Chapter 329 Ship Research Institute

In Chen Ming's original plan, the Ship Research Institute should be a place he would go to in the middle of the war with the mechanical race.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. The phase monster Chen Ming encountered now and the phase ship promised by Qiu Bowen forced Chen Ming to come here early.

Because Qiu Bowen told the Ship Research Institute about Chen Ming in advance, and Chen Ming also took the time to contact them.

So the location Chen Ming went to this time was arranged by the Ship Research Institute, a space station located in the orbit of the planet.

The shuttle entered the inner port of the space station through the VIP channel.

When Chen Ming got off the ship, the director of the Ship Research Institute had come here in person to greet him.

"Mr. Chen Ming, welcome, welcome."

The director of the Ship Research Institute in front of him had a kind face. Although his hair was completely white, he looked energetic and did not look like an old man in Chen Ming's impression at all.

Chen Ming stretched out his hand to the director and said, "Just call me Chen Ming."

The director immediately shook Chen Ming's hand a few times, but did not let go. Instead, he took Chen Ming and introduced the two deputies following him.

Both of them were ordinary people, they looked old, and they were also top researchers involved in the phase ship research.

Chen Ming always respected capable people and took the initiative to greet them.

The two deputies responded immediately.

In addition, there were some ordinary researchers and some accompanying security personnel, and there were not too many messy people.

This simple and not noisy, but extremely important attitude made Chen Ming feel quite comfortable.

After Chen Ming greeted several important people brought by the director.

The director cleared his throat slightly and said: "Chen Ming, General Qiu has told us about the matter."

"We are all willing to cooperate with your work. At present, the institute has manufactured a total of seven phase ship prototypes, four escorts, three destroyers, and a cruiser-level is still being manufactured."

"I'll take you there now."

"Sorry."

"It should be."

The director obviously didn't want to waste time. Soon Chen Ming, under his leadership, changed to a medium-sized shuttle belonging to the Ship Research Institute and left the space station.

Headed to the orbital test site.

In addition to the highly industrialized planet itself, the Ship Research Institute's planet also has two artificial orbital industrial rings in space.

The inner ring is pure industrial facilities, and the inner side of the outer ring is the same.

The outer side of the outer ring is the place where most ship experiments are conducted.

The orbital test site is here.

And on the outer side is the space station where Chen Ming just stayed. Compared with the pirate space station with a city built inside, it is even larger. It is equivalent to the headquarters of the Ship Research Institute.

In addition, on the orbit of this planet belonging to the Ship Research Institute, there is a giant structure corresponding to the space station,

a giant dock for producing main battleships and main weapons.

It can only be said that all the supporting facilities are there.

While Chen Ming was observing the layout of the Ship Research Institute through the porthole of the shuttle.

The shuttle quickly landed on the outer side of the outer ring orbit.

The imitation gravity device played a role here. Although the orbit was rotating, it would not throw people and buildings on it away.

After landing, Chen Ming and the director and his party took the ground vehicle on the orbital industrial ring to a semi-open ship repair factory here.

Although there was a starry sky above his head, Chen Ming did not need to wear protective clothing when he got off the car.

Part of the oxygen on the orbital ring is maintained by the continuous production of life-support devices, and the other part is bound by gravity, which is enough for people to work here without wearing protective clothing.

In this somewhat empty maintenance plant, there are seven ships parked scattered around.

All are undergoing maintenance.

These are phase ships.

They look similar to ordinary ships, without too obvious differences, and all have the appearance of normal spaceships.

The main color scheme is close to dark blue and silver-gray, which should be caused by the materials needed to build phase ships.

Only the center of the spacecraft is slightly protruding, making the spacecraft, which originally looked like a trapezoid with a large bottom angle from the top, look like a hexagon.

It seems that a large number of equipment is installed in it.

These equipment installed in the middle of the ship are the biggest difference between these phase ships and ordinary ships.

In general, these spaceships are basically a bit rough, and various equipment and lines have not been well optimized and designed.

However, the phase ship is still in the experimental stage after all, and it is fine as long as it can move.

Optimization such as hidden lines and equipment will only be needed in the future.

