Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 392 Tian Zhan
The idea of ​​cooperation between the two groups was something Chen Ming came up with after observing the two projects for some time.

There is no need to say much about the Gaia project.

At present, the existence of negative matter also seems to have a positive effect on the stability of the planet.

It's not just the added stability of the spatial dimension that can be seen from the research report from the negative matter team.

In addition, the negative matter team has conducted some simple experiments and confirmed that people working on the satellite that has integrated negative matter can feel a sense of calmness.

It allows people to not have too many random thoughts and to concentrate on doing one thing.

Chen Ming himself feels that the negative material environment is too heavy.

But for ordinary people or some psychics whose perception is not that sensitive, the state of this planet seems to be just right.

And since confirming the existence of negative matter, or since bringing the body of the Nightmare of the Plane out of the black hole and building the Nightmare of the Plane Space Station, Chen Ming has not found any problems.

Maybe he really was worrying too much about negative matter.

If these negative substances are used well, they will have very good prospects.

And if the special existence of these negative substances can be combined with the properties of the planet Gaia, the effect may be ideal.

That's why Chen Ming had this idea.

He himself is not involved in the research of negative matter. He is promoting this project purely because he thinks it has potential.

Making the planet more special and unique can bring some special effects to the people on the planet that are not available on ordinary planets. It is not a loss to do such a thing.

After writing the project plan and the general cooperation plan,
Chen Ming printed out a copy, took it with him and boarded a shuttle to the public space station located above the orbit of Gaia.

Some research groups that do not require a special working environment are currently working here.

We arrived at Tian Zhan's office without any obstruction.

When Chen Ming pushed open the office door, he happened to see Tian Zhan putting an opened letter away and putting it in the drawer.

Chen Ming didn't care about this. He just looked at the dark circles under Tian Zhan's eyes and said, "You really need to take a rest."

"I can still hold on."

When Tian Zhan heard Chen Ming mention this, he changed the subject somewhat awkwardly: "Director, what is the matter with you coming here today?"

"Well, there's a project I'd like to ask if you have any ideas."

"What project?"

Chen Ming deliberately kept it a secret: "I'll tell you about this later."

"I would like to ask you first about the new project you proposed."

"A new project? The one for the Gaia planet expansion?"

"Correct."

Tian Zhan said awkwardly: "To be honest, I just had this idea and wrote a paper and started a project to take up space. If I really want to do it, I definitely can't do it now."

Because this technology is based on climate modification technology, life seeder technology and the planet Gaia itself that he and his team are studying.

Simply put, the plan of this project is to allow the life seeder to sow not only organisms useful for climate change, but also Gaia itself.

Expand Gaia consciousness to other planets and make other planets become Gaia planets.

This was actually the source of inspiration for Chen Ming to come up with the idea of ​​fusing negative matter with matter on the planet Gaia to conduct experiments.

But the difficulty of this is not even on the same level as climate modification or even the life seeder.

The former only needs to consider the planet's climate and environment, but sowing seeds in Guyana already involves some matters related to psychic energy.

Although it is not too in-depth knowledge of psychic powers, one can imagine how difficult it is for ordinary people.

For example, at the Fanchao Research Institute, the ratio of ordinary people to psychics is about three to one, and these are the top talents recruited from the entire empire.

If one wants to keep up with psychics as an ordinary person and conduct research related to psychic powers, the abilities and talents required are no less than the talents required to become a psychic.

Both Chen Ming and Tian Zhan are aware of this and the difficulties of this project.

But this project was proposed by Tian Zhan, and Chen Ming was also very interested, so...

"I think it's pretty good and has a lot of potential. Why don't you consider giving it a try?"

Tian Zhan was very happy that someone, especially Chen Ming, recognized his project, but it was still not possible to actually do it.

He said politely: "I really want to do this project, but you also know that I have two other projects on hand now."

Chen Ming immediately said: "How can I let you do it now? I just came here to ask you if you have any other ideas. I still hope you can do it later. This looks really good."

“I would definitely do it if I had the chance.”

