Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 139 Dimension Infection
After being surprised, the boss immediately asked: "How are you sure that the thing in your mind belongs to the boat spirit? Also, how do you know about the boat spirit?"

Chen Ming couldn't answer the boss's question. He could only answer vaguely based on his own feelings: "I'm not sure either."

"I suddenly sensed the ship spirit just when I was planning to stay away from that big heart, and then the word automatically popped into my mind."

"I only know that the ship spirit is symbiotic with me and is something born from my spiritual energy."

The boss thought in silence for a while, and finally chose to believe Chen Ming's words.

He had already seen how talented Chen Ming was in psychic abilities.

Therefore, even if Chen Ming has not gone through systematic study and has never seen the ship spirit, he does not know the existence of the ship spirit.

After coming into contact with the Ship Spirit, it was very normal to discover that the Ship Spirit was born from psychic energy and had traits such as coexisting with psykers.

"Then let me give you a rough idea."

"The ship spirit can be regarded as another life of the psyker, and it is an existence that no one can take away."

"As you know, the ship spirit and the psyker are symbiotic, so it will instinctively protect the psyker."

"Since your ship spirit is not on the ship but on you, it means your ship is gone, right?"

"Your ship spirit should have done something."

Chen Ming flashed the previous scene in his mind and responded: "Yes, my ship was missing from the previous operation of the Fourteenth Legion, and it was indeed protecting me."

The boss nodded habitually and continued: "But the value of the ship spirit is more than that. It is good at assisting ship control and enhancing the effect of ship AI."

"And it can also allow your spacecraft to reflect the characteristics of your psychic energy. This is the most critical thing."

"Enhance AI? Embody traits?"

"Yes."

"You should have a good understanding of enhanced AI."

"Spaceships above cruise ships are basically equipped with at least Delta-level AI, with Tachyon Technology's Heavy Rain-level being an exception."

"The reason why the Ship Spirit is called the Ship Spirit is not only derived from the psyker, but also because of the spirituality of the Ship Spirit."

"Ship Spirit is a psychic creature, it has its own consciousness."

"Although Ship Spirit's consciousness is relatively simple, it is enough to make up for the lack of personality in the core of the Delta-level AI."

"As long as the ship spirit with simple consciousness can cooperate with the psyker and allocate the computing power of the rigid AI core according to the psyker's wishes, the effect will be very good."

"And the ship spirit and the psyker are symbiotic, and the ship spirit will never be at risk of betrayal."

"Of course, this effect is not important to you."

The boss knows the effects of Chen Ming's psychic energy. No matter how the ship spirit cooperates with the psyker himself, it is impossible to compare with the comfort of the psyker personally controlling a battleship.

So the boss just talked about it casually and answered another question from Chen Ming.

"As for embodying traits, it's more complicated to explain in detail. Let me give you an example."

"Suppose there is a psyker who can control fire. If he has a ship spirit, and the ship spirit is attached to his ship, then the ship will show the characteristics of fire in many aspects."

"Basically fire-related, such as improved engine efficiency, weapons with built-in flames, and spacecraft shields will have similar effects."

"This is just something I made up casually. It's a fire-type psyker with relatively rudimentary psychic effects."

"If it is another type of psyker with more complex abilities, the effect of the characteristics will be very different."

When the boss said this, he couldn't help but imagine the future and said: "I am also very curious now about what kind of effects your ship spirit can have on your ship."

"Remember to let the ship spirit board the new ship when you get it. The ship spirit that cooperates with you should be very good."

"wrong."

The boss suddenly realized the problem and said, "Didn't I just tell you about the cloning experiment? I'm going too far."

"I have already found out the news about the cloning ban period. I had some impressions of these things. After looking up the information, I basically remembered everything."

The boss sent several documents to the terminal for Chen Ming to read, and said to him at the same time: "The first cloning experiment that went wrong was a long time ago."

"I'm afraid you don't understand. I'll tell you a premise first so that you can understand."

"All things have animism, but clones don't, because clones are existences without consciousness."

"But clones exist in the universe like other creatures, and as long as there are living things, it is possible to acquire psychic energy. Humans will become psykers, and other creatures will become psychic creatures."

"And the clones might become psychic beings instead of psykers."

At this time, Chen Ming was dealing with the flesh and blood tissue in the passage in front of him, while taking the time to look through several documents given by the boss that seemed to be confidential enough to be taken out casually, and at the same time, he was listening to the boss's story.

