Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 281 The power of dimensions

Hours passed quickly.

Qian Mian has left the captain's cabin.

But Chen Ming was still lying on the sofa doing nothing, closing his eyes and relaxing.

After agreeing to help the president a few days ago, he has already begun to be distracted from doing things for the president. He needs to deal with a galaxy in the star field that is highly suspected of being infected by a dimension.

Although the Afterglow Core assists him in doing these things, he does not need to really look at every place, but he is still responsible for the tasks assigned to the Afterglow Core and the tasks of connecting with people from the Fifth Army, and he is still needed. It takes a certain amount of time and effort.

It just so happened that An Wuping hadn't encountered anything in the past few days, except for following Zuojia, who was running around like a mouse, and the need to constantly change spaceships.

In addition, it would have been a week before he went to Caimo in an open and honest manner.

The current situation of running along the left path will only be slower and less efficient.

Therefore, Chen Ming planned to appropriately reduce the attention allocated to An Wuping, spend less time thinking, and do more other things.

For example, put it over the prosthesis of the Fourteenth Legion and study the catalytic core that was delivered in the past two days.

Besides, it's not necessary to exchange psychic powers with An Wuping.

"These glass beads are derivatives of your psychic energy. You have absolute control over these things. It shouldn't be difficult to recycle them."

As long as An Wuping is by his side when he uses his spiritual energy, the escaped spiritual energy fluctuations can be converted into Heart Gathering Spirit Beads, so there is no need to rush.

Chen Ming sat upright and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

"I can't guarantee it, and you won't believe it if I guarantee it, so I said it's a simple question."

Chen Ming looked calm and asked, "So?"

"You are our collaborator now, and I hope you will continue to stay in the future."

He also felt that Chen Ming's answer was normal. Even a psyker would not want his psychic powers to be stolen by others. After all, psionic power is the foundation of a psyker's life. It would be easy for someone to study it and specifically target it. Something happened.

"You should have noticed, right? My psychic powers can replicate other people's abilities."

Chen Ming found this thing very interesting.

"As long as it's something that doesn't involve our fundamental interests, I don't have to lie, right?"

"I saw it, what next?"

After use, it can produce some unique special compounds that may not be able to be produced at the current technical level.

"I don't want to change to something without any guarantee, let alone the effect may not be better."

Because An Wuping didn't live in peace for long, Qian Mian, who had left, suddenly returned to the captain's room and said to Chen Ming, "Can you help me?"

Depending on the external conditions in the experiment, the compounds produced by the catalytic core have all kinds of strange properties.

Qian Mian put a handful of glass beads on the coffee table in front of Chen Ming and said, "I will use these to buy information from you."

It always takes time for people to accept his spiritual energy that reproduces the effect.

"Look, three cruisers outside were sunk by you, and a space station was blown up because of you. We haven't pursued the case yet, have we?"

"There are always people who are lying to others, so we need some side evidence."

Qian Mian took out a few glass beads of various colors emitting psychic energy fluctuations from his pocket and said, "Look at these."

Seeing that An Wuping didn't seem to be interested, he immediately added: "And a simple question you asked."

"The black mist before was the ability I copied from other people."

"How about this?"

Chen Ming opened his eyes: "What are you doing?"

Qian Mian picked up a glass bead, flicked it on the coffee table a few times and said, "One piece of information, exchange it for a Heart Gathering Bead."

However, he came back to the captain's room not just to obtain An Wuping's spiritual energy, he also wanted to find out what happened in the space station and laboratory that An Wuping had visited.

"I want to know what you did there, what happened there."

"So I want to trade other people's psychic powers for some of yours."

At least he just saw a hint of heartbeat on An Wuping's face. After a while, An Wuping will understand the value of his spiritual energy.

However, Chen Ming’s idea failed to come true.

"Let's start with something simple. Let's establish some initial trust between us. Did you destroy our underground laboratory?"

Only then did Chen Ming finally cheer up and ask, "How can I ensure that what you say is true?"

They had sent out five psykers before, and the only one who came back alive was quite vague when speaking, and he disappeared after discovering that the higher-ups had doubts about him. He has not been found yet.

"Not to pursue you, just out of curiosity."

"These glass beads are the embodiment of the engraved spiritual energy. You only need to inject a small amount of spiritual energy fluctuations and then crush them. You can control other people's spiritual energy as your own spiritual energy and use your mental power to control it."

