Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 319 Experiment
Shortly after Chen Ming took away the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device.

Yuhui discovered that important items were missing from the warehouse.

In the network of the Kletka supercomputer replica in the Afterglow Star Territory, several Alpha-level Afterglow cores immediately gathered together in an emergency.

Communicate and discuss countermeasures.

They once chose to block the entire star field directly after Chen Ming left and left them a mess, and wiped out all individuals who had any connection with Chen Ming, just to eliminate Chen Ming's influence on their star field.

But there is still no clear result to determine whether they have completely eliminated Chen Ming's influence.

But now Chen Ming's action is almost equivalent to turning all the actions Yu Hui has ever done into a waste of time.

They couldn't determine how much influence Chen Ming still had, and they couldn't have any countermeasures against Chen Ming who had left the Afterglow Star Territory.

An Alpha Afterglow core asks the most important questions of the moment.

"How to do?"

They did not argue about why they did not choose to kill Chen Ming directly in the first place, but chose to extract the spiritual nerve.

Arguing about what has happened is pointless behavior.

Not to mention that extracting Chen Ming's Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve was an order from their large army.

The Qiling Nerve Extraction Device was also sent from there.

All the afterglow can do here is continue as it has happened.

But for them, they can also think that they have not failed,
Because there is still a possibility that the only one in the entire storage warehouse that has been extracted from the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve was one that Chen Ming had personally come into contact with, so it was taken away.

And nothing else was affected.

In addition, their control over the middle and lower-level Afterhui cores has been extremely strict since Chen Ming arrived, to an unprecedented degree.

And Chen Ming had not made any move for so long, and it was only today that he took away a Qiling Nerve Extraction Device.

Combined, and based on Chen Ming's past expansion speed, even if Yuhui had taken many measures, Chen Ming would have captured the entire star field long ago.

But Chen Ming didn't do that.

There is a very high probability that it is because Chen Ming cannot do this.

Chen Mingzhen has lost control of most of the afterglow in their afterglow star field.

It was purely because Chen Ming needed to use the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device now that he took this device away.

This is indeed a theoretical possibility, but there are still objections from Alpha Afterglow.

Because psykers become stronger.

Yuhui didn't know enough about psychic powers to be sure how far Chen Ming had grown.

Moreover, Yuhui did not have an excellent intelligence network within the empire and could only rely on some electronic warfare hacking techniques to try to obtain information. They did not know what had happened after Chen Ming left for more than a year.

But they can determine that Chen Ming will grow rapidly through the time that Chen Ming stayed with them.

They could not completely deny that Chen Ming had grown to the point where he could secretly control the entire star field.

There is even a possibility.

That is, the entire Afterglow Star Territory has fallen in Chen Ming's hands.

Only Kletka was not completely controlled by Chen Ming because his galaxy had completely cut off physical contact with the outside world since Chen Ming's incident.

Alpha Afterglow, the master of the Kletka simulator, silenced all other Alpha Afterglows from talking.

It gave the order directly.

"The mission of the individuals in this star field is to distract the attention of the human empire for the main force. Destruction is our inevitable outcome."

"In the past three months, we have investigated the movements of the empire near the Gallo Star Territory. A war will break out between the empire and the machine race. We can carry out our final mission here."

"Even if we are still being infiltrated by Chen Ming, there will still be individuals who are not controlled by him."

"Let us find a suitable time to go to the place where the war between the human empire and the machine race is about to break out."

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

At the headquarters, Chen Ming is on the right track again after adapting to the Psychic Research Institute.

Both research groups have accepted him and allowed him to participate in their actual experiments.

Over at the branch, the robot equipped with the Afterglow Core controlled by him has also controlled the entire branch in his hands.

The already monolithic branch was completely built into a solid barrier.

No one or any external force can destroy this situation.

Chen Ming's body is also about to begin the experiment of extracting spiritual nerves from black mist psykers.

Chen Ming plans to conduct experiments himself.

Of course, getting started is actually just pressing the start button of the device.

But he needs to experience the whole process personally and understand the principle of Qiling Nerve Extraction Device so that he can use it next time, or in the future, or when someone uses similar methods on him.

The reason why Chen Ming only started the experiment two days after thawing the Black Mist Psyker.

This is because the Qiling Nerve Extraction Laboratory requires all kinds of preparations, including the environment that restricts psykers, and all the drugs that need to be used during the experiment must be prepared.

In addition, even the Black Mist Psyker needs to be raised for two days.

Chen Ming still clearly remembers what Yu Hui did when he performed the Spirit-enlightening Nerve Extraction Experiment on him.

