Chapter 342 Transformation Experiment

Chapter 342 Transformation Experiment

"Is this the announcement of psykers?"

Bai Quan responded to Chen Ming's question: "You can't just say that this is it. The propaganda has already been prepared."

"Not only will the contributions of psykers be highlighted, the Empire will also highlight the contributions of ordinary people who made outstanding contributions in the war."

"Put ordinary people and psykers together for propaganda, and treat psykers as ordinary people with special abilities, just like those officers with excellent command abilities."

"'They are all ordinary people, they just have different abilities."

"This is the plan that the empire has been laying out in recent decades."

"Psychics existed a long time ago. From the beginning, the information was sealed airtight, but later on, the control over the information about psykers was actually gradually relaxed."

"Even some news about psykers was leaked by the empire on its own initiative, which gradually turned psykers into urban legends and allowed people in the empire to gradually adapt to the existence of psykers in a subtle way."

"The abilities of psychics themselves are too beyond cognition for ordinary people, and things beyond cognition will bring fear to people."

"Through the subtle influence, people gradually lose their fear of psykers, and then find a suitable time to announce the existence of psykers. This is the complete plan."

"The right time is now, this must-win war breaks out between us and the machine race."

"You will also be used as a special publicity example and will be released with me."

"Including what you and I will do in this war, the last time I cooperated with you to attack Yuhui's giant shipyard, they will all be publicized together."

"The empire also wants to create heroes again to further divert the attention of the people within its borders."

"Minimize the impact of dimensional infection."

Chen Ming listened carefully to what Bai Quan said. The thousands of words he wanted to say could only be summed up in one sentence: "Good guy."

Psykers have always been a troubled group.

This arrangement of the empire can be said to have completely integrated the concept of psykers into the people and into the concept of the empire itself.

The Empire would even have legitimate reasons to seek out psykers hidden among civilians, or those with psychic talents.

No more sneaking around in the dark, no more avoiding the negative effects of a psyker's influence.

Although this kind of operation seems to be shaping a hero, in fact the key is not the "hero" but the "character".

This would strip away the "divinity" of psykers, people with supernatural powers.

Psykers are humans.

There are good and bad things about this.

But for Chen Ming, it should be generally biased towards the good.

So he had no problem with it.

Bai Quan continued: "By the way, there may be some gossip about you spread, that is, news about you and Xinghai."

"The empire will leak some general information about your daily life through some low-level channels, letting more people know that psykers are actually just ordinary people."

"You are not the only one. There are many psykers whose daily lives will be spread out in secret ways when the propaganda caliber feels appropriate."

"Further reduce the public's vigilance and fear of psychics."

"Of course, if you mind, I can mention it to the people at the publicity outlet. Don't worry, the effect may not be very good, because you are the only one who can promote it now."< br>

Chen Ming thought about it and said, "As long as it's not too private, I don't care. Anyway, I don't usually show up in public. What about Xinghai's opinion?"

"I asked and she had no objection."

"Okay, then just show me the final news before it leaks out."

"No problem."

Communication ended.

Chen Ming immediately imagined what would happen next.

The news will first spread through the mouth of Baiquan.

Of course, the empire will invest some resources in the investigation, and in the end, An Wuping, who is absolutely related to the Thorn Zerg, will definitely be investigated.

As long as Chen Ming operates well on An Wuping's side, the Zerg will eventually be connected only with An Wuping and be separated from Chen Ming himself.

Of course, if the Empire really investigates some additional information that connects him with the Zerg again, he also has backup means to explain and separate the relationship.

Chen Ming put away the terminal.

He turned his attention to the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility that had just been installed after finishing the call with Bai Quan.

Next, it’s time to start the experimental process that was not completed last time due to broken equipment.

Speaking of experiments, Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at Sample Zero, which had been on the spacecraft recently.

This guy was the first Zerg individual to be transformed, and he was also the only one to survive Chen Ming's many transformation experiments in the past few days.

Compared to the past few days, its condition is much better.

He no longer continues to cause harm to himself because of the mechanized structure in his body.

Existential crisis is no longer a possible reason for Sample Zero's death.

But it can still only be regarded as a disabled individual.

But it didn't give up the struggle.

The Zerg's natural environmental adaptability and evolutionary ability allow it to continuously evolve in the process of fighting itself, constantly adapting to its body that is a random mixture of machinery and biology.

