Chapter 377 Gaia Planet

When Chen Ming and the director of the psychic power institute were arguing.

The director of the ship department, who had been idle for half a day, couldn't stand it anymore: "You guys are just talking about this?"

The director of the psychic power institute stared and said: "Yes, Chen Ming is also trying to steal your people, don't you have any ideas?"

The director of the ship department spread his hands and said: "I don't care."

He is already very old, and he can clearly feel that his body is getting worse day by day.

He is not a psychic, and he doesn't have a strong spirit and a strong body because of the spirit. Maybe he will retire in a few years.

And not to mention that he will really retire at that time, even now, he is very interested in Chen Ming.

After all, Chen Ming has a lot of resources at hand, and he has the support of An Wuping, who can be said to be his half-brother, in biotechnology.

Looking at the empire, anyone who is related to Chen Ming's involvement would not want to run to Chen Ming to get a taste of the rich resources.

Even the director of the ship department is no exception.

Although they started the research on phase technology and phase ships first.

But only half a year had passed, and Chen Ming had already walked ahead of them.

Many times, Chen Ming could write out the answers to the results that should have been achieved through long-term testing and research alone.

This situation really made it difficult for people to have any idea of ​​competing.

In terms of psychic power, he might be able to compete with Chen Ming because of the particularity and uniqueness of psychic power, but in terms of pure ship capabilities, there was really nothing to compete with someone like Chen Ming.

Moreover, the director of the ship institute even planned to retire directly after completing Chen Ming's project.

No longer engage in new projects, just be a retired professor and occasionally teach classes.

He didn't care whether Chen Ming snatched people or not.

He had already seen it through.

He could see that Chen Ming was always alone.

So it made no difference whether those researchers who were "snatched away" stayed in the empire or went to Chen Ming's side, as long as what they did in the end was always beneficial to people.

The director of the psychic power institute could hear what the director of the ship institute meant.

Although the two of them were not very good at dealing with each other, the two departments had been competing with each other for decades under their leadership, and they could still see each other's thoughts very clearly.

It was the kind of thing that knew what the other party was going to say as soon as he opened his mouth.

He did not say much by relying on his status, but turned to Chen Ming and said: "Okay, then I won't talk about anything else."

"The task has been assigned to the matter of the nightmare of the plane."

"Although we haven't encountered similar things yet, we must do preventive cases, otherwise if the empire encounters this thing in the future, it may have to use human lives to pile up."

"Who knows which black hole in the empire will drill out a nightmare of the plane in the future, I have to go to work on this matter."

The director of the psychic power institute stood up.

"Fortunately, I went out with you before, otherwise I don't know what to do."

He waved at Chen Ming and left Chen Ming's office.

The director of the psychic power institute left, and the director of the ship institute did not stay for long.

Although he had already thought of retreating in his heart, he had to finish all the things on his hands.

In addition to Chen Ming's battleship project, he also had a lot of things to do.

After the two left.

Chen Ming did not continue to rest, he also had quite a lot of things to do.

He first spent half a day to gather those who he had agreed to participate in the Plane Nightmare project and held a meeting.

Then he did a secondary test and screened out some researchers who looked good on paper, but whose actual abilities were not necessarily suitable.

Of course, it was not that they were not capable, but just not suitable.

After all, the research direction of the Plane Nightmare corpse must be psychic armor, psychic weapons, psychic creatures, black hole technology, gravity technology, space technology and the like.

You can't put the people who were originally responsible for the research of the automation system in Chen Ming's battleship project into it, and the Plane Nightmare can't be automated.

Its corpse is full of black hole matter.

Even if Chen Ming wanted to imitate the situation of the Phase Behemoth Patriarch to make the corpse move again, it wouldn't work.

But he also thought of the scavenger. Although this thing couldn't beat the Plane Nightmare, it was at least at the same level.

Perhaps using a mechanical body of this size to cover the skin of the nightmare of the plane may have a similar effect.

But this is definitely not something that can be done now.

So Chen Ming only temporarily asked people to withdraw from the project, and he could recruit more people if there is a chance in the future.

In addition to eliminating a group of people with unsuitable abilities, Chen Ming also brought out a group of people who he thought needed his priority after testing.

These people's abilities are obviously more suitable for Chen Ming's new project than those who were eliminated.

When the initial stage of this new project, that is, the research progress on the limbs of the nightmare of the plane is almost done, he will decide who can participate based on the current list of personnel and the actual project progress.

Chen Ming also asked the legion for a new experimental site, and took the limbs of the nightmare of the plane out separately, treating it as a separate major project, so as not to affect the project on the main ship.

