Chapter 417 Counterattack
The remnant space station.
In the dark environment, only a hand with a shining metallic luster could barely be seen clearly.
The voice of the survivor named Nano, who was responsible for communicating with Chen Ming before, sounded in the darkness: "The urban planet has disappeared."
After he finished speaking, the voices of other survivors immediately sounded in the darkness: "Where have you gone?"
"The galaxy with the wormhole."
The survivors fell into a long silence after receiving this result.
Maybe it's because of pity, maybe because of worry, maybe because of fear.
After a period of silence, Nano spoke up again: "That supership is the result of a project that could not be completed before. Now it has been completed and has fallen into Chen Ming's hands."
"Without this technology, it is impossible for humans to overcome the technical problems at the core of time flow."
"It's a mechanical race."
There was no follow-up to what he said, and it seemed that all the survivors agreed with him.
Nano was not affected by the silence of the space station. He continued to talk about his thoughts: "The emergence of super bodies shows that the machine race has discovered the human empire."
"The purpose of the super body's coming this time must be to conduct preliminary reconnaissance of the human empire, confirm human capabilities, and may also have testing purposes."
"Soon the machine race will attack the human empire. At that time, Chen Ming, as an imperial man, cannot sit idly by and ignore it. That will be a perfect opportunity for us to attack his galaxy."
Different opinions of other survivors came out in the darkness: "Why should we take the initiative to attack Chen Ming?"
"Because this way we can recapture the wormhole in advance and return to our world."
The survivor who asked the question did not agree with Nano's concept and said: "There is no need for us to have a direct conflict with the threat of Chen Ming at this time."
"That time is approaching. We just need to wait for the Queen to come again. Before that, all we have to do is hide ourselves and cut off all clues related to us."
"We have already done it." Nano took the initiative to back down and said: "As early as when Ideal City fell, we had completely cleared all the evidence related to us in the database. The above technology..."
"Unless Chen Ming has the ability to go back in time, it is impossible for him to find the information that has been erased. The most he can do is doubt us."
"But."
Nano changed the topic and said: "For him, suspicion is enough. As long as he has doubts about us, he will regard us as his prey, just like those Leviathans."
There is another survivor's voice on the space station: "I doubt that clues will appear out of thin air for him to find us."
Nami retorted: "He has already found us, but we left quickly enough."
"Who would have thought he would have a supership?"
Nami retorted again: "I think of it now."
"Judging from our subsequent investigations, every galaxy that the trajectory of this super-body passed through is a galaxy where Leviathan exists. He did not find us directly, but found us here in the end through some kind of clues."
Other survivors asked Nami: "Where did he find the clue?"
"I don't know, he just came here. We obviously thought we had done a good enough job and eliminated all possible clues, but he just found us."
"Chen Ming will definitely be the biggest threat to us. Not only his behavior, but his spiritual power will have extremely fatal consequences for our goals."
There are still some survivors who don’t understand Nano’s radicalness: “But his spiritual power has certain limitations. Otherwise, all the abandoned Nano robots in Ideal City would have been cleaned up in space. He is not that big of a threat to us. .”
"No matter how small a threat is, it is still a threat. Can you say that Chen Ming is a small threat to us?"
"Even if we don't go to him, he will definitely come to us, and we must return to that galaxy in the future."
"He took away the urban planet and left behind his detector. Once we come back, we will be discovered by him."
As soon as Nami finished speaking, a survivor continued: "But it is enough for us to come back on that day. Before that, what we have to do is to avoid contact and conflict with him."
"I didn't recommend taking the initiative to contact him at the beginning. Are you going to continue to lead us into a dangerous situation now?"
Although the survivor's words were very serious, it seemed as if he was going to have a big quarrel with Nami.
But everyone present spoke in a very calm tone.
It seems that this is not a quarrel, but a discussion between each other to decide the direction of their respective futures.
Even when he refuted Nami's tone, he still maintained a calm tone: "Even if we don't want to conflict with him, won't he come to conflict with us?"
"He has found all the Leviathan galaxies, and he will never let go of those Leviathans. Don't forget his Gaia planet."
"He strung all the Leviathans he killed like trophies in the orbit of the planet Gaia for people to watch and study."
