Chen Ming said directly: "I feel that this thing is a bit like the one you mentioned some time ago..."

Bai Quan responded before Chen Ming finished speaking: "I feel the same way, so I have to go ask. Wait for my news."

"OK."

Baiquan hung up the call anxiously.

He immediately took the video Chen Ming sent him and went to the exclusive research institute under the headquarters of the 14th Legion where he was currently located.

Only Chen Ming was still thinking.

Think about the situation of those fifty-plus cruisers and the source of danger.

First of all, Chen Ming could be sure that even if the more than 50 cruisers of the Mechanical Clan had been damaged before arriving at the galaxy, it was definitely because of the trouble he had caused to the Mechanical Clan's colony planet.

It's not that they were driven here because they failed to target the source of danger.

Because these more than fifty cruisers had no ability to resist the source of danger.

Assuming that the Mechanical Clan had known about such a dangerous thing in advance, it would be impossible for them to mobilize more than fifty cruisers at one time to deal with it.

If something cannot be reached, one ship will do, or fifty ships will do.

The mechanical race wouldn't be that stupid.

If the mechanical race didn't know about this thing, the purpose of these fifty or so cruisers would indeed be only Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming felt that it was very likely that the mechanical clan’s reinforcement fleet happened to accidentally encounter this thing on the way here.

Although he was still not sure whether the mechanical race knew about the source of the danger.

But it is more likely that the mechanical fleet suffered heavy losses after a battle with this thing, or a unilateral attack.

The remaining fleet of the Mechanical Clan chose to continue towards its destination, which was the colonial galaxy outside that was attacked by Chen Ming.

The cities built by their colonies have collapsed under the attack of the insect swarm.

Keeping Chen Ming, the culprit, and killing him when the situation is irreversible is already the best outcome for them.

Then, diverting trouble to someone else when necessary is also a good choice.

Anyway, even if they failed, they would never get back the things they had lost because of Chen Ming. It would be better to incur greater losses in exchange for a greater possibility of killing Chen Ming.

The mechanical race was indeed ruthless.

It’s a pity that Chen Ming ran too fast.

The first target of the danger source brought by the mechanical race was the mechanical race itself.

As Chen Ming roughly figured out what had just happened, he suddenly took another deep breath.

Because he still has many questions in his mind.

What exactly is the source of that danger?

How did the mechanical race come to provoke this thing?

These two questions remain as unanswered as ever.

So Chen Ming temporarily stopped thinking about this matter and waited for Bai Quan's response.

At the same time, there is another thing waiting for Chen Ming to solve.

The thing is that his psychic power cannot control the mechanical race.

Chen Ming had personally tried using psychic power before, and when he saw the prompt later, he basically understood the situation.

It became clear what exactly caused him to be unable to control the mechanical race.

In fact, the answer is very simple.

The only thing that can fight against psionic power is psionic power.

Although this statement is not absolute, it is often true.

The hive thinking network among the mechanical races in the entire mechanical star field is just like Chen Ming's own mechanical hive network, which is linked together by psychic energy.

It is precisely because the mechanical races on Chen Ming’s target planet are connected to the cruisers in the core of the city, and the cruisers are connected to a higher-level honeycomb network.

That's why he can't control these mechanical creatures that have been affected by layers of psychic energy.

The discovery of this situation also made Chen Ming figure out something.

In fact, he had always thought that metaphysical things like hive mind should be disconnected when the distance is far enough.

How can a hive mind continue to exist across hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of light years? And can it transmit everything it sees without any obstruction? The Zerg, which is clearly a hive mind, is divided into different populations, and each population may even fight among itself.

It was like the mother of the Queen Zerg controlled by Chen Ming discovered another colony of Thorn Zerg in the orbit of the previously independent mechanical race, and directly devoured the other colony, turning it into its own nutrition, and then evolved into a destroyer.

The hive mind network between the Zerg is obviously based on tribes.

It just so happens that the mechanical race can integrate into such a large star field, and there is more than one star field in the entire universe.

Only a very small number of independent mechanical clusters may not be included in this huge hive mind network.

Chen Ming didn't understand it before.

It was not until today that he realized that the answer had already been reflected in himself.

Psionics are the basis for maintaining a hive mind network whose coverage is measured in star regions.

Chen Ming felt that he should have thought of it earlier.

Because the first thing related to psychic power that he came into contact with, the Whispering Spirit Stone, was something he got from the mechanical race.

The mechanical race itself is different from Yuhui. They are the legacy of another civilization and are born with psychic powers.

So it is normal that their hive network is built with psychic energy.

