Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 166 Implosion
  After the Iron Psyker made up his mind.

The psychic energy fluctuations on the metal giant began to gather in his hands.

Part of the metal on his body also flowed out, gradually condensing into the hands of the steel giant.

Forming a steel spear in the physical sense.

And the spear was thrown in the direction of Chen Ming by the powerful steel giant who looked like an ancient Greek sculpture at the next moment.

With the blessing of strength and psychic energy, the spear almost instantly burst out to a maximum speed comparable to the Gauss Cannon, a large weapon projectile known for its speed and mass.

Although such a steel spear would not pose a threat to Chen Ming's cruiser under normal circumstances.

But Chen Ming felt fatal danger on it.

So he made another short jump in the other direction without hesitation, once again putting distance between himself and the source of danger.

Almost at the next moment, the steel spear hit the location of the two cruisers just stated, and suddenly stayed in place without warning.

The steel giant behind was almost invisible to the naked eye as it liquefied at extremely high speed and suddenly began to move, leaving a metallic afterimage in space.

Instantly appeared where the spear was.

This steel spear is part of the Iron Giant. The steel psychic relies on the effect of psychic energy and perhaps the attraction between its own metals to achieve such a teleportation effect that is almost close to a jump.

If Chen Ming continues to stay in the same position, the consequences will be disastrous.

However, Chen Ming is not too worried about this ability.

After all, the effect of the real jump engine is far more powerful than the seemingly jump of the steel psyker, but it is actually the psychic energy of extremely high-speed movement.

Unless he can predict the location of Chen Ming's next jump, there is almost no possibility of this steel spear getting close.

But Chen Ming is not stupid. He can look at the direction in which the spear is thrown and decide where to jump.

Even if the Iron Psyker could continue to rely on his psychic powers to control the spear after throwing it, the spear would not have the same speed as when thrown by the Iron Giant.

Otherwise, the Iron Psyker could just use psychic control from the beginning, and there would be no need to rely on the Iron Giant's body to perform the "throwing" action.

Moreover, Chen Ming can also choose to dodge in the opposite direction of throwing the spear.

This physical distance is here. No matter how fast the spear is, it still has to cover this distance honestly.

And for Chen Ming now.

He could actually leave the Iron Psyker alone and leave.

Just now, Bai Quan personally confirmed to him that the fleet of the Fourteenth Legion had been prepared in a very short period of time and would be able to jump over immediately to deal with Zuo Jing's fleet and the psyker.

Moreover, the Iron Psyker has now lost the spaceship he was riding in, and his true colors have been revealed. Although his physical body has the ability to move at such high speed, it has absolutely no ability to make jumps.

If Chen Ming just ran away, who could stop him? Who can catch him?

And he doesn't have to worry about no one to deal with these things after he leaves.

There was absolutely no need for him to confront a psyker who could fight the boss head-on without any restrictions.

Also, this psyker's psychic abilities do have a bit of a restraint on his psychic abilities.

The psychic energy controlled by metal does have a very difficult impact on the spacecraft controlled by him.

If Chen Ming gave him a chance to get closer while pulling him, Chen Ming might be overturned.

But after thinking about it, Chen Ming did not jump out of the galaxy, and also asked Bai Quan not to let the people of the [-]th Legion come over for the time being.

After all, the Iron Psyker has lost his spaceship and cannot even escape. The final outcome has basically been decided, but now he is still making the final struggle.

There is no need for Chen Ming to be afraid.

And this is indeed a rare opportunity, a battlefield and stage of his own.

Chen Ming now urgently needs an opportunity to show his strength.

He was fed up with the endless assassinations and targeting of those who had a grudge against him.

He needs to make those who are petty towards him and his friends understand the consequences of going against him.

Killing a psyker who is on the same level as the boss does not mean that Chen Ming is on equal footing with the boss in terms of psychic abilities.

But it at least shows that Chen Ming's combat effectiveness can no longer be determined by just sending a few cruisers.

Let those people at least consider whether their methods can pose a threat to Chen Ming before taking action, and whether they can withstand Chen Ming's revenge that they will suffer later.

Therefore, the moment the Iron Giant threw the steel spear with greater explosive power and speed for the second time.

Chen Ming just started the jump engine and once again distanced himself from the Iron Giant.

This time Chen Ming deliberately placed the jump's landing point further away.

And the steel spear actually did what he thought, deflecting the direction the moment it hit the position where he just stopped.

At a relatively slow speed, he rushed to the position after Chen Ming's jump.

But obviously, at this distance and at this speed, it was impossible for the spear to touch Chen Ming before he jumped again.

The Iron Giant did not continue to control the spear, but appeared at the position of the spear again, staring at the tail of Chen Ming's two cruisers and the position of the jump engine.