"Row."

Chen Ming was just asking casually, and after asking, he got down to business.

He handed the project document for the two groups that he had just written to Tian Zhan, and explained his ideas on the side.

He prefers to take away matter with planetary consciousness from Gaia rather than bring negative matter to Gaia.

Even though negative matter no longer seems dangerous, it is hard to say what will happen when it comes into contact with the planet Gaia.

That's why he wanted Tian Zhan to do this.

Anyway, the main focus is still on the negative matter group, and the two groups are working together to do things like Gaia plants.

Tian Zhan doesn't need to worry too much, just put your name on the list and distribute some materials.

Tian Zhan had also heard of the negative matter project team that Chen Ming mentioned.

But he had never been to the satellite that had fused a huge amount of negative matter, so he was not clear about the specific situation of the negative matter.

He was actually very interested in Chen Ming's ideas.

But he still didn't agree: "But I may not be able to take responsibility for this for the time being, because I may have to ask you for leave. I have something to do in my hometown, and I will have time later."

"Personal leave? No problem, that's fine."

Tian Zhan did not say anything final, and Chen Ming did not dwell on this point.

"You should take advantage of this leave to rest more. When you come back and have a good rest, finish the original things and then work on this project."

"I have given you permission to go to the fairy tree. When you have nothing to do, go there more often. Staying near the tree is good for your spirit."

This time, Tian Zhan nodded obediently. After all, the only thing that kept him going until now was the fairy tree.

"I'll approve the leave note for you when the time comes. You can fill in the length yourself."

Chen Ming came here to chat with Tian Zhan, to see his attitude and to ask some questions.

After asking, he should leave.
He also needs to go to the negative matter project team to ask for their opinions.

Chen Ming moved quickly.

The negative matter project team had some ideas about the new project he proposed.

Both the team leader and team members were very interested.

After all, Chen Ming’s planet Gaia has not been open to many people so far, and the number of people who can access it is very small even in his entire territory and the entire empire.

The negative matter project had no connection with the planet Gaia before, and of course there was no chance of contact.

However, the team seemed disappointed after learning that it was Gaia that unilaterally provided them with Gaia plants for testing, but they still did not reject the smart proposal.

This project has a foundation. As long as Tian Zhan comes back from leave, we can start preliminary research on this new project.
And over there, Tian Zhan.

After Chen Ming left his office.

He planned to make a trip to a satellite that had integrated a large amount of negative matter to personally experience the "calm" feeling.

The level of authority Chen Ming gave Tian Zhan was quite high, so he could move around freely in most places.

After all, he is currently the only talent who has jumped from a relatively relaxed department in the empire with an entire department of hundreds of people, so he must be treated well.

Even the Imperial Minister of Psychic Powers had come to talk to Chen Ming about this matter, and in the end they had no choice but to find someone to organize a new department.

Tian Zhan also acted very decisively.

He immediately took a shuttle to the satellite of Gaia on the other side of the wormhole.

And when he stepped onto the surface of the satellite.

A feeling of psychological heaviness enveloped him.

It allows him to put aside some messy thoughts and concentrate all his attention.

Tian Zhan did not leave the shuttle far, but just walked around nearby.

Then he took out the terminal, opened a research document at random, and took a quick look at it.

When he focused on one thing, he could feel his mental state became more stable.

Sure enough, seeing it once is better than hearing it a hundred times.

After the integration of negative matter, this originally ordinary habitable satellite has indeed become a very unique planet.

However, after Tian Zhan concentrated for a while, he felt that his head was a little too heavy.

This state of excessive concentration for a long time made him feel a little uncomfortable.

So he took out a small glass jar from his pocket, which contained a handful of fairy leaves, which Chen Ming allowed him to pick.

Tian Zhan took a leaf out of the jar, put it in his mouth, and chewed it for a few times. He felt that the heaviness was lighter and his mental state was better.

He nodded slightly and completely understood why Chen Ming brought up such a project.

Get off the satellite.

Tian Zhan did not return to the office.

