Chapter 328 Problem

According to what Chen Ming knows.

Except for human psychics, no psychic creatures have spiritual awakening nerves.

Their spiritual energy source is themselves. It can be said that the body of each psychic creature is their "spiritual awakening nerve."

Since the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race have mechanical spiritual awakening nerves, there must be a source.

Chen Ming previously believed that the mechanical psychic creature transformation facility concentrated all the spiritual energy originally existing in the body of the psychic creature during the transformation of the psychic creature and constructed a new spiritual awakening nerve.

But now it seems that things are not as he imagined.

Sample No. 0 does not have a mechanical spiritual awakening nerve.

Although this may be because Chen Ming only obtained one-third of the equipment, which lacks the function of transforming spiritual awakening nerves.

However, through the study of the entire transformation process, Chen Ming is more inclined to believe that the facility will not aggregate the spiritual energy of psychic creatures to form mechanical spiritual awakening nerves during the transformation.

When it transforms the body tissues of the Zerg individuals covered by the power of the Queen, it has no intention of aggregating spiritual energy at all.

The equipment itself is not made of Silent Alloy, a material that can isolate the overflow of psychic energy fluctuations, nor does it seem that psychic energy can be gathered again at the end of the conversion process.

The psychic energy in the converted body tissues dissipated during the conversion.

Zerg units are all part of the Queen, so they can use the Queen's psychic energy.

If psychic energy can really be accumulated, the psychic energy of the Queen should be accumulated.

But the facility did not do so.

So Chen Ming felt that the mechanical spiritual nerves were not converted from psychic creatures.

This equipment should not be a "mechanical psychic biological conversion facility", but a "mechanical, psychic, biological conversion facility".

The key lies in the biological conversion facility.

Then the question is, where do these mechanical spiritual nerves come from?

Chen Ming felt that this had to be determined by contacting the existing mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race.

He immediately went to the warehouse at the highest point, where there were about hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures on standby, and there were three special destructions waiting for him.

These mechanical psychic creatures are essentially no different from all mechanical units, and even the panels are exactly the same.

It's nothing more than a different name and an extra mechanical awakening nerve.

So if you want to study these things, you must start with the biggest difference between them and ordinary mechanical races, the mechanical awakening nerve.

The mechanical awakening nerve is called the awakening nerve, but in fact it is very different from the ordinary awakening nerve.

The biggest difference is the appearance.

The awakening nerve of ordinary psychics grows in the brain, and the thickest is only one-third of the diameter of the little finger, and the length will not exceed 20 centimeters.

And the mechanical awakening nerve...

Chen Ming can say with certainty through his observation of hundreds of mechanical psychic creatures he captured.

The mechanical awakening nerve is more like a mechanical spine.

And its internal structure is very similar to the Purgatory Core.

Of course, this does not mean that the mechanical awakening nerve is the Purgatory Core, but it is very similar to the Purgatory Core in terms of operating logic structure.

The more obvious difference is that the Purgatory Core is the ability to control entropy purely relying on the internal structure and psychic materials

And there are really some special substances inside the mechanical awakening nerve.

Chen Ming randomly found a mechanical psychic creature and disassembled its mechanical awakening nerve.

And used psychic energy to extract the special substance inside.

This is a psychic substance that is invisible to the naked eye, but it can be sensed by mental power, and mental power can be used to block it to prevent it from escaping in the air.

And when Chen Ming used mental power to sense this thing, he suddenly felt that this thing was very familiar.

He should have... No, it has always been in contact with it.

Chen Ming remembered.

These psychic substances are all psychic energy substances.

And psychic energy substances are the substances that constitute the spiritual stone, the essence of the spiritual stone.

In other words... the mechanical spiritual nerve is actually similar to the spiritual stone? And is it made of spiritual stone?

Chen Ming feels a little bit different.

The spiritual stone is an extreme emotion accompanied by the fluctuation of mental power when a person dies and aggregates on the nearby stone.

