Chen Ming held the knife in one hand and used the other hand to hand three materials with a transparent amber appearance that were already in place.

According to the process recorded in the document given by the president earlier, he began to guide his mental power outside the body, gradually converging it on the material he was trying to condense.

The process of actively expelling mental power from the body felt to Chen Ming like the normal use of psychic power, except that it did not have any actual effect.

There is nothing special about the rest.

Time passes by every second.

Chen Ming has already directed most of his total mental power out of his body.

A ball of distorted air that looked like flames burning the air had appeared in his hand.

This is a product of highly compressed mental power that is close to being tangible.

But at this time, he still did not sense any resonance between him and the three materials in his hands.

Chen Ming probably already had a bad premonition in his heart, but he continued, directing all his mental energy into his hands.

He relied only on the little mental power restored by the abnormal individual's honeycomb network to observe the materials in his hands and the highly condensed mental power ball.

And the result...

The three materials did not react at all.

They are not the materials Chen Ming needs to condense the source of spiritual energy.

So he had no choice but to give up and try to absorb the mental power again.

It’s just the same as what was recorded in the document given by the president.

The difficulty of absorbing the spiritual power that has been guided out of the body and exposed to the external environment is much greater than the difficulty of guiding the newly generated spiritual power in the body.

At least his mental power was almost exhausted, and he had no way to maintain this mental power from dissipating while absorbing all of it back stably.

In the end, he only absorbed about 30% of the mental power.

This first attempt was a failure.

However, Chen Ming had this feeling in advance, so it was not too surprising.

If it were so easy to accomplish, then condensing the essence of spiritual energy wouldn't be so rare.

Then all he could do was wait for the subsequent materials to be delivered and try to see if the remaining two materials had any effect.

If the next two materials are ineffective, he can only follow his previous idea and use that special condensed spiritual energy source as bait.

There wasn't much Chen Ming could do during the rest of the day.

He simply sent a mechanical body with a propeller on its back, which Chen Ming called Tornado, to fly over the insect nest with the condensed spiritual energy, intending to leave more traces of spiritual energy fluctuations.

And when this tornado passed.

Chen Ming didn't even need to use the scanning array at the highest point to see with his naked eyes that some insects were searching on the ground for traces of the psychic fluctuations he left yesterday.

The bait worked.

This time, Chen Ming did not let the tornado pass by, but circled a few times at a distance and then returned to the landing craft and returned to the highest point.

In order to prevent the Tornado, an obviously abnormal mechanical body, from being discovered by the Zerg, causing them to become unnecessarily alert.

After completing this task.

Chen Ming also sent out several robots equipped with the gamma cores he currently had on hand, and a dozen other ordinary robots to the city of the mechanical clan.

Let these robots contact the mechanical people whose circuits are damaged in the city.

Control them.

Help Chen Ming save energy and time.

By the way, when he can't find a suitable target, he can also help him move other intact mechanical creatures out of the city.

Move it back to the landing craft, transport it back to the highest point, and let him take unified control.

After all, the appearance of these mechanical creatures is intact. If Chen Ming does not want to destroy their external armor and does not want to have a head-on conflict with the mechanical creatures, then he can only do this.

And he had already tried it yesterday.

There would be no problem in letting the robots he controlled contact the dormant mechanical creatures.

All dormant mechanical creatures will not react when touched.

As long as there is time, there are enough robots capable of doing the work.

Chen Ming will be able to empty the entire city sooner or later.

Anyway, there are still many Gamma Cores in dormancy with nothing to do in the temporary base.

As long as he wants, he can ship a batch over at any time.

Of course, for the sake of safety, the robots that will be moving the dormant mechanical race will only be responsible for sneaking into areas where Chen Ming can be sure that there are no active mechanical races to work.

Those areas where active mechanical races exist will be handed over to the mechanical races that he has already controlled to deal with.

The mechanical people in this city could not tell which were their own people and which were abnormal individuals controlled by Chen Ming.

Even if his mechanical race is exposed to the eyes of other mechanical races, it will not cause any problems.

All I can say is that this lost city no longer has a normal environment.

These mechanical creatures seemed to have lost their basic behavioral logic, and only had an instinctive consciousness to fight back when attacked.

As long as Chen Ming asks Huihuang to help arrange the work for each robot and intervene when necessary, he doesn't have to worry at all.

