In the pitch-black environment, only a hand gleaming with metallic luster could be barely seen.

The voice of the survivor named Nano, who was in charge of communicating with Chen Ming before, rang out in the darkness: "The city planet has disappeared."

After he finished speaking, the voices of other survivors immediately rang out in the darkness: "Where did you go?"

"The galaxy in the wormhole."

The survivors fell into a long silence after receiving this result.

Maybe it's because of pity, maybe it's because of worry, or maybe it's because of fear.

After a long period of silence, Nano spoke again: "That super-body is the result of a project that was not completed before. Now it has been completed and has fallen into Chen Ming's hands."

"Without this technology, it is impossible for humans to overcome the technical problems at the core of the time stream."

"It's the mechanical race."

No one responded to what he said, and it seemed that all the survivors agreed with his point of view.

Nano was not affected by the silence of the space station. He continued to talk about his thoughts: "The appearance of super bodies means that the mechanical race has discovered the human empire."

"The purpose of Superbody's coming here this time must be to conduct a preliminary investigation of the human empire and confirm the capabilities of humans. It may also be for testing purposes."

"The mechanical race will attack the human empire soon. As a member of the empire, Chen Ming will not sit idly by. That will be a great opportunity for us to attack his galaxy."

In the darkness, different opinions were heard from other survivors: "Why should we take the initiative to attack Chen Ming?"

"Because this way we can take back the wormhole in advance and return to our world."

The survivor who asked the question disagreed with Nano's idea and said, "There is no need for us to have a direct conflict with Chen Ming, this threat, at this time."

"That time is approaching. We just need to wait for the Queen to come again. Before that, we need to hide ourselves and cut off all clues related to us."

"We've already done it." Nano gave in and said, "As early as the fall of Ideal City, we had already completely cleared all evidence related to us in the database. The technology above..."

"Unless Chen Ming has the ability to go back in time, he will not be able to find the information that has been erased. The most he can do is suspect us."

"but."

Nano changed the subject and said, "For him, suspicion is enough. As long as he has suspicion about us, he will treat us as his prey, just like those Leviathans."

Another survivor's voice was heard on the space station: "Suspicion won't give him clues out of thin air to find us."

Nano retorted, "He had already found us, but we left quickly enough."

"Who would have thought he would have a super ship?"

Nano retorted again, "Now that I think of it."

"From our subsequent investigation, every star system that this super body passed through was a star system where Leviathan existed. It did not find us directly, but found us here in the end through some clues."

Another survivor asked Nano: "Where did he find the clues?"

"I don't know. He just found us like that. We thought we had done enough and eliminated all possible clues, but he still found us."

"Chen Ming will definitely be the biggest threat to us. Not only his behavior, but also his psychic power will have extremely fatal consequences for our goals."

Some survivors still don't understand Nano's radicalism: "But his psychic power has certain limits, otherwise he should have cleared all the abandoned nanorobots in Ideal City in space. He is not that threatening to us."

"No matter how small a threat is, it's still a threat. Can you say that Chen Ming is a small threat to us?"

"Even if we don't look for him, he will definitely come to find us, and we must return to that galaxy in the future."

"He took the city planet away and left his detector behind. We will definitely be discovered by him once we return."

Just as Nano finished speaking, a survivor continued, "But it is enough for us to come back on that day. Before that, what we should do is to avoid contact and conflict with him."

"I didn't suggest contacting him at the beginning. Are you going to continue to put us in danger now?"

Although the survivor's words were very serious, as if he was going to have a big fight with Nano.

But everyone present spoke in a very calm tone.

It looked like this was not an argument, but a discussion between the two parties to decide their respective future directions.

Even when refuting Nami, his tone remained calm: "Even if we don't want to conflict with him, won't he come to conflict with us?"

"He has found all the Leviathan star systems. He will never let those Leviathans go. Don't forget his planet Gaia."

"He strung all the Leviathans he killed in the orbit of the planet Gaia like trophies for people to see and study."

"He definitely came to our system first because he found clues about us, but he certainly wouldn't miss those Leviathans."

"He will continue to come after us. What should we do then? Shake up and wait for him to strip us of all our weapons and finally come to us?"

