Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 395 Repairing the Rift
Chen Ming tore Wang Guanghe's body into pieces and extinguished the part of his consciousness that controlled his body.

His face was darker than before.

If it were any other time, Chen Ming wouldn't care about the threat of a brainwashed psychic.

But it was precisely at this time that he was sure that he would not be able to spare any extra energy to deal with these things.

The trouble of the scarlet space-ripping invasion still lay before him.

He wanted to resolve the Scarlet Invasion in order to prevent his planet from being affected near the invaded area.

But if the brainwashed psyker from Zuojing had a way to directly bring the influence of Scarlet over, then what he did would be meaningless.

And this is most likely not alarmist or a lie, because the test results done by Chen Ming are already very obvious.

He brought Wang Guanghe into the Scarlet Dimension.

Even though it's just a little distance away, and it's still lingering on the edge of the spatial barrier between phase space and scarlet dimension.

But no matter what, Wang Guanghe had definitely entered the scarlet dimension, and there was an eye staring at it in the scarlet dimension that could cause large areas of scarlet infection on the satellite just by staring at it.

He could still ask as if nothing had happened why he was brought in.

There is no need to explain the reasons behind this.

At the beginning, Chen Ming used An Wuping's identity to go to the Caimo Star Region within the empire to deal with the dimensional infection incident artificially created by Zuo Jing.

At that time he saw a psychic, whose code name in the left path was Zhen.

Part of Zhen's body had been infected by the scarlet blood and turned into flesh and blood tentacles, but he still maintained his consciousness and clashed with him.

Under normal circumstances, for psychics, death always occurs before infection.

So there must be some special connection between Zuo Jing and Scarlet.

The brainwashed psychic may have also been exposed to the Scarlet Dimension and strengthened his own psychic powers through the power of the Scarlet Dimension.

This is the conjecture that Chen Ming verified.

Chen Ming’s identity is special. The psychic power he awakened is related to dimension from the beginning, so he can use psychic power even if he is countless light years away.

But brainwashed psychics obviously didn't have such abilities in the past.
He was only able to do that after a certain point in time.

Now the reason has been completely determined.

And if the brainwashed psychic is really connected to Scarlet, then he can indeed make the disaster of dimensional infection erupt anywhere affected by his psychic power.

Just like what Chen Ming did himself when facing Leviathan.

The brainwashed psychic is now forcing him to make a choice.

He was forced to make a choice that would involve loss once again.

He had been forced to abandon the rescue of the satellite, which had now been completely infused with negative matter.

Now he is forced to abandon the colonies and planets he had worked so hard to build.

He had no other choice.

Because he knew which loss would be greater, losing his own planet or losing control of the invading scarlet matter.

This was not the choice Chen Ming wanted to make at all, but the pressure of the environment was constantly forcing him to make the choice the brainwashed psychic asked him to make.

This is also the most troublesome situation of having a base of your own.

If Chen Ming was alone, with only the Zerg, Yu Hui and the Mechanicals for company, he wouldn't need to consider these issues at all.

But when he has that, he has to take that into account as well.

What Chen Ming is afraid of now is that the brainwashed psychic will do this to him while he is dealing with Scarlet's troubles.
The sudden outbreak of trouble had left him unable to distract himself from dealing with the scarlet elsewhere.

Although he has protected every planet and every space station, he cannot protect every person.

Even if he let it go, the worst outcome would be the destruction of these planets.

But these planets and these colonies are the result of his years of hard work.

If there are losses in the process, the trouble of making up for the losses or rebuilding may completely ruin his idea.

Chen Ming has always believed in one thing.

If a strong person cannot take all these aspects into consideration, then he is not considered a strong person.

In the past, he thought he was strong enough and that he could protect those close to him when necessary.

But now it seems... he is not strong enough.

Even though his psychic power is so strong that no one in the empire can fight him head-on, there are still ways to make him make decisions against his will.

This is Zuo Jing, the real leader of Zuo Jing, and the one who brainwashes psychics.

Chen Ming took a deep breath, threw away his messy thoughts, and calmed down.

Things definitely haven't gotten to the worst point yet.

Because he suddenly realized something.

There is nothing wrong with what the brainwashed psychic said, and there is definitely nothing wrong with him being able to do it.

But how can he do it? What price will he have to pay along the way? What kind of losses will he suffer?
These are the key.

If he could really spread the scarlet infection to any corner of the world at will, even to his side, then the empire should have already started to experience dimensional infection outbreaks everywhere.

How could he be the first to "enjoy" the psychic effects from the brainwashed psychic?

Fundamentally speaking, the one who has the biggest conflict with Zuo Jing is not him, but the empire.

The Empire is the biggest enemy that has been in constant conflict with Zuo Jing for hundreds and thousands of years.