The director gestured to the seven phase ships and said, "All the phase ships that have been manufactured are here. If you don't mind the trouble, you can control them all."

Chen Ming suddenly suspected that he had heard wrongly, and asked, "All?"

"Yes, the phase ship itself is very easy to lose, especially in the early stages of the experiment. We don't know much about the phase space. Basically, two or three experiments will cause a spacecraft to be damaged."

"If you are here, the loss of our ship may be less."

"Okay."

Since the director said so, Chen Ming was not polite. Anyway, other people don't have to think about taking back the things in his hands.

Chen Ming immediately walked around the seven ships and controlled each phase ship.

By observing the panels, Chen Ming found that the biggest difference between phase ships and ordinary ships was indeed the things installed in the middle area that looked bloated in appearance.

Phase devices such as [Phase Coil], [Phase Force Field Modulator], [Phase Stabilization Anchor] and [Phase Traction Device].

The most critical one is probably the phase coil. This thing not only occupies the largest space inside the spacecraft, but also uses a special material.

There are several small coils made of different materials around the complex phase coil.

It seems that they want to test what materials can be used as substitutes for this special material.

It's a pity that Chen Ming can only see these relatively superficial things through the panel.

But once the technology and manufacturing conditions for these things are figured out for him, he will be able to build his own phase ship.

It's still too early to say this.

After Chen Ming finished controlling the spacecraft, he returned to the director.

Just at this time, someone came to the maintenance plant, sent a document to the director, and said: "Director, the experiment can begin."

The director immediately blinked at Chen Ming several times.

Ah this...

Now Chen Ming knew why the director gave him control so quickly.

However, he doesn't think there is any problem with this. After all, the value of the phase ship is not low, especially the prototype in the experimental stage.

Qiu Bowen had only promised to give Chen Ming a phase ship before.

But the director chose to directly hand over all the phase ships they owned to him for control. The meaning was very simple.

That is to say, all control of these ships was given to him, and then he was asked to help ensure the progress of some more dangerous experiments.

After all, if the prototype is lost, it has to be built, but if it is given to Chen Ming, if it is damaged, Chen Ming can just repair it. They will definitely provide the materials.

In this way, the institute can ensure that the ships tested in the future will not be completely lost.

And Chen Ming earned control of all the phase ships in the institute.

When there are more phase ships in the Ship Research Institute later, these ships will all be Chen Ming.

There may even be more than the seven ships now, and there may be more in the future.

Chen Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with the director's approach to a win-win situation. It would be better to say that the more situations like this, the better.

And this can actually be regarded as a test for him by the director.

After all, Chen Ming can be regarded as an airborne figure arranged by the legion commander. Unlike He Gu of the Psychic Research Institute, who has too many interactions with the Ship Research Institute, he is a person with very high authority.

If we don't know Chen Ming's details, there will be many things that the Naval Research Institute cannot do freely.

If Chen Ming is willing to get along well, then many things can be discussed.

But if Chen Ming is a greedy person, he will swallow the elephant.

Then the director of the Ship Research Institute should consider a new way to deal with Chen Ming.

Chen Mingke has always been a very kind person. He treats others as others treat him.

The director took the initiative to show his kindness, and Chen Ming was of course willing to reciprocate.

He responded: "If the ship is controlled by me, there will most likely be no problems. However, I have never been in contact with phase space, so I cannot give a 100% guarantee."

These words were enough. The director nodded at Chen Ming and took Chen Ming on the shuttle boat again to the experimental site.

In the repair shop, there was a destroyer and a escort. A total of two phase ships also took off after the final inspection and followed the shuttle boat.

Ten minutes later.

The shuttle and two phase ships arrived at the testing site.

However, it is said to be a test site. In fact, many experiments on spacecraft are conducted directly in space, and this time is no exception.

It's just that the institute has arranged multiple automatic observation points near the determined experimental site, and a relatively distant main observation point, completely surrounding the center of the experimental site.

These observation points are similar to miniature space stations. Whether they are automatic observation points or main observation points, they can accommodate enough equipment and manpower.

No data or images will be missed.

However, because the automatic observation point is close to the center of the test site, usually only the equipment is left at the automatic observation point to establish a remote signal connection with the main observation point.

