Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 268 Totem Pole

While holding the obsession ectoplasm stone, Chen Ming was originally a little relaxed because the target was solved.

But suddenly he remembered something.

Just two hours ago, he had released the metallic liquid in advance to follow the left path's spacecraft to the planet, but in the laboratory he sensed the existence of the prosthesis that could threaten An Wuping.

But since he fell from the sky, the sense of danger he had felt before has not appeared again.

Not even until he came to the mountain-like spiritual beast.

Even after removing the spiritual beast's core and the ectoplasm stone, there was still no sense of danger.

It was as if the dangerous feeling he had sensed before had nothing to do with the psychic beast.

Or maybe it's because his insect form's abilities have skyrocketed, so he no longer senses danger from the psychic beast that originally sensed danger?

Chen Ming felt that this should not be the case.

Obviously, his metallic liquid has been staying in the laboratory. Although it did not directly enter the innermost part of the laboratory, since he could feel the danger before, he should also feel the danger later.

And this is the source of the corpses that were dumped into the pit before.

The only place where there was movement was near the laboratory and the deepest door of the laboratory. Some left-path elements, with the support of a psyker, worked hard to reseal the open door and clean up all the flesh and blood tissue of the psychic beast that had spread out. .

But the fact is that the spiritual beast he just faced did not pose any threat to him.

Speaking of which, the single-molecule-sized hole left by Chen Ming did not affect the leakage of the psychic beast.

Zuo Jing finally discovered that something was wrong in the deepest part of the laboratory because of Chen Ming's falling from the sky and his direct trajectory into the deepest part of the laboratory, without any response.

Although the flesh and blood tissue derived from the psychic beast does not have the extremely disgusting ability to spread like dimensional infection and the terrifying situation of infecting people into inhuman monsters.

As soon as the door is opened, these psychic fluctuations will act on the brains of these left-wing elements, which are just ordinary people, attracting them to rush towards the flesh and blood tissue that is twisted into a heart shape.

With the support of a psychic, Zuo Jing could only close the door reluctantly and rest at the door.

Anyone who is affected by "obsession" and jumps on it will be eaten by these flesh and blood tissues to maintain the survival of flesh and blood.

But the sense of danger disappeared just like that, and the situation was very strange.

When seeing this scene.

There are still a lot of active psychic energy fluctuations in the entire laboratory, and a large amount of distorted flesh and blood tissue is still alive.

So what is the real threat?
Chen Ming put the ectoplasmic stone away and glanced around the body of the body that was gradually dissolving.

So they really opened the door.

There is a special link between different molecules, similar to the molecular bonds that maintain the structure of molecules, but larger.

He was certain that it was definitely not the psychic beast that threatened him, but something else.

Of course, if the body had been dragged away in advance, a little bit of human form should still be preserved.

There must be something else in the lab.

Chen Ming took over all the still-running monitoring systems in the laboratory through the metal liquid and found nothing wrong.

The psychic beast in the security measures in the laboratory is easy to deal with, but the leak is not so easy to deal with.

Moreover, the psychic beast is different from the dimensional infection. Even if the core of the psychic beast is destroyed, the other derivative tissues of the psychic beast will still remain active for a period of time.

And its nature is to block the penetration of spiritual energy fluctuations and play the role of isolating spiritual energy fluctuations.

Chen Ming suddenly thought, since he couldn't find the source of the danger, why not just go out and deal with the left path first?

So now Zuo Jing can stand safely at the door after opening and closing the door.

Just looking at the material properties of Silence Alloy itself, it is impossible to block the penetration of psychic energy fluctuations.

But this thing did not appear at this moment.

So even if Chen Ming has killed the source and taken away the source's obsession ectoplasm stone.

It wasn't Chen Ming who made up for it, but the nature of the silent alloy film itself.

His An Wuping fake body's ability is integrated regardless of whether it is in the normal state or the insect form. It cannot be said that his perception is wrong.

That's why when Chen Ming's metallic liquid came in, the spiritual energy fluctuations of the psychic beast were not leaked out.

However, there was still no discovery, and the sense of danger that I felt before just disappeared out of thin air.

As a result, the spiritual energy fluctuations of the psychic beasts escaped, and the motionless flesh and blood tissue that originally covered the door suddenly began to proliferate.

The silent alloy film is composed of multiple layers of silent alloy molecules stacked together.

