Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 263 Stomach

After Chang's deputy manager's body was completely devoured by the queen.

Chen Ming did not go out directly in front of Deputy Manager Chang, but waited in the room for a while.

He didn't just let the insect queen eat the corpse to destroy the corpse, there was another reason.

After waiting for tens of seconds.

There was finally some movement from the Insect Queen.

It transferred most of the memories extracted from the corpse of Deputy Director Chang that it had just devoured, and transferred them to Chen Ming's mind.

Extracting memories of life from the brains of biological corpses can be regarded as an innate ability of the species called the Thorne Zerg to which the Queen belongs.

In the past, the most effective effect of this ability was that after swallowing some creatures, the insect queen could learn the usage of some body tissues and organs of these creatures through memory, and at the same time, it could only obtain some vague memories.

However, as Chen Ming made several in-depth repairs to the Queen, some of the basic abilities of the Thorn Zerg have been greatly enhanced.

It just so happens that the left path on this ecological observation space station is connected to the left path at Chen Ming Colony.

If he knew something as dangerous as dimensional infection was being carried out on the space station, he would definitely find a way to run away immediately, so it was normal not to know.

Of course, this also includes the ability to acquire memories through swallowing.

It's not too much trouble.

The conditions of the isolation layer and experimental center further inside can be clarified by just looking at the names of these two areas.

Therefore, Deputy Manager Chang can only be regarded as a marginal figure on the space station, and is not too important.

So Ye Lirong and the others thought that the people in charge of the investigation over there had not discovered the connection between the space station and the colony there, and they felt relieved.

As a result, a large number of memories belonging to Deputy Manager Chang appeared in Chen Ming's mind in the blink of an eye, and they were extremely detailed.

How could a person who only got together with Zuo Jing for money not value his life?

Chen Ming can only filter the useful ones by himself.

However, the main job of the personnel department of this space station is the management of space station personnel.

When he came for the third time, Deputy Manager Chang happened to hear a little bit of news from other people.

In Deputy Manager Chang's memory, in addition to the valuable structure of the space station, there is another valuable memory.

Even if all the memories of an ordinary person's life were completely stuffed into Chen Ming's mind, it would be nothing to a psyker like him.

When Ye Lirong came for the first time, he seemed very nervous. He left in a hurry after coming for a few hours.

In general, the space station is divided into five layers, the external personnel layer, the internal personnel layer, the core personnel layer, the isolation layer and the experimental center.

Every time Ye Lirong came over, the scene could be found in his memory.

Chen Ming found that Deputy Manager Chang, like what he knew before, did not actually believe in Zuo Jing. He was just using Zuo Jing to make money.

There is indeed a connection. Chen Ming tracked him all the way here through clues from the colony.

After quickly filtering out useful memories.

However, because the insect queen's language ability has never been very good, even if she communicates with Chen Ming, she relies more on psychic energy and conscious synaesthesia, so many contents in Deputy Manager Chang's memory cannot be fully screened.

It's a pity that Deputy Manager Chang's level is still too low. He only knows what experiments are being conducted on the space station, but does not know the specific content of the experiments, let alone the progress of the experiments.

If you don’t know, just don’t know. There’s no regrets.

It seems that it is because Ye Lirong received news that a large number of leftist elements were arrested in the Qiyun Galaxy Industrial Colony in the Sulun-6 Star District in the Sulun Star Region, which was Chen Ming's colony.

Chen Ming is waiting for the external personnel layer.

Thinking about it, if Deputy Manager Chang really knew the contents of the experiments being conducted on the space station, it would be basically impossible for him to stay on the space station.

But his memory has some value.

Chen Ming wants to resolve matters on the space station next, so he must visit this place.

So he came over as soon as possible to confirm the situation on the space station, and if there was any problem, prepare to transfer as soon as possible.

It’s about Minister Ye Lirong who just came to the space station during the day.

After all, Deputy Manager Chang is also a manager, and he is always among the people receiving the reception.

This time I came with Chen Ming just because the experiment on the space station seemed to have some results.

Deputy Manager Chang usually works at the internal staff level.

The supervisor is responsible for the management of Zuo Jing personnel, while the deputy supervisor can only be responsible for the management of non-Zuo Jing personnel.

But in fact, after Ye Lirong and the others were nervous for a few days, they discovered that no one came to investigate the space station, and there were no clues that anyone would investigate.

Of course, there is no clear separation between the internal staff and the core staff level. Those who can stay at the internal staff level can generally enter the core staff level.

There is a world of difference between a person who is in charge of the Zuo Diameter space station and a person who is not in charge of the Zuo Diameter.