At least it can now perform some simple activities compared to when it first crawled out of the transformation facility, unlike before when it could only squirm.

This can also be said to be that the Zerg individuals controlling Sample Zero have a strong consciousness and a strong desire to survive.

Therefore, after being sent into the body of Sample Zero, there will be changes that other individuals do not have.

Therefore, Chen Ming has been raising Sample Zero without consuming any more resources.

Maybe it can bring him some unexpected surprises later.

After reading sample zero.

Chen Ming still focused his attention on the present moment, on the complete transformation facility in front of him.

Make your first full use of the facility.

This time Chen Ming did not plan to transform the Zerg first, but chose to transform one of his prosthetics.

After all, the situation when transforming his prosthesis was much worse than transforming the Zerg. Not only was the average survival time shorter than the transformed Zerg individuals, there was not even an individual that survived for more than an hour.

So this time, he will start with "people" like prosthetics.

After inserting the prosthesis, Chen Ming began to wait patiently.

The transformation process is the same as before, which is to use nanorobots to transform biological tissue into machinery bit by bit.

Chen Ming can see the entire process.

It is still the same as before, starting from the organs in the body.

All life-sustaining organs have been removed, and only the basic organs that maintain the human body's ability to move remain after being transformed into machines.

And some cavities in the body are not retained during transformation.

This makes the entire prosthesis look extremely thin when it is halfway transformed, more like a mechanized skeleton than a mechanized human.

The human body has simply been transformed into a mechanical entity that is similar to a humanoid. It seems that various devices can be modified at any time. There is nothing special about the rest.

But it's not over yet.

When most of the organs and bodies were transformed, the transformation facility finally reached the final step, which was the same part of the brain as Chen Ming guessed last time.

Just when the facility was transforming the brain, something unexpected happened.

Of course it was not a real accident, but something unexpected happened in the transformation facility that exceeded Chen Ming's imagination.

The mechanized head of the prosthesis was suddenly opened during the transformation process, and the brain, which was still in its intact biological state, was separately extracted by the nanorobot.

Those nanorobots gathered on the brain, penetrated deep into the brain, and gradually transformed the brain into something Chen Ming had seen.

Something called the secondary core of personality that he had discovered in the Purgatory Demon King.

The secondary core of personality is different from the core of personality like the Empress.

Its appearance is not that of a sphere with several extended columnar structures that is the core of the personality.

Instead, while barely maintaining the basic shape of the brain, there are more dense circuit arrangements of various kinds.

So it is mainly a type of secondary core and has nothing to do with the personality core.

The secondary core has different levels and is installed in different levels of mechanical units. The highest level is the personality secondary core.

Chen Ming actually thought the shape was a bit strange before, but he didn't think much about it at the time.

Not only because he did not connect the secondary personality core with the brain, but also because he was unable to produce the secondary personality core at that time and now.

He obtained all the information about the secondary core of the Machinery Race from the Machinery Race.

There is only a manufacturing plan for secondary cores from basic secondary cores to advanced secondary cores.

The high-level secondary core can just be installed on a combat unit such as the centipede, the mainstay of the mechanical clan, but there is no more advanced one.

Of course, the mechanical queen should know the manufacturing plan for the secondary personality core, but Chen Ming did not ask.

Because he didn't have many purgatory cores on hand, and the Zerg were more suitable than the Machines for ground combat, he had no idea of ​​creating advanced ground units of the Machines.

Even if you get a higher-level secondary core, there is nowhere to use it.

So he didn't study it, and he didn't rush to ask the queen.

After all, the Empress is right there, just ask if you need anything.

If you ask when you don't need it, you may end up with a bunch of information that you won't need for the time being, but you still have to spend time sorting out.

Therefore, Chen Ming had no idea that the manufacturing process of the secondary personality core was actually related to people.

It can even be transformed quite directly through the human brain.

He had previously wondered why the highest-level secondary core was the personality secondary core, but now he had a partial explanation.

And this further illustrates that the extinct existence of the Shining Civilization is absolutely closely related to human beings.

There is another point worth noting.

That is, this secondary core of personality is damaged, a damaged secondary core of personality.

It's not running.

Obviously this device was a complete device acquired by Chen Mingxin. It had even been repaired, and there were no traces of the destruction of psychic energy fluctuations.

Logically speaking, there should not be a problem of converting damaged devices.

