The two of them came to Chen Ming's research institute together.

There is a special reception room here.

It didn't take long in total. After all, He Gu's visit was not a business visit, but more of a personal one.

In addition, Chen Ming really had no experience in receiving people, so he kept everything simple.

As soon as you enter the reception room.

Without waiting for Chen Ming to make him tea or anything, He Gu placed the suitcase he had been carrying on the table.

"Look, this is what you want."

He opened the suitcase.

There were two miniature life-support tanks wrapped in black sponges placed in the suitcase.

Through a piece of transparent material on the surface of the life-support tank, you can see that there is a pure white artificial spiritual nerve about ten centimeters long and as thick as a little finger in each of the two life-support tanks.

In addition to the spiritual nerve awakening device, there was also a square instrument in the suitcase. This should be the device that He Gu mentioned before for detecting the spiritual properties of psychics.

After the psychic has detected the results, this instrument can select suitable psychic materials based on the psychic's own psychic properties to create suitable weapons or other things.

Chen Ming still needs this very much. After all, he has come into contact with so many psychic objects of different types and properties, but he still has not found something that is completely suitable for him.

He Gu took out two life-sustaining tanks from the box and placed them steadily on the coffee table.

At the same time, he pointed to a place with a bunch of small words written on the side of the tank and said, "The instructions are right here. If you want to take out the Qi Ling Nerve temporarily, remember to put it back at the end. If you leave it outside, the Qi Ling Nerve will die."

"Also, this small jar is equipped with a filtration device. You just need to regularly replace the universal nutrient solution that you can easily buy outside."

"Using this method to preserve it for ten days or half a month is not a problem. If you want to preserve it for longer, you have to use special nutrient solution."

"I think there should be some records in the branch office. You can definitely get them if you think of a way. If you have any other questions, just call me."

"good."

Chen Ming picked up a storage tank, held it in front of him, and examined it carefully.

The awakening nerve in the life-support tank was the same as the one that Yu Hui had wanted to use on him. It was thick and fat, with some nerve forks at the tip, and looked like a big white worm.

However, what He Gu gave him now was obviously more docile than the spiritual awakening nerve that Yu Hui wanted to use on him before.

Yu Hui's spiritual awakening nerve looked like it was going to eat up his spiritual awakening nerve.

It must have been specially bred and is very vigorous.

In other words, if Chen Ming wanted to use the awakening nerves given by He Gu to try to extract the awakening nerves of several psychics he captured, they should also undergo a certain level of cultivation.

"Come to think of it, I remember when I was with Yu Hui, the device they used to store spiritual awakening nerves was different from this one."

He Gu, who was taking another instrument out of the box, asked back, "What are they like?"

"It's a green and black cylindrical object, like a medicine bottle, with a slight curve, just the right size to hold in your hand."

"Oh, I have the impression that this kind of thing is left behind by a civilization that has been destroyed. This jar of ours is a replica of the original."

“I see.”

Chen Ming responded casually.

While chatting with He Gu about what he had seen and heard from Yu Hui, he continued to probe his mental power thoroughly into the life-support tank, carefully sensing the status of the two spiritual nerves in the tank.

After a while.

He put the tank back into the box.

He didn't plan to move these two spiritual nerves for the time being.

He planned to keep it for the two psychic captives he would later capture.

Although he could completely absorb these two spiritual nerves.

But just now he discovered a problem in his perception.

His mental strength is currently at a special critical point.

This is because his mental strength has grown to its current limit.

Another reason is that after his mental power reached its limit, it came into contact with the scarlet dimension, which refined his mental power. The absorption of other ordinary spiritual nerves would instead cause his mental power state to deteriorate.

It was as if the growth of his mental power was like filling a big hole with soil.

There was soil everywhere, as well as various spiritual stones and auxiliary tools to assist in the training of spiritual power, and the boat spirit was the shovel used by Chen Ming to fill the soil.

Originally, I filled the soil one shovel at a time and compacted it one shovel at a time, which was pretty good.

Occasionally, Chen Ming could get a large piece of compacted soil from other people that was similar to the soil he used to fill the pit and throw it directly into his own pit, thereby absorbing the spiritual awakening nerves.