Until later, the results of Chen Ming's colony had come out, and they could be interviewed by the outside world, but they still didn't come to investigate them.

When he came for the second time, his expression was obviously much more relaxed, and he was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he stayed for more than a day before leaving.

Chen Ming could know from his memory that Ye Lirong had actually been to this space station several times before Chen Ming came.

Because there happens to be memories about the transformation process of the space station, which can be compared with the basic blueprint of the space station that Chen Ming found from the database in the underground laboratory on the planet to figure out the general situation of the space station.

Anyway, Chen Ming didn't expect to find any valuable information from him. It would be good to be able to determine the new structure of the space station after the transformation and the reasons why Ye Lirong came here several times.

Moreover, Chen Ming also found a more important piece of information from his memory.

The place where Ye Lirong rested.

So be it.

Chen Ming ended his exploration of Vice Manager Chang's memory and stuffed all the remaining garbage memories back to the Queen. Maybe there were some valuable things in the garbage that he hadn't noticed.

Keeping these memories does not occupy his memory, so it is not a big problem.

Chen Ming took the computer in Deputy Manager Chang's room and walked out of the room.

In the doubtful eyes of the two guards, they went to the control room located in the core personnel area.

The two people in the monitoring room were a little surprised and confused when they saw Deputy Manager Chang.

However, Deputy Manager Chang is also a manager after all, so he is just confused about Chen Ming's attitude in the face of Deputy Manager Chang.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't give them any good looks.

Killing them directly by piercing their hearts with the queen's tentacles.

If we say that there may be a few ordinary people in the external personnel layer of the space station.

But there are unlikely to be ordinary people who don’t understand anything among the core personnel of Zuojia Space Station.

After destroying the corpses and eliminating traces, Chen Ming went to an equipment room also on the core staff level where the observation equipment of the Ecological Observation Space Station was housed.

At the same time, this is also the room where a sub-console that controls the partition device of the outer area of ​​the space station is located.

As for the main console in the experiment center, that equipment can directly separate all parts of the space station outside the isolation area.

And this sub-equipment here can only separate the external personnel layer of the space station.

Of course, this is enough for Chen Ming's current requirements.

Chen Ming quickly stood in front of the equipment room door.

When he was in the control room before, he could clearly see that there were only two people on duty here.

So now he just opened the door and walked in, killing the two leftists on duty in an instant.

After connecting Deputy Manager Chang's computer to the regional partition sub-console.

Chen Ming set up a trigger program for this thing to start at a scheduled time.

As soon as the time is up, or he presses the button in advance, the sub-console will start, and the effect will be obvious.

After doing all this, Chen Ming left the equipment room again.

The peripheral layout work has now been completed.

There is only one thing left to do next.

Chen Ming looked inside the space station.

Ten minutes later.

When Chen Ming came to the closed door of the isolation layer, he was suddenly stopped.

"Deputy Manager Chang, what do you want to do if you don't sleep at night?"

Chen Ming stood motionless in front of the gate and did not answer.

Because there was no one in his sight, the source of the sound was from behind him, and it was a person who suddenly appeared without warning.

This can mean one thing, that is, the person coming is a psyker.

It seems that it is impossible to go in directly.

Chen Ming did not hesitate and directly activated the signal blocking equipment he had modified from the equipment of the distress signal management office.

Completely cutting off the possibility of communication between the space station and the outside world.

Then he turned around with a sullen expression and walked towards the psyker who had just appeared.

The psychic frowned and remained motionless, then asked Chen Ming: "What do you want to do?"

Although he was a little wary of Chen Ming who was staring at Deputy Manager Chang's face at this time, he couldn't be wary of an ordinary person.

Even when Chen Ming walked up to him, he didn't make any reaction.

He was confident that he could subdue Deputy Guan Chang, an ordinary person, with just a few clicks of his fingers.

It wasn't until Chen Ming waved his right hand slightly that his expression finally changed. At this moment, he felt the threat of death, and his face was full of fear.

But it was too late.

Being so close to Chen Ming, no non-physically enhanced psyker could react to his actions.

His right arm was seen making a shocking sonic boom in an explosive movement, and with terrifying speed and power, he punched the psyker in front of him in the face.

The whole head exploded instantly.

The headless corpse flew backwards under the influence of Chen Ming's punch.

Blood spurted out like a fountain and hit the wall of the space station.

The corpse twitched a few times and became motionless.

"..."

Chen Ming suddenly fell silent as he looked at the damage caused by his fist.

He knew that the beast inside An Wuping, which he spent a lot of time to create, had terrifying power.

