Chapter 375: The Nightmare of the Planes
"Weakness? Where is it?"
The survivor responded: "Since you have obtained this communicator, it means that you have fought against the nightmare of the plane and found our spaceship."
"Its weakness is the part of the body where you found the spaceship, near the junction of the Nightmare of the Planes and the black hole."
"That's its weak point. If you destroy this part of the body, you can kill it."
It just so happened that Chen Ming had carefully observed the appearance of the Nightmare of the Planes before and was able to construct its appearance in his consciousness.
Of course, he can also mark the location of the spaceship of Shining Civilization on the body of the nightmare model in his consciousness.
And this place where it meets the black hole can be said to be the thickest part of the Nightmare of the Plane.
It doesn't make people want to attack, and the proximity to the black hole itself is a deterrent, so Chen Ming didn't think it would be a weakness before.
He didn't quite think that the survivors would lie to him about their sincerity, which could be easily exposed.
So basically it can be believed that this is the weakness of the Nightmare of the Plane.
I really didn’t expect that the body that looks the fattest is actually its most fragile part.
"I know, let me try it out and contact you later."
Just as Chen Ming was about to end the communication, another message came over the communicator: "Wait a moment."
"We have informed you of our existence, can you please tell us what kind of existence you are?"
"We want to know the difference between your civilization and ours. We don't need to be too detailed. We just need to give us a basic understanding."
Chen Ming thought about whether there were any nouns and adjectives that could describe the empire in the language of Shining Civilization.
"We are a country with a democratic system with 'human beings' as the main species, or civilization, you can call us, the human empire."
"When we developed the relics of your civilization, we knew that you were an imperial civilization, so you should be able to understand what I said."
In the past six months, Chen Ming also went to the Shining Civilization Research Institute in order to learn the language of Shining Civilization, and of course he also learned some relevant knowledge about them.
In particular, he was deeply impressed by the knowledge that the Shining Civilization was actually an imperial system.
After all, this is indeed a bit difficult.
Because the Shining Civilization calls itself Shining, not the Shining Empire.
On the human side, it is clearly an alternative democratic system with centralized military power, but in the end it calls itself an empire.
It's hard not to be impressed by this contrasting contrast.
The survivors didn't seem to pay much attention to this, and quickly replied: "Yes, we can understand."
"What about you? What kind of existence are you in your civilization, and what is your relationship with the human empire?"
Chen Ming thought about it for a moment and said, "This is also a question I want to ask you."
"We are just a group of hundreds of survivors with very basic social relationships, and I am just a person with some social skills, so I am here to communicate with you."
In the survivor’s response, ‘human’ refers to Shining Civilization’s own species, so Chen Ming directly translated it into an easy-to-understand reference.
After writing down their responses, Chen Ming also responded to this question: "I am one of the top psykers in the Human Empire."
"As for the relationship with the empire, it is considered a friendly cooperative relationship."
"Partnership?"
As an imperial civilization, Shining seems to not understand what the empire is like.
"Civilization in a democratic system has looser management in some aspects, and not all psychics must serve the ruling class."
The survivors seem to be unable to accept this situation. After all, the disadvantages of freeing psykers are obvious.
"Here among us, psykers can be equated with the ruling class. Our emperor is the most powerful psyker. Only the most powerful psyker can suppress other psykers from making mistakes. ”
Chen Ming asked in reply: "Aren't you afraid that the emperor is not capable enough? His virtue is not worthy of his place?"
The survivor said again: "The learning ability of every powerful psyker is far beyond that of any ordinary person. The ability of a psyker who can become the emperor is definitely worthy of his position."
"Moral issues are definitely not a shackle that restricts His Majesty the Emperor."
Chen Ming had no interest in discussing such ideological and political issues with them, so he directly asked a question that he thought might be interesting.
"Then is there an emperor in your small group of several hundred people?"
The other end of the communicator was silent.
He was silent for a while, obviously choked by Chen Ming's question.
An emperor of a shining civilization is indeed worthy of respect. No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he can rely on his skill and power to maintain the shining civilization, then he is a capable person, at least irreproachable in terms of ability.
However, what the survivors said personally about the emperor of a small group of several hundred people was simply a big joke.
Chen Ming was equivalent to pointing his nose at them and scolding them.
Whether they had an emperor or not, it was a ridiculous situation.
Yes, it's a joke.
No, even if he has given up his own system, what qualifications do he have to criticize the political system of the empire to which Chen Ming belongs.
The survivors also understood this, so they relented and said: "I'm very sorry, it was us who offended your system abruptly."