The nausea caused by the things on this mountain of meat could not bring him anything in a practical sense.

Chen Ming didn't even notice when he disappeared.

And in those places that haven't had time to be chewed, heart-shaped twisted and distorted tissue grows, gradually integrating with other flesh and blood.

Protected by the Wild Words Spiritual Stone, this impression of another type of Spiritual Stone could not possibly pose a threat to him. This had been determined from the very beginning.

The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Therefore, there will still be this special link inside the molecule's loophole left by Chen Ming, blocking the penetration of psychic energy fluctuations.

But the flesh and blood of the psychic beast and the spiritual energy fluctuations it spreads are also offensive.

If the left path is gone, he can completely explore the laboratory without worrying about being disturbed.

Chen Ming thought for a while and realized that there seemed to be no problem in doing so, so he took a step towards the periphery of the laboratory.

However, at the moment before he took the second step.

He suddenly felt a shuddering feeling.

Chen Ming immediately turned his head warily, and the shuddering feeling had turned into an extreme sense of danger in the process of turning his head, a sense of danger that could threaten An Wuping's prosthesis.

He felt an aura coming from inside the laboratory, a chaotic but not chaotic aura, but rather a dangerous aura with some unique order.

Chen Ming looked accurately at the direction from which the breath came.

As his eyes moved, heavy and dense footsteps slowly sounded in that direction.

Even though the sense of danger was enough to threaten An Wuping's survival, it still continued to rise. This huge sense of danger seemed to kill him easily.

The sense of danger he felt with the metallic liquid was even more terrifying than before.

Not right.

The last time Chen Ming sensed this level of danger was when the pirate space station was almost hit head-on by a tachyon spear.

A direct shot from a tachyon spear may not be able to kill An Wuping now, so why should he be a product of the Zuojia Laboratory?
Chen Ming felt a little unbelievable, but his danger perception ability had protected him many times, and he could not go against what his instinct told him to feel.

And the situation may not necessarily be the same as before.

For example, Chen Ming's main body can actually be solved with a pistol, but his fighting ability is definitely not weak.

Therefore, it is very likely that this thing is not able to kill An Wuping directly on the physical level, but can kill An Wuping in other ways, as long as he is alert to this method.

However, in addition to the danger perception, Chen Ming also felt that the noise of the thing moving was also wrong.

The problem with the Mind Beast Project occurred at about the same time as the problem with the dimensional infection on the space station. The flesh and blood tissue that spread had no time to destroy the laboratory equipment.

Therefore, there are not many monitors for damage to the laboratory, and the same applies to the direction from which the noise came.

With such a heavy voice and a size that is definitely not small, it is absolutely impossible to avoid his surveillance.

Then why didn't he see it just now?

Chen Minggang wanted to mobilize the surveillance camera to see what was going on, but the heavy footsteps suddenly started to rush.

Like a beast that had found its prey, he made denser and heavier footsteps that seemed to be sprinting, making people even more suspicious of what was behind the sound.

Chen Ming was not affected by the urgent voice and immediately called up the monitoring.

The source of the sound at the corner some distance ahead, where there should be something, was empty on the monitor, nothing.

However, when Chen Ming really raised his head, the source of the dense and heavy footsteps came out from the corner in front.

This is...a creature that might be called a creature.

A columnar creature supported by the arms of countless people who had lost all their fingers, leaving only their palms.

Above these hundreds of arms is also a columnar body made up of layers of broken arm links. Blood and flesh are stuck together, and rolled flesh and broken bones can be seen everywhere.

The body was constantly trembling and shaking, sprinkling a large amount of blood visible to the naked eye.

And at the top is a head with two faces, front and back.

The front is a neutral smiling face with a charming feel.

On the back is an expressionless, cold face.

Both faces looked like the kind of faces that would be carved on a totem pole.

But it would be okay if it was really a totem pole, because the two faces Chen Ming saw now were made of flesh and blood, using human faces through the forced distortion method that Chen Ming had seen many times, to create a kind of mask face. .

This situation is disgusting.

But it doesn't matter what this thing looks like. Chen Ming has seen all kinds of ugly things more than once.

The important thing is that the threat and danger brought by this thing are exactly the existence that Chen Ming previously perceived as a fatal threat to An Wuping.

Chen Ming already felt that something was wrong, and after actually seeing this thing with his naked eyes, Chen Ming felt that something was wrong.

