Chapter 391 Test
The memorial hall discovered by Chen Ming stores a large number of cultural relics that can only belong to a shining civilization.
The latest era of these relics is after the era that the survivors themselves said.
This situation makes the survivor's previous statement seem somewhat untenable.
Chen Ming is now basically certain that the survivor does not know that these things exist in this place, otherwise it would be impossible for him to come into contact with it.
It will definitely be protected extremely tightly, and it will definitely not be discovered by Chen Ming's several spaceships just by wandering around twice.
This means the remnants are lying.
At the same time, it also means that Chen Ming's previous suspicion that Leviathan was related to the survivors can be regarded as a wrong guess.
If Leviathan was really created by the survivors, it is logically impossible not to know that there is such a place in the same galaxy.
Although Chen Ming still has some doubts that these Leviathans are related to the Shining Civilization.
After all, a robot like the Scavenger that could be considered a Leviathan was created by the Shining Civilization.
There are spaceships from the Shining Civilization over there in the Nightmare of the Planes, and the galaxy survivors of Astrophag keep them under surveillance every day.
There is even a place like this memorial in the galaxy where Leviathan first appeared.
But none of this can serve as conclusive evidence.
All situations can be explained by coincidence, which is not far-fetched.
Chen Ming was even more curious about where Leviathan came from.
And Chen Ming has something even more curious about.
What is the real history of the Shining Civilization and the Remnants?
Why did the Shining Civilization perish?
Why is their civilization memorial here?
Why don't the survivors know about this place?
What role did the survivors play in this?
Are they really as lost as they once said they were?
In fact, according to what the survivors said, they have lost their past history.
That would indeed explain some things, like why they didn't know about this place.
But there are also many unexplainable situations, that is, why did someone they didn't know build this place? Haven't they been building the only way to get here?
Also, where have the people of the shining civilization who built this civilization memorial gone?
Chen Ming wanted to try to find the past history through this ruins.
But even the writings from that recent period of history have been corroded by time and are unrecognizable.
The words used to record the history of cultural relics are too small compared to the words carved on the rocks at the entrance, and there is no possibility that they can be preserved after tens of thousands of years.
It’s impossible to figure out exactly what happened in the past by simply relying on relics commemorating the times.
Chen Ming could only suppress his doubts for the time being and continue searching for any other valuable things that might exist in this memorial hall.
By the way.
Chen Ming had already noticed the electronic mechanical structure inside the memorial hall when he entered it.
Just as he thought, these structures were completely rusted.
Although he cannot use ordinary repair power to restore it to its original appearance, he can use deep repair power to optimize the facilities that are now completely damaged and allow them to operate in their current state.
Metallic liquid gushes out from the void around Chen Ming and gradually covers the entire underground memorial hall.
Let the past go.
But now, let alone completely repairing it, at least it cannot be allowed to continue to deteriorate.
At least all the cultural relics and relics of the shining civilization that Chen Ming sees now must be preserved.
As the metallic liquid dispersed, every inch of the ruins was observed and recorded.
For
These cultural and historical relics are very important.
Even if they don't mean much to Chen Ming, he is willing to spend a little more energy to preserve them.
And I don’t know if it was an accident or a coincidence.
When Chen Ming's Metal Liquid took photos and recorded every corner of the ruins, he discovered that this memorial hall was not just the vertical passage that he saw now that was excavated by the mechanical unit and the layers of cultural relics surrounding the passage.
There is a hidden area deep underground.
The entrance to this area is in a corner of a certain floor close to the bottom of the entire memorial hall.
Chen Ming immediately arrived at the location where the secret passage was discovered.
I saw with my own eyes the passage carved directly out of the rock formation.
Follow the passage all the way to the deepest point, and you can see a closed, rusted metal door.
After Chen Ming used his spiritual power to control and open the door.
A slightly larger hall appeared in front of him.
This hall is only part of the underground building, and there are many closed and rusted metal doors around it.
It can be said that the entire underground environment is made of metal.
At this time, the whole hall environment looked empty, even a little uncomfortable, without anything that could attract people's attention.
Except for the walls and floors, which were also completely rusted.
The rust of some metal buildings outside was not as serious as the area that Chen Ming saw hidden in a hidden corner deep underground.
One can't help but wonder what happened here.
Chen Ming did not rush in. Instead, he released a little metallic liquid and suspended it in the air. He flew in through the newly opened door and circled around to observe the area.
