Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 287 Combat
Stargate is a fixed means of long-distance large-scale fleet transportation within the empire.

And such a giant structure has been seized of control at this special time.

It can't be said that someone took it in order to let the people of Caimo Star Territory evacuate this dangerous place, right?
It is also impossible to let Yunluoxing, who has already hid in the Luci Galaxy, retreat from the left path underground of the geocentric furnace energy supply tower. After all, the star gate is at Caimo-1.

Then there is only one reason left for the Star Gate to be captured.

Someone wants to use the star gate to come to Caimo.

Chen Ming immediately contacted his Afterglow Fleet after learning the news.

He has a total of 300 spaceships in Caimo, which are divided into four fleets of 75 spaceships each, staying outside four galaxies respectively.

Now, since he has confirmed that the people from Zuojia are actually in the Luci galaxy, there is no need for the Afterglow fleets in the other three galaxies to continue to stay there.

At the same time, there was no need for him to continue to pay attention to the progress of the Fifth Army Civil War.

These are things that the Fifth Army should solve on its own.

And An Wuping's current identity is not good enough to appear openly in front of the Fifth Army.

If there are people controlled by Zuo Jing among these people, then I am afraid that many of these people will go to Yunluo to block those who may discover Zuo Jing.

Apparently there had just been a war here.

The fleet sent by Chen Ming finally arrived at the edge of the galaxy where the star gate is located.

I don't know if they will find the left path hidden under the energy supply tower of the earth's core furnace.

Just when Chen Ming was analyzing what just happened through An Wuping's perspective.

At the core of Caimo Star Territory, Caimo-1 Star Territory.

At this moment, An Wuping, who was in space at the edge of the galaxy, could clearly see a large number of spacecraft wreckage nearby.

Since the specific location of the left path cannot be determined yet, we can directly launch a comprehensive investigation.

Then the next blockade will definitely turn this galaxy into a completely monolithic one.

However, in the chaos just now, there were still some people who took advantage of the Fifth Legion's lack of time to take care of too much and took advantage of the chaos to pass through the blockade of the Fifth Legion, enter the interior of the galaxy, and go to all the inhabited colonies in the galaxy. and space station.

A really good guy.

So Chen Ming issued an order at this time, and the afterglow fleets of the two other galaxies closer to Luxi among the other three galaxies went directly to Luxi to prepare for assistance.

With the help of the shadow of the Fifth Army's fleet, Chen Ming successfully entered the interior of the galaxy and began to approach Yun Luoxing.

After all, Chen Ming came over to cooperate with the Fifth Army at the request of the president, helping the Fifth Army deal with some issues that were too late to deal with.

As for those who are not affected, as long as they are affected, they even only need to tie up or solve the affected commander.

With most people apparently still sane, those in the Fifth Legion who were not affected by the Left Path psykers quickly took control of the situation after the battle.

Chen Ming didn't hesitate too much and directly crushed the last Black Mist Heart Gathering Pearl he got from Qian Mian.

There's nothing we can do about it.

He also noticed that the Fifth Legion had begun to reorganize the galaxy's defense lines and prepare to block the galaxy again.

Only Chen Ming's Afterglow fleet was too iconic, and it avoided the main battlefield immediately and escaped disaster.

After all, under normal circumstances, only some people on a spacecraft are likely to be affected.

Some people should have landed on Yunluoxing by now.

With the recent civil war, most of the people affected by Zuojiao have been restricted.

At least in the Luci system, the fleet of the Fifth Legion achieved the final victory and stabilized Luci.

Based on the conditions of the surviving spaceships and what was recorded by Chen Ming's Afterglow Fleet that stayed further away, the situation here has gradually become clearer.

With an absolute numerical advantage, the Fifth Army immediately cleared out all the spacecraft that did not belong to the Fifth Army's camp.

Whoever attacks Chen Ming will definitely have something wrong with his brain, and will of course be more likely to be targeted by others.

at the same time.

When he received the news from his boss, it happened to be the time when An Wuping drove the hyperspace jump directly from the neighboring galaxy to the Luci galaxy.

But the boss only said this news and did not explain more precise content.

The remaining fleet immediately used the hyperspace channel jump engine to head to the Caimo-1 star gate.

At the beginning of the chaos of the previous civil war.

Chen Ming also dealt with An Wuping's affairs at the same time.

If he really needs accurate first-hand information, he can only investigate it himself.

Even just now, whenever a Fifth Legion ship took the initiative to attack his fleet, it would immediately be counterattacked by other Fifth Legion fleets.

Take advantage of the fleet's passing.

Therefore, Chen Ming's Afterglow Fleet had made some contribution even if it did nothing.