Even though Chen Ming is now multitasking, when his boss mentioned this paragraph, he still subconsciously said: "What about the vegetative state?"

"Vegetative people also have consciousness, but their consciousness is very weak and cannot support their bodies to wake up."

"Cloning human beings is completely different. They have skipped the stage of normal life development and have no consciousness. Unless cloning human beings only clones genes to obtain embryos and then reproduces through normal means, then there is no problem."

"Otherwise, it's just a piece of dead flesh, a thing without consciousness."

There was some disgust in the boss's voice when he talked about the clones.

"In short, if an unconscious being possesses rare psychic powers, it is equivalent to a piece of fat hanging on the roadside, which will attract some dirty things hidden in certain corners."

"Some, you can understand it as similar to hyperspace, but things in the space that we humans cannot set foot on."

"These things are a bit like the hyperspace ethereal spirits that ships occasionally encounter when they are traveling in hyperspace."

"This kind of hyperspace virtual spirit, which we currently have no way of investigating its specific image, will at most occasionally watch the hyperspace spacecraft, releasing interference fluctuations that affect the efficiency of the engine."

"Void spirits are not dangerous to humans. They are just a headache at most. The spacecraft can drive them away by releasing a blocking pulse."

"But the things in that space that unconscious clones will attract are not at the same level as the dangers of living in hyperspace."

The boss introduced the general situation and began to explain to Chen Ming what had happened.

"According to the records."

"The body part of the clones affected in the cloning institute where the problem first occurred was the eyes."

"The effect of being affected is called dimensional infection."

Chen Ming intervened at this time and asked: "Infection? Isn't it parasitic? I thought it was something from that space that escaped."

"It's not parasitism. They definitely can't come out of their space at the moment. They can only influence us by following the traces of spiritual energy."

"In fact, ordinary psychic creatures and psychics can also perceive them, but any normal creature will instinctively resist when they perceive them. Only clones will be unable to react."

"The affected clone's body parts will have distorted consciousness caused by the influence of those things, and become a living being."

"At that time, the situation in the photo you sent almost happened."

"The eyes have the same aberration as your...heart, right, but the situation is more serious."

"The ability of this distortion to spread is very terrifying. Ordinary people have no ability to resist at all. They will be affected if they approach directly."

"The eyes of all affected people will become living individuals, separated individually."

Chen Ming put his hand on his chest and asked, "My chest feels a little tight when I'm close to the abnormal heart. Is it spreading?"

"Yes, but you are a psychic, so you are naturally resistant to this kind of thing."

"But if it's an ordinary person, when he feels chest tightness, his heart will have been distorted and run out on its own."

"It was like this before. Those living eyeballs scattered after leaving the body, affecting a very wide range."

"Whether it's dead or alive, anything with eyes will be affected."

"But can you imagine a habitable planet becoming full of flying eyeballs? Or the entire planet becoming part of the eyes? Or even more."

"Just think about the consequences of the dimensional infection breaking out in the bustling star field. How many people and things perished at that time, causing unprecedented damage."

"We have been fighting Yuhui for so many years, and we have a very high tolerance for losses."

"But the empire has completely banned cloning experiments. You will know how terrible the negative effects are."

"Until the end, we barely managed to deal with the dimensional infection, and then blocked the news and banned cloning research."

Chen Ming asked curiously: "Then how did you deal with the dimensional infection in the end?"

"A psyker banished these things."

"exile?"

"You can think of it as being driven out of our universe and throwing all infected things back to the space where they came from."

"Well, probably."

The boss was a little unsure when he said this, and it seemed that he was not too clear about the specific solution and circumstances.

But just the part that was said was exaggerated enough.

The boss's words were obviously saying that at least one prosperous galaxy in the human empire was infected by the dimension, and this galaxy full of aberrant psychic creatures was thrown back by a psyker.

Chen Ming couldn't even imagine how powerful this psyker was.

But at this moment, besides focusing on the psyker mentioned by his boss, Chen Ming was also thinking about another thing.

Chen Ming now understood the situation around him.

Thanks to Yuhui, there is no one here, at most there is only a group of clones.

Therefore, the final harm caused by this cloning experiment was limited to the small area of ​​​​the Cloning Research Institute.

Then, humans should also be able to use this method.

Find a few galaxies in the edge star fields with poor resources and far away from the prosperous star fields, and build cloning research institutes on them.

With super-light communication technology, just arrange for robots and equipment to be controlled remotely. If there is a problem, just block the galaxy and find a way to deal with it from a distance.

