Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 315 Love
love.

This quality is a special quality possessed by the ectoplasm stone that Chen Ming had talked to He Guyou about some time ago when he was on He Gu's spaceship.

Ectoplasmic stones of this quality usually appear in pairs.

It has a heart-shaped pattern similar to that of Obsession, but it is softer. When two ectoplasm stones are attached, the patterns on the surface can be seen to be connected together.

Although its basic effect is the same as that of ordinary spiritual stones.

It has the same effect as the ordinary ectoplasm stone, which is to have some impact on the mental state of the psyker and at the same time provide a small increase in mental power.

But the biggest difference between it and ordinary ectoplasm stones is that it appears in pairs and has the special effect of love qualities.

When two love ectoplasm stones are held by different psykers, the two psykers can use the ectoplasm stones to build a spiritual link channel based on the ectoplasm stones.

Based on their own spiritual energy and mental power, they generate spiritual amplification for each other.

And they can also provide emotional comfort to each other, and the effect is somewhat similar to tenderness.

In addition, this ectoplasmic stone also allows psykers to perceive each other's mental state.

This allows two psykers linked together through the love ectoplasm stone to give each other more help in increasing their mental power in critical moments.

The premise of all this is that there is "love" between two psychics for it to be effective.

The higher the love you have for each other, the better the effect will be.

It is said that after the level of love reaches a high level, psychics can communicate directly with each other.

Although the empire already has faster-than-light communication methods, this ability is not too important.

But after all, the empire's faster-than-light communication base station is not available everywhere in the entire universe, and this ability is still valuable.

And more importantly, when the love between two psykers reaches a certain limit, the psykers can even use each other's psychic effects.

Of course, the most outrageous abilities are currently just theoretical inferences from the Psychic Research Institute.

The actual effect is still not clear.

After all, the conditions for using this love ectoplasm stone are somewhat harsh.

It requires both users to be psykers and to have a sincere love for each other.

And the Admiration trait is also affected by psychic objects of other natures.

This means that for ordinary psykers, they could hold psionic equipment of one nature and ectoplasmic stones of another nature at the same time, keeping them separate from each other and only using them when needed.

However, the love ectoplasm stone requires both psykers to wear it for a long time and cannot be replaced at will.

It's not that there are no psyker couples, but many of them are political marriages purely based on interests.

Only a few psykers have pure love for each other.

This greatly narrows the scope of application of the love ectoplasm stone, and also reduces the possibility of this ectoplasm stone being studied.

and.

Love Ectoplasm Stone has negative effects.

That is, when two psychics use the ectoplasm stone to create a spiritual link, this link cannot be broken.

Once disconnected, it will cause a huge psychological impact on the user.

And once the love is lost, the link will break by itself.

Not only is the effect of the love ectoplasm stone in name only, but if the two parties are unprepared, the consequences will be quite serious.

There is another situation that is more serious, and that is the death of one party in the relationship.

Once this happens, the soul of the other party in the relationship will be hit harder than ever.

There is still relatively little research on this, and currently there are only two cases even across the empire.

One example is a psyker couple who owned a love ectoplasm stone. After one of them died in an accident, the other psyker immediately fell into irreversible madness.
The other case was slightly better.

They are a psyker couple who are over a hundred years old and possess a love ectoplasm stone. One of them is about to be brain-dead due to age.

Brain death is an inevitable aspect of today's technology.

The couple chose to actively cooperate with the Fanchao Research Institute's experiment.

At the moment before death, external coercive means are used to break the spiritual link of love.

The result is that the other living person did not fall into madness. It can even be said that the person was not injured at all under the protection of the experimenter, and the mental impact from the link was completely blocked.

However, the psyker passed away not long after due to excessive grief and his own age, and he barely died.

But those are special circumstances.

When a person is close to old age and death, there are still capable psykers standing by to protect him. They can ensure the safety of the user of the ectoplasm stone when one of the two parties linked to the ectoplasm stone dies.

Other times, death is unexpected.

Therefore, the love ectoplasm stone itself can only be considered a rare thing. Under normal circumstances, it has only the value of an ordinary ectoplasm stone.

However, it would be the most appropriate gift for the legion commander to give it to Chen Ming at this time.

