Chapter 371 Borrowing
Chen Ming's idea is very clear.
But the problem is also obvious, how to deal with this monster?
What has been determined so far is that the monster stuck in the black hole is a psychic species and has a tangible entity that can be contacted.
But it is not necessarily a living thing, and it does not necessarily have the life-support organs of a normal creature. This means that Chen Ming is still unclear about its fatal weakness.
Moreover, a monster of this size cannot be defeated by any means.
Even if you know the weakness, you may not be able to use it to kill it.
Chen Ming has just tried the effect of ordinary weapons. All he can say is that ships below the level of capital ships should not even look at it. It has no meaning other than giving it away for free, and it has no meaning even as cannon fodder to attract firepower.
In fact, the expulsion guard could have been used as cannon fodder, especially since Chen Ming did not find that the monster had any long-distance attack methods other than launching a gravity psychic beam from its mouth.
Arranging more small ships in the fleet can help the larger ships attract some of the firepower.
However, environmental constraints make this idea not so applicable.
The huge gravitational environment and the gravitational spirit controlled by the monster will cause any spacecraft without sufficient strength to be destroyed in a single encounter.
The boat had no part in it.
Even the Stardust that Chen Ming is most accustomed to and has the strongest combat effectiveness cannot be regarded as effective combat effectiveness.
You can only use other spaceships to participate in the subsequent battles.
The Zerg, the most powerful Zerg currently on hand at Chen Ming's disposal, will also be limited due to environmental conditions.
Because the Zerg fleet has a large number of carrier-based aircraft, which are Zerg flying units, their condition in the black hole horizon is obviously not very good.
Even if the Zerg itself is physically stronger and has the spiritual support of the Zerg Queen, its performance once it gets really close to the black hole is at best better than the Meteor fighter plane, which is designed to self-destruct.
However, there is another method that Chen Ming has not tried yet, which is to use phase space to fight monsters in black holes.
The power of phase space is also very important.
He can launch another wave of tentative attacks to see if the monster can effectively counter the power of the phase.
But this can wait a little longer, launching an attack just for one target is a bit unprofitable.
Chen Ming wanted to find out more than just whether the phase attack method was effective.
He also wanted to figure out what kind of weapon could cause absolutely effective damage to it.
At present, it seems that the tachyon spear's method of stimulating high-energy particles to launch an attack is very unclear.
However, the actual effects of energy restraint bullets and high-energy lasers, which are also classified as energy weapons, have not been tested.
There are also live ammunition type weapons, chemical type weapons and explosive type weapons that have not been tried.
We all have to take turns,
It just so happens that this monster's attack method is very single, and its body is restricted to the black hole and cannot move. It is simply the best target.
He is not in a hurry and will completely modify the Zerg battleship before the next experiment begins.
Reduce the number of small Zerg units carried.
And install different types of weapons on different Zerg capital ships.
And since the Zerg's main ship was modified from the machine's mothership, its own main-level weapons operate according to the spine cannon mode.
It relies on the incremental increase of energy to produce the final effect of flying bricks.
It is actually not too suitable for the Zerg warship, but it happened to be convenient for Chen Ming to modify it at this time.
Although using such a ship to fight that monster may cause some losses, it is compared to the results that can be gained in this process.
And the spacecraft that had been pierced into the monster's body for tens of thousands of years and had withstood the tearing of the black hole's gravity for tens of thousands of years, but still maintained its overall structure intact.
He can completely accept this loss.
etc.
Speaking of this spaceship, Chen Ming suddenly realized something.
The spaceship pierced into the monster's body, as if it was just relying on the strength of the hull.
Although the sturdiness of this shining civilization's spaceship is a little high, it also means that this monster may not be very resistant to sharp-edged live ammunition.
Chen Ming knew a lot about this type of weapon, such as the very common Storm Needle, or the live-ammunition spine cannon head of the mechanical race.
Even some ship-borne spike bombs fired by Zerg warships made of Zerg horn can be regarded as this type of weapon.
Judging from the arthropod near the spacecraft that had lost signs of movement, it was most likely the limb that was destroyed before the Shining Civilization spacecraft penetrated.
So this monster definitely has a weakness and can definitely be killed.
He might be able to start directly with the ship and the dead limb.
Use this spaceship to confirm how the Shining Civilization made that limb lose its vitality.
Later, when arranging the weapons of the Zerg battleships, he can mainly focus in this direction.
It would be even better if the monster could be killed directly during the test.
