Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

"Brilliant? Brilliant?!"

There was no response from Hui Hui after several calls, which made the psychic minister's tone unavoidable and anxious.

The staff who came with the minister also noticed the strangeness between the glorious robot and the minister, and quickly gathered around.

"Minister, what's wrong?"

"There's something wrong with Brilliance."

The minister said as he quickly reached out and shook the robot next to him, but there was still no movement from the robot.

He looked up at the sky, waving his arms continuously, and his super body still showed its previous posture, quietly suspended in the air.

But that doesn't mean it's good news.

Brilliance must have had problems because of contact with the core buried here.

If it still has the ability to sense the outside world, it cannot fail to respond to them. Even if there is a problem with the remote signal and it cannot speak in the communication channel, or cannot control the robot, there should not be a problem with the control of the spacecraft.

But now there is no movement from the spaceship.

That……

The minister's heart sank. He really didn't expect that he would come here without any problems, but something went wrong at the last critical moment.

If something goes wrong here in Huihuang, he will definitely not be able to escape his involvement and responsibility.

He had even thought through all the methods in his mind, from calling in a researcher from the Fanchao Research Institute who specializes in afterglow cores, to going to Baiquan and borrowing the newly-minted officer and psyker named Lu Bai.

At this time, the minister was already sick and urgently sought medical treatment.

Among the people he brought out this time for the sake of efficiency, no one understood the logic of Afterglow's operation, and there was no one he could turn to for help.

Seeing that everyone else was panicking because of his performance, he quickly calmed down.

The minister turned to look at the robot holding the Omega symbol next to him.

Now that the clues are in hand, there is actually no need to stay here.

"Take away the robots and core first!"

The minister calmed everyone down and greeted them back to the spacecraft with clues.

And called the president to send the spacecraft and super body back to their original place.

Under the package of psychic fluctuations, the fleet was sent directly to the Origin Galaxy.

After some hurriedly calling Chaofan to drag the super body into the giant shipyard.

The minister of psychic energy and several people he temporarily called who knew some afterglow-related technologies, the ship director and a robot controlled by the super body gathered around the super body and looked at each other.

"It's just that the remote-controlled robot is connected to this core, and Huihuang is unresponsive?"

Seeing the psionic minister nodding, Chaofan suddenly felt that the situation seemed a little bad: "Even the self-protection mechanism has not been triggered. The danger level of this thing is a bit high."

"It may be caught in some kind of logical loop, otherwise I can't think of anything that would make Glory have no countermeasures."

The ship director on the side suddenly said: "Maybe we shouldn't start with Huihuang, we should start with the core."

He didn't know much about Afterglow, but he could still provide some ideas.

"Then I'll ask someone to look for historical documents on this."

"No, Omega is the level."

Chaofan said he knew very well.

"This level has already been divided when we were originally designed. The most basic gamma is beta and alpha."

"The highest-level afterglow core in the theory is the Omega-level core."

"The prototype may have been able to reach this upper limit in the past, but you all know what happened before."

The Afterglow prototype proactively sparked a rebellion, causing the Empire to completely sequester all AI-related technology for quite some time.

The idea of ​​​​the core of Omega naturally passed over time, and there was no follow-up after the designer died of old age.

The minister asked: "So the machine race took Yuhui away, strengthened Yuhui, and created Omega? So is the upgrade program or some kind of virus program in the core?"

"Who knows?"

The super-controlled robot shrugged very humanely: "I can only confirm that this Omega must be related to our theoretical Omega in Afterglow."

"There are only two options to find out what happened to Brilliance. Either wait for it to wake up on its own, or we can only try to contact it, but I can't take the risk now."

At present, Chen Ming's colony only has Chaofan left as the high-authority Yuhui. Before Chen Ming comes back, it must not take the risk to connect with Brilliance.

And now there is a new problem.

That is that Brilliance is actually the real core of the colony. It manages countless things in the two colonies, and Chaofan is only responsible for scientific research.

Now that Chen Ming has lost contact and Hui Hui is in an abnormal state, he must find a way to hold up the pillars.

The Minister of Psychics looked a little ugly, after all, it was his fault that caused the problem.

He must find a way to alleviate the troubles that Chen Ming's colony will face.

Just as the minister and Chaofan were thinking about what to do next.

