Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 216 Background Story

Bai Quan received a call from Cheng Xinghai not long after: "Uncle Bai, Chen Ming has agreed to participate."

Bai Quan, who was arranging for people to strengthen surveillance near Chen Ming's dome, immediately thought to himself: "It's finally here."

He recalled the research report on the Purgatory Core that Chen Ming provided him, calmed down the emotions of the recent bad things, and responded to Cheng Xinghai: "I understand, when will it be?"

"Chen Ming said it was tonight."

"How are the others preparing?"

"They are all fine. They all seem to be looking forward to fighting Chen Ming."

Chen Ming had never interacted with other people in the Fourteenth Army Corps. The reason why these people wanted to fight with Chen Ming was immediately realized by Bai Quan, saying: "Don't make anyone have any thoughts that they shouldn't have. "

"Dad Bai, ah no, Uncle Bai, don't worry, I keep the proper distance from everyone."

"And the teammates I selected for Chen Ming are all guys who only think about fighting and killing. They will not be disturbed by things off the court."

"Oh, there is also Cheng Xinghe, no, he seems to only have fighting and killing in his mind."

In addition, Chen Ming's spiritual power was restricted by Bai Quan, Cheng Xinghai felt that the next large-scale simulated battle would be the closest she came to defeating Chen Ming.

Chen Ming directly arranged for all researchers at the institute to have a holiday the next day.

"I will still make the rules for tonight's battle. I will confirm with Chen Ming some rules that only he can know."

Cheng Xinghai suddenly noticed Bai Quan's thoughts, raised the corners of his mouth a little, and said in a longer voice: "Okay-"

Cheng Xinghai's character usually talks all the time when there is nothing important to do, not just once or twice.

Bai Quan didn't have any reaction at all because Cheng Xinghai called him Bai Daddy.

Only if there is a headquarters base on a large-scale battlefield that can limit the use of Chen Ming's spiritual power can Cheng Xinghai see the possibility of victory.

"By the way, do you want to tell them that the video will be reviewed and sent to their school?"

Bai Quan did not answer directly, but said: "I won't tell you, you will know it soon anyway."

"I will also limit him this time, at least I won't let him do anything beyond his own psychic limit."

Seeing that Cheng Xinghai was in a good mood and was not aware of his sinister intentions at all, Bai Quan said directly: "Go and get people ready. Don't let others go."

And judging from Chen Ming's current psychic abilities, he could definitely overwhelm Cheng Xinghai's side on a large-scale battlefield with dedicated support.

"Don't worry, no one will miss a simulation of this scale."

After all, Chen Ming's unexpressed spiritual power could never be used here.

"I don't understand why I regard this private battle organized by you as a regular competition?"

Cheng Xinghai reacted immediately and asked, "Because of Chen Ming?"

In the past few days, when I was teaching, I accidentally mentioned Cheng Xinghai to Chen Ming, but Chen Ming didn't know about it and said he had no contact.

These candidates are basically her peers, the top students in school, and they were finally gathered together today.

"I understand. You can just send me a copy of the personnel list when the time comes. I will personally review the video this time and send it to their school. Whether they will get rewards from the school or be scolded by the instructor depends on their performance. .”

To put it simply, it is no different than having no restrictions.

Cheng Xinghai made an unexpected sound.

Cheng Xinghai didn't have any problem with Bai Quan not answering her question, and instead asked, "Is it related to his psychic ability again?"

Most of the researchers who came here also knew about this situation. Those who didn't knew it already understood it when Chen Ming gave them part of the research report on the Purgatory Core and asked them to help improve it.

Cheng Xinghai suddenly thought of the last simulated battle and asked, "You said before that Chen Ming's spiritual power was partially restricted by you..."

He was convinced that Chen Ming's spiritual power definitely had some effects that he was completely unaware of.

Then Bai Quan will not go to the secondary review staff. Cheng Xinghai can still make people feel at ease when it comes to serious matters.

"I need both of you to fully unleash the upper limit of your overall strength."

"Anyway, don't worry about the selection. I have been carefully selecting people these days. The strength of the two teams is definitely about the same, so there will be no problem."

Cheng Xinghai was quite happy with Bai Quan's answer. After seeing the disgusting extent of Chen Ming's psychic abilities, she no longer had the confidence to defeat Chen Ming in a one-on-one situation with equal forces on the frontal battlefield.

That night.

"Yes, the simulation equipment cannot directly simulate some psychic effects. It can only be accomplished with this special setting."

