Chapter 301 Transaction

Chen Ming completed the reception process that He Gu had arranged for him.

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 this time was not for official business, but more personal.

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

As soon as he entered the reception room.

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

"Come and see, this is what you want."

He opened the briefcase.

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

Through the shell made of a transparent material on the surface of the life-support tank, you can see that each of the two life-support tanks has a pure white artificial spiritual awakening nerve that is more than ten centimeters thick and as thick as a little finger.

In addition to the spiritual awakening nerve, there is also a square instrument in the briefcase. This should be the device that He Gu mentioned before to detect the spiritual properties of psychics.

This instrument can select appropriate psychic materials to make suitable weapons or other things according to the psychic properties of the psychic after the psychic has detected the results.

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

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

At the same time, he pointed to the side of the tank where a bunch of small words were written and said, "The instructions are here. If you want to take out the Qiling nerve temporarily, remember to put it back at the end. Leaving it outside will kill the Qiling nerve."

"In addition, this small tank is equipped with a filter device. Just replace it regularly with the universal nutrient solution that can be bought anywhere outside."

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

"I should also remember it at the branch. You can definitely get it if you think of a way. If you have any other problems, just call me when the time comes."

"Okay."

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

The Qiling nerve in the life-sustaining storage tank is the same as the Qiling nerve that Yu Hui wanted to use on him before. They are all thick and fat, with some nerve forks at the tip, looking like a big white worm.

However, the one He Gu gave him now is obviously more docile than the Qiling nerve that Yu Hui wanted to use on him before.

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

It must have been specially cultivated and was very fierce.

In other words, if Chen Ming wanted to use the spiritual awakening nerve given by He Gu to try to extract the spiritual awakening nerves of several psychics he captured, it should also be cultivated to a certain extent.

"Speaking of which, I remember that when I was with Yu Hui before, the equipment 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?"

"Green and black columnar things, like a medicine bottle, with a little bit of curvature, just the kind that can be held in the hand."

"Oh, I remember that kind of thing is left by that destroyed civilization. Our jar is a replica of the original."

"Is that so."

Chen Ming responded casually.

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

After a while.

He put the tank back into the box.

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

He planned to keep them for the two psychic captives he would have later.

Although he could completely absorb the two spiritual awakening nerves.

But he discovered a problem in his perception just now.

His mental power is currently at a special critical point.

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

Another reason is that after reaching the limit, his mental power came into contact with the scarlet dimension, which led to the refinement of his mental power. Absorbing other ordinary spiritual awakening nerves will instead cause his mental power state to decrease.

It's like his mental power growth is filling a big pit with soil.

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

Originally, filling the soil shovel by shovel, and tamping it shovel by shovel, was pretty good.

Chen Ming could occasionally get a large piece of soil that was already compacted and similar to the soil he used to fill the pit from other people and throw it directly into his own pit, which was to absorb the spiritual awakening nerve.

But at the same time when he came into contact with the scarlet dimension.

The scarlet dimension was like a steamroller that rolled over the pit he filled, pressing the pit that looked solid and filled by manpower down by dozens of centimeters.

The roller master left a business card, asking 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 roller.

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

These packed soils could no longer be easily transformed into his soil, so even if he absorbed the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve now, the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve could not help him break through his current limit.

Of course, this was not the key point. The key point was 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.

The amount of Chen Ming's mental power had long exceeded the normal limit.

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

In theory, there was no problem with quantitative change causing qualitative change, because Chen Ming had been improving by relying on pure mental power growth before.

But the situation is very different now.

Chen Ming felt that what he needed now was not the quantity of spiritual power, nor the quality of spiritual power.

His quantity had exceeded the level of qualitative change, and the quality had become strong enough after being rolled by the steamroller.

But he did not break through that limit, and he still lacked an opportunity.

So although absorbing the spiritual awakening nerves was still useful, it was not very meaningful at least for now.

Just put the spiritual awakening nerves aside for now.

He Gu saw Chen Ming put the spiritual awakening nerves back into the suitcase and confirmed: "How are the things?"

Chen Ming replied: "Very good, I have prepared the things here."

The main 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 all extras.

If the main thing was obtained, then Chen Ming would definitely have to pay for the delivery.

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

He waved his hand and transformed the metal liquid that appeared in the void into a whole piece of spiritual energy metal material.

It was square and the volume was less than one meter square.

The moment this piece of psychic metal landed, the whole room felt as if it sank a little.

"Oh!"

He Gu usually looked quite steady, but after seeing such a large piece of psychic metal, he couldn't suppress his emotions.

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

After stroking this treasure in his eyes 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's own psychic energy is realized, the physical properties of the psychic metal he absorbs are the properties of the metal he finally produces.

