Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 256 An Wuping

The dimensional infection incident related to Zuojia made Chen Ming feel the same fear as before when he encountered it.

But after calming down, he suddenly discovered that the fear didn't just bring fear to him.

While this fear was accompanying him, he also felt an inexplicable... excitement.

The excitement of being on the edge of danger gave Chen Ming some indescribable feelings.

He seemed to be expecting something to happen.

Therefore, after returning to the branch, Chen Ming would immediately do serious things honestly.

I just want to give myself some time to calm down and take time to think after I calm down.

As a result, Chen Ming confirmed that this feeling was not an illusion, but his true feeling.

He pursues stability when he is in danger, but he really wants to pursue some excitement when he is stable.

Only that time with Hu Yi really made Chen Ming feel his adrenaline being stimulated and his whole body became excited.

After the initial freshness has passed, all that is left is to look at the various survey data from the brilliant returns every day.

But a reconnaissance mission can only be completed in a few days at most, and war will also take time to come.

Speaking of confronting psykers head-on, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the last time he faced off against psykers, which was when he fought against Yan Xiong.

Moreover, in the process of thinking, Chen Ming discovered that his situation had actually appeared before.

Of course, Chen Ming still values ​​his own life.

Moreover, the recent death of Lou Wei caused Bai Quan to return to his headquarters, which indirectly caused the investigation mission that Chen Mingneng could participate in to at least wait until Bai Quan returned.

So now even if Chen Ming has this idea, he will not do anything personally.

But now looking back at the past, Chen Ming found that he was indeed excited about this incident.

Chen Ming felt a little conflicted.

That's why Chen Ming later took the initiative to develop prosthetic technology, allowing the prosthetic body to reach the 14th Army Corps.

Apart from general regulation, simply looking at these data makes Chen Ming feel a little nauseous.

Only when he helped some afterglow individuals who encountered dangerous situations to escape from danger and repair the spacecraft, he could barely feel a sense of fun.

Although there are other things that can distract his attention to a certain extent, such as the reconnaissance mission Baiquan promised before and the upcoming war.

Of course, Chen Ming is not someone who gets angry because of this kind of feeling. He has always been calm when doing things.

Although some people are indeed targeting him and Bai Quan, the methods they can use are basically ordinary methods, which are reasonable at the political level, or simply some inconspicuous small methods.

From the beginning, he was clearly pursuing a stable life, but in the process of constantly encountering dangers and resolving them, he began to miss the feeling of being in danger.

The excitement at that time is still unforgettable for Chen Ming when he recalls it now.

And the Fourteenth Legion here is indeed more interesting than on the almost unchanged pioneering road.

Chen Ming felt that he could participate.

As a result, the stable life he currently leads is a bit boring to him.

The danger level of dimensional infection is definitely one of the top two most terrifying things that Chen Ming has ever experienced.

Chen Ming didn't even need to analyze the data himself. Huihuang had already processed all the valuable data when he took it out, and everything that needed to be done was done well. It didn't have anything to do with him at all.

But similarly, after the initial freshness, the branch of the Fourteenth Army gradually became boring.

Just like when the first temporary base was developed.

That time was an exception. After all, it was the first time Zuo Jing had brought out a psyker, and it was also Chen Ming's rare opportunity to confront a psyker head-on.

Competing with nature, competing with the environment, and competing with people is definitely interesting.

He must personally choose an indirect way to participate.

Under the influence of these factors, the only thing Chen Ming can do now is to participate in this dimensional infection incident involving Zuo Jing.

Chen Ming just prefers the method he is more willing to accept when it comes to some things that he can choose.

Although Chen Ming didn't notice his emotions when he fought with Hu Yi before. At that time, all his attention was on the surrounding volcanoes and using his mental power to control the core of purgatory to fight against Hu Yi.

However, if this matter is completely handed over to other people to investigate, the efficiency, time, degree of danger, and whether the information can be passed back in time are all uncertain.

After all, if you really want to say it's boring, the prosthesis has classes with Bai Quan every day, and the main body still has to stare at the large amount of data transmitted back by Huihuang every day, and has to spend almost all of the day learning cruiser-level technology. That is even more boring, but He still persisted.

The first place was when Chen Ming was almost killed by Yu Hui's tachyon spear in the pirate space station's space arm.

