Chapter 390 Ruins
Chen Ming was very concerned about why Leviathan was afraid.
But Leviathan's fear itself didn't matter to him at all.
Destruction has completely swept away the weak yellow Leviathan's body, dragging it into the abyss of death.
After Chen Ming confirmed Leviathan's death, he immediately repeated his previous actions and preserved Leviathan's body in a state of electromagnetic radiation fusion.
This type of unique creature is also of great research value, and it looks like there will be two new Leviathan space stations in the orbit of his colony.
Set the body aside for now.
Chen Ming's goal remained unchanged, and he still prioritized getting rid of the next, last, and earliest blue Leviathan.
He wasted no time and used psychic energy to instantly send his body through the scarlet dimension to the vicinity of the A-type star, to the area where the monitoring equipment for the star had been installed.
And his consciousness followed closely, returning to the body through the particularity of his spiritual energy, and saw a blue-white blazing star that was far more majestic than any star Chen Ming had seen before.
Although the armor composed of astral fluid can withstand the power of G-type and M-type stars.
But in the face of this A-type star, which is almost the most powerful star in the universe, there seems to be no suitable way to get in.
It seems that it was precisely because of this that Leviathan did not leave directly.
But he doesn't need to completely guard against it. As long as he is not destroyed by the star in an instant, he can do some things that he could not do originally.
The biological armor on Chen Ming suddenly began to become more and more bloated, and a layer of translucent covering armor that did not look strong appeared on the surface of the biological armor.
He came to the edge of the star, was in the hellish temperature on the surface of the A-type star, and broke into the star.
The astral fluid on the surface of the biological armor is being consumed crazily, but at the same time it is also being generated crazily due to Chen Ming's spiritual energy.
The mutual opposition makes the star-devouring liquid armor on the surface of Chen Ming's armor form a unique dynamic balance.
After maintaining the stability of this layer of armor, Chen Ming no longer continued to test the performance of the armor, but immediately headed towards the Leviathan he perceived.
As Chen Ming entered the star.
Leviathan, who noticed that Chen Ming could resist the heat of A-type stars, immediately took action to deal with it.
However, its action was not to take advantage of the semi-home field advantage at this time to cause trouble for Chen Ming, but to leave the star from the other side of the star where Chen Ming entered.
It wants to escape.
Chen Ming discovered this scene through the monitoring devices previously installed on the other side of the star.
He immediately stopped moving towards the star, activated his psychic energy again and sent himself to the other side of the star, near the monitoring devices.
Just after it passed, there was only a blue afterimage left in his eyeballs.
Those are the traces left by Leviathan's transition by releasing a huge amount of electromagnetic pulse.
Chen Ming has seen its leap ability and speed before, and knows that its escape ability is very terrifying.
In just a moment, it may have jumped out several times in a row.
But as long as a jump is made, it will definitely leave a trace of the jump.
Even if the way it makes the jump is different from using the jump engine, but using its own gravity ability to make the jump, the same is true.
Chen Ming reproduced the miniaturized biomass jump engine installed in An Wuping's body on the biological armor.
The coordinates of Leviathan's jump were locked and the next jump was made.
Compared with huge battleships, the human body can simplify the process of leaping to almost nothing.
Even though Leviathan's escape speed using jumps was much faster than that of ordinary battleships, Chen Ming could not completely escape Chen Ming when he used his jump engine to jump.
Chen Ming can also say with great certainty that no one or anything can escape him in this pursuit on a cosmic scale.
After more than a dozen jumps in a row, Chen Ming followed Leviathan's trail across more than a dozen different galaxies.
And every time it goes to a different galaxy, Leviathan will always use similar methods to leave some trouble for tracking Chen Ming.
Whether the transition trajectory passes through a star, one of the transition coordinates is within the event horizon of a black hole, or the transition trajectory passes through the territory of a group of dangerous creatures that exist in the asteroid belt.
In short, it will definitely block Chen Ming on the way to the jump and prevent Chen Ming from tracking.
But Chen Ming was not thrown away at all. Instead, he got closer and closer to the Leviathan at the front during these dozen jumps.
There is almost nothing that can stop Chen Ming in the normal universe.
soon.
Chen Ming has already caught up with Leviathan and is in the same galaxy as Leviathan.
Leviathan still wanted to escape at this time, but Chen Ming would not give it a chance to continue its leap.
The dimensional ability that belongs to the origin of his power is activated, and a force that forcibly locks the space crosses the physical distance and locks the space around Leviathan.
Chen Ming also made this short distance jump and appeared next to Leviathan.
The core of destruction lit up in his hand, and the aura of destruction was about to cover Leviathan's body like before.
However, before the Destruction Core had time to act, a surge of gravity suddenly erupted from Leviathan's body.