The spiritual energy substances in the mechanical spiritual nerves are also quite different from those in the spiritual stone.

The mechanical spiritual nerves seem to be locked into this kind of spiritual energy substances by something.

It is not like the spiritual stone that is naturally formed.

Chen Ming didn't want to delve too deeply into how these spiritual energy substances came from, because delving into them might touch upon his blind spots in knowledge again.

He only needed to know that it was this substance that gave this mechanical spiritual nerve its specialness and gave the mechanical creature spiritual energy.

In addition, Chen Ming also noticed that the structure of the mechanical spiritual nerves installed by different mechanical spiritual creatures was the same, but the spiritual energy substances inside were different.

As long as a mechanical spiritual nerve was replaced with a different spiritual energy substance, it could immediately become a mechanical spiritual nerve with other effects.

This standardized structure made these mechanical spiritual nerves look like a device that could be mass-produced and belonged to the mechanical family.

As for more, Chen Ming couldn't analyze it.

The overall technical level of the mechanical race is higher than his, so he couldn't go deeper.

However, Chen Ming suddenly remembered something.

In his hand, there is a personality core that he just snatched from the mechanical race, the Mechanical Queen.

As the core of the mechanical race's mothership and the core of the colony construction during the pioneering period, it should have knowledge about the mechanical race.

How come he almost forgot this.

Chen Ming immediately contacted the Mechanical Queen remotely and asked it what the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race were.

The Mechanical Queen responded quickly.

But what Chen Ming didn't expect was that the Mechanical Queen didn't reply to his question, but a complete document, and helped Chen Ming translate it into the language of the empire.

And this document actually explained in detail what the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race were and how they were made.

Chen Ming looked at the document and was silent.

After a long silence.

He suddenly sighed and said, "Why didn't I ask directly."

Fortunately, the impact was not great.

Chen Ming's own research would also leave a deeper impression than reading the document directly.

In addition, he started researching after conducting experiments.

These documents will not clearly state the results of all failed experiments.

Nor will they teach Chen Ming how to create a half-biological, half-mechanical individual and gain the advantages of both.

Chen Ming learned something new from the experiment just now, so it is not a loss if he does not ask.

After adjusting his mindset.

Chen Ming carefully studied the document on the mechanical psychic creatures of the mechanical race.

Probably a few years ago, the mechanical race found the mechanical psychic creature transformation facility from the ruins of the shining civilization.

After a period of searching for the memories stored in themselves, the mechanical race regained the use of this facility.

Seeing this, Chen Ming paused for a moment.

Because he found that according to the document, the transformation facility does have the ability to transform psychic-related things.

However, it does not transform psychic creatures into mechanical psychic creatures, but transforms psychic creatures into a psychic core and produces some related derivatives, that is, psychic energy.

This facility extracts all the psychic energy of psychic creatures and fuses them into a special object.

If the spiritual nerve extractor is used for psychics, then this transformation facility is used for psychic creatures.

Moreover, the transformation facility also has multiple transformation modes. Transforming organisms into mechanical organisms and transforming psychic organisms into psychic cores are only two of the most basic functions.

The other transformation methods are unusable only because Chen Ming's machine lost too many external devices.

As for other transformation methods...

Chen Ming continued to read on.

After the mechanical race found and figured out how to use the transformation facility, it didn't take long for them to create a dimension infection entity.

Of course, it was not the mechanical race star field near the empire, but a mechanical race star field somewhere in the more distant and deep starry sky.

So it didn't affect the empire at all.

In short, the ability of the dimension infection entity created by the mechanical race is destruction.

And the mechanical race felt that it was too dangerous, so they used the converter to transform this dimension infection entity into a destruction core and some companion creatures, that is, the psychic energy of destruction.

These psychic energy substances can't be wasted, so the mechanical race created a new...no, it should be considered old, a kind of thing that belongs to the shining civilization and the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility, that is, the mechanical spiritual nerve.

As long as a little spiritual energy is inserted, the mechanical race can create a new mechanical spiritual nerve.

