Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 234 The badness of Zuojia

Chen Ming not only asked the insect queen to conduct research on prosthetics some time ago, he also asked the insect queen to conduct research based on the Zerg ability.

Because he found that the Zerg are also very resistant to toxins and other things.

To be precise, it shouldn't be resistance, but an ability.

After ingesting toxic substances, Zerg can secrete special substances that can remove or neutralize toxic substances at an extremely fast speed.

This special substance is an antidote to the Zerg, but not necessarily to humans.

So Chen Ming asked the queen to find a way to secrete these special substances while retaining the original functions while removing the parts that are harmful to humans.

Chen Ming doesn't have the ability to resist poison. If he is poisoned one day, he might be able to rely on the insect queen's ability to save him.

And this technology was really succeeded by the Insect Queen.

It's just that this technology happened to be developed by the Queen of Insects when prosthetic technology was completely mature.

Part of the insect queen's consciousness was quickly transferred to these tentacles, and she understood Chen Ming's thoughts.

But if Chen Ming doesn't use this technology now, and he has no other drugs on hand, the driver will die.

At this time, there were four or five people outside the cab, each holding different tools, as if they were ready to use force to break in.

Just when Chen Ming was worried about whether the driver would cough to death and whether the needle would break.

In addition, during the time when the insect queen was studying prosthetics, she also had a full understanding of the human body.

Then the needle was suddenly controlled by the tentacles and stuck on other tentacles.

The queen extracted part of her own tissue and stuffed it into the needle, mixed it with some thinner light green liquid, and plunged it into the driver's neck again.

Chen Ming immediately came to the door of the cab, unlocked the door, and opened the door.

The driver's life was probably saved.

Many clues will be disconnected directly here.

Seeing that the driver's breathing was getting weaker and weaker, Chen Ming no longer had time to think too much.

However, Chen Mingxian opened the panel of the spacecraft again, allowing the three-dimensional image of the spacecraft to appear in front of him.

These unique substances are very easy to analyze for composition.

But there is a problem if he wants to use this technology now, that is, the existence of the Zerg may be exposed.

The tentacles moved very quickly, and the needle was suddenly inserted into the artery of the driver's neck, which made Chen Ming's neck feel cold.

Then he retracted all the tentacles on his wrists into the carapace wrist guards.

Chen Ming moved his wrist slightly.

With the prosthesis, the possibility of Chen Ming's own poisoning was greatly reduced.

Just when Chen Ming was about to start investigating the spacecraft from the panel, he suddenly heard the sound of the door being broken outside.

In a spaceship with ten people, only one person is in the cockpit, so it’s not like the others are doing nothing, right?
Moreover, it is impossible for the pilot to stay in the cab all the time. There must be some traces left in other parts of the spacecraft.

The insect queen's tentacles on his wrist suddenly pulled out the needle.

Light green liquid was injected into the driver's body.

There is a high probability that the traces it leaves can be removed.

Someone was trying to open the cab door.

Fortunately, no blood spurted out from the driver's neck, the coughing gradually stopped, and even the driver's breathing calmed down.

So Chen Ming originally thought it was unlikely that he would use this technology.

Then, it's time to see what the other people on the spacecraft are doing.

Used on this overly doped driver.

In just ten seconds, the driver suddenly coughed violently and vomited out a large amount of blood with a faint pink color.

The end of one of the tentacles immediately grabbed a needle on the ground, decomposed and discharged all the original pink liquid, and filled the inside of the needle with light green liquid.

The insect queen's body continued to differentiate, and several flexible tentacles began to wave as if they were growing on Chen Ming's wrist.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming subconsciously relaxed a little.

Chen Ming conveniently tied up the unconscious driver with chains and handcuffs made of metallic liquid.

The carapace of the insect creature on the wrist suddenly came to life, and a tiny insect egg hatched instantly on the carapace, forming a small piece of the insect queen's body.

But I didn’t expect that he could still use it now.

The most he can do is let the insect queen try to decompose these special substances after detoxifying the driver, but he can't guarantee a 100% success rate, and he will definitely be able to eliminate all the residues.

