Chapter 367 Scavengers
There is a wormhole in the galaxy selected by Chen Ming.
Whether it is a normal wormhole or a wormhole orbiting a star like now, it means that the galaxy named Origin is connected to a certain galaxy in the universe.
And another galaxy connected behind such a special wormhole is very likely to be an extremely special galaxy.
Chen Ming decided not to get close to the wormhole for the time being. Instead, let’s first see if other planets have similar problems hidden behind them.
The Supreme Point shut down all its non-essential devices, activated the galaxy-level sensors at full power, and conducted an ultra-powerful scan of the Origin Galaxy.
After scanning, Chen Ming did not find any problems with most of the planets in the galaxy.
Only the habitable planet and habitable satellite here have many wreckage of spacecraft in their orbit.
The wreckage of the mechanical race's spaceship.
After confirming that there was no sign of anything actively moving in the area where the debris gathered, the highest point slowly approached.
It was so close that Chen Ming could see the ship cemetery through the porthole with his naked eyes.
This cemetery looks strange because all the shipwrecks inside are mutilated.
Of course, the wreckage should be incomplete, but the missing parts of these spacecraft wreckage are surprisingly consistent.
All ships are missing two important components: their weapons system and main control system.
All the spaceships seemed to have been dug away by something.
On this basis, there are other deficiencies in the ship.
So that's weird.
Under normal circumstances, it is indeed possible for a spacecraft to lose its weapon system and main control system if it is sunk, but it is obviously wrong for all the spacecraft that sank here to lose these two parts.
Chen Ming immediately sent out several small boats to capture the wreckage of several spaceships and dragged them to near the highest point, and inspected the wreckage to find out what was going on.
However, no matter whether it was the wreckage that Chen Ming dragged to the highest point or all the wreckage in this cemetery, none of them had a master control system that survived.
None of the wrecks left any clues that could help him figure out how these ships sank here.
After all, the main control system is gone, along with other storage units and any devices that can leave any clues.
Even if Chen Ming wanted to restore the contents recorded in certain recording devices by repairing psychic powers, he would at least have to find the original devices.
He cannot use other materials to repair the lost storage units, and then recover the previous data from these things that are no different from newly manufactured things and have no stored content at all.
That's not relevant at all.
He couldn't find any clues either.
He had no idea how this ship cemetery was formed, nor did he know who the ships here had a conflict with that ultimately led to this outcome.
Looking at the angle marks of the damage to the ship here, Chen Ming even thought that this might be caused by the civil war among the mechanical tribe.
And he suddenly thought that there were some nanorobots reserved for defense in the ruins half a year ago, and they had the logic program to destroy the mechanical race.
Previously, Chen Ming thought that the nanorobot was damaged after being stored for a long time.
But look at the situation here.
In the entire cemetery, he only saw the wreckage of the mechanical race's ship. Only the mechanical race's spaceship was lost here. It seemed that there was indeed a possibility of civil war.
I just don’t know what kind of high-temperature weapons the machine clan used, which caused signs of melting on the wreckage of many ships.
Even some of the remains of battleships sunk here.
Chen Ming drove the spacecraft into the cemetery area and observed everything around him.
He suddenly discovered that the location of some of the wreckage in this cemetery seemed not right.
It doesn’t look like it was pulled into this state by the gravity of the planet below and nearby satellites
And as if some kind of behemoth passed through the wreckage, the positions of some spacecraft wreckage changed inappropriately.
Chen Ming carefully analyzed the data on the ship's wreckage trajectory that he had just obtained, and found that the wreckage area seemed to have been disturbed by some kind of huge external force.
It was a real behemoth, a behemoth that was larger than the warships of various levels suspended in the orbit of the planet, and even the wreckage of the capital ship.
The power possessed by such a being must be very terrifying.
However, Chen Ming did not feel scared or any other negative emotions.
Instead, he wanted to find some clues on these wreckage.
But no matter how Chen Ming searched or how he asked the spacecraft to scan, he could not find any traces of foreign objects on these wreckage.
He could only find traces of the wreckage itself and other items on the ship.
At most, this can only prove that a close battle broke out between these ships, but it cannot prove what kind of giant thing left such traces.
