Chapter 329 Ship Research Institute
In Chen Ming's original plan, the ship research institute should be a place that would be visited in the middle of the war with the machine race.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. The phase beast Chen Ming encountered now and the phase ship promised by Qiu Bowen forced Chen Ming to come here early.
Since Qiu Bowen told the Ship Research Institute about Chen Ming in advance, Chen Ming also took the time to contact us.
Therefore, Chen Ming's location this time was arranged by the Ship Research Institute, a space station located in the orbit of the planet.
The shuttle boat entered the space station's internal port through the VIP channel.
When Chen Ming stepped off the ship, the director of the Ship Research Institute had already arrived in person to greet him.
"Mr. Chen Ming, welcome."
The director of the Ship Research Institute in front of him has a kind face. Although his hair is completely white, he looks full of energy and does not look like an old man in Chen Ming's impression
Chen Ming stretched out his hand to the director and said, "Just call me Chen Ming."
The director immediately held Chen Ming's hand and shook it a few times, but did not let go. Instead, he took Chen Ming and introduced the two deputies following him.
Both of them are ordinary people, they look quite young, and they are also top researchers involved in phase ship research.
Chen Ming always respected capable people and took the initiative to say hello to them.
Two deputies responded immediately.
Other than that, there are some ordinary researchers and some accompanying security personnel. There are not too many messy people.
This simple and not noisy, but extremely serious attitude made Chen Ming feel quite comfortable.
After Chen Ming greeted several important people brought by the director.
The director cleared his throat slightly and said: "Chen Ming, General Qiu has already told us the matter."
"We are all willing to cooperate with your work. Currently, the institute has produced a total of seven phase ship prototypes, four escorts, three destroyers, and one cruiser class is still under construction."
"I'll take you there now."
"Trouble."
"It should."
The director obviously had no intention of wasting time. Soon, under his leadership, Chen Ming transferred to a medium-sized shuttle boat belonging to the Ship Research Institute and left the space station.
Went to the orbital test site.
In addition to the highly industrialized planet itself, the ship research institute's planet also has two man-made orbital industrial rings in space.
The inner ring is purely industrial facilities, and the same is true inside the outer ring.
The outside of the outer ring is where most of the ship's experiments are conducted.
The orbital test site is here.
Further outside, where Chen Ming had just been staying, was a space station that was even larger than the pirate space station with a city built inside. It was equivalent to the headquarters of the Ship Research Institute.
In addition, in the orbit of this planet belonging to the Ship Research Institute, there is also a giant structure corresponding to the space station,
A giant shipyard used for the production of capital ships and capital-class weapons.
It can only be said that all the necessary supporting facilities are available.
While Chen Ming was observing the layout of the ship research institute through the porthole of the shuttle boat.
The shuttle boat quickly landed on the outside of the outer ring track.
The imitation gravity device plays a role here. Although the track is rotating, it will not throw away the people and buildings above.
After landing, Director Chen Minghe and his team took a ground vehicle on the orbital industrial ring to a semi-open ship repair shop here.
Although there are stars above his head, Chen Ming does not need to wear protective clothing when he gets out of the car.
Part of the oxygen on the orbital ring is maintained by the continuous production of life-support devices, and the other part is bound by gravity, which is enough for people to work here without wearing protective clothing.
In this somewhat empty repair shop, there are seven ships parked scatteredly.
All are undergoing maintenance.
These are phase ships.
Their appearance is similar to that of ordinary ships. There is no obvious difference. They all have the appearance of normal spaceships.
The main colors are close to dark blue and silver gray, which should be caused by the materials needed to build the phase ship.
Only the center of the spacecraft is slightly protruding, turning the spacecraft that originally looked like a trapezoid with extremely large base angles from directly above into something close to a hexagon.
There seems to be a lot of equipment installed in it.
These devices installed in the middle of the ship are the biggest difference between these phase ships and ordinary ships.
Generally speaking, these spacecraft are basically a bit rough, and the various equipment and circuits have not been well optimized and designed.
However, the phase ship is still in the experimental stage after all, as long as it can move.
The optimization of hidden lines and equipment will only need to be done in the future.
