Chapter 366 Half a Year
Time flies.
After settling the boss's concern, half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past six months, everything was going on step by step. Chen Ming successfully learned the ship technology, biotechnology, combat command technology and various psychic knowledge.
The progress of the ongoing research project on transforming the corpse of the phase beast patriarch is also very gratifying.
The research team established by Chen Ming spent more than a month to completely understand the condition of the phase beast's corpse and have a sufficient understanding of the phase beast as a species.
And within the next three weeks, the processing of the corpse of the phase beast leader was completed.
Useless organs and tissues, such as the special digestive system used to digest the scarlet substance and supply the beast's energy, or the brain that had long since died and had been slightly damaged, were completely removed.
Different institutes were allocated according to their contributions in the early research process.
These things are of great value to research in other directions.
Useful organs and tissues, such as muscles, bones, and various organs that maintain the life of the phase beast, have regained some of their vitality under the influence of the Zerg ability, preventing it from completely decaying.
Although phase behemoths only exist in phase space under normal circumstances, there are no natural microorganisms in phase space.
However, due to the needs of research, the body of the phase beast leader needs to be brought back to the normal universe intermittently.
Therefore, it is natural that some microorganisms that may cause the body to decay will also be sent into the phase space.
The entire research site of the Phase Behemoth Clan Leader experiment is isolated from the outside world, so there is no need to worry about some microorganisms that can only be processed from the phase space causing trouble to the outside world.
However, internal matters must still be handled well.
Preservation is obviously the first priority.
There are some more important special organs on the clan leader's body, such as the long beards on the head and tail, and the lines on the body that will emit light when the giant beast uses its power.
Because these organs and tissues were studied during this period, it was judged to be an important source of power for the phase beast. And after the death of the patriarch, these organs that are the source of power are gradually losing their power.
Therefore, these special organs and tissues were specially preserved after being studied by the Psionics Research Institute, using the catalyst produced by the catalytic core that the Zerg and Chen Ming had also studied some time ago, and the psychic energy of a psyker.
And in subsequent tests, it was confirmed that these operations had ensured the integrity of the corpse's dimensional power.
This ensures that the phase power of the corpse can still be used later.
As for the scarlet power of the patriarch, after its death, it had been erased by the power of phase space and no longer existed.
The impact of this is not big. Anyway, in the end, Chen Ming will find a way to add some power to the ship.
The current progress of the capital ship project has only just completed the processing of the clan leader's body.
We have just begun the next step of testing the research direction of ship infrastructure construction.
At present, the general direction of these designs is ready.
The main control system is the earliest component that needs to be considered for the ship.
It is the basis for controlling all structures of the spacecraft, especially for capital ships whose scale is large to a certain extent, it is even more important.
The computing power of the main control is one of the most important indicators to consider in the main control system.
Compared with computers, the advantages of biological brains are extremely obvious here.
Therefore, the purely mechanized main control structure was not within Chen Ming's consideration at the beginning.
However, since Chen Ming discovered that the brain of the patriarch's corpse was damaged at the earliest stage, it was most likely that it was damaged after entering the scarlet dimension.
As a result, biological brains must be manufactured the day after tomorrow.
Whether it is relying on the empire's existing technology to create a biological brain or using the insect queen to create a biological brain, and conducting subsequent tests will take a long time.
It happened that during this period, some new changes occurred in Sample Zero.
It was Chen Ming who suddenly had a brain twitch one day and merged the "Machine Queen", the core of his personality that he placed in the mechanical colony to be responsible for managing the colony, with Sample Zero.
Sample Zero itself is half-mechanical and half-biological. It not only has the characteristics of an individual Zerg, but also has various characteristics of a mechanical unit.
Therefore, Chen Ming's whimsical experiment actually succeeded this time, allowing Sample Zero to "evolve", which had already begun to become special, different from ordinary Zerg, and even different from the Queen of Zerg.
It became a new "Insect Queen", the Insect Queen of the mechanical race, the real "Mechanical Queen".
It can control the power of the core of personality and help Chen Ming manage the robot race in a more flexible and "human" way, or "the humanity that Chen Ming needs".
At that time, Chen Ming felt that it was not impossible to change to a computer controlled by the mechanical queen.
Only after considering another key issue later.
Chen Ming still chose the biological brain,
This key issue is the signal transmission issue.
With the main control in place, the next issue in the design of the battleship is the problem of signal transmission lines.