"He definitely came to our galaxy first because he discovered our clues, but he certainly won't miss those Leviathans."
"He will continue to come here. What will we do then? Huddle up and wait for him to remove all the weapons from our hands and finally come to us?"
The calm tone and intense content made the conversation between the survivors a bit strange.
But this is not a problem in the eyes of the survivors themselves.
Nami still maintained this look and said: "If we want to completely cut off Chen Ming's clues to track us, then we must first cut off the relationship with Leviathan."
"Can we cut off these few weapons we have now?"
"Instead of wasting Leviathan waiting for Chen Ming to deal with it one by one, it is better to let Leviathan play their role in the end."
"We all saw that Chen Ming used his spiritual power to transport an entire planet and such a long distance."
"The specific amount of his mental energy consumption will definitely not be low. We need to seize this opportunity."
The other survivors seemed to be convinced by Nano, but one survivor still said: "This will lead to a deal between us and the Human Empire..."
"There is no need to continue."
This time Nano directly interrupted the questions of other survivors and said: "All the information given by humans is false information, whether it is the human empire or the psyker."
"They treat us as fools, and there is no need for us to continue acting with them."
When other topics were brought up, the survivors got excited again and said: "Even false information has its value."
"But there is really no need to continue this deal. Since the Machine Tribe has set its sights on the Human Empire, we can no longer give them new technologies."
"It will always take them longer to reverse the technology on the urban planet, not to mention before we leave..."
A trace of fluorescence suddenly lit up in the dark space station.
A three-dimensional projected star map appeared in the core of the space station, appearing next to the shining metallic hand.
But this did not illuminate the surrounding environment. Instead, it made the surrounding darkness even darker under the highlight of the light.
Nami's hand pointed at the star map, and hundreds of light spots lit up immediately on the star map.
"We don't necessarily have to target Chen Ming only. When facing a powerful individual, the right thing to do is to attack his weakness."
"And we have a connection with another psyker from the Empire..."
One of the survivors asked: "The psyker must be dealt with now"
"No, he has other uses. He can provide us with some information about Chen Ming."
"The intelligence may be false."
"The things related to the empire may be false, but we can believe the things related to Chen Ming."
"Because he has already proven that he was kicked out by Chen Ming, I guess he won't mind sharing some news."
After the discussion inside the Survivor space station was completed, it fell into complete silence.
Chen Ming also returned to the Gaia galaxy along with the now-abandoned urban planet.
Chen Ming had already thought about the destination of this urban planet before moving it.
It is arranged next to the planet Gaia.
Currently, the stars in the Gaia galaxy that were once parasitized by astrophages have now completely recovered.
The habitable zone brought by this star to the galaxy is very wide, and the sub-planet itself only occupies a small circle of space, enough to place several more planets here.
That is, when placing the planet, you need to pay attention to the fact that the gravity of the planet when it is approaching the intersection when it is in orbit will have some impact on the ocean tide of the planet.
But it's not a big problem.
Chen Ming did not directly place the urban planet next to the Gaia planet. It would take a long time for the two planets to reach the closest distance in orbit.
This period of time is enough for Chen Ming to inform Gaia's consciousness of changes in the cosmic environment, allowing it to adjust to changes in the ocean.
To be honest, Chen Ming really wants to go to other galaxies and move more planets to his two core galaxies.
However, he estimated that there would be no such opportunity in the future.
Only the urban planet he just brought, which was almost completely surrounded by various mechanized buildings, could be brought here under the influence of his spiritual energy.
Chen Ming didn't worry too much about the future.
After the planet successfully arrived in the Gaia galaxy and successfully entered the orbit of the Gaia galaxy star.
Chen Ming immediately contacted the minister of psychic energy.
The call was quickly answered, and Chen Ming said to him without any nonsense: "I need manpower."
Although Chen Ming was in the super body, the super body did not activate the time flow core at this time, so there would be no problem in the communication between Chen Ming and the minister of psychic energy.
The psychic minister failed to follow Chen Ming's thoughts and asked: "What are you doing?"
"You will know when you come here."
The Minister of Psychics immediately speeded up and finished processing a document in his hand, turned off the computer in front of him and said, "I am free now."
The words fell.
The terminal that Chen Ming gave him that he put aside overflowed with metallic liquid and enveloped him.