But he didn't expect that even if he hadn't released the beast in his body, An Wuping's prosthesis alone could already achieve this effect. Chen Ming did not continue to be stunned because the effect was better than expected, and quickly searched the body.

However, except for some useless medicines, Chen Ming could not find anything of value.

Including anything that proves his identity.

Chen Ming didn't even know his name or what his abilities were.

Even the spiritual nerves in his brain were completely shattered by the punch just now.

At this moment, Chen Ming could only sense some weakening spiritual energy fluctuations from the rotten flesh on his corpse and the blood exploding on the surrounding walls.

Wait a moment.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possibility. He raised his hand and let the insect queen's tentacles spread again, covering the entire unmanned passage.

As the insect queen swallowed the corpse and all the body tissues shattered by Chen Ming's punch.

As expected, there was a sense of satisfaction coming from the Insect Queen.

It ate the spiritual enlightenment nerves that had not completely dissipated, causing its own spiritual energy fluctuations to increase slightly.

Although it is not obvious, this is obviously the same as Chen Ming's previous situation. It is simply that it has not been fully digested. When the digestion is finished, the gains brought by absorbing the spiritual nerves will naturally appear.

It seems that Qiling Nerve will have another place to go in the future.

The tentacles growing on his wrists gradually faded away.

Just when Chen Ming was about to continue walking into the space station, something suddenly fell out of the insect queen's tentacles and fell to the ground.

This is a stone covered with dark and twisted patterns that resemble the stiff limbs of a dying person. It is a stone about the size of the tip of a little finger and filled with psychic energy fluctuations.

Spirit stone.

Chen Ming immediately picked up the stone despite the slight sting caused by the ectoplasm stone and the slight fluctuation in his emotions.

According to Chen Ming's personal touch at this time, the characteristic of this spiritual stone should be fear, which is in line with the characteristics of the patterns on the stone.

But something seems wrong.

Chen Ming was sure that he did not find this thing when he touched the body just now.

With his current psychic strength, it is impossible to say that he would not be able to sense this thing when facing the corpse of a psychic.

Even if the ectoplasm stone was hidden inside the corpse, it was impossible for him to have no sense at all. He would have to eat the corpse and spit it out to find out.

So the question is, where did this spiritual stone come from?

Chen Ming frowned and carefully recalled what he had just said.

He suddenly discovered that the size and shape of the stone seemed to be exactly the same as the yellow gemstone on the necklace worn by the psyker.

It seems that this ectoplasm stone was transformed from this gemstone, but the material was changed to the most ordinary stone, and these patterns were painted on it.

After discovering this, Chen Ming once again recalled an earlier incident.

These are some of the things his boss said to him when he talked about the ectoplasmic stone with his boss.

The boss said that any strong emotional fluctuations may lead to the birth of the ectoplasm stone.

Because everyone is actually the same as psychics, possessing a certain amount of spirituality, it’s just a matter of how much.

This part of human spirituality will fluctuate violently with the emergence of extreme emotions. When a person dies during the process of violent emotional fluctuations, this extreme emotional fluctuation will infect surrounding objects.

Usually, stones are most likely to be infected, so ectoplasmic stones are called ectoplasmic stones.

At that time, Chen Ming also asked a question, that is, whether psykers can manually create ectoplasm stones.

The boss didn't say anything at first, but when Chen Ming's psychic powers became much stronger than before, the boss made it clear to him.

That is, the spirituality of the psyker is controlled by the psyker himself. He has lost the natural spirituality that is amplified by extreme emotions and natural conditions, so he cannot create ectoplasmic stones.

There were some things that his boss hadn't made clear to him before, but he understood them now.

That is, when a psyker dies in extreme emotions, it will be easier than ordinary people to infect the surrounding stones into ectoplasm stones.

The source of this spiritual stone is naturally the fear before death.

It's no wonder that when Chen Ming just picked up the fear ectoplasm stone, he was a little more resistant to the ectoplasm stone than when he first came into contact with the whispering ectoplasm stone.

This is what is left in the ectoplasm stone when the psyker dies.

If Chen Ming guessed correctly, if this ectoplasm stone is touched by others, then others will be able to see a fantasy from this ectoplasm stone, a fantasy of killing An Wuping.

Just like when Chen Ming saw the fantasy of killing Shen Yi brought to him by the Whispering Spiritual Stone.

As long as this goal can be accomplished, the emotions that cause resonance hidden in this ectoplasm stone will completely dissipate, and this thing will become a resonance ectoplasm stone.

Chen Ming suddenly had a magical idea in his mind, but he couldn't do it yet.

He directly put away the fear ectoplasm stone and prepared to continue deeper into the space station.

