Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 232 Gambling Agreement
The researcher who was suspected of being a psyker looked apologetic towards Chen Ming.

After questioning Chen Ming, he said: "If you have read my document, you should be able to see that the document I wrote is basically data based on the extreme exercise efficiency of normal psychic energy. .”

"I have heard that you are a member of the Psychic Association. You may not understand some of the contents in the document, but you should be able to see that the estimated value of this document is far less than your current total mental power and spiritual power. Recovery speed.”

"I hope you can give some reasonable explanations through the evidence of the theoretical upper limit recorded in my document."

The researcher said it politely, but Chen Ming didn't want to speak politely now: "You want a reasonable explanation? Then I think there is something wrong with what you wrote."

The researcher was not angry. Instead, he said to Chen Ming, "What's the problem? I'm all ears."

"Basically there are problems."

The researcher's face suddenly became a little confused, but he still controlled himself and said in a calm tone: "Mr. Chen Ming, we all know that the psionic association emphasizes the natural development of psionic people. You should not know how to exercise your mental power. The systematic way is meditation, right?”

"Psychics who have not systematically practiced meditation can only exercise their psychic abilities by using psychic energy to exhaust their mental power."

"And through this method of using psychic energy to consume mental power, once the mental power is consumed to about 20%, this excessive mental power loss will have some negative effects on consciousness."

The researcher was silent for a long time before adding: "The complete exhaustion of mental power is not as simple as mental exhaustion, lack of concentration, and the inability to use psychic powers the next day."

"That's it."

"Depending on the amount and intensity of the overflowing mental power from using psychic energy when the mental power is exhausted, the duration of psychic coma ranges from a few minutes to a few days."

"This will cause the human body's consciousness to become extremely tired for the rest of the day, and this state may continue the next day, leading to various situations such as confusion, difficulty in concentrating mental power, and difficulty in using spiritual energy."

"I'm just used to exhausting all my mental energy before going to bed every day. I'll be knocked into coma by the psychic shock and then sleep until the next day. This is quite convenient for me."

Waiting for the researcher to continue speaking: "Even before the rest of the day, I have relied on self-recovery or drugs and other stimulation to restore my mental power to the maximum value."

"..."

His patient answer made Chen Ming feel a little embarrassed, and his tone became a little calmer, no longer targeting the researcher that Lou Wei had hired.

"Not to mention the speed of mental power recovery required to restore such huge mental power."

It was impossible for him to directly conclude that Chen Ming could not do this.

"You said you exhaust your mental energy every day, are you sure you're not kidding?"

The researcher pushed up his glasses and covered his somewhat changed facial expression with his hand.

"This situation will cause self-psychic shock in the brain, causing the psychic to fall into a coma."

"But as long as the mental power drops to a very low level, you will still be tired the next day, and the effect of the second mental power-consuming exercise is far less than the first time. There is no way to enhance the exercise effect by repeatedly consuming mental power. Way."

But with Chen Ming's psychic abilities, he had never seen any similar type of psychic exist before.

The researcher sitting opposite Chen Ming asked Chen Ming in disbelief: "Does the psychic shock have no effect on you?"

However, the researcher looked like he was still planning to talk, so Chen Ming didn't say anything directly.

"It was a little bit the first few days, and I felt a little tired when I woke up the next day. I'll just get used to it later."

He had never heard of anyone being able to get used to psychic shocks by relying on an ectoplasm stone with a negative effect. Even an ectoplasm stone with a powerful negative effect should not behave like this.

"By the way, I have an ectoplasmic stone with negative effects as an auxiliary for training. It may be due to this reason. In short, the psychic shock is just like that to me."

"At the same time, we don't look at the strength of psychic energy. We only look at the amount of mental power. Your mental power is not enough to reach this level."

"The effect of exercise is not through meditation, but by directly consuming mental energy. I feel that the closer the consumed mental energy is to exhaustion, the better the effect will be, right?"

"It may even cause the psyker's mental training efficiency to be close to zero the next day, and he must take a thorough rest to recover."

"If the coma lasts longer, it may cause damage to the spiritual nerves or even complete brain damage."

"Then let me first correct the mistake I just made. Your content is fine for other people, but it is problematic for me."

The researcher did not refuse to answer the question because of Chen Ming's attitude. Instead, he explained to Chen Ming: "That's true, but the extra exercise gained by continuing to consume the last 20% or so of mental energy is simply not worth the loss the next day. A full day of exercise efficiency”

"At most, only some people with better talents who can withstand more mental energy consumption will choose to deliberately consume more mental energy to exercise, so I will set it to 90% when calculating."

