Chapter 382 Progress of Science and Technology
The death of the Star Eater caused the wormhole, which was still rotating steadily in the same and corresponding orbit as the Gaia planet in a corner that Chen Ming didn't notice, to leave again.
But this time, Chen Ming will not let it run away again.
The moment he arrived at the wormhole wearing biological armor, his psychic energy wave was directly wrapped around the wormhole. Acted on it.
The power of his psychic powers prevents him from directly controlling the wormhole. He can only use the power he learned from the Nightmare of the Plane to maintain the stability of the wormhole.
But he had another way to limit the wormhole.
He also used the method he learned from the Nightmare of the Planes after mastering the power of dimensions.
The invisible spiritual energy fluctuations released by Chen Ming seemed to be dyed with a touch of blue that was full of destructive atmosphere for an instant.
And this blue existence tore apart space under his control, tearing open a spherical rift from the normal universe to the phase space, trapping the wormhole in the space rift.
Wormholes born based on normal cosmic physics and space rules cannot enter phase space, otherwise the intersection of the two spaces will cause the wormhole itself to directly collapse.
Regardless of whether this wormhole, which can be regarded as a wonder of the universe, has its own consciousness like the planet Gaia, or it is purely acting according to some rules that Chen Ming does not understand, it is impossible for it to enter the phase space.
Because it belongs to the normal universe, and the phase space belongs to another dimension.
Just as Chen Ming thought.
The wormhole was locked in the only space in the spherical space rift that was still considered a normal universe, and could not leave another step.
But Chen Ming could not maintain such a spatial rift forever.
Putting aside the issue of mental energy consumption, it is definitely not a good thing if the separation between space and space is destroyed.
Whether it is dangerous scarlet or safe phase, there should be no direct spatial integration with the normal universe.
It shouldn't be a big deal if he does it temporarily, but it will definitely cause huge trouble if he keeps it up.
So immediately after, Chen Ming's spiritual energy fluctuations acted near the wormhole again.
This time Chen Ming's psychic power was much gentler, and he only sent four devices called space solidification anchor points that were about one cubic meter in size.
And their functions are already shown in their names.
It is used to solidify the space and prevent the properties of the space from changing.
Specifically, it has two basic functions. One is to build a safe zone within a space to protect some key areas of the empire from forced entry by external jumps.
Some semi-permanent areas, such as various important political and military star systems and planets, can be installed.
The legion branch in Gallo installed this device and successfully prevented an attack by the mechanical tribe.
Blocking a large area like a planet or a galaxy requires a large number of solid anchor points.
However, if you only block a small area of space and solidify anchor points, generally a group of four is enough.
Just like Chen Ming only prepared four.
Because its purpose is the same as another basic function of the solidified anchor point, which is to block the wormhole, it only requires four solidifying devices to satisfy it.
A blocked wormhole makes it easier to extract the singularity.
However, Chen Ming did not intend to extract the singularity in this special wormhole. He just wanted the wormhole to be blocked and fixed in place.
Chen Ming solved the problem of wormholes with long legs that could run away by tearing up the space, avoiding the problem of anchor points being unable to be installed.
The singularity inside the wormhole will not be solidified, which means that while fixing the position of the wormhole, it will not affect the operation of the wormhole itself.
What is solidified is only the nature of space, not the things in space. Anything that does not use the nature of space to carry out activities will not be affected.
It is equivalent to suppressing the ability to use only space for activities.
In the area where the remaining space in the spherical fissure was still intact, four locking anchors surrounding the wormhole were quickly activated.
Completely surround the wormhole trapped in it.
The built-in high-efficiency solar panels can keep the entire device running for a long time, and only require regular maintenance to keep this space solid.
The wormhole that was still moving in a small space gradually stabilized, and its moving speed became slower and slower.
After confirming that the device has been successfully run and has achieved results.
Chen Ming is also ready to start repairing the spatial rift he just tore.
But as soon as he had this idea, he noticed that the speed of the wormhole suddenly stopped falling after it dropped to a certain level.
Just keep moving at a very slow but still movable speed in the torn space.
It is moving in an entire space that is solidified by a space solidification device.
This situation made Chen Ming a little confused about what to say.
He can only say that this wormhole is indeed a wonder of the universe.
Chen Ming frowned and thought for a while, and finally thought of a possible solution.
