The trouble in the border star region was quickly resolved, but the damage already done could not be recovered.

I took a look at the tragic situation in the galaxy from within the super body.

Chen Ming retracted his gaze, activated his psychic power, and disappeared into the galaxy.

soon.

Chen Ming returned to the capital of the empire.

The Minister of Psychic Powers, who seemed to have just had an argument with someone, was found in the capital's government building.

Just thinking about the content of the quarrel, you can tell it must be related to the mechanical race.

Chen Ming didn't care who the Minister of Psychic Power was arguing with. Anyway, there would be a result in the end as long as he didn't want to die.

After being taken to a reception room by the Minister of Psychic Powers.

Chen Ming was the first to speak: "The entire fleet has been dealt with. I will leave the scattered mechanical races to the Zerg fleet to deal with. I have already obtained their Colossus, and they can be directly towed to my side when the time comes."

"I have seen the design blueprint of the Colossus Assembly Plant before. Don't waste your time building it yourself. I will directly mount it on my giant dock when the time comes."

"A lot of people have to be sent to deal with the star field behind. There may be only a few hundred thousand people alive in the entire star field on the planet where my men went."

Those bodies can't just be piled there, someone has to collect them.

"In fact, there are some people who are lucky. They were on the spaceship when the mechanical tribe invaded. If they run fast, they can still survive, but..."

As he spoke, the minister shook his head. The number of people who could survive was definitely less than the number of people who survived in the shelter.

"I understand. Someone will take care of it when the time comes."

Chen Ming nodded slightly: "Well, so what is the situation in the empire?"

"We have asked all the edge star regions to conduct self-inspections. So far, we have only found this mechanical invasion force. Everything else is normal."

"Then this is just another test."

"Yes, but it will definitely not happen next time. The Empire has already begun to shift into a state of complete combat readiness, preparing for a total war."

"Don't just talk, have you discussed any way to deal with the mechanical race? How to deal with that one super-body?"

The Psychic Minister did not respond directly, but said: "I just talked to your president, he said that Scarlet seems to be no longer a problem now?"

"Yes, I can suppress Scarlet now."

The Minister of Psychic Powers recalled how Chen Ming had scarlet power wrapped all over his body and was driving his super body around like nothing had happened, and even the super body was stained with blood. He didn't think there was anything wrong with what Chen Ming said.

He nodded and continued what he had just said: "The president can help us send the psychic to the vicinity of the invading super-body."

"Then, the super-body data model you left behind has been made public in the database, and all the data is clearly written."

"The vast majority of psychics in the empire have statistics on their physical qualities, including nerve reaction speed, body muscle strength, and specific measurements of the intensity of psychic effects when using psychic powers."

"By comparing them, we can know how many people in the Empire can withstand the super-bodies and pose a threat to them."

"Wait a moment."

Chen Ming suddenly interrupted the minister, took out the terminal and retrieved the data of the super body.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ming did not reply, but silently adjusted the specific values ​​of the data on the terminal in front of him.

Soon, Chen Ming reflected the difference between the prototype and the official version of Hyperion in the data on the terminal and handed the terminal to the minister.

"Let's see how many people can keep an eye on the super body."

The minister immediately lowered his head to study the official version of the data of the super body. His expression changed quickly and he asked: "This is..."

"I said before that the super body I was controlling was just a prototype, right?"

"Right... Then according to this data, the Empire can handle no more than five super-sized psychics. If we count those who take various drugs to temporarily enhance their psychic powers, there may be about ten of them, which is still manageable."

"I hope so."

The data on paper is always just data on paper. Whether or not one can defeat a super body depends only on the psychic's own strength.

There may be some psychics on the minister's list who cannot defeat the super body, but there may also be people who are not on the list who have the means to target the super body.

Chen Ming did not say any more about the issue of super bodies.

"What about the rest? When the mechanical tribe comes, there won't be only super bodies."

The Minister of Psionics responded in a prepared manner: "Everything else is fine. As for the fleet, we can only have a few powerful legions on standby in various places. The entire empire's army needs to be equipped with better equipment."

"The Empire has already begun to shift the productivity of its directly-affiliated industrial planets to the military. As long as the technology is in place, everything will be easy to deal with."

Chen Ming understood what the minister meant and brought Nano over.

He now represents all the technology of the Shining Civilization.

"You know what this is. When the time comes, I will build you a device that can directly read the data of the nanorobot and extract all the data in its brain."