Zuo Jing really had the means to do this. Why didn't he go to the Empire and release the scarlet infection in several important colonies of the Empire at the first time? Instead, he came to him? He was the person who was most familiar with the scarlet in the Empire.

If the brainwashed psychic brainwashed some people and infiltrated, it would be normal that Chen Ming didn't notice it.

It is impossible for him to carefully observe whether everyone has strange behavior when doing things in their daily life. At most, he will occasionally pay attention to the people he cares about.

But if it is scarlet.

Chen Ming was absolutely confident that Scarlet could not avoid his detection and infiltrate his territory.

As long as any scarlet dared to appear within the range of his spiritual power, he would be able to detect it immediately.

He could say in the most arrogant tone that no one in the entire empire had come into contact with more scarlet than he had.

He was just misled by the words of the brainwashed psychic.

There is no way a brainwashed psyker could release Scarlet easily.

Although the president also encountered the scarlet invasion, given Chen Ming's familiarity and level of familiarity with the president after working together for so long, he believed that it was simply a scarlet invasion that tore apart the spatial barrier, rather than a dimensional infection that suddenly appeared.

Releasing the scarlet infection on the left path will definitely come at a huge cost.

The scarlet released by Chen Ming himself is limited and not as contagious, or it can be said that it is not as contagious as the scarlet substance that comes out of the genuine scarlet dimension.

Unless the brainwashed psychic really becomes a part of Scarlet, it is impossible for him to use the absorbed Scarlet power to spread the infection.

He doesn't need to worry so much.

But Chen Ming still felt a little scared because he almost got tricked.

He was just talking to someone for a few words, but he almost ignored the objective conditions and limitations.

It seems that chatting and talking nonsense with the enemy is okay for others, but it is not so good for brainwashed psychics who rely on deception and brainwashing to preach.

If you have the chance, just kill him and don't give him the chance to complain.

After Chen Ming calmed down and thought about it carefully, he realized that there was still danger from Scarlett.

Even if he could pay a considerable price to actively cause dimensional infection, the degree of danger was already acceptable.

Even if he suffers a loss today, he can find a way to make up for it.

And make Zuo Jing pay a higher price.

But that’s not enough.

He wanted to preserve everything he had, and he went up to fight Scarlet simply to avoid any disaster in his hometown.

Chen Ming's goal has never been to completely eliminate Scarlett; he is not that arrogant.

He couldn't even stay in Scarlet for long now, and it was pure delusion to get rid of Scarlet.

All he actually had to do was repel the Scarlet, close the Scarlet's gap, and then retreat.

If necessary, he could even discard this body that had entered the scarlet color at will.

The existence of his consciousness can leave any body and enter any body at any time. This is the confidence he has in doing so.

If he was efficient enough in fighting off the Scarlet, he might even be able to catch up with the changing situation on the satellite.

It can also prevent the scarlet matter from guiding the negative matter and causing the planet to start moving towards a black hole again.

Chen Ming thought for a long time, but considering his consciousness intensity and thinking speed, this long time was only less than one second in the normal universe.

He made a decision.

He ignored the words of the brainwashed psychic and controlled the scavenger, who had completely turned into a flesh and blood machine, to rush into the scarlet again.

What is being smelted in the giant furnace that looks like a glowing pupil in the core of the scavenger is no longer metal, but materials from the phase beasts that he brought with his psychic energy. Of course, all of them are artificially synthesized phase beast materials.

These things themselves have the property of resisting scarlet. After smelting, these effects are not weakened, but will resist scarlet in a more efficient way.

The furnace, which originally emitted a fiery orange light, spewed out a special blue-purple flame like a planetary engine, burning everything scarlet.

The scavenger, who originally had half of his body remaining on the other side of the space rift, also completely entered the scarlet dimension.

Chen Ming finally saw the full picture of the scarlet purpose.

It just looked like nothing special, a giant eyeball with some messy bloody flesh and tissue behind it.

The most special thing about it is the scarlet effect brought about by his gaze.

Chen Ming even suspected that this eye was the eye that crawled back to the Scarlet Dimension from other dimensions after the president threw the entire galaxy into other dimensions when the empire was first infected by the dimension.

Of course he had no evidence.

But it doesn’t matter whether it is or not. Anyway, as long as the threat of the Scarlet Dimension to the normal universe is not eliminated, this eye roaming in the Scarlet Dimension and targeting him will always be on Chen Ming’s kill list.

As Chen Ming controlled the flesh-and-blood mechanical scavenger into the scarlet, and relied on the scavenger's core furnace to release a huge amount of phase matter back into the scarlet.

The Scarlet Eye, which was harmed by this phase substance, finally launched a counterattack.

A circle of blood-red substance appeared in its giant black and red pupil, and there was no other substantial observable phenomenon.

