Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 396 Emergency Measures

At this moment, Chen Ming felt extremely overwhelmed facing the closed space barrier.

He really didn't expect that the situation would be reversed now.

It was his turn to tear open a dimensional rift from the Scarlet to the normal universe.

The existence in the scarlet wanted to completely close the space rift and trap Chen Ming here to death.

Although he didn't need to think too much about repairing the spatial barrier between the scarlet dimension and phase space.

Next, as long as he can return to the phase space, he can return to the normal universe and solve the problem of the scarlet invasion.

Then the problem is coming.

How can he break through the scarlet restrictions, tear through the space barrier and return to the normal universe in this situation where his connection with the normal universe is almost cut off and he cannot use the resources he has accumulated?
How can he tear the space barrier when he is in scarlet and under great mental pressure?
and……

Chen Ming glanced in front of the scavenger who could no longer burn the blue-purple flame. There was a big eyeball staring at him.

Although the big eyeball did not cause any real harm to him just now, he had quickly adapted to the pure mental attack since his spirit was severely damaged last time.

As for the subsequent impact of the Scarlet Eye, there was no obvious effect either. At most, it just smashed some of the scavengers' structures.

The damage the Scavengers caused to the Scarlet Eye was far greater than the damage it caused to the Scavengers.

But that doesn't mean he has a big advantage.

Because he is now in someone else's home court.

Chen Ming even suspected that the brainwashed psychic who had controlled the scavenger to repel the Scarlet Eye and enter the Scarlet Dimension was all carefully designed.

How can he escape from Scarlet as he is being hunted by Scarlet Purpose?

Chen Ming had no time to think about it, because the scarlet eyes had once again turned their corrupt gaze towards him.

Its blood-red pupils reflected this scarlet world, as well as the body of the scavenger and Chen Ming who was standing at the control panel inside the scavenger's structure.

The gaze of the Scarlet Eye at this time brought Chen Ming even greater pressure than when he entered the Scarlet Dimension before.

The physical strength of the creatures in the Scarlet Dimension is not particularly outstanding, but the psychic power and scarlet force they possess are the most terrifying.

The unavoidable mental pressure brought about by visual attacks can be dealt with when Chen Ming has the support of normal universe resources.

But at this moment, Chen Ming only felt that his mental power recovery speed could not keep up with the consumption speed.

His total amount of mental power and the speed of its recovery normally receive a huge boost from the hive mind network.

The reason why he can enter the Scarlet for a long time is because of the support of the upper limit of his mental power, which prevents the Scarlet from directly draining away all his mental power.

Then, he relied on the huge amount of mental energy that existed at every moment to recover quickly to ensure that the consumption could keep up.

But at this time, his connection with the two hive mind networks was almost non-existent.

The hive mind network has become a mere decoration.

Although Chen Ming's total mental power did not decrease due to the weakening of the connection, the speed at which his mental power recovered was as slow as an ant crawling compared to the previous rocket-like speed.

He could not linger in the scarlet and the scarlet eyes.

If he delays a little longer, his mental strength will be exhausted.

When his mental strength is exhausted, he will die.

There is a difference between facing the crisis of death in person and manually commanding and operating the fleet to fight.

In particular, it was the first time for Chen Ming to fight in such an unfavorable environment.

This situation really made him extremely nervous... and excited.

Although the substance adrenaline has basically no effect on his consciousness.

But Chen Ming still felt a sudden sense of excitement.

And it gets even worse.

The particularity of the Scarlet Dimension itself.

There is no direct concept of time and space in the Scarlet Dimension. Everything is chaotic and there is no object to refer to.

It is like the existence of a quantum state. Only when it is observed will it collapse and become a temporarily stable space.

This is also the reason why the Scarlet Dimension has never been able to accurately locate the Empire's position, unless clones appear as anchor points to determine the position between the two dimensions.

And if the Scarlet Dimension fails to connect with the normal universe and open a channel to serve as an anchor point, chaos will fill this space at all times.

Just like the place where Chen Ming just tore open the space crack.

Even if he were to tear open a space rift from this position now, it might not lead to any place in any dimension.

Chen Ming doesn't want to know what is in the black hole dimension or other dimensions hidden deeper.

But fortunately, his psychic power is still effective, and his connection with the normal universe has not been completely severed.

He could faintly sense that the things that belonged to him were moving randomly and discretely in certain corners of another dimension that was in contact with the Scarlet Dimension.

