Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 397 Brain

Faced with a brainwashed psychic whose background is still unclear, but who arrives at this time in the possession of a scarlet creature among the scarlet.

Chen Ming seemed not to dare to ignore it, and turned his head and said, "Are you waiting for me here?"

The brainwashed psychic seemed to see a flash of panic and nervousness in Chen Ming's eyes, and said: "I'm not waiting for you, I'm actually chasing you all the way here."

Chen Ming seemed to be a little bit timid when he asked back: "So? You want to kill me? Do you have the ability to kill me?"

The brainwashed psychic suddenly laughed: "No, otherwise I would have jumped out directly when the eyes were chasing you. There is no need to wait until you temporarily get rid of the eyes and tear open the space barrier to come to you."

Chen Ming seemed to relax a little when he heard this, but he also had some worries that were hard to shake off: "So what do you want to do?"

"Hmm...how should I put it...your acting is a bit poor to be honest."

"You're not nervous or worried at all now. Instead, you're expecting me to fall for your trick."

"How about we stop for a moment and just talk normally?"

"Tsk."

Chen Ming's expression immediately returned to calm: "I really can't compare with an old fox like you."

"So, what are you here for?"

"You might as well take a guess."

Although Chen Ming had secretly said before not to talk too much with the brainwashed psychic, he couldn't help it when the person really came over.

As long as he could get any clue out of him, his actions against Zuo Jing would be greatly advanced.

It was hard for him not to take this opportunity to say something.

"I guess you came here just to be the last straw that broke the camel's back."

"You at least had the ability to kill me when I was in my final predicament. You just noticed that you couldn't kill me now, so you didn't take any action."

The sudden appearance of the brainwashed psychic was not completely unexpected to Chen Ming.

It can be seen from this layout of one thing after another that the brainwashing psychic must have put in a lot of effort.

If he ran away in the end without being affected at all, it would be a waste of the brainwashed psychic's previous plan.

Therefore, the brainwashed psychic will definitely make a final attack as a final defense to kill Chen Ming's hope of escape.

However, when he got here, he found it was too late.

Because when Chen Ming tore open a small gap in space for the first time, all the threats were basically useless.

Even though the gap was too small, Chen Ming's consciousness could not pass through easily in a short period of time.

Especially after Chen Ming took back An Wuping's consciousness in order to deal with Xing Hong, he was completely unable to squeeze through.

This is the special property of the Scarlet Dimension itself and cannot be changed.

But he could actively separate a small part of his consciousness and leave through the tiny gap.

At that time, the endless and turbulent red matter flowed along that

The little bit of Chen Ming's consciousness is hidden in it and cannot be discovered by any existence.

This part of the consciousness acts as a backup.

Even if Chen Ming's consciousness in the scarlet dimension dies, it will not affect his ability to continue living by using the separated consciousness as a backup.

It's nothing more than the death of the consciousness in Scarlet that will cause his condition to become extremely bad, just like Thousand Faces who had used the critical life-saving ability before.

But he just needs to rest for a while to restore his consciousness to its previous state.

Chen Ming was indeed drawn into the brainwashing psychic's plan in the beginning.

But he soon found an opportunity and left himself a way out.

Therefore, his emotional fluctuations became very stable after he tore the space rift for the first time, and everything he did afterwards was acting.

It is simply using this part of consciousness as bait to lure the Scarlet Eyes.

Chen Ming even deliberately restricted his mental power, otherwise his mental power would have been fully recovered by the time the space gap opened.

Even if he couldn't leave through that narrow gap, he could still restore his mental strength. He even took this opportunity to bring a large amount of endurance supplies from the normal universe.

He didn't do that because he was deliberately giving Scarlet Eyes an opportunity to be deceived.

This eye has been staring at him for a long time. Every time he enters the scarlet, he can basically feel that the scarlet eye is looking for his trace, making it difficult for him to use his mental power to the maximum extent to absorb the scarlet for a long time.

He just wanted to create an opportunity to kill Scarlet Eye.

But acting is acting.

Chen Ming's true emotions could not be hidden in front of the brainwashed psychic.

Even if he hid his facial expressions and movements, the state of his consciousness could not be completely concealed from the brainwashed psychic whose psychic power was to control people's consciousness.

Wait, that is to say, An Wuping...

Chen Ming hesitated a little, wondering whether the brainwashed psychic had seen An Wuping and whether he knew that An Wuping was him.

But he immediately didn't care because it didn't matter at all.

The rumors that Zuo Jing casually spread had no lethal effect on him.

On the contrary, if anyone believed what he said, he would be a real fool.

And if someone really believes it, it might be a good thing.

Whoever believes in unorthodox ways has problems.