In fact, Bai Quan still had half a sentence left, but the restrictions were somewhat difficult to explain.

Moreover, he was just wondering where Cheng Xinghai had been in the past two days, and he never came to see him.

Although Chen Ming was mainly responsible for the project, others only participated in some purely auxiliary work in the final stage.

It seems that he went back to school in the past two days to find those who have permission to use analog equipment.

Bai Quan immediately said: "Tell them, put some pressure on them, and don't let your teammates think that this simulation is a very casual thing."

Well it is always normal for such an institute to have a holiday after completing a research assignment.

And what he wants to impose on Chen Ming is this restriction.

"what?"

Just an unlimited jump engine can make Chen Ming invincible in a pure battle, which is disgusting to the point of being outrageous.

After all, the Extraordinary Research Institute is currently a research institute that Chen Ming wants to help the Fourteenth Legion complete the heritage of another civilization acquired by the Machine Tribe. It occasionally conducts part-time research on the Machine Tribe.

And it has only been a few days since these researchers officially started work.

But there are definitely all the rules that should be in place.

Moreover, after Chen Ming completed the research on the core of Purgatory and handed the complete report to Bai Quan.

Other researchers at the Transcendent Research Institute also received the complete Purgatory Core Research Report sent to them by Chen Ming, and they all knew that the Purgatory Core project was completed.

Now that the work is familiar and the project has been completed, there will always be time to rest.

For researchers, if they are interested during the holidays, they will naturally read Chen Ming's complete paper. After all, many people are interested in Chen Ming, the psyker who knows the most about the mechanical race. Come.

Assuming that there are people who are not interested, they would not have any objection to Chen Ming's paid leave. Anyway, there are no restrictions on the movement of other researchers in the entire Chaofan Research Institute except Chen Ming.

It does not mean that the Fourteenth Legion Station does not have free time and some domes used for leisure and entertainment of the personnel here.

Especially for non-military researchers.

It only takes a few minutes to contact someone on the terminal to pick you up.

However, it seems that everyone at the institute is very interested in Chen Ming's complete research report, and no one wants to leave.

This made Chen Ming very worry-free and able to participate in Cheng Xinghai's battle safely.

After dinner time.

Bai Quan appeared near Chen Ming's dome on a destroyer that was suspected to be used for the next reconnaissance mission, picked up Chen Ming and headed to where the simulation equipment was.

Chen Ming knew that the simulation equipment was installed in a separate dome before, and even knew the general situation here.

Although it was his first time here, he felt very familiar when walking in the building where the simulation equipment was located.

Soon he came to the simulation equipment that occupied an area almost equal to the size of his laboratory on the other side of the dome.

When he arrived in front of the equipment, Bai Quan suddenly stopped, brought up a menu on the operation screen of the simulation equipment, and said to Chen Ming: "Because what is going to be a new simulation battle next, I still have the rules. I have to confirm with you again.”

While Bai Quan was operating on the menu, he continued to say to Chen Ming: "The basic rules are still the same as last time, but I have lifted most of the restrictions for you. You can set them according to the extent of your psychic ability. .”

"But I still have a few things to confirm with you, because this simulation may involve capital ships."

"So I have to ask you in advance, can you tell me? Can you control the battleship?"

Baiquan's inquiry is naturally reasonable.

After all, if you want to set the rules of the simulation equipment in line with Chen Ming's psychic abilities, his information will definitely be exposed to a certain extent.

But for Chen Ming, as long as the Zerg are not exposed, other psychic powers can be used at will.

His ability to control spaceships and various industrial facilities has long been exposed.

There was no way to hide these if he wanted to build a colony of his own.

The ability to control the machine race must have been speculated the moment the situation of being able to control Afterglow was revealed.

So if you are exposed, you are exposed.

The exposed information might be able to provide the think tank with more information about his psychic abilities, so that some things that Chen Ming couldn't explain clearly would be difficult for the think tank to understand.

From the fact that the think tank has directly found the most correct way to use the machine race, it can be seen that their role will definitely not be small. If this information is leaked, the positive impact will most likely be more than the negative impact.

So after thinking about it, Chen Ming gave an affirmative answer: "Yes."

But then Chen Ming said: "But I have never actually controlled a battleship until now. Before I actually control a battleship, I can only give you an estimated answer."

"It's okay to estimate, just look at it and tell."

Chen Ming thought again.