This was also an important issue when capital ship technology was being developed.
When Chen Ming's ship was initially planned, he originally wanted to use mature line technology to build signal lines.
But soon, as he studied the corpse of the phase beast patriarch, Chen Ming discovered that the phase beast's own nerve signal transmission efficiency was higher than all currently known circuits.
In addition, Chen Ming himself has already solved the problem of converting pure electrical signals and bioelectrical signals.
Therefore, his battleship can completely use these nerves to act as signal transmission lines.
but.
Chen Ming discovered a way to transmit signals faster.
That is, the Zerg nerves that have been strengthened by the insect queen after absorbing the genes of the clan leader have faster bioelectrical signal transmission speed.
It's enough to replace the clan leader's nerves.
It's just that the nerves possessed by the clan leader are definitely the most suitable for his body. It may not be a suitable choice to exchange a little improvement for a decrease in adaptability.
At that time, almost all the researchers involved in the research at Chen Ming's institute were quarreling over these two choices.
In the end, Chen Ming made the decision to use Zerg to solve the problem of nerves or signal lines.
Under normal circumstances, if Chen Ming does this, he will definitely be criticized by those who support using the patriarch’s original nerve.
But in the end, everyone agreed with Chen Ming without any objection.
Because the Zerg can improve the already fast signal transmission efficiency to an extent that can no longer be improved.
That's using the hive mind.
The existence of the hive mind allows the signal to be completely synchronized during transmission, without the need for a transmission process at all.
It is precisely because of this situation of the Zerg.
Even after Chen Ming fused Sample Zero with the Mechanical Queen, allowing the Mechanical Race to have a real Mechanical Queen, they could still use hive thinking to eliminate the signal transmission process.
But at present, neither Imperial nor Chen Ming has developed a signal circuit that is comparable to biological nerves.
Therefore, given the option of adaptation, the ship's main control system finally chose the insect brain, and the signal line also chose the nerves made by the insect queen.
Although the signal transmission within the ship can rely on the hive mind, some less important places can still use the queen nerves.
This is the current development progress of capital ships.
This alone has taken Chen Ming half a year.
After that, there are many problems such as energy sources, engines, armors, weapons, etc. waiting for him to deal with.
Thinking about it gave Chen Ming a headache and excitement.
He honestly hasn't found anything challenging to do in a while.
In terms of research, spiritual energy can only play a supporting role in this kind of research. It is simply something that allows him to devote himself to it and makes him feel that his life is extremely fulfilling.
The research on capital ships will definitely take a long time.
However, Chen Ming was not only busy with the battleship matters.
In addition to the progress on the ship, he has also made considerable progress in his own abilities.
His power has been completely integrated, and during this period he has been continuously gaining power from scarlet through contact with the scarlet dimension.
Just looking at the strength of his power, his psychic strength has more than doubled compared to before.
But he looked less and less like a psyker.
Because in normal times, he restrained himself even more and didn't show any signs of it.
He no longer needs to show his power in the empire, and no one will provoke him.
Except when it is necessary to use psychic powers, such as when his project needs to test some psychic technologies that can be used on capital ships.
Other times others don't even know he's a psyker.
It's past his time to shine.
He needs to calm down.
In addition, since his prosthetic ability has been exposed, it doesn't make any sense to him whether or not he wears prostheses. He no longer needs more prostheses to cover up.
So he replaced all the prostheses, except An Wuping, with robots.
Only one body with the appearance of a normal human being, which was created before and was constantly changing during this period, was left to act outside.
Doing so can also weaken the impression that Chen Ming relied on An Wuping to create the bioprosthesis.
Eliminate the extremely small possibility that other people might connect An Wuping with himself because of these prostheses.
besides.
There are other things going on during this half year.
Since the combat effectiveness of the mechanical race has completely collapsed, the empire has been extremely successful in the war.
Chen Ming has heard many battle results talked about by civilians at different times and places.
And things related to psykers are increasingly exposed from the perspective of ordinary people.
With a lot of paving the way made by the empire in the past, as well as the current advantages in the war between the empire and the machine race, it has inspired the people of the empire.
The presence of psykers is really becoming integrated into the society of the Empire.
There are also negative situations.
Some places are extremely disgusted with the existence of psykers, and are quite unimpressed with the Empire's promotion of psykers.
It may be the legacy of some psychic crimes committed by psychics in the past or history.
