Chapter 372 Fight? Test
The director of the Psychic Research Institute is very curious about the monster in the black hole.
But Chen Ming looked at his gray hair and agreed: "That place is too dangerous."
The psychic director said a little stubbornly: "That's why I went over to take a look. So far we have never encountered a psychic creature that requires more than one battleship to deal with."
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"And I am also a psychic after all. I have the ability to protect myself."
Speaking of abilities, Chen Ming really didn't know what abilities the director of the Psionics Research Institute had.
The director of psionic energy has been focusing on the research of various psionic technologies during normal times, leading several teams to work on several projects at the same time.
It wasn't until Chen Ming's project started that he stopped other work and concentrated on Chen Ming's project.
Although he didn't know the specific abilities of the director, Chen Mingming actually didn't see any psychic powers used by the director when he was working on the project.
That means that the director's psychic abilities are not of a type that can assist research, but are most likely of a combat type.
And judging from Chen Ming's normal perception, the director's psychic strength is probably around level 4 or 5.
Although this made the psychic director's words somewhat convincing, Chen Ming still hesitated.
Because the monster is within the event horizon of the black hole.
Although he will be more prepared the next time he goes there, there will be no shortage of equipment for detecting what is within the horizon from outside the horizon.
But if the psychic director passes by, he may want to get in close contact with the monster. This Chen Ming really cannot guarantee his safety.
Just seeing the special desire and curiosity for the unknown in the old eyes of the psychic director, Chen Ming also found it difficult to say a direct rejection.
"You can go, but after you go you have to do as I say, otherwise forget it."
"No problem."
The touching eyes of the psychic director immediately returned to their normal appearance.
He decisively agreed to Chen Ming's request. No matter what, it was better to go than not.
"After I get there, I'll leave everything to you to make arrangements, as long as I can see the monster."
"Are you coming?"
The psychic director suddenly turned to look at the director of the ship research institute and asked such a question, which made the ship director very annoyed and said: "If you want me to change the director, just tell me."
"Are you done? Let's go now and get the weapons first."
After the Director of Psionics completed some tasks and the Director of the Ship made it clear where the weapons on the Titan-class ships sent from the Fanchao Research Institute were placed.
Chen Ming directly used psychic energy to take the two of them to a closed galaxy near his headquarters.
This is the same area that Chen Ming rented in order to study the modification of the clan leader's corpse to build a capital ship. They are both places specially used for research that may cause large-scale physical damage.
Chen Ming and the two directors teleported directly to the port of the space station.
The ship director informed them in advance that their arrival did not cause any problems such as alarms.
When the ship director arrived at his own territory, he looked around and led Chen Ming towards the area where the Titan-class ship weapons were installed.
Before he had taken two steps, Chen Ming's eyes blurred. The light in the port suddenly began to flicker frequently. It seemed that there was a glitch in the lighting system.
But everyone else at the port pretended they didn't see anything and continued to do whatever they were supposed to do.
The ship director explained: "It should be that we are testing new weapons again. The weapon consumes too much energy. It will definitely be fine after a while."
"Really?"
Just weapons can make a space station's energy supply insufficient, which makes Chen Ming look forward to it.
But within a few seconds, the lighting system that was flashing crazily suddenly went out.
Emergency lights come on after the normal lighting system goes out, lighting the harbor back up.
"Um, is this normal?"
The ship director said without changing his expression: "It's normal. Two new weapons were sent over for testing today. They are both newly developed Titan-class weapons, not the ones installed on the space station."
As he spoke, he added: "These weapons are all from Fanzhi. It is normal for their weapons to consume such a large amount of money, and they have nothing to put into actual combat, so they have reached a cooperation with us. We need to put these weapons to use on the front line.”
The front line mentioned by the ship director was obviously not the front line of the mechanical war, otherwise how could it be sent to the headquarters.
And he just said that what Fan Chao sent over was a new type of weapon.
With the Mechanical Tribe already finished, the frontline of the Mechanical Tribe has no ability to test at all.
So it’s already obvious who the test subjects are.
"I have no objection, but I am curious about what kind of weapon can cut off the power of such a space station specially designed for testing."
"We'll find out soon."
The ship director took Chen Ming and the psychic director to an experimental area close to the outside of the space station.
This is a common semi-open area where various weapons and equipment need to be tested in space.
Standing on the ground of the space station, you can directly see the starry sky without any partitions, and this area uses a simulated gravity device to limit oxygen inside, so you can breathe without the need for protective clothing.
