Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 359 Processing
Chen Ming, who was at the branch office, hung up the phone, stood up and prepared to leave.

As he did so.

He is also doing other things.

He just told his boss what he was going to do.

He first used normal permissions to query the database of the legion headquarters.

He confirmed in which block the headquarters stored the personnel file database, and checked whose files he could access with his permissions.

After confirming that he could not find the files he needed to search, he used some tricks to obtain administrator privileges in the database.

Afterwards, he found his and Cheng Xinghai's files in the headquarters' database.

And a list of people who have accessed these two files.

Chen Ming took a quick look at his own file and ignored it.

The above content has too many errors and omissions, and has been called upon by too many people, so it is of little value.

He could only look for clues in Cheng Xinghai's files.

However, the result was as expected, no valuable information was found.

He could only find retrieval records from five locations.

One of them was Chen Ming himself, and the others were Bai Quan, the corps commander, Cheng Xinghai’s school tutor, and her current internship unit, which was the retrieval records of her unit.

These retrieval records all seem to be extremely reasonable and there is nothing wrong with them.

Moreover, Chen Ming knew that in this kind of database system, it was quite easy to delete the retrieved records as long as he had the administrator's administrator privileges.

These records don't tell us anything.

But Chen Ming was still prepared to look for all the clues.

Just as he made the decision.

Whether on the headquarters planet or the planet where Cheng Xinghai was training, the metal liquid he controlled suddenly appeared at the same time.

Chen Ming used the metal liquid made of Silent Alloy to shield the psychic fluctuations emanating from himself, so that anyone who had not come into contact with the Scarlet Dimension and mastered the Scarlet power could not detect it.

Currently, the only person in the entire empire who has come into contact with the Scarlet Dimension, seized the Scarlet Power and survived is Chen Ming himself.

The metallic liquid penetrated into departments on two different planets that were related to human files, confirming the location of the Legion database.

Then, the metal liquid penetrated again.

They went to where Chen Ming needed them to go.

Chen Ming didn't do much, he just helped the legion repair the database.

It just incidentally caused some deleted data to return to where they should be.

After getting what you want.

Chen Ming ended his control over the headquarters and the equipment on the training planet, and began to proceed to the next step based on the clues he had just obtained.

Near the capital galaxy of the Galo star region, there is a military galaxy that is not open to the outside world.

A spaceship that appeared in the galaxy at some unknown time suddenly arrived at the space station of the only planet with a colony in the galaxy, and it flew into the port channel in broad daylight.

It was ignored by patrols within the system and was considered nonexistent by the port's reconnaissance system.

No alarms were triggered at all and we entered the port smoothly.

Several people at the port immediately noticed that a strange alien spaceship had docked.

But since the spaceship had already landed, they didn't think much about it and just thought that some special person was coming.

Of course the spaceship belongs to Chen Ming.

This is a branch of the star field joint war zone in which the Galo star field participates.

The person recorded in the deleted call process Star Sea Archives that Chen Ming found at the Corps Headquarters was an exchange personnel sent to the Fourteenth Corps from this Star Domain Joint Theater.

When Chen Ming saw the name "War Zone", he had already roughly guessed what it was going on.

The people who leaked Cheng Xinghai's information must be the two lieutenant generals in the war zone who had once had conflicts with him.

One was a female lieutenant general named Tao Ying, and I can’t quite remember the other person, Chen Ming, but she was also a lieutenant general.

It can only be them.

Tao Ying's family had some relationships that Chen Ming had no way of dealing with before, but now...

In short, Chen Ming stopped his plan to continue investigating the school and the army, and turned around and drove the spaceship here, to the branch in the war zone.

He did not let the powered mechanical body on the spacecraft disembark, but once again controlled the metal liquid to seep out, completely controlling the entire space station.

Although it is just a branch, the necessary data is also here.

After easily grasping the current senior personnel composition of the Star Field Joint War Zone and the location of the headquarters of this war zone in which the Galo Star Field participated.

The spaceship docked at the port left the port and disappeared into the galaxy in the blink of an eye.

Appeared in the galaxy of the war zone headquarters.

Chen Ming continued to follow the same steps as before and accessed the database of the war zone headquarters.

If a true level 6 psychic is determined to infiltrate, no one will be able to detect his tracks.

This time, Chen Ming was also very kind to help the war zone repair the database and obtained several key documents.

One of them was an obituary of an Interior Service expatriate who had died in the war zone.

It was released at a time when the war between the Empire and the Machines was still in its early stages.