Therefore, the shuttle boat finally landed on the satellite space station as the main observation point.

The director immediately arranged the experiment process after disembarking.

It can be seen that the director has rich management experience. At least hundreds of people participated in the entire experimental process and were responsible for different tasks.

All these people are doing what they should do in an orderly manner under the command of the director.

Chen Ming watched and learned silently.

After all, he is also the director of the Super Research Institute.

Those researchers who usually manage purely by relying on their own prestige and ability have no problem when the time is short and the number of people is small.

But if his laboratory expands in the future, or if he has to carry out some projects that require the entire institute to work together, his current management capabilities will not be able to keep up, and it will never go wrong to learn some project management experience.

The director seemed to notice that Chen Ming listened very carefully, and even showed Chen Ming some details of the work flow arrangement.

He really regarded Chen Ming as a member of this experiment.

However, Chen Ming knew nothing about phase ships, so he just took a look and repaired the spacecraft when it had problems, but he was also very interested in learning about phase technology.

So after the director had almost arranged everything, he asked: "What is the purpose of this phase ship experiment?"

"Use the special resonant frequency of the phase space to try to enable friendly units to observe the phase ships in the phase space from the normal universe environment."

Chen Ming understood, but didn't understand.

The director saw Chen Ming's situation, and while continuing to manage the overall control of this experiment, he began to explain the basic knowledge points of phase ships to Chen Ming.

After explaining some basic concepts of phase ships, he talked about the current experiment.

In short.

The purpose of this experiment is to verify a special device that the Ship Research Institute has just developed.

It allows fleets in the normal universe to observe friendly forces in the phase space, preventing the phase ship from appearing in the friendly force's firing range when it returns to reality.

And this device will only have an effect on friendly forces and will not be discovered by the enemy.

It was similar to the situation where Chen Ming saw the mechanical race using phase weapons but could see lasers in the normal universe, but it was different.

Since this method required repeated entry into the phase space in a short period of time to simulate actual combat, it was a little dangerous for the current phase ship, and Chen Ming needed to provide some protection.

Chen Ming had a question about this: "During actual combat, wouldn't the phase ship always stay in the phase space?"

"The phase ship cannot dissipate radiation energy in the phase space."

The director explained some basic concepts of the phase space: "Although the phase space corresponds to the normal universe environment, in the phase space, all places where there is no matter are filled with a special medium."

"This medium has no effect on the human body and can be directly regarded as non-existent, but for the spacecraft, it will hinder the spacecraft from dissipating radiation energy."

"Entering the phase space itself will also lead to the accumulation of radiation energy, not to mention the use of weapons in the phase space."

"So in war, it is impossible for the phase ship to stay in the phase space all the time. Repeatedly entering and exiting the phase space to engage the enemy and avoid the enemy's attack is the most likely situation."

Radiation energy...

Chen Ming almost forgot about radiation energy.

Every ship will generate radiation energy in the radiation energy system of the spacecraft no matter what it does when it starts.

Whether it is using weapons or letting the shield take damage, it will lead to the growth of radiation energy, and there is a difference between soft and hard radiation energy.

Once the radiation energy exceeds the upper limit, there will be a radiation overload phenomenon that paralyzes the entire ship.

However, the existence of Chen Ming's psychic energy means that no matter what happens, the radiation energy value of his spacecraft will never go up, and it will be wiped out with a repair psychic energy.

Unless something can directly fill up the radiation energy of Chen Ming's spacecraft, so that Chen Ming has no time to repair it.

But that is either a crushing in the number of fleets, such as the last time the mechanical clan sneak attacked his Colossus class.

Or it is a crushing in the level of ships, such as the afterglow cruiser controlled by Chen Ming was destroyed by a single shot from the main battleship of the legion.

But the concentrated fire of more than 20 mechanical clan cruisers last time just almost blew up the shield.

For Chen Ming, as long as the radiation energy system is not penetrated by a wave, it is in good condition.

Even if it was penetrated, it would not be a big problem. As long as the enemy's most fierce firepower wave failed to completely destroy the ship, then under the effect of his psychic power, even if the ship only had a handbrake left, Chen Ming could drive the ship back intact.

