Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 274 Unkind Visitor

He Gu spoke in a serious tone.

In his opinion, Chen Ming is a member of the Psychic Society.

The psykers who come out under the education model of the Psionics Association are different from those who come out through the empire's normal education methods.

In some matters, psykers in psionic societies especially like to try it out for themselves, experience matters related to psionic energy themselves, and then sum up their experiences.

Only those who have tried it themselves can draw conclusions.

Although the psykers cultivated in this way do have some abilities that exceed those of psykers who received ordinary education.

Even when these psykers reach a bottleneck in their ability development and begin to learn systematic psionic knowledge, it is easier for them to surpass psykers who studied systematically from the beginning in all aspects.

After all, those who can find their own way in such an environment are people with certain talents, and their own growth path can often be modified to suit them best.

but.

"Can the psyker's contribution points be traded?"

"Another piece of knowledge is that by the time a psyker has multiple psionic qualities competing against each other, the psyker is basically dead."

But not all back-up tactics will work, and not all troubles can be easily dealt with.

So although Chen Ming said that he had already encountered it, He Gu felt that he still had to give a serious warning.

For example, one thing he had been paying close attention to before.

"It is this mentally violent entity that can only be transformed into a human being. Ordinary creatures will not be affected even if they carry several psychic materials of different properties."

He just repeated what he just said, hoping that Chen Ming would listen and not make seeking death a habit.

After Chen Ming confirmed that the contribution points could be traded, he immediately asked: "Does the Legion Psionics Research Institute purely rely on legion support, or is it an independent department? Who determines the contribution points of psykers? "

After he finished speaking, Chen Ming of course responded.

He continued to explain: "Each organization's psychic research institute is an independent department, but it usually gets the most support from the organization. The reason should be clear to you."

He Gu thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there are two trivia facts that many people don't know."

According to He Gu, the style of the totem pole may represent the psyker's simple belief in Zuo Jing?

If the boss knew that Psychic Rampant Entities can only be transformed into human beings.

Although these people are all smart people, they will prepare some backup plans before preparing to commit suicide.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of an answer. He felt that even if he asked Chen Ming, he wouldn't tell it, and it would be a lie, so he simply didn't ask it.

"According to the records we have, the appearance of a mentally violent entity will show different manifestations depending on a person's long-term obsession, the major harm he has experienced, or related to the subconscious self-awareness."

Might those arms be related to the psyker's obsession or the injuries he suffered?
But the void psyker is dead, and there is no way to be sure now, so there is nothing more to say.

Why would he do it himself if he could let the fake body do it?
Chen Ming simply did not show any suspicion of seeking death, and asked casually: "Is there anything else that can be said about this mentally violent entity?"

Um...forget it, it's okay. If the boss is exposed, it will be exposed. It's not a big problem.

"Anyway, contribution points are basically earned by doing things. It is the psyker's own business to be willing to share the contribution points earned by doing things."

When such psykers encounter some unknown things, they will often have some suicidal thoughts of "Let me see what happens."

Even if the boss knows that his afterglow is distributed in various places, there seems to be no way to explain to him where the psyker came from outside the empire and turned into a psychotic entity. He happened to encounter it. It happened that Chen Ming also had armed forces there. While destroying the mental rampage entity, he also sent the ectoplasmic stone back...

Anyway, he had warnings from psychic powers before doing anything.

Chen Ming's mind immediately started spinning.

He would definitely not do anything that was truly dangerous, not to mention that he still had a fake body.

Ended the conversation with He Gu on the mental rampage entity.

"Then the contribution points will all be distributed by the legion. The people below, even the research institutes, can only help report the achievements that can get the contribution points. For example, we helped you report the two studies you did before, and the rewards It will come down soon.”

Chen Ming immediately reviewed all the relevant points in his mind and wrote them all down. They might be useful in the future.

As someone who really wanted to invite Chen Ming to join the Psionics Research Institute, He Gu would not be stingy with his time when Chen Ming wanted to learn more about the rules of the psykers of the Fourteenth Legion.

The mind-rage entity is one of them.

"However, the remaining active psychic properties will still derive the appearance of different mind-robbing entities based on the original psyker's condition."

As a member of the Psionics Research Institute, He Gu knew a lot about the psychics of the Fourteenth Legion, and he immediately gave Chen Ming a definite answer: "Yes."

If something happened to Chen Ming, it would be a heavy loss to the 14th Army.

"However, most of the things that can be exchanged for contribution points are materials stored in the warehouse of our psychic research institute, and they have to be exchanged with us."

