Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 246 Unexpected results

The next night.

Chen Ming drove the Stardust class to the target galaxy.

This is the local military station called Meteor-1 Sector.

There happen to be two relatively well-known laboratories in this galaxy, one of which is an electrical engineering laboratory that is relatively authoritative in electronic data.

This laboratory is also the laboratory that proposed the basic theory of simulation equipment. Although the subsequent research was not completed independently by this laboratory, the mere proposing of the basic theory is obviously valuable enough.

The other laboratory is a comprehensive large laboratory, funded and constructed by the star region government and the military to which the Meteor Star Region belongs, and covers a wide range of research.

Naturally, it includes those things that Chen Ming studied.

The electrical engineering lab can attempt to recover corrupted data from simulations, and the comprehensive lab can help determine the value of corrupted research data.

Of course, the simulated data has been sent to the electronic engineering laboratory long ago, but the data has not yet been restored.

Although the Stardust class is a combat-type cruiser, it successfully bypassed the transit space station in orbit and began to land on the surface of the planet due to Baiquan's advance arrangements.

By the way, Lou Wei should be considered a high-level executive, right? After all, he was a major general before, and ended up in this situation himself.

Chen Ming had actually met this person before, at the small military meeting he had attended with Bai Quan.

Because of this, Lou Wei is actually not qualified to meet Bai Quan alone now.

Bai Quan was not in a hurry to sit down. Instead, he greeted the major general opposite and called him "Major General Song." After shaking hands with him, he sat next to Chen Ming.

Bai Quan looked at Chen Ming, and Chen Ming picked up the suitcase he was carrying. After opening it, he took out a chip that stored a large amount of experimental data and placed it on the table.

Bai Quan knocked on the table and completely attracted everyone's attention to him: "I think you all know what happened in the past two days."

Chen Ming sat across from them and glanced at the people in front of him. They all lowered their heads and didn't know what they were thinking.

While he was still in the air, Chen Ming could see the tall buildings and various buildings with the characteristics of scientific researchers intertwined in the city.

However, as the height of the spacecraft continued to decrease, Chen Ming could no longer see more details in the city.

I don’t know if this person will have the same ending in the future.

Chen Ming thought about what Bai Quan had just said to him, and slowly pushed the chip towards Lou Wei and others sitting opposite.

Lou Wei looked to be in his forties or fifties, and he was at least two rounds older than Lou Wei.

Nowadays, the average life span of human beings seems to be one hundred and forty years, which is indeed half the life span of human beings.

Bai Quan suddenly turned Chen Ming's spaceship around and headed to another habitable planet in the galaxy.

When Chen Ming entered this galaxy.

As the height decreased, more details of the colonial city appeared before his eyes.

Therefore, Chen Ming's main purpose this time is to use this comprehensive large laboratory to judge the value of experimental data.

For example, the various shops on the ground floor of the scientific research building, the commercial buildings integrated with the city, and the pedestrians coming and going.

Near the landing point is a military base.

Unexpectedly, we would meet again in this place and under this background.

After the Stardust class landed, specialized people soon came to guide them and took Chen Ming and Bai Quan to the inside of the military base.

After all the three people on Chen Ming's side were seated, Major General Song coughed lightly and said to Bai Quan: "We have contacted the laboratory here. They can help determine the damage based on the experimental data and analyze the experimental data. Keep it confidential and wait for your data.”

A large number of research institutes are gathered here, and the two laboratories that Chen Ming is going to are located in this colony.

And the military rank hanging on Lou Wei's chest has indeed been reduced from major general to colonel.

Sixty or seventy years old, looking like he was half buried in the ground.

"Did you bring your data?"

The first thing he saw was the red volcanic planet that looked similar to the headquarters of the Fourteenth Legion branch. Just when he thought he was going to the volcanic planet to see the ecological domes that looked like the fourteenth Legion branch.

The whole city is still full of vitality, without the overly cold atmosphere in the laboratory.

