Chapter 388 Leaked
Not long after Chen Ming left the satellite, he received another message from the afterglow core of the Gaia satellite.
Still the same group, still a new application.
The leader of that team applied to install several more layers of magnetic levitation vacuum partitions in the ground connection part, and then also wanted to isolate a separate space inside the dome to create a partition area.
Chen Ming easily approved and turned around to continue doing his own thing.
He had just launched into the sky at this time, and he had not yet had time to leave the gravitational orbit of the planet, and was still within the origin galaxy.
So since he has returned from Fanchao, why not just drop by the Astrophag space station next to the star in the galaxy.
There are already signs of research on weapons targeting the new Leviathan. He must also pay attention to the project of astral phagocytosis that can help ships enter stars.
Reading those brief reports every day is not enough to fully understand the current project progress, so you still have to go there in person.
Astrophage itself has many projects worthy of research, and of course there will also be project teams that use the technology obtained from Astrophage for combat.
Under the entire combat project group, there are also different combat groups such as surface, ocean, space, etc.
Under these combat research groups there will be several smaller groups of different types and tendencies, and the composition of the personnel is quite complex.
The project team on the Nightmare Space Station is basically in the same situation.
Although it seems troublesome, it is also troublesome to manage.
But that's where the benefits end.
When Chen Ming is in need, he can quickly find the right person to do the right thing, and he doesn't need to worry about everything.
Of course, he still had to be careful not to start any big fights.
He is only here to confirm the progress of the technology he needs, not to interfere with other people's research.
Therefore, Chen Ming's spaceship didn't wander around after it took off, and flew straight to the Astrophage Space Station. After getting off the ship, he immediately went to the project team that he needed most now to study the Astrophage armor of space ships.
Chen Ming's arrival attracted a little attention.
However, he acted quickly and immediately left the public view with the leader of the project team and went to the team leader's office.
The team leader also smiled when he learned that Chen Ming wanted to know the status of the project, and told Chen Ming that they had just made a breakthrough yesterday.
The astrophage armor studied by their project team is currently named artificial astrophage barrier armor.
Installed outside the armor and between the armor and the hull, it does not need to be very thick. It only needs to be able to isolate the heat energy of the star so that the battleship can enter the star after installing the astral armor.
As for the breakthrough progress he mentioned, it mainly means that the testing of theoretical data has been fully completed.
All that's left is to make the actual finished product and test it.
In the normal research process, perfecting the theory does not mean that it is almost complete. In fact, only when the theory is perfected can subsequent actual testing begin, and there is still a lot of work waiting.
But Chen Ming still left there very satisfied.
Because when the theory of a technology has been successful, he can already use his own spiritual energy to create the products of such technology and directly conduct subsequent tests.
Even judging from the data, not all stars can enter and exit stably.
After all, there are many types of stars, and different stars have different internal temperatures.
But not to mention the hottest A and B-type stars, at least the following stars can enter and exit at will after the astral armor is installed on the ship. As long as they are not directly penetrated from the outermost armor all the way to the hull, the armor It will continue to work.
As for the astral armor of stars with higher protection strength, it also shows a matter of psychic optimization.
Armor technology is no longer a problem.
The only weapons left were the weapons against the jellyfish Leviathan that he and Fan Chao cooperated with.
Chen Ming did not stay in his own territory for too long. He just had a brief chat with the leaders of several important projects and then returned to Fan Chao to continue his previous work.
And time passed again for a few days.
The empire was the same as the previous two months. As usual, before the transaction with the survivors began, Chen Ming was asked in a galaxy to ask him what technology he needed.
The empire can let Chen Ming choose the technology he needs, and they will sort out the technology used to trade with the survivors.
But Chen Ming refused.
He didn't want anything to do with the survivors.
Because he has increasingly felt that there is definitely a big problem with these survivors.
Some time ago, they were able to discover the existence of Astrophag, knew that he had fought with Astrophag, and even took the initiative to promote that they knew the weaknesses of Astrophag.
This means that they will definitely be able to discover the conflict between him and the three-color Leviathan later.
After all, the distance between the existing star-phagating galaxy and the galaxy where the three-color Leviathan finally stayed is not too far.
This is definitely not difficult with the technology of the survivors and the Shining Civilization.
But the survivors didn't get in touch at that time.
Chen Ming had been waiting for several hours not only for Leviathan to appear, but also for a call from the survivor.
But no.
The situation that may be hidden in this really worries Chen Ming.
