Chen Ming fell into deep thought again.

The first three options were easy for him to understand; they were just different names for the same function of biomass spacecraft and ordinary spacecraft.

But he couldn't really guess the effect of the last one, [Gene Backtracking], just by looking at the name.

But since it's all on the panel and he's seen it, he has to give it a try.

Chen Ming pressed the button of [Gene Tracing].

A new panel immediately appeared, allowing Chen Ming to briefly understand the function of gene tracing.

Simply put, it is to consume biomass and Chen Ming's mental power to extract the possibility of evolution in genes.

"The possibility of evolution in extracted genes?"

Chen Ming read out the sentence displayed on the panel. For some reason he felt that it was strange.

But it's not a big problem. Anyway, the two big words "evolution" are there, so how can we not try it? When Chen Ming pressed the OK button.

Chen Ming's mental power suddenly rushed out like a floodgate opened, and the speed of consumption was almost catching up with the additional core bonus he had provided to HR before.

However, the overall consumption was not as outrageous as the requirement of 100% mental power. It only consumed about 20% of his mental power.

And at the moment when Chen Ming's mental power stopped flowing out.

It seemed to be due to the Zerg hive mind network. A dim and blurry picture suddenly flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

An image that seems to come from a memory stored in our genes.

There was a huge creature, nearly ten meters tall, wrapped in a pitch-black shell and looking like a mammoth from ancient times. It also looked like a Zerg creature and was being hunted by a group of Thorn Zerg.

The Thorn Zerg attacked desperately, but their acid, spikes, sharp blades, almost all means of attack could not cause effective damage to the huge dark Zerg.

Chen Ming was just beginning to feel curious about what was happening next when the fragment that flashed through his mind disappeared.

Then he saw an option appear on the evolution panel which had been empty due to his zero knowledge of biotechnology.

【Jet-black shell】.

This option appeared directly on the panel, and Chen Ming did not need to learn the relevant technology.

This is the effect of genetic backtracking, extracting the abilities hidden in the Zerg's own genes.

Or rather...

The scene of the Zerg hunting the giant black Zerg just now emerged in Chen Ming's mind again.

What is extracted are the genes of other organisms that the Zerg plundered after devouring other organisms.

It sounds very good, but when Chen Ming thought about it carefully, isn’t it just drawing a blind box?

The Zerg can even eat ores and convert them into biomass, so it is normal for them to eat more organisms.

Who knows how many kinds of organisms’ genes may be hidden in their genes.

What can be extracted probably depends entirely on luck.

Although Chen Ming was lucky this time and extracted an obviously good gene, it may not be the same next time.

Best not to get your hopes up.

Anyway, this is Chen Ming's idea. If it succeeds, that would be the best. If not, it doesn't matter.

Only in this way will his emotions be very stable when he encounters failure and will not be disturbed by failure.

However, since the first thing I drew from the blind box was something that seems pretty good, I have to consider [Evolution], which is the [Transformation] of an ordinary spaceship.

Like ordinary spaceships, the evolution of biological spaceships also requires the consumption of nutrients and biomass as materials, and requires Chen Ming's mental power to maintain this process.

A destroyer-class biological spacecraft does not require much of Chen Ming's mental energy.

Under normal circumstances, biomass is not easy to get.

But Chen Ming is now on a habitable planet.

Moreover, the bio-spacecraft itself can digest a bunch of mess and convert it into nutrients and biomass to sustain its survival.

So even if there is no habitable planet, Chen Ming does not need to worry about this problem.

So he confirmed that after the Queen had absorbed most of the various tissues and Zerg that she had just forcibly created, the remaining biomass was sufficient for evolution.

First, I left the spaceship using the same route I came from before and returned to the highest point.

Then he directly chose to confirm and let the biomass spacecraft begin the process of evolving the [Dark Shell].

Chen Ming's mental strength began to fade.

The biomass and nutrients in the giant storage chamber are transported to various parts of the hull through the blood vessels of varying sizes in the biological spacecraft and their unique blood.

And as the nutrients were absorbed, growth gradually overflowed from the gaps in the shell of the biological spacecraft.

It was exactly the same as the scene in Chen Ming’s memory of the Queen Insect, when its mother evolved from a frigate into a destroyer.

The cocoon constructed by the growth organisms gradually wrapped the biomass spacecraft inside.

Since the Queen Worm is now a whole with the biological spacecraft, Chen Ming temporarily lost contact with the Queen Worm during the evolution process.

It seems that the Zerg are very fragile during the evolution period.

I have to be more careful next time and not let his bugs evolve without protection.

