Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 292 Roshan
After the two fleets of the Fifth Army and Zuo Jing finally entered the combat range of each other's cruiser-class warships.

The Fifth Corps, which should have relied on the strength advantage of its capital ships and lower fleets, did not directly launch a full-scale attack for some reason.

Instead, he chose to advance slowly.

The commander of the Fifth Army was very cautious, even a little too cautious.

He was constantly commanding the fleet on the edge of the battle line, showing off his superb command skills, overwhelming the left-wing fleet that did not have a good enough commander and was still mixed.

This allows the fleet of the Fifth Army to destroy a large number of mixed fleets very easily.

The overall situation is also tilting towards the Fifth Army.

But the situation on this battlefield is very anxious for some reason.

The crushing situation was made to look extremely difficult by the Fifth Army.

And just when the lower-level spacecraft of the Fifth Legion fleet were beating the number of lower-level spacecraft on the left path to about the same number.

They suddenly chose to retreat.

The Fifth Army Corps wanted to reorganize and did not choose to finish the battle in one wave.

From Chen Ming's perspective, it seemed that the result would come out if he only had to fight for a while.

The Fifth Army's losses were not much at all.

Even if all the people on the Zuo Jingfang fleet were forcibly brainwashed, everyone would fight to the death.

It is impossible for the Fifth Army to lose simply by relying on the increasing exchange ratio, and it is impossible to suffer much loss.

Even if Zuo Jing's Prometheus class wanted to resist Chen Ming, he still wouldn't believe that Prometheus, a capital ship originally intended for transporting fuel supplies, had been modified by a ship engineer in a star field who had been brainwashed by Zuo Jing. , comparable to an offensive-class ship originally used by the military to resist lines on large-scale frontal battlefields.

What's more, as far as Chen Ming knows, the Prometheus class is a capital ship developed by governments from different star regions united and approved by the empire.

The data must already be in the hands of relevant parties.

No matter how much such a ship is modified, the framework is there. Why should the military be afraid of such a ship?

But that's what the Fifth Legion did, as if they didn't dare to confront Prometheus. .

Chen Ming could also guess the reason.

Because just when the two fleets were exchanging fire.

Some small and medium-sized spacecraft belonging to the Fifth Legion bypassed the protective net of the Prometheus class in combat status and arrived at Yunluo Star from the other side of the planet.

When he saw this scene, Chen Ming had completely understood what the Fifth Army was thinking.

It is obvious that the goal of the Fifth Army is not to deal with Zuo Jing's fleet, but to use Zuo Jing's fleet as another protective network.

In this way, their own people can go to the surface of Yunluoxing, find the recipient of Zuo Path, and seize the power from the recipient.

They have the ability to deal with Zuojia's fleet, but they just don't do it.

They want more.

Chen Ming felt a little uncomfortable at this time.

Because the Fifth Legion seems to regard dimensional infection as something casual.

It is clear that the harm caused by dimensional infection has been placed in front of everyone, but there are still people who do things that make people shed blood for the sake of this power that may not be available and may have extremely serious sequelae.

This feels very uncomfortable.

In particular, Chen Ming's purpose from the beginning was to solve this problem, not just to seize the power.

He could have stayed out of this.

The Caimo Star Territory is far away from his current location.

If he didn't come, no one would say anything at all, and no one would even think of him.

But he still came here for the reason of creating dimensional infection in the left path, and using the power of dimensional infection may threaten the empire and threaten the survival of the entire human race.

He traced the source all the way, provided intelligence to the president, found the source of Zuo Jing's troubles, and killed two important senior officials of Zuo Jing.

The recipient who is about to arrive at the left path is only one step away from solving this problem.

He worked his butt off to do things here.

As a result, someone behind the butt lost his mind.

Even if the Fifth Legion rushed over and destroyed the Zuo Jing Fleet, then the main weapons plowed the entire planet, killing An Wuping as well.

Chen Ming doesn't feel so uncomfortable now.

Even the Fifth Army was a little more direct, crushing the left path head-on, and then the fleet pressed into the landing Yunluo, making an attitude of completely erasing the left path.

Chen Ming would not think like this now.

But the actions of the Fifth Army really disappointed him.

At the same time, it also made him feel the same as when the previous president told him about this matter.

Chen Ming finally couldn't bear it any longer. The prosthesis from the 14th Legion immediately dialed the president's phone number and said, "President, I understand what you mean."

"The battleships of the Fifth Legion were launched to seize Zuojia's power, not to deal with Zuojia."

