Chapter 324: Personality Core

Bai Quan said that someone questioned Chen Ming.

But Chen Ming's first reaction was not the question itself, but the reason that led to the question: "The news was spread so quickly?"

Logically speaking, the people who knew about this matter were the few people in the conference room just now, Qiu Bowen, Bai Quan and the other two lieutenant generals.

As a result, before the matter was even over, someone had already known the news and even began to question him.

This made Chen Ming a little at a loss for words for a moment.

Bai Quan also knew why Chen Ming asked this question, and explained: "Because the result of this matter is good, your fleet was attacked, and eventually a base of the mechanical race was destroyed, which is a good thing no matter how you look at it."

"If the result is not good, it won't be so fast."

Now Chen Ming heard the reason, it seems that the few people sitting in the conference room just now were all fueling the flames.

Indeed, this should be done.

Before the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race begins, actively announcing some examples of achievements in the war will greatly improve the overall morale.

Chen Ming can understand it, but he just didn't react at first.

After understanding the cause and effect of this incident, Chen Ming stopped worrying and asked Bai Quan: "What do those people who question me mean? Are they questioning me for being robbed on purpose? Being robbed by the mechanical tribe is not a good thing."

"But it's normal for someone to question. To be honest, if I were someone else and heard that I was robbed by the mechanical tribe, I wouldn't believe it."

Bai Quan smiled.

Many people know that Chen Ming's psychic power can control all machines, and the mechanical tribe is also included.

So this makes it seem outrageous that Chen Ming was robbed by the mechanical tribe, but this is the fact.

"Some people think that you did this to cheat the legion's support materials and funds."

"... Could it be someone from Qiu Bowen's side?"

Originally, Chen Ming thought that it was normal for someone to question, but when he heard Bai Quan say that other people questioned his point, Chen Ming subconsciously had this new idea.

Bai Quan said repeatedly: "Not really, not really. The People's Congress will not find someone to scold you just because you took something from him."

"In fact, some people in our faction also said so, but what they meant was that you actually learned to cheat funds so quickly, and they suspected that I led you astray."

"This..."

Chen Ming spread his hands, indicating that he had nothing to say.

Bai Quan suddenly moved closer to Chen Ming and whispered, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Chen Ming subconsciously wanted to answer no, but after careful consideration, he answered, "I don't know either."

After hearing this, Bai Quan returned to his normal sitting position: "Then I would rather believe that you really made a mistake."

"Although it may have been an accident at first, I feel that when you discovered the mechanical tribe's base, you planned to take advantage of the situation."

"Use this opportunity to seize the mechanical tribe's things, and at the same time get some extra benefits from the legion."

"It's not that it's not possible. It's good to cheat the funds occasionally. The legion can't use up the funds every year. Every year, it has to find ways to make the funds overspend."

"Why is that?"

"Because if the legion's funds are not used up, it will get less next year, so it's okay to cheat the funds occasionally."

"But you can tell me all the plans in advance."

"..."

Chen Ming was silent and nodded slowly.

He really wanted to ask: "I didn't know I had this idea, how did you know?"

But now he looked back, his subconscious actions seemed to be aimed at this purpose, there was nothing wrong.

Maybe after being attacked, his subconscious felt that he could get benefits in the base of the mechanical tribe and get support from the legion, so he did it.

He just agreed, no need to say more.

So Chen Ming thought about it and simply responded to Bai Quan's first sentence.

"Actually, this shouldn't be considered a mistake, because I have made all the subsequent preparations, but the mechanical race is more prepared than me."

"And the next time I continue to transport goods, I may still use only one cruiser,"

"Unless it is really the most important thing, I will directly use psychic energy to jump."

Bai Quan asked in confusion: "Is your mental power enough to support the jump?"

"Of course it is enough."

Chen Ming said: "But I can't rely on me to transport everything I have. I want to build a reasonable transportation network, not a transportation network that can only exist by me."

"Just like that batch of energy crystal crabs, even if it was attacked by the mechanical race once, it is still walking slowly on the road. I won't touch it with psychic energy."

Bai Quan didn't ask Chen Ming what to do if the fleet was attacked again. Chen Ming must have been prepared.

What he cares more about now is the hidden meaning of Chen Ming's words.

"You are still thinking about going outside."

Chen Ming did not deny Bai Quan and said: "You know the reason."

"..."

Bai Quan was speechless.

Because he knew that Chen Ming had really seen too many troubles in the empire.

Some of them were disgusting even for him when he came here most of the time, not to mention Chen Ming.

He couldn't possibly persuade him.

