Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 254 Doubt, believe
After Chen Ming opened the permissions to Bai Quan and He Gu, the two immediately contacted the person they should contact.

Chen Ming also picked up the terminal after returning to his room.

Dimensional infection is of great importance, and he must ask the person who knows this matter clearly.

After finding the president's communication code in the address book, Chen Ming called directly.

The president also answered the phone not long after, and said in greeting: "Chen Ming, I haven't seen you for a while. I heard that you recently joined the 14th Army Corps? Have you met Shao Yang?"

"I met him once, but he was at the headquarters and I was at the branch in the Galo Star Territory, so I only met him once, but we are still in contact."

"I see. Do you have anything to do with me today?"

"Is such that."

Chen Ming explained to the president what happened today, and at the same time concealed the identity of the people involved in the matter today. After all, the person who died was Lou Wei, a former major general.

If such a person dies, it will not be good no matter where the news spreads.

Although the person who concluded the rules from the first dimensional infection was the president, when talking about this matter with Chen Ming, the president denied his thoughts.

"Well... although I told you before that there are some problems with the time and location when the sequelae of dimensional infection broke out."

He emphatically stated a few points that he suspected were related to each other.

"In the past, after I experienced dimensional infection, I saw something similar and wondered if it was related to dimensional infection. But later I found that many of the things I suspected were actually normal things and had nothing to do with dimensional infection. association.”

"The sequelae of the last dimensional infection did indeed spread from the place where the dimensional infection broke out to the surrounding areas. Logically speaking, this time it should start from the Galo Star Territory at the earliest."

The gambling agreement just ended today. Someone was found to be connected to Zuo Jing to assassinate Chen Ming. Another person was found to be connected to Zuo Jing to sabotage the agreement, and then someone died.

So now the president chooses to comfort Chen Ming: "I can understand your worries."

He must have more tangible evidence before he can put this matter into a proper position to deal with it.

After all, dimensional infection is definitely not a trivial matter, and it is impossible to say that it can be determined purely by suspicion.

But at this time, facing the president who had known him for some time, Chen Ming still chose to tell the truth: "Feelings."

But Chen Ming couldn't just come up and say that this was how he felt, so he could only explain the whole process a little stiffly.

"Or you can think of a way to give a more solid reason and tell me how you came up with this?"

"Correct."

But to be honest about what happened today, even if Chen Ming was telling it personally, he still felt that these things had nothing to do with dimensional infection.

"But I was paying attention to the news some time ago. In fact, when deformed children began to appear in many star regions within the empire, there was no movement at all in the Galo Star Region."

"My feeling is telling me that this matter is probably related to dimensional infection."

"..."

"what?"

Because dimensional infection is not just a simple flesh and blood tissue, but a more complex situation occurs.

"But dimensional infection has actually only happened twice, and one of them was at Yuhui. There is only a small amount of information you obtained, and the sample is too small."

The president did not take it lightly because Chen Ming suspected dimension infection just because of a few seemingly related reasons. Instead, he listened to Chen Ming's story attentively.

For the president, if Chen Ming really died because someone died due to body explosion, he then thought of other things, and finally thought it was a dimensional infection.

The president put down the work he was doing and completely fixed his gaze on the terminal next to him.

Seeing that the president didn't seem to believe it directly, Chen Ming added again: "I feel like this is too much of a coincidence."

Therefore, by doing this, Chen Ming is worthy of his current status as a prosthetic actor.

"Correct."

"It wasn't until recently that the Galo Star Territory began to experience similar situations like other star territories."

But what Chen Ming felt at the moment when Lou Wei exploded was indeed the feeling caused by the dimensional infection, and Lou Wei was only affected by the aftermath of the dimensional infection and died.

A quick look will tell you who the dead person is.

And after Chen Ming finished speaking, he confirmed: "You mean, do you think the death of someone on your side was indirectly affected by a situation similar to a dimensional infection?"

But if the president really wants to know, it’s not difficult.

Of course, having said that, he will definitely investigate as Chen Ming said, but before there is evidence, he certainly cannot directly put Chen Ming's suspicion on the level of dimensional infection.