Before he left, he had already packed most of what he needed to pack and had also prepared a leave application.

After sending the leave application to Chen Ming.

Tian Zhan boarded the spacecraft and arrived at the headquarters of the 14th Corps that day, and boarded the cruiser-class passenger ship of the private aerospace company.

He was silent all the way.

He usually rests in the cabin of the passenger ship. When he has rested enough, he opens his laptop and terminal to process files and does almost no other work.

It took him three days on the road to reach his hometown.

Tian Zhan’s hometown is neither prosperous nor located in the fringe star field. It is just a very ordinary star field, star region, galaxy and planet.

He changed several different types of transportation and finally arrived at the outskirts of a colony on his home planet.

There is an upscale residential area here, and he has a small detached villa in the area.

It was just getting dark when Tian Zhan came back, and the light from inside the room could not be seen from outside.

Just then, a neighbor was about to go out for a walk with his dog. Seeing Tian Zhan, he took the initiative to greet him and said, "Old Tian is back."

Although they were just neighbors, the neighbor next door seemed to have a hint of respect in his tone when speaking to Tian Zhan.

"Ah."

Tian Zhan nodded and said hello. Just as he was about to use his key to open the door, the neighbor reminded him, "Um...my sister-in-law and her family moved away some time ago."

Tian Zhan stopped inserting the key into the keyhole. He didn't seem surprised by the situation, but his expression still became gloomy.

"Where did you go?"

"I don't know."

"Oh."

Tian Zhan opened the door and walked into the room.

The neighbor didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he turned around and left.

Walked around the house.

Tian Zhan discovered that many things were missing from the three bedrooms in his house, except those that belonged to him.

Seeing that the ground and almost all the furniture were covered with dust, he could probably guess how long ago the person who lived here left.

Without hesitation, he walked into the villa's garage, where there was a shuttle.

He boarded the shuttle and after it started, he drove it towards the other side of the planet.

Tian Zhan's house belongs to the city, and the place he is about to go to is an area that is almost purely covered by different types of vegetation.

He is going to the country.

It is called the countryside. In fact, it is an agricultural area specially planned when the planet was planned, specializing in the production of various crops and livestock products, supplying food and foreign trade products for the colonies.

The products produced are very basic and the profits are not high, so the thick liquid areas on these planets have always been called "the countryside" by the people of the empire.

Of course, this countryside is also relative.

There are also high-rise buildings and large-scale industrial equipment here, but they are not as densely packed as real urban and industrial areas.

And there are full-time farmers here as well, not just ranchers who own large amounts of land.

Even planets in prosperous star regions have places like slums, and in galaxies that are not prosperous star regions, there will certainly be farmers who cannot afford large-scale industrial harvesters.

Anyway, the government has guaranteed us protection. We can just grow some grains, fruits and vegetables and we will definitely not starve to death.

After all, the truly cheap food on the market is still the food synthesized in factories.

Fruits and vegetables are not luxury items, but they are certainly more expensive than synthetic foods.

Tian Zhan was driving the shuttle, looking at the farmlands below, which were much larger than those on Earth, and the harvesters harvesting the ripe crops in the farmlands. He couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic.

However, he quickly put aside his feelings and landed the shuttle on a farm.

There were not many people on the farm, only some robots were still working.

However, someone in a building in the farm seemed to have heard the sound of the shuttle outside, walked out, and after seeing the shape of the shuttle clearly, he immediately turned around and entered the building and closed the door.

The sound of the door being smashed easily spread out in the night and reached Tian Zhan's ears.

Tian Zhan looked at the door that had just been closed with complicated eyes and landed the shuttle.

After getting off the boat, he straightened his clothes a little and walked towards the building where someone had just walked out.

He stood in front of the door, raised his hand and went in to knock.

A cold female voice came from inside: "Get out."

Tian Zhan's raised hand froze there, and his back seemed to bend.

after awhile.

Tian Zhan still did not leave, but searched for the key on his body, inserted it into the keyhole and turned it.