It belongs to the value of the ectoplasmic stone and its symbolic meaning. Even if it is not carried for a long time due to negative effects, it is still an extremely suitable gift.

Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai are both psychics. Although their relationship is not deep, it has a certain foundation. It is not a purely emotional marriage. It can be used.

"Thank you very much."

After confirming the gift, Chen Ming thanked the legion commander and immediately put away the ectoplasm stone.

His idea was to make these ectoplasm stones into engagement rings. They were in pairs and were just right.

When the legion commander saw Chen Ming decisively accepting the gift, he probably knew that the matter would end here.

"As long as you're satisfied."

"Okay, then I really have to leave this time. Let's meet again when I come back."

After saying that, he turned and left the building, boarding the shuttle boat he came in.

Not a trace of sloppiness.

The Legion Commander is a character.

He handled the matter perfectly, making Chen Ming unable to feel any disgust at all.

But at least Chen Ming was indeed satisfied with the result, so there was nothing much to say.

While the legion commander boarded the shuttle boat.

The cruiser hovering in the sky was immediately dismantled and disappeared into the sky.

Chen Ming and Bai Quan looked at each other and then left the building.

Although Chen Ming didn't cause much damage this time.

But here at the headquarters, everything controlled by Chen Ming has to be replaced, and some buildings that Chen Ming has personally visited need to be rebuilt.

Of course, these are not the parts that Chen Ming needs to be responsible for handling.

If the Legion needs it, he can even help demolish the building and take away everything he controls.

Anyway, he just raised his hand.

Bai Quan had a lot of things to be busy with. He separated from Chen Ming after leaving the building.

He couldn't just walk away with Chen Ming like that. He still had to deal with the aftermath, and he had to deal with Qiu Bowen alone.

Then Chen Ming still has some things waiting for him to deal with.

For example, fish out Cheng Xinghe who is still in the interrogation room.

Chen Ming's shuttle boat quickly returned to the police station.

Just landed,

Chen Ming saw Cheng Xinghai rushing to him extremely anxiously, grabbed his hand and asked, "Are you okay?"

Chen Ming opened his arms and showed his intact self completely; "Isn't this great for me?"

Cheng Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay."

"But how could you do such a dangerous thing?"

Apparently the afterglow cruiser Cheng Xinghai, which was over the center of the headquarters, also saw it.

She knew without even thinking that it was definitely Chen Ming who did it.

In the middle of the journey, the cruiser suddenly jumped, and Chen Ming did not come back, which made her worry for a long time, for fear that something would happen to Chen Ming.

When the cruiser jumped over the city center again, she became even more worried, worried that Chen Ming would do something irrational.

Although the worst-case scenario did not happen during these two periods, when Chen Ming dismantled the cruiser in the end and saw that the cruiser was torn apart, Cheng Xinghai's worry rose to the extreme.

Fortunately, Chen Ming finally appeared in front of him intact.

Facing Cheng Xinghai's worries, Chen Ming didn't know what to say. Someone who cared about his safety did make him feel cared about, but it also made him feel pressured.

When you are alone, you can be as wild as you want. If you die of wandering, it is also your own problem.

But if anyone cares about him, then he must consider the consequences of his actions.

Fortunately, Chen Ming is currently using prosthetics outside, so Chen Ming is not worried that it will make people too sad if he accidentally squanders the prostheses to death.

"Okay, do you think I'm back?"

"Ah."

Cheng Xinghai didn't try too hard to persuade Chen Ming not to do dangerous things. Chen Ming would take responsibility for himself, at least as long as he came back safely.

"Then now we..."

"Now that the matter has been resolved, let's go and bring Cheng Xinghe out."

Cheng Xinghai never expected Chen Ming to give her this answer: "Has it been resolved?"

"Yes, it took a little effort, but at least the result is good."

"what have you done?"

"I arrested a few people, threatened others with the cruiser, and then the regiment commander just came back to talk to me, and the matter was resolved. Yes, that's it."

Cheng Xinghai reached out to cover his slightly opened mouth and said, "It's not that simple...it feels...really dangerous."

"It's okay. If I hadn't done this, we would have just had dinner and were still thinking about how to get Cheng Xinghe out of the police station."

