Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 331 Joint Action
The words of Cai Mo Xingyu's leader made everyone in the conference room focus their attention on him.

He then said, "Since the last incident, the key figures of Zuojing died and the Zuojing forces fell apart. Our star field has been committed to dealing with the aftermath of the dimensional infection and clearing out the remaining Zuojing elements."

"In this process, we often encounter some stubborn remnants of the Left Path who use the dimensional infection tissue left by the psychic of the Left Path to infect themselves."

"There are still some small-scale dimensional infections breaking out on other planets."

"The main body of the dimension infection entity is dead. These small-scale dimensional infections will not last long."

"But before we clear the entire star field, we will still encounter them frequently, so if necessary now, we can try to capture samples of dimension-infected entities."

"After being captured, the dimensional infected entity can be kept alive for a period of time by feeding on biological organisms. This should be enough for the experiment."

The person next to the star domain leader whispered: "This is very dangerous. If we don't handle it well, if the infection in these dimensions spreads again, it will be worse for us."

"We have to try. If we succeed, we will have a new way to deal with dimensional infection."

The president took the initiative to suggest: "Let me do it. Give me some people and I will help capture and conduct subsequent verification."

"But you're not..."

Of course, the president still remembered that he was also a victim of dimensional infection. He had been remotely commanding outside the Caimo Star Region before, and of course he would not forget this time.

"It's okay. I won't go there in person. I will use my psychic powers to conduct the experiment from a distance. Just provide me with the precise spatial coordinates."

After the president finished speaking.

The director of the Ship Research Institute next to him looked at him and the few people he had brought with him.

Although Caimo Star Region has little contact with the Fourteenth Legion’s Ship Research Institute and other ship research institutes that have cooperated with the Fourteenth Legion.

But in this matter that affected the entire empire and actually affected the Fourteenth Legion, everyone remained consistent on the general direction.

Finally, the director of the Ship Research Institute said, "We can provide a phase ship for experiments, but there is no research institute near Caimo that has a phase ship, so we need to find a way to send it there."

Someone beside the director immediately added: "We can't ask Cai Mo to send the entity over here, that's too dangerous."

"If we want efficiency, we must use a cruiser. Otherwise, let Cai Mo's fifth..."

Chen Ming suddenly interrupted the man when he was speaking and said, "No need to look for them. I will take care of this matter. I can quickly send the phase ship to the vicinity of Cai Mo."

Chen Ming's tone seemed to be mixed with a hint of dissatisfaction, causing the man who had just spoken to immediately whisper to the director: "Is there a conflict between Chen Ming and the Fifth Legion?"

"Do you know An Wuping? An Wuping is a person favored by both the association president and Chen Ming. Later, in addition to joining Odan, he also joined the Psychic Association."

"But the Fifth Legion lost the opportunity to seize the dimensional infection power because of An Wuping, so they didn't care about An Wuping's life or death. It might be because Chen Ming was unhappy with the Fifth Legion."

"I see. No wonder the Fifth is in Caimo now but no one called him over."

The director added in a low voice: "In fact, I feel that the head of the Caimo Star Region himself does not want the Fifth Legion to interfere too much. Their star region and the Fifth are independent, but now the Fifth has shown signs of interfering too deeply.

"Since we know that the Psychic Society and the Fifth Legion are at odds, we certainly won't look for them."

After quietly explaining the situation in front of everyone.

Everyone present basically understood what to do next.

Over in Caimo Star Territory, we captured the entity together with the president.

The Ship Research Institute provides phase ships and supporting technical guidance.

Chen Ming transported the things provided by the Ship Research Institute to Cai Mo.

The president came to carry out the final experiment.

People who originally would have no connection with each other came together under Chen Ming's matchmaking and worked together towards the same direction.

"So be it."

Chen Ming, who was sitting at the head of the conference table, suddenly stood up and said, "When the experimental results come out, everyone will know whether what I said today is true or not."

"After that, this matter should definitely get on the right track even if we don't bother."

End of the meeting.

Chen Ming took the initiative to establish a contact group.

This will make it easier for people from different organizations to communicate with each other and announce the progress of experiments.

This matter involves the interests of everyone and will inevitably be promoted by everyone together.

His abilities are highly bound to both the scarlet dimension and the phase space.

As long as this matter can be carried out, he will definitely be the one who benefits the most.

At least someone can help him increase his investment in the research of phase space, and he just needs to learn it slowly later.

After the communication group is established.

The star domain commander greeted Chen Ming and ended the holographic projection with his men.