If the planet cannot handle the small satellite, it can certainly handle it. It will certainly not be difficult to build some research institutes on the satellite.

So why doesn't the Empire do this?

Chen Ming knew that there must be a reason for the empire not to do this, so he asked the question directly.

The boss answered quickly: "Actually, there was no cloning ban when the dimension infection was just dealt with. The ban was promulgated about half a year later than this incident."

"Because after dealing with the dimensional infection, the empire does have thoughts similar to yours."

"However, all subsequent cloning experiments, all, have been affected, and all clones have become distorted."

"Although after the dimensional infection is dealt with, the subsequent distortions are only physical distortions of the clones, and have no psychic impact, and the harm caused is relatively small." "But no matter how small the harm is, it depends on the overall scale. If a small problem occurs throughout the empire, it will not be a small problem."

"Guess why?"

Chen Ming had one answer for something he didn't understand at all: "I don't know."

The boss obviously did not expect Chen Ming to guess correctly. Chen Ming said before he could finish his words: "Those things that we think are causing the dimensional infection have roughly positioned the empire's position in the universe through the dimensional infection."

"So they can continue to exert an influence on the entire empire. All unconscious clones will suffer severely. Fortunately, clones with psychic abilities are a small probability event after all, and the overall situation is within the range that can be handled."

"But beyond their effect on clones, their influence also affects the Empire's newborns on a massive scale."

"Many newborn babies and even embryos have abnormalities."

"They are too fragile. Even if they have complete consciousness, they will inevitably be affected by that kind of terrifying thing for a long time."

Chen Ming immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, and at the same time, he suddenly understood what consequences Yu Hui's actions would have on them.

Just as Chen Minggang wanted to ask how this sequelae was solved, the boss said what he wanted to ask: "Until 15 years after this incident broke out, as time passed, the position between our two spaces changed. deviation."

"They lost their position in the empire in another dimension, and the situation gradually eased."

"It is this terror that completely cuts off the future of mankind that leads to the existence of the ban."

"If Yuhui is causing trouble now, we are afraid that there will be another massive decrease in newborns."

"I will report this matter later through my connections. I don't know what will happen next."

"But we will definitely make big moves against Yuhui. Otherwise, if Yuhui takes advantage of this, our demise will be within a few generations."

"Your abilities will have a more solid foundation as soon as they have the afterglow, so you'd better take action as soon as possible."

Chen Ming tried his best to quickly digest the information that normal people would never have access to in this life. At the same time, he couldn't help but ask: "Are all the recorded documents written in such detail?"

The boss said casually: "Because in addition to talking to you, I am also talking to other people who know this matter. It is always good to know more people."

"Uh... wait."

The boss suddenly thought of something and asked Chen Ming nervously: "Are you sure that Yuhui cloned you?"

"Correct."

"That's a bit troublesome."

"According to subsequent investigation records, although the consequences of dimension infection are spread throughout the empire."

"But the gene provider of the clone that first appeared, that is, the psyker, encountered some trouble later."

"Those things may target you as the provider of genes."

"There's nothing you can do about it. You won't be able to keep your genes when you get to Yuhui's place. You can't stop Yuhui from trying to kill you with your genes."

"But now that you know it, it's best not to go directly to the outer star field when you leave Yuhui. It's best to come back and I'll take you to meet someone."

"Who?"

"The person who originally threw his eyes into other dimensions is the president of our psychic society."

"it is good."

Chen Ming was very curious about taking the lead in organizing such a boss who obviously had a decisive position.

But there are some things he still has to say: "But I feel fine now, there is no problem."

"Well, that psyker thought so too at the beginning."

"Um...what happened next? Did he die?"

"That's not true. He is still chatting with me now, and you can see him when you come back."

Chen Ming asked with some surprise and uncertainty: "President?"

"Correct."

Many thoughts flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

But before he could say anything, he was interrupted by an unexpected situation around him.

Just when he was chatting with his boss, he unknowingly arrived at the door of the cloning laboratory.

And here, there is a "thing" waiting for him.

A "person" like a mannequin.

It has no skin on its body, and if you look closely, you will find that all its muscle tissue is forcibly kneaded from heart muscle tissue.

Even the eyes just forced a ball of flesh and blood inside.

Chen Ming felt the tightness in his chest and the obviously twisted feeling of "closeness" again.

But what made Chen Ming really feel the danger was inside the research institute behind it.

Chen Ming took a photo and sent it to his boss, and said, "Boss, I encountered something here. I'll tell you later."