The metallic liquid quickly dispersed and flowed back into the terminal.
And the psychic minister wrapped in metallic liquid appeared next to Chen Ming.
The minister of psychic energy adjusted his clothes as if he was used to it, glanced at Chen Ming and asked: "Why do you feel that you are not in a good condition? And where are we?"
"As for the reason why I'm not in a good condition on the super-ship of the mechanical race that I solved before, you can look at it from the outside."
Chen Ming stretched out his finger and knocked on the porthole.
Both of them are now in the supercargo's cargo compartment.
Although this additional cargo compartment is dangerous, the peripheral vision environment is extremely good.
The Minister of Psychics just stared around the galaxy. At first glance, he didn't see any problems.
But just when he was confused, his eyes suddenly focused on the planet next to the Gaia planet. He blinked uncertainly, and then released a lot of mental energy to substantially perceive the planet to confirm that he was not mistaken.
After clearly sensing the existence of the planet, the minister opened his mouth unconsciously and made a sound of shock and confusion: "Huh?"
Chen Ming smiled and said: "Do you still remember what you asked me to do before?"
He immediately recalled the documents he had given to Chen Ming before, as well as the prints discovered by the archaeological team earlier.
"This is...a planet in that galaxy?"
"Yes, you should have seen it, right? There are so many shining civilizations on this planet that need to be developed by human hands."
"I'll just show you a few things and you'll understand."
Chen Ming controlled the atmosphere of the planet that entered the urban planet.
Start circling along the entire planet.
Everything visible to the naked eye is the ruins of the city, dilapidated and dilapidated.
But it is precisely because we can see the dilapidated state of the city that we can better imagine the heyday of this planet before its decline.
The super body quickly circled the planet and finally hovered in front of the Governor's Mansion where Chen Ming had arrived before.
Chen Ming jumped down directly with the minister of psychic energy and came to the metal tablet with words engraved on it.
Chen Ming pointed to the metal monument and said: "This sentence is quite interesting. It may correspond to the reason why the Shining Civilization built this planet."
"But we're still not sure what happened. We need to find some archaeologists to dig graves and construction workers as soon as possible."
The psychic minister nodded repeatedly.
In fact, the terminal in his hand has been making sounds since just now, and it has never stopped.
Of course it's easy to agree, but if you really want to find someone, it will definitely take time.
Chen Ming said nothing and took the minister into the Governor's Mansion.
The valuable things on this urban planet are not just the ruins he just showed the minister.
The truly valuable things must of course be various technologies.
Chen Ming took the minister to the ship research and development department of the Governor's Mansion.
Although this is just the administrative office of the department, the real place to do things should be elsewhere on the planet, or other planets in the original galaxy of the urban planet, or even other information.
But this does not affect all the technologies that Chen Ming found in the complete production lines of hundreds of shining civilization ships when he was here before.
They were all sorted out by Chen Ming, one was saved, and the other was kept here as it is.
The minister of psychic energy was already in a state of glowing eyes when he saw the techniques released by Chen Ming.
He would do whatever Chen Ming said.
After all, these technologies really gave the empire the possibility to break through technologies that might have taken decades or even hundreds of years to break through in a short period of time.
"But there is one thing you need to pay attention to."
Chen Ming suddenly rubbed a finished micro engine with his hands, pointed at it and said: "There is a problem with the design of the fuel transportation pipeline of this engine. It is not visible under normal circumstances, but once it has experienced several jumps and long-term operation, this problem will disappear. Exploded"
"Starting the engines after a jump could set the entire ship's fuel stores on fire."
"Not just this engine, almost all technologies have this problem."
In addition to some deleted technical records that Chen Ming used his spiritual power to repair, other records found in equipment that can only be repaired through some ordinary technical means have such problems.
The psychic minister calmed down as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him and asked: "Why?"
The technology of shining civilization should not and cannot have such huge flaws.
"The survivors did it."
That makes sense.
Chen Ming continued to explain: "In addition to seeing this planet, I also saw their space station in the past, but unfortunately I couldn't catch them."
"Since their space station is there, I don't believe that these technologies have not been modified by them."
"This is a long-term trap for them."
