Chapter 328 Question
According to Chen Ming’s knowledge.
No spiritual beings exist in any psychic creature except human psykers.
The source of their psychic energy is themselves. It can be said that the body of each psychic creature is their "spiritual nerve."
Since the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical tribe have mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves, they must have a source.
Chen Ming previously believed that the mechanical psionic biological transformation facility concentrated all the psionic power originally existing in the psionic biological body during the process of psionic biological transformation, and built a new spiritual nerve.
But now it seems that things are not what he imagined.
Sample Zero has no mechanical spiritual nerves in his body.
Although this may be because Chen Ming only obtained one-third of the equipment and lacked the function of converting spiritual nerves.
However, through research on the entire transformation process, Chen Ming is more inclined to believe that the facility will not aggregate the psychic power of psychic creatures during transformation to form a mechanical spiritual nerve.
When it was transforming the body tissues of the Zerg individuals covered by the power of the Insect Queen, it had no intention of gathering spiritual energy at all.
The device itself is not a material like silent alloy that can isolate the leakage of psychic energy fluctuations, nor does it look like it can regroup the psychic energy at the end of the conversion process.
The spiritual energy in the transformed body tissues dissipates during the transformation.
The Zerg units themselves are part of the Queen, so they can use the Queen's psychic powers.
If spiritual energy could really be accumulated, the spiritual energy of these insect queens should be accumulated.
But the facility didn't do that.
Therefore, Chen Ming felt that mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves were not transformed from psychic creatures.
This equipment should not be a "mechanical, psychic, and biological transformation facility" but a "mechanical, psychic, and biological transformation facility."
The key lies in the bioconversion facility.
So the question becomes, where do these mechanical spiritual nerves come from?
Chen Ming feels that this needs to be determined by contacting the mechanical psychic creatures that already exist in the mechanical race.
He immediately went to the warehouse at the highest point, where there were about hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures waiting, and there were also three special destroyers waiting for him.
These mechanical psychic creatures are essentially no different from all mechanical units, and even the panels are exactly the same.
It's nothing more than a different name and an extra mechanical spiritual nerve.
Therefore, if you want to study these things, you must start from the biggest difference between them and ordinary machines, the mechanical spiritual nerve.
Mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves are said to be spiritual enlightenment nerves, but in fact they are very different from ordinary spiritual enlightenment nerves.
The biggest difference is the appearance.
The spiritual enlightenment nerve of an ordinary psyker grows in the brain. At its thickest, it is only one-third of the diameter of the little finger, and its length is no more than twenty centimeters.
And the mechanical enlightenment nerve...
Chen Ming can say with certainty through the observation of hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures he captured.
The mechanical enlightenment nerve is more like a mechanical spine.
And its internal structure is very similar to the purgatory core.
Of course, this does not mean that the mechanical enlightenment nerve is the purgatory core, but that its operating logic structure is very similar to the purgatory core.
The difference is even more obvious is that the core of purgatory is the ability to control entropy purely relying on internal structure and psychic materials
There are indeed some special substances inside the mechanical Qiling Nerve.
Chen Ming randomly found a mechanical psychic creature and took out its mechanical spiritual nerve.
And used spiritual energy to extract the special substance inside.
This is a spiritual substance invisible to the naked eye, but it can be perceived with mental power and used to block it to prevent it from escaping in the air.
And just when Chen Ming used his mental power to perceive this kind of thing, he suddenly felt that this thing was very familiar.
He should have been...no, he has always been in contact.
Chen Ming remembered.
All these psychic substances are psychic energy substances.
The spiritual energy quality is the substance that constitutes the spiritual stone and the essence of the spiritual stone.
In other words... the mechanical enlightenment nerve is actually something similar to the spirit stone? And is it made from ectoplasmic stone?
Chen Ming felt a little different.
The ectoplasmic stone appears when extreme emotions are accompanied by fluctuations in spiritual power when a person dies and aggregates onto nearby stones.
The spiritual energy quality in the mechanical spiritual nerves is also quite different from the spiritual energy quality in the spiritual stone.