But just as he came into contact with the Scarlet Dimension.

The Scarlet Dimension rolled over the hole he had filled like a steamroller, pressing the seemingly solid hole that he had filled with manpower down several dozen centimeters.

The roller master left a business card and told Chen Ming to call him if he needed anything.

He even taught Chen Ming how to use a shovel to compact the soil to the same degree as if it had been rolled over by a steamroller.

So at this time, the soil packed by others was different from the compacted soil by Chen Ming.

These packaged soils can no longer be easily transformed into his soil, so even if he absorbs the Spiritual Awakening Nerves now, the Spiritual Awakening Nerves cannot help him break through his current limits.

Of course, this is not the key point. The key point is that the roller master, that is, the Scarlet Dimension, taught Chen Ming not only how to compact the soil, but also taught Chen Ming more.

Chen Ming's mental strength has long exceeded the normal limit.

His earth pit had long been filled up, even overflowing a lot from the surface, but he just couldn't find the place to go to the next pit to fill.

It stands to reason that there is no problem with quantitative change leading to qualitative change, because Chen Ming had been making progress by relying on the pure growth of his mental strength.

But things are very different now.

Chen Ming felt that what he needed now was not the quantity or quality of mental power.

His quantity has exceeded the level that can undergo qualitative change, and the quality has become strong enough after being pressed by the steamroller.

But he didn't break through that limit, and he still missed an opportunity.

Therefore, although absorbing the spiritual awakening nerves is still useful to a certain extent, it is of little significance at least for now.

Just put the spiritual awakening nerve aside for now.

He Gu saw Chen Ming put the Qiling Nerve back into the suitcase and confirmed, "How is the stuff?"

Chen Ming responded: "Very good, I have everything ready."

The most important thing in this transaction between him and He Gu was these two spiritual awakening nerves, and the remaining testing equipment and three thousand contribution points were just extras.

As long as we get the main things, Chen Ming must also pay for the goods.

Chen Ming's spiritual power was activated, clearing out an area in the reception room.

He waved his hand and transformed the metal liquid that appeared from the void into a whole piece of psychic metal material.

It is square and its volume is less than one meter.

The moment this piece of psychic metal fell to the ground, the whole room felt as if it was sinking slightly.

"oh!"

He Gu usually looks like a very steady person, but after seeing such a large piece of psychic metal, he could hardly suppress his emotions.

He fiddled with the psychic metal as if he had seen some treasure.

After stroking this precious gem for a while, He Gu turned to Chen Ming and asked, "Is this Baiyun steel?"

"yes."

Such a large piece of psychic metal was all made by Yan Xiong.

And because of the way Yan Xiong realizes his own psychic power, the physical properties of the psychic metal he produces will be the same as the properties of the metal he absorbs.

Therefore, Chen Ming usually would not give Yan Xiong ordinary steel. Ordinary psychic metals and psychic metals made of high-grade or special materials are on different levels.

So what Chen Ming finally chose to give to Yan Xiong to absorb in large quantities was Baiyun Steel.

The reason why other metal materials were not chosen is very simple.

His Afterglow Fleet was about to begin its third jump on its journey to explore foreign countries.

During the exploration of the surrounding galaxies in the first two jumps, the Yuhui people found many places of certain value, such as mining sites for various basic, advanced and even special ores.

These places have been built into development bases under brilliant planning, where easily mined minerals are collected and then transported to the fleet in front thanks to the special nature of Chen Ming's psychic power.

Metal ores like Baiyun Steel, which are usually located in the mountainous areas of a planet and often have large veins exposed on the surface, are the best source of high-grade metals for Chen Ming.

Baiyun Steel's output will only increase, not decrease.

Even all other high-grade minerals combined might not be as much as the Baiyun Steel that Chen Ming has on hand.

No wonder the value of Baiyun Steel is so much lower than other high-grade metals.

This high-grade metal is too easy to mine, but difficult to use and make into cost-effective alloy materials.

That's why this situation happened.