By the way, it can also be regarded as giving others some opportunities to get in touch with this project.

After all, the people who participate in a small project under Chen Ming's big project will only be Chen Ming's people, at least people related to Chen Ming. There is no way that an independent project can recruit more people.

By the way, this can also cooperate with the Minister of Psychic Power. He said that he could help Chen Ming find people, so Chen Ming must give a reason to find people.

In addition to the new project.

Chen Ming's cooperation request with the research team that developed the arc launcher and the concentrated arc launcher had a little problem.

It seems that his action was too obvious. As soon as he and the group sent a cooperation request, a bunch of people immediately rushed to the group like sharks smelling the smell.

A bunch of cooperation invitations like Chen Ming filled their group's mailbox.

This is a technical matter in itself. Chen Ming is not angry if others compete, and he will not use privileges to stop it.

He just used deep maintenance psychic power to optimize the sample that was tested before.

Then he sent the optimized new concentrated arc launcher to the research team.

And he still gave them the same cooperation share as before.

So in the end, the research and development team agreed to cooperate with Chen Ming and sold part of the patent rights to Chen Ming.

Although Chen Ming used to use whatever he saw when installing weapons and other things on his own spacecraft, and used whatever was useful.

And he relied on his own ability to crack the technology and bought materials to make it.

But Chen Ming still has to respect the developers in the development of technology.

Moreover, Chen Ming really thinks that the arc launcher is a weapon with a lot of sayings, and he is very optimistic about the market prospects of this weapon.

He believes that the arc weapon can have a good effect even if it is not installed on his Zerg warships, but on the Empire's warships.

After being busy for most of the day.

Chen Ming finally finished the things around him.

After he confirmed that there was nothing he needed to do for the time being, he turned his attention to the wormhole.

The wormhole at the other end of the wormhole of the Origin Galaxy was still approaching the galaxy that Chen Ming had previously scouted from a distance, and it was expected to arrive at that galaxy in one day.

Before it actually arrived, Chen Ming was ready to investigate first.

The Supreme Point had already reached the edge of the galaxy through a jump in advance.

What he had to do now was to go to the Supreme Point.

Under the effect of psychic energy.

Chen Ming's body appeared in the command room of the Supreme Point in an instant.

The scanning data of the sensor had all been sent to the control console of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming sat in the main seat of the command room and called up the approximate data of the galaxy that had been detected at a considerable distance before, and opened it together with the data just obtained.

From the data he had just detected, this galaxy itself was a very normal galaxy.

One star plus five planets, no satellites.

However, the state of the planets in the galaxy was somewhat special, and each of these planets was frozen.

No matter how far they were from the star, as long as they were planets in the galaxy, Chen Ming could only see ice and snow on each planet and could not see the original appearance of the planet at all.

Obviously, that star was a yellow dwarf star of the same type as the sun, and its estimated age might be younger than the sun.

But just as Chen Ming had discovered from long-distance observations before.

The light of this star is very dim, and it can't provide enough light and heat for the planets in the galaxy.

Chen Ming doesn't know the reason.

But he knows that a normal star will never have such an inexplicable decrease in energy intensity.

Combined with the fact that Chen Ming's wormhole is approaching this galaxy, it is hard not to wonder if there is any connection between them.

Is this galaxy also a very special galaxy? Is it also a spectacle galaxy?

With this idea in mind, Chen Ming's apex did not stay at the edge of the galaxy for too long.

Instead, it dispersed and began to detect every planet in the galaxy, including the stars.

He released the detector and approached the star, and at the same time used psychic energy to bring several different exploration ships, each of which went to different planets in the galaxy.

Chen Ming gave most of the planets to Yu Hui to control the spacecraft for detection.

And it drove the apex to the second planet in this galaxy.

This planet is the most special of the five planets in the galaxy.

It has an atmosphere, although it is extremely thin due to the cold climate, but it does have one.

And it happens to be in the habitable zone of a star with normal energy intensity calculated by Chen Ming.

So no matter what, Chen Ming must go and see this planet in person.

The spacecraft entered the thin atmosphere.

The next moment, the blizzard directly submerged the highest point.

The fierce wind made Chen Ming, who was inside the spacecraft, seem to hear its whistling sound.

The high-precision scanning function of the sensor was also limited.

There is an atmosphere outside the atmosphere that limits high-precision scanning, and there is a blizzard inside the atmosphere that affects the accuracy of high-precision scanning.

Chen Ming had to find a way to land first, get close to the ground and then proceed normally.