Chen Ming suddenly hesitated to speak because what the researcher said was different from his own experience.

"How do you explain these? What's wrong with these contents?"

So Chen Ming suddenly wanted to laugh, but he still restrained himself and said, "Wait a minute, I have a question to ask."

Chen Ming did not reply immediately after the researcher finished speaking. Instead, he carefully recalled the time when he had just awakened his spiritual power and landed on Ruimu.

"Because I didn't sleep well when I was surviving in the wilderness, so I often did this."

Seeing that Chen Ming ignored her, Cheng Xinghai turned his head boredly.

"So even if someone uses this method instead of meditation to exercise mental power, generally no one will be greedy for the efficiency of this last bit of mental power training."

This kind of exercise efficiency alone seems to have exceeded the normal situation mentioned by this researcher.

Cheng Xinghai suddenly said to Chen Ming in the private chat channel: "Did you take psychic shock as a sleeping pill?"

"According to my calculation method, even if you consume 90% of your mental energy for exercise every day, the exercise effect will be optimal every day."

Chen Ming said firmly: "No."

Chen Ming organized his words a little and said, "That's it. Almost every day in the past, I completely exhausted my mental energy."

He seems to take the initiative to completely exhaust his mental energy before going to bed every day, even to the point of overflowing.

"Please say."

Moreover, the peculiarities of psychic powers have not been thoroughly studied until now. There were indeed some psychics who did things that were absolutely impossible based on data alone.

After all, psykers are people who influence reality with their own will. As long as they think hard, they may be able to do many seemingly impossible things.

Besides, he was just here to help as a juror, not to offend anyone.

So now he simply agreed with Chen Ming's statement and said: "I did not take this into account. How strong is your spirit stone?"

Chen Ming asked directly: "How about letting Lou Wei try it himself?"

"No need for that. If you have a chance, let me do it. Don't kill people."

The researcher's words confirmed his identity as a psyker.

"But it's not enough just to improve your exercise efficiency with the ectoplasm stone. Even if your exercise efficiency is twice that of others, there is still a big gap between the calculated gap and your actual mental power. You also have other assistance. Something for psychic training?”

Chen Ming waved his hand and said: "There are some things that are inconvenient to say, but I can go to the president of the association to help me guarantee that I have things to assist in psychic training. If you need it..."

"That's no need."

The researcher quickly refused. He didn't want to offend the wrong people.

And now he can probably guess what is on Chen Ming's body. There are not many things that can assist in spiritual training, so he can guess what is on Chen Ming's body after a little screening.

Combined with Chen Ming's most basic psychic effect of being able to control the spacecraft, there is a high probability that it is the ship spirit, and there is no need for anyone to verify it.

And since Chen Ming's psychic power can control the spacecraft, it is natural to create something like a ship spirit.

The researcher did not dwell on whether Chen Ming had these things, and continued to ask in other aspects: "Then can you roughly estimate how many times your extra mental strength training efficiency is? Not counting more consumption of mental energy. Strength to exercise.”

"Exercise efficiency without mental energy consumption? Let me think about it...at least five times."

Chen Ming's five times is still at least. The efficiency of mental training provided by the ship spirit and two condensed spiritual energy sources around him is already more than five times.

And he can actually clearly feel that if he consumes mental energy multiple times a day for exercise, the effect of each exercise will not be significantly attenuated.

Moreover, he also has two large numbers of individuals from the hive mind network as assistants. This five times is no longer an understatement, but a leg-breaking statement.

The researcher's confused voice mixed with doubt and disbelief confirmed with Chen Ming: "Five times?"

"I'm just stating the facts and I don't like joking with strangers."

"But if it's five times...it seems a bit worse, right?"

Chen Ming said as if he suddenly thought of something: "Oh, by the way, I have something else I can tell you, Qiling Nerve."

The researcher immediately responded: "I know you have obtained one from Bai Zhongjiang and absorbed it, but I have already added it to you."

"But you probably don't know that I also absorbed one from Yuhui."

"Two?"

There was a bit of astonishment on the researcher's face, and he asked: "Are you sure there are two? The time between the absorption of the spiritual nerves in these chats should not be more than two months, right? Is there no problem with your mental strength and mental state?"

"My mental power is very stable. You can see my mental state, right? If you give me another spiritual nerve, I can still absorb it."