Therefore, Chen Ming usually doesn't give Yan Xiong ordinary steel. Ordinary psychic metal and high-grade or special-grade psychic metal are at different levels.

So Chen Ming finally chose Baiyun Steel for Yan Xiong to absorb in large quantities.

The reason why he didn't choose other metal materials is also very simple.

His Yuhui Fleet is about to start the third jump on the road of pioneering abroad.

In the exploration of the surrounding galaxies during the first two jumps, Yuhui and his team found many places of certain value, such as the mining sites of various basic, advanced and even special ores.

These places have built development bases under brilliant planning, collected the easy-to-mine minerals, and then continuously transported them to the fleet in front with the special nature of Chen Ming's spiritual power.

For example, Baiyun Steel, a metal ore that is usually located in the mountainous areas of a planet and often has large ore veins exposed on the surface, is the best source of advanced metals for Chen Ming.

The output of Baiyun Steel will only increase, not decrease.

Even all other advanced minerals combined may not be as much as the Baiyun Steel in Chen Ming's hands.

It is no wonder that the value of Baiyun Steel is so much worse than other advanced metals.

This advanced metal is too easy to mine, but difficult to use, and it is difficult to make alloy materials with suitable cost performance.

That is why this situation has led to this.

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

But there is still a lot left, which can be fed to Yan Xiong without any problem.

As for the higher-grade metal, although there is some, it can indeed be fed to Yan Xiong to make higher-grade psychic metal.

But Chen Ming felt that after he sold this large piece of Baiyun Steel Psychic Metal to the Psychic Research Institute of the 14th Legion, he could slow down a bit and wait for the price to rise.

After staring at the large piece of Baiyun Steel Psychic Metal for a long time, He Gu finally looked away reluctantly.

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

"Thank you."

Chen Ming activated his psychic energy 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 brought He Gu to his dome.

After confirming that there was no overload, Chen Ming took a photo of the shuttle and showed it to He Gu.

A few minutes later.

He Gu was quite satisfied with Chen Ming's debugging of the instrument for detecting psychic properties and handed it to Chen Ming.

"Input mental power into the instrument, record your psychic fluctuations, inject a small amount of blood, and there should be results after five minutes after starting the device."

"The device is not connected to the Internet, and the chip inside has recorded all the psychic properties recorded in the imperial database so far for retrieval."

"After starting, you can see your psychic properties, and the results should come out quickly."

"Then I will step aside for a while."

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

But before he walked out of 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 just physically destroy it."

Chen Ming nodded.

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

Another wave of psychic energy flowed out of the instrument immediately, and it entangled with Chen Ming's mental power and psychic energy waves.

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

The first line is the psychic nature that matches 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 nature that matches Chen Ming.

In short, it is a database that will tell the user where there are suitable psychic materials that are recorded and can be obtained.

Chen Ming just wanted to take a closer look.

But 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's still going on.

The results on the display kept changing, and each result lasted no more than half a second, as if it couldn't stop at all.

"This..."

Is it because he couldn't find the psychic nature that matches him? That's not right...

Chen Ming waited for another two minutes with doubts, but the situation did not change.

The content on the display was still changing, and it didn't 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?"

"No."

He Gu's question was just for fun, he really didn't expect Chen Ming to not do it well.

"What's wrong?"

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

He Gu took it and frowned at the words that kept jumping on it.

Chen Ming asked: "Is it because the instrument has not found a psychic property that matches me?"

"It shouldn't be."

He Gu denied Chen Ming's idea and said: "Because when the database was not perfect before, there were 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 for easy comparison and speculation."

"Even if there is no similar one, it shouldn't jump around like it is now. In this case... Is the equipment broken? ”

“…”

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

It should be as he had guessed before.

As a mentally rampaging entity, a chaotic existence, how could he have a compatible psychic nature?

And think about it carefully, since there are one or several psychic materials with good compatibility for psychics, it is 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 a clear poor compatibility with him.

This seems to explain the problem to a certain extent.

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

But the data stored in the device The mental power is his, the psychic fluctuations are his, the blood is exactly the same as his original body, not to mention the genes.

So he ruled out the possibility that the prosthesis caused the instrument to have problems.

In this case, Chen Ming felt that he could use the one with the strongest psychic fluctuations, and he didn't need to consider the issue of compatibility at all.

If he really wanted to find a suitable compatibility, he might 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.

On the premise of retaining his own consciousness, he can only enter the scarlet dimension for half a second. What 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 of electronic equipment on the instrument, which was to tap it a few times.

But this method obviously didn't work. The display screen of the instrument kept jumping between various results.

"It should be that the instrument is broken."

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

"Compensation? The kind of 10 times compensation for fakes?"

"Haha..."

He Gu laughed awkwardly and said: "There shouldn't be any, but I can give it to you."