Qiu Bowen nodded to Chen Ming and also exited the holographic projection without saying anything more.

As the current top executive of the department, he must of course be informed of this matter, so Chen Ming was giving him face when he asked him to come.

The people at the Psychic Research Institute seemed a little unhappy, but they didn't say anything. Everyone except He Gu ended the projection.

Bai Quan suddenly said to Chen Ming: "It seems you asked me to come here just to make up the numbers."

Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "After all, this is a meeting held on the army's territory, and it's such an important matter, I can't keep it from you, right?"

Baiquan smiled, but did not respond to this sentence. Instead, he said: "You are also a big shot now."

Chen Ming subconsciously glanced at the location where Qiu Bowen and the star domain leader's holographic projection disappeared: "It seems so."

The holographic projection's hand tapped Chen Ming's shoulders twice, and Bai Quan's holographic projection disappeared.

He Gu, who hadn't left just now, also came up with a smile and said, "I feel like I'm just here to make up the numbers."

"How could that be? The people who study phase technology at the Ship Research Institute are all ordinary people. Now that phase technology is related to dimensional infection, it is related to psionic power. If the Legion wants to do something, it must let the Psionic Power Research Institute participate, right?"

Although this matter seems to have nothing to do with the Psionic Research Institute, in fact, from the perspective of the entire legion, dimensional infection is the thing that concerns them most.

It’s just that the scope of their responsibility is larger, so their effect is not obvious in this experiment.

He Gu certainly knew this. He patted Chen Ming's shoulders twice and disappeared in the meeting room as well.

The president on the side took a last look at Chen Ming, and the holographic projection disappeared in the conference room.

But soon, the president's call came to Chen Ming's terminal.

Chen Ming glanced to the side. The director of the Ship Research Institute and some other people called by the director were still left in the conference room. They were discussing what to do next.

Chen Ming left the meeting room first, went to an empty corner outside, and answered the president's call.

"Tell me, what is the connection between phase space and dimensional infection?"

After confirming that there was no one around and no equipment that could eavesdrop, Chen Ming asked, "President, you should have entered the phase space, right?"

"Yes, after I learned about the development of phase ship technology, I tried to go in myself, but I didn't tell anyone else. I don't have time to take care of the development of phase ships."

"But I didn't feel any effects in the phase space. The mark is just a mark. So what did you mean by that in the meeting?"

Chen Ming replied: "That's right, what affected me was not the mark, but something else."

"What is it?"

Chen Ming did not answer this question directly, but said: "I have entered the dimension where the dimensional infection originated."

"what?"

The president immediately suspected that he had heard it wrong.

Chen Ming repeated again: "I have entered the dimension where the dimensional infection originated."

The president didn't know what to say for a moment, because he didn't think Chen Ming was lying.

After a while, the president suddenly exhaled: "I once found a way to enter that dimension, but before I actually entered, I was afraid."

"Because I feel that as long as I go in, I will definitely die, and the way I die is a way that I cannot clearly perceive."

Chen Ming thought about the president's past achievements. He must have been a level 6 psychic decades ago. He couldn't get in before...

"what about now?"

"Almost. I just might die, but it's not certain."

"But as I get older, I have more and more things to do and more and more responsibilities to bear. I can't take the risk to go in again."

"The best I can do is maybe give it a try when my time is up."

Chen Ming thought about the last time he saw the president. The president looked no more than 40 years old. "President, aren't you quite young?"

“But I’m actually in my sixties.”

"Forget it, let's not talk about the past."

The president took the initiative to end the previous topic and returned to the present: "You have been in there before, so can you tell me how you got in? When did you get in? What did you encounter?"

"Let me keep the questions of how and when I got in secret secret for a while. I'll just tell you what I encountered in there."

"Row."

The president did not force Chen Ming, but just listened.

After thinking about his words for a while, Chen Ming said, "I was in that dimension for about half a second."

"It is a scarlet dimension, filled with all kinds of 'knowledge'."

"This knowledge will flood into that person the moment they enter. If they can't handle it, they will go crazy and die."

Although Chen Ming's words were very abstract, the president seemed to understand what Chen Ming said very well.

He kept comparing what Chen Ming said with everything he had personally experienced.

Having his consciousness filled with knowledge until he went crazy did indeed to some extent fit the feeling of danger he had felt when he was able to enter that dimension.

That's fine.

At the same time, the president was still thinking silently in his mind.

Has Chen Ming come across any similar incidents of dimensional infection other than the one on Cai Mo's side recently?