He needs to concentrate on solving the problem in front of him first.

Chen Ming stopped.

He could feel the excitement, excitement and greed of the boat spirit in his mind, as well as the nervousness of Xiao Shi next to him.

However, Xiaoshi has shown the potential of psychic powers, and it has been in contact with Chen Ming's Whispering Stone for almost the same time as Chen Ming, and even had a lot of fairy tree tea to supplement it.

Besides, when Chen Ming felt chest tightness before, Xiao Shi didn't sleep soundly, so he could tell that there was something special about Xiao Shi.

Therefore, Xiaoshi itself can actually be regarded as a psychic creature, but the specific effect of psychic energy is still unclear.

Otherwise, Chen Ming wouldn't be able to bring it down.

Now it is not a problem for Xiaoshi to hit a normal adult male, but his nervousness is more instinctive.

Chen Ming tilted his head and rubbed Xiaoshi to comfort it.

And immediately kept a distance and activated the micro-sensor he modified on the power armor.

Sensors similar to those of a spaceship, capable of simply scanning something.

And inside the distorted flesh and blood in front of Chen Ming.

He saw an Alpha-level core connected by flesh and blood tissue, as well as the two ectoplasmic stones he had lost.

The distorted flesh and blood seemed to notice something, and suddenly opened its mouth and said in an unclear voice: "You..."

But Chen Ming didn't bother to worry about why G3's core and his ectoplasmic stone were in this thing's body, and he didn't give it any chance to talk nonsense.

When it said its first word, the flamethrower raised by Chen Ming spit out a fiery snake.

The red flames instantly wrapped around the distorted flesh and blood, but the effect was not very obvious.

Because there is a wave of spiritual energy entangled in the body of the distorted flesh and blood.

Although the words of the distorted flesh and blood were suppressed by the flamethrower, it itself took a step forward in the fire.

A protective type of psionic power?

This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and he suddenly frowned and covered his chest.

The ship spirit in his brain seemed to sense something, and took the initiative to leave the brain and go to the position of the heart, protecting Chen Ming from the pressure exerted by the distorted flesh and blood.

This eliminates the need for Chen Ming to devote a large amount of mental energy to protect himself.

After feeling that the chest tightness was slightly relieved, Chen Ming released the hand covering his chest and waved it slightly behind him.

At this time, the distorted flesh and blood that seemed to have the upper hand opened its mouth: "No..."

As soon as it said a word, it was suddenly thrown to the ground by a robot that flew out from behind Chen Ming.

Of course, Chen Ming also rubbed the robot on the spot.

Originally, Chen Ming wanted to decorate it with explosives and explode it with aberrant flesh and blood, but after thinking about it, he couldn't do it if it exploded underground.

So just setting up some chainsaw blades and stuff like that.

Four mechanical arms equipped with saw blades swung at the twisted flesh and blood that was knocked down.

For a moment, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the two arms with distorted flesh and blood were instantly removed.

But at the next moment, a sudden electromagnetic pulse swept across the passage in front of the institute.

This is also the spiritual power of distorted flesh and blood.

However, Chen Ming's robot shook slightly. It seemed that such an intensity of electromagnetic pulse was just interference to it and did not completely paralyze it.

The power armor worn by Chen Ming is also the same.

This is because Chen Ming has just learned something new recently.

Some of the things I got from Bai Quan were considered as deposits, and were used to protect against electromagnetic pulse military technology.

The military, whether it is the Fourteenth Legion or the military in various star regions, their spacecraft shields are very poor.

Therefore, in many battles, they will choose to turn off the shield and use the armor of the spacecraft to resist weapon damage.

But armor is unable to withstand things like electromagnetic pulses.

Therefore, the technology of the Fourteenth Legion in this area is very powerful.

What Chen Ming got from Bai Quan was the top anti-electromagnetic interference technology.

In the past, Chen Ming suffered from lack of education, technology, and money. The equipment used in the spacecraft he drove did not have this technology.

It's different now.

With technology, we can always find a way to deal with this kind of problem.

Chen Ming did not lose his calm due to the physical and psychological effects, and in the blink of an eye he suppressed the distorted flesh and blood again.

The robot instantly cut the distorted flesh into sticks.

However, the distorted flesh and blood saw that the situation was not right, and violent arcs of electricity visible to the naked eye actually flashed on the body.

The terrifying power brought by high pressure cannot be blocked by Chen Ming's casual robot.

In the blink of an eye, the robot fell to the ground, emitting black smoke.

(End of this chapter)