The calm tone and intense content made the conversation among the survivors seem a little weird.

However, the survivors themselves do not see any problem with this.

Nano maintained this expression and said, "If we want to completely cut off Chen Ming's clues to tracking us, we must first cut off the relationship with Leviathan."

"Can we cut off these few weapons we have now?"

"Instead of wasting the Leviathans and waiting for Chen Ming to deal with them one by one, it is better to let the Leviathans play their role in the end."

"We all saw Chen Ming use his psychic power to move an entire planet, and he moved it over such a long distance."

"The specific amount of his mental energy consumption is definitely not low. We need to seize this opportunity."

The other survivors seemed to be convinced by Nano, but one of them said: "This will lead to a deal between us and the Human Empire..."

"There's no need to go on."

This time, Nano directly interrupted the other survivors' questions and said, "All the information given by humans is false, whether it is the human empire or that psychic."

"They treat us like fools, so there's no need for us to continue acting with them."

When the topic of other things was brought up, the survivors became excited again and said, "Even false information has its value."

"But there's really no need to continue this deal. Since the Mechanicals have already set their sights on the Human Empire, we can no longer provide them with new technology."

"It will take them longer to reverse engineer the technology on the city planet, not to mention that before we leave..."

A ray of fluorescence suddenly lit up in the dark space station.

A three-dimensional projected star map appeared at the core of the space station, next to the hand that was shining with metallic luster.

But this did not illuminate the surrounding environment, but made the surrounding darkness even darker under the highlight of this light.

Nano pointed his finger at the star map, and hundreds of light spots immediately lit up on the map.

"We don't have to just target Chen Ming. When facing a powerful individual, the correct approach is to attack his weak spots."

"And we are also in contact with another psyker from the Empire..."

One of the survivors asked: "We must deal with that psychic now as well."

"No, he has other uses. He can provide us with some information about Chen Ming."

"The intelligence could be false."

"Those related to the Empire may be false, but those related to Chen Ming we can trust."

"Because he has already proved that he was driven out by Chen Ming, I think he wouldn't mind sharing some information."

The discussion inside the Survivor Space Station ended and everything fell into complete silence.

Chen Ming also returned to the Gaia galaxy along with the now abandoned urban planet.

Before moving this urban planet, Chen Ming had already thought about the destination of this planet.

It is located next to the planet Gaia.

At present, the stars in the Gaia galaxy that were once parasitized by the star-eating body have now fully recovered.

The habitable zone that this star brings to the galaxy is very wide, and the sub-planet itself only occupies a small area, which is enough to accommodate several more planets here.

That is, when placing a planet, you need to pay attention to the fact that the gravity of the planet when it is close to intersection in orbit will have some impact on the planet's ocean tides.

But it's not a big problem.

Chen Ming is not going to place the city planet directly next to the Gaia planet. It will take a long time for the two planets to reach their closest distance in orbit.

This period of time is enough for Chen Ming to inform Gaia consciousness of the changes in the cosmic environment so that it can adjust to the changes in the ocean.

To be honest, Chen Ming really wants to go to other galaxies and move more planets to his two core galaxies.

But he estimated that he would not have this opportunity in the future.

Only the urban planet he just brought, which is almost completely surrounded by various mechanized buildings, could be brought here under the influence of his psychic power.

Chen Ming didn't worry too much about the future.

After the planet successfully arrived at the Gaia galaxy and successfully entered the orbit of the Gaia galaxy's stars.

Chen Ming immediately contacted the Minister of Psychic Powers.

The call was quickly connected, and Chen Ming said to him without any nonsense: "I need help."

Although Chen Ming is on the super body, the super body has not activated the time flow core at this time, so there will be no problem in communication between Chen Ming and the Minister of Psyker.

The Psychic Minister failed to follow Chen Ming's thoughts and asked, "What are you doing?"

"You'll find out when you come over."

The Minister of Psychic Power immediately sped up to finish processing a document in his hand, turned off the computer in front of him and said, "I'm free now."

The words fell.

The terminal that Chen Ming gave him, which he placed aside, was then overflowed with metallic liquid, which enveloped him.