But it happened to create a damaged secondary core of personality. Why is this?

Just as Chen Ming was thinking, the Queen of Insects suddenly delivered a piece of news that made him understand what was going on.

That's when the transformation facility is transformed into the brain.

The insect queen's consciousness lodged on the prosthetic body felt like it was being pulled away.

The insect queen did not allow her consciousness to be separated, and because of the transformation process, her consciousness automatically separated, and then it became like this.

Then Chen Ming understood.

It should be that during the transformation, part of the brain's consciousness will be preserved by the nanorobot, and after the brain is completely transformed into the secondary core of personality, that part of the preserved consciousness will be stuffed into it.

The consciousness on the prosthetic body was temporarily filled in by the insect queen. There is no consciousness that can be divided separately, which leads to this situation.

Chen Ming immediately conducted the replica experiment again to verify his conjecture.

But this time, the prosthesis was filled with the consciousness of an ordinary Zerg unit.

The Zerg individual stated that it had no objection.

As the equipment's transformation process progressed again, the prosthesis was transformed into a mechanical state, and the individual Zerg consciousness inside the prosthesis was completely transformed into the consciousness within the core of the personality.

This time the secondary core was not damaged and it started functioning normally.

The consciousness inside the prosthesis still exists, and what exists is not even the hive mind network of the mechanical race owned by Chen Ming, but the hive mind network of the Zerg race to which it originally belonged.

Just outrageous.

This situation also means that as long as Chen Ming installs this secondary core on any demon king, this demon king is equivalent to being placed in the Zerg hive mind network, not the mechanical hive mind network.

This situation gave Chen Ming several more subconscious thoughts.

And he immediately tried it.

Use spiritual energy to tune the consciousness in this secondary core, and use the particularity of the hive mind network of the mechanical race to balance the thinking fluctuations of this individual and the mechanical network.

Try to connect this individual belonging to the Zerg tribe to the hive mind network of the mechanical tribe.

As a result...it actually worked.

This individual can even share the communication of consciousness in both networks at the same time and benefit from the hive mind network.

However, Chen Ming immediately terminated this contact.

Because he was worried that something bad would happen.

Of course, it does not mean that there will be conflicts between the two cellular networks. He will sense the risk of conflict as soon as possible.

He meant something else.

The hive mind network of the Mechanical Tribe is something that the Mechanical Tribe itself possesses, and it was an ability that Chen Ming was able to demonstrate for reasonable reasons after capturing the Mechanical Tribe.

Several people have already provided Chen Ming with ideas for the development of psychic abilities in this area before, but Chen Ming has never shown them.

He wants to use this ability as a trump card that can be revealed to others.

The Zerg is another trump card, and it needs to be revealed through An Wuping. It can't always connect the two.

Otherwise, the An Wuping he worked so hard to create would lose a large part of its meaning.

Moreover, if the machine race and the Zerg race are mixed together, it will be more troublesome to distribute the authority of the controllers of the two hive mind networks and interfere with each other's functions.

Although Chen Ming needs an individual with enough autonomy and loyalty to him to help manage the hive mind network of the mechanical race, not a pure machine without its own thoughts like the Mechanical Queen, the Insect Queen just meets the conditions.

But the insect queen can be said to have little understanding of mechanization.

The insect queen only understands the operating principles of machinery and knows how to reproduce it, but if she wants to innovate in machinery or manage a purely mechanized regional colony, she absolutely cannot do it.

Therefore, Chen Ming does not plan to study this in depth for the time being.

Maybe there will be an opportunity in the future.

But he has to wait until the mechanical race in his hands is fully developed, and the existence of half-biological and half-mechanical individuals can be truly studied.

At least he understood what the secondary core of personality was like.

It's this result that's a little scary.

The current secondary core of personality can be said to be the transformation of dying humans by the machine race. What about the past? What about Shining Civilization?

What is the situation of Shining Civilization? What kind of existence are they?

Sure enough, I have to go to the Shining Civilization Research Institute later.

Chen Ming thought so.

But now that it doesn't affect his work for the time being, let's put it aside for now.

As for the personality transformed by the Zerg consciousness... No, it is the secondary core of the Zerg grid.

In terms of ability, it seems to be worse than personality.

But it’s better than actually using people to transform.

Some of the top mechanical units in the country need this kind of secondary core. It is impossible for Chen Ming to go to any prison in the empire to convert death row prisoners...