It said that several members who were sent out to the front line of the battle between the Empire and the Machines were killed in the war by the Machines.

One is an experimental spacecraft testing document.

The test is of the antimatter engines and related technologies that have already been put into service, as well as spacecraft with hyperspace channel jump engines.

The testers were the ones who went out to the war front and died.

Then there is a detailed list of the identities of those killed in action.

You can't tell anything just by looking at the identity, but if you link it with a deleted communication record discovered by Chen Ming, it was between the people from the lieutenant general's faction and the expatriate members.

It was enough to prove his guess, and he didn't need to spend time looking for other clues.

The situation is already clear.

After hearing that Chen Ming was engaged, the two lieutenant generals in the war zone where the conflict had broken out arranged for people to retrieve Cheng Xinghai's file.

He also sent people to the front lines with the archival data and deliberately sacrificed their lives so that the mechanical race could obtain the information.

What's even worse is that these people want to give the mechanical race a greater chance of obtaining intelligence.

They placed intelligence on ships that held important technology.

Under normal circumstances, the mechanical race would not believe these false news that may have been spread by the empire.

But the mechanical race would at least record this kind of news, and their mothership would use this method when they were really out of options.

Although it ultimately didn't work, at least they have confirmed some new news.

If Cheng Xinghai continues to stay on the battlefield, he might be in more danger.

But it doesn’t matter, Chen Ming is capable of protecting Cheng Xinghai.

And he will soon see the culprit who caused this problem.

Chen Ming confirmed the relationship between Tao Ying and her family through the war zone database and confirmed their current address.

Once you have a destination, the rest is easy.

The spacecraft left the space station again.

And several new spaceships split out in space and jumped to different locations.

One of the ships jumped to a place that Chen Ming was very familiar with.

It is the original source of his Zerg's plasma ability, the planet where the Aurora Wind Spirit species was born.

Because of the Aurora Wind Spirit, this planet is shrouded in magnificent auroras all year round, and it is also a planet rich in species.

It is recognized by the Empire as one of the most valuable tourist planets.

There is no need to explain the identity of the people who can settle on a planet like this.

Of course, it was not the lieutenant general or Tao Ying, but Tao Ying’s father who was a retired general.

Chen Ming's spacecraft easily bypassed the planet's orbital defenses and entered one of the eight colonies on the planet's surface.

and flew to the outskirts of the colony.

There is an independent manor house with beautiful surroundings.

At this time, the manor was shrouded in night.

Chen Ming's shuttle landed directly in the parking lot of the manor.

The roar of the shuttle's engine dissipated into the air before it could travel a few dozen centimeters, and the light it emitted was also gathered inside.

Just like the several space stations he had just visited in just a few minutes, no one noticed any trace of him.

Chen Ming entered the manor so easily.

He bypassed the people working in the manor and the guards, after a slight conflict that went completely unnoticed by anyone.

He found the room of the owner of the manor, the retired general whose surname should be Tao.

He pushed open the door of the manor's master bedroom and turned on the light after entering.

The light just illuminated the room.

Admiral Tao immediately got up from the bed, pulled out a pistol from the cabinet next to him, pointed it at Chen Ming's power mechanical body and pulled the trigger, while shouting a person's name.

"Are you looking for him?"

Chen Ming's voice rang out.

The front of the powered mechanical body suddenly opened, revealing the retired admiral's personal guard, a level 3 psychic, who was confined inside.

His expression was full of fear.

He couldn't even comprehend what had happened after he discovered what seemed to be an intruder in the manor.

It can only be said that for a retired admiral, a third-level psychic is already a very good configuration.

But in front of Chen Ming, unless you are a level 6 psychic, it is meaningless.

Chen Ming threw the frightened psychic out of the power armor and asked, "Do you know who I am?"

Admiral Tao threw away the gun that had run out of bullets.

In front of Chen Ming, he opened the wardrobe next to him and changed into a military uniform.

"There's no point in changing into military uniforms. Since I've come here, you should know what I'm going to do."

Chen Ming spoke in a very calm tone, as if he was talking about what to eat for breakfast, but these words were extremely dangerous to General Tao.

"I know you are old now, you have experienced what you should have experienced, enjoyed what you should have enjoyed, you have no worries and you are not afraid of involving your children, so you just did it, right?"

"The saying 'don't let your family get hurt' refers to the fact that your family members have not been involved in the dirty things in the political arena. But your children seem to have served as lieutenant generals before, right?"