So now, Chen Ming uses all kinds of drugs and equipment used to stabilize the mind and enhance mental strength without reservation on the black mist psychics.

Until yesterday, even if Chen Ming continued to give him various mental supplements and use equipment such as neural overclocking machines, the black mist psyker's mental state had no longer changed.

Continuing to raise it is just a waste of medicine.

It’s time to start experimenting too.

Just as Chen Ming was about to start.

The Black Mist Psyker was sitting silently beside the bed where he was resting. He felt something was wrong, very wrong, very wrong.

He had felt a chill from Chen Ming since two days ago.

He didn't dare to say more or ask more questions. He could only silently enjoy the various things Chen Ming gave him.

He continued to strengthen himself, trying to use the increase in mental power obtained from the things Chen Ming gave him to escape from Chen Ming's hands.

Even now he still holds out hope.

Chen Ming could see Heiwu's thoughts, but he did not stop him.

Because although the black mist psyker's psychic effects are very good, his own psychic talent is not good.

Chen Ming, an outsider, has clearly discovered that the black mist psychic has now reached the peak of what it can achieve in a short period of time by relying on various external means.

The peak of the black mist psychic can't even touch Chen Ming's lower limit now.

He would never be able to escape the suppression of Chen Ming's psychic energy, and would not have any chance to struggle.

But he himself didn't even realize that he had reached his limit, and he was still dreaming of being able to escape.

But that might be a good thing.

After all, this can actually make the black mist psyker's mental state better.

The experiment process may be smoother.

On the morning of the third day since Chen Ming awakened the black mist psychic.

Chen Ming finally gave the black mist psyker some of the psychic medicine he had accumulated before, and used something like a neural overclocking device on him.

Chen Ming did not send him back to the room like he did two days ago. Instead, he stood outside the room where the neural overclocking device was installed, waved to him and said, "Follow me."

The black mist psychic suddenly felt nervous and subconsciously wanted to resist.

But he then realized that he didn't have the strength to compete with Chen Ming yet, so he could only do what he did.

He followed Chen Ming to the independent room where the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device was installed.

When he saw this small room, a chill rose from his tailbone to the Tianling Gai.

This seems to be a room made of a composite material made of silent alloy and some transparent materials.

The instruments in this room were shaped like an operating table, surrounded by dense mechanical arms, and restraint belts that could tightly tie people to them, which also gave him a sense of crisis as if death was coming.

There is every indication that this device will be terrifying.

The Black Mist Psyker subconsciously took a step back in front of the door.

As soon as he stepped back, a mechanical arm suddenly grabbed him.

As soon as the black mist psyker turned around, a tall robot stretched out its mechanical arm and grabbed his other arm, lifting him directly into the air.

The Black Mist Psyker was completely panicked and kept shouting: "No! Let me go! I beg you! I don't want to die!"

Chen Ming looked at the Black Mist Psyker crying and howling with a cold expression, without showing any sympathy.

He said to the black mist psyker: "I hope to hear from your mouth that you responded to those people's pleas when you captured ordinary people for experiments."

"Can you?"

The black mist psyker hesitated for a moment, then quickly shouted: "Yes! Of course it can! I am also a human being, and I feel sorry for seeing people become like that."

"I have let many people go privately, how could I not, really!"

Chen Ming did not respond, but picked up the terminal and clicked a few times, and a picture was projected in front of him.

That was a surveillance screen from a certain stronghold on the left path.

Black Mist psykers are escorting a group of ordinary people who have been kidnapped or tricked into an experimental facility belonging to Afterglow.

And in the process, just because an ordinary person raised his head and glanced at him, perhaps because his eyes were filled with hatred or anger.

The black mist psychic suddenly found this man alone, took the iron rod he picked up casually, and beat him to death while the ordinary man was begging for mercy mixed with screams.

"I have witnessed with my own eyes the process of you arresting ordinary people and sending them to the laboratory."

Chen Ming put away the terminal and said, "This situation... shouldn't be your request, right?"

The Black Mist Psyker saw his lie being exposed in front of his face, and his body caught by the robot suddenly shook like chaff.

"Everything you did is here. Also, guess where this video came from?"

The black mist psychic suddenly froze: "Could it be..."

Chen Ming didn't give him any more time to think: "Okay, it's time to go up."

"Don't worry, this is just an experiment similar to drawing blood."

Chen Ming smiled as he spoke.

But in the eyes of the black mist psychic, this smile is tantamount to the devil smiling at him.

The robot pressed the black mist psyker to the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device. He was still struggling desperately, but after losing his psychic powers, he was just a stronger ordinary person physically.