Although a large part of these surface and shallow Baiyun steels mined from various planets will be used to expand Chen Ming's own mechanical clan.

But there is still a lot left, so there is no problem feeding it to Yan Xiong.

As for more advanced metals, although they are available, they can indeed be fed to Yan Xiong to make more advanced psychic metals.

But Chen Ming felt that after he sold this large piece of Baiyun Steel psychic metal to the Psychic Research Institute of the Fourteenth Legion, he could slow down a bit and wait for the right price.

He Gu stared at the large piece of Baiyun Steel spiritual metal for a long time and finally looked away reluctantly.

Chen Ming asked appropriately: "Do you need me to help you transport it out?"

"It's troublesome."

Chen Ming activated his psychic power again and transformed a whole piece of Baiyun Steel psychic alloy into liquid metal, which flowed out of the laboratory and was sent to the shuttle that carried He Gu to his dome.

After confirming that it was not overloaded, Chen Ming took photos of the shuttle and showed them to He Gu.

A few minutes later.

He Gu was quite satisfied with the way he adjusted the instrument for detecting the properties of psychic energy for Chen Ming and handed it to Chen Ming.

"Input mental energy into the instrument, record your spiritual energy fluctuations, inject a small amount of blood, and start the device. There should be results in five minutes."

"The device is not connected to the internet. The chip inside has recorded all the psionic properties recorded in the Imperial database so far for retrieval."

"Once activated you will be able to see the nature of your psychic powers. The results should come out quickly."

"Then I'll step aside for now."

He Gu stood up and prepared to leave the reception room temporarily.

But before leaving the reception room, he suddenly turned around, pointed at the instrument in Chen Ming's hand and said, "You can press the buttons next to it in order to destroy the data recorded inside, or simply destroy it physically."

Chen Ming nodded.

After He Gu left, he pressed the start button on the instrument.

Another wave of psychic energy immediately flowed out from the instrument, and wrapped around Chen Ming along with the mental power and psychic energy left behind.

Only two or three lines of text appeared on the instrument's display screen.

The first line is the psychic properties that match Chen Ming's compatibility.

The following lines are the locations of materials or equipment with such properties that the instrument searched for in the database of this instrument chip based on the psychic properties that matched Chen Ming.

Simply put, it is a database that tells users where suitable psychic materials are recorded and available.

Chen Ming was just about to take a closer look.

But in the next moment, the text on the display screen changed and became a new psychic nature.

Before Chen Ming could react, he saw that the display screen changed again.

And it continues.

The results shown on the screen kept changing, with each result appearing for no more than half a second, as if it couldn't be stopped at all.

Is it because he hasn't found a psychic nature that matches him? That's not right...

Chen Ming waited for another two minutes in confusion, but the situation did not change.

The content on the display screen was still changing, and did not provide Chen Ming with a reasonable result at all.

Chen Ming had no choice but to open the door of the reception room.

He Gu, who was looking down at the terminal, immediately turned around and asked, "Is it done?"

"without."

He Gu's question was just for show. He really didn't expect Chen Ming couldn't do it well.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ming handed the instrument back and said, "Take a look."

He Gu took it and frowned as he looked at the words jumping on it.

Chen Ming asked: "Is it because the instrument has not found a spiritual energy property that is compatible with me?"

"Probably not."

He Gu denied Chen Ming's idea and said, "Because when the database was not perfect before, there were still many undiscovered suitable psychic properties when detecting psychic properties.

"So when this happens, there will be a prompt, and generally multiple similar properties will be displayed together to facilitate comparison and speculation."

"Even if there is nothing like this, it shouldn't be jumping around like this. In this case... could it be that the equipment is broken?"

“…”

In the silence, Chen Ming suddenly had a feeling that the instrument was not broken, but that the problem was with him.

It should be just as he had guessed before.

How could he, as a psychic entity and a chaotic being, possess an adaptive psychic nature?

And if you think about it carefully, since there are one or several psychic materials with good compatibility for psychics, it is also normal to have psychic materials with poor compatibility.

But Chen Ming has come into contact with so many psychic-related things of different natures, and it seems that there is really no one that has an obvious incompatibility with him.