He could only hope that Chen Ming would have his own considerations and not abandon Cheng Xinghai.

"Then let's do this."

Bai Quan didn't say anything Chen Ming didn't like to hear, and simply left here.

Chen Ming also left the military base in a shuttle shortly afterwards.

What happened next here depends on other people's handling, and he just needs to wait for the inspection results.

He has to do some other things now.

For example, confirm the situation of the two captured mechanical cruisers.

After all the weapons were removed, the two captured mechanical cruisers were connected to the data line of the Yuhui core and controlled by Chen Ming.

After several rounds of jumps, they were sent back to Chen Ming's pioneering base.

One was the cruiser that had seized the goods before, and the other was protected by other cruisers. At this time, they were quietly suspended in the planetary orbit of Chen Ming's pioneering base, waiting for Chen Ming's inspection.

Since the purpose of Chen Ming's coming here this time was for the cruiser that seized his goods.

So now, he also directly focused on this cruiser.

This cruiser belonging to the mechanical race is somewhat different from the standard-level cruiser of the mechanical race. It has undergone some modifications and has an additional device for capturing objects drifting in the cosmic environment.

Inside this device, all the cargo holds that Chen Ming lost were lying intact.

The interiors of these cargo holds were also intact, and a large number of energy crystal crabs in a frozen hibernation state were also quietly placed in them, waiting for subsequent disposal.

It seems that there is no need to worry about the mechanical race obtaining energy crystal technology.

Even if they have discovered the special nature of energy crystals through scanning the cargo holds, they have no way to get the energy crystal crab species in a short time.

After all, the only remaining energy crystal crabs are either with Yu Hui or in Chen Ming's hands.

The ones in Chen Ming's hands were just lost.

The ones in Yu Hui's hands... As long as the mechanical race is not stupid, they will not fight with Yu Hui on the eve of the war with the empire.

The mechanical race in this star field cannot be compared with the empire in terms of war potential.

Two-line or even multi-line warfare will definitely kill them.

So Chen Ming should not have to worry about these problems in the short term.

As for how to deal with this batch of energy crystal crabs...

Chen Ming's Colossus was still on the way to the Empire.

He planned to use psychic energy to send it directly to the Colossus, and say that the spaceship behind it would catch up and stuff the stolen goods back.

No one saw it anyway.

Chen Ming thought so and did it immediately.

Several cargo holds containing frozen energy crystal crabs disappeared in front of Chen Ming in an instant.

They appeared in the empty space of the Colossus's cargo hold.

At this moment, thousands of creatures were transmitted through the scarlet dimension, which still made Chen Ming's mental power feel a certain pressure.

Fortunately, when Chen Ming just discovered that the creatures were in a frozen state, the need for consciousness protection was not great, so he would not exhaust his mental power after sending a batch.

After sending the energy crystal crabs.

Chen Ming specially observed the capture device on the cruiser that robbed the energy crystal crabs.

It's not about the structure of this thing, but about the time when this thing was installed.

By comparing this device with other devices on these mechanical cruisers that are prone to wear and tear and can show specific wear conditions.

Chen Ming can be sure that this device must have been modified later.

And the modification time is very recent, just within a month.

This cannot be a modification used by the mechanical family to salvage space junk.

After all, using a combat cruiser for salvage is as outrageous as using an anti-tank rocket launcher with a front bayonet to spear fish in the water.

So Chen Ming always believed that this must be something that the mechanical family prepared in advance to target him.

But he still didn't know how the mechanical family determined the location of his warship and how they found his fleet.

Is it just relying on that stronghold?

And why is this stronghold so far away from the mechanical family's star field?

The last time the mechanical family expanded outward, it was only less than half a star field in common sense. This time it actually extended a star field directly outward?

This strange sign made Chen Ming have to suspect that the mechanical family had other actions, and was this action aimed at him?

Chen Ming's fleet was exploring, and occasionally he could find scattered mechanical tribes on some planets.

Chen Ming had no way of confirming whether these mechanical tribes were in contact with the mechanical tribes in the mechanical tribe star field.

Whether he had transmitted the situation of his fleet's exploration to the mechanical tribes in the mechanical tribe star field.

If he couldn't confirm, it meant that he couldn't deny it, and things that couldn't be completely denied had the possibility of happening.

Therefore, Chen Ming suspected that the mechanical tribe had discovered his fleet, and then was ready to find an opportunity to kill the fleet, and even wanted to kill Chen Ming himself in the fleet.

After all, they were not Yuhui, and they would not have greedy thoughts and want to use the Qiling Nerve Extractor to extract his Qiling Nerve.