Chen Ming's repair ability combined with the jump engine alone makes him invincible.

There is absolutely no way to reach Chen Ming by just relying on physical displacement and attacks.

The Iron Giant also made this clear after the third attempt and temporarily gave up the fastest movement method on his hands.

But what followed was the surge of spiritual energy from the giant.

His range of psychic influence is expanding dramatically.

This is a manifestation of the psionic intensity of the psyker, and is not limited by anything other than the psyker himself.

Although it consumes a lot of mental energy, it also allows him to make spiritual energy contact Chen Ming's spacecraft faster than normal movement.

But Chen Ming's perception of danger is quite keen.

Before he could feel the range of the psychic fluctuation expanding enough to affect the spacecraft he controlled, he only sensed danger.

The jump engines of both ships had been repaired, and the jump distance was further extended again.

The Iron Giant, who had expanded the scope of his psychic influence to the extreme by relying on his mental power, also threw the spear towards the landing point of Chen Ming's leap at the next moment.

The two cruisers performed the jump again, and as if they could accurately detect the psychic coverage of the steel psyker, they fell directly into a position that was beyond his reach.

Except for those few boats that had dealt with the left-path spacecraft and had returned to Chen Ming during the last jump.

Chen Ming's diopter and the two centurions did not follow the cruiser's jump engine to distance themselves like Heavy Rain and Fighter Kai, but remained in place.

Therefore, in the next moment, the three spaceships that Chen Ming left behind were like pieces of waste paper, crushed into a messy metal ball.
  Even if the Centurion's damping stance remains open, the refractive electromagnetic pulses are constantly trying to affect the metal giant.

The metal ball was immediately absorbed into the body of the Iron Giant.

However, there were not too many emotional fluctuations on Chen Ming's face. He just watched this scene in silence, gradually gaining confidence in his heart.

While the Iron Giant tried to get close to him again, he made a short jump, maintaining a subtle distance.

Until now, the psyker in the Iron Giant finally realized clearly that something was wrong with Chen Ming's cruiser.

The basic concept of the jump engine is very clear to the Iron Psyner, that is, as the jump distance increases, the loss of the jump engine will increase.

This also means that in a short period of time, within a short distance, as long as the battlefield situation is not too chaotic, such as their current one-on-one situation.

Then give the jump engine a chance to start, then the jump engine can indeed make multiple jumps.

Achieving a situation almost similar to the flicker engine of Afterglow.

Although Chen Ming has two cruisers that can take turns to make short-distance jumps, the total number of jumps made by his two spaceships is obviously very wrong.

If there is no way to get close and no way to control it, it will be difficult for the steel psyker's psychic power to exert actual effects.

Moreover, he gradually calmed down after he realized that he was overturned and his blood got the best of him at the beginning.

He found that Chen Ming had these two cruisers in hand and could find an opportunity to escape at any time.

But he didn't, either he was teasing him, or he had the idea of ​​killing him here.

Of course Chen Ming was not playing tricks on him, nor was he wasting his mental energy, nor was he giving him the spaceship for free.

What he is doing now is stalling for time.

The purpose of delaying time is to make his spiritual power more effective.

Chen Ming's psychic energy can control spaceships and mechanical equipment.

But in the past, as long as these things under his control were destroyed, he would lose control of these things.

But it's different now. Even if the thing he controls is destroyed, he can continue to keep his psychic energy on the damaged wreckage.

As long as he provides the mental energy to maintain the connection, the control will not be broken.

Therefore, the same goes for the wreckage of the spacecraft mixed into the metal giant.

And as the metallic liquid inside the metal giant flows, the fragments of Chen Ming's three assimilated spaceships have spread all over the giant's body.

Chen Ming can now use these fragments as a fulcrum to make some transformations.

This is why Chen Ming had the confidence to defeat this psyker and did not leave just yet.

The craziest transformation that Chen Ming can carry out now must be the technique he learned from Zuo Jing.

Even if the steel psyker reacts now, it is already too late.

At this moment.

Bai Quan, who was communicating with Chen Ming through the terminal, was watching everything happening in front of him in silence.

He has always viewed Chen Ming with the highest regard, so he is not surprised to see how Chen Ming's psychic powers can be used.

Therefore, when Chen Ming left the spaceship behind and saw it being absorbed, he had already guessed what Chen Ming was doing.

And when the body of the steel giant suddenly began to become bloated.

He completely understood how courageous Chen Ming was and how surprising his ideas were.

The Iron Giant's movements stopped as his body changed.

The psykers inside have discovered something strange inside the Iron Giant's body.

Those foreign objects that appeared in his body for no reason were obviously influenced by Chen Ming's spiritual energy.