Fortunately, the crystallization of human technology still has its role.

The blizzard that swept across the entire planet did not have as much impact on the spacecraft as Chen Ming had initially thought.

And although the blizzard engulfed the High Point, the High Point's reconnaissance system and ordinary sensor devices did not have any problems.

Even the climate analysis device installed on the High Point sensor found that the climate on this planet, except for the extreme temperature and strong winds caused by the blizzard, all other indicators were extremely suitable for human survival.

After confirming that there was no problem with the sensor, Chen Ming was a little confused for a while.

He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

But whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, Chen Ming had to take a look after landing.

Soon, as the height of the High Point decreased, Chen Ming found that the problem he had to face was not the blizzard on the planet.

But the problem of landing at the High Point.

When the spacecraft landed, the buffer engine nozzle at the bottom of the spacecraft would melt the snow on the surface of the planet.

If it was only a few meters or tens of meters of snow, it would be fine. The High Point would just sway a little to melt all the snow under the spacecraft and land.

But the average depth of snow on this planet is at least hundreds of meters, and after a rough scan at the highest point, Chen Ming also found that the terrain under the snow was obviously uneven, and there was no place to land.

And the unevenness of the terrain was not due to the rugged terrain or the influence of solid ice.

It was because there was an ice-covered jungle under the snow in the area where the highest point landed.

A jungle with countless trees hundreds of meters high.

From the roots to the crowns of the trees, the snow continued to accumulate for dozens of meters, forming the most superficial snow that Chen Ming saw now.

When the shallow snow melted, Chen Ming could barely see the crowns of the giant trees that were still standing in the blizzard.

And the crowns of these hundreds of meters tall giant trees themselves blocked Chen Ming's spacecraft from landing.

This distance was enough for Chen Ming to do something.

He immediately increased the output power of the sensor, trying to figure out the scale of this giant forest, and then find a suitable landing location.

But the results of the spacecraft's scan did not tell him the right place. All the areas within his field of vision were covered by these giant trees.

However.

The results of the spacecraft's scan also told him another thing.

That is, underground, deep underground in this jungle, there is a vibrant world hidden under the ice and snow.

This is a world filled with green, blue and purple at first glance.

The green and purple are vegetation, and the blue are luminous plants and luminous fungi that are spread throughout the underground world, making the underground, which should have been extremely dark, as bright as the surface.

The environment of this underground world is similar to any habitable planet that Chen Ming has seen.

It can be seen with the naked eye that there are lush plants and a wide variety of animals everywhere, full of lush vitality.

And the climate of the underground environment is very mild.

The freezing of the surface does not seem to affect the underground at all.

In Chen Ming's investigation, the source of heat in this underground world seems to come from geothermal energy deeper underground.

Even if the surface is cold, the underground is still warm under the protection of the thick earth and the giant trees that support this underground world.

The underground world is an isolated paradise.

Chen Ming knew an underground ecosystem before, but that ecosystem is very different from what Chen Ming sees now.

That ecosystem was born according to the natural geographical conditions of the planet. It is an ecosystem located deep underground and exists in the underground hollow area of ​​almost the entire planet.

The main color of that ecosystem is darkness, and there are countless ferocious predators in the darkness.

Every creature in that ecosystem, whether it is a plant or an animal, has a weapon to resist more powerful creatures.

Because creatures without resistance cannot survive in such an environment.

The weapon in the hand of a psychic who Chen Ming had killed before was made of the bones of a psychic individual in a predator called Night Owl in this ecosystem.

Although Chen Ming had eliminated that weapon a long time ago, he always remembered the things about Night Owl and that unique ecosystem.

Chen Ming thought for a while and did not continue to try to land the highest point.

Because in the scan from the highest point, almost all the land on the entire planet was covered by those giant trees.

Only the now frozen ocean was possible to land.

So Chen Ming simply did not land.

He put on the biological armor that had been optimized for the first time using the power armor of the Shining Civilization, and jumped down from the sky.

Looking at the blizzard outside.

For a moment, Chen Ming seemed to feel that the planet below him was crying.

Before Chen Ming had time to confirm his feeling, he fell into the hundreds of meters deep snow.

Chen Ming quickly found a giant tree buried in the snow, and dug along the trunk all the way to the depths of the snow and the depths of the underground.

The passage he dug behind him was soon covered by snow, and the temperature sensor of his armor was also telling him that the temperature outside was rising rapidly.

The earth and giant trees on this planet have extremely strong thermal insulation properties.

With only a few dozen meters of separation, the temperature difference between the surface and the underground has reached hundreds of degrees Celsius.