Chen Ming should be at the branch of the Fourteenth Legion now. Where did he encounter the mentally violent entity?

"Actually, it was originally not allowed, but not being able to trade is nothing more than adding an extra step of exchanging items for things when psykers conduct private transactions, so this later rule was deleted."

Even Chen Ming suddenly thought of a question.

"Because psionic creatures do not have spiritual enlightenment nerves, their own psionic nature is the nature that occupies the most important part of their body. External existence cannot affect it at all, so there will be no active fighting between different psionic qualities in the body. ”

Does the boss know these two pieces of trivia?

However, he was not in a hurry to hang up the phone, and planned to take this opportunity to communicate with He Gu to ask some questions within the Fourteenth Army.

But when he thought of this, He Gu suddenly realized something.

"These things belong to the legion, not just to the research institute. If the research institute wants to use them, they must be approved and cannot be taken casually."

Chen Ming roughly understood the working principle of the psyker's contribution point mechanism. Basically, it can be said that it is a method used by the Legion to control the psykers under its command. Of course, the premise is that it cannot be traded.

Now that contribution points can be traded, it is a win-win situation that is acceptable to both the psykers and the Legion.

"I see, will the legion collect some extra things from other places?"

He Gu responded: "Yes, the military supply warehouse often does not have everything, and many things have to be found by people. Acquisition is an easy way."

"As I told you just now, our laboratory needs the things left over from the mentally rampaging entities. If we want to buy them from you, it depends on whether you need to exchange items or directly choose to contribute points."

"So do you want to trade contribution points or buy something?"

"Ah."

Chen Ming responded and said in detail: "I have something that should be fairly valuable that I want to sell in exchange for something I need."

"What do you want to sell?"

"A set of power armor made of pure ectoplasmic metal, materials of the same nature."

He Gu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and asked with some uncertainty: "What did you say you wanted to sell?"

"A set of power armor. Most of the metals on it are psychic metals, and their properties are the same."

He Gu, who was on the other end of the phone, did not take Chen Ming's words as a lie. Instead, he seriously considered the sizes of common power armors and how much metal material was needed to make such a lifetime of power armor.

Then he said to Chen Ming: "Wait a moment."

Put down the terminal for now.

You should probably consult with someone.

After all, the value of such a set of power armor is really not low, and many psykers may not be able to afford even a handy or even unused psionic weapon.

Therefore, such a set of powered armor should only be able to afford it if it has a psionic research background officially funded by the Fourteenth Legion.

A few minutes later, He Gu picked up the terminal again and asked Chen Ming, "Are you sure they are the same material?"

"Correct."

After all, they were all dug out from Yan Xiong's body, could they not be of the same nature?

"To be honest, we are quite interested in that thing of yours."

However, He Gu's intention was not for the power armor, but for the large piece of psychic material of the same nature that was used to make the power armor.

Psychic materials have never been common things, and their properties are also varied.

Even though the properties of many materials appear to be similar, there are only subtle differences.

But as the overall number increases, this difference will become obvious and cannot be directly applied to some large equipment for single use.

Therefore, it can be said that pure large-volume psychic materials of the same nature that can be used to make a set of power armor are very rare.

It's surprising that Chen Ming could actually get such a thing.

He Gu casually guessed that it should be a product of another civilization's relics obtained by Chen Ming's afterglow fleet that opened up to the outside world. Perhaps it could also be found by Chen Ming in the afterglow star field.

Of course, it is also possible that Chen Ming really dug a vein and then directly made the psychic ore into power armor.

If you think about it this way, the mentally rampaging entity may also be caused by those psychics who have a very small probability of existing in the Afterglow territory.

He Gu thought of a reasonable explanation and stopped worrying about this aspect. Instead, he asked the question he needed to know most: "Has that psychic material been made into powered armor?"

"Yes."

After Chen Ming's boss reminded him of Yan Xiong's use, he asked Chaofan to help him make a set, intending to wear it for his body.

However, Chen Ming's true form is now following Brilliant Chaofan and the others on their pioneering journey, and has been strictly protected and has never encountered any danger.

In addition, the boss warned me not to wear multiple psychic equipment of different properties at the same time.

And, although the effect of power armor is indeed very good, it can increase mental power and psychic energy far more than ectoplasm stones and psychic weapons.

But wearing power armor every day is also very uncomfortable. Chen Ming would rather get a lower bonus from the psychic equipment, so the power armor is currently at a point where it is of little use.

Wait a moment.

Chen Ming suddenly hammered the table subconsciously and rolled back his previous thoughts to the previous sentence. Something seems wrong.