He had some understanding of Chen Ming's psychic powers and knew that Chen Ming could control the spacecraft.

Then those spaceships that were assimilated by him

This is the source of the appearance of these foreign objects

But there were clearly no psychic fluctuations on the three spaceships he absorbed just now, and there were no traces left by Chen Ming.

He even used his mental power to thoroughly clean the spacecraft from the inside out before he could safely absorb it. During the absorption process, he could not find any abnormalities even if he crushed the spacecraft into powder.

How is this going? The iron psychic's face was as dark as ink.

He knew that he had failed today. He had not expected that Chen Ming had three additional cruisers to call upon.

Later, he didn't expect that Chen's psychic power would leave no psychic traces on the spaceships he had affected, which led to him eating the wrong thing.

But he didn't want to die here yet, he had to continue struggling.

As long as he could get back to the other three cruisers that were still fighting with the space station, he would still have a chance to leave.

At that time, when he tried to raise his hand to lift the steel spear and prepared to throw it into the distance, he realized that he suddenly couldn't move.

The foreign matter in his body is affecting the performance of his psychic powers and affecting the movements of the Iron Giant.

He immediately tried to use the flow of metal inside to push out the foreign objects transformed by Chen Ming.

But that didn't work either.

Once he excretes a little bit, more foreign matter will immediately appear in the Iron Giant's body.

Moreover, these foreign objects are still forming some irregular compartments, gradually cutting off the interior of the steel giant.

Without this steel giant, it would be difficult for him to move quickly in space and escape from the pursuit of the cruiser.

Iron psykers are still being expelled to the outside world.

But the more he discharged, the more bloated the Iron Giant became.

You must know that Chen Ming is now taking all the available materials from all the materials that he has removed from the six colonies to create Zuo Jing brand highly destructive high explosives in his body.

Even though these materials accounted for only a small part of the colonial materials that Chen Ming took away, when these materials that were supposed to be applied to industrial facilities were applied to individuals.

Then it's not a little bit of a problem.

And if it's just ordinary explosives, that's fine. If it doesn't break the defense, all damage will be zero.

But Zuo Jing's self-destruction professional and the critical implosion opportunity now induced by Chen Ming are the real and fatal points.

For Chen Ming, these materials can be bought again if they are gone, and money can be made again if they are gone.

But the only chance to completely kill a psyker of the same level as the boss and who has a grudge against him is today.

No one will give him such a good opportunity in the future.

The Iron Giant's body continues to expand abnormally, and more things are still appearing in his body.

This is the most aggressive way that Chen Ming's spiritual power can be used to ignore the limitations of space.

In the blink of an eye.

The moment when Chen Ming's afterglow temporarily stopped there, leaving only a little bit of basic material that could be used to maintain dormant daily routines for his afterglow.

Chen Ming activated the high explosives that had almost enveloped the Iron Giant and completely filled the inside of the Iron Giant.

The body of the steel giant instantly turned red from the inside out, and gradually moved closer to the blazing white direction.

Its metal is melting, its body being destroyed.

That terrifying amount of explosives almost erupted with light that shone like a star in a short period of time.

For a moment, it seemed as if all the light within the entire galaxy was covered under it.

What Chen Ming left in the Iron Giant's body was completely destroyed by the explosion and could no longer be sensed.

And the steel giant also exploded into balls of molten iron in the explosion that was enough to wipe out a weapon.

The extreme heat has not yet dissipated and the ferocious fire has not yet burned out.

But Chen Ming's Heavy Rain and Fighter Kai immediately jumped into the fireball that was still burning after the explosion.

The molten liquid metal on the outside is gradually spreading out due to weight loss, but the metal liquid inside is still barely gathering together.

However, it was completely scattered immediately under the impact of the two spaceships with their shields activated.

Then, Chen Ming found his target.

He found the core of the Iron Giant.

Here, Chen Ming saw a humanoid creature with a metallic appearance.

He is the Iron Psyker.

He was unable to completely protect himself from such a powerful explosion, so much so that he had now lost half of his body.

The right arm and right leg have disappeared, and the smaller half of the abdomen has also disappeared into space.

But even with so many body parts missing, he is still alive in space.

His metal body exudes various strange metallic colors. It is obvious that he has used various materials to strengthen himself, and this is one of the reasons why he is still alive.

This is what top psykers are capable of.

The boss can kill an entire afterglow main fleet in one face-to-face encounter.

And he can withstand the explosion of a special left-diameter explosive with a large yield that even if an offensive comes, he may not be able to withstand it.

Even though he lost consciousness, he was still instinctively absorbing the surrounding metal materials to repair himself.

As long as you give him a certain amount of time, he can complete the repair.