The space lock set by Chen Ming using his own power was instantly broken, and Leviathan disappeared in front of Chen Ming in the blink of an eye.
Destruction is far easier than construction.
And destroying the stability of a space is far easier than ensuring the stability of a space.
This is especially true when the core of destruction will also act on this space.
It is precisely because of the use of the Destruction Core that even if Chen Ming has blocked the space, Leviathan will find a chance to escape when using the Destruction Core.
Any power has its inappropriate uses.
Like now.
But this does not mean that Chen Ming can do it. He still has his own power.
Chen Ming did not delay or be discouraged, and continued the jump tracking.
After only three jumps, he saw the blue afterimage again as before.
At the end of the next jump.
The space around Leviathan was blocked again by Chen Ming.
But this time, the space around Leviathan was no longer just blocked, but was distorted after the blockade.
Just like just now, Leviathan distorted the space where Chen Ming's Zerg fleet was located.
This can be regarded as an ability that Chen Ming just learned from other Leviathan types.
It is a relatively mild attack method.
At least it's gentler than the method of tearing apart space that Chen Ming learned and mastered from the Plane Nightmare.
The distortion of the nature of space twisted Leviathan's body into a twist, and further twisted it completely.
Leviathan wanted to confront Chen Ming, but without the disguised assistance of the Destruction Core, it was even unable to resist the oppression of Chen Ming's psychic energy, let alone want to confront Chen Ming.
This is not the restraint of ability, but the crushing of pure psychic power.
The talent of being born in Pulsar was no match for Chen Ming's spiritual abilities that he had grown up along the way.
As Chen Ming once again imitated the methods used by Leviathan before, using his own spatial ability to violently shake the space where Leviathan was located.
Leviathan's body was completely shattered.
But it's still alive.
Just because the composite life form of electromagnetism and radiation was shattered into pieces does not mean there was much damage. Chen Ming had to continue to increase his efforts.
But continuing to increase the force of using space may cause space to tear.
Chen Ming had already felt the possible consequences of space tearing when he took the initiative to block the wormhole to escape.
Some things belonging to other dimensions will rush over like sharks that smell fishy smell when the space barrier is weak.
He would not use this power if it was not necessary.
Then there is only one other way.
The scarlet rift in Chen Ming's consciousness space opened slightly, and bloody light gradually covered his consciousness space.
This was the first time that Chen Ming used his own scarlet power in an actual battle rather than in a test.
The Crimson Power can be divided into dimensional powers.
In a broad sense, dimensional power is common, that is, Chen Ming's ability to use space, stabilize space, tear space, distort space, and oscillate space.
The power belonging to the dimension itself will better reflect the characteristics of the dimension.
The dimensional power of phase space, for example, embodies the uniqueness of isolation. Isolating all dimensions except the normal universe is also a crushing situation for the normal universe.
Its power has a sharp quality when it acts.
And the power of the scarlet dimension.
It has a ferocious corrosiveness.
There is an endless amount of knowledge in space itself, and this knowledge will corrode and corrupt everything.
The scarlet power that Chen Ming mastered would naturally have such properties.
Although Scarlet was originally something Chen Ming was worried about.
But at this moment, using scarlet power is safer than using basic dimensional power.
Because the scarlet power is a power that is completely assimilated by Chen Ming and belongs to him completely, and the space power's behavior of tearing apart space will attract things in the scarlet dimension.
The Crimson Dimension infection incubates things in the normal universe, turning them into pure twisted flesh.
When Chen Ming uses the power of the scarlet dimension, he will also produce some special effects.
When the scarlet light followed Chen Ming's spiritual energy and approached Leviathan.
The scarlet power that originally seemed extremely docile in Chen Ming's hands suddenly bit into Leviathan's remains like a mad dog.
Leviathan's body was distorted as if it had been infected by the dimension.
There was a feeling of mechanical rust when the broken body twitched,
It’s not just the metal rusting on the mechanical parts, but the structure itself is corroding as well.
Soon some chaotic and irregular mechanical parts with unique logic created by mental illness were stuffed into the flesh and blood using the most violent means to force the flesh to operate.
Leviathan's body is being infected and corrupted.
While dimensional infection requires human clones, expansion of dimensional infection requires flesh and blood.
But when the dimensional infection reaches the final stage, these are no longer important.
There was a time when the entire planet would turn into flesh and blood due to dimensional infection.
But now Chen Ming's ability can speed up this process.
Everything, whether it is living or dead, whether it has a physical form or cannot be seen, will be affected by the power of scarlet.
All this is not as scary or dangerous as it seems.
Everything is under Chen Ming's control.
It's just that such an ability is absolutely impossible to use in the eyes of the empire.
Chen Ming has mastered this power for a long time, but today is the first time he uses it.
Leviathan has fallen into decline under the influence of Scarlet.
Chen Ming could also feel that Leviathan's fear was getting worse.
