Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 278 The loopholes made up

Psychological problems, especially those involving Zuojia and civilians.

The first person Chen Ming thought of who could help him solve the problem was naturally Bai Quan.

Baiquan quickly answered Chen Ming's call as usual.

Before Bai Quan could ask Chen Ming, he spoke first: "Let me ask you something, if you need to sacrifice a group of people to achieve your own goals, will you sacrifice them?"

Bai Quan's mind was full of questions because of Chen Ming's sudden and incomprehensible question, but he still replied seriously: "Of course it will be if it's a battlefield. Why do you ask this?"

"Just asking, what if it's not a battlefield?"

"It depends on the situation if it's not a battlefield. It depends on whether what I do is in line with my values ​​when sacrificing a group of people."

Chen Ming gave an example: "For example, if a Zuojia space station kidnaps civilians, and you dare to self-destruct if you dare to get close to them, will you sacrifice these civilians to kill these Zuojia?"

"meeting."

"……real or fake……"

Bai Quan replied without hesitation: "As long as the goal I want to achieve is not for myself, I will not hesitate. Did something happen to you? Or did your president, Cai Mo, encounter some problem?"

"For the same purpose, you put two things together and see if different ideas and processes will lead to the same result."

Therefore, if Chen Ming's psychic power is controlling such a bionic robot and driving the spaceship by himself, it is generally impossible to tell the difference.

He could guess with a casual guess that Chen Ming must be secretly using his spiritual power to do something, and then he happened to encounter a similar situation and came over to ask.

As far as he knows, there are indeed people in the empire who specialize in manufacturing and producing such bionic robots to accompany themselves.

Although there is a main suspect in Caimo Star Territory, the situation there is also extremely complicated now.

The only other ones with afterglow cores are the small fleet that has been wandering around the Gallo Star Territory to earn pocket money.

Precisely because Chen Ming did things clearly, Bai Quan was not worried about what Chen Ming was trying to do now, and replied purely sincerely: "Let me just say this, even myself in my eyes is an object that can be sacrificed when necessary. ”

The main direction of the Fourteenth Legion is still on the war between the Machine Tribe and Yuhui. Internal matters are left to other legions to handle, so they don't pay much attention to it, and they really don't understand it very clearly.

All the afterglow cores that the prosthetics brought to the Fourteenth Legion were clearly placed in front of Bai Quan for supervision.

The psychic effects he displayed have already been analyzed by others. Even before, Bai Quan was the first person to analyze his psychic effects from the clues of his actions.

"It's just that something suddenly occurred to me, so I wanted to ask."

Of course, to Bai Quan, it doesn't matter what Chen Ming is doing now.

"If the result is the same, then do it."

Bai Quan said it openly, and Chen Ming believed that Bai Quan would really do it. However, he was not Bai Quan, and he would definitely have different ideas when thinking about some things.

So he has always been very cooperative, at least with the prosthetics of the Fourteenth Legion.

Bai Quan didn't believe that Chen Ming would come up with such a problem out of nowhere while just staying in the branch.

"Your goal is to kill Zuo Jing, and the people who surrounded Zuo Jing also aim to kill Zuo Jing."

"For example, if I sacrifice now, I can eliminate the Machine Tribe, Zuo Jing or Yuhui. I am willing to sacrifice now."

Therefore, the concept of using psychic energy to create mechanical clones must have been thought of by people a long time ago, and even the think tank Baiquan assigned to him had thought of this in advance.

It's also thanks to the fact that his psychic effects can only be expanded through personal contact and indirect contact using afterglow. Otherwise, there must be more people trying their best to restrict him.

He mostly wanted to rely on Bai Quan's ideas as a reference for the predicament he was encountering now.

Bai Quan strengthened his guess that Chen Ming controlled some kind of robot to run around the empire and cause trouble, and said: "Is this problem different from just now? Can't you set your personal goals on such a big goal? "

"What if it's not for this kind of goal, but a more personal goal? For example, you are not the government troops who used to encircle Zuo Jing, but an ordinary person who has a grudge against Zuo Jing."

Chen Ming was a little embarrassed for a while when he heard Bai Quan's suspicion.

But Bai Quan definitely still doesn't know about the Zerg.

Therefore, Bai Quan has been trying his best to protect Chen Ming, and occasionally hints to Chen Ming during class.

Especially in the prosperous star field, such robots are not too rare.

But no matter what, as long as Chen Ming doesn't violate that unwritten rule.