And when they saw the closed cab door suddenly open, and a figure wearing power armor suddenly appeared, they were frightened and took a few steps back.

The Thorn Zerg and Zerg-related biotechnology are Chen Ming's trump cards, and it is not a good thing to expose his trump cards.

Just now, it was the Queen of Insects who was helping the driver expel stimulants. This time, it was the Queen of Insects who was cleaning out the remaining special substances inside the driver's body in accordance with Chen Ming's requirements.

He stood up and looked outside the cab door.

Although the insect queen has never learned much about language expression, she is still very skilled in these Zerg-related abilities.

"What's going on? You...you are..."

The man standing at the front subconsciously raised the electric saw-like tool in his hand, pointed at Chen Ming fearfully, and stammered out half a sentence.

Chen Ming saw confusion and anxiety in his and other people's eyes, but no other unnecessary emotions.

It seems like they really have no idea what's going on in there.

Chen Ming opened the visor of his power armor and said, "Don't the person delivering my goods recognize me?"

"Mr. Chen Ming!"

Several people present quickly put down their tools and said to Chen Ming: "We have been unable to enter the cab since five minutes ago. Old Liu... uh, Liu Wei locked the door and refused to answer our call. Telephone."

As he spoke, the man at the front looked past Chen Ming and looked inside the cab.

When he saw Liu Wei lying on the ground and the needles on the ground, he started to stutter again.

"Liu Wei...he...is he..."

Chen Ming's steps moved slightly, completely blocking the eyes of several people.

"Don't worry about him."

Chen Ming pointed to the person who just spoke: "Go and call everyone on the ship. Just wait here, don't run around, and cooperate with the investigation."

"Cooperate well and this matter has nothing to do with you."

The man pointed at by Chen Ming lowered his head in fear and agreed. He quickly picked up the communication device used on the ship and started to contact people elsewhere on the ship.

Chen Ming also walked out of the cab directly and closed the door of the cab.

He looked around again at the expressions of the people present, and then controlled the spacecraft to land near the dome's intended location for these cargo ships.

Dome staff came as usual to prepare to receive experimental materials.

However, they also immediately received a message from Chen Ming, asking them to ignore the cargo ship.

Although the order was strange, the staff accepted it.

After all these preparations were made, Chen Ming still didn't wait for Bai Quan's contact.

But he waited until another person contacted him.

He had specifically paid attention to it before. When he had a remote meeting at the headquarters of the Fourteenth Army, the researcher who first proposed to bring the machine race here to find Chen Ming seemed to be named Lu Kang.

He sent a message to Chen Ming through the contact information Chen Ming left for his researchers: "Mr. Chen Ming, did you receive the video I sent?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then he noticed that the simulation had already started last night.

Lu Kang sent him a video.

And he hadn't seen it until now.

It can only be said that basically no one contacts him through serious contact methods.

After all, he is now openly inside the Fourteenth Army Corps, and external communications cannot be connected.

If you want to contact him, several people Chen Ming knows have special terminals given by him, so there is no need to use formal contact information.

Bai Quan, who was within the Fourteenth Legion, had always used the terminal given to him by Chen Ming as his normal contact method.

So under normal circumstances, no one would use the terminal to contact him, so naturally he wouldn't visit often.

As a result, we encountered this situation.

Lu Kang probably wouldn't have time to contact him. This video might be about something important.

Chen Ming immediately downloaded the video, which lasted for about ten minutes.

Accelerate the video and start playback.

This video was recorded yesterday afternoon, after Chen Ming set out to participate in the simulation.

Lu Kang probably finished his dinner in the cafeteria and went to the rooftop of the office building to relax with a glass bottle containing an unknown drink.

Although Chen Ming arranged independent offices for researchers throughout the dome, the researchers generally stayed in the laboratory or experimental building, and few people came here.

Therefore, the whole building is usually relatively deserted, so Lu Kang just found a deserted place to stay.

Moreover, Chen Ming could see a few empty glass bottles placed in the corner of the rooftop. It seemed that this was not his first time here.