Of course, there was also the time later when the Black Mist Psyker sneaked into the ship and attempted an assassination attempt.

At this moment, dimensional infection may lead to unpredictable serious consequences, and serious consequences that no one can escape.

He played in person instead of using a prosthetic body.

Even half a year may be considered a short time until the war officially begins, and it will be even longer before the actual war begins.

While it's fun to chase thrills, death is also a truly terrifying thing.

So after finishing all the things that Chen Ming left for him to do so that he could calm down and examine himself, his mind was instantly filled with this matter again.

It's not to satisfy his desire to take the initiative to find fault for himself because his life is so satisfying, it's simply to find something to do.

He only had one choice left.

Prosthesis.

Just before, the president made it clear that dimensional infection marks bodies that have experienced dimensional infection events.

This body determines the positioning of another dimension and establishes a connection with the other dimension, rather than a prosthesis with the same or different genes.

So in reality, as long as Chen Ming is not running around in his true form, even the prosthesis in the Fourteenth Legion can participate.

But this matter has something to do with Zuojia.

Chen Ming knew that although Zuo Jing wanted to get rid of him quickly, it was absolutely impossible for him to take the initiative to trouble him when he had no chance, especially after killing a psyker.

Therefore, the involvement of prostheses may have the opposite effect.

Moreover, the prosthesis is currently restricted by the rules of the Fourteenth Legion. It cannot run around and needs to hang around in the Fourteenth Legion.

Therefore, both the body and the prosthesis are restricted in a sense.

But Chen Ming has another choice.

An Wuping was another creature that was a hybrid of a prosthesis and a Zerg special combat unit that he had just created some time ago and sent to the empire.

An Wuping can also be regarded as one of his avatars.

It has the genes and flesh imitated by the insect queen, as well as the ferocious creature hidden under the flesh.

It is not impossible for such a guy to participate in this matter alone with Chen Ming quietly providing help behind his back.

An Wuping happens to appear everywhere in the empire, which can be regarded as part of Chen Ming's arrangement.

But when talking about An Wuping, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something.

An Wuping is the product of a combination of a prosthesis made by the Queen of Bugs and a special combat unit of the Zerg.

The process of making prostheses seems to be somewhat similar to the process of cloning.

Moreover, the fake body created is actually no different from the clone created.

However, the process of cloning can lead to dimensional infection, but nothing similar has ever happened in the process of making prostheses by the Queen of Worms.

Chen Ming had missed this point before, but it was only now that he suddenly realized the problem, so he immediately looked at the Queen of Eyes.

Then he suddenly realized that not only the manufacturing process of the prosthesis, but also the process of cultivating new Zerg individuals by the insect queen was actually problematic.

Chen Ming remembered that the insect queens in the past would first lay insect eggs when breeding new insect individuals.

After the eggs hatch into larvae, the queen will stuff a relatively weak part of her consciousness in the Zerg hive mind into the larvae, and then develop with the larvae, thereby expanding the size of the entire population.

And before the eggs hatch. There should be no ordinary Zerg consciousness inside, and even within a certain period of time after the larva hatches, the larva itself should be a pure Zerg body.

Why didn't the beings from another dimension target the Worm Queen?

This question just appeared in Chen Ming's mind.

After devouring Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source, the insect queen, whose mental power was completely linked to Chen Ming, suddenly came to a sense of consciousness and told Chen Ming the reason.

The insect queen will fill its own consciousness into the egg before hatching. The queen's consciousness will not be extracted until the new insect consciousness enters the hatched larvae and the fragile consciousness adapts to the larvae's body.

Therefore, the body of an individual Zerg has never experienced any moment, and there is no consciousness in the body.

And when Chen Ming continued to ask the Queen of Insects the reason.

Chen Ming was a little surprised by the insect queen's answer, but if he thought about it carefully, it was indeed reasonable.

It's instinct, instinct tells the insect queen that it needs to do this.

Chen Ming continued to ask the insect queen if she had any memories related to this instinct.

There was a decisive feeling of denial from the Insect Queen.

Then this is kind of interesting.

During the process of hatching from insect eggs to larvae, regardless of the dimension of infection and other environmental conditions, there is absolutely no need for the consciousness of the queen to always exist in the eggs and larvae for protection. But the instinct made the insect queen do this, and the meaning behind it seemed a bit intriguing.

