Chapter 377 Gaia Planet
When Chen Ming was arguing with the director of psychic energy.
The ship director, who had been sitting idle for a long time, couldn't stand it anymore: "Is this all you want to talk about?"
The psychic director stared and said: "Yes, Chen Ming is also robbing you, don't you have any ideas?"
The ship director spread his hands and said: "I actually don't care."
He was already very old, and he could clearly feel that his body was getting worse day by day.
He is not a psyker. He does not have a strong spirit and a body that is transformed by the spirit. He may retreat in a few years.
Not to mention that he would really retreat by then, but even now, he is very interested in Chen Ming.
After all, Chen Ming has a lot of resources at hand that can be seen with the naked eye, and he has An Wuping, who is almost a half-brother, with support in biotechnology.
Looking at the empire, as long as there are people related to Chen Ming's involvement, who wouldn't want to run to Chen Ming to take advantage of the rich resources.
Even the ship commander is no exception.
Although they were the first to start the research on phase technology and phase ships.
But only half a year later, Chen Ming was already ahead of them.
Many times, Chen Ming was able to write out the answers alone by relying on his own ability, which should have taken a long period of testing and research to achieve results.
This situation really makes it difficult for people to have any idea of competing.
In terms of psychic abilities, he might be able to compete with Chen Ming because of the specialness and uniqueness of his psychic abilities, but in terms of pure ship capabilities, there is really nothing to compete with someone like Chen Ming.
Moreover, the ship director even planned to retire directly after completing Chen Ming's project.
No more new projects, just be a retired professor and attend classes occasionally.
He didn't care whether Chen Ming robbed someone or not.
He has looked away.
He could see that Chen Ming was always alone.
Therefore, it makes no difference whether those "snatched" researchers stay in the empire or go to Chen Ming's side, as long as the last thing they do is always something beneficial to people.
The psychic director could hear what the ship director meant.
Although the two are not too confrontational, the two departments have been competing with each other for decades under their leadership, and they can still see each other's thoughts clearly.
It means that the other person knows what nonsense he is going to say as soon as he opens his mouth.
He didn't say much just because of his identity. Instead, he turned to Chen Ming and said, "Okay, I won't talk about anything else."
"There has been a mission from above regarding the nightmare of the plane."
"Although we haven't encountered anything similar yet, we need to start preventive cases, otherwise the empire may have to sacrifice human lives if it encounters this thing in the future."
"Who knows which black hole in the empire will drill out a nightmare of planes in the future, I have to go and work on it."
The psychic director said and stood up.
"It's a good thing I went out with you before, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do."
He waved at Chen Ming and left Chen Ming's office.
The psychic director left, and the ship director didn't stay long.
Although he already had the idea of retreating, he had to finish everything he was doing.
In addition to Chen Ming's capital ship project, he also has many things to be busy with.
After the two left.
Chen Ming did not continue to rest. He also still had a lot of things to do.
He first spent half a day convening a meeting with those who he had agreed to participate in the Plane Nightmare project.
Then we conducted a secondary test and screened out some researchers who Chen Mingguang looked good on paper, but whose actual abilities were not necessarily suitable.
Of course it doesn’t mean that I am not capable, but I am not suitable.
After all, the research direction of the plane nightmare corpse must be psychic armor, psychic weapons, psychic creatures, black hole technology, gravity technology, space technology and so on.
The person who was originally responsible for the research on the automation system in the Chen Ming battleship project cannot be put here, and the Nightmare of the Planes cannot be automated.
Its corpse is entirely filled with black hole matter.
Even if Chen Ming wanted to imitate the situation here of the phase giant beast leader and make the corpse move again, he couldn't do it.
But he also thought about the scavenger. Although this thing couldn't defeat the nightmare of the plane, it was still at the same level.
Perhaps using a mechanical body of this size to cover the plane nightmare might have a similar effect.
But this is certainly not something that can be done now.
Therefore, Chen Ming only temporarily asked people to withdraw from the project. If there is a chance in the future, he can pull people in again.
In addition to eliminating a group of people with unsuitable abilities, Chen Ming also found a group of people who he believed after testing needed to be given priority.
The abilities of these people are obviously more suitable for Chen Ming's new project than those who were eliminated.
When the new project is in its early stages, when the research on the severed limbs of the Plane Nightmare is almost in progress, he will decide who can participate based on the current staff list and the actual project progress.
Chen Ming also asked the legion for a new experimental site, took out the limbs of the Nightmare of the Planes separately, and treated it as a separate large project so as not to affect the project on the capital ship.