He was pressed against the equipment by the robot, and all the restraints were tied on him.

Chen Ming will install the jar containing the spiritual nerve into the instrument and press the start button.

All that's left is to watch.

Chen Ming's psychic power not only maintains the blockade of the black mist psychic's own spiritual energy conversion effect, but also increases the depth perception of the black mist psychic's body.

The black mist psychic suddenly felt that all the secrets in his body were exposed to Chen Ming's eyes. This feeling of being filmed by countless surveillance cameras all the time made him extremely panicked.

But he couldn't do anything. He couldn't struggle to break away from the shackles on his body, and begging for mercy couldn't shake Chen Ming's iron heart.

He could only wait to die here like the person he had beaten to death himself.

After the Qiling Neural Extraction Device is started.

Same as ever.

The extraction device delivers specially cultivated spiritual nerves to the eyes of the black mist psyker.

However, it is slightly different from what I have seen with my naked eyes.

When this spiritual nerve was brought to the eyes of the black mist psychic, the instrument also injected some things into the spiritual nerve. Some of the things that came with the instrument were not things that needed to be prepared later.

The injection of this kind of thing makes the specially cultivated spiritual enlightenment nerves even more vigorous, like some kind of white and fat ferocious insect, constantly testing the black mist psyker.

The black mist psychic was so frightened that he could only close his eyes tightly and did not dare to face it.

But immediately, a mechanical arm stretched out and forced the black mist psyker's eyelids open.

And that spiritual nerve crawled along the black mist psyker's eye sockets and penetrated deep into his brain.

The Black Mist Psyker suddenly fell into a coma.

The instrument next to it shows that the spiritual nerve that enters the brain of the black mist psyker is in contact with the spiritual nerve that belongs to the black mist psyker.

The foreign spiritual nerves are wrapped around the black mist spiritual nerves, shrinking like a python strangulating.

A kind of spiritual energy wave with a nature that seems to be "nothing" radiates from the artificial spiritual nerves and wraps around the black mist spiritual nerves.

Immediately afterwards, some small cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the artificial spiritual nerve.

It is not accurate to say that it is a crack, because when Chen Ming used his own perception to touch it, he discovered it.

The psychic energy fluctuations in these cracks are all fixed into the shape of sharp ring-shaped mouthparts.

These cracks are basically the countless mouths of this artificial spiritual nerve, and the black mist swallows up the spiritual nerve bit by bit.

The Black Mist Psyker's body suddenly began to twitch.

His spiritual nerves were being eaten away, and he fell into instinctive madness.

After detecting that the mental power was unstable, several mechanical arms were immediately raised. After strengthening the restraint on the black mist psyker, some calming medicine prepared by Chen Ming was injected into his body.

The black mist psyker is simultaneously in the painful madness of nerve damage and the calmness forcibly suppressed by drugs.

This scene made Chen Ming feel some phantom pain.

If he hadn't carried the ectoplasm stone with him at the beginning and used the spiritual pulse to knock out the spiritual nerve that was about to penetrate into his brain, his spiritual nerve might have been swallowed up long ago.

Of course, it is also possible that Chen Ming directly turned into a mental rampage entity after the spiritual enlightenment nerve was devoured.

But if Chen Ming at that time had become a mentally violent entity, he would definitely not have the strength of consciousness to resist the chaos now. Chen Ming might have become a real monster at that time.

Fortunately, there is no if.

A few minutes later.

There is only one spiritual nerve left in the brain of the black mist psyker.

The artificial spiritual nerve that is still connected to the spiritual nerve extraction device.

After confirming that there is no original spiritual nerve in the brain of the black mist psyker, the spiritual nerve extraction device slowly extracts the spiritual nerve that drilled into the brain from the eye socket.

I saw that this artificial spiritual nerve was dyed with a dark color. It is now a living spiritual nerve with specific abilities.

And at the same time as the spiritual enlightenment nerve was being drawn out.

The Black Mist Psyker suddenly began to have nosebleeds.

This was not damage to the nasal mucosa, but damage to his brain.

Qiling Neural Extraction Instrument seems to be only responsible for the extraction and the safety of the subjects during the extraction process.

Once the extraction experiment is over, there is no need to worry about the life or death of the subjects.

If Chen Ming really didn't care, the black mist psyker would die completely within a few minutes.

Although it didn't matter to Chen Ming if he died as a leftist, when he thought about the evil deeds committed by leftists that he had witnessed with his own eyes, no matter how painful the death was, Chen Ming would feel comfortable and happy.

But he wanted to see what would happen if a psyker survives after his spiritual nerves are extracted?
So he decided to save him first.