Of course, this does not mean that there is a psychic behind the mechanical race controlling them.

When Chen Ming tried to control the cruiser himself before, he felt that the psychic power of the mechanical race was dead, not an extension of the will of a psychic.

The boss, Yan Xiong and even the Queen of Insects that Chen Ming had come into contact with were all different.

The psionic fluctuations emitted by a psionicist or psionic creature when using psionic powers will reflect the state of the psionicist's own mind.

Other psychics can sense the emotions of the psychic who emits psychic fluctuations through these psychic fluctuations.

No matter how calm a psychic is, when he uses his psychic power to emit psychic fluctuations, his psychic fluctuations will also carry a hint of the psychic's calm emotions.

Even if you are not a psychic but an ordinary person, you will still have subtle feelings when you come into contact with psychic fluctuations and can understand the emotions of the psychic.

Although Chen Ming didn't know much about psychic power, he had used it many times in front of Old Wu and the factory director.

I happened to learn some strange knowledge about psychic powers from them when we chatted occasionally in the past.

So if such a mechanical race that is spread throughout the universe is controlled by a living psychic, then Chen Ming would not dare to touch these mechanical races.

However, when Chen Ming tried to control the mechanical race before, he did not detect any emotional fluctuations from the hive mind network.

The machine clan's honeycomb network is built on a dead object, a mechanical device similar to a mind pulse generator.

It is not difficult to crack a dead object.

The mechanical race relies on psychic chains, but not every individual in the mechanical race can use the psychic power of the hive mind network to do things and resist the control of Chen Ming's psychic power.

It was simply because of the instinctive protection of the psychic hive mind network that Chen Ming's attempted non-forced control could not take effect directly, that was all.

Chen Ming only needs to make his psychic power aggressive and forcibly destroy the original network connection of the mechanical clan, and the rest will be easy.

So even before, when Chen Ming was standing on the mechanical cruiser.

If he wanted, he could directly eliminate the influence of the mechanical race's psychic energy on them and control the ship himself.

The mechanical race has lost a subordinate core of its hive mind, so the rest of the mechanical race will be in Chen Ming's pocket.

The reason why Chen Ming did not do so was because things were not that simple and there would be other impacts later.

The Mechanoids are mechanical life forms with a hive mind.

Destroying the machine race's hive mind network is tantamount to directly digging out a piece of the machine race's brain.

Although this is just a city of mechanical creatures, it is not fatal to the mechanical creatures, but the damage is absolute.

And it was an extremely serious injury.

And all intelligent species basically have one common problem.

Those who have helped you will be forgotten after a while, but those who have hurt you will never be forgotten in your life.

This means that if Chen Ming does this, the entire mechanical race will know of his existence and that he has caused serious harm to them.

There are more than fifty cruisers coming to chase us. If we continue to cause trouble, the mechanical clan will probably send their real battleships over the next time we meet.

And if the mechanical race only knew that Chen Ming was a person with considerable combat ability and able to control the Zerg.

Then, the mechanical race will discover that he is a psychic who can cause fundamental devastation to the mechanical race.

Just like how Yu Hui discovered him once.

But before, Chen Ming was still relatively weak, and Yu Hui and humans did not have such extreme conflicts as those between the mechanical race and humans.

That's why Yuhui and humans exchanged some prisoners and supplies.

That is why Yu Hui wanted to take Chen Ming away as soon as he found him, to try to recruit him or extract his spiritual awakening nerves.

But if the mechanical race knew of Chen Ming's existence, they would never give Chen Ming any chance, and would definitely hunt him down with the highest standards.

They knew only too well how great a threat a psyker who could sever the machine's hive network would pose to them.

Once Chen Ming is caught, his life will definitely be over.

Therefore, if he really destroyed the mechanical clan's hive network, it would be very dangerous afterwards.

He must think about it again.

Anyway, the mechanical cruisers that Chen Ming took away were already damaged, and the mechanical individuals on them had been cleaned up, so they would definitely not be able to escape on their own.

Chen Ming also brought the mechanical clan's cruiser into the territory of the empire.

Even if the mechanical race had a hive consciousness and knew the location of the cruiser, it would be impossible for them to actually chase after it.

Therefore, as long as Chen Ming does not take the initiative to provoke the mechanical race, the mechanical race will have no other influence except knowing that he is now in the human empire.

Moreover, the location of the temporary base has not been exposed, and the mechanical clan is unlikely to cause trouble for his temporary base.

Chen Ming still has time to think about whether he should take on such a trouble.

Then he wouldn't rush to draw a conclusion immediately.

It’s better to take a break and wait until your mental state returns to its best before thinking about this problem.

