Chapter 384 Change
Two months later.
Origin Galaxy, Gaia Star, Scientific Research Center No.1.
Although it is called a scientific research center, it is actually a city with complete functions.
Chen Ming, who was at Scientific Research Center No. 1, had just finished the work at hand.
He combined the information on the scientific research progress of his battleship in the past two months and the results report on the battleship design and sent it to several other leaders of the project team.
As early as more than a month ago, Chen Ming had already built the No. 1 Scientific Research Center with the help of Yuhui.
After a month-long internal early opening, just a few days ago, Chen Ming's Gaia Star-1 Scientific Research Center was officially opened to the outside world.
And the news that he was building a new scientific research center and possessing research resources that even the empire did not have has already spread.
News that he is setting up scientific research funds within the empire and recruiting researchers and research groups on a large scale has already spread within the circle.
People are still coming to this city one after another.
The conditions given by Chen Ming are relatively loose.
As long as you can pass the online review and identity check, it won't be a problem to bring your family over.
He built a circle around the No. 1 Scientific Research Center that covers an area larger than the scientific research center. The ancillary facilities prepared in the urban area are specially used here.
Outside researchers and scientific research groups formed by outsiders can come to Chen Ming's colony. Of course, his own extraordinary research institute has already moved here.
At present, it is mainly managed by his deputy Lu Kang, who he personally promoted.
Even the capital ship project team that was previously in the empire also moved here.
Anyway, as Chen Ming said before, he has no shortage of energy resources.
His star gate and the star gate on the legion side can maintain 24-hour connectivity.
His colony and the Legion headquarters can be physically separated by only one door.
Unless the star gate needs to be connected to other places, it will be temporarily closed, but this does not affect Chen Ming's continued opening of the star gate in the future, allowing people to travel through it at will.
Keeping connected to the legion's star gate is a bit of a trick.
The Star Gate is at the capital of the Legion Star Territory, and those who want to come from there will definitely need to pass an inspection by the Legion.
If there is any problem, the Legion will not directly drive the person away, but will turn around and notify him to conduct the final review.
It can be regarded as an extra layer of insurance, plus a few more people to help Chen Ming do things.
The Legion is happy to do the same.
After all, the star gate leading to Chen Ming's colony can be opened anywhere there is a star gate, and no place will refuse Chen Ming's request.
But since Chen Ming is willing to open here, it is definitely impossible for them to drive people out.
For them, it is absolutely beneficial to maintain close ties with a purely scientific research colony like Chen Ming.
Therefore, the Legion even originally wanted to use the resources to open the Star Gate.
But in the end, Chen Ming came out.
After all, Chen Ming's energy resources are really free, but they are still very expensive for the legion.
Unless a technology that has just started to be developed recently has a key breakthrough in a short period of time, this situation should continue for some time.
After the entire team of the battleship project that Chen Ming was responsible for moved to Chen Ming's colony, the overall research situation was better than before.
The project team itself is built by the cooperation of multiple research groups, which are research groups in different directions and disciplines.
Many technologies do not understand each other very well.
In addition, the people who can participate in Chen Ming's project team are definitely the ones with the most advanced technologies from each company. They always look down upon each other, so the cooperation situation is not actually too ideal.
If Chen Ming hadn't relied on the resources at hand and his ability to suppress those people, the project team would have been overturned.
This also resulted in the slow progress of the project in the previous period.
However, the entire project team has been working together for more than half a year now, and finally there is some cooperation.
Now that they are in a scientific research environment created specifically by Chen Ming, rather than an environment temporarily put together by multiple different organizations to cooperate on capital ship research projects, the efficiency will only be higher than before.
There has been good progress in two months.
For example, it took the project team half a year to dispose of the clan leader's body, preserve the special organs, and determine the direction of the spacecraft's main control system.
Nothing else.
Things like spacecraft energy sources, engines, armor, and weapons are all out of progress.
But fortunately, these aspects have basically set the tone now.
It is expected that the basic framework of this capital ship will be constructed within a few months, and what is still a corpse will also have the prototype of a spaceship.
With the foundation in place, more detailed modifications can be made to this special battleship through subsequent complicated and diverse tests.
Just like what Chen Ming just did, he compiled the contents he had researched in the past two months and sent them to the respective persons in charge.
Afterwards, he would gather people for a meeting to explain the matter clearly.
