Chapter 371 Borrowing

Chen Ming's idea is very clear.

But the problem is also obvious, how to get rid of this monster?

What has been confirmed so far is that this monster stuck in the black hole is a psychic species, with a substantial entity that can be touched.

But it is not necessarily a living creature, and it does not necessarily have the life-sustaining organs of normal creatures. This means that Chen Ming is currently unclear about its fatal weakness.

Moreover, a monster of this size cannot be broken by any means.

Even if the weakness is known, it is not necessarily possible to use the weakness to kill it.

Chen Ming has just tried the effect of ordinary weapons. It can only be said that ships below the level of the battleship should not even look at it. There is no point in giving it away for free, and there is even no point in being cannon fodder to attract firepower.

In fact, the destroyer guard can be used as cannon fodder, especially when Chen Ming did not find that the monster has any long-range attack means other than launching gravity psychic beams from its mouth.

Arranging more small boats in the fleet can help large ships attract some firepower.

But environmental restrictions make this idea not so applicable.

The huge gravity environment and the gravity psychic power that the monster possessed would make any spaceship that was not strong enough be wiped out in one encounter.

There was no point for the small boat to participate in it.

Even the most powerful Stardust that Chen Ming was most used to using could not be considered as effective combat power.

He could only use other spaceships to participate in the subsequent battles.

And the most powerful Zerg that Chen Ming had on hand would also be limited by the conditions of the environment.

Because the Zerg fleet had a large number of carrier-based aircraft, that is, Zerg flying units, their condition in the black hole horizon would obviously not be too good.

Even if the Zerg itself had a higher physical strength and the queen's psychic power guarantee, when it really got close to the black hole, its performance would at most be better than the Meteor Fighter, which was designed for self-destruction.

However, Chen Ming had another method that he had not tried yet, which was to use the phase space to fight the monster in the black hole.

The power of the phase space was also very significant.

He could launch another wave of attacks tentatively to see if the monster could effectively counter the power of the phase.

But this can wait a little longer. It is not worthwhile to launch an attack just for one target.

Chen Ming wants to find out not only whether the phase attack method is effective.

He also wants to find out what kind of weapon can cause absolutely effective damage to it.

At present, it seems that the means of stimulating high-energy particles to launch attacks such as the tachyon spear are very unclear.

However, the actual effects of energy restraint bombs and high-energy lasers, which are also classified as energy weapons, have not been tested.

In addition, there are also live ammunition type weapons, chemical type weapons and explosive type weapons that have not been tried.

They have to be taken turns.

It just so happens that this monster's attack method is very simple, and its body is restricted to the black hole and cannot move. It is simply the best target.

He is not in a hurry. He will completely transform the Zerg battleship before the next experiment.

Reduce the number of small Zerg units carried.

And install different types of weapons on different Zerg battleships.

And because the Zerg battleship was modified from the mechanical family's mothership, the main weapons it carries are operating in the mode of the spine cannon.

It is to rely on the increase of energy to produce the final powerful brick-flying effect.

It is not too suitable for the Zerg warship, but it is convenient for Chen Ming to transform it at this time.

Although using such a ship to fight the monster may cause some losses, it is more than the results that can be gained in the process.

And the ship that has been pierced into the body of the monster for tens of thousands of years and has withstood the tearing of the gravity of the black hole for tens of thousands of years still maintains the overall structure intact.

He can completely accept this loss.

Wait.

Speaking of this ship, Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

The ship pierced into the body of the monster, as if it only relied on the solidity of the hull.

Although the solidity of this shining civilization ship is a little high, it also means that the monster may not be very resistant to sharp-pointed live ammunition weapons.

Chen Ming knows a lot of this type of weapon, such as the very common storm needle, or the live ammunition type ridge peak cannon head of the mechanical family.

Even some ship-borne spiked bullets made of Zerg keratin fired by Zerg warships can be considered as such weapons.

And judging from the arthropod limb near the spaceship that has lost signs of activity, it is most likely the limb that was destroyed before the Shining Civilization spaceship pierced into it.

So this monster must have weaknesses and can definitely be killed.

He may be able to start directly from this spaceship and the dead limb.

Through this spaceship, he can confirm how the Shining Civilization made the limb lose its vitality.

Later, when he arranges the weapons of the Zerg battleship, he can also focus on this direction.

