Chapter 207 Prosthesis

Chen Ming left the bar where Lao Wu was drinking and stood on the street outside.

He shook his head slightly, like a person who was recovering from drunkenness.

However, there was no trance in his eyes, but he was as sober as usual.

After identifying the direction.

Chen Ming walked into the city on the street where the entire space station had lowered the overall lighting brightness at night.

The factory director's home was near the center of the space station, very close to the location of the management bureau building, and it seemed to be the staff dormitory of the management bureau.

To be honest, Chen Ming didn't know how the factory director, a second-generation son of a large company chairman, could master maintenance technology and was willing to work in the maintenance factory.

Moreover, he usually lived in such a simple place compared to his status. Although the staff dormitory seemed to be good, it looked wrong.

However, this was the factory director's private matter, and Chen Ming would not ask more.

It was at this time that Chen Ming suddenly remembered that the company seemed to have said that he would arrange a special dormitory for him.

Although he didn't want it, the factory manager seemed to have picked it up during a chat before, and the dormitory was reserved for him.

Forget it, it doesn't matter, Chen Ming was too lazy to go and see it.

He still had to go to the factory manager.

When Chen Ming came to the company's employee dormitory, because Chen Ming had told the factory manager in advance that he was going to go there.

The factory manager also took Chen Ming to his residence directly at the entrance of the community and stayed in the study.

After asking the same questions as Lao Wu, Chen Ming also gave the same answer.

Chen Ming just chatted with the factory manager about the recent situation.

By the way, he also asked about the business of the repair shop.

After all, it was a place where he had stayed for a while, so he had some feelings.

However, while chatting, Chen Ming noticed that the factory manager looked at him strangely.

Chen Ming thought that the factory manager had seen something, and asked: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

The factory manager shook his head and continued to chat with Chen Ming.

But after a while, he said to Chen Ming hesitantly: "Let me ask you something, what are your plans for the future?"

"What's the future?"

"After the colony is built."

Chen Ming continued to chat and said casually: "I haven't thought about it yet, but it's not that easy to build a colony. It may take a few years or even more than ten years. I will definitely think about it by then."

"Your career will definitely go smoothly, so...is it almost time to start a family?"

Chen Ming pointed at his face and asked in confusion: "Am I very old?"

"I just think it's almost time."

"Then I can only say that I don't have this idea yet,"

Chen Ming called up a schedule for this period on the terminal and placed it on the factory floor. In front of the director, he said: "Look, where do I have time to do other things?"

The factory manager asked: "Will you do it if you have time?"

"That also requires time. And I'm not saying I'm completely against it, I just really don't have time."

"Oh, so that's it."

"Yes, that's it, why do you suddenly ask that?"

The factory manager raised his thumb and pointed to the door of the study room and said: "You know I'm married, sometimes I talk about you with my wife, and then I talk about this aspect by the way, she asked me to help you take care of it."

Chen Ming smiled and said: "There's nothing to take care of, right? It's still my own problem."

"Yes, you should focus on your career."

Chen Ming chatted with the factory manager for a while and then left here.

Finally, go to the boss.

At the door of the hardware store of Space Arm No. 2, Chen Ming happened to see the boss closing the store when he came.

Chen Ming looked for everyone he knew, and when he finally arrived at the boss's place, it was almost late at night.

Chen Ming stopped.

However, the boss noticed Chen Ming and waved to him, signaling him to go over.

When he approached the hardware store, the boss suddenly looked Chen Ming up and down and asked; "Why do you seem a little nervous?"

Chen Ming explained casually: "I just completed an experiment. The experimental process was a bit difficult, but the result was not bad."

When Chen Ming was talking, the boss could feel that he quickly calmed down, so he didn't say anything.

After a few simple words.

Chen Ming took the initiative to leave here, and time did not allow him to continue to disturb others.

When the boss disappeared from his sight.

Chen Ming suddenly let out a long breath, and then walked all the way back to the highest point.

He boarded the spaceship and went to the captain's room of the spaceship.

There was a person waiting for him here.

And this person looked exactly like Chen Ming.

To be precise, Chen Ming on the spaceship was the real Chen Ming.

And the "Chen Ming" who just went out to meet with the boss of the old factory director Wu was just a prosthesis that looked exactly like him and was controlled by Chen Ming's consciousness.

This is not a cloning technology, but a technology mastered by the queen of insects.

Through Chen Ming's genes, a pure fake body was created using the same method as ordinary Zerg.

The effect of the fake body was simple and direct, and he had just experienced it himself.

This fake body technology was a technology that Chen Ming had specially asked the Queen to make some time ago.

