Chapter 368 Nano Forge

The scavenger robot just handed over the control authority directly to Chen Ming. No one knew what the identification code was, and it actually had such a high authority.

However, Chen Ming did not suffer any loss in this matter, so of course he accepted the scavenger with a smile.

It also saved him from trying to test whether controlling the scavenger was considered controlling the main battleship.

After controlling the scavenger, the first thing Chen Ming had to do was of course to let the scavenger robot perform a system self-check, and he confirmed the status of the scavenger based on the quality inspection data.

And using the highest point, the scavenger was scanned.

The first result to come out was of course the log file during the system self-check.

Chen Ming took a look at the log and quickly asked the scavenger to stop the self-check.

Because he found that these log files had filled up the storage unit that controlled the personality core of the scavenger.

In addition to the system files kept by the scavenger itself in the core storage unit, all external storage units were filled with the log files of the scavenger's periodic self-check.

This means that Chen Ming can only read records from about 30,000 years ago at most.

All the earlier log records have been overwritten.

If there is another self-check, there will be more files overwritten.

Chen Ming's repair can pull up the files that have turned to ash, but there is no way to retrieve the files that have been overwritten.

Just like things affected by destruction cannot be repaired by psychic power.

After all, this is repair, not time travel.

After the scavenger stopped the self-check, Chen Ming quickly backed up a copy of the scavenger's log, and then confirmed the situation in the log record.

At the beginning.

It's a pity that the log records 30,000 years ago are not the records that Chen Ming wants to see.

It's not the record that the scavenger was created when the shining civilization still existed, nor is it the record that the scavenger unloaded the weapons and main control of countless warships and installed them on himself.

Instead, it is some very boring periodic and almost unchanging running back and forth in the neighboring galaxies, constantly leaving a large number of mining robots to mine resources and recycle resources.

Come to think of it, since the entire storage unit has been completely filled, the earliest part of the record will of course be overwritten first.

Just seeing these extremely detailed records, whether text, images or videos, Chen Ming still felt a little overwhelmed.

These records, which can be called redundant, occupy a large amount of storage space of the scavenger, resulting in him having no way of knowing what happened earlier.

But there is no way, don't expect to change it since it has already happened, let's see if there is anything valuable in these records at hand.

Chen Ming screened the contents of the records a little.

Filter out the records of things that happened step by step in 30,000 years, and only look for those records with special circumstances.

However, the most of them are just some records of ground creatures threatening mining drones and then being quickly resolved, and there is no valuable information at all.

If you insist, there is.

That is, the scavenger saves all the logs of planets in all nearby galaxies that have mined resources.

And also records the location of resources that are deeply buried underground and cannot be mined by drones.

These records are all saved in the core storage unit and have not been overwritten.

After all, this should be considered the job of the scavenger.

These data can save a lot of time for Chen Ming to investigate and locate resources later.

And since the scavengers have been to those places, and the automatic mining drones have collected minerals without encountering any danger.

Then there must not be too many dangers on these planets, and if there are any, they must have been killed by the scavengers long ago.

Even if there are really dangers that have not been discovered, they must be underground.

And Chen Ming’s main means of mining resources now is the Zerg.

He actually hopes there will be some danger.

After all, danger also means opportunity.

Although it may not be a good opportunity.

But for the Zerg, it should be an opportunity to eat.

Chen Ming quickly read through the part of the 30,000-year record that is different from the daily record. It can only be said that these records are a little beyond his imagination.

For 30,000 years, the scavenger robot has been wandering in an area centered on the Origin Galaxy, constantly sending out mining robots, constantly retrieving mining robots, and constantly transporting minerals to the habitable planet in the Origin Galaxy.

It has been doing repetitive work all the time.

Chen Ming felt so bored that he wanted to vomit when he saw it.

I really don't know...

Oh, by the way, although the personality core of the mechanical race is called the personality core, it actually has no real personality...

Forget it, let it be.

Chen Ming still failed to obtain any effective information from the log records of the scavenger.

Fortunately, the scanning program of the scavenger by the Supreme Point has come to the end.

It allows Chen Ming to learn more about the scavenger without controlling the scavenger.