The door actually opened.

He pushed the door open with some surprise.

A woman who looked to be only about thirty years old, or maybe even younger, sat at the table in the living room, holding a small pink wooden box in her hands.

When she saw Tian Zhan push the door open, her gentle face suddenly changed, and she said to Tian Zhan coldly, "Get out."

"You haven't seen each other for several years. You might as well just treat us all as dead."

“…I’m working on a previous project.”

Tian Zhan's explanation seemed a little pale after hesitating for a while.

This made the woman even more angry: "Who are you doing this for? For yourself?"

Tian Zhan opened his mouth, but closed it immediately.

He wanted to talk, a lot of things.

But he didn't know how to say it.

He only knew how to write documents, how to write reports, and how to conduct a difficult experiment.

He didn't know how to explain his thoughts to his relatives, explain the true thoughts hidden in his heart.

He could only continue to speak in a somewhat pale voice: "The project has already taken shape. I am now working under a new big shot, and he has helped me a lot."

"We have found the key plants and will be able to produce results in a year at the latest."

The woman's expression changed slightly. It was no longer the relief of hearing that there would be results in a year, but an irrepressible disappointment... and despair.

She couldn't see anything she wanted in Tian Zhan.

"As if there's any use for you to study flowers."

At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from upstairs, and a child's voice asked, "Mom? Is Dad back?"

Tian Zhan forced himself to smile: "Dad is back."

boom!
Tian Zhan's wife slapped the table and said to the little boy who had just poked his head out from upstairs, "Go upstairs and sleep."

"Oh." The little boy hurried upstairs, but still hid at the corner of the stairs, sticking half of his head out and looking down carefully.

Tian Zhan's wife pointed her finger at Tian Zhan's nose and cursed: "You...get out!"

Seeing that Tian Zhan didn't move, she picked up the pink box she had been stroking, rushed to Tian Zhan, pushed him, and pushed him out of the house.

With tears in her eyes, she uttered a faint choked voice: "I found something I didn't give you when I was cleaning the bedroom."

"Take this, go, and don't come back, we don't need you."

Tian Zhan shook his head and said, "There's no way I won't come back."

"I would rather you didn't come back. We can take care of ourselves and don't need you to worry about us. You can continue to waste time on your research."

The wife closed the door.

Only Tian Zhan was left standing outside the door holding the box.

Listening to the faint crying coming from the room and the comforting voice of his son coming downstairs, he sighed softly, turned around and left.

The shuttle did not return to the city, but went to a beautiful place outside the city.

three days later.

Chen Ming received news from Tian Zhan that he wanted to cancel his leave.

After getting approval for his leave, he took a look at a document on his office computer.

This was the document he had specially investigated a few days ago out of curiosity about the reason why Tian Zhan was on leave.

It records Tian Zhan's identity and background in detail.

It can be seen that Tian Zhan got married when he was very young, but he also divorced when he was very young.

He and his ex-wife have one son and one daughter.

The son is currently being raised by his ex-wife.

Daughter...died young.

His divorce may also be related to this incident.

Chen Ming has seen many people who pursue work and neglect their families. Tian Zhan's reason for going back at this time must be related to his family.

Chen Mingke has no way of interfering in household affairs. He can only try to help out within the scope of his ability.

And on Tian Zhan's returning spaceship.

He still had one night to reach the Legion headquarters.

Before returning to his previous life, he finally plucked up the courage to open the little pink box his ex-wife had given him.

Just as his ex-wife said, this was a relic that was never found when her daughter died.

It wasn't found until my ex-wife moved and was cleaning the bedroom.

This was not something his daughter gave to other family members, but something left exclusively for Tian Zhan.

After opening it, a pendant, a letter, and a painting appeared before his eyes.

Tian Zhan picked up the emerald green pendant.

He still remembers this.

This was during a business trip he had been on a few years ago.

A special gem found on a terraformed planet.

It is a unique mineral on the planet that undergoes special changes when it comes into contact with climate-altering gases.

It has no practical value, but is very commemorative.

