Chapter 369 Darkness
Chen Ming, the wormhole locking device, is ready at this moment.
After locking the precise coordinates of the wormhole and determining the fluctuation value of the surrounding space disturbance.
He released the locking device.
Six devices with prismatic structures flew out from the highest point and flew to different locations near the wormhole in the distance.
By connecting them together, they can form a regular octahedron to surround the wormhole.
However, what can be seen at this time does not have any fancy lights or any new changes that can be confirmed with the naked eye.
It can only be confirmed that the locking device is operating normally through the signal received from the sensor.
Chen Ming's expression was a little tense.
Because this locking device will definitely have a considerable impact on the other side of the wormhole when it is activated, and it will definitely be detectable.
If there is something on the other side of the wormhole, it will definitely come and stop Chen Ming's behavior at this time.
Suddenly, the spatial fluctuation data received by the apogee sensor were briefly disrupted.
Just when Chen Ming's expression was extremely tense, he was ready to take action at any time to prevent unknown dangers.
The spatial fluctuations suddenly calmed down again.
And nothing has changed since then.
In this way, the locking device completed a successful operation.
Chen Ming's worries seemed unnecessary in the end.
After confirming that the wormhole locking device is stable and temporarily blocking out any unknown dangers that may exist behind the wormhole.
He drove to the highest point and turned around and returned to the orbit of the habitable planet.
Continue the business he came to this galaxy to do, colonize the planet.
What he wants to do this time is no longer to build a temporary stronghold, but to build a complete colony in the true sense.
And before that.
Chen Ming plans to name this habitable planet first.
After he had already named the galaxy Siyuan, the habitable planet should have been called Siyuan-3.
The two volcanic planets inside are named Siyuan-1 and Siyuan-2 according to their distance from the star.
However, this is still a livable planet, and the climate conditions are very suitable for human habitation, so Chen Ming still plans to give it a good name.
After thinking about it, Chen Ming finally chose an older but more classic name, Gaia.
He didn't think much about Gaia's habitable satellite and just called it Gaia-1.
The other planets in the galaxy are based on Siyuan-4, Siyuan-5 and so on.
Only those planets with special value and special meaning he wanted to name carefully,
On that planet Gaia, Chen Ming's first colony will be established.
The requirements and needs of Chen Ming's colonies are obviously different from those of ordinary colonies.
There will be and need people in the empire's colonies, and they will be all kinds of people.
Therefore, if the empire discovers this place, it will definitely build up government departments first, complete administrative positions and various colonial infrastructures.
Then, with the government as the center, a comprehensive colonial city began to be gradually expanded.
Finally, different specialized colonies were expanded to the surrounding star systems and began to supply resources to the earliest comprehensive colony, which was the capital of a star field.
But Chen Ming does not need to go through such a process.
He has the brilliance to manage administrative positions, and the entire computer room of the government department that can install the afterglow core is enough.
He also doesn't need so many meaningless complexes that are meant to create jobs.
He just needed a colony that would suit his needs.
Specifically and precisely.
He needed a scientific research center that could meet all his research needs, not a laboratory where important equipment had to be rented.
He wanted a colony and planet focused on scientific research.
This is what his first colony was trying to achieve.
After all, there is no point in researching alone, and communication is also the basis for progress.
Therefore, there would definitely be not only him in such a colony, but also other researchers.
Each of these researchers will be personally invited or approved by Chen Ming.
To put it simply, if any researcher Chen Ming heard of had skills, he would directly poach the empire.
Then we call it euphemistically, exchange and learning.
So the infrastructure that the planet should have must be there, it just doesn’t need too much infrastructure.
Chen Ming couldn't just go over and invite them with a dry scientific research center, right?
The supporting facilities and various modern entertainment facilities must keep up.
But what is different from the situation in the Empire is that the Empire needs to consider the population explosion in the space age, so it needs people to come to work in these places.