By the way, it also gives other people some opportunities to get in touch with this project.
After all, the people participating in a small project that is linked to a big project of Chen Ming's will only be Chen Ming's people, at least people related to Chen Ming. There is definitely no independent project that can recruit more people.
By doing this, you can also cooperate with the minister of psychic energy. He said that he can help Chen Ming find someone, so Chen Ming must give a reason to find someone.
Except for this new project thing.
There was a slight problem with Chen Ming's request for cooperation with the research team that developed the arc emitter and the shaped arc emitter.
It seemed that his actions were too obvious. Just after he sent a request for cooperation to the group, a bunch of people immediately moved towards the group like sharks that had smelled the smell.
A bunch of cooperation invitations like Chen Ming filled their group's mailbox.
Chen Ming wouldn't be angry if others competed on this technical matter, nor would he use his privileges to stop it.
He just used the deep repair power to optimize the samples he had brought over for testing.
Then the optimized new shaped energy arc emitter was sent to the research team.
And still gave them the same cooperation share as before.
So in the end, the R&D team agreed to cooperate with Chen Ming and sold part of the patent rights to Chen Ming.
Although Chen Ming used to install weapons and equipment on his own spaceship, he always used whatever he saw and whatever was useful.
And they all rely on their own abilities to crack the technology and buy the materials themselves.
But Chen Ming still has to respect developers when it comes to technology development.
What's more, Chen Ming does think that the arc launcher weapon is quite talkative, and he is very optimistic about the market prospects of this weapon.
He believed that arc weapons would be effective even if they were installed not on his Zerg warships, but on Imperial warships.
After busy for most of the day.
Chen Ming finally finished the things around him,
After he confirmed that he had nothing to do there for the time being, he set his sights behind the wormhole.
The wormhole at the other end of the origin galaxy's wormhole is still approaching the galaxy that Chen Ming had previously detected from a distance, and is expected to arrive at that galaxy in one day.
Before it actually arrived, Chen Ming was ready to go ahead and investigate.
The highest point has reached the edge of that galaxy through the jump early.
What he has to do now is to go to the highest point.
Under the influence of psychic energy.
Chen Ming's body appeared in the command room at the highest point in an instant.
All the sensor scan data has been sent to the spacecraft's console.
Chen Ming sat on the main seat in the command room, called up the rough data of the galaxy that he had previously detected at a considerable distance, and opened it together with the data he had just obtained.
Judging from the newly detected data he saw, this galaxy itself is a very normal galaxy.
One star plus five planets, no satellites.
However, the state of the planets in the galaxy is somewhat special. Each of these planets is frozen.
No matter how far they are from the star, as long as they are planets in the galaxy, every planet can only see solid ice and snow, and cannot see the original appearance of the planet at all.
Obviously that star is a yellow dwarf star of the same type that is very similar to the sun, and its estimated age may be even younger than the sun.
But it's just like what Chen Ming had discovered through long-distance observations before.
The light of this star is very dim and cannot provide enough light and heat for the planets in the galaxy.
Chen Ming didn't know the reason.
But he knew that a normal star would never experience such an inexplicable decrease in energy intensity.
Combined with this, Chen Ming's wormhole is approaching this galaxy. It is difficult not to make people wonder whether there is any connection between them.
Could this galaxy also be a very special galaxy? Could it also be a strange galaxy?
With this thought in mind, Chen Ming's supreme point did not stay at the edge of the galaxy for too long.
Instead, they spread out and began to investigate every planet in the galaxy, including stars.
He released the detector and approached the star, and at the same time used his spiritual energy to bring several different exploration ships, each heading to different planets in the galaxy.
Chen Ming left most of the planets to Yuhui to control the spacecraft for investigation.
And it drove the highest point to the second planet in this galaxy.
This planet is the most special of the five planets in the galaxy.
It has an atmosphere, albeit an extremely thin one due to the icy climate, but it does have one.
And it happens to be within the habitable zone of stars with normal energy intensity as calculated by Chen Ming.
So no matter what, Chen Ming had to go and see this planet for himself.
The spacecraft entered the thin atmosphere.
The next moment, the blizzard directly submerged the highest point.
The biting wind made Chen Ming, who was inside the spacecraft, seem to be able to hear its whistling sound.
The sensor's high-precision scanning capabilities are also limited.
There is an atmosphere outside the atmosphere that limits high-precision scanning, and there is a snowstorm inside the atmosphere that affects the accuracy of high-precision scanning.
As a result, Chen Ming could only find a way to land first, get close to the ground, and then proceed normally.
Fortunately, the crystallization of human technology still has its role.