For the mechanical tribe, anything that hindered their existence would inevitably be completely eliminated.

Combined with the various preparations made by the mechanical tribe this time.

Chen Ming felt that there was a great possibility that the mechanical tribe was planning an action against him.

As for the reason.

Chen Ming had just talked to Bai Quan about the issue of morale.

Before the war began, it was good for the morale of the soldiers to have achieved results in the battlefield behind enemy lines.

Although the mechanical race has extreme hatred for humans, they are not completely ignorant of humans. They also understand the significance of human morale.

So they also know that if a fleet belonging to humans is wiped out by the mechanical race before the war begins, what kind of negative impact will it bring to humans.

Although only a few people know about Chen Ming's fleet, even if it is wiped out, only a few people know.

But from the perspective of the mechanical race, Chen Ming is a psychic candidate who has received the order of the empire to expand abroad.

If such a person is lost, it will definitely be a heavy blow to the empire, so their actions are logical.

This can completely explain why the mechanical race did this.

This should not be considered as Chen Ming's self-indulgent feelings. After all, the mechanical race does know that Chen Ming exists.

But this statement is also problematic.

Because even if Chen Ming captured a cruiser and turned out a complete database, he could not completely determine whether this situation would happen.

There is no way to be sure, which means that this matter may really be just Chen Ming's random guess and will not happen at all.

Chen Ming can only gamble now.

When gambling, Chen Ming will only bet on one result, that is, he loses.

So Chen Ming must consider whether to temporarily give up the close-range regional development and exploration, and directly let the fleet go to the next jump location.

But there is no rush to come up with a result for this moment.

The plan of the mechanical race has just been frustrated, and the phase behemoth has set its butt on fire.

Before the fire is put out, the mechanical race will not risk being infiltrated by the empire to find Chen Ming.

He still has time.

So now, Chen Ming removed the useless capture device from this mechanical cruiser and stuffed it into his cruiser inventory.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming actually has three mechanical cruisers on hand, four including this one.

The interior of the mechanical cruiser has a core chip exclusive to the mechanical ship, which has a similar effect to the afterglow core but worse.

Chen Ming does not need to consume the upper limit of the ships he can control to control these cruisers.

It’s just that when facing the mechanical race, Chen Ming doesn’t want to take out the mechanical cruiser to fight the enemy.

After all, the other firepower is enough. If the mechanical cruiser is taken out, it may increase the threat level of the mechanical clan.

Chen Ming does not want the mechanical clan to think about him day and night, so it is better to restrain himself a little.

Although he is not much better with these two hundred armor-piercing ships.

But it is not a big problem.

After Chen Ming threw a mechanical clan cruiser into his fleet reserve list.

He focused on another cruiser.

This is an ordinary mechanical clan standard combat model cruiser.

Like the previous one, basically all places are ordinary, only the most core, where the mechanical clan cruiser chip should be installed, there is one more thing.

A one-meter square, spherical as a whole, but in the six directions of up, down, left, right, front and back, the grid has a columnar extension of the mechanical creation.

The precision of this creation is completely different from the surrounding mechanical clan warships, and it can even be said that it is not in the same era.

Through psychic observation of the internal structure, its specialness can be seen with the naked eye.

This mechanical creation is called [Personality Core].

Chen Ming's psychic power instantly mastered the use of the personality core.

At the same time, he also understood why the fleet of the mechanical race took the risk of being killed by the phase beast to take it out of the planet and send it away.

Because it is the basis for the manufacture of the mechanical race's mothership.

It is the core of a mechanical race fleet.

The mechanical race mothership is a battleship-level spacecraft, and compared with the battleships of the Empire or Yuhui, the mothership is not a pure battleship, but a giant mechanical factory and war fortress.

It has more comprehensive capabilities, and where it appears is where the mechanical race takes root.

And the psychic fluctuations contained in it are telling Chen Ming that it is also the basis of the mechanical race's hive mind network.

The basis of the queen's hive mind network is pheromone.

Chen Ming's hive mind network is the connection between his own psychic power and the queen's mind, which is equivalent to using his psychic power and the scarlet dimension, which can cross space.

The application method of the mechanical race's hive mind network is currently unknown, but it can be blocked with silent alloy, indicating that it is also related to psychic power.

Now, the answer is in front of Chen Ming.

It can be said that the mechanical race has invested a lot of money.

The importance of this place is self-evident.

Chen Ming even feels that this place may have been newly built by the mechanical race after he killed the mechanical race's colony last time.