The director gestured towards the seven phase ships and said: "The phase ships that have been manufactured are all here. If you don't mind the trouble, you can control them all."
Chen Ming suddenly suspected that he had heard wrong, and asked: "All?"
"Yes, the phase ship itself is easy to lose, especially in the early stages of the experiment when we don't know much about the phase space. Basically two or three experiments will cause a ship to be damaged."
"With you here, our ship's losses might be reduced."
"Okay."
The director has said so, so Chen Ming is not polite. Anyway, if the things in his hands are in his hands, others don't have to think about taking them back.
Chen Ming immediately walked around the seven ships and controlled each phase ship.
By observing the panels, Chen Ming found that the biggest difference between phase ships and ordinary ships was indeed the things installed in the middle area that looked bloated in appearance.
Phase devices such as [Phase Coil], [Phase Force Field Modulator], [Phase Stabilization Anchor] and [Phase Traction Device].
The most critical one is probably the phase coil. This thing not only occupies the largest space inside the spacecraft, but also uses a special material.
There are several small coils made of different materials around the complex phase coil.
It seems that they want to test what materials can be used as substitutes for this special material.
It's a pity that Chen Ming can only see these relatively superficial things through the panel.
But once the technology and manufacturing conditions for these things are figured out for him, he will be able to build his own phase ship.
It's still too early to say this.
After Chen Ming finished controlling the spacecraft, he returned to the director.
Just at this time, someone came to the maintenance shop, sent a document to the director, and said: "Director, the experiment can begin."
The director immediately blinked at Chen Ming several times.
Ah this...
Now Chen Ming knew why the director gave him control so quickly.
However, he doesn't think there is any problem with this. After all, the value of the phase ship is not low, especially the prototype in the experimental stage.
Qiu Bowen had only promised to give Chen Ming a phase ship before.
But the director chose to directly hand over all the phase ships they owned to him for control. The meaning was very simple.
All control of these ships was given to him, and he was asked to help ensure the progress of some more dangerous experiments.
After all, if the prototype is lost, it has to be built, but if it is given to Chen Ming, if it is damaged, Chen Ming can just repair it. They will definitely provide the materials.
In this way, the institute can ensure that the ships tested in the future will not be completely lost.
And Chen Ming earned control of all the phase ships in the institute.
When there are more phase ships in the Ship Research Institute later, these ships will all be Chen Ming.
There may even be more than the seven ships now, and there may be more in the future.
Chen Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with the director's approach to a win-win situation. It would be better to say that the more situations like this, the better.
And this can actually be regarded as a test for him by the director.
After all, Chen Ming can be regarded as an airborne figure arranged by the legion commander. Unlike He Gu of the Psychic Research Institute, who has too many interactions with the Ship Research Institute, he is a person with very high authority.
If we don't know Chen Ming's details, there will be many things that the Naval Research Institute cannot do freely.
If Chen Ming is willing to get along well, then many things can be discussed.
But if Chen Ming is a greedy person, he will swallow the elephant.
Then the director of the Ship Research Institute should consider a new way to deal with Chen Ming.
Chen Mingke has always been a very kind person. He treats others as others treat him.
The director took the initiative to show his kindness, and Chen Ming was of course willing to reciprocate.
He responded: "If the ship is controlled by me, there will most likely be no problems. However, I have never been in contact with phase space, so I cannot give a 100% guarantee."
These words were enough. The director nodded at Chen Ming and took Chen Ming on the shuttle boat again to the experimental site.
In the repair shop, there was a destroyer and a escort. A total of two phase ships also took off after the final inspection and followed the shuttle boat.
Ten minutes later.
The shuttle craft and both phase ships arrived at the testing site.
However, it is said to be a test site. In fact, many experiments on spacecraft are conducted directly in space, and this time is no exception.
It's just that the institute has arranged multiple automatic observation points near the determined experimental site, and a relatively distant main observation point, completely surrounding the center of the experimental site.
These observation points are similar to miniature space stations. Whether they are automatic observation points or main observation points, they can accommodate enough equipment and manpower.
No data or images will be missed.
However, because the automatic observation point is close to the center of the test site, usually only the equipment is left at the automatic observation point to establish a remote signal connection with the main observation point.
