its own normal psychic energy fluctuations.
Of course, if you find a way to penetrate into the prosthetic brain, you will definitely find abnormalities. After all, Chen Ming's spiritual nerve does not grow here.
But the boss would not just use his spiritual energy to probe Chen Ming's head.
Normally, there is no simple way to easily investigate what is in other people's brains, especially the brains of psychics.
Only last time, Chen Ming left the pirate space station for a while, and when he came back, he had two spiritual energy fluctuations connected to something inexplicably. Only then would the boss be surprised, thinking that Chen Ming was parasitized by something.
He used his mental power to forcefully check Chen Ming.
After he checked that there was no problem at that time, and Chen Ming also said that it was fine.
Chen Ming's two mental fluctuations that are connected to the outside world are normal in the boss's opinion.
Therefore, the boss didn't notice anything unusual just now.
Even if someone comes to perform a genetic test on his prosthesis, the final result will definitely be Chen Ming's own genes.
When the prosthesis was made, the insect queen was specially adjusted, and there would be no Zerg parts in the prosthesis.
So since these people who are close to Chen Ming can't see the problem, then in the eyes of anyone else, the prosthesis is Chen Ming himself.
However, once Chen Ming stopped consciously controlling the prosthesis.
Then it will be like this.
The fake body that was still standing in front of Chen Ming instantly collapsed to the ground.
After it lost Chen Ming's consciousness, it became a ball of dead flesh.
Of course, Chen Ming has not completely withdrawn his consciousness. He will still leave some subtle consciousness in the prosthetic body.
In case the non-self-aware prosthesis is invaded by things from another dimension that cause dimensional infection.
Chen Ming immersed his consciousness into the prosthesis again, controlled it and climbed up.
He and the prosthesis simultaneously stretched out their hands and made different gestures.
It is also very simple for Chen Ming to divide his mind into two tasks.
And...
The prosthetic wrist in front of Chen Ming also had a bracelet made of the insect queen's body tissue.
After the prosthesis raised its hand, a mixture of metallic color and bright green liquid also flowed from its wrist, gradually wrapping it to form a set of biological armor.
After putting on this armor, the prosthetic's combat capabilities should be the same as Chen Ming's own.
After all, the physical quality of the prosthesis is based on his condition, and the armor is just that.
It does not have the body tissues and organs of the Zerg that have abnormal combat capabilities.
But this ordinary prosthesis can do things for him that he would never risk doing.
For example, go to the Fourteenth Army Corps on his behalf, which he would never dare to go to.
After Chen Ming agreed to Bai Quan's invitation to join the war yesterday, he was thinking about how he could get the maximum benefit from the war.
That must be deeply involved in this war.
Because this war must be won.
It was a war that must be won, and he had no reason to refuse to participate.
However, just being responsible for helping with the research on the machine race as he had agreed with Bai Quan before was not enough.
Although you can get certain benefits, it is definitely not as good as participating in something deeper.
The answer to how to deeply participate in this war initiated by the empire and prepared by the Fourteenth Legion is also obvious.
Go to the Fourteenth Legion.
As interim tactical instructor on the contract he just signed.
Chen Ming does not need to actually join the Fourteenth Legion because he now has the contract he signed.
After all, the Fourteenth Legion was the main force in the empire's early war against the machine race.
They definitely have first-hand information about the war.
As the person who currently knows the most about the mechanical race, Chen Ming can definitely get it.
But if Chen Ming is not in the Fourteenth Legion, then Baiquan's speed of giving news will definitely lag behind.
Only by going there in person, at the station of the Fourteenth Legion, could he get the information he needed immediately.
Then he would find an opportunity to remotely command his Afterglows to seize the benefits.
But the problem with doing this is also obvious.
It was impossible for Chen Ming to run to the 14th Army Corps at the risk of being placed under house arrest.
Because he has used his deep repair psychic power several times and optimized some techniques.
Not only is it the cooperation with Shao Yang, the hyperspace channel jump technology itself is the result of reverse research through in-depth maintenance.
Even if Chen Ming concealed the research and development process in the paper.
But once traces are left, it is impossible for him to guarantee that his abilities will not be leaked.
It would only be a matter of time before his psychic powers were exposed unless he used them completely.
But it's impossible without psychic powers.
So once the spiritual power of this optimization technology is leaked.
Although his own safety is the least of his worries, countless people don't want him to die.
But he and freedom will also say goodbye.
Therefore, not only the Fourteenth Army Corps, but also other places belonging to the government army, he would definitely not dare to go there.
Although the relationship between Bai Quan and him has been good recently.
But Bai Quan is a soldier, and Chen Ming really can't guarantee what Bai Quan will do.
Therefore, the importance of false identity is heightened here.
It allows Chen Ming to do many things without any burden.
Chen Ming actually didn't expect the fake body to be so powerful before actually making it... It doesn't seem right to say it is powerful. It should be said that it has such a unique effect.