After these are implanted in some creatures, and these creatures are transformed again by the transformation facilities and become mechanical creatures.

These creatures can master the power of using spiritual energy through the transformation of the facilities.

Implanting mechanical spiritual nerves and transforming ordinary creatures is similar to installing and debugging the Purgatory Core for the Purgatory Demon King.

As for why the mechanical spiritual nerves are not directly given to other mechanical races.

There is also an explanation in the document.

The technical strength of the mechanical spiritual nerve itself is not as good as the Purgatory Core.

So although it is a machine, it needs to be assimilated with the object of implantation.

Ordinary mechanical races cannot assimilate spiritual energy, only creatures can assimilate with spiritual nerves.

And after assimilation, the mechanical race can further transform the creatures.

This is the reason why mechanical psychic creatures appear.

Chen Ming said where did the mechanical race get so many psychic creatures to transform.

It is basically a psychic creature that can transform a core and spiritual energy that can replicate multiple mechanical spiritual nerves.

This method of mass-producing multiple spiritual awakening nerves using companion organisms only uses relatively simple devices such as mechanical spiritual awakening nerves, so the upper limit of spiritual energy is much lower than that of normal psychics.

As for the purpose of the spiritual energy core.

The document does not say much, but simply describes it in one sentence.

The spiritual energy core is an alternative combination of spiritual awakening nerves and spiritual stones.

In short, after obtaining this information, some questions that Chen Ming could not answer in his mind were finally answered.

Let’s not talk about how the machine race caused the dimensional infection, but also how they stuffed the entity from the most important source of the dimensional infection into the transformation equipment.

In short, the mechanical race created the core of destruction and some derived spiritual energy of destruction by transforming the entities infected by the dimension.

Then these destructive spiritual energy qualities became the content of part of the mechanical spiritual enlightenment nerves.

And these soul-destroying nerves carry a part of the power of dimensional infection. After being implanted into the bodies of ordinary creatures, they will of course cause those creatures to be infected.

This process of infection is probably also a process of assimilation from the perspective of the machine race.

After the assimilation was completed, these dimension-infected creatures were sent to the mechanical psychic biological transformation facility and became what Chen Ming saw.

Fortunately, after the second transformation, the remaining spiritual energy quality of destruction is really pure spiritual energy quality, and no longer has the power of any dimensional infection and erosion.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would have to worry about the dimension infection mark.

As for the mechanical psionic biological transformation facilities of the Machine Tribe, and the technology of converting psionic creatures into psionic cores...it seems...a little bit dangerous.

Danger in two senses.

One danger is that this shows that the machine race near the empire is still connected with the more distant machine race. The war between the empire and the machine race is likely to involve more than just one star field.

Another danger is the danger the Empire poses to the psykers within the Empire.

Humans are also living creatures. If this kind of transformation facility has no effect on humans, Chen Ming would not believe it.

It's just that the existence of humans or human-like beings is quite special, so the Shining Civilization, a civilization that is absolutely inseparable from "humans", deliberately researches equipment such as the Spirit-Enlightening Nerve Extraction Device for human psykers.

Chen Ming often didn't want to think too much about this kind of thing, but now it was really hard for him not to think too much.

This kind of psionic core can extract psionic cores from psykers, and while obtaining psionic cores, batch-produce various degraded psykers, and can even recycle the mechanical spiritual awakening nerves of long-standing psykers.

The emergence of this technology is extremely threatening to the existence of psychics.

Even more dangerous than the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device.

It must be sealed, and Chen Ming must not let it fall into the hands of the empire.

So at this time, Chen Ming still has a question in his mind. After the machine race transformed the dimensional infection entity, where did the most important destruction core go?

Chen Ming asked the Empress.

The mechanical queen directly gave Chen Ming a blueprint.

A blueprint for the main weapon of the Machine Tribe, the Spine Cannon Head.

"Gitui, give me everything."

Chen Ming sighed.

The machine queen did not respond.

Because it's just machinery and all it does is obey orders.

