Chapter 324 Core of Personality
Bai Quan said that someone questioned Chen Ming.
But Chen Ming’s first reaction was not the doubt itself, but the reason for the doubt: “The news was spread so quickly?”
Logically speaking, the only people who knew about this matter at the moment were the few people in the conference room just now, Qiu Bowen, Bai Quan and the other two lieutenant generals.
As a result, before the matter was even over, someone already knew the news and even began to question him.
This made Chen Ming a little confused for a moment.
Bai Quan also knew why Chen Ming asked this, and explained: "Because the result of this matter is good. Your fleet was attacked, which eventually led to the destruction of a stronghold of the Machinery Clan. No matter how you look at it, it is a good thing."
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"If the result is not good, it will not be so fast."
Now Chen Ming understood the reason. The feelings were fueled by the people sitting in the conference room just now.
That's exactly what you should do.
Taking the initiative to announce some examples of achievements in the war before the war between the empire and the machine race begins, it will be of great benefit to improve overall morale.
Chen Ming could understand it, but he didn't react at first.
After understanding the whole story of what happened, Chen Ming stopped worrying and asked Bai Quan: "Then what do those people who question me mean? Do they question me for being robbed on purpose? Being robbed by the machine clan is not a good thing."
"But it's normal for some people to question it. To be honest, if I were someone else and heard that I was robbed by a machine race, I wouldn't believe it either."
Bai Quan smiled.
Many people know that Chen Ming's spiritual power can control all machines, including the machine race.
So this led to the fact that Chen Ming was robbed by the machine clan. It may seem outrageous, but it is the fact.
"Some people think you are doing this to defraud the Legion of supplies and funds."
"...It can't be from Qiu Bowen's side, right?"
Originally, Chen Ming had the idea that it was normal for someone to question him, but when he heard Bai Quan say that others questioned his point, Chen Ming subconsciously had this new idea.
Bai Quan said repeatedly: "No, no, the National People's Congress general will not find someone to scold you just because you took something from him."
"Actually, some people in our faction are talking about it, but what they mean is that you learned how to cheat money so quickly. They suspect that I led you astray."
"This..."
Chen Ming spread his hands, indicating that he had nothing to say.
Bai Quan suddenly came closer to Chen Ming and asked in a low voice: "Did you do it on purpose?"
Chen Ming subconsciously wanted to answer no, but after careful consideration, he replied: "I don't know either."
Bai Quan returned to his usual sitting posture after hearing this: "Then I would rather believe that you really made a mistake."
"But although it may have been an accident at first, I feel that after you discovered the stronghold of the mechanical tribe, you planned to take advantage of it."
"Use this opportunity to seize the things of the Machinery Clan, and at the same time obtain some additional benefits from the legion."
"That's not to say it can't be done. It's good to cheat on funds occasionally. The Legion doesn't spend all the funds every year. Every year, it has to find a way to balance the funds and overspend the funds."
"Why is this?"
"Because if the legion's funds are not used up, there will be less available next year, so it's okay to cheat on funds occasionally."
"But you can tell me all your plans in advance."
"..."
Chen Ming was silent and nodded slowly.
He really wanted to ask: "I didn't know I still had this idea, how did you know?"
But now that he looks back, it seems that his subconscious approach was indeed aimed at this purpose, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Maybe after being attacked, his subconscious felt that he might be able to get benefits from the mechanical tribe's stronghold and get support from the legion, so he did so.
He just acquiesced, there was no need to say anything more.
So Chen Ming thought for a while and simply responded to Bai Quan's initial words.
"Actually, this shouldn't be considered a mistake, because I have already made all preparations for subsequent responses, but the machine race is more prepared than me."
"And the next time I go on a cargo haul, I'll probably just use a cruiser,"
"Unless it's really the most important thing, I will directly use psychic energy to jump."
Bai Quan asked with some confusion: "Is your mental power enough to support the jump?"
"Of course it's enough."
Chen Ming said: "But it is impossible for everything in my hands to be transported by me. I want to build a reasonable transportation network, rather than a transportation network that relies on me to exist."
"Just like those energy crystal crabs, even if they were attacked once by the mechanical clan, they are still walking slowly on the road. I will not touch them with my spiritual energy."
Bai Quan did not ask Chen Ming what to do if the fleet was attacked again. Chen Ming must have been prepared.
What he is more concerned about now is the hidden meaning in Chen Ming's words.
"You're still thinking about going outside."
Chen Ming did not deny Bai Quan and said: "You know the reason."
"..."
Bai Quan was speechless.
Because he knew that Chen Ming had really seen too many troublesome things in the empire.
Some of them made him feel sick even when he came a lot, let alone Chen Ming.