Therefore, there was also a person with the same rank of general accompanying him, sitting next to Lou Wei, with the rank mark of major general on his chest.

Because the Stardust class landed on a piece of land outside the city that belonged to the star district military.

When the leader pushed open the door of the conference room from the front.

Although there is a military base in this galaxy, civilians are not blocked from entering.

Although this is a scientific research colony, it has all the supporting infrastructure.

After walking through a long and winding line, they arrived at a conference room.

He should be one of the senior members of Lou Wei's faction.

While others were surprised, Major General Song's face, which was originally looking good, gradually turned bad.

Chen Ming still likes this kind of urban environment that combines different advantages.

Because in this galaxy, there is a scientific research colony open to the outside world on the habitable planet that Chen Ming is about to arrive at.

Chen Ming noticed that there were already people sitting on one side of the conference table in the conference room. There were six people in total, one of whom was Lou Wei.

The chip slid on the table, but just after it had slid a few dozen centimeters, Bai Quan next to him suddenly reached out and held down the chip.

"Until the leak is resolved, I will not agree to conduct verification, including verification of Chen Ming's research data and verification of whether Chen Ming has the ability to control colonies."

Major General Song also knocked on the table lightly, drawing people's eyes towards him and said, "These are two different things."

Bai Quan immediately said with a low face: "Two different things? Not necessarily?"

"Only Chen Ming and I know the trajectory of our actions, but you know best how many people there know about this matter. You should know who the person who leaked the information is."

"You also know who it is that relaxed the control of Zuojia and allowed them to lurk into companies that we have cooperative relationships with."

"You let Zuo Jing go before, and you revealed Zuo Jing's position later, and you targeted Chen Ming again and again. Are these two different things?"

"Now I have reason to suspect that we will encounter the same thing when we get to the colonies."

"I'm afraid it will become three different things in your mouth by then."

Major General Song obviously still wanted to speak, but Bai Quan interrupted without any shame: "The supervision department has come to an end now, and the matter will be resolved soon."

"Anyway, we brought the research results with us when we came out. We don't have the equipment here and there won't be any new content added. It won't take more than a day or two, right?"

"I hope I can still see you when the results come out in two days."

The disposable cup in Major General Song's hand was slightly deformed.

He could see that Bai Quan had been prepared for things to develop in this direction from the beginning, and it was useless to say anything more to Bai Quan.

He turned his head slightly and looked at Chen Ming, but Chen Ming also looked like he was leaning back on the chair and letting Bai Quan take full responsibility.

It seemed like he had nothing to say to Chen Ming.

The two had obviously discussed this in advance.

Major General Song simply said: "Okay, then let's leave."

After saying that, he stood up and took the others to leave the conference room.

But just when he left his seat and turned around, someone suddenly opened the door of the conference room and walked in.

It was also someone Chen Ming had met, the psyker researcher hired by Lou Wei who had appeared in the simulation before.

His eyes immediately looked at Chen Ming in the conference room, and then at the others.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the conference room was tense and Major General Song looked like he was ready to leave, he asked, "Did I come at a bad time?"

Major General Song respected the psyker researchers who came over and did not leave directly.

Instead, she controlled her expression and said hello to him, and then asked: "Researcher He Gu, why are you here? Isn't the headquarters busy?"

He Gu nodded to him and said, "Occasionally I go on a business trip."

"Are you guys planning on chatting anymore? I see you've just been in for a while."

Major General Song looked back at Bai Quan, then turned back and said, "Bai Quan has no plans to continue the test because of what happened two days ago. We haven't reached a consensus, so we can only wait for the higher-ups to investigate and finish the matter before continuing with this matter."

"Oh."

He Gu said with a clear look: "I have also heard about this matter recently. I respect both of your ideas anyway, but as for myself, I don't think I have the temperament to talk to people when someone commits a crime. For other matters, you are free to do so.”

