Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 295 New Doubts
The president failed to give a clear attitude towards An Wuping.

Chen Ming didn't bother the president much, hung up the phone, and returned to the underground of the Earth's Core Furnace Energy Supply Tower.

Now there is only a mess left here.

Although Chen Ming's main target along the way is the recipient.

However, the process of tracking and the aftermath of the battle with Qianmian and Zhen still caused considerable damage to the energy supply tower.

There is nothing left to save in the energy supply tower, so just leave.

But before leaving.

On Chen Ming's left arm, a large number of tentacles controlled by the insect queen grew, extending out to the surroundings.

These tentacles invaded the recipient's body, which turned into a mountain of flesh, and devoured him.

Chen Ming's plan is obvious, let the insect queen eat the recipient, see if he can get some of his memories from the recipient's body, and see if he can get more information about Zuo Jing.

Anyway, the recipient is dead, and Zuo Jing has lost the core figure with brainwashing ability. The empire's suppression of Zuo Jing will definitely be more effective in the future. It is definitely not a disadvantage to get more intelligence to target Zuo Jing.

Just when Chen Ming asked the insect queen to do this.

The little mental power he had left was also protected by the insect queen's mental power.

Once there is a problem, the insect queen will immediately cut off this part of her consciousness to prevent worse consequences.

After all, this is the body of the recipient, and there may be some means left behind after his death, just in case.

The tentacles proliferate inside the meat mountain, growing continuously and feeding continuously.

When the insect queen's tentacles ate half of the entire meat mountain and reached near the center of the meat mountain.

The insect queen's tentacles suddenly stopped.

A tentacle twitched a few times in the center of the meat mountain, twisted around, and spat out something round in front of Chen Ming.

It was the head of a human being with signs of chaos and flesh around the edges.

What was dug out of the mountain of meat should be the head of the recipient.

Chen Ming didn't realize what was wrong with his head for a while.

After all, the insect queen mainly relies on devouring the brain to read the memory, so it is quite strange to spit out the complete brain.

But the next moment, Chen Ming's expression became serious.

Because the face on this head is different from the face of the brainwashed psyker that Chen Ming saw through the last remaining consciousness of Qian Mian.

This is not the face of a brainwashed psyker.

Chen Ming immediately picked up the head, and his other hand turned into a tentacle and wrapped it around the head, checking the condition of the head.

He felt extremely strong spiritual energy fluctuations belonging to the recipient from this head, and also found a dead spiritual nerve inside the head that contained the breath of the recipient.

But he did not find any traces of plastic surgery on the head, nor did he find any evidence that the head did not belong to Roshan or the recipient.

This is the original face of the recipient.

Judging from his age, he was probably in his forties, similar to Qian Mian.

The brainwashed psyker in Qianmen's memory was also in his forties.

But at that time, Thousand Faces was probably less than twenty years old when he became a psyker and joined Zuo Jing. The brainwashed psyker at that time looked already forty years old just from his appearance.

Then he must be at least sixty years old now.

This is the wrong age.

The condition of the recipient does not correspond to the Zuojia brainwashing psyker in Thousand Faces' memory. They...are not the same person.

Chen Ming suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the resentment spirit stone that appeared after Qianmian's death.

This spirit stone of resentment did not resonate after Chen Ming killed the recipient, and it still caused hallucinations in front of Chen Ming's eyes when he held it.

Through the hallucination caused by the ectoplasm stone, she also confirmed the appearance of the brainwashed psyker again.

That brainwashed psyker really wasn't the recipient.

Wait, that's not right.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of another possibility.

A possibility that was very similar to what he had been doing.

Chen Ming recorded all the data on the recipient's head in his hand, and threw the head back to the Queen of Insects, letting the Queen of Insects eat it.

Soon, the memory belonging to the recipient was transmitted back by the insect queen.

From birth to adulthood to joining the Left Trail.

From becoming the talkative person of Zuo Jing's new generation, to finally dying in a duel between Yun Luoxing and Chen Ming.

The memory of the recipient is very clear, so clear that the relevant details can be found in almost every detail. Of course, there is also the memory of meeting the young Qianmen for the first time.

The actual time period of these memories is more than sixty years, not forty years.

There is an obvious gap with the physical age of the recipient.

There is obviously something wrong with the recipient's memory.

There is only one possibility that such a memory is not suitable for the age, but can also remember all the details thoroughly.

That is, this memory is false, a memory that was implanted or forcibly changed.

Chen Ming suddenly punched the energy supply tower, shattering a large section of the wall.

There is someone else who is the real brainwashed psyker, and he is hiding in an even more secretive place.