He used his psychic powers to recreate the four anchor points and made some modifications to them.
Using devices developed in the past six months that can help the normal universe and phase space communicate, as well as some previous phase technologies, these four new anchor points have the ability to connect the normal universe and phase space.
These four new anchor points are all related to the four existing anchor points, and they can identify each other during operation and are judged as a group.
Therefore, when Chen Ming restarted the anchor point and sent the anchor point into the phase space.
The space corresponding to the location of the wormhole in phase space is also blocked.
Chen Ming took advantage of the corresponding anchoring abilities of the two spaces to strengthen the solidification ability of the device.
This time, with the help of phase space.
The wormhole finally stopped moving, and was truly fixed in the space surrounded by solid anchor points.
Chen Ming relaxed a little.
After confirming that the wormhole would no longer escape, he released psychic energy waves and began to repair the space rift that he had just torn apart.
But he suddenly stopped the repair process at hand and frowned.
Because he suddenly had a feeling that something was wrong.
He felt that the space he was repairing was experiencing slight tremors that he had not expected.
A tremor that would not have been noticeable if he hadn't focused all his attention on the space.
There was an inexplicable force acting on the space that he had just torn apart and repaired at this time from an unknown corner that Chen Ming could not directly sense.
Chen Ming suddenly felt an extra pressure on his heart. He immediately forcibly suppressed the tremors and returned them to normal. At the same time, he speeded up and completely repaired the space that had just been torn apart.
The force that shook the space warned him that he must do less things like actively tearing apart space, and it was even better not to do it again.
Of course, the greater possibility is that it is not a warning, but a sign of some kind of danger.
After locking the wormhole.
Chen Ming spent a little time adjusting the trajectory of the wormhole so that it could continue to orbit.
In other words, let the solid anchor point in the normal universe and phase space that limits the wormhole begin to revolve.
Now that he had taken action, Chen Ming also acted more simply.
Instead of letting the wormhole revolve with the Gaia planet, he dragged the wormhole into the orbit of the Gaia planet.
It began to orbit the Gaia planet from the ecliptic plane of the planet and became a "satellite" of the Gaia planet.
This allows the spacecraft from the Origin Galaxy to reach the Gaia planet as soon as possible after passing through the wormhole, without the need for a period of navigation.
If there is still time and extra energy in the future, Chen Ming will also change the position of the wormhole at the other end of the origin galaxy, and also change it to the satellite orbit of the planet.
Solved the wormhole problem.
Chen Ming returned to the spacecraft.
The Minister of Climate Change was looking at the images coming back from the sensor in a daze, feeling a little nervous but also a little excited.
Obviously he saw everything Chen Ming did just now, including a series of operations that locked the wormhole with spiritual energy, forcibly tore apart and repaired the space, and finally dragged the wormhole to the orbit of the planet Gaia.
He has met psykers and knows how powerful psykers can be in personal martial arts.
He had also heard about Chen Ming's abilities and knew that Chen Ming should be considered one of the strongest psykers in the entire empire, and that he had not yet reached his limit.
But now that he saw what Chen Ming did in person, he understood what it meant to be the strongest, and looked at Chen Ming with more awe.
Chen Ming didn't care about other people's opinions. He just saved the entire process of what just happened.
Including his discovery of Astrophage to his final solution to Astrophage.
But he cut off the part where he tore apart space and repaired it.
He already has enough records in the empire to prove himself and does not need additional performance.
Any more will only create unnecessary fear in people’s minds.
After saving all the contents, Chen Ming sent a copy of the file he had just saved to everyone who should send it, just like the last time he encountered the Nightmare of the Planes.
"The matter should be settled now. I have to go back to the empire. Do you want to go back together?"
The Minister of Climate Change immediately responded to Chen Ming's question: "Okay, I have to go back and prepare the equipment I will use later. It is enough for me to go back by myself. Can the rest of us stay here?"
"No problem, I will be responsible for their safety."
Chen Ming said as he stood up and put his hands on the shoulders of the Minister of Climate Change.
In just a blink of an eye, he and the minister appeared on the space station port of the Department of Climate Change.
Only non-researchers and some robots are working here at this time.
"Contact me when you're ready."
Chen Ming patted the minister on the shoulder, waved to him, and disappeared on the space station in a blink of an eye.
Two weeks later.