What he was referring to was not that the power armor was uncomfortable to wear, but the increase that he had obtained as a foreign object.

Chen Ming now has four ectoplasm stones on hand, Whisper, Fear, Fascination, and the Mad Words ectoplasm stone he carried for the fake body in the Fourteenth Legion.

As for the crazy ectoplasm stone on the fake body, it was embedded in a psychic revolver with a neutral nature.

As for his psychic nature, although he himself is not sure about it, since the totem pole absorbed his psychic energy fluctuations before and caused him to vomit blood, it does not seem to be a very neutral psychic nature.

These three kinds of spiritual energy of different natures are mixed together, but nothing happens like the void psychic?

Even if this is because of the prosthetic body, Chen Ming could always carry these things himself earlier.

Moreover, Chen Ming embedded the ectoplasm stone on the weapon in a way that his boss had specifically told him before.

Inlaying an extremely negative ectoplasm stone into a neutral weapon doesn't conflict with psykers not to carry too many psionic equipment of different properties?
Chen Ming was used to this before, so he didn't pay attention.

But now I suddenly think of looking back... isn't this nonsense?

The boss will definitely not harm him. Is there something he doesn't understand?

Was he able to resist the influence of the psychic qualities of the three natures? Or is it still the specialness of the resonance ectoplasm stone? Or maybe the weapon has special properties?

Or... is he special?
On the other side, He Gu heard Chen Ming suddenly banging the table and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I just thought of something."

"Can spiritual weapons inlaid with spiritual stones improve the effectiveness of the weapons?"

He Gu understood what Chen Ming meant and said, "That's right. You probably want to ask if this violates the principle of not bringing a variety of psychic equipment with different properties?"

"Ah."

"You don't have to worry about this, because when spiritual weapons are inlaid with spiritual stones, the usual choice is to use spiritual stones that are compatible with psykers or have properties similar to those of spiritual weapons."

"Even if psychic weapons are incompatible with psychics for some reason, in the end, one person will only have two very different psychic traits."

"I just told you before that a mentally violent entity needs to have at least three different properties."

"So this situation does not quite meet the conditions for the emergence of mentally violent entities."

"Although subtle deviations in properties may cause psychics to run into a certain risk of mental rage, it is much better to have different properties in all three places."

"However, the probability that the psyker, the psionic weapon, and the ectoplasm stone embedded in the psionic weapon have different properties is too low, and generally no one does this. If someone really does this, we will remind."

"So don't worry."

"..."

In Chen Ming's silence, He Gu continued: "Under normal circumstances, the spiritual energy fluctuations of the spiritual stone will not conflict with the things in the body of the psychic."

"The most common triggers for mental rampage entities are psychic equipment of different properties rather than ectoplasm stones. ectoplasm stones are very special existences, and the probability can be so small that they are negligible."

Although He Gu said this, Chen Ming had just met a guy who turned into a mentally violent entity due to the spiritual stone.

Oh no, it seems that it really isn’t because of the ectoplasm stone.

The void psyker was most likely because he was cooperating with the Psychic Beast Project being researched in the Left Path Laboratory, which led to him having too much contact with the Psychic Beast who was obsessed with traits.

The desire for expansion of the psychic beast is still very powerful, and it does affect the people around it, so the psychic fluctuations on the totem pole are not the psychic fluctuations of the ectoplasm stone, but the psychic fluctuations of the psychic beast.

This just explains why Chen Ming found the obsession ectoplasm stone on the psychic beast instead of on the totem pole.

But this still fails to answer why the existence of three spiritual energy fluctuations with different absolute properties did not cause his mind to go berserk when Chen Ming himself was there. Is it luck?
This kind of issue related to the nature of psychic energy is not easy to discuss with He Gu, who has not known him for too long.

So he still couldn't let go, so he immediately sent a message to his boss to ask.

The boss's reply was to reassure Chen Ming.

According to the boss, it is because the psychic material used in the "Ming" given by Bai Quan has a very neutral quality, neutralizing it.

Although this ectoplasm material with neutralizing characteristics is not very strong, it is the most adaptable and adaptable material among almost all ectoplasm materials.

This was not written on the certificate given by Bai Quan. Chen Ming only knew that it was a neutral material before, and he always thought it was relatively unpalatable.

But think about it, how could Bai Quan really give him a piece of garbage.

Previously, the boss only knew that Chen Ming had two ectoplasm stones with similar properties on hand, and the ectoplasm stones were not easy to obtain, so he only asked Chen Ming to try inlaying them.