The liquid metal quickly dispersed and flowed back into the terminal.

The psychic minister, who was wrapped in metallic liquid, appeared beside Chen Ming.

The Psychic Minister straightened his clothes as if he was used to it, looked at Chen Ming and asked, "Why do you seem to be in a bad state? And where are we?"

"On the super-body of the mechanical race that I dealt with earlier. As for why I am not in good condition, you can see outside."

Chen Ming stretched out his finger and knocked on the porthole.

Both of them were now in the attachment compartment of the super body.

Although this additional cargo compartment is dangerous, the surrounding visibility is extremely good.

The Minister of Psionics just stared and scanned the galaxy. He couldn't see any problems at first glance.

But just when he was wondering, his eyes suddenly fell on the planet next to Gaia.

After the Minister clearly sensed the existence of the planet, his mouth opened unconsciously and he uttered a sound of shock and confusion: "Ah?"

Chen Ming smiled and said, "Remember what you asked me to do before?"

He immediately recalled the documents he had given to Chen Ming before, as well as the traces discovered by the archaeological team earlier.

"This is...a planet in that galaxy?"

"Yes, you should have seen it, right? There are so many heritages of brilliant civilizations on this planet that need human development."

"I'll just show you a few things and you'll understand."

Chen Ming controlled and entered the planetary atmosphere of the urban planet.

Start circling the entire planet.

Everywhere you look you can see the ruins of the city, in a state of disrepair.

But it is precisely because of the dilapidated state of the city that one can imagine the heyday of this planet before its decline.

The super body quickly circled the planet and finally hovered in front of the Governor's Palace where Chen Ming had arrived earlier.

Chen Ming jumped down directly with the Minister of Psychic Power and came to the metal tablet with words engraved on it.

Chen Ming pointed at the metal tablet and said, "This sentence is quite interesting. It may correspond to the reason why the Shining Civilization built this planet."

"But we are still unsure of what happened. We need to find some archaeologists and construction workers as soon as possible."

The Minister of Psychic Power nodded repeatedly.

In fact, the terminal in his hand has been making continuous sounds since a while ago and has never stopped.

Of course it's easy to agree, but it will definitely take time to find someone.

Chen Ming said nothing and took the minister into the Governor's Mansion.

There are more valuable things on this urban planet than just the ruins he had just shown the minister.

Of course, the truly valuable things are various technologies.

Chen Ming took the minister to the ship research and development department of the Governor's Office.

Although this is just the administrative office of the department, the real place where things are done should be somewhere else on the planet, or on other planets in the original galaxy of the urban planet, or even other information.

But this does not affect the fact that Chen Ming found all the technologies of a complete production line of hundreds of ships of the Shining Civilization when he was here before.

They were all sorted out by Chen Ming, one was saved, and the other remained here as it was.

The Minister of Psychic Power's eyes were shining when he saw the techniques Chen Ming displayed.

He agreed to whatever Chen Ming said.

After all, these technologies really gave the empire the possibility to break through technologies that would have taken decades or even hundreds of years to break through in a short period of time.

"But there is one thing you need to pay attention to."

Chen Ming suddenly rubbed a finished product of a micro-engine with his hands, pointed at it and said: "There is a problem with the design of the fuel transportation pipeline of this engine. It is not visible under normal circumstances, but once it has undergone several jumps and long-term operation, this problem will erupt."

"Starting the engines after the jump would likely set the entire ship's fuel storage tanks on fire."

"It's not just this engine, almost all technologies have this problem."

Except for some deleted technical records that Chen Ming repaired with his psychic powers, all other records found in devices that could be repaired through some ordinary technical means had such problems.

The Minister of Psychic Energy calmed down as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him, and asked, "Why?"

The technology of the Shining Civilization should not and could not have such a huge flaw.

"The survivors did it."

That makes sense.

Chen Ming continued to explain: "When I was there, I saw not only this planet but also their space station, but unfortunately I was unable to catch them."

"Since their space station is there, I don't believe that these technologies have not been modified by them."

“This is a long-standing trap for them.”

However, they seemed unaware that Chen Ming had the ability to optimize technology. If there was no Chen Ming or if Chen Ming had not studied them so carefully, these little tricks might have been missed.