The mechanical spiritual energy seems to be forcibly locked into this kind of spiritual energy by something.
It is not naturally formed like the ectoplasm stone.
Chen Ming didn't want to delve too deeply into how these spiritual energy sources came from, because if he did, he might touch his blind spot of knowledge again.
It is enough for him to know that it is this substance that gives this mechanical enlightenment nerve its special character and gives mechanical creatures spiritual energy.
In addition, Chen Ming also noticed that the structure of the mechanical spiritual nerves installed by different mechanical psychic creatures is the same, but the internal spiritual energy quality is different.
As long as a mechanical spiritual awakening nerve is replaced with individual spiritual energy, it can immediately become a mechanical spiritual awakening nerve with other effects.
This standardized structure makes these mechanical spiritual nerves look like a mass-produced device belonging to the mechanical family.
As for more Chen Ming, I can't analyze it.
The overall technical level of the mechanical race is lower than him, so he can't continue to go deeper.
But Chen Ming also suddenly remembered something.
In his hand, there was a personality core that he had just snatched from the Machine Tribe, the Machine Queen.
As the core of the machine race's mothership and the core of colonial construction during the pioneering period, it should possess knowledge about the machine race.
Why did he almost forget this?
Chen Ming immediately contacted the Mechanical Queen remotely and asked it about the mechanical psychic creatures of the Mechanical Tribe.
The mechanical queen responded very quickly.
But what Chen Ming didn't expect was that the machine queen replied not his question, but a complete document, and she also helped Chen Ming translate it into the language of the empire.
And this document actually explains in detail what the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical tribe are and how they are created.
Chen Ming looked at the document and fell silent.
There was silence for a long time.
He suddenly sighed and said, "Why don't I ask directly."
Fortunately, the impact is not big.
If Chen Ming studied it himself, he would have a deeper impression than if he read the document directly.
In addition, he only started researching after conducting experiments.
The results of all failed experiments are not clearly written in these documents.
Nor will Chen Ming be taught the plan to create a half-biological, half-mechanical individual while simultaneously gaining the advantages of both.
After all, Chen Ming learned something new from the experiment just now, so he didn't suffer a loss if he didn't ask.
After adjusting my mentality.
Chen Ming carefully studied the document on the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race.
Probably a few years ago, the mechanical tribe found a mechanical psychic biological transformation facility from the ruins of the Shining Civilization.
After a period of searching for their own stored memories, the machine race regained the ability to use this facility.
Chen Ming paused for a moment when he saw this.
Because he found that according to the documents, the transformation facility did have the ability to transform things related to psychic energy.
However, instead of transforming psychic creatures into mechanical psychic creatures, the psychic creatures are transformed into a psychic core and produce some related derivatives, that is, psychic energy.
This facility extracts all the psychic energy of psychic creatures and fuses it into a special object.
If the Enlightenment Nerve Extraction Device is used to target psychics, then this transformation facility is used to target psychic creatures.
And the transformation facility also has a variety of transformation modes. Transforming living things into mechanical creatures, and transforming psychic creatures into psychic cores are just two of the most basic functions
The other conversion methods cannot be used because Chen Ming's one has lost too many external devices.
As for other conversion methods...
Chen Ming continued to read.
After the machine race found and figured out how to use the transformation facility, it wasn't long before they created a dimensional infection entity.
Of course, it is not the mechanical star field near the empire, but the mechanical star field somewhere in the more distant and deep starry sky.
So it didn't affect the empire at all.
In short, the ability of the dimension-infected entities created by the machine race is to destroy.
The mechanical tribe felt it was too dangerous, so they used a converter to transform the dimensional infection entity into a core of destruction and some accompanying creatures, which were the spiritual energy of destruction.
This spiritual energy cannot be wasted, so the mechanical tribe has come up with a new one... No, it should be considered an old one. It belongs to the shining civilization and the mechanical spiritual energy biological transformation facility, which is the mechanical spiritual nerve. .
As long as a little bit of spiritual energy is inserted, the mechanical tribe can create a new mechanical spiritual nerve.