As long as Chen Ming can find those key nodes and tear open the space cracks in these places, he can return to the normal universe.

Chen Ming quickly thought through his current situation.

Control the scavengers to turn around and run away.

It was impossible for him to engage in a head-on battle with the Crimson Eye in the Crimson Dimension. All he could do was stay away from it as much as possible.

The particularity of the Scarlet Dimension makes it difficult to return directly from the Scarlet Dimension to the normal universe. At the same time, its spatial chaos also allows Chen Ming to escape in disguise.

Any spatial uncertainty in the scarlet dimension will cause Chen Ming, who is in this space, to instantly appear in the scarlet dimension to a place where he doesn't even know where he has run to.

Able to quickly get rid of the Scarlet Eyes for a considerable distance.

It is not quite appropriate to say it is distance, because the space in the scarlet dimension is chaotic and distance has no meaning.

And even if he was far away, as long as Chen Ming dared to stop for a while, the Scarlet Eyes would still catch up with him and linger around.

The scarlet had already locked onto Chen Ming a long time ago. No matter how he escaped, he could not escape the tracking of the indigenous creatures that existed in the scarlet.

Even though Chen Ming had tried his best to run away, the Scarlet Eyes could still suddenly emerge from some chaotic space after countless attempts to escape and get on Chen Ming's face.

Chen Ming could only continue running while bearing the mental pressure.

The enormous pressure made it gradually difficult for him to suppress his emotions, which had originally calmed down.

He really wanted to turn around and fight Scarlet Eyes, but he knew that doing so would make it even more impossible for him to survive.

He could only keep running.

And while running, he must maintain a high level of mental concentration and pay close attention to the connection nodes in the normal universe that may appear around him at any time.

He can only leave by grabbing these nodes that are scattered in the scarlet and chaotically due to the distortion of time and space.

Even though Chen Ming was controlling the scavenger to run away, the scavenger's outer protection and additional support in terms of movement meant that he did not need to use any extra mental energy.

At this time, the steel jungle in his consciousness space had begun to rust.

This was the manifestation that he had truly begun to lose the most essential part of his spiritual power.

And there's something even worse going on.

The fuel in the scavenger he controlled ran out.

The scavenger was able to suppress the scarlet in the space rift before, relying on the endless supply of artificial phase materials provided by Chen Ming using his psychic energy.

After the space rift was closed, the scavengers lost their comprehensive energy supply.

As the last bit of fuel ran out.

Most of the scavenger's functions shut down by themselves, and it could only slow down slowly in the scarlet dimension.

Even though the scavenger already has nearly half of his body in flesh and blood, he will find it difficult to survive after losing the energy supply.

At this time, it was impossible for Chen Ming to hold on to the scavenger.

He could only choose to abandon it and continue on his way alone.

Fortunately, Chen Ming sent out the nanoforge that was capable of building an industrial colony on its own before bringing in the scavengers, so that his losses would at least not be that great.

Next, he could only rely on the biological armor to continue chasing the Scarlet Eyes in Scarlet.

It’s a shame that he’s the one who took out a bunch of entities created by Scarlet and was hunted down in the end.

Although it loses the convenience of being a vehicle, the flexibility of the biological armor itself has indeed been greatly improved.

But in the scarlet, the most important thing is the speed that can rely on the distortion of space and time to create real distance.

But Chen Ming could do nothing now. He could only start the biological engine of the armor and continue to approach the nodes in his psychic perception.

But as his speed decreased, the Scarlet Eyes' tracking speed became faster and faster, and its efficiency became higher and higher.

Before, it might take about ten minutes in Chen Ming's perception for Scarlet Eyes to catch up, requiring him to burst out the engine's power to get rid of it.

And now it only takes five minutes for the Scarlet Eye to appear behind him.

Obviously, the biological armor was not damaged as quickly as the scavenger's, but the Scarlet Eyes was able to get behind him faster than before.

Chen Ming could only use his psychic powers again and again to make the biological armor briefly burst out at a faster speed to escape.

Finally, after enduring the physical sense time for nearly an hour, he sensed that there was a node in the nearby scarlet dimension that was connected to the normal universe.

Chen Ming didn't know when this node would disappear due to the time and space disorder of the Scarlet Dimension, but he knew that this was his closest chance to leave the Scarlet Dimension.

While the speed of the spiritual energy burst had not yet dissipated, Chen Ming quickly approached that space based on his own perception.

Fortunately, the distortion of space did not cause his actual distance to become further away from this space during this process.