He still can't figure out what organ the jellyfish Leviathan uses to think and have this kind of fearful emotion, but he does feel it.
Combined with the situation of the previous two Leviathans, it is obvious that the only possible reason why these Leviathans are afraid of scarlet is that they have been exposed to scarlet.
So how did they come into contact with scarlet?
Chen Ming didn't understand, so he could only pack up the body of the third Leviathan that was completely dead with doubts. At the same time, the unobservable body of the jellyfish Leviathan was floating in space.
The remnant space station.
Nano took the initiative to announce the news: "The ghost is dead."
"The three ghosts were all killed by Chen Ming within an hour of each other. There were no more nearby guardians to use, so any attempt to attract them out would be a waste."
"But we no longer need to rely on ghosts. There has been a large-scale leakage of negative matter in Chen Ming's colony. This is our opportunity."
A voice in the darkness asked: "Have our hands reached the other end of the wormhole?"
"Not yet, just some humans have talked about it."
"The negative matter of the Plane Nightmare is not so easy to leak out."
"So through this incident, we can confirm that there is a traitor in the Human Empire who knows a lot."
When talking about the betrayer, Nami's tone of voice seemed to be different from before, and the entire dark atmosphere became deeper.
But in the darkness, another voice seemed to say soothingly: "That's their betrayer."
The survivors were quiet for a while, and suddenly a voice asked again: "What is the reason for betrayal?"
"We'll find out soon."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because he already knows about us."
When one civilization encounters the survivors of another civilization.
Even the survivors of a perished civilization known to almost everyone in this civilization.
It is absolutely impossible for the civilized ruling class to reveal the existence of survivors. Only the top leaders are qualified to know.
Because as long as a civilization is not completely extinct and its culture is still preserved, it has the possibility of turning over again.
It may even subvert another civilization.
Whoever that traitor is, wherever he is hiding.
He would definitely find a way to bypass the limitations of the communicator in Chen Ming's hand and find a way to contact their survivors.
"How long?"
"Look at the situation at Chen Ming's place. It's just a satellite, at least half a month of human Earth time, and at most half a year of Earth time."
"The chaos at that time will give him a chance, and it will give us a chance."
When the survivors seemed to have found an opportunity.
Gaia Galaxy.
Wormhole space station.
The leader of the negative matter research team was having lunch in a restaurant on the space station on this side of the wormhole.
In the blind spot where he blocked the restaurant surveillance with his body, there was a terminal that belonged to him with a notepad open.
It is filled with drafts of his research on negative matter during this period, as well as memos of various research projects.
The content was written in great detail, as if everything he remembered was to be written down on it.
At the end of the memo, there is a flashing cursor marking the text that was just entered.
The team leader suddenly made a hesitant move on the terminal and looked at the contents of the notepad. Then he closed the notepad again, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and he instinctively took two mouthfuls of noodles from the bowl.
After feeling an unexpectedly full stomach, he stood up, paid and left.
Before he walked out of the restaurant, he pinched his eyebrows and said to himself: "Is the work intensity a bit too high? Why do I keep forgetting things..."
Although Chen Ming has certain monitoring on all the territories he controls, the monitoring he maintains is on all kinds of unknown foreign things and all kinds of things with unpermitted psychic powers.
He cannot monitor everyone on his territory all the time.
What's more, he is still busy bringing the body of the three-color Leviathan to the orbit of the planet Gaia.
And record all the data of this situation, and prepare to dump it all to the empire, and let them send people over according to the situation.
While leaving the work to others, Chen Ming can also look for opportunities to poach corners or something.
But this time Chen Ming delayed the matter a little.
Because this was the first time he saw the seemingly new Leviathan.
Although he was not sure whether the three Leviathans originally existed there or were just born, this situation always made him curious about the galaxy where Leviathan was born.
What would cause Leviathan to be born?
So whether it was the galaxy with three-color stars or the original pulsar galaxy, Chen Ming specially dispatched a new fleet to investigate it.
As a result, the fleet actually gained something.
There is nothing in the galaxy of those three ordinary stars, but in the galaxy of the pulsar, there is a planet that has been illuminated by radiation and various pulses for tens of thousands of years.
The fleet found a ruins that should belong to a shining civilization.
Because the writings of the Shining Civilization and some pictures and statues of insect creatures that the Shining Civilization liked were found at the entrance to the ruins.
Part of the rock on which this string of words is carved has been damaged.
So Chen Ming could only recognize one of the words.
"commemorate".
This relic exists underground and is not difficult to find under normal circumstances, but the existence of pulsars has seriously interfered with most detection equipment.
It also made the fleet almost ignore this underground building.
But the result is good.
Moreover, such a relic immediately cheered up Chen Ming.
Because the location of the shining civilization ruins discovered by Chen Ming is behind the wormhole.