So Tian Zhan took a small piece of it, made it into a small pendant and gave it to his daughter.

Tian Zhan showed a look of pain and held the pendant tightly in his palm.

After a long while, he finally calmed down and picked up the painting at the bottom of the small box.

This one is drawn with crayons.

His daughter had scribbled the lower left portion of the paper with an ochre crayon and had drawn spirals in the upper left portion with a black crayon.

On the other half of the painting, his daughter used bright green, vivid green, and dark green to neatly and regularly fill the lower right corner, while in the upper right corner are stars and the blue sky.

In the center of the picture, there is a spaceship spraying something, bringing green back to this planet that has been severely affected by industrial pollution.

He was painted on the porthole of the spacecraft.

There is a little person painted on the green grass.

Tian Zhan stared at the little man in the painting for a long time, unable to move his eyes away. His eyes gradually became red, but no tears fell.

At this time, he no longer dared to open the remaining letter.

He could only lie helplessly on the floor in the room alone.

His ex-wife's words kept ringing in his ears: "Who are you doing this for?"

Tian Zhan didn't know who he was doing this for.

He neglected his family because of his climate modification project, preventing his daughter from getting the best medical resources.

After my daughter died, I completely abandoned this project for a long time.

This further proves that he actually doesn't take the climate modification project seriously.

Until later.

With the idea of ​​atonement or something else in mind, he restarted the project that his daughter had once said she wanted to do with her father.

It seems that all his actions are just to make himself feel better.

"Dad, what is climate modification?"

At this moment, Tian Zhan seemed to have returned to eight years ago and heard his daughter's voice.

He responded instinctively: "Look outside, isn't it green? Climate modification is to change many other colors of places to this green."

Tian Zhan asked: "Do you remember the past?"

"I remember that the place we lived in before was all black and yellow, and there were a lot of bad smells."

"what about now?"

Tian Zhan seemed to see her daughter raise her hands and make a "big" gesture: "Everywhere is green, the teacher said green is good."

"Yes, that's what Dad does."

"It's not just here. People in many other places are all black and yellow. Dad wants to make them green."

Climate modification can not only be used on non-habitable planets to transform them into habitable planets.

It can also be used on planets that have been developing industrial resources for many years and are subject to serious industrial pollution.

When a planet's resources are fully developed, many people will leave, and many will stay, or simply not be able to leave.
Climate modification can provide these people with a better living environment.

Just like Tian Zhan himself.

"Then I want it too!"

"What do you want too?"

"I want to learn from Dad!"

"Then you have to study hard now so that you can do the same thing as your father in the future."

"it is good!"

Tian Zhan felt a sharp pain in his heart, and the scene in front of him changed.

He could see himself going back a few years, to when he was younger and didn't have a beard.

At that time, he was full of energy and had a drive and enthusiasm that no one else had no desire to do anything.

"The project is being developed in a closed manner. All external communications will be prohibited for the next two months."

"Those who have something to do should withdraw now, and those who don't have anything to do, work harder!"

And then...it was all gray.

The daughter's body was found in the morgue.

This is an extremely rare condition.

If he had been there at the time and could have made contact, he could have used his connections to find a doctor with sufficient skills elsewhere, but he was not there.

He sat dejectedly in front of the equipment that had completed the experimental project, his eyes as silent as death.

Suddenly Tian Zhan woke up from a nightmare.

Although what just happened was just a dream, the reality is the same.

He did not see his daughter for the last time, and his ex-wife only left him a divorce agreement.

At that time, he was unable to recover, which affected the normal operation of the entire climate transformation department.

The higher-ups still value him and have not removed him from his position.

But this department itself has no future. People leave one after another. At its lowest point, there are only five people in a department.

Until he saw a video.

The video shows his daughter telling her incompetent father about her ideals at the last moment, and how she wanted to work with him to bring green to everyone.

Then Tian Zhan regained his spirits and devoted himself to the climate transformation project more than ever before, like a madman.

He reorganized the staff and looked for people with aspirations and similar aspirations.