"Um……"

Cheng Xinghai knew that Chen Ming was right. If Chen Ming didn't do anything, this would be the most likely outcome.

But she also knew that what Chen Ming did was definitely not as easy as he said.

There is a level 6 psyker stationed here in this headquarters.

Level 6 psykers possess the power to destroy galaxies.

Even if this level 6 psyker has limited abilities in this department, it would be difficult for ordinary psykers to resist.

If Chen Ming wants to do something in his headquarters, he will inevitably face the level 6 psyker.

Moreover, in the headquarters, when the legion commander leaves, the general stationed in the headquarters and protecting the sixth-level psykers in the headquarters are the biggest rules of the headquarters.

But Chen Ming just ignored the existence of the rules. He used violent methods in the headquarters and drove out a cruiser with afterglow, trampling the rules under his feet.

Even after trampling on the rules, he returned to the rules. He did not become an enemy of the rules just because he trampled on them.

So far, no one seems to have done this.

At least in her memory, nothing like this has ever happened in this department.

Cheng Xinghai suddenly seemed to have something in his eyes when he looked at Chen Ming.

Chen Ming noticed this and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

Cheng Xinghai shook his head.

She has endured the constraints of the rules for the past nineteen years.

Therefore, she has a new feeling for Chen Ming, who has the ability to break the rules against herself and yet escape unharmed, return to the rules and be protected by the rules.

Longing.

She was looking forward to Chen Ming's actions today.

She was looking forward to Chen Ming's strength and courage to fight against the rules of the 14th Army Corps.

The strength and courage to ignore all rules, eliminate all obstacles, and personally obtain the results you want.

She wanted to be someone like Chen Ming, and she also wanted to be such a powerful psychic.

"I just suddenly felt that you suddenly became a little more handsome."

Chen Ming didn't understand what Cheng Xinghai meant, touched his face and asked, "Really?"

"Really, he would be more handsome if he wasn't such a bad guy when playing games."

"no way."

The game's limitations were too many compared to simulated battles, and Chen Ming's psychic powers couldn't be used.

In terms of pure command skills, at least for now, Chen Ming cannot compare to Cheng Xinghai. Therefore, Chen Ming, some strategy-type games, are prone to being beaten.

Unless it's a game that purely compares reaction power, Chen Ming relies on the increase in consciousness intensity and thinking speed given by psykers to have an advantage that no one can match.

Then Cheng Xinghai discovered something was wrong and forbade Chen Ming from using abilities beyond ordinary people's ability when playing such games with her.

Seeing Chen Ming's expression of wanting to show off, Cheng Xinghai smiled and took the initiative to hold Chen Ming's arm.

"Okay, let's go find Xinghe first."

"Ah."

As soon as he took two steps into the police station, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something else and asked, "By the way, has the rumor problem been solved? If not, I will solve it."

"No, it's been solved."

"So fast?"

"Well, someone took a picture of me meeting you in the library."

Chen Ming suddenly thought of the person he saw in the library before and said, "Show me."

Cheng Xinghai's face turned slightly red. He hesitated and opened the terminal and handed it to Chen Ming.

"Here."

Chen Ming took a look at the terminal.

It was indeed the perspective of the person from the library before.

He took a photo of Cheng Xinghai and Chen Ming looking at each other in the library. Cheng Xinghai had his hands folded behind him, staring intently at Chen Ming like a girl in love for the first time.

The rumor that Cheng Xinghai was threatened and forced to commit himself to Chen Ming could be completely dispelled.

A talented man and a beautiful woman are a perfect match, and it is their turn to be questioned by those monsters and ghosts on the school forum?

The next day came in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ming originally lived with Bai Quan in the dormitory of the teaching park.

But early in the morning, Bai Quan took Chen Ming to his home in the headquarters.

The old admiral was not feeling well today, so Bai Quan had time to go home and prepare the engagement banquet with Chen Ming.

Bai Quan's home city is relatively close to the suburbs. There is a special area for the families of active military personnel to live. There are guards on duty and safety is guaranteed.

Bai Quan landed here in a shuttle boat and slipped back home with Chen Ming.

The person who opened the door was Chen Ming's future mother-in-law, who was about thirty years old. She was quite young and looked very gentle and virtuous.