Chen Ming recorded various data from his field investigations, and at the same time, he was constantly analyzing the soil of this planet and the samples of the giant trees he had just obtained.

It can be said that the composition of the soil of this planet is not significantly different from that of any habitable planet, but it does seem to be very suitable for organisms to survive.

Among those giant trees, Chen Ming found traces of a unique structure of strong natural chlorophyll.

This shows one thing.

That is, these giant trees once survived by photosynthesis, and the world was not like this before.

Chen Ming continued to move underground.

He continued to dig for dozens of meters.

He followed the roots of the giant trees and finally arrived at the underground world.

Looking around, he only saw luxuriance and vitality.

Even through the protective suit, he could feel the vitality of this underground world and a feeling that made people indulge in this world.

After the armor system confirmed that the external environment was an environment where humans could survive, Chen Ming tentatively removed the armor he was wearing.

An unprecedented sense of comfort, as if he should have been born here, grown up here, and lived here, completely surrounded Chen Ming.

Chen Ming's expression suddenly froze.

Because Chen Ming had never experienced this feeling before, he was not sure whether it would be a precursor to some kind of attack.

But he soon relaxed.

Because he felt that his consciousness was becoming clearer and his fatigue was gradually disappearing.

He just stood here, as if lying on a comfortable hot bed.

The whole world seemed to be changing to make him more comfortable and allow him to stay on this planet longer.

This was not some unknown psychic power or some other means interfering with his perception, giving him such an illusion.

This was what really happened.

Because the detector Chen Ming carried with him was reporting that the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of the underground environment and various invisible values ​​closely related to the environment were undergoing obvious changes.

Becoming more adapted to his body and more adapted to his consciousness.

The world was adapting to him.

This planet... is "alive".

If Chen Ming guessed correctly, this planet should also be a cosmic wonder.

It is a planet shrouded by the consciousness of the real Mother Earth, and it is a real Gaia planet.

Chen Ming's feeling when he just arrived at the planet was real, the planet was crying.

It sensed his arrival and placed some hope on him.

Of course, gods and spirits do not exist, Chen Ming just had such a feeling.

In his understanding, this planet should have a certain consciousness, and this consciousness will protect everything on the planet.

Just like Chen Ming believes that the phase space itself has consciousness, and will create species such as phase behemoths to protect itself.

Anyway, in this universe, abstract concepts such as dimensions can give birth to consciousness, and artificial dead objects such as spacecraft can give birth to ship spirits.

It is normal for a vibrant planet to give birth to consciousness.

It is also normal for a self-conscious being to try to save itself.

At this point, Chen Ming finally confirmed one thing completely.

That is, the ecological environment in front of him definitely did not exist underground and under the glacier from the beginning.

It is more like after the environment in the galaxy has undergone a dramatic change, countless creatures, under the guidance of the planetary consciousness, follow the underground roots of the giant trees to find a way out in the underground where the geothermal heat keeps the temperature.

Because he noticed that the creatures underground have certain characteristics of adapting to the cold environment, but they have not evolved completely. Instead, it seems that they have evolved for a period of time and then stopped evolving.

This can explain what Chen Ming saw.

The giant trees on the surface would never grow without sufficient stellar light.

The climate on the surface was absolutely no different from that underground in the earliest times.

It was not until the stars began to cool that the creatures on the surface were forced to evolve to adapt to the environment.

After evolving for a period of time, new vitality began to appear underground, so all the creatures still struggling on the surface hid underground.

They started their lives again underground.

So why did the light of the stars become dim?

Chen Ming didn't know, but he didn't mind helping the planet regain everything in the past.

He really wanted to see what would happen after the planet was restored to its original state.

And it just so happened that he knew a technology.

Climate modification technology.

Perhaps this technology can be used on this planet to make up for the disadvantage that the stars in this galaxy are too dim.

Or perhaps, he can start with the stars in this galaxy?

Chen Ming was just thinking about whether to start investigating the sudden climate change in the galaxy from the stars.

The detector he sent out to approach the star just now suddenly sent back a message.

On the dim star in the galaxy, there is a very bright light spot moving rapidly.

Chen Ming's first reaction was that it was a stellar flare.

And from the photos sent back by the detector, it was indeed an irregularly shaped bright spot, accompanied by a large amount of stellar matter, and it seemed to be just a flare.

But in Chen Ming's cognition, only stars with normal or frequent activities will have flare activities.

How could a star with a sudden drop in temperature, which has caused the original habitable planet in the galaxy to transform into an icy planet, still have such a bright flare?