Obviously the boss also obtained the information through his subordinates or other sources.

The news that the Star Gate was captured came from the boss.

Such a situation would definitely stimulate Zuo Jing, so the Fifth Legion had to send manpower to various parts of the galaxy just now.

Even outside the galaxy, Chen Ming could see through the sensor that in the center of the huge stargate equipment located inside the galaxy, a layer of illusory mirror-like film was slowly filling inside the stargate.

This is the external manifestation that the Star Gate is being activated.

It seemed that the people stationed at the Star Gate had not only lost their position, but they had also not had time to cut off the power and blockade the Star Gate.

Under normal circumstances, it takes a long time for the Stargate to restart after a power outage, but if it is just a Stargate in standby mode, it can be started at any time.

Around the star gate that was being activated, there was a mixed and seemingly chaotic fleet gathered together.

It was not only filled with fleets from all forces, but even the fleets of the Fifth Legion, which was supposed to drive away these forces, were also mixed in.

Judging from the situation, internal chaos happened to break out when the Fifth Army was stationed here.

Perhaps they themselves can suppress the chaos like the Fifth Legion of the Luci Galaxy.

But obviously when they wanted to do this, other forces who were driven away in the other four galaxies and wanted to fish in troubled waters came over to cause trouble.

In the end, the Fifth Legion suffered heavy losses and had to evacuate in a hurry, and control of the Star Gate was completely taken away.

The Fifth Army here failed.

Sure enough, many of the people from other forces who had gathered near the Fifth Legion were also influenced by Zuo Jing.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to go to such a place to cause trouble after giving up the idea of ​​​​the four galaxies where the Fifth Legion was fully gathered.

It makes sense for them to compete with the Fifth Legion to grab the psykers from Zuojia or the psychic beasts released by Zuojia.

But using violent means to seize a star gate that has nothing to do with Zuo Jingba will not do any good to those people.

And after they ended their attack on the Fifth Legion, they gathered together and jointly guarded the Star Gate.

This situation made Chen Ming completely sure of the influence of Zuo Jing's brainwashing psyker.

However, Chen Ming was now watching the situation in the galaxy from a distance, and no one affected by the psyker on Zuojia came out to stop him.

Those affected by Left Path don't seem to care that there are people hanging out at the edge of the galaxy.

Because in addition to Chen Ming's fleet, there are actually many other spaceships on the edge of the galaxy.

It was someone on one of these spaceships who provided the boss with the information here.

And those people who were brainwashed by Zuo Jing obviously only care about the situation of Star Gate.

They have to wait for the star gate to be completely opened to welcome the people behind the star gate.

Chen Ming had only come into contact with some information about Stargate on paper, so there was really nothing he could do to prevent this from happening.

It's impossible to fight anyway.

Although the fleet here is mixed, there are at least close to 60 cruisers and more destroyer escorts.

Fortunately, there are no battleships here, otherwise Chen Ming's fleet would have to run away as soon as they arrived.

But even if there were only cruisers, it was impossible for him to come out and cause trouble directly in front of so many cruisers.

Although Chen Ming has the ability to manufacture cruisers, the number of cruisers he has on hand has not changed much, and he only maintains the number of twelve cruisers, which is enough for him.

One reason is that the cost of manufacturing cruisers is too high, and the other reason is that no one and Afterglow can drive the cruisers they manufacture.

Even counting those individuals with strong enough consciousness born in the hive mind network of the mechanical tribe during this period, Chen Ming himself can control nine cruisers, as well as the Alpha-class Afterglow on Chen Ming's hand.

Chen Ming was able to produce at most more than twenty cruisers that could be driven out in a short period of time.

We can fight the fleet on the Star Gate side, but there will definitely be losses.

These sixty-odd cruisers were enough to focus fire and directly destroy his cruisers before his repair power could take effect.

And if he really wanted to fight, he would have to continuously jump back the cruiser.

Let's not talk about whether he has enough mental power to build a dozen cruisers and then jump back a total of more than 20 cruisers from outside the earth.

Just say that the current situation is purely a problem caused by the Fifth Army's own failure to resist, and he will not help the Fifth Army wipe its ass.

It’s not Baiquan’s boss, Factory Director Lao Wu and the others.

So Chen Ming still plans to continue taking a look at Caimo-1.

Look at the subsequent movements of Zuojiu. Who do they want to send here by occupying this place?

In Caimo-1, the afterglow fleet belonging to Chen Ming was waiting for any movement from the star gate on the left path.

An Wuping, who was also controlled by Chen Ming in the Luxi galaxy, finally approached Yun Luoxing.