Chen Ming himself was not interested in this topic, so he did not pursue this issue too much.
"I hope we can coexist peacefully and not have conflicts over unimportant things."
"Yes, that's how it should be."
"Then let's talk about it later."
Chen Ming put away the terminal and raised his head to look out the window at the highest point near the black hole.
The psychic director on the side saw this and immediately asked: "What should I do?"
"First go and see if the information is true, and then send back the news about the survivors of the Shining Civilization. I will hold the communicator."
"Okay."
The Director of Psionics had no objections. Anyway, Chen Ming had the final say on all mechanical-related things that Chen Ming touched, and it was useless for anyone else to say anything.
Chen Ming spent some time compiling the documents, recording the entire process of his investigation and discovery of the Shining Civilization's spaceship, and thus the discovery of the survivors.
After letting the Director of Psionics read it and found out that there were no problems, Chen Ming directly sent a copy of this document to the people in his address book who were qualified to see it, and asked them to complete it themselves.
By the way, Chen Ming also turned off the terminal directly to prevent anyone from disturbing him when he was doing things later.
When the news about the survivor is announced, there must be at least one platoon of people who will call him.
Chen Ming put away the turned-off terminal and asked the director of psychic energy: "Do you want to stay and watch the follow-up?"
"Anyway, it's not me who is responsible for researching the Shining Civilization. I'm not in a hurry."
Chen Ming nodded and gave the order to the Insect Queen to organize a new batch of main fleets.
He roughly estimated the combat effectiveness of the Plane Nightmare, and finally decided that bringing over three hundred Zerg battleships should be enough.
The newly reorganized main fleet appeared near the highest point soon.
And after showing his face, he entered the phase space with the Supreme Point, lurking in the phase space, preparing for another raid.
At this time, within the black hole's horizon, the situation of the Nightmare of the Planes did not seem to have changed much compared to before.
The huge wound that almost penetrated half of its body caused by the Zerg fleet and various weapons focused on it has disappeared, and the injury on the back of its body has almost completely recovered.
All the black hole matter that spilled out seemed to be reabsorbed by it.
This monster has really strong recovery capabilities.
However, the impact was not significant. Chen Ming's target this time was not the previous wound, but its fat belly, probably the abdomen, that was stuck near the exit of the black hole.
The Zerg fleet in the phase space was slowly approaching, and the psychic director suddenly whispered: "These ships seem to..."
"What's wrong?"
"It feels a little different from the ones you sent here before."
"Yes."
Chen Ming admitted: "I changed some weapon distribution."
The weapons originally carried by the Zerg were all weapons he planned to use for testing.
In the first wave of tests, Chen Ming had basically determined the effects of most weapons.
So taking advantage of the time when he had just contacted the survivors and prepared the new Zerg fleet, Chen Ming specially made a batch of new weapons that were easy to use according to the test results just now.
It is installed on average on half of the spaceships among the 300 capital ships.
As for the remaining half of the spaceship.
What Chen Ming installed was a new shaped arc emitter that he copied after studying the principles of the shaped arc emitter. The time that had just passed was enough for him to thoroughly understand the technology of this thing.
This can be said to have increased the overall number and scale of shaped arc emitters hundreds of times.
It can only be said that Chen Ming always feels that this weapon has great potential, but it lacks a suitable combat environment.
Therefore, he planned to test the applicable environment of this somewhat special weapon.
It just so happens that the target hasn't exploded just now, so we can test it again,
It was precisely the unified weapons of Chen Ming's Zerg fleet that made the Minister of Psychics feel that the fleet seemed a little different from the messy situation just now,
After explaining, Chen Ming continued to let the Zerg fleet approach the location where it had previously raided from the phase space.
Somewhere in the dark, the Nightmare of the Plane seemed to sense danger again.
This gift, which belongs to psykers and psychic creatures, can tell him that danger is coming, but it does not allow him to deal with it.
Its limbs were waving wildly, and the cracks were constantly tearing into the surrounding space, but without direct contact with the phase space, it could not tear apart the barrier between the two spaces.
Chen Ming even had the time and leisure to adjust the launch timing of each weapon according to the distance of each Hercules in the fleet.
It is guaranteed that every ammunition, energy bomb or energy beam fired by the weapon, as well as any form of attack method, can hit at the same time.
Strive to take it away in one wave without giving it a chance to counterattack.
The Zerg consciousnesses in the Zerg battleships are interconnected by the hive mind, so there is no problem in doing this.
It only took less than a minute for the Zerg fleet to arrange the time to fire.
The purgatory ray began to gather energy, and the rest of the energy weapons began to show signs of charging.