"But wasn't their initial purpose to deal with it? Are there already differences within the Fifth Army?"

When the president heard this question, he stopped sorting out documents and said to Chen Ming attentively: "They did have differences."

"Because they suffered heavy losses in this operation."

"Zuo Jing should have started planning this recent incident very early. As the nearest independent legion with a stronghold in the nearby star field, the Fifth Legion was naturally targeted by the brainwashing psyker from Zuo Jing."

"Your fleet is near several key star systems, and you should be able to see how heavy their losses are."

"They need compensation, so they want to seize the power of dimensional infection."

"You have seen what the psyker on the left path can do after he has certain abilities."

"If this ability can be obtained by the Fifth Legion, then they may even rely on that one person to become a legion comparable to the Fourteenth Legion."

"So they just did it and even banned anyone else from interfering, including me."

Chen Ming still felt something was wrong, because he remembered that the president said before going to do things that he was going to deal with the matter in Caimo Star Territory.

What can make the president temporarily put aside his support for the Fifth Legion to do things is either the Fifth Legion's initiative to ask the president to temporarily stop, or the empire's request.

After returning, the Empire characterized the matter as a rebellion. It can be proved that the Empire found the president, and the Fifth Legion was definitely involved.

What about the empire’s attitude?
"The Empire just let the Fifth Legion do what it did?"

"The empire's attitude is to wait and see."

The president said: "Because now, the location of the psyker on the left path who is mastering the power of dimensional infection has been determined. He is in the Luci Galaxy, Yunluoxing."

"Now that the location has been confirmed, there are already several psykers of the same level as me and Wu An staring at it."

"They have the confidence to take action to solve the problem when necessary."

"Now this matter is no longer something we can interfere with."

"It was the Empire that acquiesced to the Fifth Legion's use of ordinary people on the entire planet and the psykers on it, in exchange for a power infected by the dimension controlled by the Empire."

"I don't want to say anything, but I can only say that the power of dimensional infection is definitely not something that can be easily controlled."

"The power of dimensional infection is really too powerful. Even if this power can only be applied to a large area without any enhancement of the psychic effect, it doesn't matter. It already has its value to the empire."

"You should know that Sunset has no resistance to anything psychically related, right?"

What the president said, Chen Ming, was very clear.

For Yuhui, any nature of ectoplasmic stones and psychic energy fluctuations, even if they are neutral, even if there are only very weak psychic energy fluctuations, will cause a bunch of redundant data to be added to the logic code of Yuhui's operation.

If there is a psyker who can exert psychic energy waves on Yuhui's territory, besides Chen Ming himself, then this psyker may also be fatal to Yuhui.

Such a psyker might be able to take down Afterglow, one of the Empire's current major enemies.

This is why the Empire is willing to stand by and let the Fifth Legion go up and seize this power.

Even if Chen Ming was sitting on the imperial chair, he would have to seriously consider this power.

Of course, Chen Ming will never gamble in the end.

The reason is also very simple.

"What if it fails? Don't they know what the consequences of failure will be?"

The president's mental state at this time was almost the same as that of Chen Ming. He said to Chen Ming: "Of course it is clear, so they will prepare psykers with sufficient abilities as the final insurance."

"What if it can't be solved? The psyker with brainwashing ability in Zuojia has the power of dimensional infection, and the entire empire may be brainwashed."

"They said there will be a deadline. When the deadline is up, they will take action directly without giving the left path a chance to continue."

"That's it?"

"That's it, not everyone is in awe of dimensional infection."

To be honest, Chen Ming couldn't accept this situation.

If it were a normal situation, he might really accept it. He might really believe that the empire could solve Zuo Jing's troubles.

But the attitude shown by the Fifth Army made him lose trust in the Fifth Army.

He didn't even trust the empire.

"No one can stop it?"

The president's words were full of helplessness: "Who else can come? I can't go, Wu An can't make it, and our psychic association has been excluded."

"Unless you think Hu Yi can solve this problem, there seems to be no one in the Luci Galaxy who can solve the problem."

"Hu Yi has arrived in Luxi?"

"Yes, he has been working as a second-in-command, and his identity is still considered a left-wing person by others, but do you really want to count on him?"

"Then forget it."

The boss said before that when Hu Yi was assassinated by Zuo Jing under his false identity, the first person he contacted was the president, so it was normal for the president to know that Hu Yi had gone to Zuo Jing's place to work as a second-in-command.

It's just Hu Yi's ability that worries Chen Ming.

There's nothing wrong with his psychic powers, but for some reason he always has trouble turning his head when doing things.