However, for safety reasons, all staff working here wear heavy protective clothing and are also equipped with noise-canceling headphones.
Because you can see all kinds of large-scale machinery in operation everywhere in this area, your ears are filled with the roar of various mechanical operations anytime and anywhere.
Without noise-canceling headphones, ears could retire decades earlier than humans.
At this time, the emergency lights here were on just like the port outside, and everyone was running around in a hurry, obviously affected by the power outage
Chen Ming and his party did not stay at the entrance for long, and soon, led by the ship director, they reached the heights of this area.
A command room with direct observation of the entire experimental site.
The command room was also extremely busy. There was a middle-aged researcher in a white coat who was constantly giving various instructions.
It is necessary to temporarily stop the testing process and wait until the space station's circuit system returns to its original condition before testing.
The ship director waited for a while until the emergency situation eased and the middle-aged researcher no longer needed to hold on to several walkie-talkies to give orders.
He walked up and asked: "How is the situation?"
The middle-aged researcher who was in front of the podium immediately turned around and saw his boss, Chen Ming, and the psychic director next door.
He quickly said: "Director Wang, Director Chen, and Director Gan, the space station has just been overloaded because it is carrying two new Titan weapons at the same time."
"Only some less important lines need to be replaced. After uninstalling one door, the lines will be restored quickly and the problem will be solved immediately."
The ship director nodded slightly and said: "That's just right, we will take away the unloaded door."
"That's it, right?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the two doors that could be seen outside the command room window and were installed side by side in the space. At this time, there was a giant weapon that was being disassembled and was thousands of meters long, comparable to an ordinary cruiser.
"Yes, those two are the newer models of Titan-class weapons that were just delivered, purgatory rays."
Chen Ming on the side has been focusing on the two giant weapons from the moment he arrived at the experimental area to the moment he entered the command room.
When the researcher mentioned their names, he immediately asked: "Is it related to the Purgatory Core?"
"Yes."
The psychic director who came with Chen Ming helped explain: "These two purgatory rays use light beams as aggregation carriers of entropy. When launched, they can converge all the energy that escapes, concentrate all the damage, and cause extraordinary damage." Powerful energy damage and heat damage."
No wonder the energy consumed is so huge. It not only needs to emit a powerful energy beam, but also be able to stimulate the effect of the purgatory core. It's no wonder that it doesn't consume much.
Chen Ming couldn't help but said: "What kind of ship can sustain such a huge energy consumption?"
The ship director also explained: "The Titan-class spacecraft is equipped with an antimatter reactor and an antimatter fuel engine of sufficient scale, coupled with energy crystallization technology, which can minimize the loss of energy circulating in the spacecraft."
"Paper calculations are theoretically possible."
"We already have weapons. If we want to build ships later, we must build them on a scale that can afford these weapons."
"Don't worry about whether you can afford it or not. The key is whether it is useful."
"The number of purgatory cores is limited."
"So what Fanchao sent last time was a weakened version of this purgatory ray, called hellfire ray."
"If there are enough purgatory rays, this hellfire ray will mainly be installed on the space station"
"If it's not enough, the hellfire ray will have to hit the Titan ship in the future."
"I remember we also have two hellfire rays here. I'll go get one later."
Chen Ming listened silently to the introduction of the captain of the ship. Seeing that he seemed to have the basics, he asked: "Is there any difference?"
"The difference is that there is no purgatory core in the ion cannon. The thing in it that has a similar effect to the purgatory ray is made by imitating the purgatory core."
Chen Ming was suddenly surprised: "Counterfeiting? Have you started to imitate?"
"Yes, technological progress is often unexpected."
"The normal number of purgatory cores cannot take care of all the space stations on the empire's border. Imitation is the best solution."
"It's been almost a year since you published a technical article about Purgatory Core. There must be some movement after this year, right?"
Too.
Chen Ming didn't dwell too much on this matter. On the contrary, he was very happy to see it happen.
Technological progress is definitely not a bad thing, at least not purely bad.
Just then.
Someone suddenly pushed open the door of the control room and said: "The line review report has come out, the damaged lines have been replaced, and the circuit system can be restarted at any time."
Hearing the familiar voice of the speaker, Chen Ming immediately looked back.
Sure enough, it was He Gu whom he had not seen for some time.
Chen Ming immediately stepped forward to say hello and asked: "Are you working on this project now?"
