Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 513: Chapter 170 Tower_4

And its name appeared in front of Chen Ming’s eyes.

[Mechanical Race Standard Mechanical Body·Silent Mantis (Damaged)]

On the more detailed dropdown panel, Chen Ming could see more detailed data, such as the status of different parts on this Mechanical Race.

Details about its mechanical arms and weapons were displayed comprehensively on the panel.

However, these were not important; only a few special lines caught his attention particularly.

One of the lines was [Individual Consciousness: Deceased].

Another was at the bottom of the panel [Executable Actions: Repair/Transformation/Disassembly].

What caught Chen Ming’s attention the most was the three components listed under a section on the Mechanical Race’s body, similar to the [Important Equipment] on the spaceship panel.

[Standard Level Core Chip (Damaged)] [Standard Level Sub-Core (Damaged)] [Nano-Level Maintenance Mechanical Body (3%)]

Like all the damaged mechanical equipment Chen Ming had encountered before, these could be repaired with the right materials.

But would repairing a mechanical body lead to the revival of its deceased individual consciousness? Would it, upon awakening, cause the nearby Mechanical Race’s small robots that hadn’t yet noticed the intrusion to suddenly surround him?

As soon as Chen Ming had this thought, he immediately dismissed it.

Not to mention how unreliable reviving a mechanical life solely by repairing its parts might be.

His Spiritual Energy alone could ensure that the mechanical body under his control remained under his command for life; direct repair was all that was needed.

Chen Ming activated his Spiritual Energy, along with a slight consumption of Spiritual Power and a small decrease in materials.

The entire Silent Mantis was successfully repaired.

But Chen Ming’s Spiritual Energy only repaired its externally worn armor, internally aged circuitry, and the chip and sub-core.

The [Nano-Level Maintenance Mechanical Body (3%)] section showed no changes.

It was like fuel; Chen Ming had to figure out a way to manufacture it to replenish it.

But the difficulty of manufacturing fuel and nano-level robots was not even on the same dimension.

So Chen Ming chose to temporarily ignore it.

He looked at the line of consciousness on the Silent Mantis panel.

Just as he thought.

The Mechanical Race’s consciousness remained deceased, not restored by the repair of the chip and sub-core.

Chen Ming knew the consciousness of the Dusk individual existed as a segment of data within the core, but he didn’t know what form the Mechanical Race’s consciousness took.

He had no way to revive a mechanical life form.

Chen Ming shook his head slightly, and relying on his control over the Silent Mantis, attempted to read the contents within its chip.

But the attempt ended in failure.

Although Chen Ming succeeded in extracting the internal data, he couldn’t understand the content at all.

This was just like his previous attempts to read other Mechanical Race chips, similar to the Empire’s current inability to decipher the Mechanical Race’s language and data.

As relics of another civilization, the Mechanical Race was indeed very special.

After considering for a moment, Chen Ming simply asked the Extraordinary installed at the Supreme Point, ”How is your Dusk’s research on the Mechanical Race going?”

”I don’t handle the research on the Mechanical Race. I generally handle the design and manufacturing of ships. You should know since you took me out of the giant shipyard, right?”

”I know, but I’m just asking. In terms of research, I can only ask you now.”

”Alright, I don’t know much. I only know that our research on the Mechanical Race has been very difficult to delve into.”

”The Mechanical Race holds extreme hatred towards us as it does towards you, making communication impossible. Research can only be conducted through captives, but there’s been no groundbreaking progress so far.”

”We can only allocate extra chips to extract the computational data flow within them to expedite our enhancements.”

Chen Ming nodded, indicating he understood.

He could only say it was a bit unfortunate not to learn anything valuable.

Moreover, there wasn’t anything valuable on this mechanical body.

The most was that the design of the Silent Mantis mechanical body could be recorded, so next time when Chen Ming lacked combat-type mechanical bodies, he could directly use this template.

Actually, Chen Ming had recorded videos when he disassembled those Mechanical Race bodies he had eliminated earlier.

But at that time, Chen Ming hadn’t gone through six months of learning yet, and his crude disassembly techniques would make the current Chen Ming shake his head; the videos were just for viewing.

It was only now that he got a physical Silent Mantis that Chen Ming found it meaningful to learn and replicate.

Of course, now wasn’t the right time.

At the scene, Chen Ming still decided to leave the Mechanical Race corpse he controlled in its place to avoid detection.

Meanwhile, he instructed the small robots to retrieve the Gamma Core and continue further.

After roughly an hour, the robots passed through the increasingly decaying city as they ventured deeper.

And finally arrived in front of the central tower of the city.