Even if Bai Quan doesn't go home all year round due to his work, he doesn't look at Bai Quan with any complaints.

I have to say that it was lucky that Bai Quan, the two orphans who adopted his comrades when he was seventeen, were able to marry wives in the end.

Chen Ming met his future mother-in-law, and with her admiring son-in-law's eyes, she brought Chen Ming to Cheng Xinghai, who had come earlier, and then continued to do his own things.

The time and place of the engagement banquet must be decided as early as possible, and she must talk to the people at the wedding banquet company in advance.

The remaining Bai Quan, Cheng Xinghai, Cheng Xinghe and Chen Ming need to be responsible for the more internal matters at the engagement banquet.

Confirm the friends and relatives to be invited to the engagement party.

Chen Ming attaches great importance to the engagement party itself, after all, it is a lifelong event.

But there was actually nothing Chen Ming could do.

Anyway, Bai Quan and his mother-in-law were responsible for basically everything at the engagement banquet.

Originally, if Chen Ming had a normal family environment, he would need to consider where to hold the engagement party, but Chen Ming is an orphan, so the headquarters will be fine.

Moreover, the engagement banquet was originally a time when the elders of both parties met to talk about many things.

The only person on Chen Ming's side who could be considered an elder was his boss.

But the boss is not here, the boss is in Caimo, and he won't be back in a short time.

So at most it will be the entire holographic projection, and we can come and have a casual chat in the name of the master.

Most things are basically decided by Chen Ming himself.

As for inviting friends and family.

Chen Ming doesn’t have many.

The only people I know who can be considered friends are the people from the Pirate Space Station, Baldhead, Lao Wu, and the factory director.

Baldhead, who had committed a crime elsewhere, would definitely not be able to get through. Old Wu would not be able to get through if he had something to do. At most, only the factory director would be free to come, but it was still a bit too far.

I don’t know if it will be too late by then.

Chen Ming suddenly remembered that there was someone he could find at his headquarters, He Gu.

Chen Ming originally planned to go to the Psychic Research Institute, because He Gu had promised to give him a new detection device, plus the identity of an honorary member of the Psychic Research Institute promised by the legion commander, and the three things that allowed him to Select items from the Psychic Research Institute item list.

But now that he's gone, he doesn't have much time to spend on the psionic research institute.

Not to mention there is a ship research institute and a shining civilization research institute waiting for Chen Ming to pass.

So take it easy for now.

Continue to compile the list of invitations to be sent out.

Chen Ming looked at the list and suddenly found a somewhat familiar person.

The chairman of Xinda Company and the father of the factory director.

Is Bai Quan familiar with him? Or is it someone else with the same name?

Chen Ming didn't understand, so he held the list and asked Bai Quan, "Who is this Xu Lin?"

"Chairman of Xinda Company."

Bai Quan was inspired by him before and decided to let Cheng Xinghai have a try with Chen Ming.

It was Xu Lin who mentioned this matter that led to the perfect result for him now.

Xu Lin is considered half a matchmaker after all, so he must be invited to this engagement party.

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Oh, that's okay. If he wants to come, then I have to ask another person."

Bai Quan thought for a while and thought of some information he had investigated when he and Chen Ming were not too familiar.

The person Chen Ming was talking about should be Xu Lin's illegitimate son, Lu Shengsi, who was the director of the maintenance factory where Chen Ming worked when he just came back.

So he didn't ask any more questions: "Okay, if you have any questions, ask me. I'll go out first."

Bai Quan said hello and went out directly, because he had to invite some people in person, such as his old boss.

Within a few minutes, Cheng Xinghe suddenly shouted that he was going to find his friends from school and disappeared from home.

After Cheng Xinghe closed the door.

For a while, only Chen Ming and Cheng Xinghai were left here.

Cheng Xinghai felt that the atmosphere in the room was gradually becoming more and more ambiguous.

In order to prevent something from happening in advance, she said to Chen Ming: "Can I ask you something?"

"Want to play games?"

"……no."

"I want to ask how you became so strong?"

"I heard Uncle Bai say that you just awakened your spiritual power two years ago, but my spiritual power has been awakened for three years and there has been no progress."