"No, I'm still working on the previous project, but now I'm here to communicate."
"The research progress is not good?"
"Yeah."
He Gu admitted this point generously: "The main reason is that there are only a few people working on this project of civilianization of psychic devices, and there is no precedent to refer to."
"I just happened to hear that the Fanchao Research Institute was preparing for the militarization and large-scale production of psychic devices. They sent a few more weapons, so I applied for academic exchange."
"I feel like I can start in this area. After all, many civilian devices are derived from military devices." "It's very good. I wish you success."
He Gu turned around and left quickly after delivering the documents.
The middle-aged researcher in charge of the experimental site quickly told Chen Ming that the purgatory ray had been unloaded and could be taken away at any time.
The other Hellfire Ray has also been unloaded and is on the other side of the space station. It can also be taken away.
Of course, Chen Ming went there without any ceremony and took control of two new weapons in his hands.
Before preparing to leave here, he asked the ship director if there were any other weapons that needed to be tested.
So a pair of miscellaneous items were added to the list of weapons he took away with his psychic powers.
Among them, there were two weapons that Chen Ming found quite interesting. One was the arc launcher carried by the cruiser.
The other is a modular weapon similar to the mechanical family carried by the capital ship, a shaped arc launcher.
It is an enhanced version of the arc launcher.
It is said that it can theoretically directly penetrate the target's shield and hull, causing arc damage that directly acts on the hull structure.
However, it is said that the effects of these weapons in previous experiments seemed to be somewhat unsatisfactory.
The team that developed this weapon seems to have given up.
But Chen Ming still paid special attention to it because he felt that these two things seemed to have some potential.
After everything is ready.
Chen Ming made another leap with his psychic abilities and reached his highest point.
At this time, only two hours had passed since he entered the wormhole and left from the other end of the wormhole, encountering the monster in the black hole.
His highest point still stayed in place, observing the black hole from a long distance.
After making sure you have arrived at the place.
The psychic director immediately determined the coordinates of his location, and the method he confirmed was very simple and effective.
"What is this place?"
"Don't know yet."
Chen Ming knocked on the spacecraft console in front of him, signaling the psychic director to come over and take a look.
"Did you see the wormhole? That's where I came out. As soon as I came out, I was attacked by the thing in the black hole."
"So I plan to kill that thing first to confirm the safety of the surrounding area and then confirm the specific location."
"But, all the nearby observable galaxies have been recorded, and it is confirmed that there is no familiar galaxy structure."
"I'm sure we're still in our universe, but we're also somewhere outside of our universe."
That is, outside the observable universe.
The psychic director helped Chen Ming fill in the last self-evident sentence in his heart.
And he also roughly understood the reason why Chen Ming had to deal with the monster first.
After all, the entrance and exit of this place need to go through wormholes. Although Chen Ming can use psychic energy to move directly, it is definitely more stable to use natural wormholes to move.
Chen Ming didn't chat much with the psychic director.
Under the influence of his psychic powers, all the weapons that had been sent to the colony at the other end of the wormhole appeared near his spacecraft.
It floats around like a floating cannon, facing the direction of the black hole.
Because the types of weapons obtained from the empire were too complicated, it was too troublesome to install them one by one on the Zerg spacecraft, so Chen Ming planned to use these weapons directly.
Only other weapon types that he had previously wanted to test were tested by modifying the Zerg warship.
But Chen Ming always remembered the purpose of his coming here this time.
The main purpose is to seize the shining civilization's spaceship, and testing weapons is secondary.
After all, as long as we have the technology of that shining civilization spaceship, a better design than the existing spaceship will no longer be a problem.
After all the suspended weapons are charged out of thin air.
With Chen Ming's spiritual energy acting again.
Hundreds of Zerg battleships also appeared in the galaxy.
The psychic director next to Chen Ming looked at such a large fleet in amazement, and he couldn't help but sigh at how powerful Chen Ming was now.
From his understanding, even the empire that had reached its peak during its pioneering era seemed to have never had a main fleet of this size.
However, it is already known to many people that Chen Ming has such a fleet, but now he has seen it with his own eyes.
Nothing much to say.
Chen Ming has such power and is willing to get along with the empire normally. This is a very good situation for the empire.
If you don't give face anymore, it will be purely mindless behavior.
Moreover, at this time, Chen Ming gathered so many battleships together in order to face a more terrifying enemy.