This actually further illustrates the possibility of civil war among the mechanical tribe.
There is no way to determine what exactly left such traces.
It can only be said that there are always many unknown things in the universe, making it impossible for people to figure out the reasons for their existence.
Chen Ming has no fear of the unknown, only curiosity.
However, just being curious is useless. Without clues, there is nothing you can do.
Then Chen Ming could only temporarily put aside his curiosity about the wreckage of these spaceships in orbit, and go to the planet first to see if there would be any new clues on the planet.
Chen Ming approached the atmosphere of the habitable planet below, and after passing through the atmosphere, he activated the sensor at the highest point again and scanned the planet.
In the scan results, Chen Ming found that there were a small number of traces of buildings just below the wreckage area.
The entire planet is basically covered by dense vegetation, and this construction area is no exception.
But most of the buildings have collapsed due to the growth of vegetation.
Only a large group of buildings that looked exactly the same on the outside still stood there.
Although a lot of vegetation has climbed up the walls of these buildings, at least these buildings have not collapsed so far.
After a simple and quick scan confirms there are no active objects and hazards.
Chen Ming let the highest point land nearby.
He put on his armor, and after getting off the boat, he approached the building complex alone.
In front of the building on the far side, Chen Ming saw simple closed rolling shutter doors.
He stretched out his hand to repair the already rusted rolling shutter door, and then opened the shutter door.
The light of stars shines into the interior of this building.
Chen Ming was able to see that the building was filled with metal plates of a uniform style that filled the entire interior space of the building.
These buildings are warehouses.
Chen Ming closed the rolling shutter door, then went to the building next door, repaired and opened a rolling shutter door as well.
The inside is the same, with the same metal plates piled up, but the material is different.
He continued walking towards the interior of the building complex, opened the doors of several warehouses at random, and found that each closed warehouse was filled with various metal materials.
They are also all neatly arranged metal plates of the same specifications, which seems to satisfy the obsessive-compulsive disorder.
And just as Chen Ming continued to open the doors of one warehouse after another.
A warehouse he opened suddenly sounded an alarm.
He immediately gave up the idea of entering the warehouse and braced himself for trouble and a fight.
However, after waiting outside for a few minutes, he still didn't see any threats or the warehouse's protective measures.
His danger-sensing psychic ability didn't move at all.
Chen Ming was a little confused.
However, this situation is not without explanation.
That is, the Alarm Link's defenses have been compromised over an endless period of time.
So Chen Ming temporarily put away his excessive vigilance and walked into the warehouse where the sound just sounded.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation of surprise.
"Turtle."
This warehouse is also filled with metal plates of the same specifications.
But it's more than that.
The materials of these metal plates are all special-grade metal. This is a warehouse full of special-grade materials.
The value it possesses may even be higher than the value of the resources Chen Ming's pioneering fleet spent all the way here.
At this moment, Chen Ming couldn't bear the urge to move.
However, he was still in no hurry to take action.
After all, he hasn't seen anything that might take these resources away so far.
And judging from the architectural style of these warehouses, they are definitely remnants of a shining civilization.
Chen Ming feels that there are two possibilities for the source of these warehouse materials.
One is that these resources are materials prepared in the early days when the Shining Civilization wanted to develop this area a long time ago.
Based on Chen Ming's understanding of the rich resources of Shining Civilization, this is not impossible.
Let’s combine this with the situation when Chen Ming obtained the coordinates of this galaxy.
That is to say, Chen Ming obtained the coordinates of this location from a satellite left by a shining civilization on Ruimu.
It shows that it is very likely that these resources are used in the development process of the planet and galaxy under Chen Ming's feet in the direction of Ruimu.
Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly thought.
The satellite he discovered back then should be regarded as the legacy of a shining civilization.
Although it was damaged, he could have tried to repair the satellite if it had been preserved to this day.
And since the satellite of Shining Civilization has determined the coordinates of the signal, it means that the signal it emits cannot be an ordinary signal, but a signal that can definitely exceed the speed of light.
Otherwise, when the signal slowly arrives, the development of the shining civilization may have been going on for hundreds of thousands of years.
This shows that the technical content of that satellite is also very terrifying.
This is a device that can be used at the border and outside the country.