So Chen Ming thought for a moment, and then took the initiative to dismantle some of the metal materials on his two spaceships and threw them at the steel psychic.

The steel psychic, who had lost consciousness and had only the survival instinct, absorbed the part of the precious metal controlled by Chen Ming into his body just as Chen Ming thought.

Instinctively, he completely broke apart the metal and repaired the damage within his body.

After the explosion, Chen Ming's originally nervous, expectant and angry expression gradually calmed down.

"Whether you are conscious or not, what you are doing is seeking death."

At this moment, Chen Ming did not lose control of the absorbed metal.

The Iron Psyker's body was already under his control.

Chen Ming's spiritual energy was exerted on him and spread to his whole body.

Then, just like the three spaceships that Chen Ming had grasped into balls before, the body of the steel psychic was controlled by Chen Ming to grasp a metal ball about half a meter in diameter.

At the same time, his ability to continue absorbing metal was cut off. As long as Chen Ming didn't want to, it would be impossible for him to recover in his life.

Chen Ming did not kill him directly now.

After all, a living psyker has a higher value than a dead psyker.

And Chen Ming actually has a special idea now, as long as he can find Yu Hui's same Qiling Nerve Extraction Device in the future.

Of course, Chen Ming only has a very superficial idea now. He doesn't plan to think too much. He just plans to do things first.

Chen Ming controlled the spacecraft to capture the metal ball inside the fighter's cargo hold.

Then he turned around and flew towards the space station together with the heavy rain.

Before Fighter Kai and Heavy Rain take action.

Chen Ming's five cruisers had returned to the space station earlier.

The Zuo Jing Fleet, which had previously been able to fight with just one brilliance, could not hold its head up. Two cruisers were able to completely suppress the Zuo Jing Fleet and still have the energy to clean up the miscellaneous troops.

As soon as the five cruisers arrived, Zuo Jing's fleet was instantly defeated.

The two defenders were completely left here by Chen Ming in order to cover the retreat of the Eagle-class ship.

Only the Eagle class reluctantly started the jump engine and made the jump with the remaining fleet of just over thirty ships.

It seemed that it was not the people from Zuojia who were driving, but the people from the war zone. Otherwise, the people from Zuojia would have come up directly to fight Chen Ming instead of retreating.

Although Huihuang could determine their location after the jump, Chen Ming did not try to track it.

After all, he had more important things to deal with right now, the psyker.

The matter of tracking the escaping eagle should be left to Baiquan's Fourteenth Legion.

The battle was over in a short time.

When Chen Ming sent the eagle's leap data to Bai Quan, Bai Quan's voice immediately sounded: "Is it just... over?"

"Well, you should be able to see it, right?"

"Of course I can see it, that's why I ask."

Chen Ming couldn't help but have a slight smile on his face and said: "This is my luck. They misjudged my strength, and the psyker also wanted to absorb my spaceship."

"Auxiliary psykers can display strength that is difficult for normal psykers to match when they have suitable auxiliary objects. Having your own cruiser is equivalent to meeting this condition."

"Who would have thought that your spiritual power could actually make the output of a weapon so outrageous?"

"And although your spiritual power is restrained, it doesn't seem to be as restrained as it is."

"Who would have thought that you could still control those remains after they were reduced to powder?"

At this moment, Chen Ming suddenly realized the meaning of Bai Quan's words, and then said pointedly: "Yes, who would have thought of it?"

Bai Quan also smiled, put aside the topic and said, "By the way, my investigation has revealed the identity of another psyker."

The smile on Chen Ming's face disappeared instantly, and he quickly asked: "Who?"

"A person named Hu Yi is also a member of your psychic association. After all, the association is a loose organization, and internal conflicts are very normal."

"What kind of psyker?"

"It is said that he is a psyker related to temperature. I don't know how many more there are."

"Okay, I understand, thank you."

"I didn't do anything. I just checked someone out for you. I didn't do anything like I promised to give you instructions."

Chen Ming knew why Bai Quan didn't help with command and guidance. After all, the front was already suppressed like this, and there was no point in giving too much command.

And he actually didn't expect that when his spiritual power was fully activated, he could actually make the spacecraft perform such an amazing performance.

Of course, he said that he definitely couldn't say that.

Bai Quan still helped him organize a follow-up rescue fleet despite the unclear situation, and helped him detect the appearance of a second psyker in advance, and even found out the identity of this psyker fairly quickly.

The former Chen Ming returned the favor with the escaped Eagle, but he still remembered the later favor.

So he still said: "The two things cannot be put together. Thank you for what you deserve."

Bai Quan naturally would not refuse Chen Ming's kindness and said, "Then let's continue to cooperate happily in the future?"

"Well, it's a pleasure to work together."

(End of this chapter)