And these were implanted into the bodies of some living creatures, and these creatures were transformed again by transformation facilities and became mechanical creatures.
These creatures can master the power of using psychic energy through the transformation of facilities.
Implanting mechanical enlightenment nerves into ordinary creatures and transforming them is similar to installing and debugging the purgatory core on the purgatory devil.
As for why not just give the mechanical enlightenment nerves to other mechanical races.
There is also an explanation in the document.
The technical power of the Mechanical Awakening Nerve itself is not as good as something like the Purgatory Core.
Therefore, although it is a machine, it needs to be assimilated with the implanted object.
Ordinary mechanical races cannot assimilate spiritual energy. Only living creatures can assimilate spiritual energy.
After assimilation, the mechanical race can further transform living things.
This is the reason for the emergence of mechanical psychic beings.
Chen Ming asked where the machine clan could get so many psychic biological transformations.
Basically, a psychic creature can transform into a core and psychic energy that can replicate multiple mechanical spiritual nerves.
This method of using accompanying organisms to mass-produce multiple spiritual nerves only uses a relatively simple device such as mechanical spiritual nerves, so the upper limit of psychic power is much lower than that of normal psykers.
As for the purpose of the psychic core.
There is not much written in the document, just a simple statement.
The psionic core is an alternative combination of spiritual nerves and ectoplasmic stones.
All in all, after getting this information, some things that Chen Ming could not answer in his heart were finally answered.
Let’s not talk about how the machine race caused the dimensional infection, but also how they stuffed the entity from the most important source of the dimensional infection into the transformation equipment.
In short, the mechanical race created the core of destruction and some derived spiritual energy of destruction by transforming the entities infected by the dimension.
Then these destructive spiritual energy qualities became the contents of part of the mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves.
And these soul-destroying nerves carry a part of the power of dimensional infection. After being implanted into the bodies of ordinary creatures, they will of course cause those creatures to be infected.
This process of infection is probably also a process of assimilation from the perspective of the machine race.
After the assimilation was completed, these dimension-infected creatures were sent to the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility and became what Chen Ming saw.
Fortunately, after the second transformation, the remaining spiritual energy quality of destruction is really pure spiritual energy quality, and no longer has the power of any dimensional infection and erosion.
Otherwise, Chen Ming would have to worry about the dimension infection mark.
As for the mechanical psionic biological transformation facilities of the Machine Tribe, and the technology of converting psionic creatures into psionic cores...it seems...a little bit dangerous.
Danger in two senses. One danger is that this shows that the machine race near the empire is still connected with the more distant machine race. The war between the empire and the machine race is likely to involve more than just one star field.
Another danger is the danger the Empire poses to the psykers within the Empire.
Humans are also living creatures. If this kind of transformation facility has no effect on humans, Chen Ming would not believe it.
It's just that the existence of humans or human-like beings is rather special, so the Shining Civilization, a civilization that is absolutely inseparable from "humans", deliberately researches equipment such as the Spirit-Enlightening Nerve Extraction Device for human psykers.
Chen Ming often didn't want to think too much about this kind of thing, but now it was really hard for him not to think too much.
This kind of psionic core can extract psionic cores from psykers, and while obtaining the psionic cores, they can mass-produce various degraded psykers, and can even recycle the mechanical spiritual awakening nerves of long-standing psykers.
The emergence of this technology is extremely threatening to the existence of psychics.
Even more dangerous than the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device.
It must be sealed, and Chen Ming must not let it fall into the hands of the empire.
So at this time, Chen Ming still has a question in his mind. After the machine race transformed the dimensional infection entity, where did the most important destruction core go?
Chen Ming asked the Empress.
The mechanical queen directly gave Chen Ming a blueprint.
A blueprint for the main weapon of the Machine Tribe, the Spine Cannon Head.
"Gitui, give me everything."
Chen Ming sighed.
The machine queen did not respond.
Because it's just machinery and all it does is obey orders.
It seems that in the future, as long as it is related to the mechanical clan, if you don't understand something, you can try to figure it out from the mechanical queen.
