Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 262 Action
The words "dimensional infection" suddenly popped out of Chen Ming's mouth. The other end of the phone was wearing a pair of half-rimmed glasses. The expression of the deputy director of the local Star Territory Anti-Cult Bureau, who originally looked a little surprised, immediately changed, and he also subconsciously felt it in his heart. The ground was startled.

He had just heard of this word, not long ago at a meeting where the government of the Audan Star Territory regularly reported on its work.

Although it is a regular meeting to report on work, this meeting can be said to be held for this dimension of infection problem.

Because some time ago, the propaganda about the recent outbreak of newborn deformities in the empire was an unknown infectious disease.

As a government official, the deputy director has heard that the specific situation is more complicated and terrifying, but he is from the Anti-Cult Bureau, not the Population Bureau or the Medical and Health Bureau, so he doesn't care.

At this meeting, the Empire could be said to have completely clarified the concept of dimensional infection and confirmed that it was related to the wave of neonatal deformities.

Moreover, the wave of deformed children caused by the last dimensional infection that he didn't even know was sealed up decades ago was also revealed at this meeting.

This meeting even directly denied the excuse that the cloning ban was enacted because of ethical issues, making it clear that the cloning ban was because human cloning would lead to dimensional infection incidents.

He noticed at the time that many officials who were older or had experienced long periods of dormancy were not surprised when they heard the news.

Only someone like him, who was relatively young and had never slept, was a little shocked after learning the news.

Soon he saw information about a space station that had been quiet, and he also happened to find out information about Ye Lirong, the local director of the district-level culture and tourism department, going to the space station.

When the deputy director heard the name of this galaxy, he had already manually searched for it on the terminal.

And it was a few days after the last meeting.

Originally, the deputy director could not directly confirm from Chen Ming's words that the dimensional infection had indeed occurred, but now Chen Ming has indeed shown a certain ability.

"How did they do it?"

This discovery made him a little surprised and silent.

However, he did not directly clarify this point now, and just asked: "Is it confirmed that a dimensional infection has broken out?"

"But they are all new materials. It may take time for them to verify them, and the results will not come out so quickly."

So at this moment, the deputy director directly covered the interface of the terminal used by the operator, waved his hand to the other people in the room and said: "Get out of here and tell people to seal this recording in my hand. Only me and Director calls."

From that moment on, it was impossible for him to forget the concept of dimensional infection and the huge trouble caused by the left path.

It won't be long before some gossip spreads throughout the empire.

"Your Odan-5 star district, the Taal galaxy, has an ecological observation space station here. A dimensional infection event broke out on this space station."

According to the meaning of this meeting, dimensional infection may be a state that the empire will maintain for a long time in the future.

We must find ways to solve this dimensional infection, prevent and kill it in its early stages.

"All."

It is currently known that the infection target of the dimensional infection is the stomach of the clone, and the distortion occurred a week ago.

"It is not accurate to say that it is an outbreak. There are only some early symptoms at present. Zuojiao has used some means to limit the infection in the dimension."

After re-confirming the contents of the database, Chen Ming told the deputy director the names of several materials.

Some of his metal liquid has also spread here, and he has found those materials in the warehouse area and obtained some samples, which can be left as evidence later.

In addition to their star domain government holding such a meeting, other star domains will definitely take similar actions, which can be said to completely expose the dimensional infection.

Because he still somewhat believed what the stranger on the other end of the phone said.

Just what was said in the meeting has left a deep impression on the deputy director's mind about the dimensional infection.

Therefore, the head of the government of their star field asked various departments during the meeting that if signs of dimensional infection are really discovered, they need to contact the psyker department to deal with it as soon as possible, and cooperate with the confidentiality work.

Chen Ming glanced at the warehouse area of ​​the underground laboratory.

Chen Ming immediately told the information he had obtained from the underground laboratory database: "About Zuojiu's dimensional infection, what you want to know is how they created a large number of clones, right?"

The deputy director immediately released his mouthpiece and said to Chen Ming: "The rest of the gang are gone now, please speak."

"It's okay, just say it, I'll take note."

"Are you referring to Zuojia causing dimensional infection, or did they restrict dimensional infection?"

The leader also suddenly privately brought the head of their psychic energy department, whom he had met several times, to the Anti-Cult Bureau. He met with him, the deputy director, and the director, and talked about the left path and dimensions. Infection thing.