However, they didn't seem to know that Chen Ming had the ability to optimize technology. If Chen Ming hadn't studied it so carefully, these little tricks might have been missed.
In the case where almost all technologies have problems, as long as one problem is not discovered, it may have a tragic impact on the empire.
"The technology of previous transactions..."
"Those are fine."
Chen Ming's use of psychic energy to optimize the results of the technologies traded by the previous survivors did not make any big changes.
It seems that the survivors really wanted to make a good deal at first, but the empire and Chen Ming did not.
Of course, this is not absolute. After all, some technologies exist at a purely theoretical level and have no substantive results, so Chen Ming cannot optimize them.
"Then I will notify people to re-examine it later."
"Yeah."
Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly thought that he had also found some information about the survivors.
However, the information he found related to the survivors was all restored through spiritual power.
If he didn't use psychic repair, he shouldn't be able to find any clues related to the survivors here.
This further confirmed to Chen Ming that there was definitely a huge problem with what the survivors were doing.
They don't look like the remnants of a shining civilization.
On the contrary, the shining civilized people on that urban planet...
etc.
Chen Ming suddenly realized something.
He still didn't seem to find any corpses of the main species of Shining Civilization.
Even in such a place, species with shining civilization still have not revealed their appearance.
It's strange, but Chen Ming has no way to deal with this.
He continued to take the minister throughout the entire Governor's Palace, and gave the Minister of Psychics a rough look at all the valuable information he had found before.
Although many things are not his expertise, these things require him to communicate with Chen Ming and then distribute various tasks within the empire.
After shopping around for more than an hour, the two returned to the lobby of the Governor's Mansion
Although Chen Ming poured cold water on him midway, it still couldn't change his excitement at this time.
Chen Ming was willing to take him around, obviously telling him that everything here would be shared.
The psychic minister restrained his emotions and said to Chen Ming: "So what you are saying is that after discovering a galaxy without Leviathan, you found this planet, and then found that there are many high-value things on the planet. So I decided to move the planet back.”
"Yes."
"Well...I won't comment on your behavior, but I quite like your style. Do you have any other findings?"
"Yes, I have recorded the way the space station disappeared when I arrived. I will look back and see if anyone can analyze it for me. I suspect it should be some kind of psychic effect."
"Okay, wait until I get back..."
"Wait."
Chen Ming suddenly interrupted the minister, lowered his head and took out the terminal.
His expression immediately turned cold.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Ming put away the terminal and said: "Leviathan has started to move, and the direction is towards me. The total number is probably the same as the previous count."
"More than a hundred Leviathans coming together?"
The Minister of Psychics realized the seriousness of the problem.
In the past, a single Leviathan could easily destroy thousands of Zerg biological capital ships in Chen Ming's hands, which was extremely troublesome to deal with.
Although this was caused by Chen Ming's forcible exchange of battle damage, it was enough to show how powerful Leviathan was.
What's more, Leviathan's abilities are usually very complex and difficult to target.
It's hard to say that even one of the Empire's legions can surely kill a Leviathan.
But now there may be hundreds of Leviathans coming together, with the idea of razing Chen Ming's side.
"How long until it arrives?"
Chen Ming has already put on biological armor.
"Thirty-one of them have just set off, but the rest should have arrived."
"What?"
When Chen Ming was looking for the extra galaxy, he found his target in the thirty-second galaxy.
Traces of Leviathan were found in all the thirty-one galaxies he passed through before, and of course he also left behind devices to monitor Leviathan.
So Chen Ming could see very clearly that the Leviathans in these galaxies had just started to move.
But as long as you think about it carefully, you will find the problem.
The survivors have obviously been closely monitoring his behavior, so since Leviathan is related to them, they will also monitor him, and of course they will know what Chen Ming left behind in those galaxies.
If the survivors were a little smarter, they would give priority to the Leviathans in those galaxies that Chen Ming had not been to.
Then when these Leviathans have arrived or are about to arrive, let other Leviathans from the galaxies that Chen Ming has visited be dispatched to mislead Chen Ming.
There are at least seventy or eighty Leviathans. It seems that Chen Ming has really hit the sore spot of the survivors.
"Want to help? You don't seem to be in a good mental state right now."
"No need."
"I can handle it."
(End of chapter)