Although Chen Ming can achieve an effect similar to that of spatial ability, he is not a person with spatial ability.

Since he can enter that dimension, it must be related to the dimension infection incident.

However, in his thinking, there have been no incidents related to dimensional infection recently, only what happened to Cai Mo.

Color ink...

The president shook his head slightly and asked Chen Ming: "So what knowledge did you gain after entering that scarlet dimension?"

"Knowledge of psychic energy. I have mastered more psychic power." "What about something a little more specific?"

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "President, do you have the terminal I gave you before?"

The president opened a drawer next to him, took out the terminal and said, "Here."

Chen Ming's psychic power was immediately activated, and a small metal ingot appeared on the terminal.

The president picked up the small piece of metal and looked at it for a while.

He slowly uttered a term that shocked him greatly: "Silent Alloy."

Chen Ming responded at this moment: "This is only part of the power brought by the knowledge I gained in the Scarlet Dimension. There are many more."

This time, the president didn't let Chen Ming show off his skills.

A psychic who can control the silent alloy is the most outrageous thing in his opinion.

"Since you have grown to this level, when will you consider taking systematic psychic training?"

“But I don’t have that idea yet.”

Chen Ming declined, "I feel like I'm far from reaching my limit."

Of course, the president would not force such a thing: "Just make your own decision."

"Then how did you get out after entering that dimension?"

"I left an anchor point on the way in, tied with my mental power. Half a second after entering, I couldn't hold on any longer, so I followed the anchor point back."

Although Chen Ming said it quite easily, the president, as someone who had sensed the scarlet dimension, immediately questioned: "Is it really that simple?"

"It was indeed very dangerous. Even though I have a very strong consciousness and the protection of the ship spirit, I almost couldn't come back."

Chen Ming's consciousness strength is really not something other psychics can match.

Chen Ming himself carries a spirit stone with high-intensity negative effects for a long time, and he also has two hive mind networks as assistance.

There is also a direct consciousness link between the Queen Insect and Chen Ming, plus the protection of the ship spirit.

Even so, Chen Ming almost died in the Scarlet Dimension.

"It really only took half a second for my mental strength to be completely exhausted, and even my consciousness was severely damaged."

"But it's okay, the result is good, at least I did gain 'knowledge'."

“So, it all depends on personal ability.”

The president sighed and said to Chen Ming: "But in my impression, you are not a person who takes risks."

“Sometimes you have to take risks.”

Chen Ming couldn't say that when he was controlling An Wuping to fight against the brainwashed psychic, he was dragged into the Scarlet Dimension by the latter's dying struggle, right?
If the boss knows, he will know. After all, the boss's own psychic power is spiritual. As long as he observes more, he will find that all the people Chen Ming in the empire are prostheses.

Not to mention that the boss was so familiar with Chen Ming that he easily discovered Chen Ming's habit of using pseudonyms and recognized An Wuping.

But if the president didn't know, there was no need for Chen Ming to take the initiative to tell him about the situation.

The more people who know a secret, the less likely it is that it will cease to be a secret.

The president did not hesitate and returned to the original question, "So what is the reason for the oppression you felt in the phase space? This is why you held the meeting."

After all the foreshadowing, Chen Ming explained: "After I came out of the Scarlet Dimension, a crack leading to the Scarlet Dimension was left in my consciousness space."

"..."

The president suddenly fell silent again.

This time he was silent for a longer time before he said, "You always bring me some surprises. Sometimes these surprises are surprises, and sometimes they are shocks."

"So what is it this time?"

"Both. What shocked me was that the space rift in the scarlet dimension appeared in your consciousness space. What surprised me was that you are still alive."

After entering the Scarlet Dimension and being marked by the Scarlet Dimension, there was even a crack in his consciousness space that led directly to the Scarlet Dimension. It was outrageous no matter how you looked at it that Chen Ming could still be alive.

But it’s always a good thing that Chen Ming is alive.

"So, that rift was suppressed by the phase space, right?"

"Yes, but I can't tell everyone that there is a crack in my consciousness space that has been suppressed, so I used another excuse that people can believe."

"Anyway, my lie won't be exposed in the short term."

"Hmm... I think I roughly understand what's going on, but I still need to think about it. Let's do this for now, and we can talk later."

"it is good."

End the communication.

The president still needs time to digest what Chen Ming said.

It is also necessary to prepare for interactive experiments on phase space and dimensional infection.

Chen Ming turned around and went back to the meeting room.