Wait, it doesn’t seem impossible.

But in short, it would be nice to have one more way to obtain it.

And Chen Ming had another magical idea.

He took out the secondary personality core alone and sent the secondary personality core to the insect queen.

The insect queen has already devoured a wave of the original resources of the insect nest planet and is ready to start migrating.

But it still has time to help Chen Ming do some small things.

For example, re-convert this mechanical insect cell secondary core into a biological state.

Although the size of the secondary core is very small, the difficulty of transformation still exists, even greater than that of the transformation jump engine.

However, it didn't take much time for the insect queen to complete the transformation process.

The transformation ability of the insect queen evolved by swallowing the fairy tree species is different from the past.

And the result of the transformation... is a brain.

The consciousness of the Zerg unit is still stored inside, and the consciousness of this Zerg unit has not even changed at all. .

In this way, the Queen of Insects transformed the consciousness that originally existed on the data level back, and could also use the transformed consciousness as an ordinary Zerg individual consciousness and put it into the bodies of other Zerg units.

Even after being stuffed into the bodies of other units, this Zerg unit can still reconnect with the mechanical hive network.

Of course, Chen Ming immediately terminated this operation.

The same problems as before.

That will have to be left for later.

After saving and sealing relevant information.

Chen Ming is ready to start the next experiment.

Just convert ordinary Zerg units into machines.

The process was smooth.

But the result was not ideal.

The effect is too poor.

The mechanized Zerg units that were created did not have any new abilities. They simply changed from biological Zerg to mechanical Zerg.

And due to complete mechanization, even if these Zerg units have remained connected to the Zerg hive mind network after becoming mechanical creatures, they can no longer call on the psychic energy of the Zerg Queen.

No increase in organ tissue strength can be obtained.

Although some of Chen Ming's spiritual energy can still be used, compared with using Chen Ming's spiritual energy in the biological state, which only consumes energy, repairing it in a completely mechanized state requires consuming additional materials, which is completely meaningless.

Even bugs in a semi-mechanized state like Sample Zero can use energy to directly repair those mechanical organs and tissues.

This was completely mechanized, and Chen Ming couldn't see any important meaning or value.

Somewhat interesting, but not much.

The most Chen Ming can think of is that it can be used when the mechanical tribe is in urgent need of troops to quickly transform the Zerg units into mechanical units.

But that is for a separate mechanical race. The mechanical race can transform other creatures into its own fighting power.

Chen Ming does not need to transform the Zerg into a machine race before he can enter the battlefield.

Sure enough, in the end, one still has to transform the spiritual enlightenment nerve.

This is the main function of this device.

And the Black Mist Qiling Nerve that Chen Ming had extracted some time ago has always been intact and can participate in this experiment at any time.

It can only be said that Chen Ming's time at the Psychic Research Institute and the project were not in vain.

Through his study in the project, he has been able to maintain the Qiling Nerve for a long time, and will no longer die due to the Qiling Nerve being separated from the human body for too long.

Until today, the Black Mist Qiling Nerve can finally be used.

Chen Ming directly used his psychic energy to remove the black mist spiritual nerves stored in a canned device from the spaceship's incubation room and sent them into the transformation equipment.

The transformation equipment immediately received the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve and began to operate.

This time the conversion process was quite fast.

Just a blink of an eye.

The black mist spiritual awakening nerve completely disappeared.

What was left behind was a pitch-black spherical object the size of a table tennis ball that exuded psychic energy fluctuations.

This is the core of the black mist.

The accompanying organisms such as the spiritual energy released during the transformation process of the black mist spiritual nerves were collected by the facility.

Infused into several mechanical enlightenment nerves that Chen Ming has successfully reproduced.

Chen Ming hasn't figured out the purpose of the black mist core yet. After all, the destruction core created by the mechanical tribe is to be installed in the nose of the spine cannon.

He doesn't have a spinal cannon on hand right now.

So just use it as an additional psionic ability trigger for now.

This thing is somewhat similar to the source of chaos, but there is no need to worry about triggering any situation that will cause the mind to appear.

As for the black mist mechanical enlightenment nerve.

Chen Mingze had already thought of its use.

They will become what Chen Ming has thought of before. Special Zerg individuals can also be counted as part of the individual abilities of the Guards.

(End of chapter)