It would be a good thing if he could kill the monster directly during the test.

And Chen Ming felt that he could also change the plan slightly, no longer giving priority to solving the monster and then capturing the spaceship.

Instead, he should first find a way to pull the ship out first, and then consider solving the problem of the monster itself.

Of course, we still have to fight and do the necessary tests.

Anyway, he is still not afraid of any losses as always, but he doesn't need to make some insignificant losses.

So if there is a follow-up battle, Chen Ming plans to only send Zerg troops.

Although the scavenger seems to be able to fight with the monster, Chen Ming still has the same idea as before and does not intend to send it to the battlefield.

The value of what it has is far higher than the value of its participation in the battle.

Moreover, the scavenger is not a psychic machine, and fighting this kind of battle with psychic power still depends on the Zerg who also have psychic power.

In fact, Chen Ming has a new idea.

It is the idea of ​​purely piling up the body to create new Zerg individuals.

However, its feasibility, rationality, and the strength of the biological physiological structure of such a body cannot be solved in a short time.

You can try it later.

For now, just call the Zerg's main battleship, Hercules-A.

And the scale of this exploratory battle is based on a hundred main battleships.

Chen Ming silently thought about the number of battleships that might make the Empire feel terrified.

He does have so many battleships, and he can also make far more battleships than this number.

This can only be said to be the power of the Zerg.

When Chen Ming completely mastered the technology of battleships and the technology of making Zerg build battleships, no one could threaten him, no one could.

After all, no one knows how many Zerg nests are desperately expanding in the endless universe.

No one knows how many Zerg fleets are standing behind Chen Ming.

Anyway, from the number of Zerg cruisers that appeared before, it can be known that there will definitely be no less.

Chen Ming knew that the Empire seemed to have had several discussions about him, or more precisely, about him and An Wuping.

After all, there are many ways to deal with a powerful psychic empire, but if a powerful psychic has an endless fleet, the Empire has no effective way to counter it.

For this situation, there is only one way to eradicate it early.

The Empire either suppresses Chen Ming from the earliest time and does not give Chen Ming a chance to grow.

Either assassinate Chen Ming before he grows up to the point where he cannot be solved, that is, before he masters the means of manufacturing the battleship.

In fact, a long time ago, when Chen Ming was just taken away by Yu Hui, the empire had such an arrangement.

If Chen Ming stayed in the empire, many things would definitely happen later.

But there happened to be a major general who was not so well prepared. For some personal reasons, Chen Ming eventually left the empire alive and spent his weakest and most dangerous period with Yu Hui.

Let Chen Ming temporarily grow to the point where he could not be easily solved.

Later, Chen Ming and Bai Quan started their cooperation. He had Bai Quan as a guarantor, and he stayed in the laboratory every day to do research. No one could contact him at all.

Except for Zuo Jing's infiltration through brainwashing psychics, other means could not contact Chen Ming at all.

Even if they contacted, it was not Chen Ming himself who stayed in the branch, but his prosthesis.

In this way, Chen Ming knew more and more people, his ability became stronger and stronger, and it became more and more difficult to touch him.

Gradually, Chen Ming finally no longer needed to rely on his body to survive, but on his consciousness to survive.

When Chen Ming captured the mothership of the mechanical race, it was the last chance to kill him.

As long as he could realize that Chen Ming and An Wuping were one person, after killing all of Chen Ming's prostheses including An Wuping, eliminating all the Zerg that could be traced, killing the queen, and killing all the mechanical races controlled by Chen Ming, Chen Ming would of course die.

However, no one could seize this opportunity, and could only watch Chen Ming continue to grow.

At present, the combat effectiveness of Chen Ming and An Wuping, who are closely related to the Zerg nest, may even overthrow the imperial regime alone.

The empire has no chance to change this situation.

These things were discovered by Chen Ming himself.

It's just that he didn't say anything, and he was too lazy to let An Wuping say anything.

But it seems that there are smart people on the empire side who have thought of this link. Minister Lu Han of the psychic population management department who had a conflict with An Wuping before seems to have resigned.

By the way, Chen Ming also saw that the backward webpage of the psychic census website was rebuilt and optimized into a comfortable interactive page.

This is also a cause for celebration.

It successfully alleviated the feeling of disgust that Chen Ming felt when he first used this webpage.

In short, the Empire had no objection to Chen Ming's affairs in the future.