In other words, whoever takes the initiative to expose this problem also has a problem.

Because when Chen Ming decided to separate the two identities of An Wuping and Chen Ming, he considered both himself and the empire.

Separating the two identities is also beneficial to the empire.

It is impossible for the brainwashed psychic to be unaware of this, so An Wuping's identity issue still has no impact.

In short.

After Chen Ming tore the space barrier for the first time in the Scarlet Dimension, he could no longer be killed completely.

His goal also changed from completely tearing open the Scarlet Rift and escaping to killing the Scarlet Eye.

What Chen Ming has to do is very simple, without too many twists and turns.

The brainwashed psychic can also easily analyze Chen Ming's methods and purposes from his behavior.

Therefore, he could easily see that Chen Ming could change his goal at any time.

It only took Chen Ming a thought to change the body from Scarlet Eyes to the brainwashed psychic.

If he fought with Chen Ming at this time in order to complete the original plan, he would be fooled by Chen Ming.

If he dared to take action and follow Chen Ming out of the Scarlet Dimension, not to mention killing Chen Ming, he himself would surely die.

Therefore, he did not make any aggressive moves. Instead, he continued to answer Chen Ming's questioning: "I really can't beat you, even if you are still in Scarlet. After all, you have torn open the space rift and reconnected with the normal universe."

"But if it's just to stop you, it's enough."

Chen Ming asked, "What's the point of stopping me now?"

"Have you forgotten what I told you before?"

"If at this time, dimensional infection appeared on your planets again, what would you do? What can you do?"

Chen Ming's face darkened for a moment, and he almost forgot about this matter.

When he briefly separated part of his consciousness, he took a look at the conditions of the space stations and planets he controlled.

But he had not found any scarlet infection in any of the sites he controlled, so he pretty much ignored the problem.

But at this time, a brainwashed psychic was seen walking out of such a giant brain-shaped scarlet creature in the scarlet.

Whether he is riding this creature or controlling this creature or simply has no influence on each other.

All of this shows that brainwashed psychics definitely have the ability to use scarlet to create infection.

Before, Chen Ming just felt that this was a possibility, but now it has been completely confirmed.

Although Chen Ming had the idea of ​​taking revenge as fiercely as possible after suffering a loss, he still felt a little heartbroken when he thought about what he might lose.

The brainwashed psychic noticed Chen Ming's reaction, and the expression on his face suddenly softened, as if asking Chen Ming to calm down.

But his words did not mean that at all: "You seem to be really angry about this, but your reaction is not important. What is important is that your losses are real."

"But your revenge afterwards doesn't matter to me at all. All the losses are acceptable."

"My loss is just a waste of time to use my psychic energy a few more times. Your loss, then what is the waste?"

Chen Ming glanced at him coldly: "If you don't dare to fight me, how can you stop me?"

"Yeah, then you can try to leave now."

The brainwashed psychic made a gesture of invitation towards the crack behind Chen Ming.

Chen Ming ignored him and decisively turned his head and reached out to touch the phase space behind the crack.

And before his hands completely left Scarlet.

"You really leave."

The brainwashed psychic's words fell.

Chen Ming felt a huge mental shock coming from behind. He turned around and released a mental shock to fight back and asked, "Do you want to fight to the death?"

The brainwashing of the psychic was not a means of attack by some kind of mental shock, but a direct release of a huge amount of mental power to attack Chen Ming himself. He directly used the ultimate means of fighting between psychics.

After this huge amount of mental power's violent impact, there was a collision of the two psychics' consciousness spaces.

When the consciousness spaces are completely entangled due to mutual attacks, only one person can continue to survive.

Such behavior is no different from fighting for one's life.

Even if the brainwashed psychic's real body is hiding at the ends of the earth, the impact of the collision between his mental power and consciousness space at this distance will inevitably cause fatal damage to his real body.

The same goes for Chen Ming.

Just now he looked so calm and relaxed and wanted to play slowly with Chen Ming, but now he turned around and fought so hard?

However, the brainwashed psychic did not seem to have such thoughts. He answered Chen Ming's question: "It's not about risking your life, it's just about saving time."

"From that eyeball and me, you should know that my fighting style is similar to that of the eyeball."

"There aren't many ways to enforce restrictions. Instead of wasting time thinking of all kinds of ways to restrict you, I might as well use them here directly."

"If you go out, I won't dare to continue chasing you."

Chen Ming said casually: "Why don't you try it?"

"No, I still like to stay in my comfort zone. I can't beat you."

"Ah."

Chen Ming sneered and said, "That sounds right, but I have decided to treat everything you said as bullshit. What you said... is very problematic."

"What's the problem? Everything I said is true. I really can't beat you."