For example, the various levels on the scavenger's body that Chen Ming can see at this time, which is larger than the main battleship, and even includes the outer shell composed of things such as the weapons and armor of the main battleship, are really all real goods.

And all, whether inside or outside, as long as the weapons installed by the scavenger are connected to the main control system to the scavenger's own main control.

This means that all these modified weapons can be used, whether they are main-level weapons or any other ship weapons.

Even after the outermost layer of armor and weapons are destroyed, the scavengers can actively shed the outer layer of "ship" armor and continue to attack with the inner layer of weapons.

It can really cause damage at the main level.

The real combat power should at least be able to face the concentrated fire of dozens of battleships at the same time and fight back. To deal with this scavenger, at least hundreds of battleships would be needed.

This number is somewhat small compared to the thousands of battleships recycled by scavengers to form their own bodies.

However, in Chen Ming's view, the combat effectiveness of several battleships has already undergone a qualitative change compared with a single battleship.

And the difference between dozens of ships and several ships is also extremely huge.

But the premise of this is quantity, and quantity represents dexterity.

Although this scavenger has collected at least the weapon systems and main control systems of thousands of capital ships, its firepower is definitely not bad.

But individually, especially a single scavenger of such a large size, it is hard to say how well it will perform in actual combat.

Chen Ming's judgment was also relatively conservative. Perhaps the scavengers would perform better in actual combat.

He just thinks in the wrong direction out of habit.

In any case, the scavengers are the most powerful space combat unit at his disposal.

But Chen Ming did not intend to use it in combat.

The main reason is that there is no occasion that requires this level of combat power.

The secondary reason is because the results just scanned by the Supreme Point are more than that.

On the scavengers, in addition to the bodies pieced together from the wreckage of the spacecraft visible to the naked eye, there are countless cutting-edge nanorobots that are more efficient than the nanorobots carried by ordinary mechanical races.

Judging from the models of various additional attachments stored in its core storage unit, these nanorobots are not the nanorobots that were originally equipped when the scavengers were created.

Instead, they were nanorobots collected by scavengers from various warships, and they were continuously optimized and iterated over the past thirty thousand years to create cutting-edge nanorobots.

The existence of these nanorobots gives scavengers an efficient nanorepair system.

At the same time, it also gave the scavengers some nano-weapons optimized by relying on these cutting-edge nano-robots and various spacecraft debris.

Of course it's just a weapon enhanced by nanorobots, not a nano-level weapon.

In space, true nanoscale weapons do not have such good application prospects.

However, main-level weapons enhanced by nanorobots are definitely stronger than normal main-level weapons.

This is enough to further strengthen the combat effectiveness of the scavengers.

But what these nanorobots are more suitable for is obviously another thing that exists in the body of the scavenger.

Nanoforge.

This is an industrial core equipment and an integrated miniaturized nanorobot factory.

But its size is only about ten cubic meters.

It is a special device similar to the purgatory core, synchrotron core and catalytic core.

At the same time, it is the reason why today’s scavengers were born.

The reason why it is called today's scavenger is because when Chen Ming scanned it, he found that there was something wrong with the structure of the scavenger.

The real basic scavenger did not have such a huge body today. It was originally just a mining drone platform. It did not have a nanoforge at all, nor those thick armors, nor those countless weapons.

The reason why this happened,

It is absolutely inseparable from the Nano Forge.

The positioning of the nanoforge is that it can evolve from the initial piece of equipment into a huge factory that can cover the planet, transforming the planet into an industrial colony.

It does not matter whether it is an ordinary industrial colony or a psychic industrial colony that mass-produces psychic devices.

Of course, the latter requires psykers to control the nanoforge throughout the process, and it also absolutely requires a large amount of psychic materials to be accumulated.

They could do it in the era when Shining Civilization still existed, but Chen Ming definitely couldn't do it now.

Of course, it can't be done, but it doesn't prevent Chen Ming from figuring out the working principle of the nanoforge through the data stored in the scavenger core.

And the reason why this nanoforge did not appear on the planet, but on the scavengers.

Although this reason has no beginning or end, it is impossible to fully explain the matter.

But Chen Ming's scan of the scavenger could at least let him know that the nanoforge appeared on the scavenger because it was damaged.