Chen Ming glanced at the front and said: "You guys blew up the space station yourself, and aren't you very well-informed? The government can intervene, but you don't know what happened on the space station? What happened in the laboratory that you don't know about?" "

Qian Mian shrugged and said: "Even if I say that I can't affect the things I give out as long as they are not within the range of my psychic energy fluctuations, you probably won't believe it."

Chen Ming was a little tempted to tell the truth. After all, the psychic fluctuation effects of these glass beads looked very interesting, but he still refused: "Not interested."

From these many compounds, Chen Ming can see the potential of this thing, so what he is mainly studying now is the properties of these things.

"it's me."

Chen Ming decisively admitted this.

Qian Mianya simply pointed to the glass beads on the table and said, "Which one do you want?"

There are about twenty glass beads on the table, with a total of more than a dozen different types of psychic energy fluctuations.

"What abilities do these have?"

"Wouldn't you know if you feel it?"

The spiritual energy fluctuations of the dozen Heart Gathering Spirit Beads on the coffee table were very weak, so there was no conflict with each other, but it did cause some interference to Chen Ming's choice.

Apart from the general perception type, there is no way to figure out the specific effect and intensity.

However, the intensity of psychic energy fluctuations in the red and blue glass beads is significantly higher than that of the other glass beads.

This is the entropy control mind gathering spirit bead left behind by Hu.

I just don’t know whether Hu Yi took the initiative to leave it or was passively taken away by Qianmian.

Chen Ming himself has the Entropy Control of Black Mist and Hu Yi, and he is definitely more interested in the others than the ones he already has.

However, based on rational analysis, he still chose Black Mist.

After all, if this thing is used effectively, it is indeed a top-notch spiritual power integrating attack, survival, and displacement.

Qian Mian showed a sure look on his face and signaled An Wuping to ask questions.

Chen Ming thought about it for a moment, then asked Qianmian the lion loudly: "What on earth are you doing in the Caimo Star Territory?"

"This is not a simple question."

This is certainly not a simple question.

Because Chen Ming can be sure that what is happening in Caimo Star Territory is definitely not just dimensional infection, but Zuo Jing is trying to use dimensional infection, and has achieved certain results.

This was the basis for his discovery that Zuojia had conducted dimensional infection experiments, and there was no doubt about it.

Is it some kind of object related to dimensional infection? Or someone related to dimensional infection? Or is it purely research data? It's not clear yet.

So the key thing Chen Ming wants to figure out now is what exactly is caused by Zuojia's dimensional infection.

Why didn't Zuo Jing leave with their results? Instead, he was still in the Caimo Star Territory. Even though Caimo had been completely surrounded by the Fifth Legion, he still refused to leave as if he wanted to strangle them.

Also send a large number of psykers belonging to the Zuo Path into Caimo.

Zuo Jing has always been a cult that has never been able to get on the stage, although they have never been able to kill them all, and they still disgust the empire in various places.

But they have no possibility of fighting against the empire for a lifetime in a star field, let alone a star field in the hinterland of the empire.

Therefore, Chen Ming believed that there was probably some task in the Caimo Starfield that required Zuo Jing to persist for a period of time, a task related to dimensional infection.

They had to persist for a period of time before they could leave with this thing, otherwise it would not explain why they changed their previous style of hiding in Tibet and chose to conflict with the empire in Caimo.

Although there is no actual conflict yet, with the current situation, it is only a matter of time before a large-scale conflict between psykers occurs.

Therefore, what Zuo Jing is protecting now is the key to Zuo Jing's plan, and the key that Chen Ming needs to destroy.

Chen Ming certainly knew that this was not a simple problem.

But he had to pretend to be stupid and ask, maybe he would just tell?
It's a pity that Qian Mian was not fooled.

Then Chen Ming did not continue to struggle with this issue.

Anyway, he already has a general idea, and these conjectures will definitely rot in his stomach.

Talking nonsense will do no good except cause unnecessary vigilance.

Just keep asking about other things.

So Chen Ming just stared at Qianmian for a few times and asked another question: "How are the resources used by the psykers in your left path allocated? And how are they obtained?"

"Oh? The temporary cooperation is also interested in those of us who have to join for a long time to obtain it? What? Do you have an idea?"

"Just asking."

Qian Mian smiled and said: "We will regularly arrange tasks to the strongholds in different star fields. If the tasks are executed, we will reward the stronghold and the psykers who performed the tasks. That's it."

"What people who complete tasks can get is fixed. Those extra things allocated to the stronghold should be regarded as funds. How much the people in the stronghold can get depends on their ability."