Chen Ming looked through the files on the terminal in his hand and could see that a lot of things had happened in the past half month.
The most important thing is the plan to dispose of Astral Eater's body.
Chen Ming still used the same method as the Plane Nightmare.
He took out some samples and threw them to the empire for research, but kept most of the corpses in his own hands, using them as bait to attract talents.
But this time, the research on Astrophage is more troublesome than the Nightmare of the Planes. The limbs of the plane nightmare only need to solve the gravity problem of its corpse.
But the astrophage's body needs an environment of thousands of degrees Celsius to preserve, otherwise it will melt.
The only natural high-temperature environments available are stars.
Therefore, this time the research institute to study part of the body tissue of the astral phagocytosis was built in a galaxy within an empire that is similar to the star of the planet Gaia.
Not on Legion territory.
In addition to the fact that there are no similar stars on the Legion side, this situation is also because the Fanchao Research Institute signed an agreement with the 14th Legion and Chen Ming.
The Fanchao Research Institute belongs directly to the empire, so it can also be seen as an agreement between Chen Minghe and the empire.
It can even be directly regarded as an agreement between Chen Ming and the empire.
At first, it was the Fanchao Research Institute who took the initiative to come over. They wanted to cooperate with Chen Ming.
They provide people, money and efforts, Chen Ming provides samples for them to study, and the results are shared together.
There is quite an idea for Chen Ming to leave the army and become independent.
The Legion remained silent throughout the whole process.
Because the legion's scientific research resources are indeed inferior to Fan Chao, it would definitely not be a good choice to exchange Baiquan's favor with Chen Ming, so we might as well wait for Chen Ming to make his own decision.
Of course, Chen Ming rejected this type of cooperation plan proposed by the Fanchao Research Institute.
Not only because of the relationship with the Legion, but also because of other reasons.
The cooperation he wanted was carried out in accordance with the previous cooperation method, which was based on his laboratory and his research center.
At most, he provides some scraps to the empire for research, and the real bulk must remain in his hands.
He wants to train his own scientific researchers.
Of course, Chen Ming didn't mean that he wouldn't give others a chance at all.
He still agreed to fully open the empire to the empire after his research center in the Origin System was officially opened to the outside world. Anyone who passed the review could participate in the project in the name of academic exchange.
Chen Ming from the Fanchao Research Institute could even give him some of the same privileges that he had agreed with the Fourteenth Legion in advance, which could be regarded as giving some preferential treatment.
The reason why he did this is also very simple.
That is, the research center he built on Gaia, which can be said to cover almost a whole planet, cannot only have his own project team.
He must build a scientific research center full of academic atmosphere that can still operate without the various resources he provides.
For this reason, in the early days of the operation of this scientific research center, he had to relax some conditions slightly and recruit some peripheral members to populate the planet.
Prepare for the transition into the future.
Therefore, Chen Ming is still secretly working on a scientific research fund to support some potential independent research institutes within the empire.
When the scientific research center opens, the research institutes he has supported will become part of it.
Therefore, the agreement Chen Ming wanted to sign with the empire was all prepared for his purpose.
Neither Fan Chao nor the Empire could do anything against Chen Ming.
Because Chen Ming has mastered the truly most advanced research resources.
Fan Chao could only sign this agreement in the end. At any rate, Chen Ming also gave some preferential treatment. At least when the institute was only open internally, the earliest members would include researchers from the Fan Chao Institute.
As for how much you can get back from going to Chen Ming's place, it depends on the capabilities of Fanchao Research Institute and Chen Ming.
Anyway, Chen Ming always insisted on sitting on the imperial chair.
He has never had independent ideas, so the interactions between researchers can only be regarded as job-hopping between each other, and they will not have any strange names.
Whether a researcher can be retained or not really depends solely on the salary.
Also in the past half month.
On a newly opened research space station located near a certain star within the empire.
Research on organisms such as astral phages and research on substances such as astral phagocytic fluids are also being officially carried out.
The research on other forms of life forms is showing signs of becoming a front-line technology.
Even the Dyson Sphere project, which the empire had previously carried out but was unable to pursue due to insufficient technical level, was also brought back from the grave by some of the Astral Phagocyte organizations brought back by Chen Ming.
The emergence of Astrophage indirectly supported an unknown number of researchers.
In addition to the new research project on Astrophage that has just been launched, multiple previous projects on Plane Nightmare have also made initial progress in half a month.