As for how the nano-forge was damaged and how it got to the scavengers, Chen Ming had no idea.

Anyway, he could tell directly from the scan results that the nanoforge was damaged and that the nanoforge was taken away by scavengers.

I don't know how many years ago, the scavengers of the automated mining platform took away the damaged nanoforge and began to use the nanoforge to strengthen themselves.

Ultimately, a monster is created.

That is today’s scavenger robot.

An object that can gradually evolve a planet into an industrial colony if sufficient materials are provided. Even if it is damaged, its value will be far greater than that of a combat robot.

Chen Ming must use the damaged nano forge inside the scavenger to study and analyze the principles and perform actual operations.

But Chen Ming does not have the time to do such a long-term task.

The research process of the Empire's battleship has never stopped, but he took the time to use it on the fourteenth jump of the pioneering fleet.

No matter how you say it, things have priorities, and studying the nano forge is definitely not as important as setting up a real base as soon as possible.

So Chen Ming's idea is to let the scavengers continue their previous work, go mining, and collect all the spacecraft wreckage in the galaxy for recycling.

Anyway, the important parts of the wreckage in the orbit of this habitable planet have been picked up by the scavengers, and the materials consumed in repairing them are tantamount to building a new one.

It's just that there is no need to spend a lot of basic resources to build the basic framework.

But there is no need.

Even if Chen Ming has a battleship now, he doesn't have a suitable object to control the battleship, at least he doesn't have it now.

It's better to recycle resources and go to nearby galaxies to continue doing what he should do.

Not only can the scavenger continue to work, but it can also temporarily serve as the guardian of the Origin Galaxy,

Until the colonies and military forces of the Origin Galaxy are sufficient.

Until Chen Ming thoroughly confirms the status of the galaxy and allows the pioneering fleet waiting in the rear to come and start the real colonization stage.

Chen Ming gave the scavenger a new order.

However, the scavenger did not execute it directly, but responded to Chen Ming: "The current galaxy has not obtained the permission to mine non-natural resources."

The "current galaxy" in the guardian's response is the name of the galaxy given by the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming modified it by the way and changed it to the name of the Origin he gave.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the scavenger's response made him think of a question.

If the scavenger does not have the authority to mine resources, how did the scavenger install the things removed from the capital ships?

"Some restrictions can be ignored during wartime."

War...

Sure enough, the destruction of the Shining Civilization can be traced.

However, the core storage unit of the scavenger does not store any information related to the war.

Only information related to its essential work will be stored by it.

This is really...

Chen Ming sighed and was about to use the identification code to grant permissions to the scavenger.

However, he suddenly noticed that the scavenger just mentioned non-natural resources, which means that the scavenger can mine natural resources.

It's just that the scavenger didn't mine all the resources in the galaxy directly for some reason, and even the resources in the neighboring galaxies still exist in large quantities, which doesn't look like they have been mined for tens of thousands of years.

He asked the scavenger again.

And the answer given by the scavenger this time was longer.

The general meaning is that what the Shining Civilization wants is balanced resource development.

That is, after the scavengers have conducted a round of investigations in the nearby galaxies, they will plan according to the resource ratio of these galaxies and plan a set of balanced resource development routes.

And this route is gradually expanding as the scavengers explore the surrounding galaxies.

So in the process of expanding the area of ​​resource mining, the average amount of resources mined in each place will of course be less.

It can only be said that the scavengers are only developing some of the resources in space and on the surface of the planets in the early stage.

The Shining Civilization needs to be able to make these places still have economic benefits after this initial period of time.

This is also normal logic.

After all, for a civilization, it is definitely better to choose the latter than to directly mine all the resources at once and rely on resources to create industries and rely on industries to transform into economic benefits.

They are not like Chen Ming who does not need to consider the consequences of mining all the resources at once.

After Chen Ming's Zerg "developed" the resources of a planet, the planet itself has no value.

Let alone the value of minerals, this planet is full of potholes inside and out, and there are problems with the geological structure. There is no value for colonization and development at all.

So after the Zerg developed, Chen Ming usually let the Zerg eat up some of the developed planets directly, leaving no trace.

It is a waste to keep it, so it is better to completely transform it into the energy of the Zerg.