It would be better to worry about the process of him controlling so many mechanical people.

Although he did not consume much mental energy when controlling each mechanical machine.

And as the number of abnormal sub-individuals under his control increases, his mental power will receive additional feedback from the hive mind network, so he doesn't need to worry about consumption.

However, the number of mechanical people in this city is at least over 100,000.

Even though there are many mechanical races that have been completely or partially damaged, the number of those that appear to be intact will definitely not be less than 50,000.

In fact, it can be seen from yesterday that there are still many places in the city where the mechanical race has not come, but relying solely on the mechanical races in a few areas near the edge, it is easy to completely destroy the invading group of insects.

The number of mechanical people must be more than Chen Ming thought.

It can only be said that the mechanical race is not like Yu Hui, where every individual possesses extremely powerful computing power.

Their hive mindset determines that they rely on the collective and each of them performs their own duties within the collective.

Therefore, the density of the distribution of the number of individuals of the mechanical race will definitely be greater than that of the afterglow.

And this huge number means that it takes a lot of time to control them.

Chen Ming's afterglow could only use data cables to help him control those mechanical creatures that were partially damaged and had exposed circuits.

The rest he had to do himself.

To control them one by one, even if there are 100,000 pigs, it will take at least a month.

No, it seems that pigs are more difficult to deal with than these dormant mechanical creatures.

His psychic powers can control the mechanical race as long as they come into contact, but he really can't control pigs.

Chen Ming shook his head to get rid of the strange thoughts in his mind.

In fact, there is no need for him to be too negative about the efficiency of this matter.

As long as he can control all the individuals in the city that can be used for combat first, then won't the remaining non-combat type mechanical species be at his mercy?

Although the city’s tower has lost the ability to control the mechanical race, it still has the ability to control the city itself.

With the assistance of the high tower, the core of the city, the overall efficiency is definitely not that bad.

Another day passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ming once again sent a group of robots carrying gamma-level afterglow cores to the mechanical city to speed up the work efficiency.

At the same time, he also sent Tornado to the vicinity of the Zerg nest again and found that the Zerg had indeed completely discovered the traces left by Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source.

Many bugs have already appeared on the surface and are scattered over a large area to search.

It seems that as long as the spiritual energy fluctuations that condense the origin of spiritual energy appear again, they will swarm up.

And today, Old Wu also delivered the remaining two materials with pure white transparent amber appearance to Space Arm No. 6.

One of them is called white resin, which is a natural resin material produced by plants that is difficult to cultivate artificially.

The other is called white amber steel, which is a by-product of smelting a special grade metal ore with a unique appearance.

And this time.

When Chen Ming concentrated all his mental power outside his body and wrapped the two materials, he found that his mental power still did not resonate with these materials.

It seems that I have failed again. It turns out that the materials for condensing the source of spiritual energy are not so easy to get.

Just when Chen Ming was about to give up.

The ship spirit, which had been squatting at the highest point, suddenly jumped out from the wall and drilled into the white amber steel wrapped in spiritual power.

Immediately afterwards, visible changes in the details appeared on the white amber steel that was half the size of Chen Ming's palm.

Under the influence of the ship spirit, the entire piece of white amber steel became closer to Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source.

Corrected the slight deviation between it and the condensed source of spiritual energy.

Moreover, the ship spirit also took the initiative to help Chen Ming guide the mental power restricted in his hands into the white amber steel.

It can almost be said that he completed the process of condensing the source of spiritual energy for Chen Ming, which originally required him to hold on to complete it despite extreme mental exhaustion.

Let Chen Ming still maintain a clear consciousness.

Chen Ming watched the entire process in full and detail, and had a rough idea of ​​the situation in his mind.

But he wasn't 100% sure, so he asked the boat spirit: "How did you do it?"

The boat spirit understood what Chen Ming said and circled around the amber steel that had become Chen Ming's second piece of condensed spiritual energy source.

Then he straightened his body made of shadow towards Chen Ming, exuding a slightly proud emotion.

"Um……"

Chen Ming translated what Chuan Ling meant in his mind, then pointed at Bai Zhi next to him and asked, "Is this okay?"

The boat spirit immediately shook its body, exuding a negative emotion.

Then Chen Ming understood.

The properties of white amber steel itself are actually somewhat similar to the material he uses to condense the source of spiritual energy.

So the ship spirit can help him change the properties of the white amber steel and complete the rest of the operations.