Of course, what Chen Ming is most concerned about is the research process of psychic shield.
This is a project to study how Planar Nightmare uses its own spiritual energy to build a passive gravity shield near its body.
Gravity psionic energy is unique to Plane Nightmare, and using gravitational psionic energy to construct a gravity shield is also part of its ability.
But as long as the principles can be clearly studied, the theory of psychic shield can be extended.
Other psykers or psionic devices can create similar shields.
Chen Ming had felt that the Zerg fleet needed a shield before, and this idea was even more confirmed during this attack on Astrophage.
Therefore, he has been paying close attention to this project and continuously increasing investment in this project.
He needs this technology.
In addition to these studies funded by Chen Ming and supported by the empire.
There are also some studies for which Chen is fully responsible and have made progress.
Which projects are about scavenger robots.
The nanorobots on the scavengers have iteratively updated themselves to a digital-level optimization program over tens of thousands of years.
It can analyze and optimize its own functions according to the situation in which it is used, achieving an effect similar to Chen Ming's in-depth psychic repair, constantly adjusting itself, and approaching the "perfection" of its own functionality.
Although Chen Ming has such spiritual power, he knows that he cannot optimize everything in the entire empire.
He knew that his abilities had limits, but his skills did not.
Therefore, Chen Ming is studying how to template and modularize this optimization program, and find ways to reduce its complexity in mathematical operations, so that it can adapt to more low-end environments and be applied to more environments.
Rather than just being applied to nanorobots.
He wants to continue to lower the threshold for using this program, and eventually allow this program to penetrate into countless fields.
In addition, Chen Ming has another research plan.
That is to apply this optimization procedure to psionics.
But this is more complicated, and he doesn't have a clue yet.
However, he felt that if his two ideas were combined, He Gu, who was engaged in the civilian application of psychic technology, would be more interested.
It's just that He Gu seems to be still studying those things based on Fan Chao's plan to militarize psychic weapons, so he shouldn't have time for the time being.
When he was free in the future, Chen Ming went to He Gu to take over the project.
Anyway, the optimization program can only be regarded as his secondary research project.
He is mainly researching nano-forges.
Inside the Scavenger's body is a broken nanoforge that has yet to be repaired.
The reason is also very simple, Chen Ming's spiritual power does not work.
It's not that the nanoforge was attacked by psionic powers of destruction or anything like that, but that it was attacked by time.
It was damaged too long ago, and Chen Ming's spiritual power cannot reach the ancient times close to ten thousand years ago, so it is impossible to repair it to its former appearance.
But at least it can still be used, and it can also be used for colony construction.
With enough materials, it could build a new industrialized colony in a matter of days.
However, judging from the results of Chen Ming's analysis, the industrialized colonies finally established must be industrialized with shining civilization. It cannot be directly applied to humans.
So he is thinking of ways to turn the nanoforge from the nanoforge of shining civilization into the nanoforge of human civilization.
The progress is quite obvious.
Because the iterative updates of the scavenger's own nanorobots have also optimized the nanorobots in the nanoforge.
They adapt quickly and learn Imperial technology.
The industrial buildings built by themselves are also optimized.
And this is not the kind of optimization that is completely accepted, but a fusion optimization that integrates shining technology and human technology.
The end result can combine the best of both worlds.
Not only will it increase the potential of the colony, but it will also allow Chen Ming to master more advanced technology to a certain extent.
It can only be said that the value of these giant beasts is indeed terrifying.
Each one is like a treasure trove.
As long as their troubles can be solved, the rest will only be beneficial.
This time, Chen Ming brought the news about Planet Eater back and held a meeting.
These behemoths, including Planar Nightmare and Astrophag, are collectively known as Leviathan.
Scavenger robots are also included.
These research processes related to Leviathan are all called Leviathan projects
It has the highest level of authority throughout the empire, and the empire will try its best to meet any needs.
It can be seen that the empire is really focusing on development now, and has not been dazzled by the victory in the war between the machines.
The senior officials of the empire also know that there are countless existences in the universe that threaten the survival of the empire.
Chen Ming is of course happy to accept the current situation.
In addition to theoretical and scientific research progress.
In the past half month, some substantive plans have also been advanced, such as the climate transformation plan that Chen Ming is most concerned about.
(End of chapter)