Chen Ming also continued to get along with the Empire in this strange way.

As long as no one came to make trouble, as long as no one came to disgust him, he would not plan to change the status quo.

He never thought that he was a genius who could do everything well. At most, he could do well in what he liked and was interested in.

If he was really bored, he would do something like overthrowing the empire, which was what the emperor took turns to do. He didn't have the time to do it.

Moreover, although the Human Empire was called the Empire, it was not an imperial system, but a more abstract democratic system.

Because the empire had a period of war in its early stages.

At that time, there was a man who unified the war-torn earth and proclaimed himself emperor after the unification, and the unified country became the human empire.

This perverse behavior was of course put to an end soon after.

But because of this, civil war may break out again at any time.

So just like how the empire now transfers its conflicts to the outside world, a nominally democratic system that gathered military power was born.

The ruling class's approach is to use the assembled military power to expand and transfer internal contradictions to external contradictions. This can also be regarded as one of the causes of the last pioneering era.

And in the end, power is just a type of power. In this world where individuals transcend group power, power is really not an important thing, at least to Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming didn't care what the empire was like or what political system it was.

He only cares about himself and the people around him, nothing else matters.

Of course, his "so-called" can also include some things that are helpful to what he wants to do.

Such as rapidly developing technology and so on.

Therefore, war is definitely not what he wants to see.

Only internally stable peace and externally controllable war can enable a country to develop rapidly.

Chen Ming patted his head and shook off these random thoughts that started to occur to him again.

He would continue to explain his requirements to the insect queen and dispatch enough modified capital ships.

However, due to the limitations of Chen Ming's current psychic state, he cannot directly use his psychic powers to assist in controlling the battleship.

You can only use your own command skills to command the Zerg fleet, just like commanding the empire's army.

To put it simply, Chen Ming originally played a real-time strategy game when he controlled the Zerg fleet.

When the battleships are temporarily unable to be controlled, the real-time strategy game becomes a simulated military sandbox.

The difficulty is not on one level.

But after all, Chen Ming also learned the legion's college command skills from Bai Quan.

Nor will he become blind when his own spiritual power cannot be used due to some limitations.

He still has full fighting ability.

In addition, Chen Ming has another idea.

That's why he had to face trouble alone?

It's not like he's the only one who has a brain and can think of solutions.

Chen Ming turned around and returned to the research institute.

He ran to the Legion, the laboratory he rented with the Legion.

Of course, it is said to be a laboratory, but it is actually a colony on a satellite within a closed galaxy close to the home galaxy.

After all, it involves phase beasts and capital ships, so of course a suitable experimental place is needed.

And in this laboratory.

Chen Ming also arranged for a place to be reserved for some important personnel currently involved in his battleship project.

When he came back at this time, the director of the Psychic Research Institute and the Director of the Ship Research Institute happened to be resting here.

Both directors said hello to Chen Ming.

Seeing that Chen Ming had returned to the legion in person, the director of the Psychic Research Institute subconsciously asked: "Are you done with your work? Can you come back to work again?"

"Not yet, but more."

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ming was very prepared and took two sensor videos of the two Big Macs he encountered inside and outside the wormhole on the table in the room.

The scavenger robot and that monster in the black hole.

The two directors, who were resting and leaning somewhat idly on the sofa, immediately sat upright.

"What's this?"

"One is a giant robot left behind by the shining civilization, and the other is a suspected existence in the black hole dimension."

The director of the Ship Research Institute asked casually: "Can't you beat me?"

"Do you think I need to hit that iron guy?"

"I know, that's why I'm talking about the thing in the black hole."

Chen Ming explained: "I sent two ships to investigate, but they were all found there. I was about to find trouble with it again."

"However, cruiser-level battleships can no longer cause effective damage, so I am going to test what weapons are effective against it."

"Then kill it. So as not to affect my work."

"But I'm really not sure if the capital ship can hit it, so I came to ask the empire if there are any good things they are researching that I can use."

The two directors looked at each other, and the director of the Ship Research Institute turned to Chen Ming and said, "I'll go ask it for you."

"Really?"

"Um...how should I say..."

The expression on the director's face was a little awkward.

Chen Ming said again: "Just say it."

"Type, it's just that before, the Machine Tribe destroyed its own planet in response to your Zerg invasion, right?"