The nano controlled by Chen Ming did not lose its self-awareness, so when it heard this, it immediately said: "I can release the data myself, just give me a storage terminal."

Chen Ming stretched out his hand and gestured in the direction of the minister: "Then I'll leave it to you."

As long as all the technologies of the Shining Civilization can be developed, the entire empire will soon be able to usher in a major wave of technological updates.

"But is there enough time?"

"have no idea."

Facing Chen Ming's question, the minister did not give a definite answer: "It depends on when the next wave of mechanical invasion will come."

"If we can give them a month, at least the troops on the front lines can get the latest weapons and equipment."

“I can’t really guarantee anything else.”

"That's it, then. When the finished technology is ready, give me a copy and I'll optimize it. Then you can draw the blueprint based on the finished product and use what I've optimized."

"Okay, thank you very much."

"Um."

Chen Ming said no more and stood up to leave.

But before he left the reception room, he suddenly turned around and asked, "How can we win this war?"

Some time ago, Chen Ming got a map of the universe.

The star field occupied by countless mechanical races brought irrepressible shock and fear to everyone.

"It's too early to say whether we will win... The Empire doesn't even have the ability to go out."

"The Empire must at least survive the formal attack of the Mechanical Race. Only by surviving can we discuss the following issues."

Chen Ming was not satisfied with the result.

But that's the reality.

Although many methods and strategies against the mechanical race have been mentioned, it seems that having the technology of the Shining Civilization will definitely allow us to defeat the mechanical race.

But in fact, the Empire is now completely unqualified to challenge the Mechanical Race that has been in the universe for tens of thousands of years, and it must try its best even to survive.

Only Chen Ming can ignore the strength of the mechanical race and essentially crush them.

After leaving the imperial capital.

Chen Ming thought about the super body for a long time.

In the final analysis, there are only three troubles that the empire is facing at present.

The invasion of the mechanical race, the hidden queen of the survivors, and the brainwashed psychics who are still not completely dead.

They are all stumbling blocks on the empire's path forward.

It would be absolutely no good for him if the empire collapsed and never recovered, or even died.

But the same thing applies to the war between the mechanical races. He can't help much. The only top combat force he has is himself and at most a super body that he controls remotely.

There is absolutely no way to effectively restrict the mechanical race, and we can only rely on the empire itself.

As for the queen of the survivors, they will have to wait until they come out on their own.

Or maybe Chen Ming's researchers have made some breakthroughs in their research on that special star gate.

It's not like he can speed it up just by worrying about it.

It is to use scarlet to restrict the invasion of the mechanical race in disguise.

Create a scarlet cradle for the empire.

But the trouble with brainwashed psychics would block his thoughts right at this moment.

If he is not dead yet, you never know when he will pop out again.

Whether it is for the sake of complete peace of mind in the future, or to really use the plan that Chen Ming named the Scarlet Cradle Project, it is best to find a way to find the brainwashed psychic in Scarlet and kill him.

But before that.

Chen Ming still found the Queen of Insects first.

Let the Queen Zerg follow the traces left by the Zerg fleets of the previous generation of the Queen Zerg in the galaxy and track them back.

Chen Ming simply left the rest of the matter to the Queen of Insects to handle and did not pay too much attention to it.

He simply spent a few days dragging the bodies of the more than one hundred Leviathans he had killed into the orbit of the planet Gaia.

Evenly distributed outside, and next to each Leviathan's corpse, different types of space stations for studying Leviathan were built.

Like a star ring trophy, it adorns the satellite-less planet Gaia.

Although the war has begun, we must do what needs to be done.

Even if the war starts, it won't affect him so quickly.

After all, he was isolated outside the empire, and no mechanical race knew the location of the wormhole.

Time flies by so quickly.

It came more than twenty days later.

Chen Ming has been trying to find a brainwashed psychic in the Scarlet Dimension but has never been successful.

The Crimson Dimension's chaotic concepts of space and time make the search for a brainwashed psychic even more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

But there is good news.

The mechanical race has not made any movement in the past period of time.

So Chen Ming had plenty of time to help test and optimize those technologies that would soon produce results and could be applied to future wars with the mechanical race.

These technologies have already begun to be deployed on the front lines.

Judging from the perspectives that Chen Ming left in various places across the empire, as well as the news sent back by the afterglow cores that he controlled and still managed some industries within the empire, the empire has indeed shifted the production of many consumer goods to military products.

