Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 167 Handling
  After the battle is over.

Space Arm No. 2, the boss’s hardware store.

The boss was expressionlessly making a video call with another psyker, Hu Yi, who was near the space station.

At this time, he had learned the news outside the space station, and the explosions that were ringing in his ears from time to time had also subsided.

So he said to Hu Yi: "The fighting is over outside, it's time for you to leave."

Hu Yi responded with some surprise: "Oh? Have you finished the fight? Judging from your reaction, it seems that the result is not good for me."

The boss continued to say to him expressionlessly: "See for yourself."

"Hey, don't be so straight-faced. You also know that I can't help myself."

"Let's just drink tea and chat here. Wouldn't it be nice not to fight or join in the fun? We are all civilized people. There is really no need to fight."

The boss suddenly sneered and said, "Didn't they give too much?"

Hu Yi spread his hands and said, "It may have something to do with it."

The boss was not fooled at all and directly exposed Hu Yi's lies and said: "I think it is the most important relationship. I hope you feel that this transaction is profitable."

"What? You can still give me more than what you gave me over there? It's not impossible if you can really betray me on the spot."

The boss did not answer Hu Yi's question, but told the fact: "Then do you know that the president plans to come to see Chen Ming in the next two days."

Hu Yi was stunned and said with some uncertainty: "What?"

"Do you know that the government will definitely provide special protection to Chen Ming in the future? Especially within the empire."

"If you want to take action against Chen Ming, I will be offended by far more than just me."

Hu Yi suddenly panicked, because there was no need for Wu An to tell such lies that could be exposed easily. He quickly asked: "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? Hey, you want to go on your own, right?"

The boss hung up the phone and turned to look at the door of the hardware store.

Chen Ming happened to be standing there at this time. Behind him was a handling robot, and several of the robot's mechanical arms held a huge metal ball.

At the last second when the boss and Hu Yi hung up the communication.

Hu Yi happened to see a little bit of the situation at the entrance of the store through the video communication screen.

Chen Ming, who returned safely to the space station with no trace of injury on his body, and the familiar metal ball behind him, made him feel a chill at this moment.

And when the picture of the communication disappeared and Hu Yi recalled the picture just now, he suddenly felt heart palpitations for a moment.

He immediately left his current room and came outside.

Outside his room was a corridor made entirely of metal materials with several porthole windows.

Through the porthole, you can see the star of the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, as well as the fire of the violent explosion that has not been completely extinguished in the galaxy.

It can be seen that Hu Yi is now on a spacecraft, which is quite close to the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, but it also remains in a position that cannot be detected by normal detectors.

Although it is still difficult for the naked eye to see clearly what is going on in the galaxy at this distance.

But this distance is enough to quickly enter the galaxy when necessary, allowing Hu Yi to maintain a deterrent to the boss.

Just like what Hu Yi said just now, he really just wanted to keep in touch with his boss, and then drink tea and finish the task.

As long as he doesn't move, the boss can't deal with another steel psyker who is fighting Chen Ming.

That's why they really started video chatting there and never left each other's sight.

Of course, the boss has relatively wide access and can get a lot of information immediately without leaving home.

And he still really doesn't know what the situation is like outside.

But as soon as he came out, someone silently handed him a document without a good look.

Obviously this expression was not directed at Hu Yi, but because of what happened outside just now.

Hu Yi glanced at the distant galaxy through the porthole again, then returned to his room and flipped through the document.

Halfway through seeing it, his expression had already changed drastically.

He originally thought it was just a general failure.

He never expected that a psyker would die today in an unknown place in the Edge Star Territory. If Wu An hadn't stayed here, no one would have known about it.

And he died at the hands of a new psyker who had only recently become a psyker.

The last scene of the video call with Wu An flashed through Hu Yi's mind.

The metal ball held by the robot behind Chen Ming is probably a relic left after the death of the steel psychic.

Combined with what Wu An said just now about the president's meeting with Chen Ming, he immediately thought of many possibilities, each of which would get him into trouble.

Hu Yi immediately swiped nervously on the terminal, looking for anyone in his contacts who could help him.

Even if he doesn't solve the trouble, he must at least confirm whether the trouble is real.

When the president's contact information appeared in Hu Yi's eyes.

He hesitated and did not click. Instead, he continued to scroll down and found the contact information of the person who hired him.

But when he called, there was only a busy tone indicating that no one was connected.

Hu Yi was on the phone at the same time.

War zone station.

The Lieutenant General's office.

Lieutenant General and Tao Ying are both here, but Zhang Feng is not here at this time.

The lieutenant general was looking at several calls that could not be made on the terminal and said: "The calls cannot be made, the signal is blocked."