Therefore, the shuttle boat finally landed on the satellite space station as the main observation point.
The director immediately arranged the experiment process after disembarking.
It can be seen that the director has rich management experience. At least hundreds of people participated in the entire experimental process and were responsible for different tasks.
All these people are doing what they should do in an orderly manner under the command of the director.
Chen Ming watched and learned silently.
After all, he is also the director of the Super Research Institute.
Those researchers who usually manage purely by relying on their own prestige and ability have no problem when the time is short and the number of people is small.
But if his laboratory expands in the future, or if he has to carry out some projects that require the entire institute to work together, his current management capabilities will not be able to keep up, and it will never go wrong to learn some project management experience.
The director seemed to notice that Chen Ming listened very carefully, and even showed Chen Ming some details of the work flow arrangement.
He really regarded Chen Ming as a member of this experiment.
However, Chen Ming knows nothing about phase ships now, so he just takes a look and repairs it when something goes wrong with the spacecraft. But he is also very interested in learning phase technology.
So after the director made arrangements, he asked: "What is the purpose of this phase ship experiment?"
"Using the special resonant frequency of phase space to try to enable friendly units to observe phase ships in phase space from the normal cosmic environment."
Chen Ming understood, but he didn't understand either.
The director noticed Chen Ming's situation, and while continuing to manage the overall control of the experiment, he began to explain the basic knowledge of phase ships to Chen Ming.
After roughly explaining some basic concepts of phase ships, he talked about the current experiment.
To put it simply.
The purpose of this experiment is to verify a special device just developed by the Ship Research Institute.
It allows fleets in the normal universe to observe friendly forces in phase space, preventing the phase ship from appearing within the range of friendly forces when it returns to reality.
And this device will only have its effect on friendly forces and will not be discovered by the enemy.
It is similar to the situation where Chen Ming saw the machine tribe using phase weapons but being able to see lasers from the normal universe, but different.
Since this dead sample needs to enter the phase space repeatedly in a short period of time to simulate actual combat, it is slightly dangerous for the current phase ship, and Chen Ming needs to be protected a little.
Chen Ming had a question about this: "During actual combat, doesn't the phase ship always stay in the phase space?" "The phase ship cannot dissipate radiant energy in the phase space."
The director explained some basic concepts of phase space: "Although phase space corresponds to the normal universe environment, in phase space, all places where matter does not exist are filled with a special medium."
"This medium has no effect on the human body and can be treated as if it does not exist. However, for the spacecraft, it will hinder the spacecraft from dissipating radiation energy."
"Entering phase space itself will also lead to the accumulation of radiation energy, not to mention the use of weapons in phase space."
"So in a war, it is impossible for a phase ship to remain in phase space all the time. Repeatedly entering and exiting phase space involves the enemy, and avoiding enemy attacks is the most likely situation."
Radiant energy...
Chen Ming almost forgot that there was radiation.
No matter what each ship does when it starts up, it will generate radiant energy in the radiant energy system of the ship.
Whether you use a weapon or let the shield take damage, it will lead to an increase in radiation energy, and there is a difference between soft and hard radiation energy.
Once the radiation energy exceeds the upper limit, there will be a radiation overload phenomenon that paralyzes the entire ship.
However, the existence of Chen Ming's psychic energy means that no matter what happens, the radiation value of his spacecraft will never increase. Once the maintenance psychic energy is released, it will all be wiped out.
Unless something can directly fill up the radiation energy of Chen Ming's spaceship, Chen Ming will have no time to repair it.
But that would either be overwhelming the fleet in terms of numbers, like the last time the machine race sneaked up on his Colossus class.
Or it was a crushing of ships in terms of level. For example, the Afterglow cruiser controlled by Chen Ming was bombarded by the legion's capital ship.
But the last time the concentrated fire of more than twenty mechanical cruisers only almost broke the shield.
For Chen Ming, as long as the radiation energy system is not penetrated by a wave, it is in good condition.
Even if it is penetrated, it won't be a big problem. As long as the enemy's most ferocious wave of firepower fails to completely wipe out the ship, then under the influence of his psychic power, even if the spacecraft only has a handbrake left, Chen Ming can drive the ship back intact.
