Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 595 - 185 New Discovery_2

In short, all suspicions are best proven with facts.

So Chen Ming directly outfitted this destroyer with an additional large sensor to confirm the real situation.

Although the sensor couldn’t be accommodated inside the spaceship, Chen Ming had to retrofit it outside, making the entire spaceship look like it had grown a bloated organ.

However, the spaceship doesn’t have much to do now, just staying put and watching silently, so an extra thing doesn’t matter.

And with the activation of the large sensor.

The appearance of those things in orbit gradually became clear to Chen Ming.

They appeared to be some kind of modular large satellite composed of multiple satellites, orbiting the planet at a certain distance.

Each satellite had an entirely white appearance, clearly made of White Cloud Steel.

And this White Cloud Steel was pure white, unlike the green oxidized White Cloud Steel Chen Ming had seen on independent Mechanical Race entities.

It seemed that this planet indeed housed the Mechanical Race, and a well-maintained one at that.

Chen Ming’s heart gradually began to feel a bit excited.

Although the Mechanical Race is difficult to deal with, if it could be continuously controlled, it would be of significant importance to his Mechanical Race Hive Mind Network.

So he pondered, even though his main task now is to continue expansion, should he also give it a try?

Just as he thought about it, Chen Ming saw a flash on the planet’s surface.

At this moment, another satellite was brought into space by a spaceship and entered the planet’s orbit.

After delivering the satellite into orbit, the spaceship turned and left. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The satellite left in orbit then adjusted its position, joining with the existing satellites to form a larger satellite.

It seemed these satellites themselves consisted of different modules, only achieving their complete function when fully assembled.

However, through Chen Ming’s observation of the previously fully assembled modular large satellite.

He found that each assembled large satellite seemed still incomplete in function.

It seemed that it took several satellites linked together to count as an integrated facility.

Based on Chen Ming’s analytical experience, this appeared to be some kind of orbital defense system still in the early stages of construction.

Currently, though, what he could see in orbit only filled about one-fifth of the equatorial orbital strip of the planet, with much construction still needed, clearly not long under construction.

As for why the Mechanical Race would do such a thing, the answer might be found only in the planet below.

And the planet below was clearly a non-habitable planet, as it appeared from the outside with no atmosphere.

Simple observation could reveal the planet’s terrain to be very flat.

Near the equator of the planet, there were areas suspected to be buildings.

As for more information, sensors alone couldn’t reveal it.

At least from the spaceship’s current location, it was certainly not possible.

But Chen Ming didn’t dare to let the spaceship get too close now.

After all, the spaceship’s undetected passage from outside the star system was already quite unexpected.

If he got closer, who knows if the Mechanical Race would suddenly react and destroy the spaceship.

While Chen Ming could dismantle the core of Dusk, leave it outside, and take it back later, not worrying about losing Dusk.

Then he could personally control the spaceship to get closer for observation.

Even if it got destroyed, it would only be the matter of a destroyer.

But since the Mechanical Race hadn’t noticed the spaceship so far, there was really no need for him to expose it so soon.

Better to wait and see if he could gather more information without exposure.

Figure out what the Mechanical Race is doing at this location.

This way, he could have more time to choose how to address these Mechanical Race entities.

If the Mechanical Race discovered the spaceship and became wary, it wouldn’t be so easy anymore.

Additionally, some matters don’t necessarily have to be personally investigated to be understood.

Analyses can also be conducted through external conditions.

Just now.

While confirming the presence of the Mechanical Race, Chen Ming casually opened a star map.

He found this star system was located at the rear side of the Empire and Dusk relative to the Mechanical Race Star Realm adjacent to the Empire.

Although it deviated slightly from the Mechanical Race Star Zone position on the star map, it exceeded the frequently active star area of the Mechanical Race drawn by the Empire.

But based on the relative position of this planet and the Mechanical Race Star Zone, Chen Ming could basically confirm that this planet was an independent planet of the Mechanical Race.

Why was this planet independent? And why did it maintain a distance of at least two hundred light-years from the star realm occupied by the Mechanical Race?

This couldn’t be analyzed out.

Chen Ming could only guess randomly that the Mechanical Race left it as a retreat, or say a direction of their expansion, or perhaps there were rare yet worthy resources for the Mechanical Race to develop.

Although the guesses might not be entirely accurate, it should probably be in the right ballpark.

After all, whoever it is, as long as it is a conscious existence, there must be a reason for their actions.

Such an independent planet being occupied by the Mechanical Race, these are just the three possible scenarios Chen Ming recently guessed.