But these are only a few after all.
It won't be long before psykers will truly appear in the public eye.
There is also good news.
It’s just that Chen Ming’s previous efforts to get rid of the Black Mist Zerg were not in vain.
After Chen Ming's extremely deliberate reminder, the empire really discovered signs of Zuojia's activities around some of its senior officials.
I began to pay attention to the existence of Zuojia again. Although the location of the real brainwashed psyker has not yet been investigated, the resurgence of Zuojia can be considered as an expectation.
This is no longer the period when the entire empire was like a backwater.
There is absolutely no way the empire would allow Zuo Jing to come out and cause trouble at a critical moment.
Of course, there have been bad things in the past six months.
These are the two natural disasters that Chen Ming said may come in the future.
The situation of the Mechanical Tribe cannot be determined for the time being, but the space gap within the Mechanical Tribe's star domain does indeed exist.
Although the gap leading to the three dimensions is already under the surveillance of the Empire, the gap may collapse at any time.
Therefore, Chen Ming's current project related to the phase space of the phase beast can be regarded as a key project of the empire.
Even though the relationship between the empire and him is currently a bit delicate, the empire still gave Chen Ming the green light in all aspects.
After all, other results brought about by this research process can also be applied to aspects related to dimension gaps.
In addition to funding Chen Ming's research, the empire has indeed been working hard on research in this area.
Try to do what Bai Quanqian and Chen Ming offered, sending the entire empire into phase space to avoid the impression of the sequelae caused by the invasion of the scarlet dimension.
However, regarding this matter, Chen Ming still had the strange feeling that he couldn't explain before, which made him somewhat resistant to sending the Zerg into the phase space to develop.
There is nothing to elaborate on.
In addition, the empire is also trying to send out enough reconnaissance fleets that may never return, trying to confirm the movements of the mechanical tribe outside.
But this may be a project that takes longer than Chen Ming’s.
In the past six months, there were only a few things that Chen Ming could remember.
And today.
Chen Ming just received a new piece of good news.
That is, his pioneering fleet made six more jumps in half a year, bringing the total number of jumps to thirteen.
It can only be said that after the Zerg joined, the efficiency of development and transition has made a qualitative leap.
And the next jump, the fourteenth jump, which is a jump that is enough to jump to the position that Chen Ming set three years ago, can start today, at this moment.
Chen Ming returned directly to the pioneering fleet.
He boarded the highest point on the ship that he had not returned to for some time because he was busy with the capital ship.
Because Chen Ming arranged the location of the battleship laboratory at the headquarters, Chaofan was also taken to the headquarters by Chen Ming.
So only glory awaits him at the highest point.
"Let's get started."
Without further ado, Chen Ming came to the captain's room and gave orders to Hui Hui.
After receiving Chen Ming's order, Huihuang prioritized dispatching the first batch of reconnaissance fleets towards the destination of this jump.
After getting the result that the jump landing is not dangerous.
A small fleet carrying basic construction materials followed the Supreme Point, resonated with the Supreme Point's engine, and began the official jump.
Of course, neither this time nor the jump just detected was a direct jump to Chen Ming's destination planet.
Because Chen Ming originally obtained the coordinates of this location from the Machine Tribe.
God knows if there will be trouble from the mechanical tribe waiting for him at his destination.
Even though the star map Chen Ming got from the Machine Tribe showed that there was no Machine Tribe near this area, and the Machine Tribe might not be able to defeat him, he still needed to be prepared.
Caution is most important.
Therefore, the destination of this jump was determined by Chen Ming to be a nearby galaxy that was some distance away from the real target, and no obvious problems were found in thousands of astronomical optical observations.
The jump ends quickly.
The landing point of the jump is still some distance outside the nearby galaxy, and this is also done to ensure safety.
After confirming again that there was no danger nearby, Chen Ming drove the highest point and flew towards the interior of the galaxy.
After approaching the outermost planet of the galaxy.
Chen Ming activated the galaxy-level sensor at the highest point and launched a scan of the galaxy.
He did not discover the existence of the mechanical race in the galaxy.
I did find some interesting things.
There are several moving objects in the galaxy.
And there is an unknown space signal fluctuation in a distant place outside the galaxy.
According to Chen Ming's understanding of the mechanical race, the things in the galaxy are definitely not of the mechanical race.
The direction of the fluctuation of the space signal outside the galaxy is exactly the galaxy where Chen Ming's real target for this jump is.