It seems that in the future, as long as it is related to the mechanical clan, if you don't understand something, you can try to figure it out from the mechanical queen.

Not all questions may be answered, but most certainly can.

Chen Ming thought this and looked at the blueprint carefully.

If the Mechanical Queen can give him the blueprint, it means that the Mechanical Tribe uses the Destruction Core for the weapon of the blueprint, which is also a very understandable way of using it.

However, Chen Mingzai suddenly frowned.

Because the blueprint of the spine cannon head that he saw at this time was not the new weapon owned by the mechanical tribe that He Gu had told him some time ago.

It is a truly brand new weapon that is not yet known to the empire.

Ridge Cannon: Destroyer.

This is a little scary.

Under the premise that the Machine Tribe has a new type of psychic weapon, the Machine Tribe actually hides a more threatening weapon.

Although the destruction of spiritual nerves by scraps is nothing to Chen Ming, to ordinary people these things are already "destructive" enough.

And the destruction of the main weapon level of the battleship...that would be really fatal.

And I'm afraid it's not just destruction. The destruction core is installed as a destroyer. What about the other cores installed? What kind of effect will it have?

etc.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that he seemed to have thought of something terrible, if other psychic cores could also be installed on weapons with similar designs.

That is to say, the new machine-type weapons investigated by the empire may be just one of this batch of weapons.

It's just that the Machine Tribe deliberately released information about a new weapon, making the Empire think they only had this new weapon.

Others continued to be hidden, only to be brought out at the necessary moment to inflict heavy damage on the empire.

Chen Ming quickly sent a copy of the document to Legion's prosthesis.

He must inform people of this news. News of this... this type of destructive psychic weapon must be known to others.

After Chen Ming urgently sent the document to Bai Quan, he immediately received a call from Bai Quan.

"What did you just send?"

Chen Ming responded: "I can't say much else. I can only tell you that these are real information. The Machine Tribe definitely has more than one new weapon."

"Don't ask me anything, I don't want to say anything."

"I understand, thank you."

Bai Quan did not continue to ask, just thanked him and hung up the phone.

It was no surprise to him that Chen Ming would come up with some unexpected surprises from time to time.

Just hold it, can Chen Ming still trick him?

Chen Ming looked at the call that was hung up decisively, and estimated that Baiquan would be busy for a few days.

Then he simply turned off the terminal.

After all, what he gave was real, and the weapon designs of the mechanical race were also real.

The design was so detailed that it could be directly reproduced one-to-one. Whether it was the Psychic Research Institute or the Ship Research Institute, there would definitely be more than one person who wanted to contact him.

Chen Ming didn't want his phone to be blown up.

After turning off the terminal.

Chen Ming continued to think about the Queen of Machinery and asked a question.

That is, the plan to repair the transformation facility.

The Queen of Machinery did not give the file this time, but gave an answer after asking for the current three-dimensional scanning image of the transformation facility.

It cannot be repaired.

Because the source of the transformation facilities owned by the mechanical race star field close to the empire is other mechanical races in more distant places.

And the mechanical race there can only use the remains of the shining civilization as a replacement, and it is also impossible to repair.

However, the Queen of Machinery,

gave an alternative plan, asking Chen Ming to go to the nearest mechanical race star system for replacement, where there is another transformation facility.

Even, the Queen of Machinery gave Chen Ming an exact coordinate.

Chen Ming stared at the coordinates in silence for a while.

Asked the machine queen a question.

A few seconds later.

He got the detailed star map of the mechanical race and mastered the precise deployment of the mechanical race's fleet.

Looking at this star map and deployment map, Chen Ming suddenly sighed again: "What a pity."

The mechanical race will definitely change the overall deployment of the mechanical race star field that the mechanical queen knows as soon as they lose the machine queen.

If Chen Ming can seize the machine queen when the real war breaks out, the war may end most of the time in advance.

But now, it's really a pity...

But Chen Ming couldn't predict this in advance.

