Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 294 Essence
Chen Ming always felt strange.

The entire process of making An Wuping was designed by himself, and every step was personally experienced by him and worked out step by step with the insect queen.

Why did the product created by the cooperation of his spiritual energy and the insect queen's spiritual energy produce such an effect in the end? Why has it become like this?
Why do the psychic effects extracted by Qianmen Mian have some extra things that do not exist in the design?

Why didn't he feel anything strange when controlling An Wuping's prosthesis?

Even now?
The answers to these questions have always been there.

It's just that Chen Ming didn't understand it before.

Now that he can connect these clues through the "knowledge" in his mind, the answer is ready to come out.

An Wuping's spiritual power that can be reproduced by a thousand faces is a new spiritual power that was born after Chen Ming's spiritual power was fused with the psychic power of the Insect Queen.

Psychic powers don't just appear for no reason.

Only naturally occurring creatures can awaken to psychic powers.

As a manually created thing, An Wuping only has the spiritual energy of the Insect Queen and Chen Ming attached to it. Only the fusion of these two spiritual energies is the source of the birth of An Wuping's spiritual energy.

Chen Ming focused his attention on An Wuping.

It aggregated the psychic energy fluctuations usually used when controlling An Wuping.

Although invisible to the naked eye, in his perception, An Wuping's spiritual energy fluctuations were entangled in his hands.

It was intertwined with the Insect Queen's spiritual energy as the main source, and his own spiritual energy as the supplement.

When he didn't have a clear understanding of psychic knowledge before, An Wuping's psychic fluctuations seemed to Chen Ming to be the two psychic powers of the Insect Queen and his own. They were distinct and each performed their own duties.

But after understanding enough, Chen Ming was able to reverse his previous thoughts and saw that the two psychic effects on An Wuping had been completely integrated and could not be separated.

Even if Chen Ming's subjective consciousness only wants to use the psychic power of the Insect Queen when he controls An Wuping, his own part of the psychic power will spontaneously follow due to the nature of the psychic power, giving full play to the full extent of An Wuping's psychic power. Effect.

There is something familiar about this situation.

He Gu from the Psychic Research Institute of the 14th Legion just gave an example to Chen Ming not long ago.

This is an example of a mind-rage entity entering the middle and late stages.

He Gu said before that a mentally violent entity will be divided into several stages after it appears.

At the beginning of the mental rampage entity's early stage.

The various psychic properties and psychic fluctuations that make it up are independent and distinct from each other.

It can correspond to the stage after An Wuping was created, when Chen Ming’s psychic energy and the Insect Queen’s psychic energy were clearly distinct.

And after the mental rampage entity enters the middle stage.

There will be a preliminary fusion of different psychic properties of the mind-rage entity, and one psychic wave can dispatch all the psychic waves of the entity.

This also corresponds to the stage where after Chen Ming skillfully controlled An Wuping, he could use the psychic fluctuations of the Queen of Insects to mobilize the entire psychic fluctuations of An Wuping.

Chen Ming didn't notice this at the time.

Mainly because when he controlled An Wuping, his consciousness directly acted on the entire body, and everything about An Wuping's entire prosthesis was under his control.

Chen Ming's subconscious and instinctive reactions were able to control his body, so much so that he didn't realize that when he was using one kind of spiritual energy fluctuation, the other kind of spiritual energy fluctuation was actually being mobilized spontaneously, rather than him trying to cooperate. Use psychic energy to subconsciously adjust.

Chen Ming had already adapted to this psychic ability unconsciously.

Even looking back now, when he first faced the mentally rampaging entity and released the light of annihilation.

The way he releases plasma is actually not through the organs on his body that come from the Aurora Wind Spirit, but directly through spiritual energy.

Mainly because of habit.

Once you get used to it, you will naturally ignore it.

But no matter what, the situation at this stage is indeed exactly the same as what He Gu said.

And after the mental rampage entity enters the advanced stage.

Various spiritual energy fluctuations will be completely integrated, no longer expressing the original spiritual energy effects, but will generate some unique spiritual energy fluctuations.

Of course, He Gu has also said before that most of the special spiritual energy fluctuations produced in this way are concepts that humans cannot understand.

But it is obvious that An Wuping's expression has a form that humans can understand, and it happens to be in line with An Wuping's own fighting ability.

Although Chen Ming felt it was a bit far-fetched when he thought about it, after all, there were too many coincidences.

But after Chen Ming thought about it, he still thought that this was the answer.

Psykers are people who influence reality with their will.

This is what the boss first said to him.

A sentence that he also agreed with very much.