He also accurately stated that the dimensional infection originated from human clones and was closely related to Zuo Jing.

What he saw in the database flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

It means that the dimensional infection has already occurred a week ago, but since there is no large-scale distortion, it means that the left diameter has indeed controlled the dimensional infection, and the dimensional infection has not actually broken out.

The deputy director immediately handed the paper with the materials to a person waiting outside the door. After briefly explaining the task, he returned to the room.

The others immediately complied and left the room where the operator worked.

"In addition, this space station is closely related to the Ludd Left Path. It was a small-scale dimensional infection caused by the Left Path's human cloning research on the space station. You should be able to find some interesting news."

Since their star domain government made this matter explicit during the meeting, then this is definitely the empire's instruction, and the attitude is very clear.

Because of this, the deputy director felt a little uncomfortable after hearing that a minister of a subordinate department of the lower-level government was suspected of having contact with Zuo Jing.

It's not that Chen Ming made this point uncomfortable, but that he, the deputy director of the Anti-Cult Bureau, felt uncomfortable when he heard that a fellow official was related to a cult like Zuo Jing.

"It seems that you also know about dimensional infection, so I will tell you directly."

"This is because human cloning technology has new alternative materials that are not controlled by the empire under the research of Zuojia. I can tell you the name of the material now. You can take the name and go to a laboratory with a previous background in cloning experiments and ask. Ask, ask them if they can make a substitution.”

These two points allowed him to basically choose to believe Chen Ming.

"I have found someone here to verify it. So, have you figured out how the left path suppressed the dimensional infection? As far as I know, the outbreak of dimensional infection is extremely strong. If it is in a densely populated place like a space station, one day is enough. Destroyed the entire space station."

"Indeed, under normal circumstances, one day is enough for the dimensional infection to break out, but Zuojia has deployed a large number of isolation membranes made of silent alloy on this space station to block the spread of dimensional infection."

"Silent alloy?"

"You don't need to know what this thing does, you just need to tell people the term truthfully, and someone will understand. There should be psychics in your government, right?"

"some."

When Chen Ming got this answer, he was basically sure that there would be no problems after what he just said.

However, after thinking about what Zuo Jing was doing on the planet below in addition to the space station, he still said: "We must send professional people here. Those who can fight can at least protect themselves."

"What Zuo Jing is doing is not just cloning experiments and dimensional infection. They seem to be doing some other experiments on the planet below the space station."

"I can only give a rough description of the specific effect. It is a kind of deformed human tissue that makes people feel good about it for no reason without the protection of the spiritual stone. Remember to explain my description in full to the psychic who is in contact with you."

"When people come, be careful not to let ordinary people get close to the space station and the planet."

Such a detailed description didn't sound like it was made up, and it certainly didn't explicitly say that he could ask someone to verify it directly.

So after combining what Chen Ming said earlier, the deputy director now completely believed Chen Ming.

"I understand. If what you said is true, this will be a very important contribution. You should also be a psyker, right? I would like to ask you about your identity. We will not treat anyone who has contributed to the empire badly. people."

Chen Ming was quite surprised to hear this, but An Wuping's identity should be investigated so that he would not be exposed directly.

What others investigate is definitely more trustworthy than what he says himself.

Anyway, he has already done all the foreshadowing of his identity.

"It's not important. Anyway, the people over there will most likely know who I am when they come, so I won't talk nonsense.

"Also, in order to prevent someone from within your Anti-Cult Bureau from getting in, I will make a phone call like this to the military in your star field in two hours."

"In three hours I will send this message to all the media I know, and that's it, bye."

"Wait a moment."

The deputy director suddenly raised his voice and asked: "Why did you first think of contacting our Anti-Cult Bureau regarding the dimension infection incident?"

Why are you looking for the Anti-Cult Bureau...

Of course it's because Chen Ming knows what the president is doing these days.

After the president confirmed from him that Zuojia had manually created and controlled a dimensional infection some time ago, he went to the empire's department that dealt with such matters.

Cooperate with them to announce the news of dimensional infection among different levels of government in the empire, and by the way, connect the left path with the situation of dimensional infection.

The president did not hide these things from him, but kept communicating with him in real time.

Therefore, in this case, the Anti-Cult Bureau, which is specifically targeting Zuo Jing, must be the most important target for the government department to arrange its work.