And Chen Ming felt that he could also change his plan slightly, instead of giving priority to killing the monsters and then capturing the spaceship.
Instead, we should first find a way to pull out the ship, and then consider solving the problem of the monster itself.
Of course, you still have to fight when you need to fight, and you still have to do the tests that need to be done.
Anyway, he is still not afraid of any loss as always, but he doesn't need to make some insignificant losses.
Therefore, if there is a follow-up battle, Chen Ming's plan is to only use Zerg troops.
Although the scavenger seemed to be able to give the monster a fight, Chen Ming still had the same idea as before and did not intend to let it go on the battlefield.
The value of what it possesses is far higher than the value of its participation in the battle.
Moreover, the scavengers are not psychic machines. To fight this kind of battle with psychic powers, we still have to rely on the Zerg who also have psychic powers.
In fact, Chen Ming has a new idea.
It’s just the idea of creating new Zerg individuals by purely accumulating body shapes.
It's just that its feasibility, rationality, and the strength of the biological and physiological structure of such a size cannot be solved in a short time.
You can try it later.
Now, let’s honestly call over the Zerg’s battleship, Hercules-A.
The scale of this tentative battle will only be 100 battleships.
Chen Ming silently thought about the number of capital ships that might make the empire feel numb.
He can indeed have such a large number of battleships, and he can also produce far more battleships than this number.
It can only be said that this is the power of the Zerg.
When Chen Ming completely mastered the technology of the battleship and mastered the technology of allowing the Zerg to build the battleship, it was no longer possible for anyone to threaten him, not even anyone.
After all, no one knows how many Zerg nests are desperately expanding in the endless universe.
No one knows how many Zerg fleets are standing behind Chen Ming.
Anyway, from the number of Zerg cruisers that appeared before, we can know that there will definitely be no shortage.
Chen Ming knew that there seemed to be several discussions about him in the empire, to be precise, about him and An Wuping.
After all, a powerful psyker empire has many ways to deal with it, but if a powerful psyker's psychic power has an endless fleet, then the empire has no effective way to counter it.
The only way to deal with this situation is to eradicate it early.
The empire would either suppress Chen Ming from the earliest days and deny Chen Ming a chance to grow.
Either assassinate Chen Ming before Chen Ming completely grows to the point where he cannot be solved, that is, before he masters the means of manufacturing the capital ship.
In fact, a long time ago, when Chen Ming was just taken away by Yu Hui, the empire had such an arrangement.
If Chen Ming stays in the empire, a lot of things will definitely happen later.
But there happened to be a major general who was not fully prepared. For some more personal reasons, Chen Ming finally left the empire alive and spent his weakest and most dangerous period with Yuhui.
Let Chen Ming temporarily grow to the point where he cannot be easily solved.
When the cooperation between Chen Ming and Bai Quan started later, he had Bai Quan as a guarantee, and he stayed in the laboratory every day to do research. He never left the door or took a step forward, so no one could get in touch with him.
Except for Zuo Jing's infiltration by a brainwashing psychic, Chen Ming couldn't be reached by any other means.
Even if there is contact, what remains in the branch is not Chen Ming himself, but his prosthesis.
After going back and forth like this, Chen Ming got to know more and more people, and his abilities became stronger and stronger, making it increasingly difficult to move him.
Gradually, Chen Ming finally no longer needed to rely on his body to survive, but relied on his consciousness to survive.
When Chen Ming captured the machine clan's mothership, it was the last chance to kill him.
As long as you can realize that Chen Ming and An Wuping are the same person, after killing all of Chen Ming's prostheses including An Wuping, killing all the Zerg that still have traces of them, and killing the queen of insects, you can also kill all Chen Ming and An Wuping. Of course, Chen Ming will die if he controls the machine race.
However, no one could seize this opportunity and could only watch Chen Ming continue to grow.
Nowadays, the combat capabilities of Chen Ming and An Wuping, who are closely related to the Zerg lair, may even overturn the imperial regime on their own.
The Empire never had a chance to change the situation.
These things were all discovered by Chen Ming himself.
But he didn't say anything, and he didn't bother to let An Wuping say anything.
But some smart people in the empire seemed to have thought of this. Minister Lu Han of the Psyker Population Management Department, who had had conflicts with An Wuping before, seemed to have resigned.
Incidentally, Chen Ming also saw that the backward web page of the psychic census website was rebuilt and optimized into a comfortable interactive page.
It's also gratifying.