Thousand Faces was able to retain his own consciousness even after becoming a mind-rage entity, which put He Gu's words into the ground that a psyker's consciousness would have died after becoming a mind-rage entity.

Then why couldn't he transform An Wuping's psychic energy into what he wanted to see?
An Wuping's spiritual power is that of a mentally violent entity that can also explain the situation of Thousand Faces.

That's why Qian Mian could reproduce An Wuping's spiritual energy in a normal state, but when his mind was in a state of rampage, he died suddenly after absorbing An Wuping's spiritual energy.

The reason is very simple, because in the normal state, Qianmen's use of spiritual energy is simply recreating a new spiritual energy wave, but this spiritual energy wave originates from a mentally violent entity.

After entering a state of mental rampage, the psychic effects of Thousand Faces became extremely complicated.

But there are still several major spiritual beings that stabilize his conscious existence and at the same time stabilize his mentally violent entity.

Under such circumstances, re-engraving An Wuping's spiritual energy, and re-engraving An Wuping's spiritual energy, which is also a product of the mind runaway, into the mind runaway entity is equivalent to forcing another person into the pit of the foundation. root foundation,
That's why the body of the Thousand Faces Mental Rampage entity collapsed, and he sensed something was wrong at that time.

Only then did he say that Chen Ming was a monster.

These are all compatible.

The only thing that didn't match was that An Wuping's appearance had not changed.

There was no drastic change in appearance like other mentally violent entities that Chen Ming had seen.

But this can also be explained.

We just need to trace the origins back a little further, to about two years ago.

The moment Chen Ming just woke up from the abandoned mining space station, the moment he just came into this world.

Chen Ming is not a pure time traveler, nor is he a pure native.

Rather, it is an existence formed by combining the similar memories and life experiences of the two. The two different minds have long been completely integrated.

This statement seems to be no different from a mental rampage entity.

They are all spiritual energy-related beings of different natures fused together.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Ming is, in a sense, a mentally violent entity.

This is not what Chen Ming feels just now.

He had had similar thoughts before.

Some time ago, I encountered a mentally violent entity for the first time.

Chen Ming asked He Gu about the specific triggering conditions for the mental rampage entity.

He Gu said that if a psionic person has a variety of psionic related things of different natures, including the psionic person's own spiritual nerves, it may cause the psyker to go on a mental rampage.

But before, Chen Ming had four spiritual stones on his body, Whisper, Fear, Obsession, and Frantic Words.

A neutral revolver, and a bone sword that Chen Ming seized from the Black Mist Psyker and could never find a suitable place to use.

If the calculation is more strict, the psychic fluctuations of the insect queen can be counted.

Boat Spirit and Xiaoshi don't count.

After all, the ship spirit and Chen Ming's spiritual energy have the same origin.

And Xiao Shi's spiritual power was not completely controlled by Chen Ming like the insect queen's spiritual power. Chen Ming didn't even know what kind of spiritual power Xiao Shi had.

But even if Xiaoshi and Shipling are not counted, Chen Ming possesses countless psychic materials of different properties.

At that time, he felt that something was wrong. He should have gone on a mental rampage long ago, but in fact he didn't.

Does this mean his situation is special?
Chen Ming's idea before was finally confirmed today.

He is just a special person.

Otherwise, with so many different types of psychic-related things on his body, he would have turned into a mentally violent entity.

No, it's because he has become a mentally violent entity, so he can continue to remain the same in so many types of psychic-related things.

It all makes sense.

Since Chen Ming is already a psychedelic entity, there seems to be no problem in fusing the psychic energy of the psychedelic entity with a new one belonging to the Insect Queen.

There is also no problem with new psychic powers having manifestations that can be understood by humans.

Although Chen Ming seemed to have expelled himself, others did not know this, so it was not unacceptable to him.

After all, if we trace back to its origins, wouldn't the incident he traveled through be similar to a dimensional infection?
It's all one dimension invading another dimension,
It's just that the dimensional infection from the scarlet dimension is more ferocious.

And Chen Ming's dimension only sent him here.

Of course, Chen Ming could not completely determine the aspects related to these dimensions. He could only guess. After all, he still did not know enough about the dimensions.

He only had a certain understanding of spiritual energy after briefly entering the scarlet dimension.

But since the rift leading to the scarlet dimension has been left in his consciousness space, he has also mastered a certain amount of dimensional power.

Even the crack in his consciousness space station did not leak the spiritual energy fluctuations caused by the dimensional infection. All dimensional powers were completely absorbed by the consciousness space and would not affect the outside world at all.

So as long as he can continue to exercise this power, sooner or later he will be able to figure out things related to dimensions.

After Chen Ming made a thorough summary of his abilities.