The encounter between his ship and the battleship was also a small probability event.
Therefore, the combination of various factors led to Chen Ming never paying attention to the radiation system. At most, he paid attention to the upper limit of radiation. After all, this upper limit determined the upper limit of the attack his spacecraft could withstand in a short period of time.
From this point of view, the strength of the radiant energy system is a good indicator for judging the performance of the phase ship.
The phase ship needs to have enough upper limit for fighting in the phase space, and there needs to be enough radiation energy dissipation to allow the phase ship to leave the phase space to quickly dissipate radiation when it accumulates too much radiation energy.
Then this is interesting.
If the phase ship controlled by Chen Ming is continuously repaired by him in the phase space, it seems that it can achieve some disgusting effects on the enemy, and now he can try it.
However, he was not in a hurry to mention this matter. He would like to take a look at this experiment first.
But before the experiment officially started, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something else.
He asked the director: "Can you arrange for two of my robots to go on the ship?"
The director immediately thought about it.
He knew that Chen Ming was a psychic, and he also knew that Chen Ming could control all machines.
In his opinion, Chen Ming's robot is equivalent to a clone of him.
When such a being enters the phase space, it can definitely bring back some additional intelligence data.
The director responded: "Of course you can if you are not worried about the robot breaking, but you need to wait a little. We need to know the various data of your robot and make some corrections to the phase ship based on this data."
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Chen Ming released the metallic liquid and created two robots based on the Locust Armor around him.
"Trouble."
The director nodded, called over several researchers, and began to obtain various data from the robot.
Subsequently, some experimental data changes caused by the load capacity of the two spacecrafts to be tested were corrected.
About half an hour later, the director brought Chen Ming the news that everything was ready.
Chen Ming's two robots have been sent to two phase ships.
The escort-level phase ship looks ordinary, just an ordinary experimental ship.
But the expulsion-level phase ship is a little more interesting.
Chen Ming could clearly see that this experimental ship was designed in the direction of a transport ship.
It is true that phase ships have huge advantages over all other ships in terms of transportation, maneuverability and self-protection capabilities.
After entering the phase space, only enemies in the phase space can be harmed.
Moreover, transport ships are indeed easier to develop than combat ships.
It is indeed a more reasonable choice to focus on this type of research in the early stages of the experiment.
Because the spacecraft had not been cleaned up, after Chen Ming's robot entered the spacecraft, he could see that the specially constructed phase coils that occupied a large space inside the spacecraft were exposed in pieces, and they could leak electricity at any time. Come out feeling.
But it's not a big problem. The director and others are the main people studying phase ships. They don't think there is a problem, let alone Ming Dynasty.
And the most important thing now is that the two phase ships have begun operation.
A purple halo appears on the exposed phase coil due to the interface between the phase space and the normal cosmic environment. It is somewhat similar to the color of hyperspace, but more translucent.
Soon, the two phase ships pulled the ship into the phase space under the synergy of different devices.
A moment.
Chen Ming got two pieces of news.
A piece of good news and a piece of bad news.
The good news is that Chen Ming's psychic energy will not be blocked even if it enters the phase space, and he can still perfectly control the robot.
Bad news.
It was the moment when Chen Ming saw the phase space outside the spacecraft, which looked almost the same as the normal universe.
He felt a heavy pressure from the robot in the phase space, as if he was at the bottom of the sea.
Even if it was just a robot, this pressure was transferred from the robot to Chen Ming, pressing hard on his brain.
However, after getting used to the pressure that the ectoplasm stone put on him, this pressure is nothing to Chen Ming now.
His expression remained unchanged, and he was even carefully sensing what was causing the entire phase space to exert heavy pressure on him.
Finally, Chen Ming was somewhat surprised to find that in his consciousness space, the crack connected to the scarlet dimension was closed tightly for some reason. I don't believe there is a crack leaking the power of the dimension like before.
Chen Ming immediately temporarily cut off his control of the two robots in the phase space.
The moment the control was cut off, the heavy pressure Chen Ming felt disappeared, and the cracks in the scarlet dimension opened again, slowly giving Chen Ming psychic power.
Chen Ming reconnected to his robot, the rift in the scarlet dimension closed again, and he felt the heavy pressure again.