And it was also a low probability event that his ship met the main battleship at the beginning.

So all these factors combined led to Chen Ming not caring about the radiation system all the time. At most, he paid attention to the upper limit of radiation energy. After all, this upper limit determined the upper limit of the attack that his ship could withstand in a short period of time.

In this way, the strength of the radiation system is a good indicator for judging the performance of the phase ship.

The phase ship needs to have enough upper limit for fighting in the phase space, and it needs to have enough radiation energy dissipation to allow the phase ship to leave the phase space and quickly discharge radiation when too much radiation energy is accumulated.

That's interesting.

If the phase ship controlled by Chen Ming is constantly repaired by him in the phase space, it seems that some effects that make the enemy disgusted can be achieved, and he can try it now.

But he didn't rush to mention this matter. Let's take a look at this experiment first.

But before the experiment officially started, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something else.

He asked the director: "Can I arrange two of my robots to go on board?"

The director immediately thought about it.

He knew that Chen Ming was a psychic and that Chen Ming could control all machinery.

In his opinion, Chen Ming's robot was like an avatar of his.

Such an existence entering the phase space would definitely bring back some additional intelligence data.

The director responded: "Of course you can if you are not worried about the robot breaking down, but you need to wait a little. We need to know the data of your robot and make some corrections to the phase ship based on this data."

Chen Ming released the metal liquid and created two robots based on the locust armor around him.

"Sorry for the trouble."

The director nodded, called several researchers, and began to obtain various data of the robots.

Then, the two spacecrafts to be tested were corrected for some experimental data changes caused by the load of the spacecraft.

About half an hour later, the director brought Chen Ming the news that everything was ready.

Chen Ming's two robots had been sent to the two phase ships.

The escort-level phase ship looked ordinary, just an ordinary experimental ship.

But the destroyer-level phase ship was a little more interesting.

Chen Ming could clearly see that this experimental ship was designed in the direction of a transport ship.

Indeed, the phase ship has great advantages in transportation, maneuverability and self-protection that all other ships do not have.

After entering the phase space, only enemies in the same phase space can harm it.

And transport ships are indeed easier to develop than combat ships.

In the early stage of the experiment, it is indeed a more reasonable choice to focus on this type of research.

Because the spaceship had not been cleaned up, after Chen Ming's robot entered the spaceship, he could see that the phase coils with special structures that occupied a considerable space inside the spaceship were exposed in patches, as if there was a possibility of leakage at any time.

However, the problem was not big. The director and his team were the main people studying the phase ship. If they did not think there was a problem, Chen Ming did not have to think so.

And now the most important thing is that the two phase ships have started to operate.

The exposed phase coils showed a purple halo that appeared at the junction of the phase space and the normal universe environment, which was somewhat similar to the color of hyperspace, but more transparent.

Soon, the two phase ships pulled the ship into the phase space under the synergy of different devices.

In an instant.

Chen Ming got two pieces of news.

One good news and one bad news.

The good news is that Chen Ming's psychic power will not be blocked even if it enters the phase space, and he can still perfectly control the robot.

The bad news.

It was the moment when Chen Ming just saw the phase space outside the spaceship, which was almost completely indistinguishable from the normal universe.

He felt a heavy pressure from the robot in the phase space, as if he was at the bottom of the sea.

Even though it was just a robot, this pressure was transmitted from the robot to Chen Ming, pressing hard on his brain.

However, after getting used to the pressure from the spirit stone, this little pressure was nothing to Chen Ming.

His face did not change, and he was even carefully sensing what caused the entire phase space to exert heavy pressure on him.

Finally, Chen Ming was somewhat surprised to find that in his consciousness space, the crack connected to the scarlet dimension was closed for some reason. I don’t believe that there is a crack that leaks the power of the dimension like before.

Chen Ming immediately temporarily cut off his control over the two robots in the phase space.

At the moment when the control was cut off, the pressure Chen Ming felt disappeared, and the crack in the scarlet dimension opened again, slowly giving Chen Ming the power of psychic energy.

Chen Ming reconnected his robot, and the crack in the scarlet dimension closed again, and he felt the pressure again.