Some people's home world is not a perfect, habitable planet.

Some people’s hometown is like Tian Zhan’s hometown, an industrial planet after all its resources have been developed.

Climate modification technology has a very special value to these people.

Relying on the same ideal, Tian Zhan has gathered more and more people, each of whom is trustworthy.

These people are the foundation after Tian Zhan re-established the Climate Transformation Department.

This was also the reason why he agreed to keep most of the people when he joined Chen Ming's side.

Tian Zhan returned to the Climate Transformation Department.

Five days later.

Planet Gaia.

As usual, Chen Ming goes to the planet Gaia to see the fairy tree once a week.

I just happened to see Tian Zhan next to the fairy tree which is now two stories high.

His mental state is much better than before.

Chen Ming greeted him and said, "I've had a good rest. I feel good."

Tian Zhan subconsciously touched the corners of his eyes and indeed did not feel any serious eye bags or dark circles.

He nodded and remained silent.

But Chen Ming didn't want to remain silent, so he asked, "Have you been worried about something these days?"

As a psychic, Chen Ming's perception of the conditions of people around him can be said to be extremely keen.

Tian Zhan has been in a bad state since he came back from his last leave.

Although his mental state was better, he looked a little unwell.

He seems to have some problem.

Tian Zhan opened his mouth.

His heart knot still lies in what his ex-wife said to him.

"Who are you doing this for?"

He didn't know whether his purpose was for his daughter or for himself.

He could only reluctantly explain: "It's just... a little confused."

"What are you confused about?"

"I heard that you are very strict in screening the people who join you. You must know my background, right?"

"Correct."

"I wonder...what am I doing this for?"

Chen Ming thought about Tian Zhan's situation and could probably guess what he was confused about.

So he thought about it and said, "What I said may be a little harsh, just curse me in your heart."

"Let me ask you, is the funeral for the living or for the dead?"

"A living person?"

"No, for others it's for the living to see."

“But for real family members, funerals are for the dead.”

Chen Ming once had no family, but he has one now.

And in this process, he also came into contact with many people who valued family, such as Baiquan, and even had an argument with Baiquan about this matter.

When it comes to matters concerning his relatives, Chen Ming feels that he can still say a few words.

Tian Zhan looked at Chen Ming, his eyes still full of confusion.

“I feel like what I’m doing doesn’t make any sense.”

"?"

Chen Ming didn't understand why Tian Zhan suddenly talked about the three major questions in life, but he knew what Tian Zhan was talking about specifically.

“Let me ask you, what was your original reason for doing this project?”

"for……"

Tian Zhan wanted to say something, but stopped halfway through.

Because he couldn't quite remember why he had gone back to work on this project in the first place.

But gradually, he remembered.

He thought of the few people in the dust and pollution.

And the faces that smiled genuinely after the entire planet was climate modified.

The confusion in Tian Zhan's eyes gradually dissipated.

Chen Ming felt that Tian Zhan seemed to need some time alone, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

"Please think about it more."

Tian Zhan looked at Chen Ming's back and hesitated several times, wanting to say something else.

But he still couldn't open his mouth.

Until Chen Ming felt his movement, turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tian Zhancai finally asked, "Can we take a sample of the soil under the fairy tree?"

Chen Ming said with an expression that said, "Okay, just don't damage the roots."

After Chen Ming left.

Tian Zhan did not go to the spaceship to get tools, but started digging the soil under the trunk of the fairy tree with his hands.

These soils should have been extremely hard due to the nourishment of the spiritual energy of the fairy tree.

But Tian Zhan easily dug up all the soil with his bare hands.

He didn't know why, but he knew what he had to do.

He took some soil and quietly buried his daughter's relic, the emerald green gem pendant, under the tree roots.

The fairy tree, and the Gaia consciousness that is now shared with the fairy tree consciousness, are his hope and the most crucial existence for realizing his and his daughter's ideals.

It was like some kind of funeral ceremony.

Let him completely let go and remember the past.

(End of this chapter)