Chen Ming did not rush to the next galaxy immediately. Instead, he increased the power in this galaxy and scanned the details of the objects moving in the galaxy.
And the results of the scan.
The objects operating in the galaxy are all the product of a combination of some kind of spaceship and engineering equipment, and should be some kind of drone.
Chen Ming even felt that these drones looked familiar, because most of the equipment they were equipped with were mining-related equipment, but they were more advanced and automated.
Probably some kind of mining drone.
Judging from what Chen Ming scanned at this time, they seem to have been wandering inside the galaxy.
Mining minerals in the asteroid belt within the galaxy, and some exposed minerals on the surface of planets without high-risk environments.
This should be a mineral mining machine left behind by the Shining Civilization, which is still operating today.
Judging from the results of the planet scan just now, almost every planet has a large number of open-pit mineral resources, as well as a large number of traces of being mined by something.
Apparently, these mining drones did this.
And this galaxy is a galaxy that is extremely rich in mineral resources that have been mined by robots left over from the era of shining civilization and are still not completely mined today.
Chen Ming immediately captured a mining drone, and after controlling it with psychic energy, he confirmed the place where these mining drones would return after collecting enough resources.
It is also the location next door that Chen Ming decided on more than three years ago.
Chen Ming no longer hesitated.
Let the Supreme Point start the jump engine again and go to the galaxy named ZI-X.
Generally speaking, only colonized galaxies will have unique names rather than code names, and the earliest colonists have the qualifications to name galaxies and planets.
Of course, Chen Ming's naming of such a galaxy that is extremely far away from the empire does not require the empire's approval.
So Chen Ming directly named this galaxy when he saw it.
Origin Galaxy.
The reason why Chen Ming named it directly was because at the moment the jump ended, a huge galaxy with eight planets and three satellites appeared in his eyes.
Although Chen Ming knew from previous observations that this destination had multiple planets and satellites.
But it wasn't until he actually came here that he understood the specific conditions of these planets and their value.
This is a perfect galaxy.
Starting close to the star and working from the inside out.
They are two volcanic planets with a large amount of valuable mineral resources that can be seen from outside the planet. They can not only serve as military planets, but also use the high heat of the planet itself to become a specialized smelting planet.
Outside, there are habitable planets with habitable satellites one after another. The value of such habitable twin galaxies is self-evident.
Then there are two ordinary terrestrial planets. Although they are ordinary, they are relative to other planets.
The two planets themselves also have a certain level of resources.
Moreover, the two planets themselves are relatively large in size, and the planet itself is also a type of resource.
Further out, there is a gas giant planet and an ice giant planet, which have extremely rich gas resources.
The gas giant even has two moons.
Both satellites are wrapped in a thick atmosphere, but the surprising results of the scans showed that the planet has many special pore-like structures.
These two satellites can produce a lot of high-quality gaseous resources.
The outermost one is an ice planet that looks equally ordinary, with nothing special about it.
However, according to Chen Ming's scanning results at this time, there is an ecosystem on this planet.
These creatures living in extreme cold have considerable research value.
This is a perfect galaxy.
A self-sufficient, perfect capital galaxy.
According to the classification of galaxy levels that Chen Ming once learned about.
This galaxy is definitely a Category 6 galaxy.
but.
There is a very serious question before Chen Ming.
That is, there is a wormhole in this galaxy until the orbit of the habitable binary galaxy corresponds to the stars.
And it is still moving around the star like an ordinary planet.
"This...should be considered a wonder galaxy..."
Huihuang replied: "According to the standards of the Human Empire, yes."
Wonderful galaxy.
Chen Ming had known it before.
It is defined as strange phenomena in the universe that cannot be explained by current technology, which are collectively referred to as wonders of the universe.
Since its existence cannot be denied and the reason for its existence cannot be understood, it can only be called a spectacle.
And wonder galaxies are galaxies where such wonders of the universe exist.
There used to be a Harmony Company that had some relationship with its boss. Their plant plant research institute was located in a galaxy whose stars had no ultraviolet light. It was a galaxy of wonders.
At first, Chen Ming felt that there was something wrong with the existence of such a thing, but when he thought carefully about it, he had never seen any psychic energy before, and a star without ultraviolet light was not unacceptable.
The current wormhole that is cyclically moving around a star is obviously a wonder of the universe.
(End of chapter)