Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 182 Unexpected reward, unexpected gain

Although a week has passed since Chen Ming talked with the factory director.

But at this time, he was counting the gains he had just received from the space station hijacked by Zuo Path.

Just before, the moment Chen Ming finished chatting with his boss.

He directly made Gamma B move and headed to the coordinates of the hijacked space station.

Just on arrival.

The situation at the Plant Research Station was a little more troublesome than he thought.

Not that anyone had already taken care of the space station before him.

After all, when he came here, he was in a galaxy with stars with special light radiation wavelengths in the edge star field.

Except for a few left-path spaceships that rushed over and blew themselves up when they saw Chen Ming, there was nothing.

Even Chen Ming from the Harmony Plant Research Institute didn't see it.

At the same time, it’s not like leftist elements have blown up the space station.

The space station is still intact in the orbit of the only planet in the galaxy that is in the habitable zone but is a desolate planet without life.

It wasn’t even how crazy Zuojiao’s subsequent counterattack was.

Because when Chen Ming's fleet entered the galaxy from hyperspace, a few patrol spacecraft from the left path came over to cause trouble.

There was basically no other movement in the galaxy, not even the space station.

Of course, Chen Ming also knew that three days had passed since the incident and that his fleet had arrived in this galaxy. The movement that should have occurred should have been completed a few days ago.

And this is according to the information given by the factory director.

Although the Harmony Company's space station is occupied, the communication device is completely fine, and the means of external communication are not blocked like the former mining space station.

Therefore, the company can directly lock some permissions of the space station from the outside and close some functions of the space station from a long distance.

Turning the space station into a large piece of scrap metal.

However, Chen Ming could not rule out the possibility of someone behind Zuojia providing support to them, so it was a question of whether some equipment on the space station, especially defensive weapons, could still be used.

He was skeptical.

But to be honest, the weapons of the space station are just that.

This space station, which is less than two kilometers at its largest, is a research space station after all. It is not a battleship specially used for combat, and it cannot install any powerful weapons.

What really troubled Chen Ming was the densely packed wreckage of various ships floating around the space station.

These debris all come from spacecraft available on the space station.

Now they are all in pieces.

They were probably all bombed by Zuojia.

If it's just the wreckage of the spacecraft, forget it.

Chen Ming opened the spaceship shield at the last moment, and took the law enforcers of the 14th Legion as the first, followed by five hammerheads to attack directly side by side.

But it can be found on the sensors of Chen Ming's fleet ship.

On top of these broken spacecraft wreckage, Zuojia still maliciously placed a large number of explosives that could be triggered at any time.

If it hits a little bit, it might explode.

If Chen Ming's spaceships really hit each other in a row, they would definitely explode into pieces.

It doesn't matter if Chen Ming only blows up his own spaceship.

But he still doesn't know the situation inside the space station, and he is not sure whether the aftermath of the explosion will affect the space station.

What would be fatal if there was a chain explosion that caused the space station to blow up.

At this time, in addition to the Left Path molecules, there are many living researchers on the space station.

According to Chen Ming’s previous information about the contents of the reward.

Because the space station can be controlled from the outside, and the management of the space station responded promptly, many researchers have successfully hid in the living area with the highest safety factor on the space station, which can be regarded as a large escape capsule.

Only some researchers were captured by the rioting leftists, so the personnel losses of the space station were not much during the riot.

As for the living area, there is food, shelter, and various infrastructure, which is actually quite good.

But now, things have changed.

Although Chen Ming didn't see anyone from Hehe Company when he arrived.

But they do have spaceships come over every day to patrol at the risk of being bombed by the left path.

Confirm the general situation of the space station and publish the information.

And after these few days have passed.

Because the leftist elements took control of the power system of the space station, they directly cut off the power supply to the entire space station.

Only the emergency backup power supply, which is not under any control, is still running to maintain the minimum survival of the space station personnel.

So now, the situation in the living area is most likely not optimistic.

People must find ways to rescue them as soon as possible.

But the wreckage of the spacecraft outside with a large number of explosives almost blocked all possibilities of using spacecraft for rescue.

Moreover, the current communication between the space station and the outside world has been completely disconnected due to power outage, and it is impossible to confirm the status of personnel on the space station.

Zuo Jing not only turned the space station into an iron-shell tortoise, but also a barbed iron-shell tortoise.

Even if this iron-clad bastard moves even slightly, there is a chance that it will explode directly.

Not to mention rescue operations, just dealing with the actions of leftist elements is very troublesome.

Chen Ming also thought about simply giving up all the researchers above and only dealing with the left path.