It seems to be the product of a mixture of beings with various psychic properties.

Although it is weird, there is an inexplicable coordination.

Chen Ming glanced at the surveillance camera again.

Confirmation that this totem pole-like existence can indeed only be seen with the naked eye.

The blood dripping on its body also does not appear in the monitoring, and can only be seen clearly with the naked eye.

Just the fact that the monitoring can't lock it down already shows that this is a troublesome thing.

Although it was dangerous, Chen Ming felt that he had to try it.

He made a vigorous movement.

But before he could actually rush out, he suddenly stopped.

Drops of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He was just one step away from death.

Just before he dashed off, his sense of danger came to a head.

If he really rushed over, he would be dead.

Fighting hand to hand with this totem pole will definitely cause trouble, and he must not get close.

Chen Ming casually pulled off a large piece of iron sheet from the wall next to him, twisted it into a javelin shape, secreted a little horny substance at the tip of the metal javelin, and threw it at the monster.

The javelin easily penetrated the body of the totem pole monster, and the entire javelin was directly nailed into the wall behind it and shattered under the huge impact.

However, Chen Ming's expression became even worse.

Because when the javelin penetrated this monster, it did not pierce it, but passed directly through it, without hitting it at all.

It seems to be a disembodied existence.

Chen Ming made several throwing weapons again and threw them towards the totem pole. Just like the first one, all the weapons could not hit this thing reliably.

It seems like there is no way to stop it.

Even after Chen Ming continuously fired the javelin and failed to hit it, the totem pole monster seemed to be enraged and rushed towards him with its lower limbs made of a large number of broken arms.

Although the speed is indeed not fast, the sense of approaching fatal danger is real.

Chen Ming couldn't help but raised his palm, and the plasma would be released at any time.

However, he suddenly stopped what he was doing, changed direction, turned around and ran towards the outside of the laboratory.

When you are not sure what the enemy's abilities are, it is best not to use the trump card directly.

There happened to be some resting leftist elements outside, and they could help test out what abilities this totem pole monster had.

Through surveillance, Chen Ming found that near the door between the deepest part of the laboratory and the outside world, the psyker was not there at this time, and seemed to have gone to get something.

Because the situation here in the laboratory was too ordinary, he was not ready, and it might take a while before he could come.

That's just right.

Chen Ming continued to run wildly inside the laboratory.

In just ten seconds, he rushed from the deepest part of the laboratory to the door leading to the periphery of the laboratory, and slammed into the door without losing any momentum, directly smashing the door into pieces.

Broken metal and a large amount of flesh and blood tissue that had not been completely dispersed spread to the periphery of the laboratory with Chen Ming's collision.

Instantly killed a large number of Zuo Jing, and also brought out the flesh and blood tissue of the spiritual beast that Zuo Jing had worked so hard to block back.

Behind Chen Ming, the totem pole that was not very fast just now was strangely maintaining a very high speed and was hanging not far behind Chen Ming.

You can immediately step out of the innermost area of ​​the laboratory.

Chen Ming noticed that the flesh and blood of these spiritual beasts seemed to have nothing to do with the totem pole monster. They simply stepped on the flesh and blood without interfering with each other.

Obviously he can feel that this totem pole has psychic properties similar to those of obsession, but he doesn't know what it is.

Chen Ming did not dwell on this situation. Only when he won the battle did he deserve to dwell on this matter.

He ignored all the leftists and continued to run out of the laboratory, as if he didn't care about anything.

Some Zuojiao tried to block him, but Chen Ming's strength was not something they could bear.

Even if it was just a slight brush, Chen Ming could kill someone directly like a train.

And in fact, more of the left path has been attracted by the presence inside the laboratory.

They were confused by the flesh and blood tissue of the spiritual beast, and each of them pounced on the flesh and blood tissue that had just had a feast.

However, just after these people approached the deepest part of the laboratory.

The men's arms were suddenly and inexplicably broken.

The incision seemed to have been violently torn off by something.

Chen Ming looked at the location of these people's wounds, the characteristics of these violently torn wounds and the direction of force, and came to a terrifying conclusion.

It was these people's arms that used their own strength to prevent themselves from being torn off.

The arms of the leftist elements fell to the ground, crawling like maggots onto the body of the totem pole that was moving towards the gate, continuing to add bricks to the body of the arm links.

And the consciousness of these leftists who lost their limbs suddenly became clear.