Tao Ying, who was watching outside near the window and waiting for the result with a very anxious look, immediately turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

"I said, the signal is blocked"

Tao Ying immediately turned around, took out the terminal, looked down and asked, "Isn't the signal full?"

"It's too easy to fake signals."

"What do you mean? Who dares..."

In the middle of speaking, Tao Ying suddenly stopped and turned pale.

There is no need to guess who the person who can shield the signal of a lieutenant general's office in a war zone station is.

She, who was still a little aggressive, suddenly lost her previous momentum, and asked tremblingly: "Why is it so fast?"

"If you don't hibernate during the period when you should be hibernating, don't you think someone will come to add insult to injury?"

"And don't you think we've provoked too many people? Who can be saved? Your family members?"

The lieutenant general emphasized the word "family members" specially.

Tao Ying immediately returned to his previous appearance, pointed at the lieutenant general and said, "What do you mean? Are you blaming me?"

The lieutenant general shook his head and put the self-defense pistol on the table into the drawer of the table.

Without saying a word, he continued to drink tea as if nothing happened.

"You are talking, what do you mean?"

Tao Ying quickly walked up to the lieutenant general and slapped her hand on the desk.

However, at this moment, noisy footsteps suddenly came from the door.

Tao Ying suddenly panicked again and subconsciously took a few steps back. She didn't stop until she hit the sofa.

The next moment, the office door was opened directly.

A group of people from the army's internal inspection team wearing special military uniforms filed in, and everyone's face was as hard as cold iron.

The leader of the inspection team stepped forward and said to the two people in the room: "Lieutenant General Zhu Yijing and Lieutenant General Tao Ying, we have evidence that you secretly colluded with Lu De Zuojing. Please take a trip."

Zhu Yijing drank the last sip of tea and took the initiative to extend his hands to the inspection team.

Tao Ying's face turned pale, and she slumped helplessly on the sofa next to her.

Immediately afterwards, he was picked up by the inspection team and forcibly taken away from the office.

A group of people walked between office buildings.

The road that the inspection team was going to take had been cleared in advance. At this time, no one noticed the embarrassment of the two lieutenant generals, which saved them the last bit of face.

In the process of walking out of the office building and heading to the location where the spacecraft of the inspection team was parked.

Zhu Yijing suddenly asked the team leader: "Can I call someone?"

The team leader did not refuse directly. After all, reporting the problem as soon as possible was a choice that could relatively alleviate some of his own faults.

He has seen too much.

So he asked: "To whom?"

"My deputy."

"Zhang Feng?"

"Yes."

The team leader had a strange expression on his face. After asking for permission, he said, "Okay."

He took out the lieutenant general's terminal that he had just confiscated and dialed Zhang Feng's number.

Obviously, Zhang Feng was not affected by the Lieutenant General's incident, and the Lieutenant General knew the reason very well.

Soon, the call was connected, and the lieutenant general came up and asked directly: "Did you do this?"

Zhang Feng didn't reply, but the lieutenant general seemed to be sure of the answer.

"Well, I understand, you can do what you want to do."

It seemed that the lieutenant general did not want to drag Zhang Feng into trouble.

However, the team leader did not stop him. Anyway, the content of the communication would be monitored, and words that should not be said would be blocked before being transmitted to the other side.

He doesn't need to worry too much.

Moreover, they did not find any violation of rules by Zhang Feng.

It seems that all Zhang Feng has done for so many years is to follow the lieutenant general.

Of course, everyone knows that what Zhang Feng has done must be more than what he says on the surface, but evidence is required in everything.

All the evidence shows that Zhang Feng didn't do anything, so it's impossible for them to take people away for no reason.

Zhang Feng suddenly sighed slightly and said, "I've actually been doing what I want to do."

"But a lot of times, I have to do things that I wouldn't even think of doing and would never do... very stupid things while doing what I want to do."

"Just like last time, he only needs to be a mascot to get merit, but there are people who insist that he perform enough..."

The person Zhang Feng was referring to was very clear, and the lieutenant general couldn't help but glance at Tao Ying, who was unable to stand up and could only walk with help from others.

"People can't get rid of emotions, so they care about things and get confused."

"In addition, I like it when laymen guide experts. There is a difference between civilians and military officers."

The lieutenant general said and suddenly asked: "What do you think of me?"

The lieutenant general's career is over, and he can basically spend the rest of his life in prison.

Zhang Feng, as the person who personally reported the lieutenant general, knew this, so he could safely tell his true thoughts at this time.

"It's average, and it's still on the lower side. It's you who rose up from the bottom, but it's you who threatened me with my family."

"And as you just said, there is a difference between a civilian and an officer. Let alone an officer, I can't even be considered a civilian now."

"So I feel grateful and hate you, but in summary, that's it."

