Chapter 1317 - 367: Nanoforge

The scavenger robot directly transferred control authority to Chen Ming, though it’s unclear what the situation is with this identification code that grants such high-level access.

However, Chen Ming did not feel cheated by this matter, so he gladly accepted this scavenger.

This also saves him the trouble of testing whether controlling the scavenger counts as controlling the main ship.

After gaining control over the scavenger, the first thing Chen Ming did was have the scavenger robot conduct a system self-check, while he relied on the quality inspection data to confirm the scavenger’s status.

Using the Supreme Point, he conducted a scan on this scavenger.

Of course, the results came from the log file during the system self-check.

Chen Ming glanced at the log and hurriedly stopped the scavenger from self-checking.

He found that these log files had already filled the storage units controlling the scavenger’s personality core.

Besides the system files retained by the scavenger in its core storage units, all external storage units are filled with log files from the scavenger’s periodic self-checks.

This means Chen Ming can at most read records from about 30,000 years ago.

Earlier log records have already been overwritten.

If another self-check takes place, more files would be overwritten.

Chen Ming’s maintenance can recover files that have almost turned to dust but cannot retrieve files that have been overwritten.

Just like things affected by destruction cannot be repaired using Spiritual Energy.

After all, it’s maintenance, not time reversal.

Once the scavenger stopped self-checking, Chen Ming promptly made a backup of the scavenger’s logs and then confirmed the situation in the log records.

Starting from the beginning.

Unfortunately, the logs from 30,000 years ago weren’t what Chen Ming wanted to see.

They are not records of the scavenger being manufactured during the time Shimmering Civilization existed, nor records of the scavenger being disarmed of countless warships’ weapons and main controls installed on itself.

Instead, there are mundane, almost unchanging periodic records of running back and forth between nearby star systems, continually deploying numerous mining drones to extract and recover resources.

It’s understandable; since the entire storage unit has been completely filled, the earliest records must be the first to be overwritten.

Just seeing these extremely detailed records—whether in text, image, or video—all preserved, Chen Ming still felt a bit overwhelmed.

These records, which can certainly be considered redundant, occupy a massive amount of the scavenger’s storage space, which prevents him from knowing what happened earlier.

But there’s no way to change what’s already happened; it’s better to see if there’s anything valuable in the records at hand.

Chen Ming slightly filtered through the record content.

Removing the routine records of events over the 30,000 years, he only looked for records of special circumstances.

However, the most that could be found were records of ground creature threats to mining drones that were swiftly resolved, providing hardly any valuable information.

If you insist, there is.

That would be that the scavenger has saved logs of all nearby star systems where resources from planets were mined.

Additionally, it recorded positions of underground resources that couldn’t be mined by drones.

These records are stored in the core storage units, not overwritten.

After all, this should be the scavenger’s main job.

This information can save Chen Ming a significant amount of time in reconnaissance and resource location later.

Moreover, since the scavenger has been to those places, and automatic mining drones have collected minerals without encountering danger,

these planets visited certainly have little danger; any encountered would have been eliminated by the scavenger.

Even if undiscovered dangers exist, they must be underground.

Chen Ming’s primary means of extracting resources is the Insect Race.

He instead hopes for some danger.

Because danger also means opportunity.

Although it may not be a good opportunity.

But for the Insect Race, it might be an opportunity to devour.

Chen Ming quickly finished reviewing the non-routine records from the past 30,000 years—only finding them surprisingly mundane.

For 30,000 years, the scavenger robot wandered within a region centered on the Primordial Star System, constantly deploying mining drones, constantly retrieving mining drones, and constantly transporting minerals to the habitable planet in the Primordial Star System.

This repetitive work continued.

Chen Ming even felt bored enough to want to vomit when looking.

Really don’t understand...

Oh, by the way, the Mechanical Race’s personality core is called a personality core, but actually doesn’t have a genuine personality...

Forget it, let it be.

Chen Ming still couldn’t obtain any effective information from the scavenger’s log records.

But thankfully, the Supreme Point’s scanning program on the scavenger had almost reached its conclusion.

This allowed Chen Ming to learn more about the scavenger without controlling it.

For example, Chen Ming could see now the scavenger’s body, which is even larger than the main ship, those various levels, even including the main ship’s weapons and armor that make up its shell, are genuinely real.

And all—whether internal or external—whatever weapons are installed on itself, are connected to the main control system and the scavenger’s own main control.