Chapter 363 Natural Disaster
After all the things in the Mechanical Race Star Territory are done.
Chen Ming's consciousness returned to the several bodies he had before stepping into the trap of the mechanical tribe.
His front-line prosthetic immediately opened its eyes.
But he was no longer in the command room, but in a hospital bed.
He was taken to the hospital.
Bai Quan's voice sounded from the side: "You're awake. The doctor said your body is very healthy."
Chen Ming sat up and waved to Bai Quan.
"If you have anything you want to ask, don't rush to ask. I want to talk to a few people, and I'll tell them together when the time comes."
"Okay, who are you looking for?"
"Things related to psychic energy and the two dimensions, it's best to have a few more in the legion, and Qiu Bowen should also be invited."
"Qiu Bowen may not be available."
Bai Quan said: "He needs command. The counterattack of the mechanical tribe has suddenly become violent just now."
"It's okay, this is just the last struggle of the mechanical tribe. After this wave, you can fight as you like."
Bai Quan was about to ask Chen Ming how he knew it, but then he thought of Chen Ming's words, "Don't ask."
So he really didn't ask, he just said: "Then I'll prepare the connection."
But Chen Ming stopped him again and said, "No, I need to have an offline meeting."
Bai Quan said in confusion: "There are so many people you are looking for, how can you hold a meeting offline?"
"Just ask the president."
Bai Quan's expression suddenly became serious. The president of the Psychic Association would need to personally organize a meeting, and the content to be discussed would definitely not be simple.
At the same time as Chen Ming's prosthesis came to life.
At the ship research institute of the headquarters, Chen Ming's robot has also returned to its previous appearance.
The conference room was still the same as before.
After noticing that the robot was moving, the directors of the two research institutes immediately looked at Chen Ming and said, "We are finally back. We have just discussed the results..."
But Chen Ming waved his hand: "Don't rush to talk about this, I have something more important to tell you."
Ten minutes later.
Chen Ming efficiently called all the people he felt needed to be called.
Some people affiliated with the Empire and Fanchao Research Institute, including the Minister of Psychic Energy, were also called out by Chen Ming.
Except for the people who were originally at the Fanchao Research Institute, everyone appeared in the Fanchao Research Institute relying on the president's spiritual power.
This is a position designated by the Minister of Psychics.
The research institute also has a conference room, so I took it directly to Chen Ming.
Although the empire's attitude towards Chen Ming has been determined before, cold treatment, free rein, Chen Ming loves to do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't mess around.
But when Chen Ming took the initiative to propose that there were important things that needed to be announced, he also asked the president to help lead people.
And just like what he said last time, he has never taken the initiative to cause trouble when he was full.
The person Chen Ming is looking for must give him some face no matter what.
Of course, An Wuping was called over.
It can only be said that it was a blessing that An Wuping was there at night, and it was rest time when Chen Ming regained consciousness, otherwise something might have gone wrong.
How can I continue to chat with the Minister of Psychiatry about sharing biotechnology like now?
Even the boss was brought over by the president and sat next to the president and watched silently.
The conference room was filled quickly and the number of people did not continue to increase.
The president doesn't seem to have any intention of continuing to use psychic powers.
I didn't want to come at first, after all, the mechanical tribe is now counterattacking fiercely, but considering that what Chen Ming said might be important in ten minutes, Qiu Boyen, who came with Bai Quan, asked the president next to him: "Where is Chen Ming?"
The president said: "He said he would come by himself."
As soon as the president finished speaking, Chen Ming opened the door of the conference room and walked in.
The average person in the conference room didn't see the problem.
But several psychics, except the boss and president, had a hint of disbelief in their eyes.
They instantly understood Chen Ming's situation.
Luo Yi, the director of the Department of Psychic Energy, took the lead in greeting Chen Ming: "Mr. Chen Ming, we meet again so soon. How did you... do this?"
"You'll know soon."
Chen Ming said hello to the people in the conference room.
He looked at An Wuping, looked at Luo Yi twice, and came to the main seat of the conference table.
He inserted a storage unit into his computer and started playing it in the conference room, recording the entire process of what he did on the Machine Tribe's territory.
Only part of these videos were recorded by Chen Ming himself.
The rest relied on the mental link between the Queen and Chen Ming to share their vision, and then used the device to read the memory of the Queen and record the images and sounds.
In this way, even if Chen Ming's body is destroyed, the subsequent situation can still be completely recorded.