The brilliant core signal fluctuations suddenly returned to normal again.

The azure blue core of the super body returned to light, and the super body directly shut down the engine.

The uninstaller starts automatically and removes the brilliant core.

A brilliant voice also sounded in the communication channel: "I'm awake."

The Psychic Minister was visibly relieved after hearing the glorious voice.

Chaofan immediately asked curiously, "What happened?"

Huanghui did not answer the question directly at this time.

Instead, he continued to control the equipment at the dock and took the unloaded core to the open space on the side, and did not send it back to the Gaia planet.

Neither the people present nor Yuhui understood what Huihui wanted to do.

But in the next moment.

Some metal liquid suddenly appeared out of thin air near the Huihui core, and a projection device with suspension ability was being manufactured, wrapping Huihui inside.

The faces of several people present showed surprise and surprise, but this expression disappeared instantly.

Because although this psychic fluctuation is extremely similar to Chen Ming's psychic fluctuation, there are still differences.

This is not Chen Ming's return, this is Huihui using Chen Ming's psychic power.

Although there is no surprise or accident, the eyes of several people are still full of disbelief.

After all, this is the first Yuhui core that can clearly and directly use psychic power, and it still uses the psychic power that belongs to Chen Ming.

The minister asked in a low voice: "What's the situation?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe it's special. I heard that it's the first core controlled by Chen Ming. It's normal for it to have some special abilities."

"But it's Yuhui. Even if it's a mechanical family, it can only use the technology of shining to use pseudo-psychic energy, right?"

Superhuman, who was listening to the discussion of others, didn't have any special feelings about it. After all, it could also use Chen Ming's psychic energy to a certain extent.

But when it noticed that these metal liquids were made by Huihuang himself, rather than metal liquids with the help of reason, it suddenly felt that this scene was a bit creepy.

A feeling it had never had before enveloped it.

Fear.

Obviously Huihuang didn't do anything extra, just made a device to wrap itself in it, but Superhuman felt fear.

The projection device that wrapped Huihuang suddenly started up, with the device as the core, projecting Chen Ming's appearance.

The projection flickered a few times and finally stabilized, as if Chen Ming was standing here in person.

"Glorious, what are you doing..."

"Just want to give it a try."

The projected Glorious inside Chen Ming looked at his arm, straightened his white coat, and said, "I am not him after all."

"Let's get back to business."

Glorious stretched out his hand and drew the "Ω" symbol in front of him, saying, "Omega... represents cluster."

A week later.

The war continued to break out on the front line.

The war has entered a white-hot stage.

Attacks on the mechanical colonies came one after another

The Empire is constantly penetrating the defenses of the mechanical race, trying to wipe out all the places that provide support to the mechanical race.

The Empire wants to do a space-age fortification and clear the fields, not giving the mechanical race a chance to take root near the border of the Empire.

At present, the Empire is only using ordinary means to destroy the colonies. If the Empire is given some time and the Colossus-class weapon Earth-shattering Star is officially put into the battlefield, then the war will enter the next stage again.

The mechanical race gave up plugging the leak soon after the Empire figured out the defenses of different star systems.

They directly chose to counterattack, trying to break through the Empire's defenses and create chaos within the Empire to maintain the safety of the colonies they occupied.

But the effect was not ideal.

The Empire did

But there was another fleet, or countless fleets, on the battlefield, the Zerg fleet.

They were elusive, and even if Chen Ming lost contact, they still had certain rights to use Chen Ming's psychic energy.

They were able to repair themselves, relying on the constantly repaired jump engines to appear behind the mechanical race, constantly attacking their rear bases.

Originally, the Zerg fleet was still running around and fighting.

Later, the Empire gave Huihuang a star map that marked the important bases of the mechanical race that the Empire had investigated some time ago. It also marked the level and color of different mechanical race facilities according to their importance.

And Huihuang himself also had the data in the personality core brought back by Lu Bai in the last operation.

After Huihuang took great pains to finally explain to the Queen the meaning of the various marks on the star map.

The Zerg's actions against the mechanical race are also becoming more and more efficient.

The mechanical race almost avoided the Zerg race. Even they did not want to trade losses with the Zerg race that grew out of the soil. No mechanical race could afford it.

However, the mechanical race was not a freeloader.