That was the only thing that he thought the Queen was doing some time ago that could be considered good news.

Originally, the Queen of Zerg was doing two things, one was to cultivate Zerg biological buildings, and the other was to cultivate special individuals of the Zerg.

Biological buildings are extremely difficult to build, and the efficiency of advancement is very low. Chen Ming has no good solution for the time being.

The process of cultivating special individuals is also difficult to achieve Chen Ming's ultimate goal, cultivating high-intensity combat individuals.

The Zerg is a species that wins by numbers, relying on its strong reproductive ability to crush the past.

It is also very difficult to start cultivating high-intensity combat individuals that the Zerg does not need out of thin air.

But in the process of cultivating special individuals.

Chen Ming suddenly had an idea, can the Zerg use human genes to make Zerg individuals show some human characteristics?

Although the human body itself is too weak, and the developed human brain can only serve as a carrier for the hive-thinking Zerg, it is meaningless to the Zerg.

But Chen Ming just wanted to try.

Even if the Queen of Zerg has to do several things at the same time like him.

Because he saw a glimmer of possibility in this idea.

After Chen Ming fed the Queen of Zerg with his own blood, he got a positive answer.

The Queen of Worms can indeed manually create some human organs and body tissues, but many Zerg genes will be mixed in, causing the final products to be very strange.

But at least it means that this thing is feasible.

Then Chen Ming asked the Queen of Worms to try the idea he had thought of at the beginning, a further step.

An idea that can better ensure his own safety.

Create a prosthesis like him.

Such a new idea that is independent of the special individual.

The Zerg created by the Queen of Worms will be affected by the Queen of Worms and controlled by Chen Ming at the same time.

Then the "people" created by the Queen of Worms should have the same effect.

So Chen Ming has been asking the Queen of Worms to try, and has been paying attention to this matter.

The number of failures in this research is not much less than that of the biological architecture made by the Queen of Worms.

And the failure of the biological architecture research only resulted in some more augmented organisms and undigested energy crystals.

But once Chen Ming's prosthesis fails during the experiment, it often produces many strange and twisted things with his face.

In the end, it will be wrapped by the fungal blanket and digested again into the most basic nutrients. The process made Chen Ming lose his sanity a little.

The bodies of his own dead bodies that have died so far can almost circle the highest point.

However, after seeing his own strange-looking bodies so many times, Chen Ming no longer felt anything.

Or he had gotten used to it when Yu Hui cloned his genes and created a bunch of strange-looking clones that were infected by the dimension.

So when the Queen of Insects created a bunch of his bodies, Chen Ming felt weird at first, but it didn't matter to him at all later.

Sometimes, in order to make his needs and ideas clear to the Queen of Insects, he would even point at his broken bodies.

And today, the experiment was finally successful, and Chen Ming used the honeycomb network to control the prosthesis.

His mentality of controlling the prosthesis was the same as using a biological armor, without any fluctuations.

It can also be regarded as training Chen Ming's resistance to various strange things.

He can control the prosthesis to go out and meet people without changing his face.

Originally, Chen Ming wanted to give someone he knew a little surprise to see if he could be found to be abnormal.

But... it seems that no one found out that he was a fake.

The prosthesis is indeed effective.

And Chen Ming also confirmed the sensory problems through the prosthesis.

It can be confirmed that he can share the sensory organs of the prosthesis and can actively accept or resist.

In other words, when the prosthesis eats food, Chen Ming can directly taste the taste of the food, and the same is true for the taste of alcohol.

However, the effect of alcohol on the prosthesis will not affect Chen Ming in turn.

Even if it dies, it is only the prosthesis that dies.

So the prosthesis is also an excellent substitute for Chen Ming.

During this process, when he went to find the factory director and was stared at by the factory director with strange eyes, Chen Ming thought he was exposed.

In the end, he didn't, the factory director just came to urge marriage.

Only when he went to find the boss at the end was it the most nervous moment for him in this test.

As a result, his subconscious nervousness on the prosthesis was seen, but the boss couldn't even see that the prosthesis was fake.

Because Chen Ming's consciousness controls the prosthesis through the hive mind network connection.

Chen Ming's hive mind network was constructed using his own psychic energy, which means that his psychic energy completely enveloped the prosthesis, allowing the prosthesis to have his own normal psychic energy fluctuations.

Of course, if you find a way to go deep into the prosthesis's brain, you will definitely find something abnormal, after all, Chen Ming's spiritual nerves are not here.

But the boss will not be idle and use psychic energy to directly explore Chen Ming's head.

Normally, there is no simple way to easily investigate other people's brains, especially what is in the brain of a psychic.