He Gu's words were obviously biased towards Chen Ming. Major General Song's expression turned cold again and he led the others out of the conference room.

After the others left, He Gu continued to look at Chen Ming.

And when he was observing Chen Ming, Chen Ming was also observing him.

He Gu's eyes no longer had the uncertainty that he had when he was still simulating. Today, even if Chen Ming has not verified his psychic abilities, he seems to really believe that Chen Ming has such abilities.

Chen Ming felt that what could make him change like this was the video that was released two days ago.

The two looked at each other for a while, and He Gu suddenly said to Chen Ming: "Mr. Chen Ming, do you have time to chat?"

"What to talk about?"

"About your psychic powers."

Chen Ming thought about it for a while, but couldn't figure out what He Gu wanted to do, so he refused: "Forget it, I prefer to explore psychic things by myself."

"It's a pity."

He Gu didn't force it, but just added: "Then let me know when you conduct the colony ability test later. I really want to see it with my own eyes."

"no problem."

Bai Quan answered for Chen Ming before Chen Ming opened his mouth. Chen Ming didn't make any move and acquiesced to Bai Quan's answer.

He Gu nodded upon seeing this, turned around and left the conference room.

The conference room was empty, and Chen Baiquan and the secretary who followed Bai Quan naturally didn't stay too long.

After leaving the conference room, he walked towards the Stardust level.

On the way, Bai Quan explained to Chen Ming the reason why he had just agreed to He Gu: "He Gu is a veteran psyker in the psionic research institute of our Fourteenth Legion."

"He is quite a nice person. At least when I have something to do with them, he is the one who contacts me. He is quite easy to talk to. It won't hurt to get in touch with him."

"And I feel like he just wanted to invite you to the Psychic Research Institute." "Of course, it mainly depends on you. Just follow the rules of the association."

Chen Ming asked; "I have heard of the Psychic Research Institute several times, but what is this specifically for?"

"The Psychic Research Institute must mainly study things related to psionic energy. Medicines used by psykers, psionic weapons, and psykers themselves are all subjects of research."

"However, He Gu's research direction is quite special. It seems to be the civilian application of psychic technology."

"But I don't understand this stuff."

When Bai Quan heard this, he looked Chen Ming up and down and said, "Why don't you understand? Isn't it the core of purgatory?"

"Just before I went to him once just to find a suitable user of the Purgatory Core."

"At that time, he seemed to be more interested in the basic effects of the Purgatory Core, that is, the Purgatory Core controller you created for ordinary people to use."

"I feel like he came to you this time for this reason."

Chen Ming was a little surprised when he heard this. The scene in the previous simulation when He Gu asked him those questions flashed through his mind: "This means that he was actually interested in me before, right? But in the simulation I didn’t see it at the time.”

"He was found by Lou Wei before because you didn't recognize the formula he wrote for measuring the strength of psykers, so he came here just to ask you a few questions based on that formula."

"You told me your reasons, but he didn't say anything. Why don't you just sit there and watch the show? The simulated situation has nothing to do with him."

"And he is not the person in charge of verifying psychic technology at the Psionics Research Institute. Someone else is doing this work. He is not the one in charge of reviewing your purgatory core technology. He probably didn't know about you before."

"He only found out about it later when I couldn't find a suitable person to test the Purgatory Core anywhere and went to him for help."

"But the simulation would have been over by then."

Bai Quan explained to Chen Ming, then suddenly turned his words 180 degrees and said: "Of course, we don't rule out the possibility that he knew you in advance."

"?"

Bai Quan immediately explained: "But you have to think about it, even if he understands your skills, he definitely doesn't know the upper limit of your psychic abilities."

"The speed of your progress is really so fast that I can't help but doubt it."

"If I hadn't known you for a long time, I wouldn't have believed that anyone could do what you did."

"I just thought you were complimenting me."