Chen Ming was silent for a while. He really wanted to use a normal way to make people reasonably think of dimensional infection.

"Feeling? Psychic feeling?"

At least wait until there is some evidence to prove that there is a dimensional infection before investing more.

The president said to Chen Ming in a gentle tone and patiently: "I also know what you said."

"I can't tell if the death over there is related to the dimensional infection just by listening to your words. I'll think about it more."

He and Wu An had talked about Chen Ming more than once when they were chatting about some things some time ago. Chen Ming's keen perception was something Wu An often mentioned in front of the president.

"But what was summarized for the first time is not statistically regular at all, but is more likely to be random unless there are more samples."

"Even if the empire is deliberately suppressing similar news, I can be sure that I don't think the outbreak of the Gallo star field was late because the empire blocked the news. This is actually the sequelae of the outbreak that were late."

That might waste the little manpower he has on researching dimensional infections.

Then the president needs to consider whether Chen Ming is over-worrying. As he just said, he did associate many things with dimensional infection, for fear that he could not completely get rid of the infection part. out of the normal universe.

But if Chen Ming said that it was his feeling that gave him the feeling that this matter was related to dimensional infection.

The president must think about it seriously.

Psychics have more or less a sixth sense. When facing bad things, they will have some subtle feelings.
Chen Ming is definitely a genius psyker that the empire encounters once in a hundred or even a thousand years. The perception ability of such a psyker...

The president thought for a moment and finally decided.

He chose to believe Chen Ming.

The president suspended all the work on hand and prepared to prioritize solving the possible dimensional infection incident mentioned by Chen Ming. He asked: "What was the specific feeling you had before?"

Chen Ming was slightly relieved when he heard this. Since the president could ask this, he would at least have an impression of this matter.

Chen Ming can basically ensure that this matter is related to dimensional infection. It is still necessary for the president, the person responsible for handling dimensional infection incidents, to remember this matter.

"When I saw that person die, I felt the same instinctive fear that I felt when I first faced the dimensional infection."

"But when that person died, I didn't feel dangerous. It was just seeing this scene that gave me that feeling. So it gave me the feeling that that person was the aftermath of being infected by the dimension, or was being used by Zuo Jing. Some method of dimensional infection caused a similar effect."

"I've seen a lot of dead people, and I've seen a lot of scenes like this with blood and flesh flying everywhere. What makes me feel scared is definitely not the scene itself, but what it represents."

Chen Ming emphasized his feelings again, fearing that the president might misunderstand him because he didn't explain clearly.

However, the president did not misunderstand and knew what Chen Ming meant.

"You just suspected that it was a problem with the left diameter, right?"

"Correct."

"check it out.

The president sent a document to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had obtained similar documents before, which were various information and recorded data obtained by the president when he went to investigate the dimension infection.

Although Chen Ming is always running around, he usually chats with people he knows.

Whether it was factory director Lao Wu, boss or president, or even Shao Yang and Chen Ming, they would occasionally chat with him.

Therefore, the president sent Chen Ming some of his research on dimensional infection when chatting with Chen Ming.

It can be regarded as care for Chen Ming, a person who has also experienced dimensional infection like him.

And this time the content on the file...

Chen Ming flipped through the documents quickly.

It can be seen that although the document still does not know much about the overall situation of dimensional infection, it is also unclear how the other dimension exists.

However, there are still very detailed records on some information files that can be learned in normal space.

Of course, there is a lot of content, and it would take a while to read it all in detail, even if it was Chen Minglai.

However, the president did not give him time to read it slowly. Instead, he asked Chen Ming to flip to the middle of the document. This document contains a three-dimensional image of the empire's star map.

On the star map, the situation of deformed children in different star fields, star districts, and galaxies that the president investigated since the last dimensional infection outbreak is marked.

"Have I seen something like this before?"

"Yes, one of the two star maps I showed you before is the data from the previous dimension infection I experienced. I was not prepared at the time and the situation was quite critical."