That’s right, it was the phase space that suppressed the scarlet dimension.

This was something Chen Ming had never expected.

Phase space and scarlet dimension are actually related, and they are actually in conflict. In fact, phase space suppresses the power of scarlet dimension.

Of course, this may also be because Chen Ming's consciousness space is just a crack, so it is suppressed.

However, it is certain that phase space and scarlet dimension are in conflict.

But why is this?

Why do phase space and scarlet dimension, two dimensions that have nothing to do with each other, conflict?

Chen Ming only knows the most basic concepts of scarlet dimension, and his understanding of phase space is only what the director just told him.

He has no way to answer this question.

But scarlet dimension and phase space are both important to him.

Scarlet dimension is a source of powerful psychic power, and it is also a library for his psychic effect to be further improved.

Phase space is likely to become the main development direction of ships in the future. The foundation of Chen Ming's ability is ships, and it is impossible to abandon the existence of phase space.

These two actually conflict with each other.

This is a bit wrong.

Chen Ming has to find a way to figure out the reason behind it.

But these two are troublesome existences. Neither of them can be understood by Chen Ming in a short time.

He could only slightly change his plan and increase the time he spent in the Ship Research Institute.

And then find a suitable time to try to enter the Scarlet Dimension for the second time.

The Scarlet Dimension is a dimension full of "knowledge". As long as you can enter and come out alive, the knowledge related to psychic power and the Scarlet Dimension will naturally fill your consciousness.

As long as you can go in a few more times, Chen Ming will sooner or later figure out the reason for the conflict between Scarlet and Phase.

Speaking of which.

Chen Ming suddenly seemed to understand what the Phase Beast was like.

As a creature of the Phase Space, the reason why the Phase Beast looked for him was probably related to his contact with the Scarlet Dimension.

Then he thought of the emotions contained in the Phase Beast's voice before.

Alertness, desire, curiosity, anger, fear.

These emotions are probably not all directed at him, but at his connection with the scarlet dimension.

What exactly does the phase beast want to do?

Fortunately, Chen Ming did not hear the voice of the phase beast now, otherwise he suspected that the phase beast would come to the phase research institute soon.

He continued to look at the director next to him without changing his expression.

The director suddenly handed over a pair of lavender glasses and motioned Chen Ming to put them on.

Chen Ming took the glasses and asked: "Have you conducted manned experiments before?"

"Yes, first animals, then humans."

"Are there any accidents?"

"No, everything is normal. There is no discomfort after entering. It is no different from being in a normal universe. There is no problem with the subsequent physical examination."

"Is that so."

Then the pressure is indeed specifically aimed at the scarlet dimension on him, not equally for everyone.

Interesting.

Chen Ming didn't say much, put on his glasses, and asked, "What's the use of these glasses?"

"Glasses made of phase resonance lenses can observe the special light signals emitted by the phase ship in the phase space through a specific resonance frequency. Look at the position of the phase ship just now."

Chen Ming turned his head and looked. At the position where the two phase ships disappeared, there were two dark purple light patterns like shadows in the void, marking the position of the phase ship.

Chen Ming raised his glasses and looked with his naked eyes.

The light pattern disappeared immediately.

He put down his glasses again, and the light pattern appeared in his eyes.

The director next to him reminded: "This pair of glasses and the phase ship can adjust different resonance frequency bands. Only when they correspond can they observe each other, which is used to deal with the moment when the enemy sees through our frequency band."

"The phase ship itself can also turn off the display of this mark at any time and completely hide itself."

Chen Ming looked at the several tiny buttons on the edge of the glasses and pressed them casually, changing the frequency that the glasses could observe.

The marking light pattern of the phase ship in the distance disappeared again.

Chen Ming took off his glasses and carefully observed its structure.

However, like the phase ship, he couldn't understand it.

Soon, the phase ship temporarily left the phase space and began to prepare for the subsequent repeated experiments.

Chen Ming withdrew his gaze from the phase ship, looked at the director and asked: "Is the phase ship the only way to enter the phase space now?"

"If you are talking about ships and people, it is indeed only possible through the phase ship."

"But others are not necessarily."

"What else?"