Chen Ming seriously suspected that his IQ was converted into entropy and used by him.

Although the boss has been guiding him, the effect does not seem to be very satisfactory.

Anyway, it was impossible for Chen Ming to trust Hu Yi.

Same goes for the president. So the president just mentioned it casually, and then thought about whether there was any way to directly solve Zuo Jing's troubles, instead of letting the Fifth Legion gamble on the possibility of grabbing power from Zuo Jing.

He quickly thought of someone else.

"Actually, there is another person who might be able to help, An Wuping."

"An Wuping..."

The mess in Chen Ming's mind suddenly seemed to be sorted out.

Yeah, why should he consider other people?
Since he can solve this problem himself, why should he expect others?
The people of the Fifth Legion came slower than him, and he was fully capable of completely eliminating the dimensional infection before they arrived and before they tried to obtain the power of the dimensional infection.

The president didn't notice anything unusual about Chen Ming, and continued: "An Wuping's strength is a little weaker, but at least his goal has always been to solve Zuo Jing."

"In addition, he has been missing in the past few years, and there is no trace of this person. There must be no intelligence way, and he will not know the way Zuojia spreads to seize the dimensional infection power."

"The news that he and Zuo Jing were fighting at the Earth's Core Furnace Power Supply Tower has spread. The Fifth Legion should focus on that side. Many people will be there soon. I don't know what the situation will be like there."

"There's really nothing else we can do."

"so be it."

Chen Ming hurriedly hung up the phone, stopped what he was doing on his body and prosthesis, and devoted all his attention to An Wuping.

Sure enough, no matter what happens, you still have to rely on yourself in the end.

As long as he kills the recipient, the Fifth Legion's idea of ​​using the power of dimensional infection will naturally come to nothing.

The threat from Left Path psykers who have fully acquired the power of the dimensional contamination will also cease to exist.

People who have not personally experienced dimensional infection are not worthy and cannot use this power well.

Anyone who has experienced it, as long as they are not a lunatic or a fool, can see the horror of this power and will not try to contaminate it at all.

Therefore, Chen Ming must completely eliminate this power here.

Before the psykers of the Fifth Legion arrive.

Chen Ming strengthened his determination.

Continue heading underground.

At this time, he gradually felt that the surrounding environment was getting hotter, and the mental pressure on him was becoming heavier.

at last.

After smashing the underground isolation layer of the earth's core furnace energy supply tower.

A barrier made of flesh and blood appeared in front of Chen Ming.

And after tearing apart this barrier.

Below is a huge mountain of meat.

He finally found his target.

Chen Ming had some content in the research report on dimensional infection released by Zuojia in his mind.

When the dimensional infection occurred, Zuo Jing immediately cut off the distorted tissue and transplanted it into a psychic who was undergoing experiments.

After triggering the power of dimensional infection, he has turned into a huge meat mountain monster that blocks the underground of the energy supply tower.

At the same time Chen Ming discovered Roshan.

A large amount of spiritual energy fluctuations all rushed towards Chen Ming, and the spiritual energy effect originating from the recipient was enough to affect An Wuping in his current state.

An obvious deviation appeared in An Wuping's perception.

Everything became distorted and crazy under An Wuping's perspective.

The whole world is filled with disgusting flesh and blood. Only outside the energy supply tower is the pure land and the way out. The recipient wants to induce An Wuping to leave here.

Even Chen Ming himself was affected.

Chen Ming's perception was wrong.

The mountain of flesh in front of him is no longer what it was before, but a mass of festering flesh that is about to decay, and can be easily killed with just a single blow.

Even though he was staring at the huge mountain of flesh a second ago, he still didn't realize anything was strange about it.

Of course Chen Ming was not fooled.

He noticed the problem within seconds of being affected.

Because the consciousness of the Insect Queen and Chen Ming's consciousness have long been carried together because of the condensed spiritual energy.

When Chen Ming's main consciousness was focused on An Wuping, the consciousness of the Insect Queen naturally came here. Of course, the Zerg hive consciousness headed by the Insect Queen also attached itself to An Wuping.

It is unclear how many bugs the Queen has now, but it is definitely more than the population of an ordinary colony planet.

This amount of consciousness cannot be brainwashed.

In this way, the insect queen resisted the attack from the victim.

Since the insect queen discovered the problem, it was equivalent to Chen Ming discovering the problem.

Chen Ming could completely observe the real situation in reality through the perspective of the insect queen's consciousness, without being affected at all.