Chen Ming had already imagined a scene in which the psykers in the Left Path stronghold were fighting each other for some supplies that had no reasonable distribution plan at all: "You are really not afraid of destroying the entire stronghold."

"If you can't raise them, it means they are all trash. Just look for them again. The most indispensable thing in the world is people who can't restrain their desires even if they have a little bit of ability. Such people are all our potential members."

"By the way, what I just said is for our ordinary psykers."

"If it's you, as long as we can confirm that you really want to join us for a long time, then your ability is enough for us to train you specifically."

"You are worthy of our training, just like we give you important drugs." Chen Ming said with some disdain: "Drugs are the basis of cooperation. I do things for you, and you give me medicine. This has nothing to do with whether you train or not." In any relationship, don’t get involved with things you don’t want to do.”

"Okay, next one."

"Row."

Qian Mian had always been very patient with An Wuping. After ignoring An Wuping's attitude, he asked, "What happened in the underground laboratory?"

"Although you blocked the space station's external communication methods, we still got some information after all the people on the space station died and some equipment was not maintained."

"It's a pity that the people over there seem to be very scared, and the tone and order of what they say is hard to understand. They only say that there are terrifying monsters in the laboratory."

This Chen Ming can directly say: "One of your psykers has a variety of different psionic properties, and they merge together to become a monster."

"Then I kill you, it's that simple."

Psychic rampage entity...

Qian Mian subconsciously recited something in his mind.

Following what Chen Ming said, I thought about the possibility of this thing appearing.

All I can say is that it is indeed possible.

They have previously analyzed that the psykers they arranged to deal with dimensional infections and laboratory psychic beasts have conflicts with the psykers in the space station and underground laboratories.

If they choose to trick people because of conflicts, they can indeed induce the psykers underground in the laboratory to become mentally violent entities.

And An Wuping's current performance does seem to have the ability to at least solve the mid-term mental rampage entity.

no problem.

After giving Qianmian time to think, Chen Ming spoke again: "Okay, it's my turn to ask."

He had to think carefully about how to ask the second question.

His purpose is not really to join Zuo Jing, but to solve the trouble caused by Zuo Jing. This question must be asked according to his purpose.

The first question can be asked about something unrelated, to establish An Wuping's character.

But the next question must be related to his purpose.

How should I ask so that I can connect the topic to the Colorful Ink Starfield without making Qian Mian wary?

Chen Ming thought about the connection between Zuo Jing, Cai Mo, the Aodan Star Space Station and the underground laboratory.

He suddenly thought of something that at first glance had nothing to do with Caimo Star Territory, but in fact it was definitely related: "What is the Mind Beast Project?"

Qian Mian knew that Chen Ming must have come into contact with the psychic beast leaked from the underground laboratory, so he didn't think too much and said directly: "Since you have been to the underground laboratory, there is a high probability that you should also be able to see the dimensional infection and the psychic beast. Are the two mutually exclusive?"

"We need psychic beasts to ensure safety when we conduct dimensional infection experiments."

"The Beast in the Heart Project is aimed at humans. It turns people into beasts, and uses a controllable beast-like madness to resist the madness from another unknown dimension."

When Chen Ming heard this sentence, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

This was what he wanted to hear, and Qian Mian finally gave another piece of valuable information.

Chen Ming did not rush to think about the overall logic, but argued: "But I only see the threat of this thing, and I don't think that this kind of thing that can be swallowed by the monster in reverse can stop the dimensional infection."

"You have to believe in the results of our long-term experiments. Our use of this thing is much more perfect than you think."

As Qian Mian's words fell, thoughts began to surge in Chen Ming's mind.

He has actually discovered in the past few days that Qian Mian is a person who doesn't like lying.

It's just that he likes to tell half-truths, and sometimes half-truths can be more misleading than pure lies.

However, if Chen Ming knew the remaining half of the sentence, it would not be a problem.

Chen Ming could connect what Qianmian said with the information he knew about Zuo Jing, and deduce what Zuo Jing was doing.

The Mind Beast Project can be used to protect people.

However, the method of protecting people from dimensional infection has been available before, which is to use materials that block psychic energy for isolation. This is a cheap, efficient, but dangerous method of protection.

It doesn't sound wrong at first that the Mind Beast Project can protect people.

But Chen Ming knew the losses that the Mind Beast Plan would cause. Even just a few days ago, Zuo Jing had caused a large number of civilian casualties because of the Mind Beast Plan.

Therefore, the results of this thing are absolutely impossible to be mass-produced. It can only affect a few people and protect a few people from dimensional infection.

It is absolutely impossible to develop it to protect most of the left path, but to protect some key people.