One body and two prostheses returned to their posts.

Ontology continues to coordinate the development process. The prosthetic body of the Fourteenth Legion picked up the terminal that he accidentally dropped on the ground just now when his mental power was exhausted.

Chen Ming remembered that the terminal rang just now when he was lying on the ground.

He glanced at the person who had just called, and immediately called back: "I'm sorry, President, I just had something to do and I didn't receive the call. Is there anything you can do?"

The president's tone was much more relaxed than before, and he said: "There are two pieces of news, good and bad..."

Before the president asked Chen Ming what news he wanted to hear, Chen Ming rushed to answer: "Okay."

"Row."

"Just now, the psychic energy fluctuations of the psyker with the ability to brainwash and hypnotize, called the recipient in Zuojia, disappeared."

"Almost all those who were originally controlled by his spiritual energy chose to surrender after they were no longer controlled. You should have seen it, right?"

When Chen Ming heard this, he immediately called up the videos recorded by the Afterglow Fleet he had deployed at the edges of various galaxies.

Just now, he controlled An Wuping to reach the face of the mountain of flesh that the recipient had turned into.

The recipient chose to let the fleet with Prometheus as the flagship in the Luci Galaxy take the initiative to launch an attack. All the people under his control launched a desperate charge like crazy.

And after Chen Ming and his conscious space fought to the death with the recipient.

The recipient's spiritual power failed, and the people in the fighting fleet naturally woke up.

Of course, the vast majority of people who still had sense chose to cease fire and retreat, disarm and surrender.

An irrational person will, of course, become a ball of fireworks.

"understood."

After confirming the good news that the Luci Galaxy was completely under the control of the Fifth Legion and that order had regained the upper hand, Chen Ming asked: "What about the bad ones?"

The president said: "Before the recipient's psychic fluctuations disappeared, a large number of dimensional-infected psychic fluctuations appeared deep underground in the energy supply tower, and these psychic fluctuations were completely leaked."

"The entire planet has been completely infected. It is estimated that the number of people who may survive does not exceed 0.01%."

"..."

Chen Ming was silent.

He actually knew this news.

Just when he was fighting the recipient, before entering the consciousness space, the dimensional infection had already begun to leak.

At that time, he had no choice but to try his best to speed up, but even if he speeded up, the winner could be decided within 5 minutes of meeting the recipient.

But this speed is still a step slower.

The president was unlikely to hear too much from Chen Ming's silence, so he continued, "The Fifth Legion speculated that An Wuping killed the psychic from Zuo Jing, and during the battle, the recipient leaked the dimension and was infected, which led to the fall of the entire planet starting from the industrial zone."

"Not many people should survive. It's really a pity."

"But we don't have to worry. Zuo Jing will continue to cause trouble with dimensional infection, and we don't have to worry about the Fifth Legion causing some new troubles for the power of dimensional infection."

"But the Fifth Army seems to be quite angry. I wonder if there will be some small moves in other aspects."

The goodwill that Chen Ming had accumulated from his cooperation with the Fifth Legion some time ago had already completely disappeared because of their behavior: "I don't think we need to care about the attitude of the Fifth Legion. They are just a legion. The key is the attitude of the empire."

The president was obviously also connected to people at the empire level, and said: "The empire has an indifferent attitude. It's best if you can get that power. If you can't get it, it doesn't matter as long as there are no subsequent troubles."

"Otherwise, top psykers with imperial backgrounds would have come to seize this power."

Chen Ming suddenly had a question: "Um... Speaking of this, why doesn't the Empire send top psykers to grab this power?"

"The combat capabilities of those psykers in Zuojia are probably not top-notch, right? It feels like they can't even face the boss. Why doesn't the empire just send psykers of sufficient level there?"

The president explained: "It's a very simple principle. Do you think this business is profitable if you trade a top psyker for a power whose specific negative effects are not yet certain, or negative effects related to dimensional infection?"

"That's really not profitable."

"So there's nothing wrong with leaving this kind of thing to my subordinates, right?"

"really."

Capturing power does not mean destroying it. Capturing it requires getting close in person. It does not mean that you can directly kill the left path psyker from a distance using psychic effects.

If there was really a psyker of the same level as the boss who was involved in this matter and arrived below the energy supply tower.

Chen Ming really couldn't say whether the rift leading to the scarlet dimension created by the recipient before death would kill the psyker.

After all, Chen Ming knew that he was a special person, and his spiritual energy was connected with his scarlet dimension from the beginning, so he was able to come back alive after his consciousness entered the scarlet dimension for nearly a second.

But for others, it’s really hard to say.

The backhand left by Zuo Jing will really pose a great threat to other psykers.

