Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 211 The backdoor of psykers

Chen Ming, who was just about to activate the Purgatory Core, frowned and answered Bai Quan's call.

Bai Quan's voice came immediately from the other end of the phone: "The geological activity suddenly became violent tonight, and the volcanic eruption will be more serious. It's best to go to the second underground floor to rest."

Chen Ming's frown relaxed. He thought Bai Quan came to inform him in the middle of the night because someone was causing trouble for him, but that was it.

"understood."

Chen Ming responded and hung up the phone.

Chen Ming didn't need to be reminded by Bai Quan to know that geological activities had been very frequent in recent days, and tonight was the peak of activity.

Because the main control room in the dome is connected to an observation system at the Fourteenth Legion stronghold.

There will be regular weather reports sent to each dome.

Although this "weather forecast" is not about sunshine and rain, but about the intensity of geological activities and the intensity of volcanic eruptions, the effect is still the same.

Although Chen Ming basically didn't leave the door as long as he entered the laboratory during the day, he still paid attention to the situation outside every day.

Chen Ming put away the terminal, took a line and connected it to the purgatory core in the laboratory, and walked out of the laboratory.

The extremely hot environment of the volcanic planet is the most suitable environment for testing the core of Purgatory.

"Um...Isn't there something wrong with this situation?"

This situation made Chen Ming immediately change his idea of ​​calling the Purgatory Core, choosing to give priority to transferring the entropy at the bottom while stabilizing the entropy at the top.

Since Chen Ming wants to test the Purgatory Core, the testing environment must be as difficult as possible.

Only the final effect produced after the purgatory core is activated takes effect outside the core.

That is, continue to transfer the surrounding entropy in further directions.

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the effect.

The core of purgatory, which was as cold as iron, gradually began to become warm.

Everything went very smoothly.

Rocks that have been solidified due to the transfer of entropy are constantly being blasted by the active magma below.

The surrounding ambient temperature, which was originally stabilized by the dome's life support system but was deliberately raised by Chen Ming for testing today, is gradually decreasing.

After the magma near the dome surged for a while, it gradually subsided under the influence of the purgatory core and cooled into pieces of pitch black rock covered with magma lines.

Even if there seems to be magma continuously erupting from the nearby ground, Chen Ming can quickly call on the purgatory core to cool it down.

The entropy that exists within the dome does not disappear, but is expelled outside the dome.

Intensified geological activities have caused surging magma to accumulate on the surface, and there is now almost an orange-red ocean near the dome.

The psychic energy fluctuations immediately spread from his body to the core of Purgatory.

Chen Ming raised the purgatory core connected to the miniature antimatter reactor in front of him so that he could observe the core's condition during the subsequent test.

Therefore, the magma in those areas that have not had time to transfer the entropy out has experienced some situations due to the sudden increase in temperature and sudden change in the environment caused by the dissipation of entropy to the surroundings.

In fact, he has been waiting for this day.

Soon the situation was controlled by Chen Ming again.

Then continue to control the purgatory core and conduct subsequent tests.

Baiquan said that all the sites for the dome are located on large geologically stable plates. Generally speaking, only magma erupted from far away can fall near the dome.

However, it takes time for the effect of the Purgatory Core to reach the bottom of the magma.

The area covered by the cooled rocks is continuously expanding in a circular shape, and the originally turbulent magma is like boiled water in front of Chen Ming.

Why do I see that everything around me is flooded with magma now?

But it's not a big problem.

Although the purgatory core cannot reduce entropy, it should be no problem to transfer the entropy to farther places.

The area covered by these rocks, which suddenly appeared in an environment full of extreme heat and magma, is still expanding in a circular shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The broken rock melted again under the high temperature, and the sprayed magma continued to flow towards the dome.

Then, he poured his mental power directly into the core entropy in his hand.

However, since the temperature inside the dome did not change much, the magma activity outside was only active for a while.

Through the transparent dome, the outside world appeared in front of Chen Ming.

No longer exert undue influence on the local environment.

The best day to test Infernal Core.

The entropy dissipated in these domes dissipates into the surrounding environment on its own, integrating with the environment.

The set temperature of the life support system was easily readjusted to the appropriate level to avoid further wasting the dome's power.

Although the entire planet looked like it was shrouded in gray volcanic ash, fortunately, the hot magma emitted firelight, allowing Chen Ming to see clearly the general situation near the dome.

But it can only be said that the situation does not seem optimistic.

The magma activity near the dome quickly became active.

The purgatory core was stimulated by Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations, and the psychic fluctuations generated by the activation of internal psychic components were all restrained in the core by the isolation material of the isolation layer.