But Chen Ming's mental strength was being consumed at a rate nearly ten times faster than before.

The power of Scarlet Eyes comes from gaze.

Its gaze carried the power of psychic energy. All Chen Ming could do was to use his mental strength to collide with its gaze.

This kind of pure spiritual power confrontation does not involve any practical skills. There is only explosive power impact and long-lasting endurance with mental strength as the core foundation.

During this process, Chen Ming also had to divert some of his attention to completely close the space rift behind him that led to the phase space.

But Chen Ming had just come up with this idea.

Behind the Scarlet Eye's eyeball, the flesh and blood tissue that seemed to be stuck to the eyeball suddenly began to flow out as if blood was flowing.

This is not the scarlet substance that fills this scarlet dimension, but a unique substance belonging to the Scarlet Purpose that is extremely contagious and threatening.

After they gathered to a certain extent on the surface of the Scarlet Eye's flesh and blood, they exploded into blood mist like blood bubbles bursting, and rushed towards the direction of Chen Ming's scavenger.

Each ball of blood mist is not pure blood red, but is mixed with countless pale white substances.

These white substances are not anything special, but the whites of extremely tiny eyeballs.

Faced with a scene that could drive anyone with trypophobia crazy at first glance, Chen Ming suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

He also controlled Leviathan to release a large amount of phase matter to block it, forming a layer of hot blue-purple fire net around him.

With a constant supply of external resources, the scavenger's furnace can continue to burn for a long time.

But soon, Chen Ming discovered that not all of these tiny eyeballs that made up the blood mist were directed at him. A considerable number of the eyeballs' attacks directly bypassed him and rushed into the phase space.

Chen Ming was still wondering what these eyeballs were for.

As he blocked the gap in space and prevented these eyeballs from having any subsequent scarlet power to support them, they entered the phase space and would eventually be killed by the nature of the phase space itself, without being able to make any waves at all.

Anyway, he had already closed the space gap leading to the normal universe in the phase space. The people on the satellite had been sent away long before he sent the satellite into the phase space, and the animals and plants on it had all been infected by scarlet.

What is the use of these eyeballs entering the phase space?
Chen Ming was not sure, but the more he had to do to eliminate the enemy, the less likely he would let it be done.

The scavenger simply took this opportunity to retreat, and rolled the blue-purple flames burning the phase behemoth materials into the already opened space rift, burning the seemingly endless blood mist and the tiny eyeballs in the blood mist.

If a dimensional infection occurred on a planet, with so many eyeballs randomly scattered in a place that should be normal, it would be a huge trouble for those who have to deal with them.

But at this time, these eyeballs that had no support at all could only wander around in the space, allowing Chen Ming to easily eliminate them completely.

Although Chen Ming's scavenger's retreat allowed Scarlet Eyes to seize the opportunity to move one step closer to the space rift.

But Chen Ming also took this opportunity to separate the main body of the scavenger's outer ring structure, which was used to collect small celestial bodies in space.

Then use the effects of psychic energy to carry out multiple transformations on this structure which is already a mixture of flesh, blood and machinery.

Several miniaturized furnaces were built on an entire ring structure, each of which was burning the materials of the phase beasts, and using the blue-purple flames to purify all the scarlet things that tried to pass through the gap.

Then another ring-shaped structure separated from the scavenger's body, and another circle of blue-purple fire ring appeared near the gap, temporarily blocking the space gap from another angle.

The scavenger's body is also showing more and more modifications that Chen Ming has made based on the current combat needs.

As long as Chen Ming is given a little more time, he can simply rely on the loss of materials to block everything that belongs to the Scarlet back into the Scarlet Dimension.

He is no longer the weak psychic who almost suffered a mental breakdown after being exposed to the scarlet for less than half a second.

He is now able to rely on the support of the power behind him to compete with the Scarlet Dimension.

at this time.

The Scarlet Eyes suddenly and flexibly mobilized the power of the Scarlet Dimension.

Most of this power was absorbed by itself and rapidly transformed into tiny eyeballs that continued to proliferate in the flesh and blood tissue behind its eyeballs.

The other part rushed towards the two ring structures burning with blue and purple flames that Chen Ming had just thrown out.

The power of the flames on the ring structure instantly weakened under the scarlet suppression.

Even with the materials provided by Chen Ming to assist in combustion, it cannot compare to Scarlet's home advantage.

The Scavenger has a total of three layers of refitting structures for capturing asteroids.

Just when Chen Ming wanted to release the third ring of fire, the Scarlet Eye, which was not far away, suddenly rushed over at an extremely fast speed and had a head-on physical fight with the scavenger.

The third fire ring was directly shattered by the impact of Scarlet Eye's body and could not be used again.