Lu Kang leaned on the edge of the rooftop, took a sip of his drink, and suddenly started talking to himself.

"On April 5602, 4 in the Gregorian calendar, the research on the core of Purgatory assigned by Mr. Chen Ming has ended. Although I am only responsible for a very small part of it, I can also see from it how powerful the relics left by that civilization are. Chen Ming Sir’s technical level is extremely high.”

"Today, Mr. Chen Ming also gave us a complete research report on the Purgatory Core for us to study, and gave us a day's rest."

"I have applied for the right to use an empty laboratory for a week, and I can try to conduct research following Mr. Chen Ming's ideas tomorrow."

Chen Ming saw that Lu Kang was writing a diary.

"It's a pity that I don't have permission to apply for a purgatory core for research, so I can only use the computer first..."

"Wait, what are those two doing?"

Lu Kang's soliloquy suddenly stopped

He looked towards the corner next to the experimental building, as if he noticed something.

He immediately picked up the terminal facing him and turned to the bottom of the office building.

Behind the office building, two people were talking in a hidden corner of the square garden that had been renovated once.

And this location happens to be a blind spot for monitoring inside the dome.

The surveillance of the dome is not comprehensive.

For example, there is no surveillance at all in every room in the dormitory building.

At the same time, there are also some blind spots in public area surveillance.

Only the central laboratory and other experimental buildings ensure full coverage of surveillance without blind spots. After all, these two places are important.

Chen Ming knew this.

Originally, he wanted to make it up by himself, but after Hu Yi assassinated him the previous time, a company in charge of dome security that cooperated with the 14th Army added a new feature to his dome's security plan to cover all blind spots. Blocked plan.

Chen Ming let the company do it on its own.

Unexpectedly, before all the surveillance equipment was installed, someone was hiding in a place like this chatting about something.

No matter who comes here, they can feel that something is wrong. So Lu Kang quietly recorded the whole process from behind.

And he deliberately waited until long after the two people left before leaving the office building and returning to his dormitory.

Using the lip reading tool I found, I read the content of the conversation between the two people.

Although the two men talked for a long time, the most critical content was only three sentences.

Tomorrow a spacecraft carrying samples of the Machine Tribe will hit the dome.

What the two of them have to do is to make some misoperations and let the mechanical tribe run out.

At the same time, use the shelter under the central laboratory to lock out the rest of the people.

So Lu Kang sent the video directly to Chen Ming at that time, and also included the content of the lip reading.

Chen Ming honestly didn't expect such a situation to exist.

Fortunately, he came back at the right time, otherwise he might have regretted not looking at the terminal for a while.

But fortunately, things did not develop in the worst direction.

Chen Ming immediately found these two people through all the staff information he had and their appearance in the video.

One of them is a professional cleaning staff hired by the 14th Army Corps. Not only does he clean the toilets, he also needs to be responsible for the cleaning of the laboratory and the cleaning of some laboratory sterile rooms.

Although the researchers themselves can also be responsible for cleaning, it is definitely more convenient if there is someone dedicated to do it.

The other one was also an employee of an external company responsible for designing the dome security system, which was also an employee of the company responsible for installing the new surveillance.

No wonder they can directly find places to chat without having time to install surveillance.

It seemed that Chen Ming had to look back and consider that the safety of the dome was entirely his own responsibility.

Originally, this company was responsible for the maintenance of the dome's security system. With Chen Ming, they could only pay attention to the security system for a long time.

But even without them, Chen Ming could only maintain the security system once a week, and it wouldn't be a big deal to repair it once with spiritual power.

If it doesn't work, replace it.

Chen Ming silently gave this security company a cross in his heart.

Then he found the two people who talked last night in the dome. Within the coverage of psychic energy, the whereabouts of everyone under the dome was under his control.

At this point in time, these two people were probably a little anxious when they saw the transport machine clan's spacecraft landing safely.

Chen Ming didn't waste much time and directly took over the access control system and security system to prevent them from escaping.

Immediately afterwards, under his control, a large amount of metallic liquid suddenly appeared under the feet of the two people who seemed to be completely fine.