Moreover, Chen Ming also discovered a special situation.

This huge mountain of meat can also "breathe".

To be precise, it is not breathing, but it is doing an action similar to breathing.

Just when Roshan released the spiritual energy wave on him, Roshan entered the state of exhalation, and the overall spiritual energy wave showed a special and difficult-to-control characteristic.

And at the moment when this wave of spiritual energy fluctuations gradually dissipated, the meat mountain entered the inhalation state again, and the spiritual energy fluctuations stabilized again. If he did not observe carefully, Chen Ming even thought that this meat mountain was just A mountain of meat without any spiritual energy fluctuations.

The state of this mountain of meat is constantly changing between the active state of exhalation and the gentle state of inhalation.

Just like the recipient's psychic fluctuations and tropical climate, they have an unstable active period and a stable period.

And when the recipient's spiritual energy fluctuations are in the active stage, not only will his spiritual energy fluctuations become crazy, but it will also cause some sequelae that make Chen Ming feel very familiar.

Just now, Roshan's spiritual energy surged out.

Chen Ming noticed that several psykers outside the energy supply tower were fighting with other psykers, and they must belong to Zuojia, and suddenly they exploded.

Exploding without warning, they were all blown into a ball of blood mist, shocking all the psykers fighting outside regardless of which side they belonged to.

The way these psychics died was exactly the same as Lou Wei's, and the deaths of these people, like Lou Wei's, gave him the feeling of being in close contact with a dimensional infection.

After combining the scene he saw with his own eyes and the problems he discovered from Roshan.

Chen Ming finally understood the real cause of Lou Wei's death.

Obviously, the power of dimensional infection is not easy to control.

It causes the recipient's psychic energy to have intermittent problems and enter an active period.

During the active period, whenever the recipient uses spiritual energy, a spiritual energy wave with dimensional infection that cannot be easily detected will go to a place it should not go, that is, the outside world, to affect other recipients. A person controlled by his psychic powers.

Go kill them and blast them into a bloody mist.

To Zuo Jing, this sequelae is nothing at all, just like a few people. With so many people under their control, there is a high probability that this kind of thing will not happen to some important people by chance.

Even if it is possible, they may have some other means to protect themselves.

But those ordinary people don't need to worry about it at all.

Anyway, such a release will not leave any spiritual energy fluctuations, and there is no way to doubt their Zuo Jing's head.

At most, it is regarded as a rare phenomenon or a special disease.

Who would have thought that the victim of a recipient who used psychic powers during the active period would happen to be Lou Wei in front of Chen Ming?

And think along this logic.

It's no wonder that Chen Ming didn't feel anything at all the last time he saw the recipient.

The recipient should have been in a stable stage when they last met, so Chen Ming failed to detect the problem, which led to him letting him go despite being in contact with the culprit.

But this time when they meet, Chen Ming will not let the recipient run away again.

At present, it seems that Zuo Jing wants to delay time just so that the recipient can adjust the stable period and active period.

Let the stable period last longer than the active period. When only the active period is left in the recipient, everything will probably end.

But now that Chen Ming is here, he obviously will not give the recipient a chance to continue to maintain a stable period.

After resisting a round of spiritual attacks from the recipient, Chen Ming jumped down from the gap torn in the flesh and blood barrier.

This time Chen Ming did not condense the plasma, but rushed into the mountain of meat with his tyrannical body.

The wild power kept breaking the pieces of flesh and getting deeper into them.

The controlled energy supply tower had already displayed the specific size of Roshan in front of him.

The broken Roshan he punched also told him how strong Roshan was.

As long as he can reach the core of Roshan.

Then all he has to do is calculate and calculate the appropriate amount of plasma.

Now that he already knows the formula, he has the ability to calculate it.

Then the answer is ready to come out.

Chaofan has completed the calculation and provided the data to Chen Ming.

This time, the amount of plasma that can be used deep underground is three times the amount of plasma that Chen Ming originally planned to use to send away the Thousand-faced Mind-Rampaging Entity.

The ball of light appeared in Chen Ming's palm again.

The surrounding meat mountains have begun to be annihilated by the aftermath of the plasma.

This pure plasma aggregate, this dazzling light of annihilation, will take the recipient to his own grave.

The threat of death was imminent.

As a purely spiritual psyker, the recipient is completely unable to organize Chen Ming in terms of physical combat ability.

There is only one thing he can do.

Released a huge amount of mental power, pulling Chen Ming into the final battlefield between psykers at a face-to-face distance.

consciousness space.

(End of this chapter)