"The mothership destroys the land plate of the planet, destroys the core of the planet and causes the planet to collapse. This method is quite efficient. Even the empire seemed to only use its main weapons to cleanse the land before, right?"

"Yeah, the Empire doesn't have any really useful weapons for destroying planets."

"So someone proposed to develop an efficient star-destroying weapon."

Oh, now Chen Ming knew why the two directors looked a little embarrassed.

Because the star-destroying weapons are essentially used against the Zerg.

Then the two of them talked about the weapons against the Zerg in front of one of the controllers of the Zerg power, at least in the eyes of outsiders. It would be strange if they were not embarrassed.

"Then you won't keep this kind of thing a secret from me?"

"Because this weapon can be used against dimensional infection, it is impossible to keep it secret from you."

Chen Ming did not care. No matter how many Colossus-class ships there were, they could not pose a real threat to his Zerg.

His Zerg was not like dimensional infection, which had to develop slowly.

"Are there any early concept drawings?"

"Yes."

The director of the Ship Research Institute took out the terminal and sent a concept drawing to Chen Ming.

When Chen Ming saw the concept drawing for the first time, he couldn't help but say, "It's so big."

Chen Ming, who had just seen the size of the scavenger and the black hole monster, couldn't help but say this. The size of this thing can be imagined.

"It's quite big, and its tentative name is also Colossus."

"I know Colossus-class cargo ships."

"Colossus-class cargo ships are cruiser-class ships, and this Colossus-class is above the cruiser-class and main force-class."

"I know."

Chen Ming said this casually and continued to look at the concept drawing.

The Colossus-class on this concept drawing does not have any redundant devices.

Some of them have the heaviest ship armor, hull structure, most powerful shield and most powerful engine that Chen Ming has ever seen.

Combined with the Colossus-class weapon tentatively named Earth-shattering Star, it has a strong deterrent power.

But it is a type of ship specially used to destroy planets.

It has no actual combat performance.

It does not meet Chen Ming's needs.

Even if such a Colossus is manufactured, there is a great possibility that it will be destroyed directly before approaching the monster in the black hole.

It feels a bit inappropriate.

Seeing Chen Ming's expression, he was a little disappointed.

The director of the Ship Research Institute, who is extremely proficient in the advantages and disadvantages of the Colossus, immediately took out a blueprint that is more detailed than the concept map of the Colossus.

"In fact, there is another type of ship that is also in the production stage, the Titan class."

"This is a standard combat spacecraft, and it is currently planned to be used as the flagship of the main fleet."

"Because of what you said about the mechanical race, the empire is already preparing ships for use in larger-scale wars."

"Although the material strength and other things are completely insufficient, I estimate that it will take more than ten years to produce samples."

"But weapons of this level are already available now."

"?"

Chen Ming asked: "The ship has not yet been landed, how come the weapons are already available?"

"Because Titan-class weapons can be installed on the space station."

"The space station has enough volume and energy, just right for these weapons."

"From the Fanchao Research Institute?"

"Yes, because the empire has this demand now, Fanchao is moving quickly."

"You also know that the mechanical race is now fighting guerrilla warfare with us, making it possible for many of our space stations to be targeted. As long as we can install this kind of weapon and cooperate with the patrol team, there will be no problem in temporarily guarding it."

Chen Ming has hardly paid attention to the mechanical race war in recent times.

Because the mechanical race war is no longer interesting in his opinion.

He had basically taken all the benefits he was supposed to take away, and the only person worthy of his attention was Cheng Xinghai.

There was no need to pay attention to this when he had nothing to do.

The director also knew that Chen Ming was a busy man, not only with research in various aspects, but also with things outside. It was normal that he didn't know.

He explained it to Chen Ming and took the initiative to say: "If you want to use it, I can help you transfer one now."

"Okay, as soon as possible. This thing is also a good target. If I kill it by mistake, I may not have a chance to test it."

"Okay."

The director of the Ship Research Institute did not ask Chen Ming for any rent or guarantee. They did this more than once or twice.

Anyway, Chen Ming will send the data back for everyone to study together.

In the beginning, Chen Ming would take the initiative, and later, the process was simplified.

This can be regarded as a tacit understanding between Chen Ming and the Empire.

At this moment, the director of the Psychic Research Institute, who had been staring at the monster in the black hole for a long time, suddenly said: "I am very interested in this thing. Can I go and see it in person?"