What he did was just solve the trouble on the surface.

Chen Ming originally thought that the recipient was the source of Zuo Jing's continuous spread of the cult. After all, a brainwashed psyker was in line with the underlying logic of the cult.

However, the real brainwashing psyker is someone else.

Although the recipient can be regarded as a brainwashing psyker, he is incomplete, or in other words, he is an extended part of the real brainwashing psyker.

simply put.

It was Zuo Jing who was the real brainwashed psyker who used his psychic powers to brainwash another psyker.

And this psyker was truly transformed into a brainwashed psyker after his own memory was erased and he possessed most of the brainwashed psyker's memories.

At least in his perception, he was Zuojia's brainwashing psyker.

Just having the memories of a brainwashed psyker is enough.

The key is that this psyker, the current recipient, actually became a new brainwashed psyker after possessing the memory of the brainwashed psyker, possessing the psychic effects of brainwashing.

This is the most exaggerated part.

In fact, there is no essential difference between the recipient and An Wuping.

They are all long-distance control of an individual by psykers using their own psionic effects.

It's just that Chen Ming relied on the biological technology level of the insect queen, and the psychic control of An Wuping was absolutely stable.

The brainwashed psykers directly used the bodies of other psykers to carry out complete brainwashing.

Use brainwashing to transform the consciousness of the psychic into one like your own, and control them in disguise.

Chen Ming didn't even know if there was a possibility of this happening again.

Probably not. After all, if brainwashed psykers could be produced, the empire would have been completely controlled by the mass-produced brainwashed psykers.

The situation of the recipient is probably only a small probability event. It may even be that the recipient's own psychic effects tend to affect other people spiritually, so they are transformed into brainwashing psykers.

The real brainwashing psychics should only control the high-level left-path forces on the surface, such as the recipient, Thousand Faces, and Zhen.

But it is indeed possible for him to master this real power that belongs to the Zuojia hidden deeper.

The threat to the left path has not yet been completely eliminated.

Who is supporting Zuo Jing?

Chen Ming originally felt comfortable with the fact that he had eliminated Zuo Jing's central figure, the subject.

As a result, it had only been a short time before new troubles and new worries had already enveloped his mind.

It's still the kind of trouble that can't be investigated or solved in a short time.

This is really...

Chen Ming sighed, and after repeatedly confirming through the Insect Queen that there were no clues about the real left-path brainwashing psyker in the memory of the recipient, he could only pack it up.

Follow the passage of the energy supply tower and return to the surface.

Before reaching the surface, he was about to step out of the half-collapsed energy supply tower.

Chen Ming suddenly knelt on the ground again and coughed violently.

He felt a sharp pain in his brain, not An Wuping's brain, but Chen Ming's own brain.

After the protective insect queen swallowed the recipient and controlled An Wuping to come out from the depths of the underground, his mental power was once again close to exhaustion.

Even while his brain was aching, Chen Ming could feel An Wuping's abdomen also feeling a pressure from the inside out.

Obviously this was when he was fighting with the recipient just now. The dimensional-infected spiritual energy fluctuations released by the recipient had spread to the surface and formed a climate on the surface.

When he came up, these spiritual energy fluctuations naturally found him.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had nothing but the recovery speed of his mental power was quite fast.

He was able to quickly resist the influence of the dimensional infection and stepped out of the energy supply tower.

The moment he just saw him walking outside the energy supply tower.

A hell-like scene entered his eyes.

Countless squirming flesh adhered industrial buildings to other buildings, and countless flesh and blood monsters wandered between the buildings.

Obviously, when Chen Ming first arrived, although many industrial buildings in the industrial zone were temporarily suspended, at least Chen Ming could still feel a vitality in the entire industrial zone.

But now, this vitality still exists, but this vitality is active to a morbid level.

If Chen Ming had come out a little earlier, he might have heard the screams of these monsters walking on the intestines dragged all over the ground.

But now, all that is left in the entire industrial area is the sticky sound of flesh monsters roaming around.

Not only the industrial zone, but also the residential areas outside the industrial zone where employees settle down are experiencing the same tragic situation.

Even some places in the wilderness have begun to appear in areas covered with blood and flesh.

The entire planet has fallen, and all places with living creatures will look like this.

This apocalyptic scene deeply stimulated Chen Ming, giving him a suppressed pain in his temples.

This is the first time he has seen in reality the final fate of the leaked area after the large-scale leakage of dimensional infection.

It has more impact than any photo or record.

The president said that when a planet is infected by a dimension, the number of people who can actually survive may be 0.01%.