"In addition, the empire had not issued a ban on cloning at that time, and there were also many clones suffering from deformities, so the data is not that detailed."

"The other is rough data that hasn't been investigated before, so it's just a general look at the situation."

"What I'm showing you today is data that has been thoroughly investigated and is being updated in real time."

"This dimensional infection has no real impact on the empire compared to the one decades ago. Coupled with the experience last time, we have made a lot of preparations in advance. The entire empire is also supporting me in doing these things. , so there are a lot more data samples.”

"I asked someone to make a database and hang it on the Imperial Hospital's general database. It will automatically record cases of newborns and fetal malformations."

"There may be some errors in taking the data directly, but the errors will not be too big. This is the basis of this star map."

Chen Ming clearly continued to look at the star map.

It can be seen from the star map that the density of deformed children starts from a certain point within the empire, and expands outward like hollow balls stacked on top of one another.

And with the relative change of distance, the closer to the periphery of the hollow ball, the lower the frequency of deformed children.

Of course, this low is also relatively low. In fact, the probability of high amounts is still more than 50%.

The inner star field is even more exaggerated. The probability of occurrence is 70, 80, 80 or 90, and childbirth has become a pure gamble.

This situation, which directly led to the reduction of most of the birth population in the entire empire, makes one feel numb even just looking at the figures, let alone those who have experienced it personally.

It was hard for Chen Ming to imagine how the empire could suppress the whole matter and find ways to resolve the conflict externally as soon as possible.

Although the empire is currently somewhat negative in terms of public opinion, overall it is currently in a relatively stable situation.

However, if there is no way to solve this problem or transfer the conflict away, then this temporary stability will only be the calm before the storm.

This is what the empire is going to have a headache for. All Chen Ming can do now is to protect himself and tell others about the dimensional infection.

At this moment, Chen Ming has also found the star field on the star map where the wave of deformed children breaks out the earliest and most frequently.

This is a star field that is not highly developed and is still under development in the center of the connection between the empire's core and the empire's border star field.

The place with the highest frequency of deformed children in the entire star field is the Caimo-3 star area in the Caimo Star Field.

No matter how accurate the data is, the data in the entire star area is basically the same. This is the smallest location that can be determined based on the data.

"This place may not be the base camp of Zuo Jing, but it must be the source of this dimensional infection. Hasn't it been investigated before?"

The president explained to Chen Ming's question: "There has been an investigation, but we did not find any clues when we investigated this sector before."

"A star district can be called big or small. It's still very difficult to find anything specific."

"And the sequelae of dimensional infection are pure interference from another dimension to our normal universe, affecting the growth of fetuses with weak consciousness. There will be no residual psychic fluctuations."

"It's no problem to find this star area by relying on data, but it's basically impossible to continue to find the location of the source of the sequelae. We can only find it purely by looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Even with the support of the empire, it is impossible to investigate every corner of all planets."

"So after a round of investigation, the focus of our work actually began to shift to Yuhui. The location of the infection outbreak in their dimension is certain, but the progress is not ideal."

Hearing that this involved his professional matter, Chen Ming immediately said: "Why don't you come to me? Everyone should know that I must have a back-up plan left in the Afterglow Galaxy, right?"

"This is the truth, but there are also reasons for it. One is that I am worried that asking you for help early will prevent you from completely controlling the Afterglow Star Territory."

"The other thing is, if I ask you for help, who will come to you? At what cost will you help? You were a free psyker before you joined the Fourteenth Legion some time ago. The empire will not force you to help, so this matter has always been Dragging.”

"And the last reason is that the empire found the remains of another civilization some time ago."

"In that ruins, some documents that may be related to dimensional infection were found."

Chen Ming immediately realized the connection and asked: "Has another civilization encountered dimensional infection?"

"Yes, the document is still waiting for translation by linguists, but just those parts that have been translated can confirm that similar things did occur in the history of another civilization."

"They are also intelligent creatures. Based on the size of the equipment found, it can be determined that their body shape is similar to ours. Although no bone fossils have been found, it is also certain that they have gone through the same stages as us and have been cloned. It’s so normal to encounter dimensional infection.”