It was impossible for him to persuade anyone.
We can only hope that Chen Ming has his own considerations and does not abandon Cheng Xinghai.
"So be it."
Bai Quan didn't say anything Chen Ming didn't like to hear, and simply left here.
Chen Ming also drove a shuttle boat and left the military base soon after.
The rest of the matter here depends on other people's handling. He can just wait for the acceptance of the results.
He's going to do something else now.
For example, confirm the situation of the two mechanical cruisers he captured.
After the two captured mechanical cruisers had all their weapons removed, they were now connected to the data line connected to the Afterglow Core and controlled by Chen Ming.
And after several rounds of jumps, he was sent back to Chen Ming's pioneering base.
One was the cruiser that had previously captured the cargo, and the other was protected by other cruisers. At this time, they were both quietly suspended in the planet orbit of Chen Ming's development base, waiting for Chen Ming's inspection.
Because the purpose of Chen Ming's coming here this time was for the cruiser that captured his cargo.
So now, he is also focusing directly on this cruiser.
This cruiser belonging to the mechanical family is somewhat different from the standard cruiser of the mechanical family. It has undergone some modifications and has an additional device used to capture objects drifting in the cosmic environment.
And inside this device, the cargo holds that Chen Ming lost lay intact one by one.
The interiors of these cargo holds are also intact, and a large number of crystal crabs in a frozen dormant state are also quietly placed in them one by one, waiting for subsequent disposal.
It seems that there is no need to worry about the machine clan acquiring energy crystallization technology.
Even if they had discovered the special features of energy crystals by scanning the cargo hold, they would not be able to obtain the energy crystal crab species in a short time.
After all, the only remaining crystal crabs are either with Yu Hui or in Chen Ming's hands.
Chen Ming just lost them in his hand.
What Yu Hui has in his hands... As long as the machine race is not a fool, they will not start a film with Yu Hui on the eve of the upcoming war with the empire.
The mechanical race in this star field cannot compare with the empire in terms of war potential.
Fighting on two or even multiple fronts will definitely kill them.
Therefore, Chen Ming should not have to worry about these problems in a short period of time.
As for the way to handle this batch of crystal crabs...
Chen Ming's Colossus class is still on its way to the empire.
He planned to use psychic energy to send it directly to the Colossus, and it would be enough for the spaceship behind to follow up and stuff the stolen goods back.
No one saw it anyway.
Chen Ming thought so and immediately did so.
Several cargo holds containing frozen energy crystal crabs disappeared in front of Chen Ming in an instant.
Appeared in the empty space in the cargo hold of the Colossus-class ship.
Even at this moment, thousands of creatures were transmitted through the scarlet dimension, which still made Chen Ming feel a certain amount of pressure on his mental power.
Fortunately, when Chen Ming just discovered that the living beings were in a frozen state, they did not need much protection of their consciousness, so he would not waste all his mental energy by sending a batch.
And after giving away the crystal crabs.
Chen Ming specifically observed the capture device on the cruiser that was snatching the energy crystal crab.
It's not about the structure of the thing, but the time it took to install it.
By comparing this device with other devices of these mechanical cruisers that are easily worn, the specific wear and tear conditions can be seen.
Chen Ming can be sure that this device must have been modified later.
And the modification time is very close, within a month.
This cannot be a modification used by the mechanical tribe to salvage space junk.
After all, using a combat cruiser for salvage is as outrageous as using an anti-tank rocket launcher with a front bayonet to spear fish in the water.
Therefore, Chen Ming always believed that this must be something prepared by the mechanical clan in advance to target him.
But he still didn't know how the machine race determined the location of his battleship, and how it found his fleet.
Just rely on that stronghold?
And why is this stronghold so far away from the mechanical clan’s star field?
The last time the Mechanical Tribe opened up to the outside world, it was only a distance of less than half a star field according to common sense. This time, it actually extended directly to a star field?
This strange sign made Chen Ming have to suspect that the mechanical tribe had other actions, and was this action aimed at him?
Chen Ming's fleet is developing, and occasionally scattered mechanical races can be found on some planets.
Chen Ming had no way of confirming whether these mechanical tribes were in contact with the mechanical tribes in the mechanical tribe star field.
Did he transmit the development status of his fleet to the Machinery Race in the Mechanical Race Star Domain?
The inability to be sure means that there is no way to deny it, and if something cannot be completely denied, there is a possibility that it will happen.
Therefore, Chen Ming suspected that the machine race had discovered his fleet, and was preparing to find an opportunity to kill the fleet, and even wanted to kill Chen Ming himself in the fleet.
After all, they are not Afterglow. They will not have greedy thoughts and want to extract his Spiritual Nerve with the Spiritual Nerve Extraction Device.