Although he knew that it might not be a problem with the instrument, Chen Ming couldn't tell the truth, so he silently accepted the benefit.

Three thousand contribution points had been credited before. Although there was a little episode in this transaction, the main transaction had been completed.

It didn't matter if there was no result in the follow-up.

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 had not known each other for too long and had not met too many times.

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

There would always be something to talk about.

After a few words of casual chat.

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

"Plans?"

Of course Chen Ming had plans.

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

He had never felt a sense of crisis before, but since he knew the level division of psychics and he was still at level 5, this sense of crisis came up.

Especially after An Wuping tried to sneak attack Hu Yi.

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

Chen Ming's mentality could not help but change a little.

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

He doesn't want someone to come to him for trouble one day, and he can't do anything.

He can't completely get rid of the empire.

So if he doesn't make some preparations, he will face such a day sooner or later.

He must digest the power obtained from the scarlet dimension as soon as possible, improve himself, and prepare for the next contact with the scarlet dimension.

Anyway, Master Steamroller... The scarlet dimension has left him a nameplate, 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 taking the initiative to do things, instead of being forced to do things.

Prepared actions are always more appropriate than unprepared and hasty responses.

Moreover, contacting 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 get.

Moreover, he has 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 can feel that when he breaks through to the point where he can control ten cruisers at the same time, it is the moment when his psychic power will have another huge improvement.

Even if he cannot break through further, he must at least be able to recall the entire Yuhui Fleet that is active outside at any time.

In this way, he will have the ability to share a share in the war of the mechanical race.

In the process of digesting "knowledge" and becoming stronger.

What Chen Ming has to do in the fake body of the 14th Legion is to continue to study the various special devices given by the Legion.

The research progress of the catalytic core is slower than he expected before, but the gains from the catalytic core and the value of the catalytic core itself are more than he imagined before.

In addition to research, it is to continue to attend classes.

His psychic power has been improving, and his thinking speed has been increasing.

His learning efficiency is getting higher and higher.

His current learning speed has changed dramatically compared to the speed when he just started learning with Bai Quan.

Even Cheng Xinghai mentioned this when teaching Chen Ming, saying that he needed to increase Chen Ming's learning volume every day.

Chen Ming didn't mind, anyway, these military command knowledge could help him gain an advantage in the war.

In addition, Chen Ming estimated that there should be another reconnaissance mission in a while, allowing Chen Ming to personally control the spacecraft to get close to the mechanical race.

Bai Quan promised before, and he should not break his promise.

As for Chen Ming's other prosthesis, An Wuping.

He has to cooperate with the president first, and he can go to Odan after the president is done.

The Odan star field is closer to Garokobi Beinu, and it is even more impossible 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 mechanical war;

As I said before, An Wuping can help Chen Ming do a lot of things that he can't do personally.

As for the main body...

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

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

Give Chen Ming another month or so, and he will be able to thoroughly master the basic knowledge of cruiser design and modification.

At that time, whether to follow Chaofan to further learn the higher-level battleship technology or to study cruiser technology horizontally, it is all possible.

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

One is that he is going to take the two awakening nerves he just got, the awakening nerve extractor stored by Yuhui, and secretly take the awakening nerve cultivation technology from Yuhui to conduct the awakening nerve extraction experiment.

The other is that the Queen of Worms has to start migrating.

The mechanical race that was on the same planet with the Queen of Worms has been taken away by Chen Ming, and a new planet closer to Yuhui, which is farther away from the empire, has been found for stationing.

But the migration of the Queen of Worms is very troublesome.

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

Of course, it only looks like this. In fact, except for the place where the Queen of Worms first built her nest, only a part close to the surface has become a worm nest, not the entire planet has been hollowed out.

But it is also outrageous enough. Such a large number makes it difficult for the Zerg to migrate and avoid the troops of the Empire that wage war against the mechanical race.

Therefore, Chen Ming fed the Queen of Worms a defender some time ago.

He wants the Queen of Worms to evolve into a cruiser-class biological battleship.

And now the evolution of the Queen of Worms is nearing its end.

It is almost successful.

Now there is only one key thing left, the jump engine.

Although Chen Ming said to Niu Xin that the Queen of Worms 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 Worms has figured it out, the real biomass jump engine can be applied to An Wuping.

An Wuping's own ability will be greatly improved.

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

It even made Chen Ming have some ideas to make similar changes to himself.

Of course, it is still in the conceptual stage.

An Wuping can do this because the Queen of Worms can create a bunch of fake bodies similar to Chen Ming for experiments.

He must be cautious when doing this on himself.

He has to operate on three lines, which is a bit of a headache.

But it's not a big problem. Problems are meant to be solved. He has had headaches more than once or twice, and which time was it not solved by him?