"It's not a question of whether what you said is true or not, but the fact that you said it is problematic in itself."

"So you're not going to listen?" "Yes."

While Chen Ming and the brainwashed psychic were having a seemingly peaceful conversation full of nonsense, the mental forces between them were still colliding violently.

A huge portion of the surrounding scarlet matter was shaken away by the impact, and a lot of it was directly absorbed by the mental power and became part of their respective abilities.

Two blood-colored whirlpools seemed to form around the two people.

However, Chen Ming’s vortex is slightly different.

Because he was in a space rift at this time, the power of the phase space could be supplied to him who was in scarlet.

Make the vortex spinning around him have both blue and red colors.

"Your ability is truly special..."

After another sentence from the brainwashed psychic.

Chen Ming and the brainwashed psychic's mental power completely enveloped each other, and their consciousness sank into the consciousness space.

Chen Ming returned to his isolated island again.

Back to the mountain range composed of countless abandoned warships in the steel jungle.

Although Chen Ming has controlled the scavenger, the scavenger did not appear here at this time. It seems that it was not judged as a warship.

After this, the only thing that can truly become the cornerstone of this mountain is the battleship that is still in the design stage by Chen Ming himself.

The Queen's giant mothership that should have been nearby was nowhere to be seen, which was also what Chen Ming did to avoid the influence of the brainwashed psychic's psychic powers.

Chen Ming's own consciousness is focused, even if there is an additional increase, the overall consciousness is still him.

But the Zerg's consciousness is discrete, and the consciousness of a large number of Zerg sub-individuals may be affected by brainwashed psychics.

So at this moment, only Chen Ming's own island and some concepts on the island representing the existence of the mechanical race conflicted with the consciousness space symbols of the ship spirits and brainwashed psychics.

The space that the brainwashed psychic intended for was... a scarlet and silent space.

The space was filled with blood, and it seemed impossible to see what was inside from the outside.

But soon, the scarlet space approached rapidly in the empty universe of this consciousness space.

The blood mist gradually dissipated.

A complete brain appeared in it.

The cerebrum, cerebellum, and part of the spinal cord all reside on this complete brain.

But of this brain, only the cerebrum looks the most normal; it is just an ordinary brain.

But the structure of its cerebellum seemed to have been cut by some sharp weapon, divided into six equal parts.

There is only a small point connected to the very end of the brain, and all of his parts are spread out backwards.

Like six pairs of wings spread out.

That small section of the spinal cord extends upward along the gap between the left and right brain at the back of the brain, forming a ring at the back and upper part of the entire brain.

There are countless separated tiny nerves floating on this ring-shaped spinal cord structure, which seem to be simulating the light emitted by the halo.

Such obvious characteristics make the consciousness space of the brainwashed psychic symbolically filled with a bloody divinity.

But if you look at it from a detailed level, you will find that every inch of the brain is made up of the skulls of people with their faces peeled off.

The facial features of these heads had all been cut off, and some were left with only bloody holes still oozing with blood.

And those tiny brains that can be vaguely seen through the blood holes in the eye sockets, existing in the cranial cavity...

Chen Ming didn't know how to describe his thoughts when he saw such things.

He only felt a kind of fear in his heart that was inherent in the human species.

This is an instinctive fear of human beings.

Chen Ming quickly fought off this fear and regarded the bloody brain angel originating from the brainwashed psychic's consciousness space as a twisted monster from the scarlet dimension.

"What's wrong? Are you surprised to see this?"

Even though they are separated by a long distance, the brainwashed psychic can communicate with Chen Ming easily.

He really enjoyed chatting with Chen Ming about random things, because his language passively carried psychic power to influence people's judgment.

Chen Ming had been affected for a while before, which made him somewhat unwilling to communicate with the brainwashed psychic.

But as long as the psychological defenses are built up in advance, it will not have much impact on psychics of his level.

So at this time Chen Ming still responded: "Nothing."

"It's just that I heard that a psychic's consciousness space station will reflect the ability of a psychic, and I just happen to think that the image of this thing really suits you."

"Mind control and shamanism are a perfect match."

"It's just a little too disgusting. Can you just die and let me have peace of mind?"

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he controlled his mental power and attacked the brainwashed psychic who was in the same consciousness space.

Under the influence of mental power, the island and the angelic brain were about to collide in this abstract space of consciousness.

But at this moment, Chen Ming discovered that the brainwashed psychic who had just released mental shocks at him suddenly slowed down his attack and instead began to restrain the mental power he had released.

He was staying away from Chen Ming to avoid direct conflict with him.

Chen Ming instantly understood what the brainwashed psychic wanted to do.

The brainwashed psychic had no intention of fighting with him to the end. He just needed to drag his consciousness into the consciousness space and delay his time.