With almost every technology having problems, if just one problem goes undetected it could have disastrous consequences for the empire.

"The technology that was traded before..."

"Those are fine."

Chen Ming did not make any significant changes to the technological achievements he had traded from the survivors using psychic power to optimize them.

It seems that the survivors really wanted to make a good deal at the beginning, but the Empire and Chen Ming did not.

Of course, this is not absolute. After all, some technologies exist at a purely theoretical level. Without substantial results, Chen Ming has no way to optimize them.

"Then I'll notify someone to recheck it later."

"Um."

Speaking of which, Chen Ming suddenly remembered that he had found some information about the survivors.

However, the information he found about the survivors was restored through psychic power.

If he didn't use psychic repair, he wouldn't be able to find any clues about the survivors here.

This made Chen Ming even more certain that there were definitely huge problems with what the survivors had done.

They don't look like the remnants of a shining civilization.

On the contrary, the people of the shining civilization on that urban planet...

etc.

Chen Ming suddenly realized something.

He still seemed to have not found any corpses of the main species of the Shining Civilization.

Even in such a place, the species of the shining civilization still did not reveal their appearance.

It was very strange, but Chen Ming had no way of thinking about it.

He continued to take the minister around the entire Governor's Palace and showed the Minister of Psychic Powers all the valuable information he had found before.

Although many things are not his expertise, they require him to coordinate with Chen Ming and then distribute various tasks within the empire.

After walking around for about an hour, the two returned to the Governor's Mansion.

Although Chen Ming poured a bucket of cold water on him halfway through, it still couldn't change his excitement at the moment.

Chen Ming was willing to take him around, which was obviously telling him that everything here would be shared.

The Minister of Psionic Energy suppressed his emotions and said to Chen Ming: "So what you mean is that after you discovered a galaxy without Leviathan, you found this planet, and then found that there were many high-value things on the planet, so you decided to move the planet back."

"right."

"Well... I won't comment on your behavior, but I like your style. Do you have any other findings?"

"Yes, I have recorded the way the space station disappeared when I arrived. Please help me see if anyone can analyze it. I suspect it is some kind of psychic effect."

"Okay, wait for me to come back..."

"etc."

Chen Ming suddenly interrupted the minister, lowered his head and took out the terminal.

His expression immediately turned cold.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ming put away the terminal and said, "Leviathan has started to move, heading towards me, and the total number is roughly the same as what was counted before."

"More than a hundred Leviathans coming together?"

The Minister of Psionics realized the seriousness of the problem.

Before, one Leviathan could easily destroy thousands of Zerg battleships in Chen Ming's hands, making it extremely troublesome to deal with.

Although this was caused by Chen Ming's forced exchange of battle damage, it was enough to show how powerful Leviathan was.

What's more, Leviathan's abilities are usually very complex and difficult to target.

It is hard to say whether even one of the Empire's legions can reliably kill a Leviathan.

And now there may be hundreds of Leviathans coming together, with the intention of flattening Chen Ming's side in one wave.

"How long will it take?"

Chen Ming is already wearing biological armor.

"Thirty-one have just set out, but the rest should have arrived."

"What?"

When Chen Ming was looking for the extra galaxy, he found the target in the 32nd galaxy.

In the thirty-one galaxies he had passed through before, he had discovered traces of Leviathan, and of course he had also left behind devices to monitor Leviathan.

So Chen Ming saw clearly that the Leviathans in these galaxies had just started to move.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find the problem.

The survivors have obviously been closely monitoring his actions, so since Leviathan is related to them, they will also monitor it, and of course they will know what Chen Ming left behind in those galaxies.

If the survivors were a little smarter, they would prioritize the Leviathans in those galaxies that Chen Ming had not visited.

Then, when these Leviathans have arrived or are about to arrive, let the Leviathans from other galaxies that Chen Ming has visited be dispatched to mislead Chen Ming.

There are at least seventy or eighty Leviathans. It seems that Chen Ming has really hit the sore spot of the survivors.

"Do you need help? You don't seem to be in good mental condition right now."

"Need not."

"I can handle it."

(End of this chapter)