From the perspective of observing the metal liquid, this area looks like a dormitory.
The hall is in the middle, and the small rooms around it are each person's individual dormitory.
However, except for the rust on the walls and floors, Chen Ming did not find any remaining traces in the entire environment.
So he wasn't sure whether this was a dormitory or whether anyone had ever lived here.
There is a high probability.
After all, this is a memorial hall, and there will always be people with shining civilization supervising the construction of this memorial hall.
It's a pity that no matter who he is, he is most likely dead now.
Chen Ming controlled the metal liquid and circled around it but did not find any danger.
So he stepped into this area.
And the moment Chen Ming stepped on the rusty metal floor.
Once again he discovered something unexpected.
He squatted on the ground, stretched out his fingers and wiped it on the ground, taking away some of the rust.
Then he looked at the wall next to him, and also reached out to wipe some rust on his hand, twisting it repeatedly.
really.
This isn't just plain metal rust.
Because all the structures in this entire area are made of nanorobots.
After crossing the closed door, Chen Ming saw everything.
Whether it is the walls, floor, ceiling, or doors of those rooms, they are all made of rusted nanorobots.
Chen Ming knew that the nanorobot technology of Shining Civilization was very powerful.
Not only does every individual in the mechanical race have nanorobots responsible for maintenance, but the scavenger Leviathan that Chen Ming mentioned later even has nanorobots that can perform self-optimization.
But at this time, all the nanorobots Chen Ming saw in this place had obviously shut down.
And the downtime will also be counted in tens of thousands of years.
And these nanorobots, like the relics of the mechanical clan that Chen Ming came into contact with today, have no possibility of repair.
There was only one thing he could do with these rusted nanorobots, dismantle them and recycle the materials.
Chen Ming stepped into this nanomechanical building, which was probably a dormitory.
The metallic liquid also followed his footsteps and dispersed towards the environment in the dormitory, and began to record the environment of places that may also have certain value.
Chen Ming looked around, then randomly found a room closest to the door and walked over.
When he tried to push open the rusted door at the door of the room, the door collapsed, and the entire building composed of rusted nanobots collapsed under the impact of the collapse.
Metal liquid immediately gushes out in all directions, supporting the room that was originally supported by rusted nanorobots.
Immediately afterwards, the metallic liquid gathered all the rusted nanorobots, making it easier for Chen Ming to proceed with the next step.
Whether collected or simply dismantled for recycling.
However, Chen Ming did not choose to do either.
Because he noticed that one of the nanorobots collected by Metal Liquid did not seem to be corroded.
It's not that Chen Ming has sharp eyes, nor is it that the metallic liquid can accurately distinguish which nanorobot is not rusty among countless rusty nanorobots.
Instead, he glanced at the panel that he had not seen for a long time and discovered the tens of billions of rusted nanorobots on the panel and the complete nanorobot listed separately.
Among the countless nanorobots that make up the walls and floor of this room, there is one nanorobot that is still intact.
In other words, it was protected by countless nanorobots and has been protected to this day.
This nanorobot is very special.
Because the material that makes it up is a very unique memory metal material.
Ordinary memory metal has the ability to restore its own structure, and the memory metal technology of Shining Civilization has the ability to store everything that nanorobots should remember.
The reason why Chen Ming knows this is because this technology happened to be applied to the Shining Civilization spaceship he got before.
Although it is not used on nanorobots, but on spaceships, it is enough to see the similarities between them.
so.
This should be how this nanorobot colony protects itself.
It integrates the maintenance capabilities and energy of all nanorobots, and protects one nanorobot that uses special memory materials to record everything in the entire nanorobot cluster.
When the environment of the nanorobot cluster is suitable, the only surviving nanorobot will begin to replicate itself. This ability is considered the basic ability of nanorobots.
In the end, he relied on his own memory materials to restore the past.
Chen Ming has no way to read everything about the nanorobots in this area stored in these memory materials like a nanorobot.
But he can control the nanobot.
No intervention, just the resources and energy to allow it to recover.
Wait for it to confirm that the environment is safe, replicate itself, and restore the past situation.
Sooner or later, Chen Ah will be able to figure out what's inside. Chen Ming carefully stored the nanorobot in a separate container to avoid accidentally losing the nanorobot, which was invisible to the naked eye.
In the container, he provided everything he needed to manufacture nanorobots in his own mechanical family nanorobot factory.