And since he has already returned to the empire and is now at the edge of the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, he must go back to the space station.

Moreover, the patrol team in the galaxy just came over and took a look at Chen Ming’s fleet and then ran away.

Although Chen Ming did not know the people from the patrol team of the pirate space station, they all knew Chen Ming and knew the situation of these cruisers.

So Chen Ming was left to stay at the edge of the galaxy.

But they will definitely pass on the news that Chen Ming has returned.

But he still had one thing to do before returning to the space station.

Count the harvest.

Originally, Chen Ming's target this time was mainly mechanical individuals, in order to expand his own honeycomb network.

The second is the mechanical clan’s colonial cruiser, which will definitely be helpful to Chen Ming’s own colonization in the future.

The other gains during the battle with the mechanical race were truly unexpected surprises.

So now let’s simply calculate the overall gains.

The most important ones are the mechanical individuals, whose total number has exceeded 30,000 and who have all been parasitized by parasites that are desperately reproducing and unable to move.

All I can say is that Chen Ming didn’t know how so many mechanical people were stuffed into two cruisers, but he did it anyway.

Although these parasites have basically entered a dormant state due to the lack of subsequent nutrition supply, they can also force the mechanical race to stop all mechanical activities while they are dormant.

Apart from still maintaining normal individual consciousness, those mechanical creatures are almost like dead mechanical bodies that are completely unable to move.

Chen Ming could just find a place to store them first.

After Chen Ming is ready to control the mechanical family, he will control them in batches.

Finally, these mechanical races will be sent to the city on the planet where the mechanical races in Chen Ming's hands are located.

Chen Ming estimated that once he had controlled the batch of mechanical creatures he had just captured, he should be able to completely build the honeycomb network of mechanical creatures under his control.

It allows him to produce the individual consciousness of the mechanical race on his own, just like the Zerg network.

In this way, as long as he can supply enough materials to the mechanical race in the future, the number of the mechanical race will begin to skyrocket like the number of the Zerg race.

It's just that this material is a bit troublesome.

After all, the main material of the mechanical family itself is high-grade metal Baiyun steel.

If there is no mineral vein with stable output, the money spent on simply acquiring it would be really too much.

Moreover, Chen Ming’s colony has not yet found a suitable galaxy and has not officially started construction, so it is not a good idea to spend money on the mechanical race.

Therefore, the expansion of the mechanical race will have to be considered again at that time.

However, as long as he can produce the consciousness of a new individual of the mechanical race, even if the mechanical race under his command falls on the front line, he can still use psychic energy to recover all the materials without worrying too much about the loss.

It can all be recycled anyway.

As long as the scale of the battlefield does not exceed the number of mechanical people currently controlled by Chen Ming.

It doesn’t matter if he surpasses them. In addition to the mechanical race, Chen Ming also has the Zerg race that can serve as combat power on the ground battlefield.

In addition to the individual mechanical individuals, Chen Ming's second largest gain this time was the mechanical cruisers.

Except for the colonial ship that Chen Ming took away on the ground.

There are also eight cruisers coming in the second wave of reinforcements from the Mechanical Clan.

Five of them were blown to pieces in Chen Ming's sea of ​​meteorite fighters.

The internal cores of these five cruisers were damaged in the explosion and they lost the psychic protection of the Mechanoids.

Therefore, the remaining large pieces of wreckage had already been dismantled into materials and sent to the temporary base, providing a large supply of the Baiyun steel materials that he was in urgent need of.

Although the remaining three ships were not blown up together, they had basically lost their combat capability under the attack of the meteorite.

Previously, Chen Ming had tied it to several other cruisers using a crude method.

Then when they jumped, they were brought to the galaxy where the pirate space station was located.

Before, Chen Ming was not sure what kind of mental energy would be consumed in the subsequent battles.

At that time, he did not waste his mental energy to control the three cruisers that had lost their combat effectiveness and even their ability to move.

Therefore, he did not notice that his psychic power could not control those mechanical creatures.

Now Chen Ming also did a quick test and found the result was the same.

Like the other mechanical clans, these three cruisers are also under the protection of the mechanical clan's psychic hive network and cannot be controlled.

However, after Chen Ming's subsequent scanning of the three mechanical cruisers, he discovered that they were all combat-type cruisers.

The internal structure is similar to that of an ordinary mechanical individual. Apart from various devices that realize the functions originally designed, the rest are three cores.

A core chip, a secondary core, and a device for storing nanorobots, all upgraded to the cruiser level.

Overall, it is just an ordinary cruiser.

Moreover, they were three identical cruisers without any special systems or devices.