The empire relies on super-light communication base stations for super-light communication. However, the satellite of Shining Civilization does not have any similar hanging device and relies on the signal transmission of the satellite itself.
So its value is definitely not low.
However.
Chen Ming dismantled the satellite and dismantled it into some basic materials.
Now those materials should have gone to heaven with the Iron Ore.
So... Chen Ming shook his head and put the past things out of his mind.
It is impossible that the Shining Civilization only left something on Ruimu.
There will definitely be better and more technologically advanced things waiting for him to find elsewhere.
As for now, Chen Ming believes that there is another possibility for the source of these materials in the warehouse of shining civilization.
It has something to do with the mining drones he discovered that are still in operation today.
Those mining drones have mined resources for countless years, and they have absolute reason and time to fill up all these warehouses.
The metal resources accumulated in these warehouses may be traces of all the exposed mineral resources that have been mined in this galaxy and neighboring galaxies over the years.
And this mining process continues today.
Of course, the real situation may be both what Chen Ming guessed.
And why he had such speculation.
It's because when you're close to the interior of these warehouse buildings.
Chen Ming found that some warehouses were still in relatively good condition.
Just like the warehouse where the alarm went off after Chen Ming opened it, it was one of the warehouses that was relatively well-preserved.
There are even some warehouse doors in these relatively well-preserved warehouses that definitely don't look like they were left over from ancient times.
Not only was there no rust, but there were signs of recent replacement and maintenance.
Only those warehouses that are completely full of space will show signs of rust.
These signs all told him that there was something maintaining the warehouses here, and materials were constantly being filled into these warehouses.
It’s just that no one is using these materials after they are filled up.
So after combining the automated mining robots he saw when he jumped to the next galaxy just now, he felt that these mining robots were maintaining these warehouses.
There is just one problem that Chen Ming is not sure about.
Those automatic mining robots are purely mining robots from a structural point of view and do not have any smelting function.
And he found no trace of the smelting factory nearby.
How were those ores transformed into these smelted metal plates?
He may also need to continue investigating nearby.
But these resources are real here.
Chen Ming had just decided that even if there was that weird wormhole in the galaxy, he planned to start colonizing it from here, and regard this as his first step in developing and building a colony.
He can definitely take advantage of these resources here.
Anyway, the alarm just now didn't seem to attract anything.
Even if he takes away all the resources, Shining Civilization will not rise from the grave to cause trouble for him.
etc.
Chen Ming suddenly realized something again.
If he had found a way to come here after confirming the coordinates, could he have directly used the resources here to start developing from scratch?
Could the empire have grown on its own even from a very early period?
Thinking about the amount of these resources, it seems that there is indeed such a possibility.
But if Chen Ming had come directly back then, his final result might have been depression.
His psychic abilities should not be at the level they are now.
It can only be said that the stronger he becomes, the more Chen Ming feels that he cannot escape from the concept of human beings.
After sighing for a moment, Chen Ming was ready to turn around and control the entire warehouse area in his palms.
Then use the warehouse as the basis to build the initial base area.
However.
Huihuang suddenly reminded Chen Ming that there was a sudden large-scale jump fluctuation in space.
And this transition fluctuation quickly stopped.
Chen Ming immediately walked out of the warehouse and raised his head.
A huge light source like a star appeared in the sky.
It seemed like a searchlight powerful enough to be used on a cosmic scale. It was also like a huge, bright eye, staring straight at the warehouse area from space and staring at him outside the warehouse.
Chen Ming suddenly felt bad.
I'm afraid it wasn't because he just opened the alarm in the warehouse where all special metal materials were stored.
He immediately switched his perspective to several battleships in space.
Then he discovered that what jumped into the orbit of the planet was not a huge light source or a searchlight.
But a giant mechanical body.
A huge mechanical body that pieced together thousands of capital ships and even larger numbers of battleships.
It is roughly in the shape of an irregular sphere as a whole, surrounded by a large number of tail-like structures that rely on gravitational fields, magnetism, or some special means.
It makes it look like the whole thing is not heavy at all, but unusually flexible.
It is like a mountain of garbage, but all the "garbage" it carries are things pulled from various warships.
Whether it's armor, weapons, engines or other structures, all can be seen from this giant mechanical body.