It restricted their movements like a chain, dragging them towards the square outside the laboratory amid the incomprehensible looks of shock from the people around them.

The iconic thing of metallic liquid immediately made it clear to everyone who saw this scene that it was Chen Ming's work.

So they immediately followed, and soon spread the news throughout the dome, which totaled less than a hundred people.

And when the crowd gradually gathered in the square.

The two people dragged away by the metallic liquid have been restrained in the center of the square.

Chen Ming, wearing a suit of power armor, stood beside them.

The security guard lowered his head and remained silent.
And the cleaning lady kept mumbling something, with a pious and slightly crazy look on her face.

Chen Ming listened for a while and found that what he was talking about was the teachings of the Lutheran Church.

Chen Ming had specifically checked the information about the Lutheran Church, the source of Zuo Jing, and happened to know this.

However, the doctrine he is talking about now has some deviations from the church's own teachings. Obviously these deviations are Zuo Jing's modifications to the church's own teachings.

That basically confirms that the left path is gone.

And the cleaner suddenly raised his head with fierce eyes, looking at Chen Ming as if he saw the enemy who killed his father.

"It's too late for you to catch me now. Luddite will soon be in this blasphemous dome..."

"Is this what you're talking about?"

Before Baojie could finish his words, some metallic liquid suddenly condensed in the center of Chen Ming's palm, and after dispersing, several bundles of crudely crafted handmade explosives were revealed.

"Is this the Luddite you are talking about? Is the explosion Luddite?"

Chen Ming sneered.

Several bundles of explosives instantly decomposed into the most basic materials in Chen Ming's palm.

The original crazy voice of Bao Jie seemed to have been pressed on the mute button suddenly, and her eyes towards Chen Ming were full of fearful hatred.

"The blasphemer..."

Chen Ming slapped the cleaner in the face. He knew clearly that someone was planning to cause trouble, so how could he not investigate the dormitory of the person who caused the trouble.

Although there is no surveillance in the dormitory, since the entire dome is under his control, he knows best what is in every location in the dome.

Chen Ming conveniently took a ball of disassembled fabric and stuffed it in his mouth, cursing himself quietly.

Then he looked at the security guard beside him who had his head lowered and remained silent and said, "What's going on with you? Are you also infected with the disease?"

"No, it's just that I need money, so..."

"Lack of money?"

Chen Ming knew that the monthly maintenance cost of his dome's security system was not low.

"Isn't your company making a lot of money? You should be considered an expat in a place like this. How much money do you make?"

The security guard still lowered his head and said, "It's not enough. My mother needs a lot of money for surgery. I've been trying to find someone to borrow it, but the gap is too big. The hospital is pressing hard, so I can't help it."

"Then he came to me and asked me to deliberately mis-operate when a spacecraft hits the dome tomorrow and hide underground with me."

"Then I agreed, but I planned to take the people on Zuojiao with me and die outside."

The security guard raised his head as he spoke, his eyes a little gray, but full of sincerity.

"I bought myself a life safety insurance. You can check this, Mr. Chen Ming."

"As long as I die, my mother can rely on the three million I got from Zuo Jing and the seven million I got from the insurance to cover the surgery, and she can also use the money I borrowed from the bank during this period."

"I have also found a place. Zuo Jing has not been seen in the past ten years. As long as my mother can hide with money for a few years, Zuo Jing will not be able to find them."

Chen Ming frowned slightly, picked up the terminal and checked the background of the security guard along with his identity.

Although he is currently under the military system, the military system and the police system are connected in some places.

Even though this was somewhat against the rules, Chen Ming still directly used this authority to check the identity of the security guard.

Then, he saw the news that made him unable to react immediately and was stunned.

Chen Ming frowned. After watching for a few minutes, he suddenly turned his sympathetic eyes to the security guard and asked, "How long has it been since you... went home?"

"About six or seven years. My mother, my wife and my brother take care of me at home."

"Well...there's some bad news."

"Your mother passed away about three years ago. The cause of death was complications from a cold."