Even so, any unexpected situation may cause the entire space station to be completely scrapped, so there is no need to think about extra bonuses.

It's no wonder that Chen Ming's fleet came here several days after the bounty was issued, and no one is still here to continue processing this thing.

This is a really troublesome bounty.

But during the recent period, I don't know if Chen Ming killed too many pirates or something.

In short, there was no news about new pirates from Glasses and Lao Wu.

This group of Zuo Jing is already the only criminal in the area with a large reward.

The remaining pirates are either too far away or the bounty is too low. The most they can earn from a trip is fuel money.

So now Chen Ming did not give up immediately, but stared at the space station inside at the edge of the galaxy.

He didn't believe that he had no stable way to deal with this space station.

For this reason, Chen Ming deliberately put aside his studies temporarily.

Gamma B and I stared at the space station and the data scanned back by the sensors for several hours.

During the process, his fleet circled the galaxy several times.

Unexpectedly, he bumped into the Harmony Company's fleet that came for patrol every day.

The other party had also heard about Chen Ming and knew that Chen Ming's fleet had significantly improved the security of the entire edge star field during this period.

Therefore, after the Harmony Company's ship confirmed that the interior of the galaxy had been scanned several times by Chen Ming and that it was safe, it acted very enthusiastically when it came up.

They directly sent some of the information they had just collected yesterday that had not yet been shared.

They even provided Chen Ming with a more detailed design blueprint of the space station than the space station map they released.

Then they ran away so as not to disturb Chen Ming.

With a blueprint and several hours of observation by Chen Ming

Hard work pays off

Chen Ming finally discovered that most of the sensor array on one side of the space station was damaged, and only a small part was still working.

Although the remaining sensors can definitely detect obvious things like the spacecraft engine, other things may not necessarily be detected.

So Chen Ming calculated the orbit at a certain distance outside the galaxy, relying on Chaofan beside him, a monster whose computing power reached the star level.

Directly relying on his improvised acceleration device, he threw a robot carrying a gamma core in the direction of the space station.

It smoothly passed through all the explosives distributed around the space station, avoiding the scanning of many of the sensors that had been damaged.

Then he found a gap in the outer wall of the space station.

Then there is no more then.

The reward ended when Chen Ming came into contact with the space station's wiring.

Not counting the way here.

It starts from Chen Ming's arrival at the edge of the galaxy and ends with his robot contacting the space station.

Total time spent is five hours.

Four of those hours were spent observing the situation.

Fifty-nine minutes waiting for the robot to speed up and fly over.

The rest of the problem solving took a total of one minute.

Chen Ming originally thought that there would be a fight between a spaceship and a miniature space station, but it did not happen.

After the space station was completely controlled by Chen Ming.

Chen Ming can also control all inanimate things on any space station.

Naturally, these include powerful explosives that are spread throughout almost all areas of the space station and can definitely blow up the space station completely.

Chen Ming instantly dismantled all dangerous things on the space station, including these explosives, and dismantled all weapons, armor, and clothing in the hands of leftist elements.

Then he took over and repaired the control center of the space station that was destroyed by left-wing elements.

Successfully took control of the entire space station and sealed off all rooms where leftists were present.

A few of these leftists who have lost all their weapons and have no ability to resist want to commit suicide.

But it was immediately completely enveloped by the metallic liquid surging out of the wall next to it, tightly restricting all movement.

Even if he wanted to bite his tongue and commit suicide, Chen Ming filled his mouth with metallic liquid and solidified it directly. He couldn't even close his mouth, let alone commit suicide.

If he had the ability to hold his breath to the point of committing suicide, he would be considered awesome, and Chen Ming admired him.

In short, not one of the hundreds of left-wing elements on the entire space station was able to perform any act of resistance under Chen Ming's spiritual power.

As for those researchers caught by Zuojia.

All I can say is that Chen Ming expressed regret.

These people on the space station obviously had no intention of leaving alive from the moment they occupied the space station.

And the teachings of this cult are destined that researchers like them will never be treated normally.

Therefore, Chen Ming could only help control the leftists next to the six remaining researchers on the space station who had not been able to escape and hid in a safe living area.

I accidentally modified a few pistols that were accidentally loaded with bullets nearby.

Then he guided them to a safe living area a few minutes later. There at least they can be treated by their colleagues and medical robots.

At this point, the entire reward is completely over.

However, as soon as the matter ended, Chen Ming did not directly contact the people from Hehe Company whom he had just met.

Instead, I plan to spend some time studying this plant research station.

He came with the idea that if he didn't take something away, it would not be a waste of his ability.

Chen Ming relied on his spiritual power to control all the equipment on the space station and figured out the situation of the plant research institute.