The blizzard that swept across the entire planet did not have as big an impact on the spacecraft itself as Chen Ming initially thought.
And although a blizzard enveloped the Supreme Point, there was no problem with the Supreme Point's detection system and ordinary sensor devices.
Even the climate analysis device installed on the highest point sensor found that the climate on this planet, except for the extreme temperatures and strong winds caused by snowstorms, all other indicators are extremely suitable for human survival.
After confirming that there was no problem with the sensor, Chen Ming was a little confused about the situation for a while. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
But no matter good or bad, Chen Ming had to check it out after landing.
Soon, as the height of the highest point decreased, Chen Ming discovered that the problem he had to face was not a snowstorm on the planet.
It's a question of falling from the highest point.
When the spacecraft lands, the buffer engine nozzle at the bottom of the spacecraft will melt the snow on the planet's surface.
It would be fine if there was only a few meters or tens of meters of snow. It would be fine if the highest point swayed a little to melt all the snow under the spacecraft and land.
But the average depth of snow on this planet is at least several hundred meters, and after a rough scan of the highest point, Chen Ming also found that the terrain under the snow was obviously uneven, and there was no place to stay at all.
And the uneven terrain is not due to the rugged terrain, nor is it due to the influence of solid ice.
It's because there is a frozen jungle under the snow in the area where the highest point landed.
A jungle with countless trees hundreds of meters high.
The snow accumulated from the tree roots to the crown, and continued to accumulate tens of meters upward, forming the top layer of snow that Chen Ming saw now.
After the shallow layer of snow melted, Chen Ming could barely see the crown of the giant tree that was still standing amidst the blizzard.
The crowns of these giant trees hundreds of meters high blocked Chen Ming's spacecraft from landing.
This distance is enough for Chen Ming to do something.
He immediately increased the output power of the sensor, trying to figure out the size of this giant forest and then find a suitable landing location.
However, the scanning results of the spacecraft did not tell him a suitable location, but all the areas within his sight were jungles covered by these giant trees.
but.
The spacecraft's scans told him something else.
That is underground, deep underground in this jungle, there is a vibrant world hidden under the ice and snow.
This is a world filled with green, blue and purple at first glance.
The green and purple ones are vegetation, and the blue ones are luminous plants and luminous fungi that are spread throughout the underground world, making the originally dark underground appear as bright as the surface.
The environment of this underground world is similar to any habitable planet that Chen Ming has ever seen.
Visible to the naked eye, there are lush plants and a wide variety of animals everywhere, full of lush life.
And the climate in the underground environment is very mild.
The ice on the surface doesn't seem to affect the ground at all.
In Chen Ming's investigation, the source of heat in this underground world seems to come from geothermal energy deeper underground.
No matter how cold the surface is, the ground remains warm under the protection of the thick earth and the giant trees that support this underground world.
The underground world is an isolated paradise.
Chen Ming knew about an underground ecosystem before, but the difference between that ecosystem and what Chen Ming saw now was huge.
That ecosystem was born based on the natural geographical conditions of the planet. It is an ecosystem located deep underground that exists in almost the entire planet's underground cavity areas.
The main color of that ecosystem is darkness, and in the darkness there are countless ferocious predators.
Every creature in that ecosystem, whether plant or animal, possesses weapons to fight against more powerful creatures.
Because creatures without the ability to resist simply cannot survive in such an environment.
The weapon held by a psyker that Chen Ming killed before was made from the bones of a psionic individual from a predator in this ecosystem called the Night Owl.
Although Chen Ming had already eliminated that weapon, he still remembered things about Night Owl and that unique ecosystem.
Chen Ming thought for a while and did not continue to try to lower the highest point.
Because during the scan at the highest point, almost all the land on the entire planet was covered by those giant trees.
Landing is only possible on the now frozen ocean.
So Chen Ming simply stopped landing.
He put on the biological armor that was optimized for the first time using the power armor of the Shining Civilization, and jumped down from the sky.
Looking at the blizzard outside.
For a moment, Chen Ming seemed to feel that the planet below him was crying.
Before Chen Ming had time to confirm his feeling, he fell into the hundreds of meters of snow.
Chen Ming quickly found a giant tree buried in the snow, and dug along the trunk toward the depths of the snow and underground.
The tunnel dug behind him was soon covered with snow, and the temperature sensor on his armor was reminding him that the outside temperature was rising rapidly.
The earth and giant trees on this planet have extremely strong thermal insulation properties.
With just a few dozen meters of separation, the temperature difference between the surface and underground has reached hundreds of degrees Celsius.