Admiral Tao didn't say anything, just nodded slightly and took Chen Ming into the study next door.

He sat behind the desk in the study and took out three things from the drawer.

A revolver with gorgeous decorations, a bullet with the same gorgeous patterns carved on it, and a piece of white paper.

Admiral Tao slowly loaded the bullet into the revolver, turned the bullet to the firing position, pulled down the hammer, and placed the revolver on the table.

Then he picked up the pen on the desk and started writing something on the white paper.

Chen Ming walked forward, picked up the revolver and took a look at it.

Just as he thought, this gun was the same as Baiquan's.

He is a person who has made great contributions to the empire and was awarded the gun by the empire's highest leader himself.

What Admiral Tao was writing at this time was his suicide note.

As he was writing, Admiral Tao finally asked Chen Ming, "What are you going to do?" Chen Ming knew that Admiral Tao was not asking him, but everyone involved in this matter.

So Chen Ming directly handed him a few documents.

Placed on top are the records of Tao Ying's imprisonment and a document documenting her medical parole in prison.

She seems to be living well outside now.

And at the same time Chen Ming threw out the document.

A spaceship he sent out had also arrived above the villa where Tao Ying was living.

The powered mechanical body leaped down from the air and landed in the yard of the villa.

It fell in front of Tao Ying who was basking in the sun leisurely.

Tao Ying was stunned for a moment. After he reacted, he immediately threw the wine glass next to him at Chen Ming, cursing, "Chen Ming! You bitch!"

Chen Ming was not going to give in either. He used his power armor to punch Tao Ying in the face after retracting his strength to avoid being beaten to death.

But this force also directly knocked Tao Ying away, half of his face bulged up and a mouthful of teeth was exposed.

Her lips trembled as she tried to speak, but the blood flowing from her mouth blocked all her words.

She hysterically grabbed the fruit knife that had fallen to the ground with her.

He pounced on Chen Ming's power armor and kept slashing.

Even though the blade was broken and her hands were covered with purple bruises, she was still attacking Chen Ming frantically.

Chen Ming didn't pay attention to her actions. If Tao Ying could break the power machine, he would eat it on the spot.

He looked not far above his head and saw that in addition to his spaceship, there was also an engineering ship ready.

At the beginning, it was Tao Ying who personally came up with the plan to have an accident on the engineering ship that Bai Quan was riding to inspect the giant shipyard to pave the way for his son.

This time, let her experience for herself the choice she made.

At this time, Admiral Tao also finished reading Tao Ying's file. He put the file aside and moved on to the next one.

This is also a prison reception record, and it belongs to the lieutenant general who has a close relationship with Tao Ying.

He is currently serving his sentence in prison.

This is a single cell that doesn't look like a prison cell, and has all the basic facilities found in ordinary houses.

Apart from the difficulty in moving around and being unable to go out, it looks like an ordinary one-bedroom apartment.

When the lieutenant general saw the figure in power armor suddenly appear in the room, the first thing he wanted to do was press the button next to him to call the guard.

But he suddenly realized something, put down his hand and said: "Chen Ming, I once knew you..."

"You're wrong about me."

The lieutenant general wanted to say something, but finally sighed.

To be honest, he thought a lot during the more than one year he was in prison.

He had already made it clear that Chen Ming was definitely not someone they could target.

If he and Chen Ming have no contact anymore, he should just stay in jail honestly. Maybe he can get out alive after a few years.

But now it seems that his plan to get out alive has been ruined, as someone obviously did something.

You don't have to think about who did it.

Protecting one's shortcomings is a common practice, but at least one has to choose the right person to protect.

He sighed again and said, "Can you give me a decent death?"

"can."

This was Chen Ming's respect for the lieutenant general who did not collapse in fear before his death and still maintained his dignity.

Chen Ming took out a syringe from the inside of the power machine, which contained a gray-green liquid.

The lieutenant general took the syringe and pierced the vein in his arm.

"What about the rest?"

Chen Ming released several projections.

The screen shows the situation that several people involved in this incident are currently experiencing.

Admiral Tao was writing his suicide note at his desk.

Tao Ying was rolling around and screaming in a courtyard, while an engineering ship was circling not far away.

There were also the bodies of several people who had already died from the incident.

Plus the bodies of all those involved in the political arena, including Admiral Tao, Tao Ying, and those related to him.

Nothing else.

"it is good."

The lieutenant general breathed a sigh of relief.

He slowly pushed the liquid in the injection into the blood vessel.

His consciousness gradually became blurred.

His breathing gradually stopped.