After all, it took him a lot of energy to control a space station that was as large as two or three cruisers. It would be a waste not to take advantage of the fact that he hadn't signed an agreement with Harmony Company to earn some benefits.

Although a lot of research equipment was destroyed by the left path of the space station, Chen Ming could still tell that it was a large plant research and cultivation laboratory.

Most of the research here is about crops that can be grown commercially in batches.

But what surprised Chen Ming was that the core of the entire research station's overall work was a laboratory in the central area of ​​the space station.

At the door of this laboratory, there are several biohazard icons with yellow background and black characters that are uncomfortable to look at.

In this laboratory, Chen Ming unexpectedly discovered something special.

One...no, it's a group of purple fungal creatures being cultivated.

It is not accurate to say that they were cultivated, because they had escaped from the damaged culture room, killed several left-wing molecules that destroyed the culture room, and began to grow disorderly.

When Chen Ming looked over, these purple fungi appeared almost everywhere in the laboratory.

Especially concentrated in the cultivation observation room inside the laboratory.

All the other petri dishes in the laboratory that were specially used to cultivate various organisms were eaten clean.

However, the fungus did not move on the corpses killed by the fungus. It even kept a certain distance from the corpse and did not grow on them.

I don't know if it has something to do with the black-red blood mixed with some dead purple fungi flowing out of the eyes, nostrils, corners of the mouth, and ears of these corpses.

The most special thing about these purple fungi is.

They are psychic creatures.

Through the gamma core, Chen Ming could feel extremely obvious spiritual energy fluctuations on them.

Chen Ming didn't react at first, because he had been exposed to a lot of things related to psychic energy recently, and it seemed like a coincidence that he came across another one.

But when he thought about it carefully, it didn't seem so unreasonable.

After all, he came here following the traces of the Zuo Path.

In Chen Ming's impression, the things he encountered several times related to Zuo Jing seemed to be a bit special.

The first time was when he went to participate in an auction where the government and Xinda Company cooperated to catch left-track fish, and that time he just got involved.

The next few times seemed to have happened because Zuo Jing took the initiative to come to him as a psyker.

In a sense, wherever there is a left path, there is psychic energy.

So this time Chen Ming took the initiative to follow Zuo Jing and encountered a psychic creature, which didn't seem to be unacceptable.

On the computer in this laboratory, Chen Ming just happened to find the research records and all the research documents of this group of fungal psychic creatures.

The origins of these psionic fungal creatures are also documented.

It was a psychic creature found underground a few months ago when Harmony's main company, the mining company, was developing a planet's mineral veins.

The boss of Harmony Company knew the boss, so it was normal for him to have the ability to capture this psychic creature.

A month ago, Harmony Company intercepted some samples of this group of psychic creatures that had been studied for some time and sent them here.

I want to study whether the special optical radiation band of the stars in this galaxy will have any special impact on it.

Although the document states that it is a secret transportation, Zuojia will appear here to snatch the space station. It can only be said that the secret transportation does not seem to be so secret after all.

There must be people who believe in the left path have been mixed into the company, and there is a high probability that they are on the space station.

Chen Ming couldn't figure out why.

If we talk about some mining planets, even the mining space stations where he once stayed, he can understand that there are leftists on these places.

After all, this kind of work is extremely hard and difficult.

But in a mental workplace like the Plant Research Station, the average IQ of the researchers there is higher than that of ordinary people, right?

Can this still be penetrated?

Can't figure it out.

Forget it, if you don’t understand it, don’t do it.

In short, Zuo Jing knew that there were some psychic creatures here that didn't seem to be strictly guarded, and then they came over to cause trouble.

As a result, they didn't know how to take these psychic creatures away, so they could only occupy the space station and wait for orders from their superiors.

Although it seems so.

But the reality is different than it seems.

Chen Ming learned the actual situation from the data read from a terminal that looked like the one in their leader's hands before it was dismantled.

Zuo Jing actually wants to do something big.

After all, they can see the big words "Biohazard" posted on the door of the laboratory.

And the orders their leaders received from their superiors were even clearer.

This kind of psychic fungal creature is extremely contagious and harmful. It once caused a lot of damage when the Harmony Company captured it. If left unattended, it will be very harmful.

That's why Zuo Jing focused on this dangerous creature.

On the contrary, they also hope that someone will directly send a team to land on the space station, so that they can have a chance to spread the fungus.

That's the idea of ​​Left Path.

And they had personally experienced the horror of fungi when they first destroyed the fungus culture room in the laboratory.

As long as someone actually lands on the space station, they will open the closed laboratory door as soon as possible and use their bodies as a carrier to infect the people who log in.