This is the problem in Thousand Faces of Talk.

He was telling the truth, but what was hidden was the key.

If you really believed half of what he said, you might have missed the key point of what Zuojiao is doing, the Mental Beast Project.

With this understanding, we can start counting from the earliest time...

The first was Lou Wei.

Such a person who was brainwashed by Zuo Jing's psychic exploded and died in front of Chen Ming.

Although he didn't know why Zuo Jing wanted to kill Lou Wei in front of him, it was this scene of death that made him discover that Zuo Jing was undergoing a dimensional infection.

Therefore, the dimensional infection is absolutely inseparable from the brainwashing psykers of Zuo Diai, and the brainwashing psykers are definitely the key figures of Zuo Diai.

Then this brainwashed psyker is very likely to be an experiencer of dimensional infection and also a beneficiary of the Mind Beast Project.

This way the logic becomes smoother.

Zuo Jing's brainwashed psyker uses psychic beasts to protect himself and uses dimensional infection to achieve his power.

And it has already achieved initial results.

Chen Ming had never seen a psyker whose psychic powers could be used thousands of miles away, and they could use their psychic powers on such a large scale without being noticed by others.

You must know that for a normal psychic, the place where psychic energy fluctuations act is where psychic energy can be realized.

Except himself.

As for the source of dimensional infection, that special dimension does not completely correspond to the normal cosmic environment, but it is inextricably linked.

Just enough to meet the conditions for transferring psychic energy to every corner of the entire normal universe.

Dimensional infection just needs time to expand after it occurs.

So as a brainwashing psyker who wants to use dimensional infection to gain power, he naturally needs to stay here.

The coordinates of the dimensional infection are locked in this place, and he cannot leave at will.

Chen Ming still remembers the last recorded dimension infection incident experienced by the president. The sequelae of the dimension infection broke out half a year later.

This also means that Zuojia may have started experimenting with dimensional infection half a year ago, which is consistent with Qianmian's statement that they have gone through long-term experiments.

At the same time, it can also be used to explain why so many people in the empire have been brainwashed by Zuo Jing and are secretly helping Zuo Jing.

Although Chen Ming still does not rule out the possibility that what Qian Mian said is false.

But if it is false, it usually cannot explain things clearly logically.

So Chen Ming can think that this is the truth.

It's no wonder that the president's side has been fruitless in recent times. He has clearly arranged a large number of manpower to sweep across the star field. Even if the number of people is not enough to sweep every corner, there should not be any substantive clues. .

It all makes sense if that source is a person.

People are mobile and can travel to various places.

While the dimensional infection is still breaking out and continuing to affect this person, another dimension can always locate him.

That's why there are several places with 100% distortion rate in the president's investigation report.

This is the reason.

If you find that person and kill that person, you can put an end to Cai Mo's matter.

This is what Chen Ming will do next.

Chen Ming has completely clarified the situation.

Next, he only needs to follow Qian Mian into Caimo, and maybe there will be a chance to directly contact the brainwashing psyker.

No, you can only contact that person through thousands of faces.

The President and the Fifth Legion have not found anyone for so long. It is most likely not that the person is hiding well, but that he has the ability to hide himself and disguise himself.

The best way to reach that person is through a thousand faces.

When the time comes, he can directly use his psychic energy to hold the brainwashed psyker and explode. The destruction caused by excessive plasma is fair to everyone.

It's not a loss to exchange An Wuping for an important person from Zuojia.

After Chen Ming thought about Zuo Jing's matter thoroughly.

Suddenly he also thought of himself.

His spiritual power was determined a long time ago to be able to transport things across hundreds or even thousands of light-years, and he only needed to consume a negligible amount of mental power compared to this distance.

Chen Ming had never figured out what it relied on before. It was obviously not phase space, or something similar to the operating principle of a star gate.

Because enabling both requires a lot of energy.

Now, after discovering the source of power of Zuo Jing's brainwashed psyker that almost covered the empire's abilities, Chen Ming finally had a more reasonable suspect.

The dimension from which the infection originates.

The brainwashed psyker's psionic power will not bring things related to dimensional infection when used, so it is normal that Chen Ming's psionic power will not bring dimensional infection when transporting things through that dimension.

Of course this is just a guess, is this true? How do his psychic powers work? Why could his control over An Wuping penetrate a closed environment made of silent alloy?

These obviously require explanation and time to verify.

But now Chen Ming still doesn't plan to think too much about his spiritual power. He still has to deal with Zuo Jing first.

(End of this chapter)