Chen Ming remembered that when he came two days ago, he specifically asked about the location of the Baiquan Dome and whether it would be affected by geological activities and cause damage to the dome.

Completely resolved all current issues around the dome.

During the testing process, Chen Ming had also become thoroughly familiar with how to use the Purgatory Core.

But at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, Chen Ming suddenly saw a bright fire appearing behind him, completely covering all the redness of the spewing magma in front of him.

He immediately turned back and found that behind the dark dust shrouded in volcanic ash, a mountain peak full of cracks and flowing magma suddenly rose up on the originally flat ground.

The appearance of this mountain, which was almost vertical to the ground, caused the surrounding terrain to instantly become rugged.

It was like a bamboo shoot suddenly protruding from a small hill where only some weeds grew, and then the bamboo sprouted many bamboo shoots that could destroy the terrain.

And that vertical mountain with flowing magma is obviously a volcano.

If you can see it clearly from this distance, this vertical volcano is probably two thousand meters high.

When Chen Ming turned his head to look at it, its first eruption had just reached its peak moment.

The jetting lava flow is the tree branches, and the flying volcanic ash is the leaves.

This volcano is like a world tree with magma at its core.

"Turtle."

Is this the power of nature?

Chen Ming just sighed.

Then, after a brief gap in the volcanic eruption, the second violent eruption of the volcano instantly enveloped it in thick smoke.

Chen Ming could only barely see the huge lava column reaching the sky.

Although Chen Ming could see that the volcano was some distance away from the dome, and the magma inside the cracked volcano mainly poured from the top to the bottom.

But some of the magma ejected during the volcanic eruption will soon fall on the dome.

Although the magma ejected by the two thousand meter huge volcano does not seem to be a threat at first glance, after all, Chen Ming has heard of many larger and taller volcanoes.

It was just based on the size of the vertical volcano he had never seen before that he actually saw before it was shrouded in volcanic ash.

Chen Ming felt that the dome seemed a little unreliable.

Even with Bai Quan's previous assurance that the dome was safe, Chen Ming's own armor should be enough to cut off the high temperatures from the outside world, but it was impossible for him to risk his life.

So Chen Ming made a prompt decision and hid on the second floor underground with the Purgatory Core.

By the way, he also used his own high-grade metal inventory at the temporary base, mixed with various metal materials, to fill the entire underground layer between the second underground layer and the surface, completely protecting himself.

At the same time, Chen Ming has not stopped monitoring the surface and outside the dome.

Even underground, testing of the Infernal Core can continue.

The target of Chen Ming's test also changed to the vertical volcano.

It's just that the magma flying from the sky is not easy to test. After all, if it cools in the air, the magma may turn into stones and hit the dome, which is no different from meteorites.

Just in case, it's best not to do this.

Just when the scope of influence of Chen Ming's purgatory core continued to expand, extending towards the volcano.

Lava is constantly falling nearby and onto the dome.

Looking out from inside the dome, there are all large areas of magma, and when the magma flows to the bottom, all the magma has been transferred to the entropy.

The temperature of the magma decreased, quenched, and cooled, forming the rock that accumulated around the dome.

Although some rocks near the dome that had incomplete entropy transfer exploded, bursting out clouds of magma.

But magma also tends to cool within seconds of exposure.

All the magma flowing near the dome was completely controlled by Chen Ming.

Testing of entropy control has been completed.

Next, we only need to test the effect of the Purgatory Core on the volcano, and find out the ultimate effect of the Purgatory Core, and the test will be over.

But surprises always happen quickly.

Very close to the dome, the solidified magma suddenly exploded, completely exploding.

This was not caused by the original small-scale entropy instability, but by the sudden appearance of a new heat source underground, and a new magma flow underground that erupted at a very close distance.

At the same time, an extremely violent earthquake occurred underground near the dome.

Even if the dome had complete earthquake-proof measures, Chen Ming, who was on the second underground floor, could clearly feel the direction of the earthquake's source.

Looking along the source of the vibration through the dome's monitoring, Chen Ming suddenly saw a bulge on the ground covered with magma.

It seemed... that the sharp, vertical volcanic peak that shot straight into the sky just now was about to bulge very close to him.

If the two thousand meter volcano appeared at this distance, then the dome above his head might not be able to protect him at all.

Chen Ming's face showed some seriousness for the first time in a long time.

He had to find a way to solve this problem.

Just a few minutes before Chen Ming saw this fatal vertical volcano rising suddenly from a position very close to the dome where he was.

Bai Quan just finished handling most of the work he had to do today and went to the control center of an external device.

This control center communicates with satellites in orbit around the volcanic planet.

One of the satellites was observing the situation on Chen Ming's side.

Of course there is no worry about the dome being destroyed by the volcano.