Not all questions may be answered, but most certainly can.
Chen Ming thought this and looked at the blueprint carefully.
If the Mechanical Queen can give him the blueprint, it means that the Mechanical Tribe uses the Destruction Core for the weapon of the blueprint, which is also a very understandable way of using it.
However, Chen Mingzai suddenly frowned.
Because the blueprint of the spine cannon head he saw at this time was not the new weapon owned by the mechanical tribe that the empire investigated as He Gu told him some time ago.
It is a truly brand new weapon that is not yet known to the empire.
Ridge Cannon: Destroyer.
This is a little scary.
Under the premise that the Machine Tribe has a new type of psychic weapon, the Machine Tribe actually hides a more threatening weapon.
Although the destruction of spiritual nerves by scraps is nothing to Chen Ming, to ordinary people these things are already "destructive" enough.
And the destruction of the main weapon level of the battleship...that would be really fatal.
And I'm afraid it's not just destruction. The destruction core is installed as a destroyer. What about the other cores installed? What kind of effect will it have?
etc.
Chen Ming suddenly realized that he seemed to have thought of something terrible, if other psychic cores could also be installed on weapons with similar designs.
That is to say, the new machine-type weapons investigated by the empire may be just one of this batch of weapons.
It's just that the Machine Tribe deliberately released information about a new weapon, making the Empire think they only had this new weapon.
Others continued to be hidden, only to be brought out at the necessary moment to inflict heavy damage on the empire.
Chen Ming quickly sent a copy of the document to Legion's prosthesis.
He must inform people of this news. News of this... this type of destructive psychic weapon must be known to others.
After Chen Ming urgently sent the document to Bai Quan, he immediately received a call from Bai Quan.
"What did you just send?"
Chen Ming responded: "I can't say much else. I can only tell you that these are real information. The Machine Tribe definitely has more than one new weapon."
"Don't ask me anything, I don't want to say anything."
"I understand, thank you."
Bai Quan did not continue to ask questions, just thanked him and hung up the phone.
It was no surprise to him that Chen Ming would come up with some unexpected surprises from time to time.
Just hold it, can Chen Ming still trick him?
Chen Ming looked at the phone that was hung up decisively, and estimated that Baiquan would be busy for a few days,
Then he simply shut down the terminal.
After all, the things he gave were real, and the designs of the weapons of the mechanical tribe were also real.
The design is so detailed that it can be reproduced one-to-one. Whether it is the Psychic Research Institute or the Ship Research Institute, there will definitely be more than one person wanting to contact him.
Chen Mingcai didn't want his phone to be blown up.
After closing the terminal.
Chen Ming continued to think about it and asked a question.
It is the plan to repair the conversion facility.
The machine queen did not give any documents this time, but only gave an answer after asking for the current three-dimensional scanning image of the transformation facility.
Not repairable.
Because the source of the transformation facilities owned by the mechanical race star field close to the empire is other mechanical races in more distant places.
The mechanical clan over there can only be replaced with weapons and equipment from the ruins of the shining civilization, and they cannot be repaired either.
But after the machine,
An alternative plan was given, asking Chen Ming to go to the nearest mechanical system galaxy for replacement. There is another conversion facility there.
Even the machine queen gave Chen Ming precise coordinates.
Chen Ming stared at the coordinates in silence for a while.
Asked the last question.
A few seconds later.
He then obtained the detailed star map of the Machinery Clan and mastered the precise deployment of the Machinery Clan's fleet.
Looking at the star field map and defense map, Chen Ming suddenly sighed again: "What a pity."
The moment the Mechanical Tribe loses the Mechanical Queen, it will definitely change the overall defense of the Mechanical Tribe's star field as known by the Mechanical Queen.
If Chen Ming could seize the Weapon Queen when the real war broke out, the war might have ended much earlier.
But now, it’s really a pity...
However, Chen Ming had no way of predicting this in advance.
At least with this star field map, he knew the coordinates of some important galaxies of the mechanical race. These galaxies could not be relocated.