Chen Ming recorded various data from his field surveys, and at the same time, he was constantly analyzing the soil of the planet and the samples of the giant trees he had just obtained.
It can be said that the composition of the soil of this planet is not significantly different from that of any habitable planet, but it does seem to be very suitable for biological survival.
Among those giant trees, Chen Ming found traces of a unique structure of powerful natural chlorophyll.
This illustrates one thing.
That is, these giant trees once relied on photosynthesis to survive. The world was not like this.
Chen Ming continued to move underground.
The excavation continued for tens of meters.
He followed the roots of the giant tree and finally reached the underground world.
Looking around he saw only lushness and life.
Even through the protective clothing, he could feel the vitality of this underground world, and a feeling that made people a little addicted to this world.
After the armor system confirmed that the outside environment was an environment where humans could survive, Chen Ming tentatively took off the armor he was wearing.
An unprecedented feeling of comfort, as if he should have been born here, grown up here, and lived here, completely surrounded Chen Ming.
Chen Ming's expression suddenly froze.
Because Chen Ming had never experienced this feeling before, he was not sure whether it would be a precursor to some kind of attack.
But he soon relaxed.
Because he felt that his consciousness was becoming clearer and his fatigue was gradually disappearing.
He just stood here, as if lying on a comfortable hotbed.
The whole world seemed to be changing to make him more comfortable, to allow him to stay on this planet longer.
This was not some unknown psychic power or some other means interfering with his perception, causing him to have such an illusion.
This is what really happened.
Because the detector carried by Chen Ming is reporting that the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of the underground environment, as well as various values closely related to the environment that are invisible to the naked eye, are changing significantly.
Becoming more attuned to his body, more attuned to his consciousness.
The world was adapting to him.
This planet...is "alive".
If Chen Ming guessed correctly, this planet should also be a wonder of the universe.
It is the planet enveloped by the consciousness of the true Mother Earth, it is the true planet of Gaia.
What Chen Ming felt when he first arrived on the planet was true, the planet was crying.
It sensed its own arrival and placed some hope on itself.
Of course, gods don't exist, Chen Ming just had this emotion.
In his understanding, this planet should have a certain consciousness, and this consciousness will protect everything that exists on the planet.
Just like Chen Ming believes that there is consciousness in the phase space itself, and he will create species such as phase monsters to protect himself.
Anyway, in this universe, abstract concepts like dimensions can give birth to consciousness, and man-made dead things like spaceships can give birth to ship spirits.
The birth of consciousness on a vibrant planet is quite normal.
It is normal for a self-aware being to try to save itself.
At this point, Chen Ming finally confirmed one thing.
That is, the ecological environment in front of us definitely did not exist underground and under glaciers from the beginning.
It is more like a situation where after the environment in the galaxy has undergone drastic changes, countless creatures, guided by the consciousness of the planet, seek a way out again along the underground root veins of the giant tree where the geothermal heat maintains the temperature.
Because he noticed that the creatures underground all have certain characteristics of adapting to cold environments, but they have not evolved completely. Instead, they seem to have stopped evolving after a period of evolution.
It can just explain what Chen Ming saw.
It is absolutely impossible for those giant trees on the surface to grow without sufficient star light.
The climate on the surface was absolutely no different from that underground in the earliest times.
It wasn't until the star began to cool that life on the surface was forced to evolve characteristics to adapt to the environment.
After a period of evolution, new life began to appear underground, so all the creatures that were still struggling on the surface hid underground.
Life began again underground.
So what causes the star's light to dim?
Chen Ming didn't know, but he didn't mind helping this planet regain its past.
He wanted to see what would happen after the planet returned to its original state.
And it just so happens that he knows a technology.
Climate modification technologies.
Perhaps this technology can be used on this planet to make up for the dimness of the stars in this galaxy.
Or maybe, he can start from the stars in this galaxy?
Chen Minggang was thinking about whether to start investigating the sudden changes in climate inside galaxies starting from stars.
The detector he had just sent out to approach the star suddenly came back with a message.
On the dim star in the galaxy, there is an extremely bright light point that is moving rapidly.
Chen Ming's first reaction was that it was a stellar flare.
And from the photos sent back by the detector, it seems that it is indeed an irregularly shaped bright spot, accompanied by a large amount of erupted stellar material, and it seems to be just a flare.
But in Chen Ming's understanding, only stars with normal activity or frequent activity will have flare activity.
How could a star whose temperature suddenly dropped and turned the original habitable planet in the galaxy into an icy planet still have such a bright flare?
(End of chapter)