The security guard stayed in place for a second, and suddenly tried desperately to break away from the restraints of the metallic liquid on his body, and shouted at Chen Ming: "What did you say?"

His struggle was obviously useless, but Chen Ming also easily retrieved the records on the terminal and put the terminal screen in front of the security guard.

"Look at it for yourself. This is an autopsy report. You, the security guard, should be able to understand it, right?"

"The cause of death shown in the report was the most basic cold, but due to the long-term lack of treatment, the elderly person was in poor health, which ultimately led to death."

"Impossible...impossible..."

The security guard spoke with a trembling tone, but the photo of the corpse was indeed that of his mother.

He repeated the three words "impossible", his beating heart gradually became lower, and tears slowly filled the corners of his eyes.

"That's impossible. My mother is very open-minded and will tell me anything important as soon as possible."

"And she has no financial resources, so she relies on me to give her all the money. Every money she spends on me is clearly accounted for, saying that she owes me."

"If she catches a cold, she will definitely go to the hospital as soon as possible, and she will definitely tell me if she spends money, it is impossible to die...it is impossible..."

"Impossible...This is absolutely impossible..."

Chen Ming reached out and pushed the security guard who couldn't accept the reality at all and said, "Then you have to ask your brother and your wife what they are doing."

"Why can you still contact your mother after she has been dead for three years? Someone is lying to you."

"According to my investigation... Maybe what I say may sound a bit harsh, but your mother's body was not sent to the hospital by your brother and wife."

"Your neighbor found the body, otherwise why would there be this autopsy report?"

"And I suddenly thought, why didn't your mother even cure her cold?"

“With today’s medical technology, even those who go to the hospital lying down can still stand up and walk back.”

"Even if your mother wants to save you money and treat it slowly, the cost of medicine for a cold is only more than ten yuan, which may not be worth a meal."

"You also have a salary of 30,000 yuan a month, right? You also send home 20,000 yuan a month. Why don't you treat me?"

"The autopsy report shows that your mother didn't have any leg injuries or mobility issues, and she didn't have any problems like Alzheimer's before. It could only be that someone restrained her."

Anbao followed Chen Ming's suspicion and thought of his wife and brother, but he did not dare to speak.

But Chen Ming was thinking about more than just these two people.

"It would be easier for the old man to get more money from you if he were alive. It is impossible to cure a cold."

"Unless... Zuojia."

Chen Ming suddenly kicked the cleaning lady next to him who was still staring at him with hatred.

"Zuo Jing hates modern technology extremely. If your brother and wife believe in Zuo Jing, everything will make sense."

"Why do you think Zuo Jing knew you needed money?"

"I just checked your capital flow. You only borrowed money from a bank, and it was a bank from your hometown."

"Obviously you were worried that your colleagues would know about it, so you never told any outsiders about it, but Zuo Jing knew about it."

"Then it just so happened that the made-up hospital said in the past few days that your mother was in urgent need of a large sum of money for surgery. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"

"I want to tell you something else. Your brother and wife are currently considered missing persons. Do you think they have become Zuo Jing, or is Zuo Jing talking to you through their mouths?"

Tears flowed down the security guard's bitter face, but he suddenly laughed: "Ha...hahaha...Zuo Jing...I'm really a fucking joke."

"I should... this is how it will be for the rest of my life... Mom..."

Chen Ming untied his bonds, but he suddenly fell to his knees, curled up on the ground, crying helplessly and silently.

The security guard looked to be in his forties. This scene made Chen Ming a little worried and he could only raise his head and not look at him.

However, Chen Ming suddenly took a deep breath and said to the dozens of people who were also watching in silence: "Let me start by saying that many of you here can work in a place like this, and many of them are not short of money."

"But if something unexpected happens...come to me. I have the ability and the connections."

"As long as it's a reasonable matter, I can help you solve it."

"I don't want to see this happen again."

"Okay, let's go our separate ways."

"Don't bother dealing with this matter later."

As Chen Ming finished speaking, he saw a Legion spacecraft about to land outside the dome.

(End of this chapter)