Chen Ming accepted Bai Quan's words, which were probably a compliment to his psychic abilities, and said, "In that case, it shouldn't be a problem to contact him, but that will happen later."

It just so happened that he still had the idea of ​​​​trading the psionic power armor. This psionic research institute must be related to the website where psyker contribution points are exchanged. Maybe he can learn some additional information through He Gu.

If there is still a chance to meet, you can try to chat, if not, forget it.

Ended the topic of He Gu.

Chen Ming also reached the Stardust level.

But just as he was preparing to finish dinner, he suddenly realized something, and immediately turned to Bai Quan and said: "We met with people today, and Yin and Yang weirded them out, and the rest seems to be nothing." Not done, so what are we going to do next?”

"We really didn't do anything, but we didn't need to do anything."

"Now that the supervisory department has been led to an end, this matter must have a result, and it will definitely be a result that is beneficial to us."

"We just have to wait."

Chen Ming still felt a little weird and asked, "Does it really not matter if you don't do anything?"

Bai Quan said matter-of-factly: "It certainly doesn't matter. We have done what we need to do before. What else do we need to do now?"

"Why do you always think that you have to do something yourself? As long as we start these things, someone will do the rest."

"Because it's a little different from what I'm used to."

Chen Ming said awkwardly: "I sometimes give out some tasks, but I usually explain all the tasks clearly, and the purpose is clear, at least there will be no problems in the general direction."

"Now, I just do things by myself and let other people decide what to do. This makes me a little... uncomfortable."

"It gives me the feeling that someone didn't do a good job. What should I do?"

Bai Quan still said in the same manner: "If you don't do it well, then let people change it. If it is the kind of thing where if there is a problem in one link, the whole problem will go wrong and there is no way to change it, then you should not go in this direction from the beginning. "

"The normal arrangement is just to prepare a backup plan and just look at the rest. If someone makes a mistake and can't correct it and then gets fired, there are always many capable people keeping an eye on those positions."

Chen Ming felt that what Bai Quan said was indeed correct, but he was still a little worried about a situation happening.

"Look at Lou Wei and the others, is it because one person did not do a good job that led to the psykers from Zuojia to assassinate us? Originally, if they were just a small fleet, they would not be investigated."

Bai Quan had nothing to refute the examples given by Chen Ming, and admitted: "What you mentioned is indeed a problem, but this kind of thing is always inevitable. Even Yuhui and the Machine Tribe cannot make mistakes."

"At least take good care of those close to you and keep these people from causing problems. That way, if something happens, you can just solve the problem itself and not get involved."

"Sooner or later you will encounter this kind of situation in the future. You can't do everything yourself, so you have to do the same in the future."

Chen Ming frowned and thought for a while, then said, "I may need to get used to it."

"It's okay. Anyway, we should have nothing to do in the next two days. You can adapt slowly."

Bai Quan suddenly patted Chen Ming's shoulder, and he and Chen Ming walked separately to different rooms in the corridor of the spaceship.

Chen Ming waved to Bai Quan and returned to his room thinking about what Bai Quan said.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ming was lying on the sofa where he usually had classes as usual, reading the daily report sent by Bai Quan.

He is paying attention to the report on the progress of the investigation of this incident every day.

The contents of the daily reports are also developing in the same direction as Bai Quan guessed. Lou Wei's faction has indeed been cooperating with the regulatory authorities in their investigations.

Even though this matter really involved the highest level of the opposing faction, a lieutenant general of the same level as Bai Quan, they still cooperated with the regulatory authorities to complete the investigation.

The final result of the investigation was that the lieutenant general's deputy secretly and deliberately leaked information about the whereabouts of Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

Of course the deputy was immediately restrained.

Others did not go to jail along with him.

Instead, there were other penalties, which were not listed specifically.

However, after Chen Ming got the daily report, Bai Quan handed Chen Ming a result that was not on the daily report.

The content was exactly what was not recorded in the daily report, the final punishment of those other people involved in the Lou Wei faction.