But after personal experience, Chen Ming discovered that the president actually hid some information from him.

Even An Wuping's body was being torn apart by the power of dimension infection.

Why can ordinary people stop this power?

A colony in a prosperous star field has a population of at least one billion even in this era. Can 100,000 people really survive?

Or even...can there really be a thousand people?
Even counting those psykers who arrived on the planet and then retreated safely, could there really be that many people?
No one seems to care.

Chen Ming looked up at the sky, and could vaguely see the fifth legion fleet outside the atmosphere.

They did not carry out any rescue operations, nor did they try to eliminate the dimensional infection.

They just arranged their fleet and watched from there.

Death seems to be really just a number.

Chen Ming remembered that when the president took the initiative to tell him about this matter just now, the president's attitude was the same.

President Mingming is usually very willing to protect civilians, but when he told the estimated death toll, Chen Ming did not hear any disturbance in his tone.

Even Chen Ming has always respected civilians. When he concluded based on the information about the surrounding environment that the entire planet had fallen and the number of survivors might be only one in a million, he didn't feel anything at all.

After all, this is just a string of numbers, so how can I feel it?
But as long as we look specifically at the actual situation on the planet and know that countless living beings and harmonious and happy families have disappeared on the entire planet, we will naturally feel heavy in our hearts.

For example, the middle-aged woman Chen Ming met before entering the earth's core furnace energy supply tower.

The bag she was carrying might have been relief items she picked up near the material warehouse after the industrial zone in Yunluoxing stopped working. She was going to cook a dinner for her husband and children when she got back.

but now……

Only nothingness remained.

Chen Ming sighed and shook his head.

Prepare to find an opportunity to leave the planet to avoid being attacked by those flesh and blood monsters.

His mental state is not very good. The best way to evacuate the planet now is to steal a spaceship directly.

Although Chen Ming could see through the atmosphere that the Fifth Legion's fleet had sealed off the planet, it was obvious that the psykers who had left the planet at the last minute would be checked.

But as long as he reaches space, he has various ways to escape.

And there should be some people who would not watch him fall into the hands of the Fifth Army.

While Chen Ming was scanning the surroundings, trying to find a suitable spaceship.

He suddenly heard a strange noise.

Chen Ming immediately turned around.

His eyes widened instantly, but his pupils narrowed subconsciously.

Because I saw that bag.

The bag that was taken away by the middle-aged woman was now hanging on the body of the flesh and blood monster that had just made a noise.

This monster is the person he just saw.

She was dead and became such a monster in death.

Chen Ming lowered his head with a gloomy expression. He really couldn't bear to see this.

A small ball of plasma suddenly flew out from Chen Ming's fingertips, completely annihilating the flesh and blood monster.

At least this way, her body would not continue to suffer in this world.

Only when the plasma dissipates.

The bag hanging on the extended flesh and blood tentacles was not annihilated together, but fell to the ground.

The food inside was scattered all over the floor.

Among the raw meat that had grown some fleshy tentacles, Chen Ming saw a small gift box.

A piece of paper attached to the gift box happened to be blown by the seal and fell in front of Chen Ming.

There is a line of words written on the paper.

“Mom’s twelve-year-old gift (definitely better than dad’s)”

Chen Ming's movements suddenly froze.

He took a deep breath, took two steps, and picked up the gift box.

After opening it, a delicate and compact spaceship model was lying quietly inside the gift box.

This is a model of a Rainstorm-class spaceship.

Clearly this is not a handout.

But it was something that the family had already prepared.

On the birthday of the child at home, I used the excuse of going out to collect relief supplies to wrap up gifts and prepare to take them home.

The mother is no longer able to bring gifts home to her children, and the children are unable to wait for their mother who has yet to return.

Chen Ming stared at the spaceship model in his hand expressionlessly for a long time, then put it back into the gift box and put the gift box into the backpack he carried with him.

He closed his eyes.

A few minutes later, a ring-shaped plasma swept out of his body, completely turning everything left in the industrial area into dust.

Let these people be buried here.

Chen Ming opened his eyes again and looked into the distance.

There are people living in more than one place on this planet.

There are more places, more of the same thing happening.

Chen Ming saw with his own eyes the world eroded by dimensional infection, and saw with his own eyes the consequences of dimensional infection.

This is the horror of dimensional infection.

Chen Ming sank slightly into the space of consciousness.

The breath that exudes the scarlet dimension is still giving him the power from the dimension.
This power is really heavy.

A few minutes passed again.

Chen Mingping regained his composure, controlled An Wuping to enter the insect state, and flew some distance away from the industrial area.