Even now.

After the worm queen evolved after swallowing the psychic fungus, its reproduction method has changed from simple oviposition to oviposition plus the reproduction methods possessed by various fungi.

And compared with the changes in breeding methods, the technology of biological construction of larvae hatching tanks is almost mature, and larvae can be hatched automatically.

But Chen Ming discovered that even at this time, when the biological building hatches new Zerg larvae, the insect queen will still use her consciousness to control the biological building and instill part of her consciousness into these insect eggs and larvae.

It is ensured that during the whole process, there will be no gaps in consciousness among the individuals cultivated by the queen.

The same goes for the growth process of prostheses.

The insect queen filled it in with her own consciousness. When Chen Ming needed to cooperate with the experiment, she extracted its consciousness and let Chen Ming's consciousness enter the prosthesis.

Even if it is a prosthesis, there is still a certain degree of consciousness of the insect queen in the body before Chen Ming controls it.

Chen Ming tried to prevent the insect queen from doing this and using her consciousness to protect the eggs.

But then, for the first time, there was an extremely resistant response from the insect queen, but in the end it agreed to Chen Ming's request.

Of course, Chen Ming did not seek death like that and immediately withdrew his request.

Through what he just said, he basically understood what the insect queen's instinct was.

If the history of the Thorne Zerg after the emergence of the worm can be traced, then we can basically determine how many years ago the dimensional infection occurred based on the history of the Thorne Zerg species.

It's a pity that no more information can be obtained about the insect queen for the time being.

The memory of the Zerg race will be lost in the reproduction of successive generations of Zerg queens. The memory of the Zerg queen is only the part of one generation of Zerg queens, not all of them.

So if Chen Ming wants to know more, he must start with the first generation of insect queens.

But the first-generation insect queen has long since disappeared, and the probability of encountering it is lower than finding a needle in a haystack.

I’ll leave it alone for now.

At least it can be determined that the Queen has never encountered problems similar to dimensional infection during the prosthetic experiment and the incubation process of the new Zerg.

And Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about the Zerg being affected by someone like him who has experienced the dimensional infection in the future, resulting in the dimensional infection affecting the insect queen.

Chen Ming recorded the fact that the insect queen's instinct would use her own consciousness to protect the Zerg body that had no consciousness during the cultivation process.

Then he turned his attention back to An Wuping, who had arrived in the empire not long ago.

An Wuping's mission has been determined from the beginning.

Just help Chen Ming do something that he can't do with his own hands, or that is inconvenient to do with his own hands.

For example, killing someone from a hostile faction of the Fourteenth Legion that he didn't like.

Another example is helping Chen Ming run around in several star fields, looking for traces of the left path.

The location of the Zuojia stronghold that Chen Ming obtained from the two industrial colonies that now belong to him was reserved for An Wuping.

Chen Ming planned to let An Wuping handle matters related to Zuo Jing, so the same was true for this matter now.

However, An Wuping couldn't go directly to Caimo-3. A character who appeared inexplicably might even be targeted by his own people who didn't know the situation at the first time.

Chen Ming didn't want the president or people arranged by the empire to keep an eye on An Wuping, and he didn't want the relationship between An Wuping and himself to be exposed.

Therefore, he had to make arrangements step by step to extend An Wuping's action logic to the Caimo Star Territory.

And we also need to make it clear to everyone that An Wuping is a friend, not an enemy.

This requires some preparation.

The best part of the foreshadowing is Zuo Jing's corpse.

The location of the Zuojia stronghold that Chen Ming deliberately concealed was the only way for An Wuping to pass next.

He has always been personally controlling and arranging everything about An Wuping, and this has been the case since the day it was built.

When he first created An Wuping, he directly sent An Wuping to the empire in a spaceship.

Before reaching the territory of the empire, An Wuping was directly stuffed into a large escape capsule that only activated the function of sending a distress signal but did not activate the cryo-sleep function at a distance, and left him in space.

Anyway, An Wuping's physical strength is enough to enter the universe physically, so it's not a big problem how to do it directly.

Chen Ming also confirmed the traces of an active pirate fleet in the nearby star field through the information from Lao Wu in advance.

The distress signal naturally fell into the eyes of this pirate fleet.

Then Chen Ming directly controlled An Wuping to break into the flagship of the pirate fleet.