It successfully alleviated Chen Ming's feeling of being disgusted by the crude page when he first used it.
In short, the Empire has no objections to what will happen next.
Chen Ming also continued to get along with the empire in this strange way.
As long as no one comes to cause trouble, as long as no one comes to disgust him, he has no intention of changing the status quo.
He never felt that he was a genius who could do anything well. At best, he could only do well in the areas he liked and was interested in.
He was so full that he could do things like overturning the empire and taking turns among emperors, but he didn't have the time to spare.
Moreover, although the human empire is called an empire, it is not an imperial system, but a relatively abstract democratic system.
Because the empire had a history of war in its early stages.
At that time, there was a man who unified the war-torn earth and proclaimed himself emperor after the unification, and the unified country became the human empire.
This perverse behavior was of course put to an end soon after.
But because of this, civil war may break out again at any time.
So just like how the empire now transfers its conflicts to the outside world, a nominally democratic system that gathered military power was born.
The ruling class's approach is to use the assembled military power to expand and transfer internal contradictions to external contradictions. This can also be regarded as one of the causes of the last pioneering era. And in the end, power is just a type of power. In this world where individuals transcend group power, power is really not an important thing, at least to Chen Ming.
So Chen Ming didn't care what the empire was like or what political system it was.
He only cares about himself and the people around him, nothing else matters.
Of course, his "so-called" can also include some things that are helpful to what he wants to do.
Such as rapidly developing technology and so on.
Therefore, war is definitely not what he wants to see.
Only internally stable peace and externally controllable war can enable a country to develop rapidly.
Chen Ming patted his head and shook off these random thoughts that started to occur to him again.
He would continue to explain his requirements to the insect queen and dispatch enough modified capital ships.
However, due to the limitations of Chen Ming's current psychic state, he cannot directly use his psychic powers to assist in controlling the battleship.
You can only use your own command skills to command the Zerg fleet, just like commanding the empire's army.
To put it simply, Chen Ming originally played a real-time strategy game when he controlled the Zerg fleet.
When the battleships are temporarily unable to be controlled, the real-time strategy game becomes a simulated military sandbox.
The difficulty is not on one level.
But after all, Chen Ming also learned the legion's college command skills from Bai Quan.
Nor will he become blind when his own spiritual power cannot be used due to some limitations.
He still has full fighting ability.
In addition, Chen Ming has another idea.
That's why he had to face trouble alone?
It's not like he's the only one who has a brain and can think of solutions.
Chen Ming turned around and returned to the research institute.
He ran to the Legion, the laboratory he rented with the Legion.
Of course, it is said to be a laboratory, but it is actually a colony on a satellite within a galaxy that is closed to the outside world and is close to the home galaxy.
After all, it involves phase beasts and capital ships, so of course a suitable experimental place is needed.
And in this laboratory.
Chen Ming also arranged for a place to be reserved for some important personnel currently involved in his capital ship project.
When he came back at this time, the director of the Psychic Research Institute and the Director of the Ship Research Institute happened to be resting here.
Both directors said hello to Chen Ming.
Seeing that Chen Ming had returned to the legion in person, the director of the Psychic Research Institute subconsciously asked: "Are you done with your work? Can you come back to work again?"
"Not yet, but more."
"What's wrong?"
Chen Ming was very prepared and took two sensor videos of the two Big Macs he encountered inside and outside the wormhole on the table in the room.
The scavenger robot and that monster in the black hole.
The two directors, who were resting and leaning somewhat idly on the sofa, immediately sat upright.
"What is this?"
"One is a giant robot left behind by the shining civilization, and the other is a suspected existence in the black hole dimension."
The director of the Naval Research Institute asked casually: "Can't you beat me?"
"Do you think I need to hit that iron guy?"
"I know, that's why I'm talking about the thing in the black hole."
Chen Ming explained: "I sent two ships to investigate, but they were all found there. I was about to find trouble with it again."
"However, cruiser-level battleships can no longer cause effective damage, so I am going to test what weapons are effective against it."
"Then kill it. So as not to affect my work."
"But I'm really not sure if the capital ship can hit it, so I came to ask the empire if there are any good things they are researching that I can use."
The two directors looked at each other, and the director of the Ship Research Institute turned to Chen Ming and said, "I'll go ask for you."
"Really?"
"Um...how should I say..."
The expression on the director's face was a little awkward.
Chen Ming said again: "Just say it."
"Type, it's just that before, the machine race destroyed its own planet in response to your Zerg invasion, right?"