At least in the border star regions, the regular and quantitative rationing of materials has begun to be implemented, and this situation is already spreading to the star regions within the empire.

It can be said that a lot of excess productivity is indeed being used where it should be used.

The empire has indeed already made its war preparations public.

At the same time, propaganda machines in all aspects of the empire were also being activated.

Reveal in full what the Mechanical Race did when they invaded twenty days ago.

Of course, this also includes the tragic massacres on planets caused by Colossus-class weapons.

Chen Ming even saw the images of the mechanical race's biological generators that he had previously recorded on the news.

This has effectively guided public opinion, and the entire empire is now plunged into grief and anger.

There was little objection to the Empire's march toward war.

As the saying goes, the army that mourns will win, but I don’t know if this principle is still useful in the space age.

The Empire has time to expand its armaments with the help of the Zerg's Shining Civilization technology and Chen Ming's optimized psychic powers, but this situation also makes many people extremely worried.

Everyone knows that this is the last calm before the storm.

Preparation is preparation.

No one knows when the mechanical race will launch a second attack and start a real war.

So Chen Ming continued to do what he was supposed to do day after day.

until……

Twenty-seven days after the Mechanical Clan’s last fleet exploration.

Chen Ming was still running back and forth between the giant dock and the neighboring planet Gaia as usual.

Now the volume of the giant dock has expanded compared to before, and the expanded area is home to the colossus that Chen Ming captured.

Many of the people who had married Fan Chao from the dozen or so project teams originally responsible for the Colossus-level research in the Empire have come to Chen Ming's side.

Strive to create the Empire's own Colossus-class weapons as quickly as possible.

It's just that no one expects it to be used so soon.

While Chen Ming was in the observation room next to the test field, chatting with the director of the Legion's Ship Research Institute about the design direction of the Empire's Colossus structure, he suddenly received a call from Tian Zhan.

Chen Ming first went to the planet Gaia and then to the giant dock.

Tian Zhan called at this time, it must be something important.

Chen Ming greeted the director and went outside to answer the phone.

"Director, there are signs of a Crimson invasion on an experimental planet I placed outside the Empire."

"All the Gaia plants over there died, and there was no time to suppress the scarlet."

Chen Ming's brows suddenly frowned.

He knew that Tian Zhan was doing some extreme experiments on planets outside the empire, trying to test the Gaia seeder's highest efficiency in transforming planets.

By the way, test whether some planets with special climates can be transformed stably.

Since the distance is too far and the experiment is dangerous, we only prepared the means to remotely control the equipment.

Unexpectedly, the experiment did not go wrong, but there was a problem with the planet of the experiment.

Chen Ming knew without even thinking that it must have been done by a brainwashed psychic.

Because whether it is the Empire or Scarlet, no one can influence Scarlet except him and Chen Ming himself.

Chen Ming had been looking for him in the scarlet, and he might have noticed something.

And what was his intention in exposing his position now? No one knew.

So Chen Ming had to go over and take a look.

After Chen Ming and Tian Zhan asked about the situation, they turned around and explained the situation to the ship's director.

The director of the ship institute shouldn't have said anything about Chen Ming's decision, but he couldn't help but say, "Your battleship will be shipped in one day. Didn't you say that this ship is very important to you? Wait one more day."

Chen Ming really wanted to wait.

But Tian Zhan also said on the phone that the scarlet was spreading wildly.

The brainwashed psychic was definitely up to something big, and it had to be dealt with immediately.

And if he handles it quickly, he might be able to finish the job before the spacecraft leaves the factory.

If it really doesn't work.

Chen Ming took out an empty Alpha core shell.

This was the second Alpha-level afterglow Chen Ming had ever seen, the core of G3.

Chen Ming has been studying how to revive the Afterglow Core. After all, there are many Alpha-class cores on the Afterglow side that were killed by the mechanical race. If he could find a way to revive those grown Afterglow Cores, it would be beneficial to Chen Ming.

So when he was researching, he started from the first dead afterglow core G3 he encountered.

The way the G3 core died was very special. After being infected by Scarlet, only its consciousness died. There were no problems with the internal operating logic and data, and some basic functions were still there.

For example, controlling a spaceship.

Chen Ming handed the G3 to the director and left the rest to the director.

He has to do what needs to be done.

(End of this chapter)