Even if Chen Ming comes to ask questions in this area, and stays in the branch, controlling robots or spaceships to roam outside, Bai Quan still believes that Chen Ming can stick to the bottom line that makes people feel at ease.

Of course, if he feels at ease, there will always be people who don't think so.

"Sacrifice cannot be avoided, so try to minimize the number of sacrifices."

Even if it weren't for the fact that when Chen Ming came to the branch, he secretly had someone get an exact body scan and obtain hair samples for DNA testing, he would have even suspected that the branch's Chen Ming was fake.

Of course Chen Ming is not stupid. He knows very well how powerful his psychic effects are and how many people they will worry about.

Nowadays, bionic technology is so advanced that it is not difficult to put some effort into making a robot that looks exactly like a human.

But this was enough for Bai Quan to think that Chen Ming was causing trouble outside.

Recently, the empire has been full of incidents related to Zuo Jing. It is impossible to guess where Chen Ming controlled the robot and went.

Anyway, there is a high probability that he was controlling some kind of robot or some kind of self-driving spaceship, running around the empire, and then accidentally encountered something similar to what he just said.

"In the empire, all human lives are equal, at least to some extent. You cannot sacrifice more people to save one person."

In other words, there is no need to use spiritual power to control things that do not belong to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming asked again: "What if the number of civilian casualties caused by these two options is different?"

"What is the key to this operation? Is it to rescue civilians? Or to eliminate Zuojia? There is always a main goal."

"If it is to eliminate Zuojia, then I can only say something unfortunate to the civilians and extend my sincere apologies and compensation to their families. If it is to protect civilians..."

"I only have one sentence. When necessary, sacrifice is just a number."

Chen Ming came here and asked the question he wanted to ask the most: "But who will bear this responsibility?"

"Take responsibility? Is that what you're worried about?"

Bai Quan asked back.

After thinking about it for a while, I found that this seemed to be a problem for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had indeed been a manager, but he was an ordinary manager. He could only manage dozens of people at most, and he had never really been involved in the lives of a large number of people.

If he really had to bear the responsibility for the death of so many people, the psychological pressure would be much greater than if he directly killed the same people.

Chen Ming had killed people before, but all he killed were enemies.

Not everyone has the psychological quality to really cause the death of a large number of ordinary people who have no hostile relationship with themselves because of their actions.

This situation made Bai Quan couldn't help but think about what situation in which part of the empire would require Chen Ming to bear this pressure.

However, it is still the same as before. The current situation in the empire is that Zuojia is being surrounded and suppressed everywhere. It is really hard to say in which star field and galaxy such a thing happened again.

So Bai Quan simply said directly: "You have to think carefully about who killed them, was it you? Or Zuo Jing?"

"Going to the root of the matter, is it you who caused this situation, or Zuojia, who caused them to die?"

"As for responsibility, let me just put it bluntly. In the example just now, unless you directly transform into a left path and rush into the space station to massacre civilians, otherwise all these people will die and it will have nothing to do with you. You have no responsibility at all. No need to bear any responsibility.”

"It's that simple."

Chen Ming already roughly understood what Bai Quan meant.

The confusion in his heart gradually dissipated, and he finally got out of the vicious cycle of self-blame.

Chen Ming relaxed a little and complained to Bai Quan: "A bit heartless."

"It's true, but this is my experience of surviving on the battlefield."

"Of course, my mentality has begun to change since I came off the front line. I might be confused when I encounter multiple-choice questions."

"Oh, by the way, let me ask you something, how is Xinghai's teaching going lately?"

Chen Ming suddenly coughed dryly and said, "It's not bad...well...I have something else to do, let's talk about it later."

When it comes to embarrassing topics, Chen Ming doesn't know what to say.

Cheng Xinghai had started teaching him two days ago. It was fine at first, but Chen Ming always felt strange during the next class.

No matter how he thought about it, he had a headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He still has business to do now.

Communication ended.

Chen Ming's mentality finally returned to normal.

He asked himself a question in his mind, what was his purpose in sending An Wuping out?
It is to cooperate with the president, provide support to the president, help find the psyker who made him discover that Zuo Jing was also dimensionally infected, and then solve the huge trouble in Caimo Star Territory.

And the purpose of his coming to this space station halfway.

It was because Zuo Diao had thoughts about him, and he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, trying to sneak into Zuo Dai, trying to disintegrate them from the inside of Zuo Dai.