Originally, if the Queen Worm was evolving underground, she would have the protection of an entire hive, but now the only thing that can protect the Queen Worm is her spaceship.

So Chen Ming asked the Supreme Point to activate the scanning array again to prevent the mechanical clan from launching a sneak attack.

At the same time, the defenders were sent into the air on alert, providing a second level of protection.

In addition, let Huihuang, who is still on orbit, pay attention to the situation on his side and be alert to some abnormalities that he may not have discovered.

He took the best security measures he could at the moment.

After waiting for about half an hour, which is much longer than it takes to transform an ordinary spacecraft.

A crack suddenly appeared on the giant cocoon made of solidified growths.

Chen Ming, who was browsing various materials on the terminal, immediately turned off the terminal and looked at the cocoon outside the biomass spacecraft.

Soon, with a crisp sound, a pure black biomass spaceship broke out of its cocoon.

Its matte black color means it reflects almost no light.

If it were in space without professional scanning equipment, it would be difficult to detect its trace.

Not only the external shell, but also the interior of the biological spacecraft has undergone some changes.

Not only its heart is covered with such a black shell.

There was also the queen worm in the heart, and all the active Zerg on the biological spacecraft, their originally brown shells had all turned into this pitch-black color.

But just by looking at it, you can't see the effect of the new black shell.

So Chen Ming decided to actually give it a try.

Chen Ming had not had time to dismantle the robotic arm on the Defender next to him.

The Queen Insect, who had regained consciousness, cooperated very well and stopped next to the defender who had landed on the ground again.

Its body is still operated by drills on giant robotic arms and powerful mining lasers.

Let Chen Ming test the strength of the shell.

However, the first thing Chen Ming noticed was not the strength of the black shell itself.

Rather, it was the difference between the pitch-black shell on the biological spacecraft and the shell on the black Zerg in the image he had just seen in his consciousness.

Chen Ming could clearly see that the black shell on the spacecraft was basically a fusion of an extremely strong black shell and a Thorn Zerg shell that could support biological spacecraft in hyperspace and space travel.

Instead of simply peeling off the shell of the black insect and installing it on the spaceship.

The name displayed in the armor column on the biological spacecraft panel also confirmed Chen Ming's guess.

[Biological Armor: Heavy Biomass Spaceship Black Shell]

As for the actual strength of this heavy black shell, Chen Ming's tests have shown that it is generally slightly lower than that of the Baiyun steel alloy.

However, except for strength, almost all other properties of the black shell are stronger than those of the white cloud steel alloy.

Unless it is 100% pure Baiyun steel, it can completely crush the performance of the black shell.

But the jet-black carapace has another advantage: it's cheap.

It only requires the most basic biomass to construct, without any other additional consumption.

As for something like biomass, to put it bluntly.

You can get a lot of it by just digging some soil in the field.

The difficulty of obtaining Baiyun Steel is not on the same level at all.

Moreover, the jet-black shell has an advantage that even Baiyun Steel cannot match.

light.

Although the name suggests heavy, the mass of the black shell is only one-third of that of white cloud steel of the same volume.

This is of great significance to the maneuverability of ships in space.

After all, a spacecraft needs to fight against inertia when it moves, and inertia is only related to mass.

The lighter the spacecraft, the more maneuverable it is during short-distance travel.

These are the unique features of the black shell of the heavy biomass spacecraft, which serves as the armor of the biomass spacecraft.

I can only say that Chen Ming’s first blind box draw was very good.

But that may not be the case next time.

And as Chen Ming opened the previous panel again, he also discovered.

The genetic backtracking option has usage restrictions and can only be used again after one month.

There are restrictions on drawing blind boxes, and Chen Ming finds it hard to hold back.

But never mind, he didn't have any expectations for this thing anyway.

He still has to learn this area of ​​biotechnology himself.

Try to gain the possibility of evolution in a more stable way.

That is to directly extract and analyze the Zerg's genes.

Isn't this much more reliable than picking blind boxes? Of course, this is also difficult.

But now that he has a biological spaceship in his hands, these are things that he will have to learn sooner or later, so he can just learn them slowly.

The matter of the biological spacecraft has been completely resolved.

But Chen Ming was not in a hurry to leave here.

Because the Zerg matter has not been dealt with yet.

So he continued to keep the zenith in orbit around the star.

Then we continued on the planet and spent a few days solving the problems left over from before.

The problem is that the insects that the Queen of Insects had previously cultivated are not in his hive mind network.

Although the Queen's consciousness has been disconnected from the hive mind network constructed by other Zergs.

Relying on pheromones, the queen insect will re-devour all the insects in the nest, turn them into nutrients, and reproduce again.