This seems to explain the problem to a certain extent.

Although Chen Ming also suspected that it might be a problem with the prosthesis.

But the mental power stored in the device is his, the psychic energy fluctuations are his, and the blood is exactly the same as his, not to mention the genes.

So he ruled out the possibility that the prosthesis was the cause of the instrument problem.

In this case, Chen Ming felt that he could just use the one with the stronger spiritual energy fluctuation, without having to consider issues such as compatibility.

If you really want to find a suitable compatibility, maybe you can find it in the Scarlet Dimension.

Of course, this is just Chen Ming's guess. His use of the scarlet dimension is to close his senses and transmit other things.

He can only enter the Scarlet Dimension for half a second while retaining his own consciousness. Whatever he wants to do in the Scarlet Dimension is definitely not something he can do now.

Just think about it.

In Chen Ming's silence.

He Gu reached out and used the universal recovery method for electronic devices on the instrument, which was to tap it a few times.

But this method obviously didn't work, and the instrument's display screen kept jumping between various results.

"The instrument may be broken."

He Gu said, "I took it out from the warehouse. Those instruments and equipment may have been produced for several years and may have been damaged. I will notify you to go back and prepare another one for you, and have someone prepare a compensation for the damaged equipment."

"Compensation? The kind that pays ten times the price for fakes?"

"Ha ha……"

He Gu laughed awkwardly and said, "I don't think so, but I can give it to you."

Although he knew that the problem might not be with the instrument, Chen Ming was reluctant to tell the truth, so he silently accepted the benefit.

Three thousand contribution points had already been credited to the account before. Although there were some minor incidents in this transaction, the main part of the transaction has been completed.

It doesn’t matter even if no results are obtained later.

Anyway, he already had the answer in his heart.

The two did not dwell on the instrument for too long. After He Gu handed the instrument to Chen Ming and Chen Ming turned it into a piece of scrap metal in front of He Gu, the two ended the formal topic and talked about their own things.

Although He Gu and Chen Ming have not known each other for very long, they have not met very often.

But both of them are researchers in a certain technical field and have many common topics in research.

There will always be something to talk about.

After a few small talk.

He Gu suddenly asked Chen Ming: "Do you have any plans next?"

"Planning?"

Of course Chen Ming has a plan.

After the matter in Caimo Star Domain was concluded, he needed to quickly familiarize himself with the effect of his psychic powers being strengthened by the power of the Scarlet Dimension, thoroughly digest the unique "knowledge", and enhance his abilities.

He had never felt any sense of crisis before, but ever since he learned about the level classification of psychics and he was still at level 5, this sense of crisis arose.

Especially after An Wuping tried to launch a sneak attack on Hu Yi.

After discovering the psychic gap between level 5 psychics and level 6 psychics.

It is impossible for Chen Ming's mentality not to change slightly.

Although sneak attacks can make up for the gap between psychics to a certain extent, and even give Chen Ming a certain chance to kill Hu Yi, he cannot always have the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

He didn't want someone to come and cause trouble for him one day and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

It was impossible for him to completely get rid of the empire.

So if he doesn't make some preparations, this day will come sooner or later.

He needs to digest the power obtained from the Scarlet Dimension as quickly as possible, improve himself, and prepare for the next contact with the Scarlet Dimension.

Anyway, Master Steamroller... The Scarlet Dimension has left him a name tag, and the closed crack in his consciousness space is the key to the Scarlet Dimension.

Since he can't hide or avoid it, he'd better take the initiative to contact it.

At least this way he is doing things on his own initiative rather than being forced to do them.

Prepared action is always better than unprepared and hasty response.

What's more, contact with the Scarlet Dimension is not without benefits. Everything in the Scarlet Dimension is made up of "knowledge". The longer he can stay in the Scarlet Dimension, the more power he can gain.

Moreover, he had been stuck at the limit of controlling nine cruisers at the same time for a long time.

It is extremely important to continue to break through.

Chen Ming could feel that when he broke through to the point where he could control ten cruisers at the same time, that would be the moment when his psychic power would make another huge progress.