Only the colony ship is slightly special, and its internal structure is very different from other mechanical cruisers.

Anyway, Chen Ming would just give the colony ship to Huihuang for research.

Let Huihuang figure out how to use the mechanical race's colony ships, and then combine it with Yu Hui's own colonization method and the early colony construction plan that Chen Ming obtained from the empire.

The three were combined to develop a plan that would suit Chen Ming's own future colonial construction.

Chen Ming believes that Huihuang will definitely produce a result.

When he actually colonizes in the future, his true value will be reflected.

Except for the spacecraft.

This time, Chen Ming also gained something special.

That special individual of the mechanical family.

Since this mechanical clan is directly controlled by the cruiser, it does not have a core chip installed and the consciousness of the mechanical clan does not exist on it.

So Chen Ming can control it directly without any restrictions.

And its name immediately appeared in front of Chen Ming.

[Mechanical Heavy Machinery - Purgatory Demon King]

[Energy reserve: 27%]

[Main weapon: Imperial artillery]

[Secondary weapons: Charged shock gun * 2, charged machine gun * 2]

[External armor: Mechanical heavy white cloud steel armor]

[Self-awareness: None]

[Important equipment: Purgatory core (in operation), core chip (missing), secondary personality core (in operation), nano-level maintenance mechanical body (33%), thermal energy curing system (in operation), thermal energy extraction device (in operation)]

[Available operations: Repair (deep repair)/modification/disassembly]

Chen Ming took a quick look at the things on the panel, then clicked on the [Purgatory Core] in the [Important Equipment] column of this machine called Purgatory Lord.

Although there is no detailed introduction to this thing on the panel.

But Chen Ming can understand its function just by his own understanding.

He is the source of Purgatory's ability to control and influence thermal energy. He is the true core of Purgatory compared to the core chip and secondary core, and is also a special relic of another civilization in the true sense.

Just like the low-temperature computing engine that Chen Ming had heard about from Bai Quan.

The Cryogenic Computing Engine was a supercomputer used by the destroyed civilization to calculate combat-type events.

It needs to absorb heat to maintain the high-speed operation of the computer. While completing its main tasks, it can also achieve the outrageous effect of entropy reduction, which violates the laws of physics.

Although the Purgatory Core is not as exaggerated as the entropy reduction, it can also control the entropy increase and the steady-state distribution of entropy in the environment.

Change the surrounding environment on a large scale, making it more suitable for silicon-based life such as the mechanical family, and not suitable for any carbon-based life.

Chen Ming had seen this before.

What he wanted to know more now was whether this core could play a greater role in his hands.

For example, mass production.

For Chen Ming, even if it is a relic of another civilization, once it falls into his hands, it will be controlled by his spiritual power.

Then the psychic power will automatically allow him to master how to use the things he controls.

In a case where the method of use is clear and the internal structure can be separated out through three-dimensional imaging.

Chen Ming can fully analyze the internal structure of this purgatory core.

From outside to inside, they are the outer shell layer, isolation layer, operating layer and core layer.

There is not much to say about the outer shell layer. It contains various interfaces and a protective core shell.

When Chen Ming saw the isolation layer, he was stunned for the first time.

This isolation layer can isolate high temperatures from the outside.

Internally, it can isolate the psychic energy fluctuations emanating from the internal operating layer and core layer.

Chen Ming blinked to confirm that he was not mistaken.

The operation of this purgatory core relies on psychic energy.

Its operating layer and core layer are all constructed of pure psychic materials into a complex mechanical device.

Although Chen Ming could see the structure of the entire core clearly, without understanding the principles behind it, there was only one question left in his mind.

How did they do this? Chen Ming carefully checked again several times and confirmed that there were no traces of any psychic creatures or spiritual nerves in the core.

This is truly an object that is made purely by technological level and psychic materials and can produce psychic effects.

An object that allows mechanical life forms such as the Mechanoids to control psychic energy.

Chen Ming didn't show any change on the surface, but his mind was already filled with a thousand thoughts.

The one that appeared most frequently was the galaxy marked by the coordinates he had previously obtained from the mechanical clan's satellite.

He must go there.

There must be something out there that is even more outrageous than the Inferno Core, or even the Cryogenic Computing Engine.

Chen Ming took a deep breath for a few seconds and suppressed his somewhat unrealistic thoughts.

Turn your attention back to the Infernal Lord itself.

In addition to the core, there are some other valuable things on the body.

For example, the Imperial Cannon.

This thing is also special.

Because Chen Ming also discovered a mechanical structure made of psychic materials inside this weapon.

This thing is a psychic weapon.

(End of this chapter)