In his opinion, there was no need to worry about the protective capabilities of the dome.

He has been here for a while and knows the local geological environment and the scale of various disasters, as well as the protective properties of the dome.

So he was relatively assured of Chen Ming's safety.

When he observed the situation in the Chen Ming Dome, in addition to maintaining the caution that anyone should have towards a psyker, he was also curious about one thing. Now that Chen Ming has the Purgatory Core in his hands, will he do anything?

The core of purgatory and the volcanic planet are a perfect match. If Chen Ming has any results, there may be news.

Today, when Bai Quan came to the satellite control center, he found that something unexpected happened near Chen Ming's dome.

"It's true."

Bai Quan said silently in his heart, and randomly asked the person on duty to zoom in on the situation near Chen Ming's dome.

You can see the completely solidified magma in the circular area near the dome, which is obviously Chen Ming's attempt to use the Purgatory Core.

It seems that Chen Ming's research should soon have results.

Bai Quan nodded slightly and prepared to leave.

However, just when he was about to continue doing his own thing, the picture on the satellite suddenly changed.

The unique vertical volcano rising from the ground instantly attracted Baiquan's attention.

"Lava waterfall?"

The staff nearby immediately locked the satellite completely on the volcano and said at the same time: "Yes, it is the magma waterfall."

"Why is there such a phenomenon near the dome that only occurs outside?"

The staff member looked bitter, and he obviously couldn't give an answer.

Bai Quan didn't make things difficult for him. He knew something was wrong, so he immediately took out his terminal and called someone from another geological monitoring department to ask about the problem.

The other end of the phone suddenly became busy.

After a while, the head of the geological monitoring department appeared on the other end of the phone and replied to Bai Quan: "There is only one possibility for a magma waterfall to occur. There is a problem with the flow direction of the underground magma veins."

"We are conducting testing here, please wait a moment."

Bai Quan knew that just urging was useless.

So let's just take advantage of this and let the staff of the control center start to detect whether there is a special phenomenon in the shape of a vertical volcano, actually called a magma waterfall, near the surface of the dome cluster here at the stronghold.

While arranging the work of the people in the control center, Baiquan also notified several domes in the area near the magma waterfall, asking them to all evacuate underground and wait for subsequent rescue.

The signs of a magma waterfall have appeared, and the protective ability of the dome may not be able to withstand such a close distance.

What's more, more than one magma waterfall may appear next, which may cause problems.

Just after Bai Quan had arranged all the rescue teams, the geological monitoring department finally responded: "Lieutenant General Bai, the results are out."

"explain."

"We detected high-frequency entropy fluctuations underground. These entropies affected the originally solid plates, which eventually caused problems with the direction of the underground magma and overflowed directly from the middle of the plates."

"Fluctuations in entropy?"

"Yes, it's the fluctuation of entropy."

Bai Quan frowned and glanced at the situation on the satellite, and several thoughts quickly flashed through his mind.

Is there something wrong with Chen Ming's research? Or is it a problem with Purgatory Core itself? Is the effect of the Purgatory Core so powerful?

No matter what the actual situation is, it is always right to rescue people first.

Just when Bai Quan was thinking about the reason for this situation.

Chen Ming is busy on the second underground floor.

Just when signs of a vertical volcanic spearhead appeared very close to where he was.

He directly used his own spiritual power again, and directly reinforced the foundations around the first and second underground floors with his own materials several times.

Then he continued to move all the research equipment in the laboratory to the second underground floor.

Chen Ming has felt relieved.

In the current situation, even if the entire volcano's lava flows towards him, he should be able to survive until Baiquan finds something is wrong while soaking in the magma sea.

But when Chen Ming returned his attention to the ground, he saw two new huge bulges appeared again in the magma around the dome.

Together with the previous vertical volcano that had risen from the ground, it formed a triangle and completely surrounded the dome where Chen Ming was.

Counting the previous one...

"Four volcanoes?"

Chen Ming looked at the surveillance camera in the other direction.

At exactly this moment, the vertical volcano that first appeared far away from the dome had finished erupting due to the internal magma. The bottom structure was melted by the high heat of the flowing magma. The bottom structure was damaged and began to collapse.

The continuously falling boulders with sporadic lava hit the ground, causing a terrifying shock.

These earthquakes seemed to stimulate the underground environment, and the already continuous earthquakes became more frequent.

The earthquake seems to be still stimulating the remaining three volcanoes.

The second vertical volcano that appeared after the collapsed volcano was close to the height of the original vertical volcano in a short period of time.

But it hasn't stopped yet. Countless rocks and magma are still pouring out from the ground, constantly raising the height of the vertical volcano.

Lava is constantly overflowing from the cracks on the side of the volcano, falling from high altitude and hitting the dome.