The last scene he saw was the screen in front of him: the engineering ship crashed into Tao Ying, and Admiral Tao raised his pistol and pointed it at his temple.

Chen Ming picked up the terminal beside him and took a look at it.

There's a lot of information about him in there.

The lieutenant general was right. He really knew a lot about Chen Ming, and he didn't know what he thought.

Should I stay away from him or continue to seek revenge after I am released from prison?

Chen Ming didn't know.

Since the person is already dead, there is no point in discussing these things anymore.

Finished processing others.

Chen Ming's voice rang out in Admiral Tao's home: "Okay, it's your turn."

Admiral Tao nodded, pressed his fingerprint on the suicide note, signed his name, and pulled the trigger of the revolver in his hand.

All of Chen Ming's robots outside disappeared.

He recorded the entire process and compiled it into a document that clearly and completely described the situation.

The shuttle that Chen Ming's prosthesis was riding on had just landed on the dome where Bai Quan was.

In just over ten minutes, he had completely dealt with the matter of the traitor.

This was not only Chen Ming's revenge for someone leaking Cheng Xinghai's information, but also an act of truly trampling on the rules of the empire.

Although Chen Ming didn't want to conflict with the empire.

But not wanting to doesn’t mean you can’t.

He even wanted to see what would happen if others knew what he had done.

A few minutes later, in the online conference room.

Chen Ming and An Wuping appeared here at the same time.

The two nodded to each other and sat in their respective seats, looking very familiar with each other.

When everyone present saw this scene, they all had further speculations about the relationship between Chen Ming and An Wuping.

It seems that the relationship between them is not like what was shown before, that Chen Ming has something on An Wuping, but rather that they have a closer relationship.

Chen Ming looked at the Minister of the Imperial Psychic Department.

In this world where one person possesses the power to destroy the world, the Minister of Psionics should be the first person under the Supreme Leader of the Empire.

An Wuping's attention was more focused on Minister Lu of the Psychic Population Department.

Looking at the nervous expression on his face, both An Wuping and Chen Ming couldn't help but want to laugh.

"I know why we were called here, so I'll just tell you straight away."

"Except for those black fog bugs, all the Zerg were created by An Wuping. You should have seen the purpose."

As Chen Ming spoke, An Wuping beside him nodded in agreement.

Luo Yi, the Minister of Psychic Power, did not say much, or perhaps whatever he said did not make much sense.

The Empire has very few ways to deal with psychics like Chen Ming and An Wuping.

Luo Yi handed Chen Ming a contract.

The content of the contract is that the empire will not interfere with Chen Ming in any way, and Chen Ming will not cause any damage to the empire.

It is written in a very general and short manner, but the contract itself is more symbolic in nature.

Whether to comply or not is entirely up to the psychic himself.

This contract is just a reason for the Empire to gather other psychics to destroy powerful psychics when they commit crimes.

"As long as you don't get into trouble in the future, no one will bother you anymore."

Simply put, it is cold treatment.

The empire no longer knew what to do with Chen Ming.

So in the end, this document was given to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming looked at the content and said, "Is it possible that I have never committed any crime on my own initiative, and all the unpleasant things that have happened to me were caused by other people who took the initiative to provoke me?"

"Why can you say such a thing?"

"Feel sorry."

Luo Yi apologized without saying a word.

But Chen Ming suddenly materialized a document in the online conference room and handed it over.

"Don't apologize yet, take a look at this first."

Luo Yi, the Minister of Psychic Power, took the document calmly, and then his eyes became uneasy for a moment.

He glanced at Chen Ming, then turned his gaze back to the document and read it all patiently.

Chen Ming asked: "What do you want to say?"

"No."

Luo Yi put away the document and acquiesced to Chen Ming's actions.

Everything before that contract is signed will be written off.

Chen Ming will not be punished or affected in any way.

An Wuping suddenly interrupted and asked, "I don't have it?"

Luo Yi immediately handed An Wuping a document and said, "Take a look at it first."

When An Wuping pretended to look at the contract seriously.

He then said, "Can I ask what the relationship between you is?"

An Wuping directly pushed the contract back: "I still say that. I don't agree with Chen Ming's point of view. I hope to stay in the empire forever, but it will not affect my cooperation with him."

"So everything you showed before was just acting?"

"Not at all."

"Understood. Let's discuss the rest between us. This is the end of the meeting."

Luo Yi ended the meeting directly and kicked everyone out.

Only he and An Wuping were left.

(End of this chapter)