"As you can see, I took the Zerg fleet to attack the capital of the Machine Tribe."
"As for why I can directly attack the capital of the Machine Tribe, I have compiled the things that An Wuping and I have done recently in the Machine Tribe star field into files and put them on the computer in front of you. If you are interested, you can Look, I’ll keep talking.”
Everyone in the conference room turned on their computers in unison and looked at An Wuping next to them.
An Wuping picked up the water glass in front of him and took a sip silently without saying anything.
This acquiescence made everyone present thoughtful.
And when the people in the conference room who could read everything at a glance finished reading the documents placed by Chen Ming and arranged the results created by the Zerg in these days.
The few people who were still a little surprised about what Chen Ming was going to do all shut up and were whispering and discussing for a while.
At the same time, they couldn't help but take another look at An Wuping.
The power possessed by the Zerg fleet looks really terrifying.
But the protagonist of this meeting is Chen Ming.
So everyone still looked at the video recording that Chen Ming placed on the big screen in the conference room aside.
The video is being played at accelerated speed.
I quickly went through the whole process of Chen Ming's attack on the capital of the mechanical tribe.
When looking at the fleet consisting of only nine motherships and a large number of destroyer escorts on the screen, half of the cruisers that the mechanical race could use were missing.
Everyone can basically be sure that everything on the computer is real.
However, Chen Ming's focus was obviously when he successfully reached the surface of the planet and discovered the surface devices and underground laboratories.
So these contents will be skipped quickly.
And when Chen Ming passed through the destruction area and entered the laboratory.
He explained: "That is the destruction core of the mechanical race's Destroyer."
The existence of the Destroyer has been mentioned by Chen Ming a long time ago.
The Machine Tribe had previously used Destroyers to clash with the Black Mist Zerg Tribe.
Therefore, the Empire, which has been monitoring the Black Mist Zerg, has of course seen the effects of the Destroyer's actions.
Know how powerful the Destroyer is.
So when everyone heard what Chen Ming said, everyone suddenly became energetic.
"What are they going to do with the Destroyer?"
"Isn't it obvious? A trap."
On the video, Chen Ming decisively stepped into the trap prepared for him by the mechanical tribe and came into contact with the core of destruction.
A surge of destruction swept across Chen Ming in an instant, but Chen Ming didn't seem to have changed at all.
"The power released by this thing..."
"It's enough to kill me many times, right? But I'm still alive, but my state is a little different from before."
Bai Quan didn't understand the conversation between the psychics and asked: "Why is it different?"
Chen Ming stretched out his hand to Bai Quan and said, "Shake your hand."
Bai Quan didn't understand what Chen Ming meant, but he still extended his hand.
But his hand passed directly through Chen Ming's body and landed in the empty space.
"This!"
"As you can see, my physical body is gone, and all that is left is my consciousness."
"But just now..."
"That's a prosthesis made by An Wuping, for temporary use. Why do you think I ran to the legion when I was still weak? Obviously I have the confidence."
Seeing that Bai Quan seems to be worried about some strange things.
"Don't worry, no matter which body is the same, An Wuping also stores my genes. If necessary, he can help me create a more powerful body."
Everyone looked at An Wuping again.
Seeing An Wuping take a sip of the freshly brewed tea and nodding slightly, everyone turned their attention back to Chen Ming.
Luo Yi asked pointedly: "So you are different from An Wuping, right?"
Although this question had an obvious direction, answering it would obviously help Chen Ming explain a lot of things, so he answered it truthfully.
"It's not exactly the same. He relies on the hive mind network to achieve the aggregation and division of consciousness, while I am a purely independent consciousness. Of course, I have indeed mastered the hive network technology of the mechanical race."
"Keep reading, the key lies behind."
Although his body collapsed, Chen Ming still struggled to control the core of destruction.
It’s just that the people in the conference room couldn’t figure out what it meant.
After all, just by looking at the video records, one cannot tell that the power of the core of destruction is acting on space and destroying the barriers between spaces.
They could only see that Chen Ming seemed to have a lot of ideas about destroying the core, and he still held on to it even after his body was destroyed.
However, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to explain, because the leader of the phase beast appeared soon after.
When the first mechanical race mothership was suddenly split into two sections by an inexplicable force, the perspective of the video switched to space and to phase space.
Cut out the scene of Chen Ming taking advantage of this little time to unify his own power, so that everyone in the conference room could only see the phase beast leader wreaking havoc.
Several people who came from research institutes suddenly became excited and wanted to say something to Chen Ming.