It’s simply an interpretation of madness to the extreme.

But for Chen Ming, everything was in vain.

All Zuo Jing's arrangements were resolved one by one by Chen Ming, which only wasted a few hours of his time.

As for the fungi that escaped, Chen Ming used transformation technology to physically change the appearance of the entire laboratory.

With the metallic liquid that filled the entire laboratory, all the psychic fungi covering the laboratory environment were gathered together and stuffed back into the culture room.

And repaired the damaged places and equipment in the culture room.

The environment was restored to its original state in just a few minutes.

Chen Ming even used psychic energy to confirm whether there were fungal spores elsewhere in the space station.

Although these things are invisible to the naked eye, Chen Ming's psychic powers are still very effective against these psychic creatures and can easily detect them.

But what surprised Chen Ming was that the person in Zuo Jing seemed to have some brains.

Fungal spores are not released directly into the air circulation system.

After preventing people from dying, other people felt that the space station was hopeless, so they directly blew up the space station, causing their plan to fail.

The researchers in the company must be more aware of the dangers of fungi escaping after people die than they are.

The lesser of the two powers, their final outcome may be to become dust in the universe together with the space station and these fungi.

So at least for now, Chen Ming's psychic power has not discovered that these psychic fungi exist anywhere on the space station except in the laboratory.

So at this point, Chen Ming has conveniently solved the problems left by Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming's attention was naturally attracted by these psychic fungal creatures.

Although Chen Ming wanted to pack up the entire culture room and take it away, there were many devices connected throughout the laboratory to limit these dangerous fungal organisms.

And digging out the entire lab seemed a bit much.

However, Chen Ming was still happy to take away some samples.

Anyway, it's an unspoken rule to go along the way when doing this kind of mission. As long as you don't go too far, no one will pursue it.

What's more, Chen Ming was very considerate in collecting all the fungi that escaped, and also blocked the gap in the culture room. Harmony Company had to thank him.

So Chen Ming took away some live samples of fungi with peace of mind, as well as some samples of shriveled fungi and shriveled fungal spores that were stored in special containers in the laboratory.

And sent the completely sealed storage container containing the samples to his fleet, which had successfully eliminated the minefields around the space station and approached the space station.

Although Chen Ming didn't know what use this biological weapon of mass destruction had for him.

But in short, take it first, and you will know later whether it is of any use.

Even if these psychic fungi have no ability to be used as weapons, even if they eat and sleep all day long and run around the spaceship like Xiao Shi, who is also a psychic creature, it is not a loss to carry them around.

What's more, Chen Ming also has a Chaofan who is responsible for research.

Although Chaofan is not a researcher in this area, Chaofan is already bored enough to accompany him to study cruiser-level technology. It seems that it is not impossible to study the creatures next door.

Of course, Chen Ming also hoped to get guidance from Chaofan in biotechnology who would definitely learn faster than him.

In short, Chaofan did agree.

Although the process is a little twisty.

At first, even though it had been bored out of its wits for the past two days, it didn’t want to agree at all.

But when Chen Ming mentioned that this thing was a psychic creature, Chaofan swallowed back what he said before.

After confirming that nothing happened on the space station, Chen Ming first asked the fleet to detach a fleet to send away the psychic fungi.

Then I contacted the people at the company again.

Then he asked Lao Wu to help him go to the capital of the Star Territory. With the help of the company and his boss, they each found an official to witness, and signed a contract restricting Chen Ming's subsequent use of psychic energy on the space station.

Of course, let’s forget about the past.

Harmony Company would certainly be able to see that Chen Ming had taken some samples, but they could also see the repaired culture room, so they might as well just pretend it didn't happen and it would be better for everyone.

They also chose to pay in full the rewards for protecting their research results.

In the end, the bounty Chen Ming received was in addition to the one billion that almost all the leftists were captured alive.

There are also 3 million people with little damage to the space station. 5 million to protect the research results, and most ordinary researchers and a few important researchers on the space station were not injured or killed, and the final 6 million were obtained.

A total of 24 billion.

It can be regarded as filling the gap that Chen Ming purchased a large amount of industrial equipment and research equipment some time ago.

The harvest of psychic creatures that Chen Ming accidentally obtained on the space station was not delivered to him until today.

It can only be said that the transportation of biological things is still quite troublesome for Chen Ming.

But the result of waiting also made Chen Ming completely accept the process of waiting.

After Chaofan started studying biology from scratch like Chen Ming two days ago, he is now able to investigate the data Chen Ming obtained at the Plant Research Station.

It will take about another week to give Chen Ming a definite answer and analysis report.

(End of this chapter)