The obvious vibration made it really difficult not to wonder whether the dome would be damaged.

The other third and fourth bulges that just emerged also formed two huge volcanoes in just a few dozen seconds.

Chen Ming's purgatory core was constantly trying to dissipate the entropy in the volcano throughout the process.

But the effect is not significant, as if the magma underground seems to be endless and supports these volcanoes.

The Purgatory Core is currently still a little too weak in the face of the planet's power.

However, Chen Ming still did not give up trying, and his spiritual energy surrounded the entire dome.

Soon, the third volcano rising from the ground showed signs of rupture just like the second volcano.

Raging magma sprayed out from the crater and rushed high into the sky, and the sides of the mountain peaks were completely cracked.

The terrifying magma waterfall poured in the direction of the dome where Chen Ming was.

Take a look at where the cracks appear on the volcano.

It can be found that if nothing unexpected happens, the direction in which the three remaining volcanoes will collapse will all be in the direction of the dome where he is now.

Chen Ming's face was solemn, he did not dare to hesitate for a moment, and continued to control the spiritual energy inside the dome. At the same time, the purgatory core in his hand was still transferring the entropy inside the nearby magma.

But there are still large pieces of magma hitting the dome from the direction above the head.

It was obvious to the naked eye that the dome was unable to withstand the continuous damage that it should not have endured.

A large number of cracks gradually appeared on the top.

In just a few seconds, the third vertical volcano erupted.

A big hole opened in the top of the dome where Chen Ming was.

Magma and turbulent hot air flow were instantly drawn in from the breach.

The vegetation inside the dome quickly shriveled up and burst into flames.

And at the moment this scene happened, the metallic liquid controlled by Chen Ming seeped out from the ground, instantly extinguishing the flames, and instantly enveloped the entire dome, repairing it as before.

Although the plants here will never come back.

But at least the dome was saved, temporarily.

The reason why Chen Ming's reaction was slightly slower was because of the Purgatory Core in his hand.

Chen Ming needs to activate a function in the core of Purgatory that adapts to psykers.

Since this purgatory core has left an interface for psykers to use at will.

How is it possible that only psykers can exert effects similar to those of the Infernal Demon King when using the Purgatory Core?

If psychics can only do things that ordinary people can do to the same extent, then this design must be a failure.

The design of Purgatory Core is obviously not a failure.

Just yesterday, Chen Ming found another thing on the core of Purgatory during his research on the core.

Psychic triggering device.

This is one of the backdoors specifically reserved for psykers when the Infernal Core was designed.

It allows the intensity of the psychic energy fluctuation of the psyker to affect the final output of the Purgatory Core.

The stronger Chen Ming's mental power and psychic energy fluctuations act on the core of purgatory, the greater the scope and intensity of the entropy control he can perform.

But there is a limit to the triggering of this feature.

That is, the purgatory core requires a continuous supply of large amounts of energy.

The miniature antimatter reactor that Chen Ming carried was limited by its size, and its output power was not enough.

Therefore, Chen Ming also needs to maintain the power system of the dome connected to the core of Purgatory.

It was the process of transforming the internal circuitry of the dome that he had never actually touched before and shutting down the dome's life-support system with complicated shutdown procedures that took him a while, causing his speed to be slightly slower.

After all, the life support system is the most important equipment to maintain the survival of the people inside the dome. Shutting it down at will will lead to heavy casualties.

Except for the independent design of the second underground floor, all spaces above the second underground floor will become a restricted area for humans after the life support system is shut down.

Anyone who doesn't wear special protective clothing will definitely die, and those who wear it may not survive the raging magma outside.

So it cannot be shut down proactively without three administrators present at the same time.

This resulted in Chen Ming having to use psychic energy to find relevant designs, and then prioritize transforming the life support system.

Completely shut down this system, which consumes more than 80% of the power system inside the dome.

The purpose is to concentrate all the power used by the power supply equipment in other facilities and apply it to the Purgatory Core.

Although it was a little slow due to lack of experience, fortunately the result was no problem.

Chen Ming stood up from the sofa.

He walked to the wall and put his hand on the wall.

A modified thick cable protruded from the wall and was connected to an adapter.

Afterwards, Chen Ming connected the other end of the adapter to the Purgatory Core.

Almost all the electricity under the entire dome was concentrated in the purgatory core at this moment.

At the moment when the purgatory core was connected to enough power, the fourth volcano finally began to erupt.

The magma inside the second volcano that had erupted before had flowed clean at this time.

The intense heat at the bottom is about to completely melt the volcano's support.

The volcano is about to collapse.

The direction of the fall was just as Chen Ming thought, right above his head.

(End of this chapter)