This is a planet that looks almost pure white in appearance.

The climate of the entire planet is relatively cold.

It snows for most of one revolution.

Of course, this planet can still be considered a livable planet.

It is precisely this climate where it snows for most of the year that gives this planet the name Yunluo.

However, although most areas of the entire planet are snowing, there is no such situation near the planet's most important industrial building, the Earth Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower.

The large amount of heat brought by the earth's core furnace energy supply tower has affected the nearby climate on a macro scale.

So when it snows elsewhere.

It only rains near the power tower.

In the pattering rain.

An Wuping reached the industrial area near the Earth's Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower with the help of the last bit of psychic effect given by the Black Mist Heart Gathering Bead he had just crushed.

Stepping out of the shadows, he appeared near the warehouse not far from the energy supply tower.

At this time, Chen Ming could sense some psychic energy fluctuations from various locations in the industrial area.

Apparently there were other psykers here too, whether they were friends or foes. However, except for the psychics outside, he could not detect the psychic fluctuations of the cloaked man on the left path, who was called the recipient.

But Chen Ming was certain that he was under the Earth Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower not far away.

Chen Ming found the direction and stepped out.

However, before he had taken a few steps, he suddenly heard a small scream that was immediately cut off.

He turned around and saw a middle-aged woman in work clothes who looked to be in her forties next to a nearby warehouse.

She was holding a big bag full of food in her hands, covering her mouth with fear in her eyes.

Chen Ming was used to seeing such eyes.

After confirming that this middle-aged woman is not a psychic, nor is she someone responsible for surveillance.

Chen Ming exited from his insect form, revealing his normal appearance, and waved at her to leave quickly.

After the middle-aged woman covered her mouth and nodded frantically, she quickly left.

Chen Ming also entered the insect form again and no longer cared about her.

But he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Because there are ordinary people here...

Chen Ming sighed.

He could only sigh.

Because he has no way to solve this problem.

No one on this planet can be evacuated.

The threat of Zuo Jing has spread to the entire empire. No one dares to bet that if they evacuate the civilians on the planet, there will be important figures from Zuo Jing among them.

What's more, the population of an industrial colony in a prosperous star field cannot be evacuated within a day or two.

What the governors of these planets can do is to let all the people stay at home, rely on government assistance, and wait for the incident to be resolved.

Zuo Jing probably understood this point before choosing to carry out the final stage in a place like this.

Chen Ming could only wish her good luck silently in his heart.

At the same time, he continued to step out and walked towards the energy supply tower.

At the same time Chen Ming arrived on the surface of the planet.

Deep underground in the Earth Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower.

In an open area.

Thousand Faces leans against the support pillar.

Next to him was the person he had been in contact with.

He was also wrapped in a cloak, making it difficult to see his exact appearance.

And in the center of this area, the cloaked man, or the recipient, was sitting quietly.

Qian Mian rubbed his eyes that were a little dry due to staring in front of him for too long.

When he raised his head, he suddenly found that the recipient's cloak had been torn to pieces.

A creature whose upper body was still human and whose lower body had become twisted flesh and blood appeared in front of him.

"he!"

"do not worry."

The person next to Qianmian comforted him and said, "He is evolving, and he is accepting the body given by God."

The recipient's upper body also burst as the words fell, and a large amount of flesh and blood tissue spilled out. Only a head was left, which was quickly submerged in the surging flesh and blood.

A unique psychic energy wave that cannot be detected by ordinary psykers emerged from its body and spread to the entire planet.

"Go up there, someone is coming outside."

Qianmian nodded, turned around, and got on the elevator.

At this time, Chen Ming happened to step inside the Earth Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower, a slightly messy but not too spacious hall.

As soon as he entered, he felt an extremely obvious spiritual energy wave suddenly appear deep underground.

An unprecedented greedy emotion that seemed to come from his heart suddenly enveloped him.

The familiarity of this psychic wave was obviously released by the recipient on the left path.

Are they not going to pretend?
Chen Ming continued to walk into the interior of the energy supply tower with doubts.

His psychic energy has covered the energy supply tower with his arrival.

He can now directly destroy the entire earth center furnace energy supply tower.

However, the collapsed power tower may not necessarily kill Zuo Jing below.

So Chen Ming still planned to go down and kill Qianmian himself, as well as the recipient Qianmian had mentioned.

He has this ability.

Chen Minggang thought about solving the left path below.

Suddenly, a sound broke through the air from behind him.

Chen Ming didn't feel the danger, so he simply turned around.

A translucent sharp claw suddenly tore across Chen Ming's face.