Of course, it's also possible that after he rejected the survivor last time, the survivor didn't plan to be hot-faced and cold-assed this time.
But Chen Ming clearly felt from the transactions conducted by the survivors that the survivors were very concerned about matters related to the empire and him.
He suffered a defeat in the battle with Leviathan, and there is no follow-up situation that the survivors should be very interested in.
But there are still no survivors.
Therefore, Chen Ming just kept paying attention to the survivors, but had absolutely nothing to do with them.
As long as he can find any flaw in the survivors, he will immediately pounce on them and kill the troublesome survivors completely.
He is currently still monitoring the three-color star and the Leviathan inside the three-color star, while at the Fanchao Research Institute, he is developing new weapons against Leviathan.
With his help, the progress of weapon development can be said to be very fast.
At present, several targeted new weapons have been developed and can be put into actual use.
Chen Ming also felt that it was almost done.
Anyway, after a technology has no problems in theory, the remaining large-scale installation is his own business.
He was ready to face Leviathan.
After he thought about it, he decided to solve it first, which was the red M-type star with the lowest temperature.
It was also the Leviathan that was finally guided out by the blue jellyfish Leviathan.
Chen Ming has prepared the fleet and weapons in advance.
But just when he was about to leave.
He received an urgent notification from the afterglow core of the Gaia satellite.
Negative matter leaks.
"It just happened to be this time."
Chen Ming didn't hesitate at all, and immediately used his spiritual energy to reach the sky above the dome he specially set up on the satellite.
When he first arrived, a heavy atmosphere that he had never felt before was hanging around the dome, giving Chen Ming some psychological pressure.
Although there is nothing wrong with the dome at first glance.
But to his psychic perception, the vacuum isolation layer at the base of the dome had been damaged.
A large amount of negative matter will seep into the satellite through this gap.
The area that is expected to be affected is at least one-third the size of a satellite.
This is not something Chen Ming said casually, but he actually felt this way.
After he had a cognitive concept of negative matter before and was actually exposed to a large amount of negative matter.
The moment he arrived here, he really felt the existence of negative matter that he had been completely unable to touch before.
He could feel that everything that was fused with negative matter and controlled by him was so heavy at this moment.
Although it only takes a while to get used to the heaviness and it will no longer be a heaviness, but God knows whether this is good or bad.
Chen Ming glanced around the dome from the sky. At this time, everyone in the project team had appeared outside the dome.
Nothing happened to them.
This may be good news, regardless of the specific cause of the leak...
Chen Ming activated his spiritual energy again and appeared in the laboratory inside the dome.
And quickly came to the place where the problem first appeared in the vacuum isolation layer at the bottom of the dome.
This is the area where the corpses of the Plane Nightmare are stored.
It is strictly protected by various isolation facilities and security facilities.
Even though they were protected in this way, problems still occurred.
Is this an accident... or man-made?
With doubts, Chen Ming once again used his spiritual energy to sense the condition of the facility he had built himself.
After entering the facility that was now completely penetrated by negative matter, Chen Ming felt the heaviness of this area becoming more and more serious, and he could also more clearly sense the way in which negative matter leaked.
Although this made him feel uncomfortable, it also allowed him to quickly sense what was happening.
After some inspection, Chen Ming came to a conclusion.
The cause of this accident was that too many safety facilities were installed on the storage facility, which caused all negative substances to be accumulated in it.
The accumulation density of negative materials is too high, and eventually the equipment is overwhelmed and leaks occur.
Chen Ming once again called up the list of project team members and checked each of their information in detail.
There is nothing wrong with this information, and everyone's identity is innocent.
He sighed slightly.
It seems that this matter can only be like this. It can be regarded as man-made or an accident.
It was impossible for him to pursue anything.
So after Chen Ming used psychic energy to repair the damage to the facility, he dismantled some of the safety devices installed on the equipment that stored negative matter.
And a new shunt device for negative substances has been built, which can store part of the negative substances separately. After the equipment for detecting negative substances confirms that the density of negative substances exceeds a certain limit, all the negative substances in this shunt device will be stored. Sent to the Nightmare Space Station.
Anyway, there is no shortage of negative matter over there.
After completing this matter and confirming that the laboratory's condition has returned to its original state.
Chen Ming turned his head and glanced at the research equipment that was still running in the central area of the laboratory. There is a large amount of data beating on it, which is automatically recorded by the computer.