After the Zerg fleet arrived, Chen Ming activated the updated reconnaissance device, which was able to directly observe the situation within the black hole's horizon from outside the black hole's horizon.
The new sensor screen immediately appeared on the spacecraft console.
I saw that the monster before was still struggling at the entrance of the black hole, trying to escape from the shackles of the black hole, waving its limbs wildly as if to vent its emotions.
But it can only be cathartic.
It simply cannot escape the confines of a black hole.
"The psychic energy detection device has recorded the psychic energy fluctuations it emits when it uses psychic energy."
"The data is all there, you can check it out yourself."
Chen Ming smoothly explained a few words to the director of psychic energy, and then used his psychic energy to control various reconnaissance devices to spread out and disperse around the black hole to record the actual combat data of various weapons in the future.
The Zerg's main fleet also began to approach slowly, and various weapons that Chen Ming had modified for testing were ready for use.
However, those weapons that were purely suspended in the universe entered the event horizon closer to the black hole at a faster speed.
The monster in the black hole seemed to have discovered the approaching weapons early because Chen Ming had harassed it before.
The big mouth on its head once again opened to 180 degrees, and a dark purple ball of light once again appeared in its mouth.
In the blink of an eye, a gravity beam swept towards the approaching weapons group.
However, as long as the monster's beam still relies on the rotation of its own head for positioning, it will be impossible for it to hit these weapons with Chen Ming's psychic retaliation.
All weapons controlled by Chen Ming successfully entered the black hole's horizon.
And after entering their respective shooting ranges, they opened fire directly.
Energy, live ammunition, chemical, explosive, all types of weapons are all tilting ammunition and energy towards that monster.
Although the accuracy of all weapons within the black hole horizon will be affected.
However, the monster itself exists on the black hole and is integrated with the black hole. All things affected by the gravity of the black hole will be corrected with a certain degree of accuracy.
This results in some weapons that may have failed to hit due to accuracy errors being able to hit the monster more accurately.
After the first wave of indiscriminate bombing, the explosions caused by various weapons or the fire caused by the impact had not had time to completely dissipate, and the main fleet of the Zerg followed closely and entered the black hole event horizon area.
A second wave of attacks with even more terrifying firepower was launched.
But in the midst of the colorful firelight, a deep purple beam of light suddenly shot out.
All the Zerg battleships on this dark purple beam immediately made a short jump, but two Zerg battleships were still hit.
Even the two battleships directly cut off the part of the tissue that was hit.
But the gravitational psychic energy fluctuations continued to wrap around the battleship like gangrene attached to the bones, and it seemed that it would not stop until it crushed the entire battleship into a ball of flesh and blood.
The two Zerg warships did not hesitate for a moment after discovering this situation. They started the jump engine again and jumped very close to the part of the monster's body that was connected to the black hole.
The monster seemed to sense the jump waves approaching it in advance.
At the moment when the jump of the two battleships ended.
Then it suddenly thrust its terrifying arthropods towards them.
The Zerg carapace, which Chen Ming knew to be extremely strong, shattered, and the two battleships broke apart near the black hole.
Then he was swallowed by the monster.
Only some fragments of the wreckage were scattered outside.
Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the result.
At the same time, he took a brief look at the data he had obtained.
Just as he had guessed before.
Most weapons will be affected by a strong gravity field when close to monsters, and will not be able to exert their full effect.
This resulted in that although the colorful smoke and dust just appeared to be powerful, the actual damage caused was not ideal.
On the contrary, in the second wave of attacks, the sharp live ammunition weapons carried by Chen Ming's Zerg battleships had a very good effect on it.
Almost all of it penetrated its skin, which seemed to combine the characteristics of maggots and leeches.
It's just that the actual damage caused by live ammunition weapons cannot be seen when facing a creature of such size.
And judging from the monster's movements, it didn't seem to cause enough damage, let alone any fatal injuries.
However, there are two weapons that are exceptions.
One is the Titan-class ship-borne weapon Purgatory Ray, and the other is a shaped arc launcher that seems to be less promising.
The purgatory ray left a huge burning mark on the monster's body, and the limbs near the burning mark twitched significantly faster than the limbs elsewhere.
Apparently the infernal rays really hurt it.
The situation of shaped arc emitters is quite special.
Although the first few arcs it hit directly on the monster's body were not ideal, the arc it hit on the monster's limb directly penetrated the limb and successfully interrupted it.
The broken limb was slowly falling into the black hole.
(End of chapter)