"What about Tao Ying?"

"..."

Seeing Zhang Feng's silence, the Lieutenant General sighed slightly in his heart, and then said: "Then answer me one last question. What are your plans for that person?"

Zhang Feng said without any hesitation: "I will stay far away from him. It is best not to have any contact with him in this life." "Your plan outside has failed. Chen Ming is alive." Come down, the fleet in the past will be wiped out, and one of the psykers will be killed. Is this what you want?"

However, Zhang Feng's last words were cut off by the monitor and did not reach the ears of the lieutenant general.

The people from the Military Commission for Discipline Inspection continued to escort the people to their spaceship, preparing to go to a higher-level military region.

However, there is only one place left for the military region that is one level higher than the Star Territory Joint Theater.

Imperial Central Military District.

at this time.

On board the pirate space station.

Chen Ming just asked the robot to drag the metal ball into the boss's shop.

The boss was full of questions at first, but when he sensed a familiar spiritual energy wave overflowing from the metal ball.

He couldn't help but froze for a moment, then reached out and pressed the metal ball and said, "What's going on with you...?"

Although he had just learned some information from the outside world, that information was also obtained from other people.

Everyone except Chen Ming only saw the explosion that was enough to destroy the battleship.

There is no specific description of what happened inside the core after the explosion.

No one knows what happened there.

So when Chen Ming dragged the ball over, the boss had no idea of ​​this situation in his mind.

Then Chen Ming explained seriously: "He is mentally retarded and absorbed the things affected by my spiritual energy, and then..."

Then, in front of his boss, he manually controlled the metal ball to return to a half-disabled human form.

And when the steel psyker returned to his human form, he began to instinctively absorb the surrounding metal objects again.

Chen Ming took him back again.

The boss thought for a while and gave Chen Ming a thumbs up.

"Brilliant."

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about the rest of the matter.

Order on the space station was almost completely restored when he returned.

His advance arrangements worked.

One of the two dispatched robots successfully restored the power system of a space arm.
  The power supply to some important equipment of the space station was maintained, but the price was that the space station was controlled by him.

Chen Ming believed that the company behind the space station must know this, but no one mentioned it, so he didn't take the initiative to say it.

Another robot sent out to find the hacker's location also successfully controlled the hacker.

Even though he had a lot of sophisticated personal equipment, he still couldn't kill a robot assisted by Chen Ming's ability.

With a stable power system supply and the hacker being captured alive, there are no internal network problems.

And there are also those data provided by Chen Ming that were deleted but records were left.

People from the Administration's cybersecurity department can also quickly locate left-wing elements who have fled into the space station.

The entire administration was mobilized.

Under the leadership of the deputy director, and based on the previous experience, all problems within the administration were quickly resolved, and martial law was quickly issued.

It didn't take long for the chaos in the entire space station to be completely suppressed. Although the losses were still huge, at least they would not continue to increase.

As for the director.

The people on the space station didn't find him, but Chen Ming did.

Director, he reboarded his cruise ship, probably planning to go back to where he came from and find ways to smooth things over.

Then, he was sent back by Chen Ming himself in a spaceship.

Chen Ming didn't know what happened after that. Anyway, the factory director would definitely notify him later and tell him what came out of the interrogation in the company.

As for Chen Ming and his boss.

The boss simply confirmed that the metal ball was indeed the steel psychic himself, and asked Chen Ming about his plans.

After learning Chen Ming's thoughts, he said nothing more.

The boss didn't know what the equipment Yu Hui initially transported was, but he still understood the situation during Chen Ming's time.

Therefore, he also knew about the existence of Qiling Nerve Extraction Device.

By the way, he also knew that the Empire had obtained the manufacturing method of artificial spiritual nerves and had successfully reproduced them.

As for the function of these reproduced artificial spiritual nerves, it is basically research.

But there are also some that can be sold to the outside world when the official research institute of the empire that studies spiritual nerves is short of funds.

Of course, the effects of implantation after wealthy people buy them will vary from person to person.

Under normal circumstances, when this kind of artificial spiritual nerve is implanted in a non-psychic person, apart from slightly activating the implanter's mental power, it can actually be said to be completely meaningless.

This is like farming. You build a shelf on the ground first, but in the end you find that there are no seeds that can be planted, so the shelf is of no use.

The awakening of a psyker still depends on the individual.

If one could awaken psychic powers by implanting an artificial psychic nerve, the psyker would have been dead long ago.

But if it is such a powerful psyker's spiritual awakening nerve, maybe many people will really want it.

The metal ball is Chen Ming's trophy, and he can do with it whatever he wants.

Anyway, in the eyes of outsiders, the Iron Psyker was already dead when the explosion occurred.