Countless people have invested countless efforts in this project. Now it is not just Chen Ming's own project to build a capital ship, but a testing ground for the entire empire to test the most cutting-edge ship technology.
But these things are not things now.
Now he had to go next door and do something else.
Chen Ming got up and left the office and the building where he worked.
Like an ordinary researcher, he used the ready-made commuting system on the terminal to call a shuttle boat and set his destination.
Although he could directly use spiritual energy to get over it, Chen Ming suddenly wanted to get over it slowly.
He personally directed the Afterglows to build this city according to his needs. He also lived in this city for several months, but it seemed that he had never done this before and had never personally experienced life in the city.
Therefore, since there is no rush for what he has to do, he might as well take this opportunity to take a look at the city he built himself.
The shuttle boat took off.
In order to prevent some unexpected situations, a large number of ground orbital defense facilities have been built on the planet, and orbital defense systems are also prepared in space.
Therefore, any spacecraft needs to go to a special area to enter and exit the planet's atmosphere, otherwise it will be attacked.
Although Chen Ming has absolute control over those defense facilities, there is no need for him to deliberately take an unusual path at this time.
This also makes it easier for him to observe this city that belongs to him.
Chen Ming is already familiar with the layout of the city. After all, the entire city was designed bit by bit according to his needs and with his own eyes.
At least he also knows something about urban planning.
Although what he knew was about industrial urban planning, the knowledge was similar and he had some experience.
The level of involvement in the project is far greater than that of anyone else sitting in a similar position.
But it’s one thing to see it on a blueprint, but another thing to see it in action.
When the shuttle boat took off, the first thing Chen Ming saw when he looked out through the port window of the spacecraft was that it was empty.
Although there are many high-rise buildings in the city, the deserted streets and the environment with only a few sparse spaceships driving in the sky gave him this feeling.
At the beginning of the design, Scientific Research Center No. 1 was a city that could accommodate a population of tens of millions.
Originally, a city of this size would not be so easy to build in just about three months, even if it had an afterglow.
Generally speaking, there must be a city center first, and then gradually expand from the center to the surrounding areas.
But with the help of Chen Ming's spiritual power, everything went smoothly.
It was quick and outrageous.
This has resulted in the entire No. 1 Scientific Research Center being ridiculously empty today.
Although Chen Ming's review standards for people who can come here have been much looser than before, the total number of scientific researchers working here is only a little over 10,000.
Counting some people who have decided to settle down and bring their families over, the total number is only about 30,000.
Almost no human beings can be seen anywhere, only the robots responsible for maintaining the city are running.
Chen Ming has tried his best to bring people in the city together, but the result is...
But it's not a big problem.
His No. 1 scientific research center has only been open to the public for more than a month and to the outside world for less than two weeks. It is normal for there to be few people.
Chen Ming had lost count of how many people there were in the empire. Even if scientific researchers only accounted for a small part of the empire's population, they would definitely be enough to fill his colonies.
There's no need to rush, just keep doing what needs to be done.
The shuttle boat circled over the city, and after reaching the area where it could enter and leave the planet, it flew straight into space.
In the blink of an eye, the shuttle boat broke through the atmosphere of the Gaia planet and saw the starry sky outside, as well as the half-body corpse of the Nightmare of the Planes floating in the starry sky, orbiting the Gaia planet.
Next to the half of the corpse, there was a space station that was about the same size as the corpse of the Nightmare of the Plane, half surrounding its corpse for easy research.
This space station, like the cities on the surface, was created by Chen Ming using spiritual energy.
However, he is only responsible for the construction process, and all subsequent maintenance is left to Yuhui and various mechanical devices, robots and other means.
Although the destination of the commuter shuttle boat that Chen Ming was riding was not the Nightmare Space Station, Chen Ming chose to use his authority slightly to change the direction of the shuttle boat and arrive at the port of the space station.
Of course Chen Ming could enter and leave his space station at will, and he quickly saw what the space station looked like now.
The situation here on the space station is much better than on the ground.
Although the port is not too busy, it is still somewhat popular.
After all, this place is not as big as a city on the surface, and a group of people organized by him have arrived here before.
Stayed at the port for a while.
Chen Ming was about to leave when he suddenly saw the Director of Psionics driving a car from the passage leading from the space station port to the interior of the space station and came to Chen Ming.