Only last time, when Chen Ming left the pirate space station for a while, he came back with two psychic energy fluctuations connected to something inexplicably on his body.

That surprised the boss and thought that Chen Ming was parasitized by something.

He used mental power to force Chen Ming to check it again.

At that time, he checked and found nothing wrong, and Chen Ming also said that it was fine.

It was normal for the boss to see two mental fluctuations on Chen Ming's body that were connected to the outside world.

So, the boss didn't find anything abnormal just now.

Even if someone came to do a genetic test on his prosthesis, the final result would definitely be Chen Ming's own genes.

When the prosthesis was made, the Queen of Zerg also made special adjustments, and there would not be any Zerg parts in the prosthesis.

So since those who were close to Chen Ming couldn't see the problem, then in the eyes of anyone else, the prosthesis was Chen Ming himself.

However, once Chen Ming stopped the conscious control of the prosthesis.

Then it would be like now.

The prosthesis that was still standing in front of Chen Ming instantly collapsed to the ground.

It was a mass of dead meat after losing Chen Ming's consciousness.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't completely withdraw his consciousness, he would still leave a part of his subtle consciousness in the prosthesis.

To prevent the prosthesis without self-consciousness from being occupied by things from another dimension that caused dimensional infection.

Chen Ming immersed his consciousness in the prosthesis again and controlled the prosthesis to climb up.

He and the prosthesis simultaneously extended their hands and made different gestures.

It was very easy for Chen Ming to divide his mind into two tasks.

And...

There was also a bracelet made of the Queen's body tissue on the wrist of the prosthesis in front of Chen Ming.

After the prosthesis raised its hand, a liquid mixed with metallic color and bright green flowed out of its wrist, gradually wrapping it and forming a set of biological armor.

After wearing this armor, the combat ability of the prosthesis should be the same as Chen Ming himself.

After all, the physical fitness of the prosthesis is still based on his situation, and the armor is just that armor.

It does not have the body tissues and organs of the Zerg with abnormal combat capabilities.

But this ordinary prosthesis can do some things for him that he would never risk doing.

For example, go to the 14th Legion on his behalf, which he would never dare to go to.

After Chen Ming agreed to Bai Quan's invitation to join the war yesterday, he was thinking about how he could get the most benefits in the war.

That must be to participate deeply in this war.

Because this war is a must-win.

A war that is sure to win, he has no reason to refuse to participate.

However, just helping with the research of the mechanical race as he had agreed with Baiquan before was not enough.

Although he could get some benefits, it was definitely not as good as participating in something deeper.

How to deeply participate in this war initiated by the empire and prepared by the Fourteenth Army, the answer is also obvious.

Go to the Fourteenth Army.

As a temporary tactical instructor in the contract he just signed.

Chen Ming does not need to actually join the Fourteenth Army, because he now has the contract he signed.

After all, the Fourteenth Army is the main force of the empire's early war against the mechanical race.

They definitely have first-hand intelligence on the war.

And Chen Ming, as the person who currently knows the mechanical race best, can definitely get it.

But if Chen Ming is not in the Fourteenth Army, then Baiquan's speed of giving information will definitely be a little delayed.

Only by going there in person, at the Fourteenth Army's base, can he get the information he needs in the first place.

Then find an opportunity to remotely command his Yuhui to grab the benefits.

But there are also obvious problems with doing this.

It is impossible for Chen Ming to run to the Fourteenth Army at the risk of being under house arrest.

Because he has used his deep repair psychic power several times and optimized some technologies.

Not only the cooperation with Shao Yang, the hyperspace channel jump technology itself is the result of reverse research using deep repair.

Even if Chen Ming concealed the research and development process in the paper.

But once there is a trace, he can't guarantee that his ability will never be leaked.

It's only a matter of time before his psychic power is exposed, unless he doesn't use it at all.

But not using psychic power is impossible.

So once the psychic power of this optimization technology is leaked.

Although his own safety is the least worrying point, countless people don't want him to die.

But he and the word freedom will also say goodbye.

Therefore, not only the 14th Corps, but also some other places belonging to the government army, he certainly dare not go.

Although Baiquan and he have a good relationship recently.

But Baiquan is a soldier, Chen Ming really can't guarantee what Baiquan will do.

So the importance of the fake body is raised here.

It allows Chen Ming to do many things without burden.

Before Chen Ming actually made the fake body, he didn't expect the fake body to be so powerful... It doesn't seem right to say it's powerful, it should be said that it is such a unique effect.

At first, he just thought that the fake body was a good life-saving technology and it was feasible, so he tried it.

In the end, he got a pleasant surprise.