That's enough.

Chen Ming did not take the initiative to massacre civilians, but pressed the weapon launch button. There is no need for him to blame himself for this.

You must know that once there is a problem with the color ink, the worse consequences caused by the dimensional infection may spread to the entire empire.

It is equivalent to sacrificing a small group of people in exchange for the survival opportunities of a larger group of people.

It can be said that this is too utilitarian.

But in Chen Ming's view, this is also a solution that can be made in the shortest time without causing the greatest losses.

If Chen Ming is really sorry, it will be enough for Chen Ming to erect a monument for them and give their family some compensation.

Presumably the empire will not be stingy with these compensations.

Chen Ming let go of the pressure in his heart.

In reality, An Wuping, who was drifting in the cosmic environment, finally started to move. He adjusted his posture and faced the position of the third left-radius cruiser that had just appeared and destroyed the space station.

The magnificent colors instantly condensed into a plasma spear in his hand.

Even faster than before in the underground laboratory, he accumulated the energy gathered in the plasma spear to a level close to the intensity of his plasma light ball that destroyed his mind-destroying entity.

With the troubles in his mind resolved, Chen Ming became more comfortable controlling the Insect Queen's spiritual energy and An Wuping's body.

now.

The rage in him reached its peak.

And this time he was not pretending, but he was actually venting the anger that had accumulated in his heart due to his previous thoughts.

The magnificent color of the plasma spear has gradually turned into pure white where the energy has been condensed to the extreme. It has also been gradually covered by the Zerg horn that Chen Ming wrapped around the spear, allowing it to be held more firmly in his hand.

At the moment when the spear was thrown in Chen Ming's hand.

The carapace covering the plasma collapsed because it could not withstand the terrifying acceleration, revealing the glow of the plasma again.

I saw a bolt of lightning flashing across the galaxy.

The third cruiser came from the left path along with its shields. It was penetrated by this lightning from beginning to end.

The moment the bolt of lightning shot through the rear of the cruiser, it disappeared.

The colorful colors representing death completely enveloped the spacecraft.

In just a few seconds, it was annihilated in the light.

Seeing this scene, the depression in Chen Ming's heart was swept away.

He adjusted his attitude and leaned on the biomass vent to go near the destroyed space station with only its wreckage remaining.

The space station had been destroyed and torn apart. Chen Ming landed on the largest piece of debris of the space station.

After digging around, I found the location where the escape cabins were concentrated, trying to find anyone who was still alive.

Of course, he also knew that no one could survive the force of the entire space station being destroyed.

He was just pretending to be waiting for someone.

Soon, the people Chen Ming was waiting for arrived.

Thousand Faces, wearing protective clothing, floated out from the shadow of the wreckage of the space station.

His face looked a little ugly under the mask of his protective suit.

Because he had noticed that the high-strength Heart Gathering Bead that he had just crushed and spent a lot of effort on making didn't seem to have a very good effect.

The An Wuping in front of him didn't appear to have any holes in his mind that had been broken, only the rage caused by his berserk disorder.

Does frenzy protect the psychic loopholes from interference to a certain extent?

Qianmian didn't know, but he didn't show it.

He just threw a terminal to Chen Ming, and a program for two-way conversion of voice and text was running on it.

Chen Ming took the thing. He was extremely calm now, but he still continued to control An Wuping's body and showed his raging murderous intent.

The mental power that was supposed to only act on himself was overflowing crazily, and even the seeds left by the left path in his brain that he carried in the backpack were completely washed away.

Chen Ming even felt that a trace of psychic energy fluctuations from the brainwashed psyker on his body had been completely wiped out.

Chen Ming was slightly stunned when he sensed the spiritual energy fluctuations existing in his consciousness.

He really didn't notice that his consciousness was still affected by this special psychic wave that had a bewildering effect.

Although there is no obvious feeling, there is only an extremely subtle impact.

But it seemed that it was this influence that made him confused just now.

This psychic energy found the weak spots in his soul and amplified his spiritual weaknesses.

He, who was friendly to civilians, had a mental hole due to the deaths of civilians.

Chen Ming thought that what he was thinking just now was really his thoughts...

No, it should and indeed can be counted.

Because under normal circumstances, although Chen Ming would not blame himself too much when facing the death of a large number of civilians, he would indeed feel a little uncomfortable, but he would not have such a big reaction.

His previous reaction was purely amplified by the loopholes in his mind.

A thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an anthill, and any small problem may lead to catastrophe at a critical moment.

But it doesn't matter now.

After Bai Quan's enlightenment, Chen Ming will no longer be restricted by any universal ethics and morals at least in this major matter involving the entire empire. Everything will only serve to achieve the goal.

On the contrary, his mind became stronger after this attack on the loopholes in his mind.

At this time, Qian Mian was right in front of Chen Ming, and of course he could feel that Chen Ming was relying on the surging spiritual energy fluctuations to disperse the seeds in his mind.

But now it doesn’t matter whether the seed mark is present or not.

Qian Mian stretched out his left hand, which was missing a little finger, pointed at the collapsed space station at his feet and said: "We accept your certificate of nomination."

"Very soon news of what happened on the space station will be on the table in local government."

"But no one will know that there are our people on the space station, and no one will know that what you are doing is actually helping them."

"We will help you build momentum, and you will be a madman who kills indiscriminately because of his madness."

"It's useless for you to be angry now. It doesn't matter how psykers are contradictory among psykers."

"But once civilians are involved and you still massacre civilians, it's hard to say whether you, a psyker, are still a psyker in the eyes of the empire."

"You will definitely be on the empire's blacklist, and you will no longer be able to act casually in the prosperous star field under your identity."

"For you, even if your mental state barely returns to normal, what happens next? What if the rage becomes more severe? What else can you do? You don't still think that you can find our territory casually within the empire, do you? "

"The best outcome for a pyromaniac in the Empire is to end up as a harmless guinea pig in a mental hospital."

What Qian Mian said obviously contained a lot of exaggeration.

But what he said about the left path is indeed fine.

Zuo Jing will definitely put the blame on Chen Ming for the small number of civilian casualties on the space station, and may even use their hidden people in certain departments to put the blame on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had a targeted approach.

Because he has a complete video of everything that happened here.

He also saved all the data in the space station's database. The destruction of the space station did not affect his ability to save data at all.

If you really want to throw the blame away, all you need to do is hand over the video.

But Chen Ming doesn't intend to do this.

He has more ideas.

Chen Ming continued his performance.

Pretending to be extremely arrogant, he stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Qianmian's protective suit. He relied on himself as the medium for sound transmission and said, "I have another choice, which is to kill you here."

Qianmian didn't do any act of excitement and resistance.

After all, if An Wuping wants to take action, he can just do it directly, there is no need to drag him to talk.

Moreover, An Wuping's mania has obviously been stimulated to the extreme. If he continues to push him too hard, it will be counterproductive.

So Qianmian calmed down and said, "In fact, there is another option. We can cooperate temporarily, only for the next period of time."

"I know that your understanding of us is negative and you are unwilling to contact us, but you must understand that frenzy is the sword of Damocles on your head,"

"Others in the empire will have to consider what will happen if you get sick and be wary of you."

"But we are different. We have the means to completely cure rage disorder."

"This is a fair deal. You contribute and we help you treat it."

"After it's cured, you can definitely find a way to have plastic surgery, change your appearance, and return to the empire."

"In this day and age, when psychics like us really don't want to work anymore, we need to find a place to get plastic surgery and hide away without causing trouble. Who can find it?"

Chen Ming did not act more irritable, but let go of his hand, took a step back, lowered his head slightly, and looked thoughtful.

But he suddenly raised his head again and asked: "Your psychic power gives you the ability to change your face, so why don't you mend your little finger?"

Chen Ming pretended that he still needed time to think, so he temporarily changed the topic and brought up this issue.

Of course, this is indeed what Chen Ming is more curious about.

Because when he saw the glass bead psyker at the place where the black mist psyker was captured, his little finger was also missing and had not been repaired.

It is obvious that modern medical technology can easily regenerate a finger, but it is not possible, and the same is true for mechanical fingers.

So why doesn't this guy fix it?

Qian Mian raised his left hand, looked at it, and said, "This goes back to the past, and is not what we want to talk about now."

"Think about it carefully. We still have time. You have to think about how many roads you can take now."

Chen Ming stopped looking ahead completely and leaned back against the wreckage of the space station.

Qian Mian picked up the terminal that Chen Ming had just thrown away and stuffed it into An Wuping's hand again.

He looked up at the pair of scarlet eyes on top of the tall body and said: "Our Zuojiao is actually not as crazy as you seem."

"At least we have always had friendly exchanges with you before, and it's the same now, right?"

(End of this chapter)