They were no longer charmed by the flesh and blood tissue of the psychic beast and regained consciousness.

But after they woke up, they saw the huge totem pole not far away, and their hands a little ahead of them, crawling forward.

This scene is even more terrifying for them.

It's even better to die directly from infatuation.

At this moment, the leftists felt the dual fear from the biological instinct and the spiritual level at the same time.

No amount of brainwashing worked at this moment. The leftists who had woken up tried desperately to escape, but the rest of their body tissues suddenly had their own consciousness.

As the leftist elements suddenly stopped howling, their bodies split and eroded, crawling towards the totem pole again and being sucked into their bodies.

The psychic from Zuojiao finally arrived in a hurry.

When he saw the two faces at the top of the totem pole, he was suddenly stunned, with a hint of panic on his expression.

"Faceless..."

Chen Ming heard him talking to himself.

This Faceless shouldn't be the face that he couldn't see on the totem pole.

But when he saw this face, he thought of "faceless", a term that was suspected to be Zuojia's internal code name.

This totem pole monster is indeed closely related to Zuo Jing.

I just don’t know what is going on with this monster.

Chen Mingming had never seen a description of this monster in any document on the space station or underground laboratory.

But this thing just appeared.

Moreover, Chen Ming feels that rather than saying that this thing is something developed by humans, it is better to say that this thing is actually natural.

It is something that grows naturally without any human influence.

Although it is formed from various human tissues, Chen Ming felt this way when he saw it.

And there is a familiar feeling.

Chen Ming had already hid in a corner at this time, leaving the scene to the leftists to deal with.

At the same time, he was thinking desperately about what could be so familiar to him.

If he had an impression of such a dangerous thing, he would not forget it. He had to remember it.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking.

The psyker on the left path suddenly turned around and ran back the way he came.

He gave up on the left path of the rescue laboratory after seeing that face and the door that was completely damaged beyond repair.

He wants to run away.

Although Chen Ming was thinking about something, he couldn't just let him run away.

He deliberately brought the totem pole here so that the psykers from Zuojia could help test what abilities this monster had, so that the next battle would be easier for him.

How could you just let someone run away like that?
Chen Ming, who was closer to the periphery of the laboratory than the left-path psyker, created a small amount of plasma directly around him and threw it everywhere in the laboratory, destroying a large number of load-bearing structures in the laboratory.

In front of the left path where the psyker escaped, ruins were created that completely blocked the passage.

The left path psyker's eyes were splitting when he saw this scene, and the psychic energy in his body was stimulated.

A surge of magnetic force pulled the damaged laboratory structure, forcibly tearing a passage from the collapsed passage that could barely pass through.

This psyker's ability is to control electromagnetic forces.

Chen Ming had already discovered it when he was handling the soul beast's flesh and blood at the door just now.

It just so happens that there are many metal structures in the laboratory, which is indeed a good place for him to perform.

But it was too late.

Chen Ming destroyed more than one laboratory structure.

He simply doesn't have the ability to clean up in a short time.

And he didn't have time either.

The leftist elements behind him, which were also blocked deep in the laboratory by the ruins, had all been wiped out in just a few minutes.

It is impossible to survive under the dual influence of two ferocious psychic creatures, the Mind Beast Flesh and the Totem Pole.

And Chen Ming was constantly destroying the structure of the laboratory in front, making it impossible for him to escape.

The next thing he could do was face the totem pole monster head on.

The left path psyker turned his head and saw the totem pole monster that was almost in front of him.

He roared at the top of his lungs, and after being pushed to the extreme, he exploded to the extreme.

Substantial electric light flashed across his body, and with the blessing of magnetism, he drove a large number of weapons made of messy metals. Under the influence of electromagnetic force, he burst out at extremely fast speeds and rushed towards the totem pole.

Then, it disappeared.

He swung a large number of metal-structured weapons towards the totem pole, but the weapon passed directly through the body of the totem pole.

But when he was also close, he was swallowed by the totem pole.

After a short moment of silence, Chen Ming saw that the two faces at the top of the totem pole were suddenly torn apart and pulled to the side, leaving an empty space.

And began to pull the flesh and blood tissue, forming the appearance of the left path psyker who had just been swallowed.

Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed across the entire totem pole.

The psychic energy fluctuations of the dead psyker just now were strengthening it.

(End of this chapter)