The ability to change the physical properties of an object.

It should be... a derivative of his [Transformation] ability.

This is how the ship spirit manifests the psychic nature of the psychic.

And the boat spirit just did it.

Of course this is not a bad thing. At least it lets Chen Ming know the possibility and direction of the subsequent development of his psychic powers.

It also made Chen Ming realize that the upper limit of transformation is not limited to what he currently knows.

Chen Ming reached out and touched the place on the boat spirit's phantom that was probably the head, and he felt a little happy unconsciously.

It was precisely because of the help of the ship spirit that he was able to complete the condensation of the essence of spiritual energy even when the materials were not right.

And also know the future development direction of psychic abilities.

Everyone is happy to come.

The boat spirit sensed Chen Ming's joy, and seemed to be infected by Chen Ming's emotions. It returned to the highest point with the same joy and its own slightly proud emotion.

The second piece of condensed spiritual energy source was obtained and the bait was ready, but Chen Ming could not take action directly.

He still needs to wait for his mental strength to recover.

So for the rest of the day, he continued to work in the mechanical city as he did yesterday.

Another new day has arrived.

Chen Ming's mental power returned to its peak again.

Then it's time to start setting traps to lure the Zerg out.

The layout is actually quite simple.

It only takes one psychic creature to definitely attract the attention of the Zerg.

Of course it wasn’t Xiaoshi, but something else.

This Chen Ming is ready.

But before he started setting the trap, he had to keep a backup plan for the precious bait.

Chen Ming knocked on the highest point of the wall, and the boat spirit poked its head out of the wall.

Looking at the puzzled ship spirit in front of him, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that it seemed to be becoming more and more solid during this period of time.

Although the shape is still a phantom and has not been finalized, the opacity of the phantom is getting higher and higher, and it will become completely opaque soon.

This shouldn't be a bad thing for the ship spirit.

Chen Ming took out his second piece of condensed spiritual energy source, tapped it gently and said, "Come in, help me protect it, don't let other things absorb it."

The boat spirit naturally would not refuse Chen Ming's request and went in obediently.

With the protection of the ship spirit, Chen Ming doesn't need to worry too much about condensing the source of spiritual energy in the future.

Next comes the final step of preparing the trap.

Chen Ming needs to feed this thing to some flying creature.

As for what specific organisms to feed.

When Chen Ming used the apex to scan the planet before, he had scanned a variant of the empty jellyfish.

It can only be said that the hollow jellyfish is a relatively special creature.

Because it has the ability to travel in space.

Especially older individuals.

As the jellyfish grows older, its size gradually increases.

The mass of the gas in their bodies will become lighter and their body tissues will become thinner, but the strength of their body tissues will increase.

They can actively eject violent air currents that can enable them to exceed the second or even third cosmic speed.

These empty jellyfish will land on other planets and then die.

After death, it leaves behind jellyfish eggs that reproduce the next batch of jellyfish, and uses its own gelatinous corpse to provide nutrition to the new jellyfish during the period when they are unable to float.

Therefore, even planets that humans have never set foot on often have traces of their existence.

Moreover, they themselves are actually not very harmful. As long as they are not exposed to fire, they pose little threat. In addition, their survival does not require the consumption of too many substances, and the substances that make up their body tissues are very easy to degrade, so they have almost no impact on the ecosystem.

If the number of jellyfish is large enough, it can promote ecological air purification.

All I can say is that if they were not of the nature of exploding when exposed to fire, then Chen Ming should be able to see them in many colonies or space stations.

In addition, Chen Ming had seen research reports on various websites before, and found that some biotechnology companies' research institutes were trying to genetically modify the jellyfish.

Make it lose its ability to explode and maintain its ability to purify the air.

But the progress doesn’t seem to be ideal, and it has nothing to do with Chen Ming.

As a student studying spacecraft, he probably won't need to use biology-related technology in his life.

In short, after having this basic understanding of the empty jellyfish and scanning the empty jellyfish group at the highest point.

Chen Ming already had a complete idea in his mind.

He wanted to let an old air jellyfish eat the condensed psychic energy source that hosted the ship spirit, and let it emit the psychic energy fluctuations that the Zerg had felt several times in the past few days, so as to attract the Zerg to space.

Of course, not all old jellyfish will choose to go into space. Some jellyfish will stay on the planet and wait for death to come.