Chen Ming feels that this is no longer a question of how much valuable data can be recorded, but whether there are enough manpower to study these valuable data.
Moreover, the negative matter has already completely spread out.
In just a few dozen seconds after he arrived, the planet had already integrated a large amount of accumulated negative matter.
While it made him feel like the entire planet had an extra sense of weight, it wasn't a purely bad thing in a way.
Because he can indeed feel that the entire planet is spatially stabilized by some kind of force, but there are many places on the planet that have not been infiltrated by negative matter and are still in an unstable state.
This unique structure is of great research value.
It is almost possible for a small project team that was originally just an extension from the Nightmare of the Plane to even have the possibility of competing with the Corpse Project Team of the Nightmare of the Plane by virtue of this situation.
But we have to wait for two days to see. Chen Ming will need to analyze the situation of the planet later.
See if you can do this and see if it's too dangerous.
It is impossible for Chen Ming to blame the project team for today's incident.
Negative substances themselves have certain dangers, so it is definitely okay to make more safety facilities.
Even if the team does not install new security facilities, after the density of negative matter slowly accumulates, the facilities may still leak, but it will only be a few days later.
After all, the ground is not like space. Although there is an entire corpse of a nightmare in space that continuously exudes negative matter, space does not have the double restrictions of a small space and a vacuum environment like on the ground.
Chen Ming can't help but let them do this, right?
So in the end, Chen Ming could only deal with today's affairs and went to talk to the group leader outside the dome.
It can be seen that the team leader is also very nervous and scared. He seems to have never expected that negative substances will leak out, and he stutters a little when talking to Chen Ming.
The team leader repeatedly promised that he would not do anything extra in the future.
Chen Ming just let him continue with what he was doing.
After all, he had been on the space station next to the corpse of the Plane Nightmare for so long. It was nothing to him to continue working on a planet that had just been fused with negative matter.
He also decisively agreed.
After Chen Ming left and the team leader returned to the team members.
The team member who knew before that the team leader wanted to install additional safety equipment immediately said to the team leader: "Don't make it worse."
"I know."
A trace of confusion suddenly flashed across the team leader's nervous eyes, but he quickly stood calmly.
For a moment, his expression completely lost the tension and anxiety he had when Chen Ming took him out to talk when something happened.
The team members in front of him seemed to have noticed this. Just when he was about to say something, he realized that the team leader seemed fine. It seemed that he had just seen it wrong.
The team leader did not talk much with the team members. He just turned his head and looked at the dome. All he could see were the body fragments of the Nightmare of the Plane that had been relocated in the new dome.
Chen Ming, who had just left, observed the status of the team members from a distance through the dome's surveillance system.
After finding no problem, I chose to put the accident that had just happened aside for the time being.
Chen Ming turned around.
I still plan to continue to find trouble with Leviathan.
The episode just now did not affect his thoughts, and it even made him more eager to deal with Leviathan as soon as possible.
He can face trouble, but he doesn't want to face multiple troubles, both internal and external, at the same time.
When he was not sure whether the internal problems would have other consequences in the future, solving Leviathan, which clearly had subsequent consequences, was the most important thing he had to do.
The reorganized Zerg fleet led by Chen Ming soon appeared inside the M-type star system.
The radiation value within the galaxy is several times higher than when Leviathan first appeared.
Obviously Leviathan is hiding in the stars not because of his intimidation, but because they are doing some special behavior.
Chen Ming no longer wastes time.
A Hercules class equipped with new weapons headed straight for the star.
The spacecraft penetrated the surface material of the star.
Under the protection of the astral armor, the Zerg warship successfully entered the interior of the star.
The spacecraft's biosensor could almost only see a blood-red color inside the M-type star.
Fortunately, the size of this M-type star was not too large. After some searching, Chen Ming still scanned traces of Leviathan inside the star.
At this time, the red jellyfish-like Leviathan was still contending with the star.
The situation is still the same as before, the same frequency spectrum allows the star to absorb Leviathan matter.
Especially among stars, Leviathan's body is always missing material.
But correspondingly, the red jellyfish Leviathan is also absorbing material from the star at this time.
Moreover, unlike when it leaves the star, when the jellyfish Leviathan is inside the star, it absorbs star material more efficiently than the star absorbs it.
So much so that after staying in the star for a period of time, this Leviathan became more active than before, which is why Chen Ming discovered that the radiation in the galaxy was stronger than before.