The voice of the brainwashed psychic just happened to come out from the mind at this time: "Let me tell you something. Scarlet has begun to spread on your... planet Gaia. The president of your association is still busy with other things. Who do you think can help you deal with it?"

"And in just one minute, the eye that was chasing you will also come here. Who do you think it will look for?"

Chen Ming seemed to be completely nonchalant and retorted: "The relationship between scarlet creatures is not friendly. Whether he comes to you or me is purely a matter of luck."

"If the two of us continue to be dragged here, who lives and who dies will ultimately depend on the expression of those eyes. You won't do that."

"Yes, that's why I keep my distance from you."

This confrontation can be interrupted by external forces and will never be fought to the end. This is why the brainwashed psychic is directly making a desperate gesture.

Some things are easier to do if you have a way out.

He even had the leisure to say to Chen Ming: "How about this, we wait here for a minute, and when the eyes arrive, we will separate. I won't stop you then, you can do whatever you want."

"Then give you the chance to wait for me to be entangled by the eyes and reap the benefits?"

Chen Ming ignored the brainwashed psychic's nonsense and released his mental power like a sharp cone.

And his own consciousness, as the incarnation of mental power, instantly appeared in front of the bloody angel's mind.

In the fissure between the left and right brain in the front half of the brain, Chen Ming saw the head of the brainwashed psychic placed there.

However, before he could make any move, the mental power he released was destroyed, and his consciousness was forced to return to the isolated island.

But Chen Ming still made an amazing discovery.

Those brains are all alive.

To be precise, there is some connection between them and the living people in the normal universe.

and brainwashed psykers

The closest scenario is that the brainwashed psychic also has a support similar to the hive mind network.

It’s just that the sub-individuals of his “hive mind network” are all controlled by his psychic power.

He brainwashed a large number of the empire's population, synchronizing their brain waves to form a mind network based on his psionic powers.

Very powerful, but still not as powerful as Chen Ming's.

But that's not the point.

The important thing is that all these faces are real.

Although they have lost their facial features, Chen Mingyou has the ability to restore these faces through technology.

The brainwashed psychic seemed to see through his thoughts and asked, "Have you discovered anything about my abilities?"

"Yes, but I also find that it doesn't seem to make sense."

"You must know the identity of everyone you influence. You can't leave important people outside your mind. All the truly important people are inside."

"very smart."

The brainwashed psychic admitted this and said, "Since I have told you my abilities, can you tell me about your abilities? What kind of psychic powers do you possess?"

"You definitely have more than one kind of psionic power. Mechanical, Zerg, Crimson, Phase, and I even sense a hint of destruction in your psionic power."

The brainwashed psychic was indeed aware that An Wuping was his fake body. After all, brainwashed psychics were professionals who took over other people's bodies, and it was easy to see that An Wuping was using an artificial body.

"Moreover, your An Wuping's body still has the spiritual energy of Qianmian and Zhen. How did you do it?"

Chen Ming did not answer this question, but continued to try to launch an attack.

But once he launched an attack, the brainwashed psyker would just run around and dodge, not fighting him at all.

And if he wants to retreat, the brainwashed psychic will stick to him like a dog-skin plaster.

Unless the beings in two consciousness spaces come into contact with each other in a real sense, they can fight to the death in a real sense.

Or maybe both of them have the idea of ​​leaving, so they separate before the symbols of consciousness space touch.

Otherwise, Chen Ming really would have no way to deal with the brainwashed psychic. It would be like having phlegm stuck in the throat, making him feel nauseous and uncomfortable.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The brainwashed psychic suddenly changed his behavior and no longer continued to fight with Chen Ming. Instead, he wanted to leave completely.

The meaning is very clear, the Scarlet Eyes have already caught up.

But at this time, Chen Ming didn't believe it and let him go.

Continue to chase in the universe of consciousness space.

"Either you lose your mental strength and retreat as soon as you are dragged in, or you stay here and waste your time with me."

"I can't catch up with you, but you can't escape from my pursuit either."

"Not always."

There are still backup means for brainwashing psychics.

He suddenly discarded a part of brain tissue from his head, forming a smaller brain in the space of consciousness.

The mental connection between Chen Ming and him that formed a space of consciousness was immediately transferred from his body to this newly born brain.

This smaller brain was not as powerful as the original one and was defeated, killed, and shattered by Chen Ming in an instant.

But the brainwashed psychic also took this opportunity to break free from the limitations of consciousness space.

Both of them left the consciousness space at this time.

In front of Chen Ming was no longer just the brain, but also a pair of fierce red eyes that had just run over.

"Just play with it slowly."

(End of this chapter)