Although the burning ring of fire left a dead black scar on the white of the giant eyeball.

The flames gushing from the scavenger's core furnace turned the pupil of the giant eyeball from black and red to a deathly white.

But soon, countless broken tiny eyeballs flowing with thick fluid were separated, and countless new eyeballs grew on the wound.

Scarlet Purpose's condition did not get worse at all.

In this scarlet dimension that belongs to him, confronting the scarlet creatures is definitely not a wise choice.

However, Chen Ming's purpose was not to confront it.

Instead, we should first find a way to repel it, and then take the opportunity to seal the space rift.

Now it is actively giving the opportunity to avoid the appearance of the third ring of fire, then...

wrong.

Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the scarlet substances just now were not intended to break into the phase space to conflict with the ring structure he released.

They did not further pass through the space crack. Instead, they entangled themselves on the space crack, intertwining together like newly grown flesh and blood.

Like weaving a web, he used flesh, muscles and nerves to repair the gap in the space.

This is not just a disguised repair, but a real means of repairing space gaps.

The Scarlet Eye is actively repairing the gap and closing the rift leading to the phase space.

This is what Chen Ming wants to do.

But when Scarlet Eyes did this, Chen Ming only felt his scalp tingling.

Because it is in this scarlet substance that repairs

He could feel his mental connection with the normal universe growing weaker and weaker.

Chen Ming immediately understood what Xinghong was going to do.

He didn't dare to make any more unnecessary moves and immediately controlled the scavenger to turn around and rush towards the space crack that had not yet been completely closed.

However, before the scavenger could turn his head completely, the Scarlet Eye hit the scavenger's body again as it did before.

It no longer just used pure gazes to put pressure on Chen Ming's mental strength, but was actually trying its best to block Chen Ming in the scarlet.

Three actions, three collisions, before the scavengers could even get close to the gap, the last crack was forcibly repaired by the Scarlet Dimension.

At this time, Chen Ming's connection with everything in the normal universe was almost severed.

Although it has not been completely disconnected, at this time he can no longer connect with everything he controls in the normal universe in the scarlet that is completely isolated from the normal universe.

His consciousness was sealed within the scarlet, and he could no longer utilize the convenience of his psychic powers.

The scavenger's blue-purple flame gradually died out.

Chen Ming could no longer easily send things from the normal universe to Scarlet.

Leviathan lost its fuel and became a pile of scrap metal and dead flesh.

Chen Ming's heart sank.

This is an unprecedented situation right now.

Scarlet's goal has always been to invade, but now it has taken the initiative to cut off the invasion route.

Such abnormal behavior... requires him to face the Scarlet Power.

The Scarlet is an ocean of psionic knowledge capable of bringing madness.

But this does not mean that all creatures living in the scarlet are crazy.

They must also have a means of communication.

No matter who you are with...

Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychic really used all means to lead him into the trap step by step.

Each one was a pit that Chen Ming had never seen before, and each step was on a road that Chen Ming was completely unfamiliar with.

He is in trouble.

at this time.

The leader of the negative matter team... or the leader who was controlled by the brainwashed psychic, was on the spaceship that left the Gaia galaxy.

The brainwashed psychic was holding the communicator and looking at the contents on it.

Apparently they had communicated.

The brainwashed psychic then asked on the communicator: "Do you have any opinions?"

"No, this matter only concerns you. We don't want to get involved."

The brainwashed psychic shook his head and said, "I don't know why you are afraid to use this kind of power. If you fail, you will just die."

The Remnants did not answer the Brainwashed Psyker as to why they did not use the power of dimensional infection.

But they suddenly answered his previous question again.

"That planet Gaia has a self-awareness and a fairy tree on it. It is the most valuable planet in Chen Ming's hands. It is the best place for infection."

"Then this is it."

The brainwashed psychic said this and mobilized his own psychic energy.

In fact, no matter how the survivor answered, he already had the answer in his heart.

What he said before did scare Chen Ming.

There are not so many opportunities to create dimensional infection, especially to create dimensional infection multiple times in front of someone who has experienced dimensional infection many times. This is simply an act of seeking death.

This is true even for brainwashed psychics.

If he really had the idea of ​​creating multiple dimensional infections, Chen Ming would definitely track him down and crush him to death.

In terms of combat effectiveness, he is indeed not as good as Chen Ming.

But in terms of his insidiousness and cunningness, Chen Ming is not even worthy of carrying his shoes.

So he knew that he only had one chance and he had to use it at the most critical moment.

Planet Gaia.

There are not many people on the planet Gaia, but there are countless valuable things.

The brainwashed psychic slightly supported his forehead, feeling the pain of his consciousness being torn apart, and nodded slightly.

This is the price he has to pay for using his psychic powers.

(End of this chapter)