If the deputy director of the Anti-Cult Bureau didn't know the connection between the Left Path and the dimensional infection, then the problem would be far more serious than if the space station was occupied by the Left Path.

Of course, the government's psychic department must come to really deal with dimensional infection.

No other department has the ability to handle it.

But Chen Ming didn't have the phone number of the local psychic department.

The main reason is that the empire has not announced the existence of psykers, and only those with some status within the government and military know about this psionic department.

So they don't have a public phone number to call.

Chen Ming was too lazy to find anyone to check and ask.

But since other government departments cannot handle it, there is a high probability that this kind of task will eventually fall on the Ministry of Psychics.

There must be communication between government departments.

The government's psychic department is also the most independent and has a higher status than other departments. It is not necessary to conceal this information because there is too obvious competition between them.

Even if he hid it, Chen Ming said that he would give the news to others.

Whether the government should bear the risk and take exclusive credit for handling the problem, or whether it should just throw the matter out and let others handle it, that is the government's problem. Chen Ming naturally called the Anti-Cult Bureau in the end, which was more or less the same.

Of course, no matter what, the time when the space station was noticed was delayed, which led to the initial outbreak of dimensional infection. Zuojia had more time to research. The responsibility fell on Chen Ming himself, so the solution to Zuojia and Zuojia was It's still his job to cause trouble;

Even if Chen Ming has told this matter, it will not change.

It's just a matter of resolution. What happens to the space station and the ordinary people on the space station in the future is none of his business.

There is a dimensional infection on the space station. The most he can do is deal with the source of the dimensional infection.

As for those who have experienced dimensional infection, what should they do? How should ordinary people deal with so many people?

these two questions.

Chen Ming didn't have the time to first identify every civilian who was not disguised as Zuo Jing from Zuo Jing's space station, and then find and take care of those affected by the dimensional infection.

If the dimensional infection really breaks out completely, it will be fatal to ordinary people.

However, if the dimensional infection is only in the early stage, it will not be directly fatal to ordinary people, but it will be too troublesome to distinguish.

The most Chen Ming can do is to ensure that his next actions will not accidentally injure civilians, but it is impossible for Chen Ming to take care of all civilians.

He is An Wuping now, not Chen Ming. An Wuping is not capable of protecting so many civilians...

Wait, it seems there is.

As long as he shows some of the insect queen's abilities, he can completely rely on the insect queen to create a large amount of fungi and some body tissues derived from the insect units to cover the entire space station, creating the same effect as using metallic liquid to control everyone in the colony.

But Chen Ming's original thought was that without the metallic liquid, he would not have the means to protect people on a large scale.

That's why he took the initiative to call people outside at this time.

The nearest colony around this sector would take at least five hours to get there if there was no need to jump.

For the government, the only ones with the ability to jump are cruisers, but cruisers are not that easy to dispatch.

Even if the military got the news, they wouldn't immediately send a cruiser into his face.

Currently, only the Fourteenth Legion in the empire has Chen Ming’s hyperspace channel jump system technology, so this is why Chen Ming left five hours for the government departments. These five hours are enough for him to finish what he needs to do. .

But now he suddenly realizes that he has a carpet of insect queens.

Things are different.

Should he use the insect queen's carpet to protect everyone's safety?
Chen Ming came up with the answer without thinking for too long.

He is not a good person, at least not a bad person.

It's definitely not a wise move to use your own trump card to save someone who has nothing to do with him.

Moreover, Chen Ming remembered that Bai Quan had actually hinted to him several times that his psychic powers were too powerful, which made many people in the empire feel uneasy.

His spiritual power has the ability to control the afterglow and the machine race. As long as he wants to and takes action, sooner or later he will be able to organize a force strong enough to confront the empire.

In fact, the Zerg of the Bug Queen are also excessive in a sense.

As long as the Zerg, which has been optimized by Chen Ming several times, is given enough time to develop, it will definitely not be a small threat to the empire.

This meant that if An Wuping exposed the Insect Queen's spiritual power like this, he might be treated the same way as him.

After Chen Ming confirmed his answer, he did not continue to think too much about protecting civilians. The most he could do was to protect Uncle Mao, and others would not have to think about it.

"Mr. Psyker?"

The deputy director's voice on the phone that he hadn't hung up yet pulled Chen Ming back from his wandering thoughts.

"Where did we just talk?"

"That's why you came to our Anti-Cult Bureau in the first place?"

"..."