After awakening her powers, she went through the complete standard education of psykers.

She has also been meditating every day and constantly practicing her psychic powers.

But the effect is obviously not ideal.

She has never had a suitable person to tell these things to, and only now can she ask this question to Chen Ming.

"This……"

To be honest, Chen Ming just had a wild background. At most, his boss was guiding him in the right direction of thinking, allowing Chen Ming to find a suitable direction to practice his psychic abilities.

There is no real guidance on becoming stronger, it is all Chen Ming's own exploration, coupled with Chen Ming's talent.

Cheng Xinghai's talent may not be as outrageous as his, and he would at most give Cheng Xinghai a try using his usual training methods.

Chen Ming thought about what he had on him now...

Just three ectoplasm stones, Love, Whisper, and Mad Words.

It is impossible to show love now.

If there are two left...

Chen Ming took out a silent alloy box from his pocket and handed it to Cheng Xinghai.

"Try this."

Cheng Xinghai reached out to take it and asked, "What is this?"

"Exercise stuff, you touch the facts."

Cheng Xinghai opened the box, carefully reached in and touched the Whispering Spiritual Stone with twisted patterns.

She frowned and said, "I feel like there's a very noisy sound in my ears. It's so uncomfortable."

"It's normal to feel uncomfortable. You need to use your mental power to resist this voice. Your mental power will grow in the process of fighting this voice. This is how I came here."

"Slowly start with the ectoplasm stone, which has a relatively mild nature, and finally switch to the ectoplasm stone with a more extreme nature."

Cheng Xinghai touched the spirit stone in the box again and asked, "Is this considered mild in nature?"

"Of course, the extreme nature is here."

Chen Ming pulled out the revolver from his waist. There was an ectoplasm stone inlaid at the bottom of the revolver's handle, the words of madness.

"I don't feel it."

Chen Ming did not respond to Cheng Xinghai, but held her hand.

"What are you doing……"

When Cheng Xinghai gently tried to pull his hand out.

Chen Ming's mental power protected her consciousness, and then Chen Ming released some power of the Mad Words Spiritual Stone.

A dark distortion that was almost visible to the naked eye occupied Cheng Xinghai's vision.

Only a second passed, and Chen Ming immediately used his resonance with the ectoplasm stone to put the dark distortion back into the ectoplasm stone.

"how do you feel?"

Chen Ming asked Cheng Xinghai a question, but Cheng Xinghai did not respond at this time and instead fell on the table.

She fainted.

"This……"

The stimulation of the power of the Word of Madness should be too terrifying.

Even if Chen Ming has fully protected Cheng Xinghai's consciousness and will not let her be affected by any consciousness, this extreme nature can directly affect people from the cognitive level.

It's like a child who has never seen a horror movie is scared to death by a ghost.

Although there was no substantial damage, Cheng Xinghai fainted. This should be regarded as the body's self-protection function.

Chen Ming had taken full protection, but Cheng Xinghai still couldn't bear this purely visual brief contact.

She's a little too fragile.

It seems that Cheng Xinghai's mental strength is really not strong. If she wants to grow up, she will have to use some extreme measures.

After confirming again that Cheng Xinghai was only temporarily knocked unconscious by the impact of the Mad Words Spiritual Stone on the real environment, he must be fine.

Chen Ming thought about what he should do now.

Now he and Cheng Xinghai were alone in a room with only the two of them, and Cheng Xinghai fainted and was completely unable to move.

After Chen Ming thought about it carefully, he carried Cheng Xinghai to her bedroom here and threw him on the bed.

Then I moved a chair from outside to the bedside.

Chen Ming glanced at Cheng Xinghai again.

She seemed to have dreamed of something terrifying while she was sleeping. Her expression was tense and panicked, and sweat was constantly dripping from her forehead.

It seems that even if she is exposed to the words of madness under the premise of protection, it is a bit too much...

Chen Ming gently held Cheng Xinghai's hand, and his gentle spiritual power continued to soothe her subconscious and maintain her mental stability.

After the mental soothing lasted for a few minutes, Cheng Xinghai's expression relaxed.

Chen Ming also leaned on the back of the chair.

However, he never let go of Cheng Xinghai's hand.

(End of this chapter)