He can try to raid and seize the transformation facility.
But there is no rush for now, he still has a lot of things to do, and he has no time to spend on attacking the mechanical tribe.
Chen Ming thought this and suddenly started the terminal again.
While no one had called him yet, he hurriedly sent the star field map and the defense map of the mechanical clan to Baiquan.
Bai Quan immediately called again. This time he didn't speak, but Chen Ming heard what he meant from his silence.
A simple, powerful question mark.
"Don't ask, just ask because I have someone in the Machine Tribe."
"By the way, that defense map expired about an hour ago, and the mechanical clan should have changed the defense plan now."
"If there is any urgent action, you can take advantage of the last moment to try it."
Bai Quan really wanted to ask Chen Ming how he got such an extremely critical thing, but he restrained himself and said, "If there is no problem, you can think about how much merit you want. I’ll try to get you two special ones.”
Bai Quan hung up the communication.
After Chen Ming carefully considered what he would exchange for his special merit, he returned his consciousness to his main body.
Chen Ming finally figured out all the information about the things he had obtained.
Next, the main body should have four things he needs to do.
Prepare for an attack on the Machine Tribe and seize the transformation facility.
Go and wander around the ruins of the shining civilization discovered by the Machine Tribe to see what information the Machine Tribe originally planned to develop for the second time.
Use Sample Zero obtained from the transformation facility for further research.
By the way, let’s see if the mechanical enlightenment nerves can be used to create something interesting.
The first two of these four things can be done immediately without any rush.
Whether you are breaking into the Machinery Clan's star domain or going to the Machinery Clan, you are afraid of going directly to the information, which requires time to prepare.
You can start the last two things now and keep doing them.
After figuring out the principle of mechanical enlightenment nerves, Chen Ming was also quite curious about this thing.
He has been thinking about whether mechanical spiritual nerves can be implanted into prostheses?
An Wuping was not very active, so he had to get a new prosthesis.
Prosthesis, Chen Ming was actually considering whether to find a way to transform the Black Mist Psyker into his prosthesis.
This guy hasn't woken up since he was saved by Chen Ming last time.
The reason is very simple. When his spiritual enlightenment nerve was still there, his consciousness intensity was high and his body could support such intensity of consciousness.
But now that his spiritual nerves are gone, although the intensity of his consciousness is gradually decreasing, it is not something that the body that has lost his spiritual nerves can support.
He will only fall into a coma before the intensity of his consciousness decreases, which will last about three months.
To be honest, it's no different than dying.
As long as a psyker has his spiritual enlightenment nerve extracted, even if he is saved, he will only be an ordinary person at best.
So Chen Ming wanted the Black Mist Psyker to use his last remaining heat.
This is also a plan that he has carefully considered.
Although the Black Mist Psyker is a Leftist and dead, he can indeed become a prosthetic.
Because Chen Ming knew that Zuo Jing had not been completely destroyed, they had just lost part of their exposed power.
Even if the Black Mist Psyker is discovered, his presence can be used to remind those in the Empire who are dedicated to destroying Zuo Jing that Zuo Jing is still there.
Chen Ming just needs to pay attention.
If An Wuping's relationship with him was discovered, most people would scold him.
But if the relationship between the Black Mist Psyker and him was discovered, Chen Ming would be involved in a lot of headaches.
Of course it's just a problem and it can be solved.
In addition, Chen Ming also has an idea, which is to transform the black mist spiritual nerve into the black mist core.
Then use the transformed scraps to create a black mist mechanical spiritual nerve, and implant it into the body of the black mist psychic.
This should be interesting.
Then he can apply some of the mechanical and Zerg results developed from Sample Zero to his body, making Black Mist's prosthesis a prosthesis that combines multiple capabilities, different from the combination of Zerg and Chaos. There is no peace in the original power.
At that time, this prosthesis can also become a special prosthesis for Chen Ming's activities in the mechanical star field.
The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more interesting it became, and he immediately got ready.
At this time, his shuttle boat at the headquarters finally arrived at the Ship Research Institute.
(End of chapter)