This scene makes it difficult for Chen Ming not to doubt whether the jellyfish Leviathan and the astral phagocytome are related.
Of course, this is Chen Ming's casual thinking. In fact, the way astral phagocytes absorb stellar matter is completely different from the jellyfish Leviathan, and there is no close connection between them.
After Chen Ming discovered Leviathan, he immediately had the Zerg fleet prepare.
However, he took a closer look and found that all the weapon systems of the Zerg battleships that entered the star were indeed as expected and could not be used in the star.
Otherwise, the weapon will be damaged, and it may not even be effective.
So Chen Ming still followed the previous plan and directly controlled the battleship to rush in the direction of Leviathan.
But the process was different from the previous battle with Leviathan. This time the battleship did not slow down when entering the range, nor did it convert the battleship's organs and tissues into energy crystals.
It simply hit the source and hit the body of the red Leviathan.
The effect is very obvious.
It was obvious that after the impact of the Zerg warship, a huge piece of damage appeared in the outermost layer of the astral armor, and the internal armor that was fused with biomass and metal also suffered obvious damage.
But this is nothing. A battleship is nothing. The key lies in the situation of Leviathan.
And the body of the red Leviathan was indeed dented by the impact of the Zerg warship, and there was even a large scratch.
But just like the damage caused to it by Chen Ming's fleet firing live ammunition, these injuries recovered almost instantly.
The impact actually has no effect.
Even the Zerg fleet that hit it was violently burned by an electromagnetic pulse that could be easily detected on the surface of the star the next moment.
He was completely scorched at face-to-face distance before he even had time to self-destruct.
As the astral armor on the spacecraft was destroyed, the entire battleship quickly melted into the scorching heat of the star.
The red Leviathan made no further moves, and had no intention of leaving the star to destroy the other battleships Chen Ming arranged near the star.
It seems that ordinary methods are meaningless.
Although Leviathan is hiding in the star for unknown reasons, it still has the ability to easily destroy Chen Ming's battleship.
In this case, the more it wants to do something, the less Chen Ming will do for it.
Soon, another Zerg warship emerged from the fleet composed of the previous battleship brought by Chen Ming.
However, this Zerg battleship is different from most battleships and the one just now.
Its size is larger than that of ordinary battleships, and is even close to the size of the Titan-class battleship under design.
A battleship of this size is certainly an anomaly.
Its structural strength is forcibly supported by the psychic energy of the Insect Queen. Without psychic energy, its structure would have been unable to support it long ago.
It does not carry any weapons, only armor and empty chambers inside the battleship.
But the chamber was soon no longer empty.
Chen Ming's spiritual energy acted on the battleship, and he continued to use the resources at his disposal to create something on the battleship.
It was only known and developed not long ago, and it is also the man-made substance with the greatest potential for development in the empire today.
Artificial Astrophagous Fluid.
Although Chen Ming did not master the Star Eater's Star Eater, he at least used the corpse to master some other abilities.
Astrophage fluid can inhibit the spread of stellar radiation, which is something Chen Ming knows very well.
And when a huge amount of astral fluid is released on a large scale from the interior of a star, it will inevitably interfere with the normal existence of the star and further affect the conditions within the galaxy.
But there are no habitable planets in these three galaxies, and there are no signs of life on the planets in the galaxies.
Chen Ming didn't care what would happen to the stars.
He can use this method without any psychological burden.
Chen Ming letting his spaceship enter the star is only the first step. Finding a way to let the ghosts come out to fight is the key.
In the interior of a star, almost any technical means currently mastered by humans cannot take effect, including weapons.
So he has to do it first.
The ability to create psychic energy continues to work. After this large and bloated Zerg battleship entered the interior of the star, the star-eating fluid in its body had accumulated to the extreme.
But Chen Ming continued to create new star-devouring body fluid inside, until it almost touched the red Leviathan.
At that moment when the strength of the battleship could not be sustained.
The entire battleship exploded.
This was not a self-destruction, but an explosion caused by internal pressure.
Huge amounts of astral fluid were released throughout the star.
Although this "huge amount" is nothing compared to stars, for Leviathan, which is so close, these astral fluids are enough to interfere with the stellar material near it.
And this interference obviously stimulated Leviathan.
It finally made a move, turned around and left the star, emerged from the surface of the star, and stared at Chen Ming's fleet.
The radiation intensity within the galaxy increased again, and electromagnetic pulses appeared again around Leviathan's body.
(End of chapter)