However, this claw did not leave even a trace on Chen Ming's pitch-black carapace.

After the claws grabbed it, a half-man, half-animal guy was gradually transforming from translucent to a real appearance.

It can be clearly distinguished from the psychic energy fluctuations on his body that this guy is also a psyker, or a psyker of the physical mutation type.

And the direction of his physical mutation happened to be a creature that Chen Ming knew, the night owl.

Creatures that live on a planet whose special ecosystem is located underground.

This creature relies on darkness to sneak up on its prey.

And after such an ability is manifested in a psyker, it becomes the ability to hide one's own aura to a considerable extent.

Chen Ming really didn't notice his presence at the first time when he couldn't sense the danger.

Unfortunately, this psyker's ability is still too weak.

The Night Owl psyker also found that his attack was completely meaningless to An Wuping.

Just as he was about to retreat, Chen Ming had already finished commenting on this guy in his mind. He reached out his arm and grabbed his head, crushing it directly.

He didn't have time to capture these psykers now.

Chen Ming shook off the blood on his hand and looked aside.

He had heard the movement of the elevator next to him since just now.

Just when Chen Ming just turned his head, he happened to see Qianmian taking the elevator to the ground floor of the Earth Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower.

The moment the elevator door opened, Qian Mian showed an unsurprised expression and said, "It's you... As expected, you have been a complete spy from the beginning."

Just when Qian Mian finished speaking.

Chen Ming had already disappeared from the spot and punched the elevator where Qian Mian was riding.

However, Qianmian immediately turned into black mist to avoid this violent bombardment.

The air caused by Chen Ming's punch was squeezed by the force and formed a fist wind, which could only hit the elevator and the wall next to it.

There were conspicuous cracks on the wall of the Earth's Core Furnace Power Supply Tower that was strong enough to support its huge weight, and it looked like it might collapse at any time.

Chen Ming scanned the somewhat complicated shadow-filled environment around him and asked Qian Mian's question: "In the beginning? How were you sure that I was a spy from the beginning?"

A thousand-faced voice came from the shadows: "Because only you can spread the news that there are two psychic beasts on the space station."

Chen Ming punched again in the direction of the sound, completely clearing all obstacles in front of his fist.

After confirming that the punch was still empty, Chen Ming asked again: "Why don't you doubt Hu Yi? Isn't there him besides me in the news you released?"

"He doesn't have the brains or the ability, so you're the only one left."

"Now that you know everything, can you simply go and die?"

After the word "death" came out, Chen Ming also confirmed the location of Qianmian through the perception of mental power. Plasma wrapped around the fist, and a simple punch hit Qianmian's position again.

A violent explosion occurred where his fist hit.

A piece of almost pure and transparent ice appeared in front of Qian Mian, blocking Chen Ming's punch and the impact of the fist explosion.

Qian Mian stood behind the solid ice, his eyes locked on An Wuping.

Qian Mian remained silent, but Chen Ming spoke up again: "I'm curious, as a psyker, in addition to copying other people's psionic powers, do you also have your own psionic powers that can be used for fighting?"

"You'll find out soon."

As soon as Qian Mian finished speaking, Chen Ming discovered that his spiritual energy fluctuations were leaking.

Leaked in the direction of Qianmen in front of him, Qianmen was absorbing this spiritual energy wave and converting this spiritual energy wave into his own ability.

Chen Ming's eyes once again flashed with confusion that Qianmen could extract such a spiritual effect.

But he didn't hesitate and punched with all his strength to break the ice.

The moment Qian Mian turned into black mist again and disappeared into the hall, he condensed a ball of plasma in his palm and threw it directly at his feet.

Blazing white light instantly enveloped the entire hall.

The plasma explosion penetrated the ceiling, penetrated the floor, and penetrated several walls.

The space on the three floors above ground and three floors underground was opened up, and all debris was cleared away.

The glow of plasma continued to wrap around Chen Ming's arm, completely illuminating Chen Ming's side.

The effectiveness of black mist psychic energy will be greatly reduced in strong light environments.

The location of Qianmian appeared in Chen Ming's perception.

The news of the battle under the Earth Furnace Power Tower naturally attracted the attention of many people.

And that completely undisguised psychic energy fluctuation is enough to attract the attention of all the psykers on Yunluo Star.

Several psykers that Chen Ming had discovered before in the industrial area immediately began to move towards the energy supply tower. Of course, some people also reported that there were people fighting in the energy supply tower.

And the special psychic energy fluctuation that just came from the recipient deep underground also aroused the greed in the hearts of all the psychics who came over.

Everyone has been affected, the difference is just whether it's serious or not.

(End of this chapter)