He really arrived at this space.

Chen Ming immediately tried it. He gathered his spiritual energy in his hands, stretched it forward, and stabbed into the space in front of him.

Curl your fingers into a claw and claw hard.

A faint scratch was left in front of him, floating in the scarlet void.

Although this scratch is only half the size of a person, at this moment Chen Ming cannot continue to tear the space crack too large, which will cause additional loss of mental power.

The stability of this space was immediately affected, but it was still quite a distance away from being torn apart.

Chen Ming reached out his hand again, wanting to do the most with the least mental burden. But his mental energy was still consumed much more than he expected.

Moreover, the rate of consumption growth continues to rise.

It was not that the consumption of tearing space continued to increase, but that the scarlet eyes circled over again like a vulture that had discovered a dying animal.

Chen Ming gritted his teeth, concentrated all the spiritual energy he could mobilize within his current limits on his arms, and forcibly broke a small piece of the space barrier the size of a fingernail in front of Scarlet Eyes.

Behind this space barrier is a blue-purple space.

Chen Ming did not have time to escape through this gap.

Because the gap is too small to accommodate Chen Ming's complete consciousness.

And just as he opened the gap, countless scarlet substances poured into the gap on their own and completely sealed the gap under the influence of the Scarlet Purpose.

Normally it's easier to destroy than to repair, but that's certainly not the case right now.

Chen Ming had no choice but to give up this opportunity and continue to evacuate.

As long as the Scarlet Eye is still tracking him, it will not allow him to tear the space apart.

Even if the mental attack cannot have an explosive impact on Chen Ming's behavior in a short period of time, its physical impact and blockage can destroy Chen Ming's operation of tearing space.

It doesn't need to cause much damage, as long as it can knock Chen Ming away and prevent Chen Ming from being able to maintain stable contact with a piece of space for a long time, its purpose will be achieved.

Chen Ming must solve this problem, otherwise he will definitely not be able to tear open a space large enough to accommodate the passage of his consciousness.

With the amount of mental strength he currently has remaining, he still has at most two chances left.

If he is unlucky enough not to encounter a node connected to the normal universe, then as time goes by, he may only have one chance left, or he may never have another chance.

Chen Ming was a little nervous, but not panicked.

Anyway, the worst outcome is nothing more than death. Only by doing things calmly can you have the greatest possibility of survival.

He was thinking about how he could avoid being hunted further, and how he could tear the space barrier most efficiently.

He was thinking about how he could make a comeback.

As Chen Ming continued to wander in the scarlet along the nodes of perception, he suddenly noticed that the scarlet substance in the surrounding environment had undergone subtle changes.

If the scarlet substance just now gave him a kind of mental pressure of being spied on all the time.

Then the red substance he came into contact with at this time made him feel confused. Everything he thought about would inevitably be affected by this substance, causing his thinking to be stained with the illusion of distorted flesh and blood.

The content of thinking is an illusion, but the feeling that makes Chen Ming's thinking appear illusory is not an illusion.

He seemed to have come to the territory of another scarlet creature without realizing it.

Chen Ming immediately had an idea in his mind.

He immediately changed the direction of his movement according to the concentration of the scarlet substance.

No matter what this scarlet creature is or what its position is, he must go over and take a look. This is an opportunity.

Anyway, even if this new scarlet creature is an enemy, it will not affect his escape.

But if it could come into conflict with the Scarlet Eyes, that would be the best outcome.

Chen Ming's actions seemed to make Scarlet Eyes feel troubled. It once again increased its speed, and its efficiency in catching up with Chen Ming in this chaotic space and time was improved again.

This change made Chen Ming suddenly feel that there was hope, and he quickly moved further in the direction that made the chaotic thoughts in his brain with blood and flesh flying everywhere worse.

Soon, a sense of danger emerged in his consciousness.

The new scarlet creatures had noticed his presence.

And it is approaching rapidly.

Chen Ming seemed to have guessed what this new scarlet creature would look like.

But he didn't care.

Because after he once again used his psychic powers to allow his armor to burst to its limit and escape from the Scarlet Purpose's pursuit, he discovered a node leading to the normal universe for the second time.

Even if he was being hunted, Chen Ming absolutely could not miss this opportunity.

The scarlet dimension was too random. Even if he had special perception, he had no way of confirming whether he could go to the area where he sensed the node in the chaotic space and time.

He has to try every opportunity he gets.

Especially at this point in time when unexpected events are taking place.