He just killed a psyker in front of the gate that separates the two areas. Although he killed it outside the isolation area, there is no need to worry about monitoring, because the entire space station is completely isolated from the inside and outside.

But the sonic boom of his punch just now is likely to attract some people.

Anyway, the traces and bodies have been dealt with, so as long as he leaves here, it's generally not a big problem.

Chen Ming once again transformed himself into the psyker just now, inserted a device on the control panel of the door that Chen Ming didn't even know what it was used for, and then directly used his psionic energy to open the sealed door.

Behind the door is a small room with nothing, except for a monitoring device that is activated in each of the four corners of the room.

Chen Minggang was about to step in, but suddenly stopped again.

He just moved Nuo's right foot forward slightly into the room, then released a little metallic liquid under his feet, and then closed the door again.

Chen Ming's expression relaxed slightly.

Because he found that even in a room that was completely isolated by a silent alloy protective film, these silent alloys could not prevent his spiritual energy from penetrating and controlling the metallic liquid in the room.

It's as if his psychic powers don't directly control the things his psychic powers affect through the normal cosmic environment.

But in a more peculiar way.

This is normal.

After all, Chen Ming still hasn't figured out how his psychic power can transport materials across hundreds of thousands of light-years.

His psychic energy may be controlled using similar means, so it will not be blocked by this silent alloy room.

Then Chen Ming was relieved.

He stepped directly into the isolation layer.

There are slight differences in the structure of the isolation layer and the outer space station.

It is a special structure composed of multiple silent alloy compartments, which irregularly wraps up the internal experimental center layer by layer.

There are surveillance cameras leading inside every room, and Chen Ming's every move at this time must be under the watchful eye of these surveillance cameras.

But no one seemed to have any reaction.

Obviously, even if Chen Ming is disguised as the psyker now, he should not go inside the isolation layer at this time.

But the experimental center didn't seem to be taking any action.

No alerts, no announcements, no reactions.

And as Chen Ming walked deeper inside, he could feel a chill from deeper inside the space station.

Something is wrong, something seems to have happened inside.

After realizing this, Chen Ming immediately sped up his actions and kept opening the doors in the isolation compartment.

Until they reached the last closed door leading to the experimental center.

Chen Ming's movements finally slowed down.

He had connected a device to the control panel next to the door, but he did not directly open the door at this time.

Instead, he paused for a moment, adjusted his posture, and then opened the door.

The moment the door opens.

What caught my eye were those researchers, or former researchers.

Now their whole bodies were folded back in half from the stomach, as if they had been broken off, and their abdomens were violently torn apart, revealing corpses with completely deformed stomachs.

It is actually not accurate to say that they are corpses, because they are still moving, their lower limbs move under the control of these deformed tails, and the upper half of their bodies are dragged on the ground as if controlled by this stomach.

In addition, there were some researchers whose upper bodies seemed to be more seriously infected. Their upper bodies had completely lost their human appearance and turned into a string of rumens that seemed to be dragged outside.

As it moved, it left behind puddles of liquid of unknown nature.

The entire hall of the experimental center is filled with these "creatures", all of which are deformed stomach monsters made of stomachs.

Along with these aberrant stomach monsters, what came into view were the flesh and blood tissues that filled the entire environment as before.

This weird and twisted feeling was extremely familiar to Chen Ming.

At the same time, his stomach felt a little turbulent.

This is proof of the erosion of dimensional infection. An Wuping's body has been marked by dimensional infection.

However, this familiar feeling was immediately suppressed by Chen Ming, but it still made him feel an inexplicable nostalgia.

Of course, Chen Ming quickly shook this feeling out of his head. He didn't want to miss the dimensional infection. It was just because the previous incident was so impressive that he subconsciously recalled it.

Chen Ming took a deep breath, ignoring the nauseating smell of stomach acid and semi-digested food.

As the abnormal tissue in the hall spread into the compartment where he had just opened the door, he also stepped directly into the hall of the experimental center.

The originally at a loss, the aberrant stomach monster seemed to have found its target instantly.

One by one, they pointed their deformed stomachs in Chen Ming's direction.

A look from a deeper place seemed to be cast on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming didn't have the slightest fear.

He clenched his fists and continued to take a step towards the experimental center.

In the past, he might have had to use all his strength when facing these things.

But now he doesn't need to think about what he has or doesn't have.

Chen Ming's body leaned forward slightly, and all the muscles in his body were tense.

While these aberrant stomach monsters spit out disgusting liquid in his direction.

Chen Ming disappeared directly.

The power brought to him by the prosthetic An Wuping made him instantly appear in front of a stomach monster.

He smashed it into pieces with one punch.

(End of this chapter)