However, Chen Ming was still good at asking his boss how to deal with this steel psychic named Yan Xiong.

After all, buying and selling the psychic nerves of psykers seems a bit strange if Chen Ming thinks about it carefully, and extracting the spiritual nerves will most likely lead to the death of the psyker.

Chen Ming didn't care about killing people, but he still couldn't accept killing people in this way.

After all, he is not Yuhui, and it is impossible to think about what is beneficial to him absolutely rationally.

Just like when he destroyed the batch of pink needles from the smuggling fleet.

Of course he knew how much money he could make if he sold the goods.

But he didn't want to bear the consequences.

It's the same now, he can't do this kind of thing to the same kind of people now.

If Yu Hui had spiritual enlightenment nerves, Chen Ming would just pull them out, but he had to think carefully about it in humans.

So Chen Ming still didn't make up his mind, so he asked the boss if he had any plans to take over.

But the boss doesn’t really need it.

Although there is indeed a conflict between him and Yan Xiong, the conflict between them basically started because of Chen Ming, and now it ends because of Chen Ming.

There is no need for him to care too much about Yan Xiong.

However, after understanding Chen Ming's troubles, the boss told Chen Ming something to introduce Zuo Jing.

There are only a few keywords, such as cults, kidnappings, terrorist attacks on civilian facilities, smuggling, and often chatting with people about heart-wrenching things.

And clearly pointed out the fact that Yan Xiong and Zuo Jing cooperated.

Then Chen Ming's psychological pressure disappeared.

He doesn't care at all how many times this kind of person dies.

Of course, he still didn't want to do something that would stir up people's spiritual nerves.

However, the boss also promised that he would help ask people who have a grudge against Yan Xiong. Who might be interested?
  If no one is interested, then Chen Ming might as well keep it.

A psyker will always be useful.

Moreover, if Chen Ming tried to replace all the metal on the unconscious Yan Xiong with metal materials he controlled.

Maybe he can get a psyker who is completely controlled by him?

The boss's words reminded Chen Ming of this possibility.

This can make him accept too much than pulling out the spiritual nerves of others.

However, what to do next depends on the specific situation.

When Chen Ming was chatting with his boss about psykers.

The headquarters of Xinda Company has also received news from their pirate space station.

A board meeting was quickly organized.

This is a critical meeting, and the company needs to adjust its overall strategic direction.

So all the directors have to come.

But when the time for the meeting to start arrived, there was still one person missing at the conference table.

The chairman looked around and said, "Wait for him. He is the most important person in this meeting."

Since the meeting was online, others didn’t quite know what the missing director was doing.

The director who had not yet gone to the meeting was currently on the phone with someone in his office at the branch company under his jurisdiction, and his tone could be said to be very irritable.

"I just gave him a fucking job where he can make a lot of money casually. Look at what he did! Ah! Look at it!"

A somewhat older middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Your brother-in-law is just like this. Please take care of him."

"Did I take care of you several times before? Don't be so fucking greedy. Someone will come and give you money as soon as you sit in that position. Did I say so when I stepped on the horse?"

"What did he do? Blackmail the company's employees' property! Collude with outsiders! Get involved with Zuo Jing! Which fucking thing can a human do?"

"But he didn't know it was the left path."

"Zuo Jing will tell you with the word "Zuo Jing" written on his face? You don't have any brains, right? Can he fucking accept that money?"

"But the main thing is that Chen Ming..."

"Isn't it more stupid to offend a psyker? Did the company say he was dead? Did it throw out his files?"

"Why have his supplies and spaceship been left there untouched? Who gave him the courage to touch them? Huh?"

"He's looking for death himself, so he's looking for death, and he's implicating the company! He's implicating me!"

"The company is going to be investigated by the government because of this idiot! Do you know how much we are going to lose?"

The person on the other end of the phone said a little unsurely: "Is that just a branch office? What are you worried about?"

"you!"

The director laughed angrily for a moment, and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably.

"I have to be scolded by the chairman during meetings, and I still have to listen to you when I come back..."

He took a deep breath, but still couldn't calm down his mood. He could only hammer his table hard and said: "I really fucking..."

But suddenly, the director calmed down and said, "Forget it."

He took out a drafted resignation report and a share transfer agreement from the drawer of his desk.

"I quit."

"Ah? You can't..."

"roll."

With a scroll word, the director ended the call.

He turned off all devices that could contact him, and then connected to the company's conference system.

When his projection appeared at the company headquarters, he put the report on the table and said: "This is my resignation report..."

　I accidentally wrote something that I couldn't write, and forgot to replace some special nouns. As a result, a chapter was blocked.

　　I posted it at around [-] o'clock in the morning. I didn't read it for a day and only found out now.
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)