Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 627 - 193 Purgatory Core_2

Therefore, it is quite normal for their hive network to be constructed using spiritual energy.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the Mechanical Race is controlled by a Psychic.

Previously, when Chen Ming attempted to control the Cruiser, he felt that the Mechanical Race’s spiritual energy was lifeless, not an extension of a Psychic’s will.

It was different from the contacts Chen Ming had with the boss, Yan Xiong, or even the Insect Queen.

When a Psychic or Spiritual Creature uses spiritual energy, the spiritual energy fluctuation emitted reflects the Psychic’s inner state.

Other Psychics can sense the emotions of the Psychic emitting the spiritual energy fluctuation through this fluctuation.

No matter how calm a Psychic is, when they use spiritual energy and emit fluctuations, even a trace of their calm emotion is carried in the fluctuation.

Even a non-Psychic, an ordinary person, can feel subtle sensations when touching spiritual energy fluctuations and perceive the Psychic’s emotions.

Although Chen Ming doesn’t know much about spiritual energy, he’s used it quite a few times in front of Old Wu and the factory manager.

Previously, during casual conversations, he happened to learn these strange knowledge about spiritual energy from them.

So, if such a universe-spanning Mechanical Race were controlled by a living Psychic, Chen Ming wouldn’t dare to touch them.

However, when Chen Ming tried to control the Mechanical Race earlier, he didn’t detect any emotional fluctuations from the Hive Mind Network.

The network of the Mechanical Race is constructed by something lifeless, a mechanical device similar to a Mind Pulse Generator.

And decoding a lifeless object is not a difficult task.

The Mechanical Race relies on spiritual chain links, but not every individual can use the spiritual energy of the Hive Mind Network to act or resist Chen Ming’s spiritual control.

It was merely the innate defense of the spiritual Hive Mind Network that made Chen Ming’s tentative non-forced control ineffective, nothing more.

Chen Ming just needs to make his spiritual energy aggressive, forcibly destroy the original network connections of the Mechanical Race, and the rest would be easy.

So, even previously, when Chen Ming was on the Mechanical Race’s Cruiser,

If he wanted, he could directly nullify the spiritual energy’s impact on the Mechanical Race and personally control that ship.

Once the Mechanical Race lost a subordinate core of the Hive Mind, the remaining Mechanical Race would be at Chen Ming’s disposal.

However, Chen Ming didn’t do so because things weren’t that simple, and there would be other consequences.

The Mechanical Race is a mechanical lifeform of the Hive Mind.

Destroying the hive mind network of the Mechanical Race is akin to carving out a piece of their brain.

Though it was just the Mechanical Race in a city, not fatal to the Mechanical Race, the damage was absolute.

And it’s extremely severe damage.

Almost all intelligent species have a common flaw.

They might forget those who’ve helped them after some time, but they’ll never forget those who’ve harmed them in their lifetime.

This means if Chen Ming does so, the entire Mechanical Race will know of his existence and the serious harm he caused them.

Earlier, over fifty Cruisers came to hunt him down; if he continues, the next encounter might really involve their Main Ships coming over.

Moreover, if the Mechanical Race simply knew Chen Ming as someone with considerable combat capabilities who could control the Insect Race,

Then, going forward, the Mechanical Race will discover he is a Psychic that can deal a fundamental destructive blow to them.

Just like how Dusk discovered him before.

But back then, Chen Ming was relatively weak, and Dusk and humans didn’t have such an extreme conflict with the Mechanical Race and humans.

That’s why Dusk and humans had some exchanges of prisoners and resources.

Thus, when Dusk discovered Chen Ming, it immediately wanted to take him away, attempt to recruit him, or extract the Enlightenment Nerve.

But if the Mechanical Race knows of Chen Ming’s existence, they would never give him any chance and would definitely hunt him down with the highest priority.

A Psychic capable of severing the Mechanical Race’s hive network poses a threat they comprehend all too well.

If Chen Ming were captured, his life would definitely be forfeit.

So if he truly destroys the Mechanical Race’s hive network, it will certainly be very dangerous afterward.

He must reconsider.

Anyhow, the Mechanical Race Cruiser Chen Ming took is already damaged, and most of the Mechanical Race individuals on board have been cleared out, so escaping merely by themselves isn’t feasible.

And Chen Ming took the Mechanical Race Cruiser into the Empire’s territory.

Even if the Mechanical Race has hive consciousness, knowing the Cruiser’s location, they can’t really chase it over.

So as long as Chen Ming doesn’t provoke the Mechanical Race, knowing he’s in the Human Empire doesn’t affect them otherwise.

Moreover, the location of the temporary base hasn’t been exposed, and the Mechanical Race cannot trouble his temporary base.

Chen Ming still has time to think about whether he wants to bear such a burden.

There’s no rush to reach a conclusion immediately.

Might as well rest first and reconsider the problem when he’s in the best mental state.

And now that he’s back in the Empire, and is on the edge of the Pirate Space Station’s star system, surely, he should visit the space station.