Chen Ming didn't want to speak directly to the outside world about what he had just said.

So Chen Ming made up a random reason and said: "Because I like the Anti-Cult Bureau, that's all."

Chen Ming hung up the phone directly and stopped wasting time.

At this time, all the valuable data in the database in the underground laboratory computer room has been obtained by Chen Ming.

The metal liquid separated from the other side has also reached the main control system of the laboratory. Chen Ming has been able to hack into the laboratory system through the physical hacking device, bypassing all security and perfectly penetrating the entire experiment. room.

Except for the area to the north of the laboratory, which is an independent area, all the control systems in this area are inside this area.

However, this area is connected to the laboratory. Now that Chen Ming has complete control of the laboratory, it is only an easy matter to infiltrate it.

However, Chen Ming did not decide to do this because the gate to this area was closed.

All the visible gaps are filled with silent alloy isolation membranes arranged on the left diameter. If he enters rashly, something he doesn't want to see will happen.

At least An Wuping had to settle things on the space station and then deal with things on the ground on the planet.

Anyway, his laboratory database on the ground has obtained enough clues, and he no longer needs to continue investigating clues on the space station.

The investigation on the space station is just the icing on the cake, not necessary.

Instead of wasting time investigating, it would be better to resolve the dimension infection situation as soon as possible.

As for the clues that An Wuping needs to obtain.

As long as An Wuping takes action on the space station, he will kill everyone who is related to the database.

Then just add some clues that Chen Ming investigated in the ground laboratory that are related to the ground laboratory into the database and give them to An Wuping.

Pretending that An Wuping had discovered information about a laboratory on the planet, he guided him to the ground.

As long as the signal blockade of the space station is completed, no one in the laboratory will be aware of it when he comes to the ground.

I've probably figured out the plan to execute next.

Chen Ming didn't want to delay for too long.

He had concealed the news about Zuo Jing for a long time. Clones were being produced on the space station all the time. Once something went wrong on the space station, they would be completely finished.

But before actually taking action on the space station, there is one thing that needs to be thought through.

Those are the civilians on the space station.

Although Chen Ming has made it clear that he will not deliberately protect those people, it does not mean that he will completely ignore them.

It's not just Chen Ming who doesn't like killing people casually, he also doesn't like people killing people casually.

It's even more because his next actions are likely to cause problems with the security system of the entire space station.

If the dimensional infection located in the center of the space station is leaked, there may be big problems.

I'm afraid there won't be a single living person left on the space station.

However, Chen Ming quickly thought of a solution, which was to rely on the special structure of the space station that is very easy to be dismantled.

Soon after Chen Ming thought through all the problems.

Deputy Manager Chang, who was sleeping inside the space station, suddenly felt a slight pain in his forehead.

He scratched a few times in a daze, grabbed a few strands of hair, shook them off, and continued to fall into a deep sleep.

The few hairs were carried by the metallic liquid and flowed to other places along the ground.

A few minutes later.

Shi Shao suddenly appeared on the edge of the outer area and entered the inner area.

He was not blocked and successfully walked into the space station, walked into a toilet, and got these hairs with hair follicles.

After using the queen's body tissue in the toilet to swallow the genes from the deputy director.

Shi Shao gradually transformed into deputy manager Chang.

After confirming in the bathroom mirror that there was nothing wrong, Chen Ming walked out of the bathroom with a new appearance.

After identifying the direction, he walked towards Deputy Manager Chang's room.

There was a guard at the door of Deputy Manager Chang's residence. When he saw Deputy Manager Chang walking towards the door, his face was full of astonishment.

"Deputy Manager Chang, aren't you..."

Chen Ming squinted at the security guard at the door with a cold face: "I don't know when I went out. Are you just doing it?"

The two guards immediately lowered their heads and apologized: "I'm sorry!"

After staring at the two guards for a while, seeing their hands and feet shaking unnaturally, Chen Ming changed his gaze and said, "Forget it."

He pressed his hand directly on the door and used his spiritual energy to control the door to open.

Of course, it was still pretending that the door was opened with a key card.

"Keep guarding."

Chen Ming turned around and confessed, closed the door, entered the bedroom and quietly got rid of Deputy Manager Chang.

Subsequently, the tentacles of the Queen of Insects proliferated in the room, and the body of Deputy Director Chang was involved in the tentacles, completely devouring it.

(End of this chapter)