Chen Ming threw the fake body, which had collapsed again, to the Queen of Insects, asking her to help take care of it.

Tomorrow, the fake body will be useful.

At dawn the next day.

Chen Ming asked the fake body to contact with the terminal, and when Bai Quan appeared on the screen and started teaching, the fake body suddenly asked Bai Quan: "Do you have any places open to the public in the Fourteenth Corps?"

When Bai Quan came up, he was stunned by Chen Ming's question. He thought about it and said, "It shouldn't be possible, especially at this time when the army is on lockdown. Why do you suddenly ask about this?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly became curious about what the territory of your Fourteenth Legion looks like."

Bai Quan said casually: "Would you like to come over and take a look?"

"OK."

"Huh? Huh?"

Bai Quan didn't expect Chen Ming to give such a reply at all. He had invited him so many times before, but Chen Ming never agreed once.

At this time, he suddenly agreed, and Chen Ming took the initiative to express his intention intentionally or unintentionally.

Bai Quan hesitated for a while.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ming added: "Didn't I just promise your people in the headquarters yesterday that they would bring the mechanical race over and I would help them demonstrate what the mechanical race under my control would become? Just be satisfied."

"Do you believe this reason?"

Chen Ming himself also knew that the reason he made up casually was not reliable. After thinking about it, he continued according to his current situation: "Well, actually, I want to see the technology of your 14th Legion."

"You also know that many of your technologies are not available on public academic websites."

"Well, I've recently hit a bottleneck when learning cruiser skills. I want to see your skills and change my mind."

"And you said before that I help you conduct research on the machine race, and any results you get will be rewarded with military merit."

"I'll go directly to your place so that I can use the equipment to get some results or something."

Bai Quan immediately grasped the key to Chen Ming's words and said, "Are you interested in our equipment?"

Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "I can't help it. I'm short of money recently. Your place is a good place to make money."

Chen Ming's half-truths and half-false words made Bai Quan confused for a moment as to what Chen Ming wanted to do.

He could only use a joking tone and asked in a direction that might cause Chen Ming's attitude to suddenly change: "How do you make our Fourteenth Army Corps not look like a serious place? Isn't it okay for you to speed up the progress there? ?”

"It's okay, but it's just too good, so the money is flowing out like water. How about you help me a little?"

"I remember that the empire seems to have a pioneering law, which can provide certain financial and technical support to pioneers."

Bai Quan said repeatedly: "Stop, stop, stop, that was the law of the pioneering era. Are you going to use it now?"

"You know this as well?"

"Yes, the laws of the empire now stipulate that there are no restrictions on personal exploration and development, and the establishment of colonies outside the empire does not require approval. What else is there? Gone, right?"

"It seems like it's gone, so I have to find a way to solve the money problem, right?"

"really……"

There is nothing wrong with just listening to the explanation.

Many people know about what he is doing outside the country, and Chen Ming's material circulation follows serious trade routes and is taxed, so it is easy to investigate.

Otherwise, Bai Quan would not have been so decisive before and said that he would arrange a way for Chen Ming to purchase supplies at cost price.

They can roughly estimate the basis of the power Chen Ming has developed based on the amount of supplies Chen Ming purchased.

However, all the materials purchased by Chen Ming will eventually be sent to the boss's colony, and will be transported away by Chen Mingling.

Therefore, the final transportation process cannot be determined.

But it is easy to tell whether Chen Ming is short of money.

According to the recent flow of materials in the boss's colony, Chen Ming did spend a lot of money, and it was normal to be short of money.

After all, the material purchase route he arranged has not yet been fully implemented in Chen Ming's hands, and it will probably take another week.

Therefore, Chen Ming's reason for being short of money is totally justified.

But Bai Quan always felt something was wrong. After thinking about it, he opened his mouth and said, "I can let you come here, but aren't you worried about anything?"

Chen Ming asked back: "Worried that you will use violence to keep me here? No way? Probably."

"Many people already think that you are not suitable for leaving the empire, so... I can't say."

Chen Ming said again: "It's okay, you don't have to worry for me."

"Why didn't I go to your place before? Because to go to the Fourteenth Legion, you have to be from the Fourteenth Legion."

"But I still don't want to join directly. The army is too troublesome for me."

"It's different now. I'm a temporary soldier. I've read everything on the contract. This identity war will be over."

"I'll have to go take a look if I get the chance."

Bai Quan frowned and suddenly took off the badge of the Fourteenth Legion on his chest, and said to Chen Ming: "Seriously, why did you suddenly have this idea?"

"This doesn't seem like something you would do. If you weren't talking to me with your spiritual power now, I wouldn't even think you were Chen Ming."