Using a human form wearing military power armor that could be stuffed into a large cryo-sleep chamber, he killed almost all the pirates on the ship.

Only some pirates who surrendered, had no bounty, and could fly spaceships were left.

After relying on command skills to operate the most powerful flagship and kill nearly half of the remaining pirate spaceships, all the remaining pirates chose to surrender.

An Wuping completely seized command of the pirate fleet and took the crippled fleet to the nearest pirate space station.

Because he wants to enter human society, Chen Ming must be careful when playing An Wuping in front of many people.

And if An Wuping is not to be suspected in the future, Chen Ming must plan everything about An Wuping in advance starting from the first step into the empire.

For example, background story, character, etc.

The background story is easy to solve. Anyway, there are many underworlds in the empire, so the background story is almost enough.

The character design should also be set to be dark and crazy, and it would be better to have some mental-related diseases.

For example, Chen Ming recently learned about the diseases suffered by animals that were affected by psychic pulses on Ruimu.

Madness.

Those animals suffered from acute mania, but An Wuping suffered from chronic rage.

Of course, it can also be a random mania, it depends on Chen Ming's needs.

This kind of mental illness just fits An Wuping's character who suddenly grew to three meters in size and turned into a ferocious monster.

Anyway, it will be revealed sooner or later that An Wuping can transform. Because he can transform back, it can be explained as spiritual power.

Therefore, we have planned this aspect in advance so that if someone traces Chen Ming's background in the future, there will be traces to follow.

Moreover, this kind of character design will also make it easier for Chen Ming to have An Wuping appear nearby when he wants to kill someone in the future, and then suddenly go crazy and kill the person.

Later, after An Wuping led the pirate fleet to the nearby pirate space station, Chen Ming asked An Wuping to get off the spaceship wearing power armor.

It shows that he owns a worn-out military power armor, which may have been stolen, captured, or originally belonged to him.

Therefore, the rumors spread by the pirates later were not outrageous. At least one person did not break into a mule and robbed the pirates with his body alone. No one had any unnecessary doubts about An Wuping.

And those brave pirates who were frightened by An Wuping wearing power armor and breaking into the spaceship alone and killing all those who dared to resist and the management also gave up to some extent some people who wanted to steal this suit. It was a good thing for ordinary pirates. Thoughts of things.

In short, An Wuping found a local snake and got a false identity under the leadership of several captured pirates.

And then sold all the spaceships and dismissed all the pirates.

Later, a heavily modified second-hand frigate that could be driven by one person was purchased at this pirate space station.

At the same time, he also bought a second-hand robot that had also been roughly modified and some supplies.

The remaining money was used by Chen Ming to eat and drink on the pirate space station.

One reason is to expand An Wuping's character and leave more traces on this pirate space station.

Another reason is that Chen Ming really wants to do this.

Of course, Chen Ming was not as indulgent as Lao Wu. He still had a bottom line.

After spending almost all the money, Chen Ming controlled An Wuping and controlled the spacecraft to leave the pirate galaxy in the edge star field.

After killing a pirate fleet that wanted to cause trouble, Chen Ming went to the local government with the corpses of about half the pirates who were frozen in the cold storage of the spaceship and had bounties on their heads. bounty.

Although the bounties for these pirates are not high, the acquisition of these bounties also gives this false identity a layer of government protection.

This allowed An Wuping to stay in some colonies for a long time without being regarded as a pure gangster.

Chen Ming then continued to rely on this identity to go to an ordinary comprehensive colony in a nearby galaxy.

I spent a day finding a place to stay, and then spent a whole day stalking near the government department, targeting a person from the government department stationed in this galaxy.

After spending some time to knock people out, Chen Ming used the insect queen's ability to disguise An Wuping as a member of the government, stole his identity, and infiltrated into the government department.

Using this identity, he hacked into the local government system and found the local people's identity system database.

Chen Ming has never been exposed to this system before, and now he knows that the identity system database is divided into two.

One is a database of local people from birth to death, while the other is a database of immigrants.

The migrant population database is also divided into two.

One is the one that can be connected through the database. There are relevant records such as birth certificates in other colonies, which means that people with such certificates will not be undercover or have false identities.

And those who cannot be proven through database connection in other regions, there is a high probability that they are fake identities, or at least people with problems.

An Wuping's identity is in this database.

(End of this chapter)