Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 539 - 177: Pitch-Black Shell_2

At the same time, let the Defender ascend to guard, ensuring a secondary layer of protection.

Additionally, have the Brilliant that’s still in orbit pay attention to the situation on his side, guarding against any anomalies he might not have noticed.

He made the best safety measures he could currently achieve.

After waiting for about half an hour, which was much longer compared to transforming a normal spaceship.

A crack suddenly appeared on the giant cocoon made of solidified proliferant.

Chen Ming, who was flipping through various data on his terminal, immediately turned off the terminal and looked at the cocoon outside the biomass spaceship.

Soon, with a crisp sound, a purely jet-black biomass spaceship emerged from the cocoon.

Its matte black color made it almost incapable of reflecting any light.

If it were in space without professional scanning equipment, it would probably be difficult to detect its trace.

Not only was there a change in the external carapace, but the interior of the biological spaceship also had some changes.

Not only was its heart wrapped in such black carapace.

Also, the Insect Queen inside the heart, as well as all active insects on the biological spaceship, had their originally brownish shells turned into such jet-black color.

However, just by looking, one couldn’t discern the effect of the new jet-black carapace.

So, Chen Ming planned to practically experiment with it.

After all, he hadn’t yet had the chance to dismantle the mechanical arm on the nearby Defender.

The Insect Queen, having regained consciousness, cooperatively came to a stop beside the Defender, which had landed back on the ground.

Allowing the drill and powerful mining laser on the giant mechanical arm to operate on its body.

Enabling Chen Ming to test the strength of the carapace.

But what Chen Ming first noticed wasn’t the strength of the jet-black carapace itself.

Instead, it was the difference between the jet-black carapace on the biological spaceship and the carapace on the black insect he just saw in his consciousness.

Chen Ming could clearly see that the jet-black carapace on the spaceship was essentially a fusion of the highly durable jet-black carapace and the Thorn Insect Race carapace that could support the biological spaceship traveling through superspace and outer space.

Rather than just pulling the carapace off a black insect and installing it onto the spaceship as is.

Furthermore, the name displayed in the armor column on the biological spaceship’s panel also confirmed Chen Ming’s conjecture.

[Biological Armor: Heavy Biomass Spaceship Jet-Black Carapace]

As for the actual strength of this heavy jet-black carapace, Chen Ming’s tests concluded that overall, it’s slightly less than the White Cloud Steel Alloy.

But except for strength, almost all other performances of the jet-black carapace are superior to the White Cloud Steel Alloy.

Unless it’s 100% pure White Cloud Steel, which could completely overpower the jet-black carapace’s performance.

Yet the jet-black carapace has another advantage, its affordability.

It only requires the most basic biomass to construct, without any additional consumption.

And biomass is something that, frankly speaking, you could dig up a lot just by randomly unearthing some soil.

The difficulty of acquiring it is not even on the same level as obtaining White Cloud Steel.

Moreover, the jet-black carapace has a certain advantage even White Cloud Steel can’t compare to.

Lightweight.

Though it carries the name "Heavy," in the same volume, the mass of the jet-black carapace is only one-third of the White Cloud Steel.

And this has significant implications for the maneuverability of ships in space.

After all, getting a spaceship moving requires counteracting inertia, and inertia happens to relate solely to mass.

The lighter the spaceship, the more maneuverable it would be over short distances.

These, therefore, are the unique features of the heavy biomass spaceship’s jet-black carapace as a form of biological armor.

Supposedly, Chen Ming’s first blind draw from the box turned out quite well.

But next time, who knows what it would be.

Furthermore, after Chen Ming reopened the previous panel, he discovered.

That there’s a usage limitation on the Genetic Traceback feature; it must wait a month before the next use.

Drawing blind boxes has restrictions, and it was hard for Chen Ming to keep himself together.

But oh well, after all, he wasn’t expecting too much from it anyway.

He still has to learn the relevant biotechnology.

Attempting to adopt a more stable method to achieve evolutionary possibilities.

Specifically extracting and analyzing the genes of the Insect Race.

Isn’t this way much more reliable than drawing blind boxes?

Of course, it’s not easy either.

But since he already has a biological spaceship, these are things he’ll have to learn sooner or later; just a matter of learning it over time.

The affairs regarding the biological spaceship were thus thoroughly dealt with.

However, Chen Ming wasn’t in a hurry to leave the place.

Because the matters concerning the Insect Race weren’t resolved yet.

So he continued to keep the Supreme Point in orbit around the planet.

Then, on the planet, he spent a few days resolving issues left from before.

Specifically, the issue of the insects bred by the Insect Queen previously, which were not part of his Hive Mind Network.

Although the Insect Queen’s consciousness was disconnected from the Hive Mind Network constructed by those other insects.

The retention of pheromones still allowed the Insect Queen to control all the insects in those insect nests that had lost the major part of individual consciousness.

Using pheromones, the Insect Queen re-devoured all the insects in the nest, turning them back into nutrients, and reproduced.

Though this would lose some biomass, the value of rebreeding the bugs justified it.

Because Chen Ming’s spiritual energy still maintained control over these bugs, like operating some kind of biological armor,

And as the Insect Queen completed the construction of a new Insect Race Hive Mind Network, the feedback from the mind network soon reached Chen Ming’s consciousness.