The current maximum number of ships he can control is eight cruisers, which is one more than before.

It was indeed close to being able to control the capital ship, so Chen Ming thought about his words and said: "I control anything, including spaceships and industrial equipment, except that it consumes a lot of mental energy at the moment of control. Apart from that, it is very simple to maintain control of the equipment with my psychic powers." "The amount of mental power consumed by a capital ship is far greater than that of a cruiser. It may be difficult with my current total mental power, but if I give it a try, It should be possible, but if I don’t control it, it might cause me to fall into coma.”

Bai Quan also thought about it and said, "Let's do it this way. You can control the battleship, but after controlling the battleship, you will be unable to move for a day in the simulation. How about that?"

"no problem."

"Okay, second question, will your control over these things be disconnected when your mental power is completely exhausted?"

"No, I'm sure of that. I've already tried it."

Bai Quan nodded with some surprise. After writing this down, he asked, "Is there an upper limit to the scale of your psychic control? Oh, there shouldn't be."

Before Chen Ming could answer, Bai Quan suddenly thought of what they had previously investigated about what Chen Ming had done.

At least two of the afterglow colonies in the galaxy were evacuated and taken away by Chen Ming. His psychic power didn't seem to have an upper limit.

Chen Ming said smoothly: "Actually, it existed before, but now..."

"Well, that's one thing. The next one is the limit of your psychic powers in repair."

"I remember you said before that you can repair the spacecraft even if there is only one iron atom left. I believe this."

"But how many times has your mental power been repaired or the amount of damage repaired?"

Chen Ming was a little confused by this question because he was not sure yet.

After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Let's put it this way, when I cooperated with you to do things on Yuhui's side, I first stole Yuhui's things and ran away, and then cooperated with you on the rest."

"In that situation, in order to quickly transfer the afterglow, I used psychic energy to repair the cruiser non-stop for two days, so that the cruiser could use jumps multiple times."

"I can't remember the specific number of times, but the total amount of mental power consumed by my psychic power when repairing things is not that much."

"As long as my mental power is not exhausted and I still have the materials, everything under my control can be repaired without limit."

Bai Quan was thinking subconsciously after hearing Chen Ming's words.

Although Chen Ming made it clear that he did not consume much mental energy when performing repairs, but since Chen Ming also said that he would be unconscious if he controlled the battleship, then repairing the cruiser for two consecutive days...

"Can you handle this?"

Chen Ming answered somewhat ambiguously: "I have some good things used by psychics that can help me in the use of psychic powers."

Bai Quan nodded. He did not continue to ask further questions, but instead said: "Speaking of this kind of thing, I asked the doctor for a list of medicines that you psychics can use during the day. I will send it to you later, and you can look back at it. "

"Row."

"Well, that's OK then. It's hard to define mental power, so I won't give you any restrictions. It's up to you."

Bai Quan still believes in Chen Ming's character.

"That's okay. When my mental power reaches a certain level, I will take the initiative to stop and wait for recovery. I will try my best to act according to my true situation."

"That's best."

Bai Quan clicked on the terminal a few more times, turned to Chen Ming and said, "I think these are the important things. If you think about anything else you've missed, I can fill it in for you now."

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "In the previous battle between me and Cheng Xinghai, as long as the opposing ship touched the wreckage of my ship, it would be contaminated with materials controlled by me."

"I can directly use this method to destroy the spacecraft contaminated with materials I control. How can I say this?"

Bai Quan immediately thought of the last time Cheng Xinghai's fleet was attacked unilaterally by Chen Ming and was forced to fight head-on.

"Well...this kind of large-scale combat can help you unlock this restriction. Your field of vision will also be preserved. Remember to control your mental power."

Who knows that this ability, which is like cheating, is Chen Ming's most basic ability.

It is really not good to limit it on this scale, and Baiquan's own idea is to let Chen Ming fully exert the effect of his psychic powers, so as to determine Chen Ming's true value in the war.

After continuing to discuss with Chen Ming, he modified some detailed rules.

Bai Quan finished setting the rules for the next battle, and when starting the device, he took the opportunity to ask Chen Ming: "Have you seen the background of this simulated battle?"

"Is there any background?"

"Well, it seems that Cheng Xinghai didn't tell you. I'll tell you now."

"The prototype area for this simulation is one-third of the Galo star field."

"The setting is that both the local government and the military are corrupt and collude with each other to exploit the colonies under their control."