For the mechanical race, anything that hinders their existence will inevitably be completely eliminated.
Combined with this time, the various preparations made by the mechanical clan.
Chen Ming felt that there was a real possibility that the machine clan was planning an action against him.
As for the reason.
Chen Ming just talked to Bai Quan about the issue of morale.
Before the war begins, it is good for the morale of soldiers to achieve results behind enemy lines.
Although the mechanical race has extreme hatred for humans, they do not have no understanding of humans. They also understand the significance of human morale.
Therefore, they also know what kind of negative impact it will have on mankind if a human fleet is wiped out by the mechanical race before the war begins.
Although only a few people knew about Chen Ming's fleet, even if the group was destroyed, only a few people knew about it. But if you look at it from the perspective of the mechanical tribe, Chen Ming is a psyker candidate who has been ordered by the empire to develop externally.
If such people were lost, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the empire, so their actions would be logical.
This can completely explain why the mechanical tribe does this.
This shouldn't be regarded as Chen Ming's own sentimentality. After all, the mechanical tribe does know Chen Ming's existence.
But there are also problems with this statement.
Because even if Chen Ming captured a cruiser and dug out the complete database, he would not be able to completely determine whether this situation would happen.
There is no way to be sure, which means that this matter may really be just Chen Ming's random guess and will not happen at all.
Chen Ming can only gamble now.
When gambling, Chen Ming would only bet on one outcome, that is, he would lose.
Therefore, Chen Ming had to consider whether to temporarily abandon the exploration of close-range areas and directly let the fleet go to the next jump location.
But there is no rush to come up with a result immediately.
The Machine Tribe's plan had just been thwarted when the phase beast set their butts on fire.
Before putting out the fire, the Machine Tribe could not risk being infiltrated by the empire to come to Chen Ming.
He still has time.
So now, Chen Ming removed the useless capture device from this mechanical cruiser and stuffed it into his cruiser inventory.
Speaking of which, Chen Ming actually has three mechanical cruisers on hand that he can use. Counting this one, there are four.
Inside the mechanical cruiser is a core chip exclusive to the mechanical ship, which has similar but worse effects than the afterglow core.
Chen Ming does not need to consume the upper limit of the ships he can control to control these cruisers.
It's just that when facing the mechanical clan, Chen Ming didn't want to take out the mechanical clan's cruiser to fight the enemy.
After all, the other firepower is enough. If the mechanical cruiser is taken out, it may increase its threat level to the mechanical clan.
Chen Ming didn't want the mechanical tribe to think about him day and night, so it was better to be a little more restrained.
Although he is not much better with these two hundred armor-piercing ships.
But it's not a big problem.
After Chen Ming added a mechanical cruiser to his fleet candidate list.
His attention turned to the other cruiser.
This is an ordinary mechanical type standard combat cruiser.
Just like the one just now, basically everything is ordinary, except for the core, where the mechanical cruiser chip should be installed.
A one-meter-square mechanical creation that is spherical as a whole, but has a columnar extension in the six directions of the grid: up, down, left, front and back.
The sophistication of this creation is not at the same level as the surrounding mechanical battleships. It can even be said that it is not in the same era.
Through psychic observation of the internal structure, one can see its specialness with the naked eye.
And this mechanical creation is called [Personality Core].
Chen Ming's psychic power instantly mastered how to use the core of his personality.
At the same time, I also understood the reason why the mechanical fleet took the risk of being killed by the phase monster to take it away from the planet and send it away.
Because it is the basis for the manufacturing of the mechanical clan’s mothership.
It is the core of a mechanical fleet.
The mechanical mothership is a capital ship-level spaceship. Compared with the capital ships of the Empire or Afterglow, the mothership is not a pure capital ship, but a giant mechanical factory and war fortress.
It has more comprehensive abilities, and the place where it appears is where the mechanical race takes root.
The psychic fluctuations contained within it told Chen Ming that it was also the foundation of the mechanical race's hive mind network.
The basis of the Queen's hive mind network is pheromones.
Chen Ming's hive mind network is the connection between his own spiritual energy and the mind of the Insect Queen, which is equivalent to using his spiritual energy and the existence of the scarlet dimension that can span space.
The application method of the hive mind network of the mechanical tribe is currently unknown, but it can be blocked with silent alloy, indicating that it is also related to psychic energy.
So now, the answer is in front of Chen Ming.
It can be said that the mechanical clan has spent a lot of money.
The importance attached to this place is self-evident.
Chen Ming even felt that this place might have been built by the Machine Tribe after he killed their colony last time.
As a result, they finally developed the planet to almost the same level and were finally able to further explore other galaxies.