The researcher psyker was silent, calculating in his mind for a while, then raised his head and asked Chen Ming: "Is there anything else?"

"Yes, there is another thing I am experimenting with that can increase my mental power and psychic power, but it is not convenient to say."

"And even if I say it, you might not understand it. This is a special effect of my psychic power."

"Stop, that's enough. This is enough."

The researcher suddenly made a gesture of pause, and then said to Lou Wei next to him: "If we go by what Chen Ming said, his current mental strength is indeed enough to reach this level, enough to control a colony. There is no problem. It's me. The calculations left out some off-spec stuff.”

"Of course, I can't confirm whether Chen Ming did what he said in the past, and whether he had these things, but this is not something I am responsible for."

The researcher nodded to Chen Ming, Lou Wei and Bai Quan and retreated to the corner of the conference room. He found a seat and sat down casually, as if he was ready to watch a show.

Others also broke out into a small wave of discussion again.

"That is to say, in theory, if Chen Ming can really do it, then his development potential is higher than that of the president of the Psychic Association and Wu An."

"Lou Wei seems to have messed with the wrong person."

"It's not a mistake. If he doesn't provoke him now, Chen Ming won't be able to just watch the conflict with Bai Quan."

"There will be some fun to watch later."

Lou Wei next to him has been sweating on his forehead since the first words Chen Ming and the researcher said.

Especially since the psyker researcher had now made it clear that he would have no involvement in the matter, he was already sweating a little.

But when Chen Ming looked at him again, he suddenly thought of another explanation: "This kind of calculation is only paper data after all. There is no way to prove that Chen Ming really has the ability to do this."

Chen Ming asked, "Then how do you want me to prove it?"

"The simplest way is to do a test directly for you. Whatever the test result is, that's what it is."

Chen Ming banged the table and asked, "Who do you think you are? I'll test you if you ask me to?"

Someone who knew him immediately said, "Chen Ming is a psyker of the Psychic Association. The rules of the Psychic Association cannot be subject to any systematic inspection. You are really making things difficult for me."

Seeing Lou Wei still wanted to speak, the person who just reminded him immediately added: "Unless you have the ability to ask the president of the association to change the rules, don't mention it."

Lou Wei was choked, but continued: "But how long has it been since he became a psychic? One year? Can his mental power affect the entire colony in one year? Who believes it?"

Chen Ming was too lazy to talk to him at this time and scolded him directly: "What a joke, let me just say one sentence now. Who believes that your mother is still alive? Where is the evidence?"

"you!"

"What are you doing? How about we take a gamble? I'll bet on your life!"

Pang Dong, who had been silent next to him, also came up to dissuade him: "Hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, no, don't say angry words."

While comforting Chen Ming, he said to Lou Wei: "The specific physical examination and psychic test are definitely unacceptable to Chen Ming. The special psychic data that he was asked to see before was actually a bit beyond theirs." There are restrictions, and you definitely can’t force others.”

As he said that, he looked at Chen Ming and asked, "But it should be no problem to use psychic energy directly, right?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Pang Dong was helping him.

"There's no problem with using it directly. As long as it's not for testing, I don't care."

At this time, Lou Wei was a little confused about what to do. Someone proposed a method to verify the specific amount of Chen Ming's mental power. He said without thinking: "Then let him try it himself!"

At this time, Bai Quan suddenly questioned Lou Wei: "You are here to provide a colony for Chen Ming to test? All the things that Chen Minngling can control are under his control. Do you have the capital to gamble with a colony?"

"And if you really want to test an industrial colony that's the same size as yours, it's not enough, right? There's no way a colony can measure Chen Ming's psychic recovery speed."

"If you can get two industrial colonies similar to those in the simulation to be tested by Chen Ming, if Chen Ming can't achieve the same effect as in the simulation within the same time, then I will consider him cheating."

"I immediately dealt with this matter in accordance with the rules of the Fourteenth Legion. With so many people here watching, it is impossible for me to break my promise."

"Two colonies..."

When it came time to actually take out something, Lou Wei suddenly hesitated again. He hesitated and did not dare to actually accept it.

"Whoever questions, who gives evidence, who provides the environment for Chen Ming to prove himself, shouldn't anyone question others and ask others to prove themselves, right?"

Bai Quan's words made Lou Wei stand up again. He hesitated for a moment, then suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "I'll come out."

"What do you have to offer? Where did you, a major general, get two industrial colonies?"

"I...have a friend I know..."