At least after having this star map, he knew the coordinates of some important star systems of the mechanical race, and these star systems could not be relocated.

He could try to attack and rob the conversion facilities.

But there is no rush for the time being. He still has a lot of things to do now, and he has no time to use it to raid the mechanical race.

Chen Ming thought so, and suddenly started the terminal again.

While no one called him yet, he hurriedly sent the star map and the mechanical race's deployment map to Baiquan.

Bai Quan immediately called again. This time he didn't speak, but Chen Ming heard what he meant from his silence.

A simple, powerful question mark.

"Don't ask. Just ask that I have someone in the mechanical tribe."

"By the way, the deployment map expired about an hour ago. Now the mechanical tribe should have changed its deployment."

"If there is any emergency action, you can try it in this last bit of time."

Bai Quan really wanted to ask Chen Ming how he got this extremely critical thing, but he still restrained himself and said, "If there is no problem, you can consider what level of merit you want. I will try to get you two special merits."

Bai Quan hung up the communication.

After Chen Ming seriously considered what to exchange for the special merit, he put his consciousness back to the main body.

Chen Ming also figured out all the information about the things he obtained.

Next, there should be four things he needs to do on the main body.

Prepare for an attack on the mechanical tribe and seize the transformation facilities.

Go to the ruins of the shining civilization discovered by the mechanical race and take a look at the information that the mechanical race originally planned to explore.

Use the zero sample obtained by the conversion facility for further research.

By the way, see if the mechanical awakening nerve can come up with something interesting.

The first two of these four things can be done without rushing.

Whether it is breaking into the mechanical race star field or going to the information that the mechanical race is afraid to go directly, it takes time to prepare.

The last two things can be started now and kept going.

After figuring out the principle of the mechanical awakening nerve, Chen Ming is also quite curious about this thing.

He has been thinking, can the mechanical awakening nerve be implanted into a prosthesis?

An Wuping is not very active, so he can only make a new prosthesis.

Prosthesis, Chen Ming is actually considering whether to find a way to transform the black fog psychic into his prosthesis.

This guy has not woken up since Chen Ming saved his life last time.

The reason is very simple. When his awakening nerve was still there, his consciousness was strong and his body could support such consciousness.

Now his spiritual awakening nerve is gone, and although the strength of consciousness is gradually decreasing, it is not something that a body without spiritual awakening nerves can support.

Before the strength of consciousness decreases, he will only fall into a coma, and the time will last about three months.

To be honest, it is no different from being dead.

As long as the spiritual awakening nerves are extracted, even if the psychic is saved, he will be an ordinary person at most.

So Chen Ming wants the black fog psychic to play his last remaining heat.

This is also a plan he has carefully considered.

Although the black fog psychic is a member of the left channel and is dead, he can indeed become a prosthesis.

Because Chen Ming knows that the left channel has not been completely destroyed, they have only lost a part of the power that is exposed.

Even if the black fog psychic is discovered, his existence can be used to remind those people in the empire who are committed to eliminating the left channel that the left channel is still there.

It's just that Chen Ming has to pay attention.

If An Wuping's relationship with him is discovered, at most someone will scold him.

But if the relationship between the Black Mist Psychic and him is discovered, Chen Ming will be involved in a lot of headaches.

Of course, it's just a trouble, which can be solved.

In addition, Chen Ming has another idea, which is to transform the Black Mist Spiritual Nerve into the Black Mist Core.

Then use the converted scraps to make a Black Mist Mechanical Spiritual Nerve and implant it into the Black Mist Psychic.

This should be very interesting.

Then he can apply some of the mechanical and Zerg research results from Sample Zero to him, so that this Black Mist prosthesis becomes a prosthesis that integrates multiple abilities, different from An Wuping, who combines the power of the Zerg and the source of chaos.

At that time, this prosthesis can also become a special prosthesis for Chen Ming to move in the mechanical star field.

The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more interesting it was, and he immediately prepared.

At this time, his shuttle at the headquarters finally arrived at the Ship Research Institute.