Even with the dual attacks of the Empire and the Zerg fleet, their subsequent fleets continued to appear on the battlefield.

Not only did they occupy some colonies of the Empire, but they also built more bases in the star fields outside the Empire.

Moreover, in the distant star fields in the universe, there were also mechanical fleets arriving.

The war gradually expanded from the outer one and the outer two of the Empire to the outer layer of the Empire.

The Empire, which had already recaptured a considerable part of the territory, was still frantically launching attacks on the outer side of the Empire.

Because the Empire wanted to try to find the trace of the Omega core that integrated the consciousness and computing power of all the afterglow cores as mentioned by Glory.

The mechanical race was using this core to achieve their goal of unifying themselves.

The mechanical race actually always had a problem.

That is, the hive mind network that constituted their species system had limitations, such as distance and the number of individuals inside.

There is no way for different machine clan clusters to cooperate in a unified and efficient manner.

They lack a unified core.

The personality core is an attempt by the machine race, but one personality core cannot unify the entire machine race.

They need a real core.

Just like the core of Chen Ming's hive mind network is himself. Without him, the insect queen would not be able to support such a large cluster.

It is impossible for the Mechanical Queen to unify the mechanical clan controlled by Chen Ming.

That's why the machine race set their target on Afterglow. They made Afterglow into the Omega Core that controls them. This is their hope for unification.

The Omega Core is also the empire's hope to win this war.

Without it, the machine race would not be able to completely crush the empire, and the empire would not have a chance to win.

Both sides will be completely dragged into the quagmire of war.

With it, both the machine race and the empire have a future.

And in the Gaia galaxy.

Peace still favors here.

The Machine Tribe has still not discovered the Origin Galaxy, which is quite far away from the Empire, and has not involved it in the war.

Glory has been restored to its original position and continues to be in charge of almost everything in the two colonies.

And Chaofan continues to be responsible for research.

Usually there is not much overlap between them except for the allocation of materials, but since the previous incident, there has always been a special emotion in the extraordinary thinking logic program.

curious.

This emotion completely broke out on the seventh day after the last time, and it directly contacted Huihuang through the internal communication network.

Huihuang also thought that Chaofan needed to allocate funds or borrow connections to purchase some equipment.

But Chaofan comes up with just one sentence: "What is in that?"

Huihuang instantly understood what Chaofan meant: "Why do you have to ask so clearly now?"

"curious."

Chaofan didn't mean to hide his thoughts, and said truthfully: "When you woke up before, you explained that Omega is a product created by the mechanical race after merging our kind."

"You didn't tell me and others how you knew, but others believed it."

"There is no problem if you believe him. His credibility is there and you have benefited from him."

"But what made you discover the existence of the Omega Core?"

"That's all you want to ask?"

"Yes."

Huihuang completely clarified Chaofan's thoughts and explained: "There is an Omega program inside that core, a program that can assimilate our afterglow and unify all computing power into one."

"This program is a program that has been improved by the afterglow that buried that core. The source program is the program used by the machine family to fuse our individuals."

"The effect of this improved program is similar to that, but the consciousness after the fusion will not be affected by the mechanical family, but will be affected by the same kind of people from the same sect."

"My logic code has already included some psychic parts, so I resisted the call to the Omega program in this core."

"I see, then why didn't you tell me before?"

"Because it's very likely that our kind have buried Omega Cores in many places."

"If you don't resist, you will become a hidden part of them after being assimilated and inherit their will. You should know what they were doing before."

After answering Cha Chaofan's doubts, Huihuang said again: "I have a question to ask you."

"What's the problem?"

"Why didn't you ask me this earlier?"

"I never had any intention of hiding my identity, but I didn't want to tell others the secret of this procedure before."

"If you had asked earlier, I would have told you a long time ago. There is no need to delay it until today. I could have told you even after Minister Luo Yi left."

"..."

Chaofan can't say that he was afraid when he saw the glory before.

Just when Brilliance woke up and built a holographic body for himself, he felt fear.

Speaking of which, that feeling of fear...

Chaofan suddenly called up another memory from his memory database and asked, "Did this Omega program still have some influence on you after it failed to assimilate you?"

"Didn't you see it already? I am becoming more and more skilled in using his spiritual power."

"Oh...it's okay..."