After sending the container to a safe place.
Chen Ming turned around and left the collapsed dormitory, continuing to wander around the underground memorial hall.
Wanting to see if there was anything else like this secret room that he had missed.
But he didn't find anything hidden anymore.
The only useful things he could get were what he saw now.
So Chen Ming used psychic energy to seal off the memorial hall before leaving.
After all, it seems that the survivors do not know the existence of this ruins at present, but Chen Ming is not sure whether the survivors will discover this place later, so it would not be wrong to protect it.
And after returning to his hometown.
Chen Ming also immediately contacted the Minister of Imperial Psychics.
It turns out that the empire specially arranged people to connect with Chen Ming.
It's just that although the authority of the person who contacted Chen Ming was high, it was not high enough. Discussions often had to be reported to superiors.
But Chen Ming had the phone number of that person's superior psychic minister.
Therefore, in many cases, it is more convenient for Chen Ming to make a phone call than to ask the person to report the matter slowly.
So the person who is now in contact with Chen Ming becomes the minister of psychic energy, Luo Yi.
When Chen Ming called this time, the psychic minister seemed to be resting. It took a while before Chen Ming answered the call.
Chen Ming also knew that it was not good to disturb others, so he asked with the idea of solving the problem quickly: "Is the next time to trade with the survivors coming?"
"Three days left."
"That's just right, I need to specify the content of the next transaction."
The Minister of Psychics is also a decisive person, and the empire has taken the initiative to ask Chen Ming to specify the direction of the transaction before, but Chen Ming refused before, so this time it can just meet Chen Ming's needs.
So he immediately agreed: "Okay, what do you want?"
"You will know after reading this."
Chen Ming easily killed three Leviathans, and then sent the records of the Civilization Memorial Hall in the galaxy where Leviathan first appeared.
As before, some content that cannot be sent has been deleted.
At this time, the Minister of Psychics, who had just sat up from the bed, began to get dressed hurriedly as he watched. At the same time, he also took out another terminal and started to contact the person to be contacted.
Because he found that Chen Ming didn't really want the technology that belonged to Shining Civilization when he called this time.
But he knew how the things he recorded needed to be used by the empire.
It is the existence of this record and that memorial that makes the next transaction between the empire and the survivors must involve things related to history and culture.
This is an excellent opportunity to test the survivors.
However, the minister still asked defensively: "Are these true? Is it possible that the survivors are deliberately releasing bait?"
"Fidelity."
Because all the structures in that ruins have been tried to be repaired, but all of them cannot be repaired due to the passage of time.
If this is a misleading trap by the remnant, then either the remnant began to set up traps against him tens of thousands of years ago, or the remnant deliberately disguised this ruins with something like a destroyer.
In either case, the odds are against it.
And deliberately making things old is meaningless in the face of Chen Ming's spiritual power.
The existence of this place is due to the negligence of the survivors.
Three days later.
Chen Ming ran to the headquarters of the Psionics Department.
It is still up to him to conduct the transaction with the survivors.
When the time came exactly one hundred and twenty days after the first transaction between the former empire and the survivors.
The survivor contacted me on time: "What do you need this time?"
Chen Ming looked around at the experts in linguistics, culture, and civilization who were surrounding him, and thought about the general meaning of what these experts told him.
Then he responded on the communicator: "Let's not rush into the transaction. Before the transaction starts, I want to tell you something."
"You said."
"This is the fourth time this kind of transaction has happened, but I think you can feel that the relationship between us has not improved. This is contrary to what you thought at the beginning."
When the survivors communicated with Chen Ming, they clearly stated that they wanted the empire to help the Shining Civilization preserve the history of Shining, so as to prevent the Shining Civilization from completely disappearing after the demise of these survivors.
However, at that time, the survivors expressed that they could not completely trust Chen Ming and the Empire, so they wanted to use some transactions and other means to enhance the trust between the two parties.
It's certainly okay to talk about this kind of thing, but in practice it can only be said that everyone has their own agenda.
The Empire can find that the survivors obviously have other purposes, and the survivors also know that the empire cannot allow the survivors to continue to exist.
Therefore, there is definitely no possibility of increasing trust through transactions alone.
Unless the Empire is truly a Marist civilization, the possibility of the Empire and the survivors trusting each other is zero.