He still clearly remembers what the survivor said.
When their ancestors escaped from the disaster that led to the extinction of civilization, they relied on the sacrifice of others to escape the attack of the nightmare of the plane.
And they had been paying attention to the sacrificed spacecraft, and when Chen Ming picked up the communicator, they contacted him directly.
This shows that no one who comes in or out of Shining Civilization can avoid them, not to mention that when Chen Ming fought with Astrophag before, they took the initiative to come to them for sales.
This further shows that they have a high degree of control over the surrounding information.
Although their actual combat effectiveness is not necessarily high today, they definitely know a lot.
So the relics of the shining civilization here are either related to the survivors, or the survivors are lying.
As for the possibility that the people who left this relic may be people from the shining civilization that came in early to develop it, Chen Ming directly ruled it out.
Because judging from the scavenger robots located in the Origin Galaxy, it is obvious that the Shining Civilization intends to develop the world behind the wormhole starting from this wormhole.
The wormhole is also a passage connecting this place to the universe surrounding the empire.
It's not necessarily the only way, but since Chen Ming hasn't found another way yet, let's treat it as the only way.
Plus the words carved near the rock at the entrance to the ruins.
This ruins can basically only be the ruins that were born after the demise of the Shining Civilization.
Chen Ming must go and see for himself and go to the planet to find clues about this ruins.
So after sorting out the process of fighting Leviathan, Chen Ming once again came to the pulsar galaxy, arrived at the planet illuminated by pulses and radiation day and night, and came to the entrance to the underground ruins.
There were still the same words on the door, and Chen Ming could still only read the word "Memorial" clearly.
Judging from the condition of the galaxy, when this ruin was still a normal building, there was a high probability that it was destroyed by a supernova explosion when the star's life span was approaching.
Of course, it is also possible that people from the Shining Civilization insisted on building something on the pulsar, and then it was destroyed by the pulse of the pulsar.
The difference is not big. Anyway, judging from the situation of Chen Ming walking into the building at this time, it doesn't matter which one it is.
Although the remains of this building exist underground, there is no shortage of various technical equipment.
But when Chen Ming came in, he found that almost all electronic equipment had been destroyed.
All electronic equipment and data were also destroyed.
When Chen Ming tried to repair them, he also encountered the same timing problem as the scavenger robot and the nanoforge.
Things that are too old cannot be restored to their former glory.
Chen Ming had no way to recover the data and determine when it was destroyed.
However, look at the environment and layout of the building itself.
Chen Ming feels like this is some kind of art exhibition hall,
At this time, many places in this vertically structured underground building had collapsed, many storage spaces had been damaged, and various artworks inside had long been damaged and disappeared.
But there are still some art collections that shine with civilization and have been preserved.
Most of them are related to insects.
There is some simple text introduction under each artwork.
However, these words have long been completely unrecognizable due to the wear and tear of time.
It can only be said that although they may be humanoid creatures, the aesthetics of Shining Civilization are very different from humans.
As Chen Ming completely entered the central area of the building, Chen Ming discovered a central stone pillar with a spiral structure leading underground in the center of the exhibition hall.
In addition to a lifelike giant centipede-like creature carved on it, there is also a string of time belonging to a shining civilization carved in the area next to the centipede.
And if you convert this time, it is probably several million years ago in Earth time.
Of course, the architecture of this ruins was definitely not carved millions of years ago. It seems that it was just carved from a certain time period on the central stone pillar, and then cultural relics or works of art from this period were placed around it.
Going forward, tens of thousands of years will quickly pass to the next era, and cultural relics will continue to be placed.
As time goes down, the closer it is to the present, the time span becomes shorter and shorter, and the area of each layer becomes larger and larger.
There are more modern cultural relics, and even some technological products have gradually appeared inside.
Of course, like the building itself, most of these things were damaged to the point of being beyond repair.
Only some simple works of art, such as some ornate stones carved into various Zerg appearances, have barely survived intact to this day.
This underground building does not look like a building that will only exist independently, nor does it look like a building that can be easily constructed.
This place becomes less and less like an art museum where Chen Ming can just guess.
It's the memorial carved on the stone at its entrance.
Chen Ming increasingly felt that there were many things about Shining Civilization that were difficult for people to understand.
After thinking about it, he simply stepped out of the corroded fence and jumped towards the bottom of the building.
Here, some mechanical equipment and units of the mechanical family collapsed to the ground.
They seemed to continue developing before falling.
However, they were not successfully developed and only the remains are left here.
As well as some mechanical tribes that were stuffed into display cabinets as cultural relics or works of art.
It seems that this area is where artifacts from the last era of shining civilization are stored.
In the lowest area, the time carved on the stone pillars is approximately 30,000 years ago in human time.
At this point in time, after the survivors came to the wormhole.
(End of chapter)