"But some soldiers at the bottom chose to resist, and a rebellion broke out when they gathered together. With the support of all parties, a climate quickly formed."

“The rebels will be weak at the beginning, but the government forces will not be too strong, because the setting is that many people do not support the government, but secretly support the rebels, so the rebels will have some hidden benefits. "

"That's about it."

Chen Ming immediately complained: "What kind of strange background is this?"

Bai Quan spread his hands and said: "After all, the Galo-2 star area in the Galo Star Territory has a criminal record, and a war may break out in the Galo Star Territory in the future, so..."

"In short, the government forces need to destroy the rebels within a limited time limit, otherwise the rebels will attract the attention of higher-ups and take down the corrupt higher-ups."

"The rebels need to persevere under the encirclement and suppression of government forces and wait for the order from above."

Chen Ming suddenly made a stop gesture and said, "Wait, wait for Zhao'an? Isn't it over when the government troops are captured by the higher-ups?"

"Have you noticed this?"

"Yes, after the battle between the rebels and the government forces is over, there will be a high-level inspection and suppression campaign. If it passes, forget about it. If it fails, it will only be counted as a victory for the government forces."

Chen Ming said subconsciously: "Why do I feel like something similar has happened before?"

"It really does exist, but it happened many years ago, and it's not in the Gallo Star Territory."

"The rebels at that time actually passed the encirclement and suppression tests later and were successfully restored to peace. However, the external propaganda of this matter was not like this. After all, the empire wanted to save face."

"And there was a pity that the leader of the rebels disappeared during that battle."

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming, his expression suddenly changed slightly, as if he thought of something, he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."

"There is something else I want to tell you."

"Although this simulation and your last simulation are both simulated battles, they are completely different after entering. You can feel it after entering."

"And although you will not be able to go to areas outside the set area due to various reasons, in the simulation at least the entire star field is still operating, not just one-third of the star field where you can move."

"The surrounding existence will still have an impact on the simulation, so you need to pay attention to this."

"The specific impact it may have is more complicated, so I won't tell you here."

"Others will probably explain it to you later, so don't worry."

After ending this topic, Chen Ming and Bai Quan chatted for a while on some details of the rules.

After everything was set, Chen Ming was led by Bai Quan to a small independent room in the building where the simulation equipment was located.

This room has a semi-open cabin on the ground connected to a large number of lines, similar to a cryo-sleep cabin.

Those lines are used to monitor the physical condition of the person lying in the cabin to ensure that there are no physical problems during the use of the equipment. If a problem is detected, an alarm will be issued as soon as possible.

Wait a moment.

When Chen Ming reached this step, he suddenly thought that although his prosthetic brain was the same as the Zerg brain, it was purely a carrier of consciousness, allowing consciousness to exist in the body.

But this kind of deep dive should require the brain to play some role. He is really not sure whether his prosthesis can go in.

But Chen Ming had another thought.

Since I have had two experiences of submerging my consciousness, and my body can normally enter an ordinary simulation even though I am far away, it should be possible this time, too, probably.

If it really doesn't work, he still has a backup method, so it's not a big problem.

Chen Ming lay down in the cabin, put on his helmet, and activated the function of deep consciousness penetration.

Fortunately, the device did not alarm and say that no living person was detected. Chen Ming could feel that his thinking was gradually being accelerated by the influence of the device.

It seems that there is no need for him to use a little bit of manipulation to destroy the equipment and delay time for him to build a new one and use it near the main body.

Chen Ming relaxed and completely devoted his consciousness to the simulation equipment.

When the various indicators detected by Chen Ming's prosthesis gradually leveled off, only the brain activity of the prosthesis increased to a new level.

Bai Quan exited the room, closed the door of the compartment, and the door automatically locked, isolating everyone.

Unless the person inside takes the initiative to open it, or there is a problem with the physical detection of the person inside, or there are two or more administrators who open it with a key, there is no way to break in directly.

People who have submerged themselves in deep consciousness are very fragile, and the acceleration of brain thinking that submerges in deep consciousness is also very precisely adjusted.

Any external interference may cause problems with accelerated thinking.

The impact of brain problems is very terrifying, so the Fourteenth Legion has always done its best to protect people who use analog equipment.

Bai Quan tried pressing the electronic door lock next to him a few times. After confirming that it could not be opened, he went to the room next to Chen Ming, where there was also a similar device.

As the referee of this battle, he also had to dive in deeply and keep an eye on the entire battle.

(End of this chapter)