Chen Ming does not need to consider this issue. He can directly let Afterglow Core manage these things openly.
He has been preparing for this for a long time and he is going to realize his idea starting today.
The highest point soon returned to the sky above the planet Gaia.
Chen Ming's psychic energy acted on Gaia's orbit, transporting the star gate that Chen Ming had taken away from the mechanical clan half a year ago and had been adapted for use to the orbit.
The stargate unfolded in orbit and gradually fixed itself in place.
The other star gate Chen Ming has on hand is located at the temporary stronghold left by his pioneering fleet during the seventh jump.
In the earliest times, starting with the third jump of the pioneering fleet.
Every time Chen Ming jumps, he will demolish the stronghold of the earliest jump.
Because he does not have enough resources to support it, nor does he have enough afterglow to manage so many strongholds.
But starting from the seventh time, that is, the time when he was forced to jump because of the machine race.
Chen Ming's situation is different. He is no longer limited by the resources of the stronghold.
So starting from that jump, all temporary strongholds behind can be left behind.
The Zerg that sailed with the pioneering fleet and expanded outward from these temporary strongholds could gather all the valuable materials mined during their expansion into the strongholds.
It goes without saying that the benefits of centralized management go without saying.
Not only is it convenient for Chen Ming to directly use psychic energy.
Moreover, when a situation arises that requires large-scale calls without relying on psychic energy, it is also easy to start the transfer.
Like it is now.
One of the two star gates was erected in the orbit of the planet Gaia, which Chen Ming was about to develop and needed a lot of resources.
Another star gate was erected at the seventh jump stronghold filled with resources mined by the Zerg.
This is the plan laid out by Chen Ming.
The star gate is fully expanded.
The high-efficiency energy crystals transmitted together with the star gate are also converted into energy that supplies the star gate through the conversion device.
The star gate is slowly starting up, opening a layer of mirror within the star gate frame.
Without any external interference, the mirror surface quickly solidified completely.
A Zerg battleship emerged from the mirror. What followed were more Zerg battleships of the same model.
They are all Hercules-B-class biological cargo ships that the Zerg have built in the past six months.
It is the result of various improvements and modifications from the mechanical race mothership that was assimilated by the insect queen.
Of course, Chen Ming still used spiritual energy to block his control of these Zerg battleships.
It's not that Zerg warships can't work.
The transportation and loading capabilities of the Hercules-B class are no worse than the Astra class, the capital ship class cargo ship that the Empire also has.
Even the Hercules-B class can use the characteristics of the Zerg flesh to efficiently transport cargo in conjunction with the cargo structure of the port, and create a dedicated separate isolation layer in the internal storage cavity according to the size of the cargo to maximize the carrying capacity of the cargo. quantity.
And the Zerg can not only have one model of Hercules-B class.
More than one cargo variant of the Hercules class, to be precise.
Of course, Chen Ming would consider different uses when asking the insect queen to modify the capital ship.
The combat effectiveness of the combat model Hercules-A is definitely not bad among ships of the same class.
The reason why Chen Ming did not directly control the Zerg battleship was to avoid taking the position of the first battleship he controlled.
His choice was made.
And these capital ships are only used to transport resources.
Transportation supplies resources for subsequent operations of the stargate and colonial construction.
Chen Ming's plan is very clear.
His psychic energy is only responsible for providing the first batch of initial energy, and is only used to supply the first activation of the star gate.
After that, the transportation of materials will be completely handed over to the Zerg and Stargate.
He had said long ago that he wanted to create a colony that could continue to function without him.
Now it seems that at least he has successfully taken the first step.
At least with the arrival of this batch of Zerg main-class cargo ships, his colony will no longer have a problem with the material consumption of activating the star gate.
And when all the first batch of Zerg motherships entered the galaxy and began to transport supplies to the planet, the star gate continued to operate.
The star gate will not be temporarily closed until all materials for the temporary base on the 7th are transported.