Make this thing not look like a nice thing.
And on its front, the structure that Chen Ming thought was a searchlight that emitted bright light just now was not really a searchlight on the mechanical body.
It was actually the grand light of a furnace.
At this moment, Chen Ming understood.
This mechanical body was what he had seen in orbit before, and it had smashed a track in the wreckage of the spacecraft.
It's no wonder that Chen Ming didn't find any external traces. There were only remnants of other spacecraft wrecks on the wreckage of the spacecraft.
Looking at this giant machine formed by countless mechanical warships, there certainly cannot be any other traces of foreign matter in the ruins.
And it's no wonder that Chen Ming noticed before that the structures of some ships showed signs of melting.
He thought it happened during the battle, and was still thinking about any weapons that could make some capital ships suffer high-temperature attacks.
He even doubted whether the damage was caused by the method used by the mechanical tribe to transmit star matter.
The result turned out to be this.
There is a huge furnace inside this mechanical body, and the high heat it emits affects part of the wreckage.
In addition, Chen Ming also noticed that around this giant machine, there were a large number of mining robots taking off and landing using it as a platform to store ore and transport the smelted metal plates to the planet below.
This mechanical body, which is hundreds and thousands of times larger than a capital ship, is the furnace of autonomous mining robots.
And just after receiving the warning, he returned to this galaxy.
But I don’t know why.
It did not attack directly.
Instead, after observing in space for a while, he suddenly sent a signal to Chen Ming's cruiser.
Chen Ming immediately tried several different ways to interpret this string of signals.
He soon discovered that it was a string of characters, written with the words of a shining civilization.
Chen Ming has also learned some brilliantly civilized languages in the past six months, so he was able to translate this sentence by himself.
The translated content asked Chen Ming to provide an identification code.
Sure enough, this is what is left over from the shining civilization.
Of course Chen Ming didn't have any authority, but he didn't need such authority.
This giant machine is a mechanical creation. As long as you can control it, you can do anything.
The metallic liquid appeared in Chen Ming's palm in an instant.
But before taking action, he suddenly hesitated.
Is this thing... considered a battleship...
Although this machine looks very powerful, it seems to be at a loss as the first battleship...
But this thing, which is a collection of robots or spaceships, is not compatible with Chen Ming's own power.
At least there will definitely not be a battleship based on the corpse of the phase beast leader, and it will be better to research and build it bit by bit.
And whether its real combat effectiveness will be as high as that of the battleship eventually built by Chen Ming is also a huge question.
Although body size and combat effectiveness are linked, they are not equated.
Moreover, the body of this thing should be just some kind of mechanical device, which is just mounted with the wreckage parts of many spaceships and even battleships. Although it looks very impressive, its actual combat effectiveness...
But when Chen Ming thought about it carefully, this mechanical body shouldn't be considered a battleship. After all, the battleship parts on it were all mounted on it, so it shouldn't count, right?
fine.
Chen Ming felt that he could just feel it carefully when going through the control process, and stop the control process if there was any problem.
It would not really allow him to control the first capital ship.
But having said that, Chen Ming still did not choose to directly control this giant machine.
It wasn't just that he thought about what he just thought about, but there was another reason.
Something suddenly occurred to him.
It was in the database where he obtained the remains of the resurrection mechanical liquid.
Chen Ming remembered that after he took control of the entire laboratory, he discovered a string of special identification codes that could be recognized by all defense facilities and all research facilities in the laboratory.
Although Chen Ming didn't know the meaning of this string of identification codes, maybe it would be effective if used in this place?
So Chen Ming made two preparations at this time.
He sent the identification code and prepared the metal liquid to be sent to the giant machine at any time.
He was prepared to take immediate action if there was a problem.
The giant mechanical body was quiet for a while, and then suddenly replied to Chen Ming with a message.
The translated content is: Permission authentication passed.
Does it really work?
Chen Ming was a little surprised, but after all, it was a laboratory that studied important things like resurrection mechanical fluid. It was normal that this string of identification codes had the authority to control the mechanical body in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, this giant machine completely handed over its authority to Chen Ming.
Chen Ming also learned its name from here.
【Scavenger Robot】
(End of chapter)