Chen Ming suddenly said as if he was looking at a fool: "This friend you are talking about, does he know that he is your friend?"

"You don't have to worry about it. I will send the galaxy coordinates to Bai Quan later. What if you are proven to have cheated?"

Bai Quan immediately said for Chen Ming: "If Chen Ming cheats, I will naturally compensate you for the colonial buildings controlled by Chen Ming. If you didn't cheat, these two colonies are the price you must bear for questioning Chen Ming."

"Okay, that's it."

Bai Quan immediately drew up an agreement and placed it in front of Chen Ming and Lou Wei.

After Chen Ming signed decisively, Lou Wei hesitated and signed.

Although this is a simulated conference room infiltrated by deep consciousness, the agreement is still legally valid as long as it is not signed in an actual battle simulation with a set background.

As long as you sign, no one can escape.

"Then the second thing is that you obtained the administrator rights of the simulated device through illegal means, stopped the official battle without any reason, and even cheated during the battle. You should bear the price of this immediately."

"The supervisory department has already given me a reply and will be at your door soon."

"Now there's one last thing."

"Your suspension of the simulation resulted in the loss of the research content of Chen Ming's institute."

Bai Quan put on the table a list of part of the fourteenth legion's fund flows in the Galo Star Territory branch, including 500 million scientific research funds for Chen Ming's research institute.

"The scientific research funding for Chen Ming's research institute here is 500 million a month, and almost a month has passed in the simulation."

"Let's not talk about the content of the research. Let's talk about the time wasted and the energy spent. The money cannot be less, right?"

"I can provide research funds, and I can provide twice the lost month of time. There is precedent for this compensation plan, so don't bother me."

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming, saw Chen Ming nodding, and then said to Lou Wei: "Very good, then let's talk about the synchrotron core."

"Wait a moment."

Lou Wei said quickly: "I don't recognize the synchrotron core matter now."

"I don't understand this. At least I have to wait until I find someone who understands this to talk about this matter."

Bai Quan didn't force him, and said, "Then I'll do what you said and give you a chance to find someone."

Lou Wei suddenly stood up from the conference table and said, "Okay, I will accept all the punishment I deserve unconditionally, but I also want to see Chen Ming get the punishment he deserves."

After speaking, his figure gradually faded into the conference room.

Before Lou Wei completely quit, Bai Quan said one last thing: "It's still undecided whether you cheated or not. Whether it's punishment or compensation depends on your efficiency."

After Lou Wei completely exited the simulation, no one in the conference room continued to speak for a while.

Bai Quan looked around and said, "It's over. I'm aborting this simulation."

The students and instructors each left one after another. It won't be long before everything that happened today will be spread throughout the Fourteenth Legion.

As the vision went dark again.

Chen Ming noticed that the acceleration in his thinking was gradually disappearing.

Soon, he opened his eyes in the cryo chamber-like device where he had been lying before entering the simulation.

At this time, Chen Ming suddenly felt a sense of emptiness, which gave him the idea of ​​​​diving into deep consciousness again.

He seems to have developed some dependence on consciousness acceleration.

Now Chen Ming knew why Cheng Xinghai said that deep consciousness penetration was limited to once a month.

If this is not restricted, it is likely to lead to people becoming addicted to drugs, and they can no longer live without this thing.

However, this was only Chen Ming's first deep consciousness dive. After he stopped accelerating his thinking, he quickly adapted to the feeling of slow thinking again.

And the main body adapts faster because of the lower acceleration rate.

Although he is a little mentally exhausted, Chen Ming usually maintains a good schedule, and occasionally staying up all night is no big deal.

And more importantly, although Chen Ming was not able to take away all the blocked information he had obtained from the simulation device.

But he still wrote down a part before the simulation was terminated. At least this part cannot be taken away by anyone.

And it included the design blueprint for the giant shipyard.

In other words, when Chen Ming's colony develops in the future and is capable of supporting the construction of giant shipyards, he will also be able to build his own capital ship.

Chen Ming straightened up slightly excitedly, and climbed out of the equipment after adjusting his mentality.

Just when Chen Ming was about to leave, a prompt sounded from the instrument behind him: "Please take away your physical condition monitoring report."

When Chen Ming turned around, he saw a piece of paper filled with content spit out from the side of the instrument.

Chen Ming put away the paper and walked out of the closed room.

Bai Quan happened to walk out of the next room at this time and greeted Chen Ming: "Good morning."

"morning."

"Would you like breakfast?"

"eat."

(End of this chapter)