He encountered a phase beast and provoked Chen Ming at this time, causing Chen Ming to come over and knock away the core of his personality with a sap.
It's a pity that Chen Ming's psychic power can only figure out how to use the personality core, but not how it works.
Even if Chen Ming used his spiritual power to conduct in-depth observation, he could not see any specific effects.
It can only see that there is a special structure made of psychic material inside this thing.
Just like... other relics of shining civilization.
But the psychic structure in the personality core is not a structure that Chen Ming can easily figure out like the purgatory core.
In Chen Ming's opinion, the complexity gap between them is just like the difference between himself two years ago and himself now.
And there is still a part of the core of this personality that is real, something that even Chen Ming cannot understand at all.
An extremely complex electronic device structure.
The electrical signals running inside it dazzled Chen Ming even when he used his spiritual power to observe it, and he couldn't tell the meaning of each structure at all.
It's like a brain is placed in front of Chen Ming. Chen Ming knows that he is using this kind of brain, but he cannot understand the working principle of the brain.
No...this metaphor seems a bit inappropriate.
Because Chen Ming realized that he no longer seemed to need a brain.
But the meaning is pretty much the same.
Inside the core of his personality, what is in front of Chen Ming is an extremely complex electronic brain.
Chen Ming was simply unable to conduct any in-depth research on it.
It does not belong to the same era as anything Chen Ming has come into contact with so far.
Now that Chen Ming can't figure it out, it's okay. He will always have the time and ability to study it slowly in the future.
And it doesn’t mean that it’s useless if we don’t study the core of personality.
The function of the personality core itself is also quite valuable.
It can serve as the core of the mothership, and of course it can also serve as the central control core for the early development of the mechanical race.
This core is the key for the Machine Tribe to take charge of this stronghold and start construction around it.
Therefore, the value of this thing is actually similar to that of the Insect Queen.
The Queen needs to coordinate the expansion of individual Zerg
The personality core of the Machine Tribe needs to be expanded by coordinating the lower-level individuals of the Machine Tribe.
After all, both the Zerg and the Machine races have the same hive mind, and the hive mind needs a main consciousness of the cluster, a queen of insects.
Chen Ming now has two hive mind networks connected to his consciousness, the Zerg race and the Machine race.
The Zerg now have a queen to coordinate their operations.
Chen Ming has to take responsibility for everything in the mechanical clan.
Especially in the early stages of development after the machine race moved to a nearby planet some time ago, Chen Ming had to handle the construction of new cities by himself, which was quite troublesome.
But now as the war between the mechanical tribes is about to break out, he needs to invest more energy to ensure the safety of these mechanical tribes.
If there could be something similar to the Insect Queen, a "Machine Queen", many things would be much more convenient.
Although this does not change the probability that Chen Ming's mechanical clan stronghold may be attacked by the mechanical clan.
But it's better to have someone to help you than to have him personally pay attention to all these things.
In addition, Chen Ming suddenly thought of a question when he was thinking about the core purpose of personality.
That is, his spiritual power can give the most standard name to anything, even if Chen Ming has never understood it.
And is there something wrong with the name of this [Personality Core]?
What is personality?
This is one of the concepts related to "people".
As for the mechanical race, which is a relic of a shining civilization, why do they have the concept of "human" at their core?
Chen Ming didn't understand it, but he could feel it.
This issue definitely involves the most critical aspect of Shining Civilization.
But this is not Chen Ming’s research direction, nor is it the scope of his knowledge.
To figure this out, he had to go to the Shining Civilization Research Institute.
But this was not in his plan, and he had no time to study the Shining Civilization. .
Therefore, he could only add this matter to his plan for the time being and wait for a suitable time to confirm it.
And after figuring out the purpose of the personality core.
Chen Ming decisively threw it to the place where his mechanical clan now settled.
It is different from the insect queen
The insect queen has its own consciousness, and it is just a program
Although this program is very flexible, it is still just a program and can only do things according to the instructions given by Chen Ming.
Of course, in order to make it easier to call it, Chen Ming still gave it a name.
It was the "Mechanical Queen" that he just thought of.
Let it help him integrate everything in the mechanical clan.
After the core of the personality is sent away.
Chen Ming has finally figured out the purpose of his action this time.
So next...
Chen Ming once again turned his attention back to the information about the mechanical clan.
There, there is a cruiser left by Chen Ming still wandering in the galaxy.
Although Chen Ming has handed over the command of the small fleet to the legion.
Several Alpha cores were also withdrawn.
But it is certainly impossible for him to completely ignore the situation in this galaxy.
As Qiu Bowen said before, there are many things in this galaxy that are of considerable value to the Legion.
Of course these things have the same value to Chen Ming.
(End of chapter)