That's why the empire has such an attitude.

Now that the matter is over, Chen Ming didn't say much more about this aspect. He just asked another question: "How top-notch are the top psykers? Are there specific levels of psykers?"

The president asked, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"I heard from others that I am a level 5 psyker. I'm curious and asked."

"Oh, that's not what I can't tell you."

"Let me tell you briefly from lowest to highest."

"Level 1 psykers are psykers who have just awakened. They only know the effects of their own psionic powers and can perform some basic psionic effects."

"Level 2, some time has passed since psychic awakening. You can use basic psychic effects proficiently, and you can also start further psychic development."

"Level 3. Normally, psychic energy has entered the final stage of development and can begin to develop horizontally and expand the application direction of psychic energy."

"Level 4, destroy the city alone."

"what?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment and made a confused sound: "Isn't this a bit too jumpy?"

The president said affirmatively: "No problem, that's how they are divided. The first three levels are all in the development stage. Level 4 psykers are determined by whether they can secretly destroy cities alone. Only psykers with such abilities can further value.”

"Take you as an example. When you control the first cruiser, you can be regarded as a level 4 psyker. A cruiser can already destroy cities on the surface."

"When the number of fleets you control exceeds the defense force of a normal planet, you can be counted as the next level, which is level 5."

"At level 5, psykers who initially have the ability to destroy stars alone can be placed here."

"This is your current level, and the level of An Wuping that I mentioned to you several times recently."

"Further up is level 6, which is the galaxy level. A single person's psychic energy can affect the entire galaxy and can be divided into them. It is almost the same as destroying a galaxy by a single person."

"Me, Wu An, and Hu Yi can all be included in this classification. The Yan Xiong who was killed by you not long ago is also included in this classification."

"You killed a level 4 psyker with the strength of a level 5 psyker close to that of a level 6 psyker. It caused quite a stir at that time, and many people started paying attention to you from that time."

"But Wu An helped you block all kinds of troubles, so you may not feel much."

Chen Ming actually knew what the president was talking about.

After all, at that time, he was also carrying the titles of "Yuhui's natural enemy", "the best symbol against Zuo Jing", and as he now knows, "a level 6 psyker was counter-killed when he hit level 4".

Even though the boss had tried to prevent his information from being leaked in all aspects to avoid showing off, there was still a lot of news flying around.

He knew this very well, so he always maintained respect for his boss Chen Ming.

Of course, this is Chen Ming's own business. He still wants to say: "I understand the truth, but does Yan Xiong really have level 6?"

The president said: "The edge that reaches level 6 is also level 6, and staying in level 6 for ten years is still level 6. Yan Xiong has indeed reached the edge of galaxy level."

The president said so, and Chen Ming did not continue to refute: "What about the ones above?"

"No, there are no higher-level psykers yet, but there is a level in the setting, which is the sector level. You can just regard the level of our psykers as the government level of our empire and move it over directly. Just use that one.”

Chen Ming asked: "That is to say, the ability of a level 7 psyker can cover a star area, and the ability of a level 8 psyker can cover a star area?"

"It almost means the same thing, but there is no specific classification. Don't say it in more formal situations."

"I won't say this on any formal occasion, right?"

The president smiled and said, "Don't underestimate yourself, you have the potential."

"By the way, you have to remember that although the grades I told you are recognized grades, they are only a judgment level for the scope and general effect of psychic energy, and are for reference only."

"Actual combat ability doesn't depend on this. The fight between you and Yan Xiong is the best example."

"Well, that's it, that's all I have to say."

"When the planet is cleaned up and it is confirmed that the dimensional infection has been completely eradicated, our mission will be over."

"Wait a moment."

Chen Ming suddenly interrupted: "I remember, that An Wuping experienced a dimensional infection, right? Does that mean..."

"Yeah...but we can't stop it."

The president's tone was also full of helplessness: "In the future, the authority for this matter will basically be in the hands of the Fifth Army."

"They said they would stop An Wuping, but in the end they let An Wuping pass, and even let him run to the Luci Galaxy easily."

"I even heard that An Wuping ran to the Luci system in front of the fleet that was intercepted by the Fifth Army."

"We can only hope that two dimensional infections in the same person will not lead to more serious consequences."

In fact, An Wuping's body has been replaced by Chen Ming, and overall he is still in a state of experiencing a dimensional infection.

But others don't know, so Chen Ming has to find a way to confirm his tone to avoid problems.

"What should I do about An Wuping?"

"I don't know. My suggestion is to integrate them."

"But as far as I know, the parties involved in the Luci Galaxy have not yet discussed a suitable result."

(End of this chapter)