At first, he just thought prosthetics were a good life-saving technology and feasible, so he tried it.
Finally got an unexpected surprise.
Chen Ming threw the prosthesis that had become limp again to the Queen of Insects and asked her to help take care of it.
Tomorrow, the fake body will be useful to get it.
It's dawn the next day.
Chen Ming asked the fake person to contact him with the terminal. When Bai Quan appeared on the screen and before starting teaching, the fake person suddenly asked Bai Quan: "Does your Fourteenth Legion have any places open to the outside world?"
Bai Quan was stunned by Chen Ming's question when he came up. He thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be possible, especially at this time when the army is under lockdown. Why do you suddenly ask about this?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly became curious about what the territory of your Fourteenth Legion looks like"
Bai Quan said casually: "Why don't you come over and take a look?"
"Okay."
"Huh? Huh?"
Bai Quan didn't expect Chen Ming to give such a reply at all. He had invited him so many times before, but Chen Ming never agreed once.
At this time, he suddenly agreed, and Chen Ming took the initiative to express his intention intentionally or unintentionally.
Bai Quan hesitated for a while.
Upon seeing this, Chen Ming added: "Didn't I just promise your people in my headquarters yesterday that they would bring the mechanical race over and I would help them demonstrate what the mechanical race under my control would become? Just be satisfied."
"Do you believe this reason?"
Chen Ming himself also knew that the reason he made up casually was unreliable. After thinking about it, he continued according to his current situation: "Well, actually, I want to see the technology of your Fourteenth Legion."
"You also know that many of your technologies are not available on public academic websites."
"Well, I've recently hit a bottleneck when learning cruiser technology. I want to see your technology and change my mind."
"And you said before that I help you conduct research on the machine race, and any results you get will be of military merit."
"I will go directly to your place so that I can use the equipment to get some results or something."
Bai Quan immediately grasped the key to Chen Ming's words and said, "Are you interested in our equipment?"
Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "I can't help it. I'm short of money recently. Your place is a good place to make money."
Chen Ming's half-truth and half-false words made Bai Quan a little confused for a while as to what Chen Ming wanted to do.
He could only use a joking tone and ask in the direction that might cause Chen Ming's attitude to suddenly change: "How do you make our Fourteenth Legion not look like a serious place? Isn't it okay for you to speed up the progress? ?”
"It's okay, but it's just too good, so the money is flowing out like water. How about you help me a little?"
"I remember that the empire seems to have a pioneering law, which can provide certain financial and technical support to pioneers."
Bai Quan said repeatedly: "Stop, stop, stop, that was the law of the pioneering era. Are you going to use it now?"
"You know all this?"
"Yes, the laws of the empire now stipulate that there are no restrictions on personal exploration and development, and the establishment of colonies outside the empire does not require approval. What else is there? Gone, right?"
"It seems like it's gone, so I have to find a way to solve the money problem, right?"
"Indeed..."
There is nothing wrong with just listening to the explanation.
Many people know about what he is doing outside the country, and Chen Ming's material circulation follows serious trade routes and is taxed, so it is easy to investigate.
Otherwise, Bai Quan would not have been so decisive before and said that he would arrange a way for Chen Ming to purchase supplies at cost price.
They can roughly estimate the basis of the power Chen Ming has developed based on the amount of supplies Chen Ming purchased.
However, all the materials purchased by Chen Ming will eventually be sent to the boss's colony, and will be transported away by Chen Mingling.
Therefore, the final transportation process cannot be determined.
But it is easy to tell whether Chen Ming is short of money.
According to the recent flow of materials in the boss's colony, Chen Ming did indeed spend a lot of money, and it was normal to be short of money.
After all, the material purchase route he arranged has not yet been fully implemented in Chen Ming's hands, and it will probably take another week.
Therefore, Chen Ming's reason for being short of money is totally justified.
But Bai Quan always felt something was wrong. After thinking about it, he opened his mouth and said, "I can let you come over here, but aren't you worried about anything?"
Chen Ming asked back: "Worried that you will use violence to keep me here? No way? Probably."
"Many people now feel that you are not suitable for leaving the empire, so... I can't say."
Chen Ming said again: "It's okay, you don't have to worry for me."
"Why didn't I go to your place before? Because to go to the Fourteenth Legion, you have to be from the Fourteenth Legion."
"But I still don't want to join directly. The army is too troublesome for me."
"It's different now. I'm a temporary soldier. I've read all the contracts. This status will be gone when the war ends."
"I have to go and take a look when I get the chance."
Bai Quan frowned and suddenly took off the badge of the Fourteenth Legion on his chest, and said to Chen Ming: "Seriously, why did you suddenly have this idea?"
"This doesn't seem like something you would do. If you weren't talking to me with your spiritual power now, I wouldn't even think you were Chen Ming."
(End of chapter)