But Chen Ming's empty jellyfish was caught just when it was about to enter space.

Therefore, Chen Ming does not need to worry about the situation where the empty jellyfish is given away for free.

Of course, the condensed spiritual energy source itself still needs to be protected by the ship spirit. It cannot be taken away by insects, nor can it have too much spiritual energy fluctuation absorbed by the empty jellyfish.

All preparations have been completed.

Then Chen Ming didn't waste any more time and started his arrangements directly.

It is not difficult to use the living habits of the air jellyfish to pass over the areas where the Zerg are settled.

Next, if the bugs want to capture the air jellyfish, they must send out something that can fly. Chen Ming wants to see how the bugs fly.

Chen Ming was sitting at the desk in his study at this time.

Holding his psychic weapon in hand, Ming.

He took the time to compress the Whisper of Madness Spirit Stone to the appropriate size during the past two days and embedded it into the psychic weapon.

Chen Ming could clearly feel that when he held a psychic weapon, his mental strength and psychic power would have an additional increase.

The original psychic weapon gave an increase of about 1.1 times, but after being inlaid with the spiritual stone, the strength of the mental power was about 1.3 times.

The effect can be said to be quite obvious.

But for what he has to do now, no preparation is too much.

Chen Ming stared intently at the old empty jellyfish through the scanning array at the highest point, watching it fly low over the Zerg's nest according to Chen Ming's arrangement, and then fly high into the sky.

The Thorn Zerg took the bait almost instantly, and some of the bugs searching outside immediately flapped their elytra behind them and chased after the old aerial jellyfish that was flying high into the sky.

Chen Ming immediately planned to intervene a little to prevent these bugs from catching the jellyfish before it rose to a high enough height.

However, what surprised Chen Ming was that this old jellyfish suddenly sprayed out a violent airflow, instantly accelerating and soaring into the sky.

Their speed was even faster than those Zerg that Chen Ming had never seen before, which had huge elytra on their backs, slender bodies, and looked very light and agile.

Even without Chen Ming's coercion and help, it was doing what Chen Ming wanted to see it do.

Heading to space.

It is nearing the end of its age and it needs to reproduce.

The instinct of reproduction forces it to do this.

And this is exactly why Chen Ming chose it.

As the jellyfish increases in altitude, the surrounding atmosphere becomes thinner.

Those Zerg individuals that flew using their elytra have gradually lost the ability to continue flying upwards.

This conspicuous psychic wave is about to enter the outermost part of the atmosphere.

For the Zerg, this feast that was about to be within their reach was soon to be gone.

The moment Chen Ming was certain that the Zerg's flying insects had completely lost the ability to catch up with the aerial jellyfish.

The scanning array at the highest point that was still scanning the planet suddenly sent back a special signal.

The ground is shaking.

The insects underground have become active.

Within the range covered by the tower's surveillance, countless mechanical creatures suddenly woke up and prepared for battle.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had thought before that the Zerg's actions might affect the Mechanical Clan in the nearby cities, so he did not arrange for his robots to enter the city today.

So he was not affected and didn't need to deal with things in a hurry.

And at this moment deep underground.

Inside the insect nest displayed by the scanning array.

The huge organism at the core of the hive that Chen Ming had seen before was undergoing drastic...evolution.

Evolving towards something Chen Ming is very familiar with.

Watch the rapid changes taking place in this giant organism.

Chen Ming's heartbeat began to speed up, and his emotions gradually became agitated. He subconsciously said to himself: "Yes, that's it."

Originally, this giant organism protecting the queen worm inside was only symmetrical and long and narrow in appearance, and looked like a spaceship.

But now, the changes that have taken place in it are becoming more apparent.

Chen Ming can be 100% sure that this giant creature itself is a biomass spaceship.

It only temporarily degraded some of its abilities in order to build its nest underground.

Combined with the clues Chen Ming had already learned before.

He was certain that the Thorn Zerg must rely on these biomass spacecraft to fly in space.

These biological spacecraft definitely have the ability to accelerate to near the speed of light in space, and even enter hyperspace.

Then the situation of the Zerg's vehicle for space travel has been determined.

It is a biomass spaceship evolved by the Zerg themselves.

At this moment, Chen Ming was extremely emotional and there was only one question left in his mind.

In his psychic judgment, is this biomass spaceship considered a spaceship that he can control? He is now extremely curious.

(End of this chapter)