Although this will result in a loss of some biomass, the resulting worms are worth the effort.

Because Chen Ming's psychic power also maintained control over these insects, as if he was manipulating some kind of biological armor, and as the Queen completed the construction of a new Zerg hive thinking network, the feedback from the thinking network soon came to Chen Ming's head.

The efficiency of restoring the mental power that each hive individual can provide to Chen Ming is somewhat insignificant.

However, the feedback provided by all the insects in a hive that is about the same size as a mechanical city has increased Chen Ming's mental recovery speed by about 50%.

And it's not just a bonus to mental strength, the hive mind network that connects the entire hive has another even more outrageous effect.

Speed ​​up his thinking.

What this meant was very clear.

This is not just about thinking faster, but also about learning faster.

Instead, his overall abilities will increase significantly.

It was as if his consciousness was controlling all the body organs, including the brain, with 120% efficiency.

Suppose a person's overall abilities increase by 20%, then overall, the person's abilities are enhanced by more than just 20%. This principle is very clear.

So Chen Ming is now accelerating the control of the mechanical city.

There is also a hive mind network waiting for him to develop.

It’s just that his progress in controlling the mechanical race is not ideal.

Limited by the way Chen Ming's own psychic powers work and the efficiency of his robots in transporting those dormant mechanical creatures.

As a result, Chen Ming had asked the Queen Insect to replace all the insects in the entire nest.

The control progress of the mechanical race in the mechanical city is only a few percent.

Fortunately, Chen Ming did not plan to make the next jump and build the next temporary base so quickly, otherwise controlling the mechanical race would definitely slow down his progress.

In short, all the mechanical races in the mechanical city are under his control.

The mechanical race's hive mind network will definitely provide him with more mental power and, most critically, an increase in thinking speed.

Chen Ming now doesn’t dare to imagine what effect the combined effects of the two hive mind networks of the Mechanical Race and the Zerg will have.

Moreover, the increase in thinking also has a very significant impact on the effectiveness of his psychic powers.

The most obvious thing is that the number of cruisers that Chen Ming can control has increased from three to four.

This is also one of the benefits of controlling the Zerg.

Chen Ming is now more and more curious about one thing, what exactly is his psychic power? From controlling spaceships to controlling machinery, from controlling machinery to controlling biological spaceships.

Even now Chen Ming can directly control creatures, that is, those Zerg.

Chen Ming himself didn't quite understand this kind of psychic power.

But never mind.

Just know that this is a good thing.

Even if you encounter troubles at the beginning, but the final result is good, then there is no problem.

Just like before.

Yu Hui started the trouble first, and he served as the fuse to attract attention from another dimension.

But in the end he obtained a special source of condensed spiritual energy and practical training of his mental strength.

Now, dangerous Thorn Zerg have escaped from the space station where he once woke up and are breeding in space.

But this incident also allowed him to gain access to the city of the mechanical race, understand the collective consciousness of the mechanical race, and passively build a collective consciousness that could provide him with spiritual power.

Even the Zerg themselves became part of the benefits he gained.

As long as the result is good, it doesn’t matter if the process is a little bad.

Even though Chen Ming was not clear about what effects his psychic power had, as long as he could rely on psychic power to become stronger, it didn't matter to him what the psychic power was like.

Rather, he hoped that his spiritual power would produce these special effects that were beyond his expectations.

Of course, there seem to be long-term disadvantages brought about by the above events.

The afterglow attracted the attention of something from another dimension and it was very likely that the empire would encounter the same situation as many years ago again.

If the Zerg that Chen Ming is encountering now continues to reproduce in space, it seems that it will also be a threat to the empire.

Of course, Chen Ming would definitely deny it if someone mentioned the Zerg. When it comes down to it, it was still the problem of the military of the star region that first discovered these Zerg.

Associating the disadvantages of these two things, Chen Ming unconsciously thought about whether psychic power would bring him harm.

Chen Ming felt that there must be one.

But if he didn't have psychic powers, he would have died on the mining station long ago.

His life was saved by psychic power, and he must bear all the harm caused by psychic power no matter how bad it is.

Chen Ming confirmed his idea in his mind, and then shifted the question he was thinking about to the next thing.

In the next period of time, he probably won't run away like he is doing now. He should stay in the temporary base and proceed step by step according to the original plan.

Relying on extreme distance jumps, he gradually led the Yuhui army away from the border of the empire.

However, Chen Ming does not plan to take away too many mechanical tribes and the Queen of Insects on the planet in the short term.

After all, the existence of mechanical cities on this planet is real.