And later when Chen Ming teleported the star gate to stronghold No. 8 and restarted it.
Until all the mountains of materials from all the pioneering bases are transported to Gaia.
And at the same time.
The subsequent pioneering fleet also jumped to the Origin System after the reconnaissance force in front confirmed the safety of the system.
The resources are there, the labor force is there, and the command is already there.
Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about the rest.
He handed over the task to Brilliance and turned around to study a problem that he would have to face sooner or later.
Wormhole.
If the wormhole is objectively there, then Chen Ming cannot regard it as nothing.
Sooner or later he had to figure out what was behind the wormhole.
If that's not the break point, just start trying to explore the wormhole now.
The empire has the ability to seize the singularity at the core of the wormhole and use it to create it. Of course, it also has the technology to explore the wormhole.
Of course, Chen Ming also mastered these when learning the technologies related to the Star Gate.
If you want to explore a wormhole, you have to go through it.
This process requires confronting the power of wormholes to distort space.
This force cannot be blocked by ordinary battleships. The spacecraft needs to be equipped with a space stabilizing device similar to the single locking device he just used on the wormhole.
As long as the force of natural wormholes that distort space can be stabilized, one can pass through the wormhole safely.
Alternatively, it is not impossible to rely on the sheer strength of the ship itself.
At least there have been examples of this being done successfully.
When Chen Ming heard the news, he immediately guessed which ship had this ability.
Obviously, it is a specially modified offensive level of the Fourteenth Legion.
The strength of the protection against the influence of wormholes is not a problem.
Of course, Chen Ming is not ready to do this. Although he has not prepared anything specifically to deal with wormholes before, it is almost enough to prepare from scratch in the time it takes to deal with scavengers and prepare resources for colony construction.
Chen Ming has obtained the space stabilization device through the empire and has installed it on three cruisers.
One Supreme Ship he drove, and two Stardust ships he controlled.
He wants to go through the wormhole himself and go to the other end of the wormhole.
There is no particular reason, I just want to.
In the past, Chen Ming was very afraid of death because he often missed many interesting things.
Now that he finally has the ability and is no longer afraid of death, of course he has to experience many scenes in person that he could not experience before.
Just like now.
The three cruisers soon arrived in front of the wormhole again.
The locking device surrounding the wormhole is one-way locking and does not affect the passage of this section of the wormhole.
Although it would indeed be a bit troublesome to come back through the wormhole, Chen Ming felt that he didn't need to go through this wormhole to come back.
He just needs this wormhole to help him get through.
Chen Ming was mentally prepared as well as physically prepared.
The space stabilization device was activated and entered the spiral wormhole like a miniature nebula.
The space force of the wormhole tore at his spacecraft, but it was all offset by the space stabilization device, leaving Chen Ming's body unaffected except for a slight nausea.
But think about it from another angle. The power of the wormhole can make Chen Ming's current body feel slightly nauseated. So the effect will be obvious to ordinary people.
Therefore, in Chen Ming's impression, those who go through the wormhole to investigate what is behind the wormhole are usually soldiers who have undergone hard training, or scientists who have to investigate despite such a serious reaction.
Chen Ming was waiting silently while thinking about what he had and what he didn't.
While waiting.
Chen Ming's danger-sensing psychic ability, which had been silent for a long time, finally started to move.
He felt that a danger that completely enveloped him and a sharp danger appeared in his perception at the same time.
He immediately cheered up and looked at the readings returned from the highest point.
It was discovered that the coordinates of the wormhole landing point calculated by the spacecraft computer were shifting due to a strange gravitational force.
Chen Ming didn't know what was going on, but he was ready to face the danger.
And the moment three spaceships passed through the wormhole.
A world so dark that it seemed as if all light had been swallowed appeared in Chen Ming's eyes.
No, this is not a dark world.
This is a black hole that appears outside the wormhole.
Appeared in front of Chen Ming.
(End of chapter)