The director had finished talking to the people he had called over, and now he was the only one waiting in the conference room for Chen Ming to come back.

When Chen Ming came in, the director handed him two things and said, "Here, I'll give them to you. We agreed on this before."

Chen Ming looked down and saw that the director handed him two walkie-talkies.

"This is... the device that transmits sound into the phase space?"

"Yes, but it's only part of it. The real main equipment is somewhere else. This is just an external port."

Chen Ming took the intercom and used his psychic power to control himself to check the structure.

The director next to him explained to Chen Ming the effect of this thing.

"This walkie-talkie has two operating modes. One is the call mode, which is for communication between two walkie-talkies."

"One is the broadcast mode. When only one walkie-talkie is used in the normal universe, the sound you make into the walkie-talkie can be broadcast near the corresponding area in the phase space."

"Phase space still follows some basic physical laws, so you still can't make a sound in a vacuum, you have to know that."

"Although this thing seems quite convenient, there are many uncertainties in walkie-talkies, and they also conflict with the military's command system."

"We can't rely on walkie-talkies for everything, so we also need a signal base station that can connect the normal universe and phase space to build a complete communication system. This is the upper limit of this thing."

Chen Ming understood.

"Can I borrow this for a while?"

"no problem"

Although I wonder what Chen Ming wants this for, the director just said that this thing is not very meaningful.

And they just wanted to borrow a walkie-talkie, they had a lot of them.

Chen Ming's idea is to use this to try to contact the phase beast.

He can act as a repeater himself to send and receive signals to achieve the conditions for use outside the empire.

Although it is more convenient to communicate using a phase ship, it is still better to use this cheap thing.

I won’t feel bad about losing it, and it’s cheap to repair. If it really doesn’t work, I can just ask the director for two more. It’s the same.

Before Chen Ming actually tried to communicate with the phase monster, Chen Ming asked the director one last question: "Is there any way to observe phase space in the normal universe?"

Speaking of this, the director has experience, but he gave Chen Ming a negative answer: "There is no way, otherwise we don't need to study the phase ship luminescence technology."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "Then I have no problem."

"Well, the ship at the test site has not been withdrawn yet. Do you still need to cooperate with your robot in the future?"

"It probably won't be necessary for now. I just need to take away a guard-level phase ship."

"No problem, this is what you were meant to receive."

"Well, I should have some free time today. Is there anything else I can do at the institute?"

Although Chen Ming still has to go to the Psychic Research Institute to continue his previous project, he feels that these projects at the Ship Research Institute are equally important, and he must devote more time and energy to the Ship Research Institute.

According to the current situation, Chen Ming felt that he had to spend one day at the Ship Research Institute and one day at the Psychic Research Institute, or simply divide it half day and half day.

He could hardly believe that in the past, only his original body had to squeeze in time to do different things at different times of the day, but now his prosthesis can enjoy this treatment.

It's a headache, but there's nothing I can do.

Phase space, dimensional infection, and the development of weapons against the mechanical race's psychic hive network are all things he has to do, and he can't escape them.

The director was waiting for Chen Ming to say this.

Immediately took Chen Ming to other experimental sites.

Then next at the Ship Research Institute, Chen Ming’s prosthesis will just need to cooperate to complete a few experiments.

Chen Ming's main consciousness then returned to his original body.

After sending the walkie-talkie given by the director to the original body through psychic power, Chen Ming prepared to try to communicate with the phase beast.

Just use the same sound that the Phase Beast had made before, which cannot be heard by ordinary people or even psychics.

Chen Ming's real body has not been idle and has been studying this sound.

Now he has roughly figured out the reason why only he can hear this sound.

It's because he is the only one who has come into contact with the Scarlet Dimension.

The sound made by the Phase Beast is related to the power of the Scarlet Dimension.

And once Chen Ming linked his own voice to the power of the Scarlet Dimension, he was also able to make that unique sound.

He can use this sound to communicate with the phase beasts.

This strange discovery made Chen Ming even more curious about the relationship between the phase beast and the scarlet dimension.

He really wanted to understand the phase beasts and find out what species they were.

In addition, when Chen Ming communicated with the Queen Insect who could not speak, he had already mastered the way of communicating through sound through vague intonations and emotional attitudes.

So even if Chen Ming doesn't understand the language of the Phase Beast, he should be able to communicate with it.

The key next lies in the attitude of the phase beast.

Will it become hostile to Chen Ming because he has entered the Scarlet Dimension, or will it become friendly?

No one knows for sure until you try.

(End of this chapter)