However, Chen Ming didn't give them a chance and signaled to continue reading.
After the leader killed all the motherships of the Machine Clan, it entered the planet's surface.
Landed near Chen Ming. And his vision returned to Chen Ming.
Just switched the perspective back.
From Chen Ming's perspective, he saw a bloody mouth swallowing his consciousness.
A few seconds later.
The body of the leader of the phase beast who had just destroyed the nine motherships of the Machine Clan with extremely powerful means suddenly froze, and almost lost his life in an instant.
"What the hell..."
Qiu Boyen, who knew the combat effectiveness of the machine race's mothership best, subconsciously wanted to curse, but he restrained himself.
Chen Ming explained this: "I tested the intensity of its consciousness with it, and obviously its intensity of consciousness is not good enough."
"By the way, this phase beast leader has entered the scarlet dimension for a few minutes."
"So although its power has become stronger, its consciousness is close to collapse, so it is not difficult to deal with it."
"It's nothing until now, the next thing is the important thing."
Chen Ming eliminated the clan leader, suppressed the destruction core, and repaired the damage to the destruction core.
Naturally, the core of destruction was also taken away.
And when the core of destruction left its original position.
The cracked space gap finally appeared on the screen.
Although the rupture in the space was being repaired by something, several psykers and researchers studying space technology present immediately felt something was wrong.
Luo Yi asked again: "What is this?"
"This is the gap in the space barrier created by the destruction core, connecting the phase space... and the scarlet dimension."
"What!"
"Isn't it?!"
There was a commotion in the conference room.
Chen Ming said nothing and waited silently for the others to finish arguing.
After the conference room became quiet, he said: "I don't think I need to lie to people, it won't do me any good."
Luo Yi struggled for half a second between believing and disbelieving, and finally chose to believe. He also directly grasped the key to the problem and asked: "Does this mean..."
"Yes, the Scarlet Dimension can already lock the position of this dimension through this gap. The sequelae of the dimension infection will expand from this gap and will never stop."
"What I'm doing is using the consciousness of the phase beast leader - which is what it does - to temporarily repair the gap, as you can see."
"Temporary?"
"Yes, it's just temporary. Someone needs to be dedicated to guarding and repairing it here. Otherwise, once this gap collapses, you should be able to guess the consequences."
"Even if you have blocked it, will the sequelae of dimension infection still occur?"
"Yes, but there is also good news. This place has gaps in three dimensions at the same time. It is also a very interesting place. It should be used for research, but it is a little bit dangerous..."
The director of the Legion Psychic Research Institute subconsciously said: "This is not a question of danger at all, right?"
Chen Ming spread his hands: "It can only be said that it is fortunate that the core of destruction was exploded in the star field of the mechanical tribe. Otherwise, the location of the gap would have been here in the empire, which would only be more troublesome."
"Is there a way to eradicate it?"
"I don't know, it takes time to study, whether it's my time or your time."
"I feel that it is not enough for me to do this kind of thing alone. The empire must work together to study it."
"That's why I will inform everyone here."
"Otherwise, if we continue to let this gap remain, the final result should not be a dimensional infection, but a dimensional invasion."
"That was a real natural disaster."
"I know you all have doubts, but I have told you the coordinates. If you are willing, go check it yourself and take safety measures."
"Tell me one more thing."
Chen Ming ended the video screening and took out a storage unit the size of a brick.
"I also got something on the territory of the Machine Tribe."
In this storage unit, the star map that Chen Ming obtained from the mechanical tribe is stored.
The people in the conference room suddenly felt a headache. A storage unit the size of the tip of a pinky finger can maintain the basic operation of a cruiser.
What's stored in such a brick-sized storage unit?
The size of the storage unit used by Chen Ming when playing the video was normal, so taking out this brick now was definitely not a trick.
Chen Ming conveniently modified his computer. This ordinary office computer was connected to the external server he usually used, which made it easier for him to open files and prevent the computer from being burned out.
Even so, everyone in the conference room waited for a long time before the files in the storage unit were completely opened.
"Let's take a look."
"This is our universe."
This star map document records data on a huge cosmic structure.
And this cosmic structure contains everything the empire occupies, and more, more.
That's why Chen Ming didn't react immediately when he saw it.
Because there are a large number of galaxies on this star map that are beyond the Empire's perspective and cannot be reached under normal circumstances, that is, places that exceed the Empire's observable universe.