Even if he couldn't make further breakthroughs, he had to at least be able to recall the entire Afterglow Fleet at any time.

In this way, he will be able to get a share of the spoils in the war between the mechanical race.

And in the process of digesting "knowledge" and becoming stronger.

What Chen Ming has to do in the 14th Legion's fake body is to continue studying the various special devices provided by the legion.

The research progress of the catalytic core was slower than he had expected, but the gains from the catalytic core and the value of the catalytic core itself were also greater than he had imagined.

Besides research, I have to continue attending classes.

His psychic powers have been improving and his thinking speed has been increasing.

His learning efficiency is also getting higher and higher.

His current learning speed has undergone a drastic change compared to the speed when he first started learning with Baiquan.

Even Cheng Xinghai mentioned this when he was teaching Chen Ming, saying that Chen Ming needed to increase his learning workload every day.

Chen Ming didn't mind. After all, this knowledge of military command could help him gain an advantage in the war.

In addition, Chen Ming estimated that there would be another reconnaissance mission in the near future, which would allow Chen Ming to personally control the spacecraft and get close contact with the mechanical race.

Baiquan should not go back on his word as he promised before.

And Chen Ming's other prosthesis is An Wuping.

You have to cooperate with the president first, and then you can go to Odan after the president is done.

The Odan star field is closer to Galok than Beniu, and it is even less likely to be separated from the next mechanical war.

Chen Ming needs to let An Wuping integrate into Odan as soon as possible, get familiar with Odan as soon as possible, and find a suitable excuse for An Wuping to participate in the war of the mechanical clan; as I said before, An Wuping can help Chen Ming do many things that he is not easy to do personally.

As for the main body...

Planning for development is still planning for development, learning about spacecraft is still learning about spacecraft.

His current study of cruisers is almost coming to an end.

If Chen Ming is given another month or so, he will be able to thoroughly master the basic knowledge about cruiser design and modification.

At that time, you can choose whether to follow Chaofan to further learn more advanced battleship technology or to conduct horizontal research on cruiser technology.

In addition to these, there are two important things on the main body side.

One was that he planned to take the two Qi Ling Nerves he had just obtained, as well as the Qi Ling Nerve Extractor stored by Yu Hui, and secretly take the Qi Ling Nerve cultivation technology from Yu Hui to conduct Qi Ling Nerve extraction experiments.

Another thing is that the queen insect has to start migrating.

The mechanical race that had been on the same planet as the Queen of Insects had been taken away by Chen Ming, and they had found a new planet to station on that was farther away from the empire and closer to the afterglow.

But the migration of the queen insect is very troublesome.

Because the Queen of Worms has turned almost the entire planet into a hive.

Of course, it only appears that way. In fact, except for the place where the Queen Worm built her nest at the beginning, only a part close to the surface has become a worm nest. The entire planet is not hollowed out.

But it is also outrageous enough. Such a large number makes it difficult for the Zerg to migrate and avoid the Empire's troops that are waging war against the Mechanoids.

That's why Chen Ming fed the Queen of Zerg a Defender some time ago.

I want the Queen of Insects to evolve into a cruiser-class biological battleship.

And now the Queen's evolution is nearing its end.

It's almost there.

Now the only key thing left is the jump engine.

Although Chen Ming had said to Niu Xin before that the Queen had already figured out the jump engine

But in fact, the jump ability he used was the hyperspace channel jump that he developed himself.

Only after the Queen of Insects is dealt with can the real biomass jump engine be applied to An Wuping.

Only then will An Wuping's own abilities be greatly improved.

To be honest, An Wuping's fake body is very strong.

This even made Chen Ming think of making similar changes to himself.

Of course it's still in the conceptual stage.

An Wuping was able to do this because the Queen of Insects could create a bunch of prostheses similar to Chen Ming for experiments.

He must be careful about doing this to himself.

He has to operate on three fronts, which is a bit of a headache just thinking about it.

But it’s not a big problem. Problems are meant to be solved. This is not the first or second time he has had a headache. Every time, he solved the problem.

(End of this chapter)