"The mothership destroys the land plate of the planet, destroys the core of the planet and causes the planet to collapse. This method is quite efficient. Even the empire seemed to only use its main weapons to cleanse the land before, right?"
"Yes, the Empire has no real useful weapons for destroying planets."
"So someone proposed to develop an efficient star-destroying weapon."
Oh, now Chen Ming knew why the two directors looked a little embarrassed.
Because the star-destroying weapons are essentially used against the Zerg.
Then the two of them talked about the weapons against the Zerg in front of one of the controllers of the Zerg power, at least in the eyes of outsiders. It would be strange if they were not embarrassed.
"Then you didn't keep this kind of thing a secret from me?"
"Because this weapon can be used to target dimensional infections, it is impossible to keep it secret from you."
Chen Ming didn't care. No matter how many Colossus-class ships there were, they couldn't pose a real threat to his Zerg.
His Zerg race is not like a dimensional infection that needs to develop slowly.
"Are there any early concept drawings?"
"Yes."
The director of the Ship Research Institute took out the terminal and sent Chen Ming a concept drawing.
When he first saw this concept map, Chen Ming couldn't help but said: "It's so big."
Chen Ming, who had just seen the size of the scavenger and the black hole monster, couldn't help but say this. You can imagine the size of this thing.
"It's quite big, and its tentative name is Colossus-class."
"I know about the Colossus-class freighter."
"The Colossus-class cargo ship is a cruiser-class spaceship. This Colossus-class cargo ship is the level above the cruiser-class and main-class class."
"I know."
Chen Ming said this smoothly and continued to look at the concept map.
There is not a single superfluous device on the Colossus in this concept map.
Some of them only had the thickest ship armor, hull structure, most powerful shields and the most powerful engines that Chen Ming had ever seen so far.
Coupled with the Colossus-level weapon tentatively named Earth Explosion Star, it possesses a powerful deterrent effect.
But it is a ship type specifically designed to destroy planets.
It has no actual combat performance.
It does not meet Chen Ming's needs.
Even if such a Colossus was created, it would most likely be destroyed before it could get close to the monster in the black hole.
It feels a little inappropriate.
Seeing Chen Ming's expression, he was a little disappointed.
The director of the Ship Research Institute, who was extremely familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the Colossus class, immediately came up with a more detailed blueprint compared to the concept drawing of the Colossus class.
"Actually, there is another type of ship that is also in the factory stage, the Titan class."
"This is a standard combat spaceship. It is currently planned to be used as the flagship of the main fleet."
"Because of what you said about the machine race, the empire is already preparing ships to be used in a larger-scale war."
"Although the strength of the material is completely insufficient, I estimate it will take more than ten years to produce a sample."
"But weapons of this level are already available."
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Chen Ming asked: "The ship hasn't landed yet, how come the weapons are already there?"
"Because Titan-class weapons can be installed on the space station."
"The space station is large enough and has enough energy to be able to use these weapons."
"From the Fanchao Research Institute?"
"Yes, because the empire now has this demand, Fan Chao moved quickly."
"You also know that the mechanical tribe is fighting guerrillas against us now, so many of our space stations are always likely to be targeted. As long as we can install this kind of weapons and cooperate with the patrols, there will definitely be no problem in temporarily defending them."
Chen Ming has hardly paid attention to the mechanical war in recent times.
Because the mechanical war is no longer interesting to him.
He had basically taken away all the benefits he should have taken away, and the only one worthy of his attention was Cheng Xinghai.
There is no need to pay attention to this when you have nothing to do.
The director also knew that Chen Ming was a busy man, not only with various research matters, but also with outside matters. I don't know if that was normal.
He explained it to Chen Ming, and then said proactively: "If you want to use it, I can help you transfer one now."
"Okay, as soon as possible, this thing can be considered a good target. If I accidentally kill it, I may not have a chance to test it."
"Okay."
The director of the Naval Ship Research Institute didn't ask Chen Ming for any rent or guarantee. It wasn't just once or twice that they did this.
Anyway, Chen Ming will send the data back for everyone to study together.
Chen Ming would take the initiative in the early days, but the process would be simplified if there were more back-and-forths later.
This can be regarded as a tacit understanding between Chen Ming and the empire.
At this moment, the director of the Psychic Research Institute, who had been staring at the monster in the black hole for a long time, suddenly said: "I am very interested in this thing. Can you let me go and see it in person?"
(End of chapter)