So the Shining Civilization must be planning to develop this area for a long time, but it may be because of the war for some reasons that the development process has been blocked, and it has not been officially launched until today.

Only the scavengers were left here to repeat the orders left by the Shining Civilization.

Chen Ming knew the reason why the Shining Civilization wanted to develop this place very well.

So be it.

Chen Ming used the identification code to open the permissions for the scavengers.

Watching the mining drone carried by the scavengers unload all the resources, he followed the scavengers to the place where the debris was densely covered in orbit and began to recycle the resources on those ships.

Chen Ming did not continue to pay too much attention to that place, but turned the ship at the highest point and went to every planetary satellite in the galaxy and scanned them all.

Although he knew that the Origin Galaxy was the scavengers' hometown and it was unlikely that there would be anything dangerous, the process should still be followed.

After confirming that there were no problems with the planetary satellites in the galaxy.

Chen Ming locked his sights on the celestial body in the galaxy that corresponds to the location of the habitable planet, the wormhole.

This must be the reason why the Shining Civilization wants to develop here, because Chen Ming saw from the records of the scavengers.

This wormhole has appeared here at least 30,000 years ago.

Under Chen Ming's control, the highest point gradually approached the location of the wormhole.

He went to investigate what the wormhole was like.

Several large devices were hanging on the highest point under his psychic power, and gradually started under his control, locking the object of action to the wormhole in the galaxy.

Half a year ago, after getting the star gate, Chen Ming took the opportunity to learn a lot of knowledge related to star gates, singularities and wormholes while learning the main battleship technology.

Not to say that he has completely mastered it, at least he has learned a general idea, knows how to use some equipment, and knows how to investigate a wormhole.

And just now, in addition to conducting a preliminary investigation and analysis of the scavengers, Chen Ming also gave himself time to dispatch equipment from the empire.

Although since Chen Ming started his research on the battleship, the Empire no longer cares how much he controls, nor how many devices are actually Chen Ming's.

But Chen Ming is a man of cultivation and character.

He controls things that are not his only for convenience, and will never embezzle them. He will even help repair the equipment.

Therefore, when Chen Ming dispatches equipment, he needs to consider whether others are using it.

He can't just take the equipment away without saying hello.

The time he just spent dealing with the scavengers is also to give others time to complete the current experiment as soon as possible so that he can transfer the equipment.

Several devices quickly ran smoothly and returned the various readings of the wormhole to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming is most concerned about only two of the most important properties.

Coordinates and stability.

There is nothing to say about coordinates.

Natural wormholes appear in pairs in the universe, and there must be another wormhole that exists in an unknown corner of the universe connected to it.

What kind of place is at the other end of the wormhole determines the value of this wormhole.

Stability determines whether the wormhole is stable in space and whether it can maintain its existence for a long time.

The volume and mass of objects that can pass through it, as well as the possibility of accidents when extracting singularities and other factors.

It is an important indicator that integrates multiple data.

However, Chen Ming found that the equipment failed to analyze the coordinates of another wormhole connected to this wormhole during the detection.

This is normal.

During the pioneering era, the empire could not confirm what was at the other end of all wormholes by just scanning.

If you want to know what is behind the wormhole, you still need to enter the wormhole directly and reach the other end of the wormhole to determine it.

Although it is troublesome and dangerous, it is an absolutely stable means to find out what is at the other end of the wormhole.

Fortunately, there is good news at the moment.

That is, after the inspection, Chen Ming found that this wormhole that has existed for at least 30,000 years is unexpectedly stable.

Or 30,000 years is nothing on the scale of the universe.

Such a stable wormhole can accommodate objects of greater mass, which means that the journey after exploring the wormhole will be easier.

High stability also means that it will not collapse at will. A collapsed wormhole may lead to the destruction of the entire galaxy.

A stable wormhole can also make it easier for Chen Ming to install a special locking device on the wormhole.

It is a technology that the Empire developed a long time ago and has been updating.

Its function is to unilaterally block the other end of the wormhole from this process.

Chen Ming did not investigate what happened to make the Empire create this thing, but it must not be a good thing.

So Chen Ming has to install this locking device on the wormhole as soon as possible.