In some ways, the empire would actually be at a loss just by relying on such a transaction, because the empire only received technology and failed to learn about the Shining and the Survivors.
So now that the empire has obtained three relatively important and critical technologies: psionic theory, capital ship-level ship design technology, and energy weapon design technology through three transactions.
Then the value of the technology acquired later will not be so high, and it may not necessarily be able to rely on
"Change the way and trade something more concrete rather than just technology"
The survivor seemed to be a little eager and asked quickly: "What is the specific thing?"
"It's not actual matter, but other things that can be recorded in words and communicated using communicators."
The remnants who were so enthusiastic about establishing a good relationship with the empire and entrusting the remaining civilization and culture to the task seemed to become cold in an instant.
After a while, he asked: "For example, what?"
Chen Ming replied: "For example, your historical records."
"I remember you said at the beginning that the purpose of communicating with the empire is to hand over your history and culture to the empire for safekeeping, so that even if you die, the shining civilization will not completely disappear."
"This itself is something to be handed over to the empire for storage."
"After you gained trust, you gave it to us for free, and now you just trade it with us. It's essentially the same. You can even get something you couldn't get by trading it."
"Like about our history."
"Although our cultures are different, our histories are always similar. Maybe we can find some common ground, which can also promote the trusting relationship between us in disguise."
Chen Ming said these nonsense without even blushing.
The survivors of these words also know that they are nonsense, but the relationship between the two parties now can be regarded as serious diplomacy.
When both parties need each other, it is impossible to break up.
They must seriously consider the proposal given by Chen Ming.
"Please let us think about it, but before we do that we would like to ask which period of our history you need most."
Previously, the survivors only said that they were missing a part of their history, that is, the history of the period when the Shining Civilization perished, and the rest was not missing.
If it is missing, then the survivor cannot be called a survivor.
Chen Ming recalled the time of the carving on the top of the vertical stone pillar found in the underground memorial hall, and told a close time.
The Empire needs history before this point in time.
The survivor immediately responded: "At that time, we had not even become the main species on the planet, and we had not yet evolved enough brains."
The expressions on the faces of several experts around Chen Ming's ruins changed, showing slight smiles.
It seems that there is no problem with the era recorded in the remains of that memorial hall.
The survivors have helped confirm this.
Chen Ming continued to respond on the terminal: "But this is also part of your civilization, isn't it?"
Anyway, after confirming that those cultural relics and time records are OK, the empire can give the survivors false historical records at will, and they have no way to investigate.
But if the survivors give it a fake, then as long as it is compared with the cultural relics in the ruins, there is a high probability that the problem will be revealed.
The survivors were silent for a while, and finally agreed on the request to change the content of the transaction.
They didn't have any special reaction, and it was basically certain that they had nothing to do with the ruins.
As for the historical records of the empire that the survivors are leaving, they cover the last fifty years.
Of course, everything given by the Empire is all fabricated, and the Empire has plenty of people to help the survivors write these things.
The historical records given by the survivors will soon be confirmed in the underground memorial hall of the planet in the pulsar system under the leadership of Chen Ming.
It's a pity that Chen Ming still can't confirm the specific location of the survivor.
Although the survivors seem to be very interested in material transactions, the more interested the enemy is in something, the less likely Chen Ming will do it.
So he still had to wait for the nanorobot he got from the ruins to replicate itself and rebuild the swarm.
Only then can we thoroughly understand the history of the Shining Civilization from these nanorobots, and understand through history what kind of existence these survivors are.
As the transaction closes.
Everything is back on track again, both the empire and Chen Ming.
The empire continues to increase the positive impact on the mechanical race's war in the star field, and continues to reduce the sense of danger that the unique identity of psykers brings to ordinary people.
At the same time, it continues to expand externally and continues to study things like dimensional infection and final measures to deal with dimensional infection.
Chen Ming can focus on the promotion of different Leviathan scientific research projects, the expansion of the colonial population, and the development of resources in surrounding star fields and galaxies.
With three Leviathans like that eliminated, could there be a stronger Leviathan nearby?
His focus is also on development.
Without external threats, if we don’t do anything now, how long will it take?
Everything is developing steadily and for the better.
More than twenty days passed quickly.
Chen Ming is writing a notice about the cooperation project of the two experimental groups while working every day.
One is the negative matter experimental team, and the other was the climate modification department that moved from the empire, and is now the team responsible for the Gaia project under Chen Ming.
(End of chapter)