Jumping off the vehicle inside the space station, the Director of Psionics said to Chen Ming: "I just received what you sent me. I'm still thinking about when you will call everyone together to prepare the rest. Why?" Are you here now?”
"Come and take a look if you are passing by. You also know that I have always been concerned about this project." Chen Ming has always been concerned about the development of ship psionic shield technology based on the psionic shield of Planar Nightmare.
After all, the Zerg really need a shield.
The research progress of the psychic shield project can be said to be very satisfactory.
The principle of Plane Nightmare using psychic energy to create a passive gravity shield has been clarified, and the laboratory is trying to reproduce it.
With the psychic theory and technology exchanged from the survivors some time ago, it is only a matter of time before practical results are achieved.
It won't be long before the finished product of the psychic shield generator that can enter testing should appear in Chen Ming's hands.
Once his psychic abilities are optimized, the truly usable psychic shield generator technology will mature immediately.
The Queen will also get this thing soon after, which will be used to generate shields for the Zerg fleet.
Although the psionic power of the insect queen is to strengthen the body, judging from the results of the psionic shield research team, the effect of the psionic shield formed depends on the nature of the psionic power, not whether the psionic power has such function, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to use it.
The psychic shield generator technology optimized by Chen Ming's psychic energy will also be returned by Chen Ming later.
He no longer hides this part of his ability to optimize technology.
Because now at least no one in the empire can do anything to him
Anyway, what he does is try his best to optimize the technologies he needs. As for whether some other advanced and valuable technologies should be optimized.
He doesn't care.
The empire couldn't force him, it could only provide for him, and wait for him to take the initiative to optimize some technologies that were of little significance to him, but would be valuable to the empire.
He doesn't care about optimizing a few things every day.
A few a day won’t take much time.
So after learning about Chen Ming's attitude, the empire even set up a warehouse to prepare the technologies that needed to be optimized for Chen Ming.
This is also good for Chen Ming to a certain extent. At least he can discover some interesting things that he has never heard of.
It can only be said that Chen Ming's side has been working hard from time to time, and the exchanges between the empire and the survivors have obtained new technologies, as well as the application of various technologies self-developed by the empire.
It can be said that the Empire is currently in an era of technological explosion.
Whether it is Chen Ming's psychic shield or psychic technology elsewhere, especially the broader psychic knowledge at Fanchao Research Institute, they are developing rapidly.
There are also new developments in various disciplines where the empire has exchanged technologies from the survivors, and they can break through the shackles of the past.
In the Mechanical Tribe War, which has come to an end, the empire has occupied most of the Mechanical Tribe star field, and the entire empire can be said to be in very good condition.
At least better than before.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Chen Ming for the time being. He just habitually thinks of a lot of things along the same train of thought.
Now he was still chatting with the Minister of Psychics about his sudden arrival.
The Minister of Psychics also believed Chen Ming's casual excuse to stop by and take a look, and said: "Lao An has been keeping an eye on it, so you don't have to worry too much about it."
"To be honest, you are really too busy. There are things you have to do everywhere. I think you should find a chance to rest."
Chen Ming immediately said: "I'm fine."
"But why do I feel that you can't handle it anymore? I feel that your spiritual power has not changed for a long time."
"You are a psyker. Psychics are the most important thing. All your energy is spent on other things. Are you really okay?"
"Um..."
Chen Ming's spiritual energy actually changes.
He has always been using the scarlet rift in his consciousness space to enter the scarlet dimension to seize the power within it.
Whether it's the past six months or two months, he has never stopped.
As long as his condition is good enough, he will think of going to the scarlet dimension to steal something to improve himself.
Even in the process of continuously diving into the scarlet dimension, he even met the eye that peeked out from the crack.
Even now, when he touched that eye, his mental power almost collapsed. Fortunately, the phase power that belonged to him helped him.
After that, Chen Ming's mental strength was the same as when he first entered the scarlet dimension, with a very obvious qualitative change.
Maybe the next encounter will have a different outcome.
However, changes in pure mental power quality are not so easy to see.
Moreover, most of the improvements obtained by entering the Scarlet Dimension are purely spiritual knowledge improvements.
Only when he had spare time to acquire Scarlet's knowledge, Chen Ming went back to absorb part of Scarlet's power and enhance this part of his own power.