Of course, it is not completely impossible for the current empire to observe, it just requires access to some faster-than-light means.
It wasn't until Chen Ming discovered the territory of the empire on this star map that he knew he had seen a broader world.
But it's more than that.
When Chen Ming just obtained the star map, he discovered that the empire's position had been marked on the star map.
Also marked are the locations of the areas occupied by all the mechanical races.
All, or in other words, all in this universe covered by this star map document.
Very close to the borders of the empire.
It's hundreds of millions, billions or even tens of billions of light years away.
It can only be said that there are mechanical races almost everywhere in the entire star map.
No matter how remote, small or barren the place is, they are there.
No matter how carefully you search, no matter how much you expand your field of vision, you can only see the mechanical race.
The only ones that exist on this star map are the mechanical race.
And the human empire seems to be surrounded by endless machines.
Chen Ming had searched carefully just now, but he could not find any trace of other civilizations on this star map.
He didn't know whether it was because the mechanical race had no records, or whether the universe was really lonely and only humans had developed civilization.
He preferred to believe it was the latter.
Because although the machine race is a ferocious race, that ferocity is only aimed at humans.
Academically, it is believed that the Machine Tribe is targeting humanoids, because according to the remains of the Shining Civilization discovered by the Empire, the main species of the Shining Civilization are likely to be humanoids.
Moreover, the mechanical race has no special hatred for ordinary creatures. They can coexist with indigenous creatures on some habitable planets.
Although the mechanical race's own nanorobots will produce toxic substances when operating, the planet with the mechanical race colony will sooner or later become a planet that is extremely toxic to living things.
But they really don't deliberately target ordinary creatures.
Therefore, Chen Ming feels that there is a high probability that the machine race will not harm other creatures. In the universe, they are really the only civilization that exists.
Of course, afterglow next door is not yet considered civilized, and they are at risk of being captured by the empire at any time.
In short, countless star fields on this star map are occupied by the mechanical race.
The distance between some mechanical races is so far that they are unable to communicate with each other and can only have basic understanding of each other.
Even the distance between the nearest mechanical clan that provided reinforcements to the mechanical clan here exceeds the diameter of the area occupied by the entire empire.
The distance between the mechanical race and the mechanical race is still quite far.
It's just that after the number and coverage of the mechanical clan are enlarged to a certain scale, the power of the mechanical clan is really too huge compared to the empire.
This is just the observable universe.
In that deeper and darker universe, no one knows what is there.
The star map file was zoomed in and out, completely displaying the same mechanical clan in different places and the empire surrounded by numerous mechanical clans.
Everyone in the conference room became more silent as they watched.
If it were the old days, that would be fine.
But now, the empire has just begun to regain its pioneering spirit. If it wants to restart the pioneering era, heavy shackles and shackles have been put on the neck of the empire.
This is a heavy blow to any ambitious person.
"This is what I got from the Machine Tribe. You know what the Machine Tribe is like."
"If one machine race knows it, it means that all the machine race knows it."
"The mechanical race here has come to an end. You might as well guess whether they will do something? Maybe not long after..."
Luo Yi added for Chen Ming: "The machine tribe will unite and launch an extermination operation against the empire. With the way the machine tribe does things, I have no doubt that they will really do this."
"If such a large number of machines are unified... it will be a disaster for the empire."
"This is also a natural disaster, a natural disaster that threatens the empire more effectively than dimensional invasion."
Luo Yi glanced at An Wuping and suddenly felt relieved.
Fortunately, they still maintained a quite friendly relationship with An Wuping, and An Wuping did not lose his mind or his thoughts on life while getting along with the Zerg.
Otherwise, the empire may have to face a third natural disaster, and it is a natural disaster that is very close at hand.
Chen Ming glanced at everyone present: "I don't think anyone would say this is my problem, right?"
"Even if the machine clan has no intention of targeting me, their destructive core is there, and sooner or later it will lead to today's results."
"The Machine Tribe has already known about the Empire for a long time. If the Empire invades the Machine Tribe, it will certainly be counterattacked by the Machine Tribe."
"No one wants to cause trouble for me, right?"
"Of course not."
Luo Yi also knew that Chen Ming was disgusted by all kinds of people, so he immediately assured him.
Chen Ming nodded: "Okay, then this is what I have come to talk to you about today."
"That's it. If you don't understand any details, you can ask me now or later."
"If you want to quickly verify whether what I said is true or false, I also have a quick way."
"The meeting is dismissed."
(End of chapter)