In addition, the Whisper of Madness happens to be an ectoplasm stone that has evolved all the way from Whisper. It can be said that it is an ectoplasm stone of the same origin, and there will be no conflict at all.

So he didn't say anything about the later mentally violent entities.

That should be fine.

Chen Ming felt that it was because of the special material properties of the weapon and its ability to tolerate that it did not cause the mind to go berserk.

If it really causes the mind to go berserk, a warning of danger should be given when he acquires the next new psychic trait.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming finally felt relieved.

However, he still felt vaguely that something was wrong, and he seemed to have overlooked something.

But what he ignored seemed to have no impact, and he had no sense of danger.

Chen Ming didn't think about it for a while, so he just let it go and didn't think about it further.

He continued to bring up the previous topic with He Gu, the matter of selling power armor.

The set of power armor in his hand is temporarily useless, and Yan Xiong can continue to produce psychic metal, so he plans to sell this set first and make new ones if needed in the future.

Therefore, after Chen Ming brought the topic back, he continued to promote: "If you need it, I can directly dismantle the power armor and make it look like you need. My psychic effects can be restored directly to ensure that there will be no problems." The impact is just like a pile of psychic metal that just came out of the smelting furnace."

He Gu was obviously very interested in this thing. Chen Ming offered to help with the materials. He did not pretend to be pretentious and said directly: "That would be best. In this case... what do you want?"

Chen Ming decisively gave his request: "Ling Nerve."

"Are you interested in this thing? For your own use? I heard that you have absorbed several of them. Try to be careful. Many cases have proven that rashly absorbing the spiritual awakening nerve is likely to cause problems with mental strength."

"I know, that's why I need it."

He Gu had heard rumors about Chen Mingsheng's deeds of chewing Qiling nerves from others before, so he didn't say more: "It's okay if you have confidence. How many do you need?"

"Then it depends on how many pieces of power armor I can replace."

"it is good."

He Gu said something, looked at the message from the director on the terminal, and then said to Chen Ming: "We can give you two spiritual nerves."

Chen Ming bargained and said, "Two... I feel like it's a bit less."

"Then we can give you some additional items with less than 5000 contribution points. Think about it, what else do you need?"

Giving an additional 5000 contribution points was almost the bottom line in Chen Ming's heart. He accepted it as soon as it was good. After thinking about what he had seen on the website before, he said: "I have seen something that seems to detect the spirit of psykers before." Something functional, right? That thing doesn’t seem cheap.”

"The disposable testers sold externally are not cheap, but if you come to the institute for a physical examination, it is free."

"Forget about the physical examination."

Chen Ming declined the idea of ​​a physical examination. It would be great fun if the physical examination revealed that the prosthetic brain did not have spiritual nerves.

"Just this one-time device and the remaining three thousand contribution points will be enough."

"Row."

He Gu didn't waste any time and agreed immediately: "I will go to the branch to find you in person with Qiling Nerve and equipment later."

With the end of the communication.

Two more days passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ming once again arrived at the next scheduled supply point.

Although the supplies have not been exhausted yet, it is certainly impossible to wait until the supplies are exhausted before replenishing things.

Moreover, by doing so, he could also disrupt to a certain extent the possibility of those who were following him guessing his whereabouts based on the amount of materials he purchased.

This time, Chen Ming also arrived at a comprehensive colony.

But the scale is smaller than before, and it doesn't have the characteristics of a garden planet like that.

It's just an ordinary colony in a prosperous star field.

After arriving at the port this time, Chen Ming asked the repair shop to repair the spacecraft and replenish supplies as he did last time.

After paying the deposit and walking out of the port.

Chen Ming suddenly discovered from the billboard on the roadside that this colony seemed to have some characteristics.

In the ocean of this planet, there lives an extremely delicious, large, starfish-shaped creature with multiple irregular tentacles.

Since the meat of this kind of starfish is extremely perishable and difficult to preserve, canned starfish are generally sold to the outside world. Only locals can enjoy the freshest starfish.

Chen Ming had seen it in some advertisements before, and now he happened to see it again, so he simply ran to a local restaurant, opened a private room, and ordered food.

Just like an ordinary person, he browses the terminal and waits for the food to be served.

But while waiting.

Chen Ming suddenly stood up, raised his fist and swung it behind him with wind pressure strong enough to cut his skin.

But this punch only dispersed a little of the black fog.

A familiar voice from Chen Ming suddenly came from the black mist floating next to him: "Do you really want to fight in a place like this?"

"It's a downtown area outside."

(End of this chapter)