All the live ammunition weapons fired earlier than the energy weapons. When the live ammunition almost formed a wall of steel in the phase space, it hit the Plane Nightmare and tore apart the gelatinous material of the Plane Nightmare. After feeling the skin.
A crimson ray accompanied by hundreds of charged arcs that seemed to illuminate the purple color of a black hole struck the wound torn open by the live ammunition weapon with almost no time lag.
It penetrated that fat body and came out.
The Nightmare of the Planes, which was still turning to defend because it sensed danger, stiffened in its movements, but did not stop.
Its body...its corpse was thrown out with a wave of inertia, and was separated from the half of its body stuck in the black hole.
This wave of activation of the Zerg Hercules class directly cut it in half. The lower half of the body was sucked directly into the black hole.
The upper half of its body twitched a few times, and the black hole material flowed out of the gap.
Immediately a gravitational storm was caused within the black hole's event horizon.
Chen Ming immediately used his spiritual energy to teleport himself into the horizon of the black hole. His spiritual energy released dimensional power to block the surrounding space, restraining all the black hole matter ejected from the corpse and sending it into the phase space and into the wormhole. The Origin Galaxy on the other side.
Although only half of the corpse of the Plane Nightmare was left, he still wanted to ensure the integrity of the corpse to prevent the remaining half of the corpse from falling into the black hole like the lower half.
He still has use for this corpse.
The gravitational wave in the event horizon subsided.
Chen Ming also returned to the highest point and said to the director of psychic energy: "It's solved. There is no problem with the intelligence. That is its weakness."
"Let's continue talking to the survivors... and so on."
Chen Ming's movements suddenly stopped because he noticed that on the sensor at the highest point, the position of the wormhole that brought him here was changing unprecedentedly.
It's moving.
It no longer continues to be pulled by the gravitational pull of the black hole, but travels to other galaxies like a spaceship.
"This..."
Chen Ming and the psychic director looked at each other, obviously neither of them understood what was going on.
This strange situation made him alert.
He immediately released his spiritual energy to detect what was happening on the other side of the wormhole. At the same time, he also observed the condition of the wormhole at the other end.
However, Chen Ming did not perceive any special situation, nor did he find any changes on the other side of the wormhole.
But the wormhole seems to be just moving, and the nearest galaxy in the direction of movement seems to be a galaxy with somewhat dim stars.
Judging from the current speed of the wormhole, it will take at least a few days for it to reach that galaxy.
Chen Ming told him that he could come back later to see the results and what would happen.
"Let's continue talking to the survivors."
Chen Ming has said so, and of course the Minister of Psychics has no objection.
Chen Ming also took out the terminal he had just closed and sent a message: "The Nightmare of the Planes is dead. There is no problem with the information you gave."
The communicator responded quickly: "Okay, in your opinion, have we shown sincerity?"
"No problem, I can have a certain amount of trust in you."
"So, how do you want me to show my sincerity?"
The survivor seemed to have figured out a way and said: "We can trade."
"You know our situation. Our ancestors came here to avoid some unknown things, and because of the nightmare of the plane, they can never return to the original world."
"We don't know what happened in the past tens of thousands of years, nor do we know exactly what your existence is."
"So we can do some information trading."
"Use your information and the information of tens of thousands of years to trade with us."
"We are the remnants of the Shining Civilization, and we have many things that can be used to trade with you."
That doesn't sound like a problem.
The survivors hold the resources left behind by the Shining Civilization, and it is normal for them to trade these resources for information they cannot obtain.
Just like Chen Ming is actually very curious about the survivors of the Shining Civilization, they should be very curious about human civilization.
And they also said that they could not return to their original place because of the nightmare of the plane.
Even if the Nightmare of the Plane has been killed by Chen Ming, it will be the same.
Because after Chen Ming killed the Plane Nightmare, Chen Ming became the person who might threaten them.
They could only hope to get more information from Chen Ming.
Then Chen Ming definitely couldn't really tell the news directly, and he couldn't just trade like this.
Transactions between civilizations are never just transactions. There are too many things involved.
He cannot make decisions alone.
So he had to leave this matter to capable people.
Chen Ming thought about it and responded: "This matter is of great importance. I need to discuss it with the empire."
The psychic director on the side looked relieved.
The survivor didn't seem too eager and responded normally: "We are waiting for your good news."
After the communication is over.
Behind the wormhole is this empire beyond the observable universe.
In a dark star field, a space station floats here.
The space station was completely silent at this time, with no sign of any biological activity.