As a result, they finally developed the planet almost completely and were finally able to further explore other galaxies.

They encountered the phase behemoth and provoked Chen Ming at this time, causing Chen Ming to come over and knock out the personality core with a club.

It's a pity that Chen Ming's psychic power can only figure out how to use the personality core, but not its operating principle.

Even if Chen Ming uses his psychic power to observe in depth, he can't see the specific effect.

It can only see that there is a special structure made of psychic materials inside this thing.

Just like... other relics of the shining civilization.

But the psychic structure in the personality core is not as easy to figure out as the Purgatory Core.

In Chen Ming's opinion, the difference in complexity between them is like the difference between himself two years ago and himself now.

And there is a part inside this personality core that is really something that even Chen Ming now can't understand at all.

An extremely complex electronic device structure.

The electrical signals running inside it make Chen Ming dazzled when he observes it with psychic power, and he can't tell the meaning of each structure at all.

It's like a brain in front of Chen Ming. Chen Ming knows that he is using this kind of brain, but he can't understand the working principle of the brain.

No... This metaphor seems a bit inappropriate.

Because Chen Ming reacted that he didn't seem to need a brain now.

But the meaning is almost the same.

Inside the personality core, what is in front of Chen Ming is an extremely complex electronic brain.

Chen Ming can't do any in-depth research on it at all.

It doesn't belong to the same era as anything Chen Ming has come into contact with so far.

It's okay for Chen Ming to stay away from it now. He will always have time and ability to study it slowly in the future.

And it doesn't mean that it is useless if you don't study the personality core.

The function of the personality core itself is also quite valuable.

It can be used as the core of the mothership, and of course it can also be used as the central control core for the early development of the mechanical race.

This core is the key for the mechanical race to manage this base and start construction around it.

Therefore, the value of this thing is actually similar to that of the queen.

The queen needs to coordinate the expansion of the individual Zerg,

and the personality core of the mechanical race needs to coordinate the subordinate individuals of the mechanical race to expand.

After all, the Zerg and the mechanical race have the same hive thinking, and the hive thinking needs a main consciousness of the cluster, a queen.

Chen Ming now has two hive thinking networks connected to his consciousness, the Zerg, and the mechanical race.

The Zerg now has the queen to coordinate.

The mechanical race has to be responsible for everything himself.

Especially in the early development of the mechanical race after moving to a nearby planet some time ago, Chen Ming had to handle the construction of new cities by himself, which was quite troublesome.

And now with the mechanical race war about to break out, he needs to devote more energy to ensure the safety of these mechanical races.

If there is something like the Queen of Insects, a "Queen of Machinery", many things will be much more convenient.

Although this cannot change the probability that Chen Ming's mechanical base may be attacked by the mechanical race.

But having someone to help with things is better than always paying attention to these things personally.

In addition, when Chen Ming was thinking about the use of the personality core, he suddenly thought of a problem.

That is, his psychic power can give the most standard name to anything, even if Chen Ming has never known it.

And is there something wrong with the name of this [Personality Core]?

What is personality?

This is one of the concepts related to "people".

And as a relic of the Shining Civilization, why do the mechanical race have the concept of "people" in their core?

Chen Ming does not understand, but he can feel it.

This question definitely involves the most critical part of the Shining Civilization.

But this is not Chen Ming's research direction, nor is it the scope of his knowledge.

To figure out this problem, he has to go to the Shining Civilization Research Institute.

But this is not in his plan, and he has no time to study the Shining Civilization. .

So, he can only temporarily add this matter to the plan and wait for a suitable time to confirm it.

After figuring out the purpose of the personality core.

Chen Ming decisively threw it to the place where his mechanical race now lives.

It is different from the Queen Worm.

The Queen Worm has its own consciousness, while it is just a program.

Although this program is very flexible, it is still just a program and can only do things according to Chen Ming's orders.

Of course, in order to call it conveniently, Chen Ming still gave it a name.

It was the "Mechanical Queen" he just thought of.

Let it help him integrate everything of the mechanical race.

After the personality core was sent away.

Chen Ming also figured out the purpose of his action this time.

Then next...

Chen Ming turned his attention back to the information of the mechanical race.

There, there was still a cruiser left by Chen Ming still wandering in the galaxy.

Although Chen Ming had handed over the command of the small fleet to the legion.

He also withdrew several Alpha cores.

But he certainly couldn't completely ignore the situation in this galaxy.

As Qiu Bowen said before, there are many things in this galaxy that are of considerable value to the legion.

And these things are of the same value to Chen Ming.