The spaceships near the industrial area have basically been wiped out, and the flesh-and-blood monsters have already destroyed the spaceships.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have just ignored the spacecraft and used plasma to clean the ground.

So next, he had to go to the nearest aerospace airport, where there should still be spaceships left.

But just before Chen Ming found the right direction, a shuttle boat suddenly arrived near Chen Ming at high speed.

The hatch opened, and a man in military uniform shouted to Chen Ming: "Hey! An Wuping! Are you interested in joining our fifth legion?"

"Your mental strength seems to be almost exhausted, right? Join us and we will take you away."

"Answer quickly, we don't have time to wait for you, unless you want to be buried with the monsters below."

The man who spoke was a psychic, full of pride,

Chen Ming took a special look at the shuttle boat. The logo painted on it was indeed the Fifth Legion.

Since everyone inside and outside Yunluoxing is from the Fifth Legion, then if this shuttle boat comes here like this, it must indeed belong to the Fifth Legion.

But Chen Ming had no interest in the Fifth Legion.

Their way of doing things was completely inconsistent with his views.

Even if An Wuping couldn't even stand up now, Chen Ming didn't bother to pay attention to them.

Chen Ming landed on the side of the road and found a ground vehicle that had been hastily abandoned without even turning off the engine.

He drove the car directly to the airport, completely ignoring the shuttle boat of the Fifth Army on the other side.

The psykers of the Fifth Legion looked at the direction the car was leaving and sneered disdainfully, closed the door of the shuttle boat, and drove the shuttle boat away from the planet.

Chen Ming drove alone in the direction of Kongtian Airport for about ten minutes.

The sky suddenly became brighter.

Chen Ming immediately stuck his head out of the vehicle window,

Outside the atmosphere, the main weapon of the offensive, the thermal pulse laser, had begun to accumulate energy.

A crimson stream of light surrounded the muzzle, and in the blink of an eye, the thermal pulse laser, which could take away the cruiser and the shield ship, had already swept towards the surface of Yunluoxing.

It won't take long for Chen Ming to be shot.

The battleships have already begun to wash the ground.

Chen Ming suddenly felt angry in his heart.

The people from the Fifth Legion just came over and asked him if he wanted to join. He refused, so the Fifth Legion chose to directly wash the land?
Is it too disrespectful to treat him as a human being?
Chen Ming did not question. Those people from the Fifth Legion who had cooperated with him before, these people have nothing to do with the main fleet.

He chose to call the president directly: "President, why has the Fifth Army already started?"

"Already started?"

The president also asked a question in surprise, and immediately went to confirm the news and said to Chen Ming: "It was started by the Fifth Legion themselves. They said that their people have been evacuated. In order to prevent the dimensional infection from continuing to spread, So it started."

"Starting when we knew there might be people alive on the planet?"

Chen Ming's question made the president suddenly feel a little uncomfortable.

He knew Chen Ming's situation and knew that since Chen Ming was willing to selflessly help him deal with the dimensional infection, it meant that Chen Ming must be a good person.

The actions of the Fifth Army now and before were obviously stepping back and forth between Chen Ming's bottom line.

But sometimes, they have to make some choices after all.

So the president told Chen Ming the truth: "When faced with dimensional infection, even I prefer to resolve the matter early. The threat of dimensional infection is too great."

"And for the Fifth Legion, except for An Wuping, no one else is worthy of them taking a second look."

The president was willing to reason and explain clearly the pros and cons of a matter, and Chen Ming was actually very willing to accept it.

He has never been a pedantic person, but he just saw an extraordinary human tragedy, and later An Wuping was targeted by the Fifth Army.

The two things combined made him unable to suppress the anger in his heart.

But he couldn't tell An Wuping's identity clearly, so he could only insinuate and say: "But they seem to be shooting in the direction of the energy supply tower. Is An Wuping there?"

The behavior of the Fifth Army does seem to be a bit contradictory.

The president felt this, so he simply said to Chen Ming: "Then let me go and ask."

A minute later, the president came back and said to Chen Ming: "They don't answer the phone over there."

at this time.

The flagship of the Fifth Legion fleet stationed in the orbit of Yunluoxing, the offensive-level command room.

The captain of this offensive ship and commander-in-chief of the fleet, Li Sheng.

That was the same person who had previously stalled for time with Zuo Jing's fleet and drove Zuo Jing around.

He was silently watching the offensive class cleansing Yun Luoxing.

There was no emotion in his eyes, as if he had just ordered a small thing to be done.

His deputy next to him seemed to want to persuade him, but Li Sheng directly stretched out his hand to block the deputy's face.

(End of this chapter)