Chapter 1247 - 349: Shadow_3

The Insect Race possesses a powerful ability to exploit resources, transforming all visible objects into its own nourishment.

Of course, they can choose not to transform and leave behind those high-value minerals, sustaining life solely by consuming soil and rocks.

Therefore, Chen Ming believes the current Insect Race is capable of handling large-scale material exploitation tasks.

All mineral resources can be dug up by the Insect Race.

Although there are no large-scale industrial mining facilities, the efficiency of the Insect Race in conducting widespread resource development is not low, far better than the smaller-scale mining setups Chen Ming previously deployed on different planets.

In addition to acting as resource developers, the Insect Race can also play a crucial supplementary role in pioneering efforts.

By transforming the Insect Race to the Supreme Point, allowing the Insect Queen to master the manufacturing methods of biological exploration ships, they can replace several Supreme Point roles in Chen Ming’s fleet, further accelerating the efficiency of opening up Superspace Channels and increasing overall pioneering efficiency.

Of course, Chen Ming does not need to be responsible for this task. He just needs to communicate the Insect Queen’s abilities to Brilliant and let Brilliant arrange the rest.

Chen Ming himself is still primarily focused on his own endeavors.

Besides working on the research project for the headquarters’ prosthetic body, the research project for his actual body has not stopped either.

Including optimizing the Forbidden Guard Insect Race and continuing to study the manufacturing scheme for hybrid mechanical-biological structures.

Meanwhile, Chen Ming has been continuously observing the situation of the Zero Sample.

The Zero Sample is still alive and continually improving.

The consciousness within the Zero Sample appears as a standard, ordinary Insect Race unit’s consciousness.

However, as it undergoes transformation within the Zero Sample and continues to struggle with its imperfect hybrid mechanical structure,

it’s apparent that it is merging completely with its body, and even its consciousness strength is increasing in this process.

It has distinguished itself from any other Insect Race.

Chen Ming even noticed that the Zero Sample’s intelligence is increasing; it can already recognize some simple words.

Moreover, it is attempting to actively evolve complex vocal organs to imitate Chen Ming’s voice, who often observes it.

It’s unclear whether it independently evolved these capabilities or if its half-mechanical structure contributed.

In any case, its existence holds evident value.

Chen Ming plans to continue supporting it, observing whether new changes will occur in the future.

Just the day before Chen Ming was about to leave with Bai Quan, at noon,

Chen Ming received a call from Bian Gaoxuan, the Fan Chao Research Institute’s lead from the previous phase space and Crimson Dimension interaction experiment where Chen Ming participated with a robot, and he also received a gift sent by mail.

The gift box featured an invitation envelope, inviting Chen Ming to visit the Fan Chao Research Institute.

To be honest, Chen Ming is quite interested, but it’s not possible recently.

He explained the front-line reasons to Bian Gaoxuan over the phone, receiving a reply from him that Chen Ming is welcome anytime.

Afterward, Chen Ming opened the gift box sent by Bian Gaoxuan.

Inside were two items: one was a storage device containing blueprints of various weapons and ships from ongoing tests.

Bian Gaoxuan left a message inside stating these were some approved research blueprints shared with friendly peers by the Fan Chao Research Institute.

The other item was a Spiritual Stone with the nature of "Spiritual Stone."

Although this Spiritual Stone is only the size of a pinky fingertip in a normal state, the strength is quite low, yet the item is very unique.

According to Chen Ming’s knowledge, Spiritual Stones come in many varieties with different properties, some pertaining to human traits and others related to human-associated properties.

While there are others tied to "spiritual" connections.

Such Spiritual Stones are absolutely not inferior, regardless of their size.

Although its intensity might be insufficient for Chen Ming at the moment, it has unique functionality.

It can imbue Chen Ming’s Spiritual Energy Fluctuation with a special property, and during contact with spiritual energy-related affairs, it will actively absorb external spiritual energy fluctuations for self-maintenance, providing additional spiritual power recovery and endurance.

As for negative effects, it exhibits a craving for environments with high concentrations of spiritual energy fluctuations.

Chen Ming’s main body stays in a high concentration spiritual energy fluctuation environment daily, meaning no negative effects exist.

Though the positive effects don’t seem too obvious, they surely offer unexpected precision in battle.

Such things given in return for life-saving gratitude reflect the value of their lives from their own perspective.

Bian Gaoxuan is just a slightly experienced researcher at the Fan Chao Research Institute, still a normal person, so these were the most valuable items he could find.

Once these affairs are handled at the headquarters,

The battleship carrying Chen Ming and Bai Quan, along with the fleet’s location, reached the Gallo Star Realm via Star Gate.

Chen Ming did not directly accompany Bai Quan to the division.

Although visiting the division could immediately comprehend the Mechanical Race’s activities on the Empire’s side, Chen Ming preferred returning first to the nearby Pirate Space Station not far from the division.

The boss, who had been busy for some time outside, returned here a few days ago, so Chen Ming has to meet him.