Although the city has lost its supply of resources and has declined, there has been a huge amount of damage.

But it is a built city after all.

Many of the things Chen Ming needs are in the city.

Even though Chen Ming couldn't understand the writing, using the city did not require understanding the writing of another civilization.

Therefore, before he finds a suitable location for building his colony, this mechanical city can be used as a temporary base, which requires the mechanical race to maintain the city.

It is even possible to make this city a permanent base. Chen Ming can use it as a bridgehead for communication with the empire.

If something really goes wrong and he gets beaten, the worst that can happen is that he just runs away or just abandons this place.

Anyway, he picked up the city in the first place, so he wouldn't feel bad if he lost it all.

In addition to the mechanical race, it is actually better for the Queen of Insects to continue to develop on the planet.

Such a large habitable planet, if no one comes, the resources of the entire planet can be used.

Giving the Thorn Zerg time to continue developing, Chen Ming had no idea how big they could grow.

There is actually another reason why Chen Ming made this decision.

It was when he was rebuilding the hive a few days before the Queen of Zerg arrived that he discovered an extremely unique aspect of the hive mind.

All sub-individual consciousnesses in the hive mind exist not only in the body, but also in the hive mind network.

The death of the body does not mean the demise of their consciousness.

As long as the hive network still exists and does not carry too much consciousness, then after the Zerg body is reshaped, the consciousness of the hive mind sub-individuals will be stuffed back into the reshaped body.

The same goes for the mechanical race, which also has a hive mindset.

Only then did Chen Ming understand why the mechanical race died and there was no sign of resurrection after being repaired.

Obviously, Chen Ming needs to use the mechanical race's honeycomb network to split out a new consciousness within the network and stuff it into the body of the mechanical race.

However, at present, Chen Ming does not control many mechanical people, and even if he controls the entire city, it will not work.

Because the mechanical race is somewhat special, the consciousness required to support the activities of their mechanical bodies is completely on a different level from that of the Zerg.

So although Chen Ming can let the Queen create new Zerg individuals, he cannot create new mechanical individuals. He still needs to control more mechanical individuals.

If that were all, it wouldn't be a big deal.

The only thing we can do is to speed up the breeding or manufacturing process of the Zerg or Mechanical races.

But the key point is that Chen Ming's spiritual power can remotely transmit materials and carry out manufacturing.

The reason why Chen Ming couldn’t use the transformation method to transmit Yuhui’s individual body over long distances before was because Yuhui’s individual consciousness was independent and extremely powerful.

The process of transformation and reconstruction of transmission will kill them.

Unlike the Mechanicals and Zerg, their consciousness will not die due to the destruction of their bodies.

This means that Chen Ming can dismantle the mechanical race and decompose the Zerg race.

Then, they will build mechanical bodies for the Mechanical Race and insect bodies for the Zerg Race in new places.

The sub-individual consciousnesses of these mechanical and Zerg races will be hosted on his hive mind network, and with the help of his psychic powers, they will cross the vast distances of the universe and appear where Chen Ming needs them.

As long as Chen Ming has a queen insect's proliferation organization or masters the manufacturing technology of the mechanical clan.

Then he could create mechanical races and Zerg races out of thin air wherever he wanted.

Of course, Chen Ming’s spiritual power can only be used to manufacture machines at present.

The Zerg are still limited by their biological nature and can only use the Queen's tissues to transform and complete this step, and this also requires Chen Ming to master a lot of complex biotechnology.

So this is also the reason why Chen Ming plans to let the Queen of Insects and the Mechanical Clan stay on this planet temporarily.

The Mechanoids need to remain in control.

The queen needs to continue to develop.

He still needs to continue learning.

They all need time.

That's why he made this decision.

Chen Ming thought about the matter again in his mind.

Confirm that there is no problem.

He temporarily put aside this matter which did not require his continued attention.

Unless there are foreign enemies coming to the planet, the creatures on this planet have no power to resist the mechanical race and the Zerg.

There was no way he could pose a threat to them, and they really didn't need him.

Anyway, he will definitely leave a Defender here before leaving.

It will definitely be useful when necessary.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly remembered that he seemed to have never seen any mechanical spaceships in the mechanical city, and he didn't know what was going on.

But this is nothing. Maybe I will encounter them in the future. The mechanical race is not as rare as the Zerg.

Then that's about it.

It's time for him to go back and deal with his business.

Chen Ming originally just came here to check on the situation of the mechanical clan, but he ended up spending almost a week here without realizing it.

Next, he had to turn his attention back to what he needed to do most right now, which was to find a colony.

(End of this chapter)