But in a small room in the temporal part of this space, a communicator that was exactly the same as the one in Chen Ming's hand was on, and a recording that had just been recorded came from it.
After the communicator repeatedly played the complete communication between Chen Ming and the survivor.
A hand suddenly reached out from the darkness and turned off the communicator.
This small space station lost all its luster.
This is a special hand, its skin changes back and forth between the shine of metal and the rust.
And this hand seems to have a liquid metal-like quality, but it looks very different from Chen Ming's metallic liquid.
The owner of this hand said: "We have initially won his trust."
Another person hidden in the darkness asked: "How long will it take to move forward with the next step?"
"Patience, be patient."
"The Queen is still sleeping, we still have time."
Soon after.
Chen Ming and the psychic director returned to the legion headquarters together.
Then they were taken to the Shining Civilization Research Institute.
The main conference hall of the institute was already full of people, not only people from the legion, but also a large group of familiar faces from Chen Ming, as well as people from the empire's research institute specializing in the study of shining civilization.
They surrounded Chen Ming as soon as they came up, which made Chen Ming lose all his strength before he walked to the stage of the conference hall.
After giving out the new exchange record, Chen Ming transferred most of his consciousness, leaving only a part of his body consciousness to answer other people's questions.
Anyway, the control of the communicator is in his hands, and the empire will try its best to find the most suitable transaction method from his transaction with the survivors.
This was the situation he wanted to see most after passing the survivors' information back.
Chen Ming's theme awareness soon came to the Origin Galaxy.
In the phase space here, half of the corpse of the Nightmare of the Planes is placed.
The surroundings are surrounded by various detection devices controlled by Chaofan at the legion headquarters with the help of Chen Ming's power, checking the status of the corpse and confirming the effects of the weapons used before.
Although there are different applicable weapons for different enemies, these data can also be used as an important reference.
Chen Ming took out the results of the previous test, put them together with the results of the second test that ended almost instantly, and compared them a little.
The situation with the new data is basically the same as before.
Basically, Titan-class weapons, live ammunition weapons, and arc weapons perform best.
However, Chen Ming knew that the live ammunition weapon performed well because of the special situation.
Because Chen Ming has discovered that there is a gravity shield on the surface of the plane nightmare, and the gravity shield has an excellent distortion effect on the entity. The actual effect of live ammunition weapons is not very good.
The reason why live ammunition weapons are so useful.
That's because the Plane Nightmare itself is under the gravity limit of the black hole. It cannot control the gravity of the black hole, otherwise it would have come out long ago.
Therefore, even if the Plane Nightmare itself has a shield that can block live ammunition, the live ammunition will still fly towards the vicinity of the black hole under the pull of the black hole's gravity.
In the end, the effect of live ammunition was very obvious.
The Purgatory Ray is purely a powerful brick flying.
So in the end, arc weapons are the most effective of all weapons.
Although the performance of arc weapons was not good at the beginning.
But as subsequent experiments progressed, Chen Ming also discovered some other damage caused by arcs on the corpse of the Plane Nightmare.
It can be seen that these injuries are deep or shallow, heavy or light, which is very strange, just like the damage of arc weapons is random.
And in fact, it is indeed the case.
The nature of the shaped arc emitter imitates the arc that erupts when the spacecraft's radiation energy system is overloaded.
This kind of arc can indeed penetrate armor directly, and even penetrate shields that have not completely dissipated. It is not just an empty talk, it can indeed cause damage.
However, the arc caused by this overload, or the actual situation of all arcs caused by this reason, is random and unpredictable.
No one knows the angle at which the arc bursts out, the intensity of the strike, or whether it can penetrate directly after hitting it or only hit part of it, causing a little damage.
It is this nature that causes Arc Launcher damage to be very random.
When it is weak, it may not even be able to penetrate the steel plate. When it is strong, it can directly penetrate the limbs of the plane nightmare, and even kill it directly after concentrating its firepower.
Therefore, Chen Ming felt that this weapon was really one of the most valuable and potential weapons he had ever seen.
It can ignore gravitational fields, ignore armor and shields, to cause ultimate damage.
Then this randomness becomes an acceptable problem.
Because when the number of spacecraft equipped with arc launchers is sufficient, this random expectation will become more and more stable.
It can be said that it is the most indispensable quantity that is perfectly adapted to the Zerg fleet.
Chen Ming felt that he could ask the designer later if he had any ideas for cooperation.
After reading the value of using the Nightmare of the Planes as a target.
Chen Ming focused on the value of the Nightmare of the Plane itself.
Chen Ming just happened to have a way to deal with these things that were probably considered psychic species.
(End of chapter)