Chen Ming asked again: "Is it possible that the demise of another civilization is related to dimensional infection?"

"Such a view has been raised, but there is no need to expect to be certain of the conclusion until enough information is investigated."

"I will keep following up on this matter. If there is any news you want to know, I will tell you when the time comes. For now, let's talk about our current affairs."

"it is good."

Chen Ming curbed his curiosity and said, "Then do we still want to investigate Caimo-3 next?"

"Yes, we must conduct a more targeted investigation. You also said that Zuo Jing is involved in this matter, so now I have reason to suspect that Cai Mo-3 may also have Zuo Jing involved."

"Zuo Jing is usually hidden in the crowd, so it is very likely that the location where Zuo Jing caused the dimensional infection is in a public place within the empire, but they have cleaned up the traces left behind. This time the investigation will be Mainly for these places.”

"But try not to get involved. I can't even go there myself. I have to find someone else to do it for me."

This reminder from the president can be regarded as repeating what he has said before. After all, if Zuo Jing really took the initiative to cause dimensional infection and someone survived, then what if Chen Ming or the president unknowingly and Witnesses of dimensional infection came into contact.

Although it may not necessarily completely expose the relative coordinates of the empire and another dimension, it will definitely have an impact. The most obvious one is that it may cause the sequelae to be prolonged.

So Chen Ming doesn't have any opinions now.

When the president said this, he suddenly remembered some things he had discussed with Chen Ming, and said: "Also, I have now completely understood what dimension is for us. I am talking about you and me. Two people, the way our two coordinates are positioned.”

"What is it?"

"It's us. Speaking of which, you were the first to come up with the concept of coordinate positioning."

Chen Ming immediately said: "I just had this feeling before, so I said it, but I definitely can't understand the specific situation, and president, didn't you also perfect this concept before?"

"Let's put it this way, I have actually had similar ideas before, but not as specific as you."

"And you said it in detail, and the content is correct, then I will add my thoughts to your thoughts, and then perfect the concept."

"That's why I'm sure that the way another dimension orients us lies in us, in ourselves."

Chen Ming asked again: "How is it determined specifically?"

The president suddenly looked nostalgic in his eyes and said: "During the last dimensional infection, I was temporarily trapped on the planet where the dimensional infection broke out. I had nothing to do, so I did some experiments."

"I won't go into too many details. I can confirm that only your body that has experienced dimensional infection is the target of being targeted."

"The existence of another dimension will mark us with a special thing that cannot be observed by our naked eyes, spiritual energy, or any means."

"It's not clear what it actually is. It may be similar to pheromones. It's what they rely on to determine our location."

"As long as the bodies infected with the pheromone don't come into contact, there will be no effect overall."

Chen Ming asked with some confusion: "Is it our body that is marked? Isn't it our consciousness or spiritual energy?"

"Think about what I said before?"

Chen Ming immediately recalled several times the president had chatted with him, but he could not find any similar topics.

But when Chen Ming's meeting came and he met the president for the first time, the president once said something.

Psykers are resistant to infection from another dimension, and the psyker's consciousness resists infection from another dimension.

Obviously a psyker's consciousness would never be the subject of a mark from another dimension, but the same could not be said for the body.

Unless the psyker can maintain complete mental protection of the body during the entire process of dimensional infection, any slack will be marked.

The body will not instinctively resist the invasion of another dimension.

After all, consciousness is the foundation for human beings. Without consciousness, the body is just an empty shell.

The same is true for psychics. For people who use their own consciousness to affect reality, consciousness is the most important thing.

Unless you are a psyker who specializes in strengthening your body, your body will be more important, such as Yan Xiong...

However, there are currently no clear physical-enhanced psykers who have experienced dimensional infection, so whether dimensional infection can mark such psykers is still purely theoretical.

Chen Ming followed what the president said, and a lot of ideas flashed through his mind.

After expressing these thoughts, the president gave Chen Ming a positive answer.

(End of this chapter)