But he won't mobilize the scarlet power easily, so it's normal for others not to see the change.
He also clearly knows where his bottleneck is, so his behavior really seems like he doesn't care about psychic energy itself, but cares about other things.
"Don't worry, I have a plan."
When Chen Ming said this, of course the psychic director wouldn't say much: "Okay, you probably don't need any advice from me anyway, so I'll continue my work."
"Wrong."
The psychic director who had just turned around suddenly stopped moving, took out the terminal and clicked a few times, sending a document to Chen Ming.
"Look at this."
Chen Ming did not take out the terminal. His psychic power could help him see directly that what the psychic director sent was an application report.
On this Plane Nightmare space station, there is a research team that wants to use a kind of equipment that is not available on the space station to study the Plane Nightmare corpse.
The equipment is not difficult to obtain, as it is available at the No. 1 Scientific Research Center.
But the problem is that it is not available on the space station, and the space station does not have extra space to install this new equipment.
So what the research team applied for was to bring some materials from the corpse of the Plane Nightmare to the ground, and they needed to use the fixed equipment of the scientific research center to study it.
There are quite a lot of issues involved in this kind of matter, so even if Chen Ming doesn't come to rely on himself today, the director of psychic energy will hand over the application to Chen Ming for decision later.
Chen Ming first retrieved the information of the applicants and looked at their experiences.
This group is a scientific research group that was not well-known before.
I have been quietly conducting research on antimatter technology.
Just a few days before Chen Ming's scientific research center opened to the public, they published a structural optimization plan for an antimatter fuel storage device.
Both the Empire and Zinda offered them olive branches, but they finally chose Chen Ming's side.
Originally, the most Chen Ming could do to recruit them was to throw them into the project team of the battleship.
But their team leader said they were actually more interested in the Planar Nightmare project.
Although antimatter technology and Planar Nightmare seemed to be out of reach, Chen Ming still assigned them to the Plane Nightmare project out of respect for these researchers who had reliable research results.
After confirming that none of the team members applying for this have any identity problems.
Chen Ming carefully considered the possibility and impact of doing so.
At present, the project team of Plane Nightmare has developed a technology that can stabilize the body of Plane Nightmare from turning into a black hole without Chen Ming's own hands. It is feasible to study the theory on the ground.
It won't be too dangerous, and if there is danger, Chen Ming can rush to solve the problem as soon as possible.
However, for Chen Ming, instead of thinking about solving the problem one time, it is better to consider solving the problem from the root.
For him, passing this approval and ensuring safety after approval is far less easy than expanding the space station and giving more space to install equipment.
So Chen Ming directly activated his spiritual power.
He has no shortage of materials on hand, no shortage of design plans, no shortage of mental energy and free time.
Of course he can directly expand the space station further.
The space station that originally only half-surrounded the corpse of the Plane Nightmare had completely wrapped the corpse in just tens of seconds.
Everything that needs to be installed has been installed inside the new space station area by Chen Ming. Even the Afterglow core that is responsible for this area has been sent to the place where it is responsible.
"Okay, I will reject this application. You ask him to apply for installing new equipment in a new area of the space station. Anyway, there is still funds. If it is missing, let me know."
"Okay."
The psychic director turned around and left.
Chen Ming did not stay on the space station any longer.
He got on the shuttle again, left the space station, and began orbiting Gaia.
Not long after, the shuttle boat had circled to the other side of the planet.
And here, there should be the wormhole that Chen Ming spent a lot of time and energy to migrate here.
But now, the location of the wormhole has been covered by a huge space station.
The wormhole itself is in the center of the space station.
Chen Ming's psychic power has forcibly stabilized the space station. Combined with some of the empire's own technologies, it is theoretically feasible to build a space station near the wormhole.
Judging from the current well-run space station, it is actually feasible.
This space station was built purely to screen and record people who passed through the wormhole.
However, the actual situation was slightly different from what Chen Ming thought at the beginning.
The shuttle boat soon entered the harbor.
Chen Ming's spaceship was released by default, but Chen Ming did not follow the port directly into the wormhole at the core of the space station. Instead, he found a ship's position and stopped.
After disembarking.
What Chen Ming could see was not just a space station with cold equipment.
It is a space station with a full flavor of life similar to the central city of the pirate space station where Chen Ming once stayed.
(End of chapter)