Chen Ming's right arm was once again wrapped in the spiritual energy fluctuations that could tear apart space, and he once again tried to tear apart space.

The crack in space reappeared, and a force originating from the phase space behind the crack was unprecedentedly trying to break through the limitations of the space barrier and bring Chen Ming out from the originally closed and solid phase space.

Chen Ming could feel that his mental strength had been almost exhausted.

I originally thought I would have two chances, but now there is only one chance left.

He no longer had another chance to tear open a space rift.

He must take advantage of this moment and solve all the troubles in one go.

Take advantage of this brief moment of peace.

Chen Ming suddenly took out several metal blocks that looked only palm-sized from inside the power armor.

And he used all of his remaining spiritual energy on these blocks of metal.

Liquid metal overflowed from the metal block and condensed behind Chen Ming, forming two floating cannon-like weapons that were more than ten meters long.

The muzzle of the floating gun opened, and several blue-purple split laser beams swept across Chen Ming's body.

Although all the scarlet substance could not be completely cleared out, it gave Chen Ming a chance to catch his breath.

This weapon was not brought by Chen Ming from the normal universe.

It was something he always carried with him.

Chen Ming had previously specifically considered how he should use his spiritual power if he lost his material storage one day.

Of course, it is not the current situation where it is disconnected from the normal universe. This situation is really beyond his expectations.

He just gave some thought to some emergency measures.

And it just happened to be used now.

In fact, Chen Ming was just using his psychic power to control these materials. He compressed the volume of some common and frequently used materials to the extreme and carried them with him.

Although compressing hundreds of cubic meters of materials to a portable level will definitely cause their properties to change due to problems with the internal particle structure.

And the quality of the material that has been compressed to the extreme is also an issue that needs to be considered.

But Chen Ming's control over materials is the earliest effect of his psychic power, and what his psychic power is least afraid of is damage.

Just use the most basic psychic effect, repair.

He can then restore the material that has been damaged by excessive compression to its original state.

And take the opportunity to use these few materials to make some special targeted weapons.

For example, these two doors now, the Gorilla Eater.

This name is a bit of Chen Ming's bad taste.

This weapon was actually developed from the digestive organs of the Phase Beast Chief's corpse some time ago. It is a weapon specifically used against Scarlet.

In the early stages of Chen Ming's battleship project development, the battleship's weapon system first ruled out the idea of ​​using the phase behemoth's native weapons, which were their digestive organs.

Because the Phase Beast's digestive system is too highly targeted.

And this joke is not about absorbing, digesting, understanding and becoming a part of one's own strength like Chen Ming did.

The digestion of the phase beasts is real digestion, and they don’t care what is in the scarlet substance.

They are really just eating.

Except for the deceased Phase Beast Chief who was truly affected by Scarlet and possessed some power, the other Phase Beasts just treated Scarlet as food.

Such weapons transformed from digestive organs have no meaning in the design of Chen Ming's battleship and are not suitable as universal weapons.

But they still work.

It just so happened that a bunch of people had contributed to Chen Ming's project, so Chen Ming divided up some organ materials that were not important for the spacecraft design.

Of course, the organs and other things were also distributed.

The scientific research company responsible for the digestive organs developed this thing during this period.

This was something Chen Ming knew very clearly. After all, he and the president were the only ones handling matters related to the entire empire and Scarlet.

Chen Ming paid considerable attention to this weapon as soon as it appeared, and even optimized it during the first test of the weapon.

It just so happened that he killed the Star Eater during that period, so Chen Ming simply named this weapon that digests scarlet the Star Eater.

Those who don't know may think it is a gorilla, but in fact, it has been clearly established as the best weapon against Scarlet in the entire empire.

They can be as small as a single soldier's handheld rifle or as large as one that can be mounted directly on a capital ship.

It can also release a cone jet of concentrated firepower in two modes, or a jet of matter that is split into several laser-like states.

The material composition of these jets is similar to the substance used by the Phase Beast to digest the Scarlet.

It can be mass-produced by simply using the medium of phase space and some of the materials available in the normal universe environment.

And with the help of the Gorilla Eater at this time, Chen Ming successfully tore open a whole crack.

But at the same time.

A giant brain also appeared behind him.

Chen Ming turned his head and looked.

I saw a bottomless crack between the left and right hemispheres of the giant brain.

A small shadow suddenly appeared in the crack.

That was the figure of the brainwashed psychic.

(End of this chapter)