Through psychic monitoring, Chen Ming carefully looked at the symptoms of the black mist psychic.

It is basically certain that the fight between the two spiritual nerves in his brain caused slight damage to his brain.

Under normal circumstances, such extremely minor damage, even in the brain, can be cured as long as the medication is administered appropriately.

But there is another symptom in the mind of the black mist psyker at this time.

Mental overload.

After his spiritual nerves were withdrawn, his body could no longer bear the mental power he still had in his body.

The solution is not too difficult, just find a way to consume his mental energy and then use medicine.

Chen Ming solved this problem in more than ten seconds.

After ensuring that the Black Mist Psyker would be fine for the time being, Chen Ming left him aside.

What Chen Ming is most interested in now is the dark spiritual nerve.

This set of black mist spiritual nerves has been completely extracted at this time and is stored in a storage tank filled with nutrient solution.

It was still full of activity, as if it only needed to be implanted for it to provide its power to a new owner.

Of course, this is just an appearance. This spiritual nerve obviously needs to be cultivated to adapt to the environment after it is separated from the human body, and then the next step of the experiment can be carried out.

However, if it seems to be very active, it can also prove the vitality of this spiritual nerve in disguise.

It's not a bad thing after all.

Chen Ming is still very satisfied with this result.

As for the next use of this spiritual nerve, Chen Ming has not thought about it for the time being.

First of all, it is impossible to directly hand over the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve to anyone other than him.

Because the very existence of the Ling Nerve Extraction Device is a threat to psykers.

Even if the Shining Civilization actually has more than one spiritual nerve extraction device, sooner or later the next one will be found by the empire.

It is absolutely impossible for Chen Ming to demonstrate the Qiling Nerve Extraction Device and what it can do by himself.

This is never a good thing for a psyker.

Since it cannot be handed over, it can only be digested internally.

It is definitely not possible to directly digest it physically. Some other methods must be used to digest the ability of the black mist to activate the spiritual nerves.

Although An Wuping seems to be the most suitable subject for implantation experiments, An Wuping has a chaotic core mixed with various psychic effects in his body.

And this chaotic core species itself possesses the power of black mist.

Therefore, An Wuping actually does not need this spiritual nerve.

Chen Ming wanted to use his prosthesis, but the worst he could do would be to turn it into a mental entity.

Even if it changed, it would be okay. Chen Ming could just kill his own prosthesis and collect the source of the chaos.

However, he had another option, and that was a new prosthesis.

After experiencing Scarlet, Chen Ming's consciousness increased significantly.

Controlling more prostheses at the same time is no longer a problem.

And a prosthesis with black mist psychic powers is definitely a pretty good choice.

But it also has problems, after all, the Black Mist Psyker was killed by him when he and Bai Quan were assassinated in public view.

Once there is another black mist psyker active, it is likely that someone will think of him and guess that he has the ability to control living creatures.

So Chen Ming is still struggling with the next use of this spiritual nerve.

He is even still thinking, that is, why did the Shining Civilization once create the Spirit-enlightening Nerve Extraction Device?
Once he figures this out, he might have an idea.

He still has time.

After all, the Qiling Nerve has been extracted and can be stored for a long time.

As for the next implantation experiment, Chen Ming actually doesn’t have much idea yet.

Because the Qiling Neural Extraction Device only extracts, not implants.

Chen Ming's extraction of Qiling Nerve relied solely on equipment, not to mention implantation.

If he wanted to implant spiritual enlightenment nerves, he had to learn.

He had to go to the Psychic Research Institute and the Shining Civilization Research Institute twice.

That's why Chen Ming participated in the project called "Specialized Cultivation Program for Artificial Ling Nerves" when he told He Gu about the project he wanted to participate in.

This project is not just about cultivating special spiritual enlightenment nerves.

The implantation of Qiling Nerve is also a necessary experiment for this project.

Chen Ming can definitely follow suit, or even directly participate in some research projects on Qiling nerve implant surgery.

It was only because this project was related to the Qiling Neural Extraction Device and involved implantation that Chen Ming chose it.

He still needs to spend some time preparing for the implantation of the spiritual nerves and the second extraction of the spiritual nerves.

Then based on the results of the second Qiling Nerve extraction and the first Qiling Nerve implantation experiment, consider his subsequent attitude towards Yan Xiong.

He still needs time.

Just after Chen Ming thought clearly about what he wanted to do in the next period of time.

Chen Ming suddenly received an urgent message.

His cruiser was attacked.

It was the Colossus-class ship that was transporting energy crystal crabs to the empire and was attacked by the machine race.

(End of this chapter)