That's right, it's the phase space that suppresses the scarlet dimension.
This was something Chen Ming didn't expect at all.
The phase space and the scarlet dimension actually have a relationship, and they actually have a conflicting relationship. The phase space even suppresses the power of the scarlet dimension.
Of course, this may also be because there is only a crack in Chen Ming's consciousness space, so he was suppressed.
However, it is certain that phase space and scarlet dimension are in conflict.
But why?
Why do phase space and scarlet dimension, two irreconcilable dimensions, conflict?
Chen Ming only understood the most basic concepts of the scarlet dimension, and his understanding of phase space was only what the director just told him.
There was no way he could answer this question.
But both the Scarlet Dimension and Phase Space are important to him.
The Crimson Dimension is a source of powerful psychic power and a further repository of his psychic effects.
Phase space is likely to become the main development direction of ships in the future. The basis of Chen Ming's capabilities is ships, and it is impossible to abandon the existence of phase space.
The two actually conflict with each other.
Something is wrong.
Chen Ming had to find a way to figure out the reason behind it.
But both are troublesome. They are not existences that Chen Ming can understand in a short time.
He could only change his plan slightly and increase the time he spent in the ship research institute.
And then find a suitable time to try to enter the scarlet dimension for the second time.
The scarlet dimension is a dimension full of "knowledge". As long as one can enter and come out alive, knowledge related to psychic energy and the scarlet dimension will naturally fill people's consciousness.
As long as he can go in a few more times, Chen Ming will be able to figure out the reason for the conflict between Scarlet and Phase sooner or later.
Talk about it.
Chen Ming suddenly seemed to understand what the phase beast was like.
As a creature of the phase space, the reason why the phase beast is looking for him is probably related to his contact with the scarlet dimension.
Then he thought of the emotion contained in the voice of the phase beast before.
Alert, thirsty, curious, angry, fearful.
I'm afraid these emotions are not all directed at him, but at his connection with the scarlet dimension.
What exactly does the phase beast want to do?
Fortunately, Chen Ming did not hear the sound of the phase beast now, otherwise he would suspect that the phase beast would come to the phase research institute soon.
He continued to look at the director next to him without changing his expression.
The director suddenly handed over a pair of lavender glasses and motioned for Chen Ming to put them on.
Chen Ming took the glasses and asked, "Have any manned experiments been conducted before?"
"It was done, first the animals, then the people."
"Is there an accident?"
"No, everything is normal. There is no discomfort after entering. It is no different from being in a normal universe. There is no problem at all in the subsequent physical examination."
"That's it."
That heavy pressure was indeed directed specifically at the scarlet dimension in him, rather than targeting everyone equally.
Interesting.
Chen Ming didn't say much, put on his glasses and asked, "What are these glasses for?"
"Glasses made of phase resonant lenses can observe the special light signals emitted by the phase ship in the phase space through a specific resonant frequency. Look at the position of the phase ship just now."
Chen Ming turned around and looked around. At the position where the two phase ships disappeared, there were two shadow-like dark purple light patterns existing in the void, marking the position of the phase ships.
Chen Ming raised his glasses and looked with his naked eyes.
The light pattern disappeared immediately.
He put down his glasses again, and light patterns immediately appeared in his eyes.
The director next to him reminded: "Both these glasses and the phase ship can adjust different resonance frequency bands. Only when they match can we observe each other. This is used to deal with the moment when the enemy sees through our frequency band."
"The phase ship itself can also turn off the display of this mark at any time and hide itself completely."
Chen Ming looked at several tiny buttons on the edge of the glasses and pressed them casually, changing the observable frequency of the glasses.
The marking light pattern of the phase ship in the distance disappeared again.
Chen Ming took off his glasses and carefully observed its structure,
However, like the phase ship, he couldn't understand it.
Soon, the phase ship temporarily left the phase space and began to prepare for subsequent repeated experiments.
Chen Ming withdrew his gaze from the phase ship, looked at the director and asked, "Is the phase ship the only way to enter the phase space now?"
"If you are talking about ships and people, it is true that they can only pass through phase ships."
"But not necessarily others."
"What else?"
(End of chapter)