Chen Ming ignored the others and immediately found the most senior lieutenant general of the Lou Wei faction.

Although he was not the mastermind of this incident, he failed to restrain his subordinates and ensure the cleanliness of the team, and he also needs to bear certain joint and several liability.

The final penalty was a solemn public apology and self-examination to Bai Quan and Chen Ming within the 14th Army Corps.

And like all the other principals, he was demoted half a level.

In addition, there are some innocuous punishments such as emptying subsidies and forfeiture of wages, which seem very light.

However, Chen Ming did not draw a conclusion. He pointed to the line on the penalty and asked Bai Quan: "Is there still half a level of this military rank?"

"This is a nominal half-level. To put it bluntly, it is almost like a suspended sentence. As long as there are no problems for a period of time, the position can be restored. But once there is a problem during this period, all the problems will be counted together. ”

"They won't continue to cause trouble to us, at least for a certain period of time."

Chen Ming immediately felt the seriousness of this half-level reduction and said: "Does it mean that if you make mistakes during this period, you will be taken down? Then I feel that they are useless."

Bai Quan said: "It is indeed useless, so I am actually a little surprised that they really did this."

"But this can be regarded as the rapid retreat. Otherwise, if anyone dares to continue to advance a little bit, it will not be a half-level reduction to save them some face."

"I already felt it when I arrived here two days ago. Their attitude was not quite right."

Chen Ming also immediately recalled it.

At that time, Major Song's attitude towards Bai Quan seemed to be quite normal. There was no tit-for-tat feeling. It really didn't seem like he wanted to continue to conflict with Bai Quan. He was just unhappy about being humiliated.

The other people also lowered their heads at that time, as if they didn't want to say much at all.

At that time, Chen Ming thought it was because the inspection by the supervisory department made them all worry about their own problems. Unexpectedly, they should have understood by then that they had no future in the political arena.

"Is this... the end?"

"It's just that they are over, not everyone. There is not only one faction in the legion that is targeting me, but Lou Wei and the others dance the most happily."

Chen Ming put down the terminal in his hand, looked at Bai Quan and said, "I still feel it's a bit unreal. They made so many moves before, but it was just this one small move, and then it was gone?"

"Because this involves the life of a general, things will naturally develop in this direction, just like last time."

"Think about the two lieutenant generals in the war zone. They are deeply involved with Zuo Jing, and they can't even get off the stage safely."

Bai Quan suddenly said with some emotion: "We are all within a set of established rules now. Once many things cross the line, we can only withdraw. As long as we don't continue to seek death, it is always okay to step down steadily."

"For us, in many cases, we don't have to drag down or kill the opponent before the game ends. If we find an opportunity to force the opponent to be like this, the result will be the same."

"There's more to the legion than just fighting and killing. I only realized this not long ago."

"The matter is completely over, and they can only barely maintain their last bit of dignity."

Chen Ming stared at the final penalty on the terminal on the table for a while, and also said with some emotion: "What a pity."

"What are you regretting? Do you want to see a man across the street with his family ruined and his wife scattered in the cold in front of the door?"

"Absolutely." Chen Ming said: "I hope that all those who have enmity with me will die ugly."

But as he spoke, he suddenly thought of Cheng Xinghe, and immediately added: "At least before reconciliation."

"Anyway, I can't accept this situation now, to be honest."

"Although they have no follow-up in the political arena, they should be able to spend their later years safely, right?"

Bai Quan had nothing to say about this: "Because this is the rule, and this rule is also our guarantee in case we lose power in the future."

Chen Ming shook his head and said nothing.

Bai Quan could tell that Chen Ming was a little unhappy, but as he just said, these were the rules.

"In short, these two Zuojiao matters are finally settled."

"But our affairs are not over yet, there are three more things to do next."

"Estimating the value of your research results, verifying your ability to control the colony, and... adding insult to injury."

(End of this chapter)