Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 400 Hope
Chen Ming still managed to return to Gaia before the scarlet completely devoured the entire planet.

Looking at Tian Zhan who had lost consciousness under the fairy tree and the leaves of the fairy tree which had been bright white but were now beginning to turn yellow, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

He really didn't expect that Tian Zhan could awaken his psychic powers, nor did he expect that he could pass through two barriers from the space station and come here to protect the fairy tree.

It was also thanks to Tian Zhan that he delayed for a while.

Otherwise, once the fairy tree is infected, the planet's consciousness will be infected and corrupted at the fastest speed.

At that time, all the native animals on the planet Gaia that have hidden underground will die, and there will be no possibility of recovering to their original state.

fortunately.

Chen Ming reached out to support the collapsed Tian Zhan, and in the palm of his other hand, an injection filled with substances of various colors appeared.

This is a comprehensive medicine he made using the Queen of Insects' abilities to restore physical and mental states.

It can only be said that Chen Ming himself basically does not need to take psychic medicine, so after feeding all the medicines to the Queen Insect, the Queen Insect can actively consume part of her mental power to produce this comprehensive psychic medicine.

It’s just right to use it now.

The injection was inserted into Tian Zhan's heart, and all the medicine inside was pushed in immediately.

In this way, the special substances produced by the queen insects can flow through his body at the fastest speed and be absorbed by the body.

Tian Zhan's originally rapid breathing stabilized in an instant.

Chen Ming threw the empty syringe away, tore off the sleeve that was covering his eyes, and pulled open his eyelids.

Looking at the two black blood holes, Chen Ming wrapped it around him again.

Of course, a new bandage was used.

Eye problems are not a big deal.

With current technology it is very easy to make a new or mechanical eyeball.

Or Chen Ming can also use the Zerg genes to fuse with Tian Zhan's own genes to create an enhanced version of the eyes. It depends on what Tian Zhan thinks at that time.

After confirming that his physical condition has completely stabilized and is no longer in danger of life.

Chen Ming also sent him to another safe place as soon as possible.

He needs treatment.

Chen Ming, who stayed where he was, pressed his hand on the bark of the fairy tree and injected his mental power into it, causing the branches and buds of the fairy tree to begin to regain vitality.

After a while, looking at the tree full of fluorescent light, Chen Ming let go of his hand and nodded slightly.

"Okay, time to deal with the remaining troubles."

Chen Ming lowered his eyelids and looked at the dense scarlet objects outside the protection circle of the fairy tree, which almost enveloped both him and the fairy tree.

The blue-purple glow overflowing from his side has now completely covered the entire planet Gaia.

A new layer of sky was formed beneath the metal sky surrounding the planet.

A metal canopy protects the planet.

And this blue and purple sky suddenly collapsed like the sky was falling.

This sky curtain has no entity, but if it encounters anything related to scarlet on its way down, it will be completely destroyed.

The eyeballs suspended in the air were wiped out, and the mountains of flesh and blood collapsed.

The monsters on the surface died, and the scarlet on every inch of land was completely crushed.

The sky did not stop after it landed on the ground, but continued to spread deep into the underground, until it gathered at the center of the earth and slowed down.

But the next moment, the blue-purple sky deep in the center of the earth erupted like a fire from the earth's core, cleansing the entire planet Gaia from the inside out again.

Completely wipe out any scarlet that may exist in every corner of the planet Gaia.

Except for one thing.

Chen Ming, who was under the fairy tree, suddenly disappeared under the fairy tree.

In a blink of an eye, they arrived at the other side of the planet Gaia, opposite the fairy tree.

This place is just like any other place on the planet Gaia at this time. After the scarlet was cleared, only a piece of brown soil remained, and it was even more bumpy and the terrain was even more uneven.

The scarlet has expanded to such an extreme that even the soil and rocks will be affected.

After being cleared, the environment here naturally became more rugged.

Of course, Chen Ming came here not because of the terrain, but because the thing he discovered that could not be eliminated was here.

There is a dead body here.

It is extremely conspicuous from a distance.

Standing right in the middle of this uneven area, it looked like it had just died.

The corpse's eyes were closed, and there were no bulges under the closed eyelids. This corpse was also missing its eyes.

However, Tian Zhan dug it out himself to avoid being affected by the scarlet.

This corpse must have lost its eyes due to the influence of the power of the Scarlet Eyes.

There is an aftereffect of scarlet power on his body. It is not strong or obvious, but it is deeply hidden and difficult to eradicate.

The two raids by Lan Zi Tian Mu failed to dispose of the bodies.

And more importantly… the appearance of this corpse is that of a brainwashed psychic.

This is definitely not the real corpse of the brainwashed psychic, there is no doubt about it.

Chen Ming felt that perhaps someone who was controlled by a brainwashed psychic had changed.

He never doubted that the brainwashed psychic had such ability.

After all, when a person's memory is erased and then instilled with the complete memory of a brainwashed psychic, this person is basically equivalent to a brainwashed psychic.

Just like he had killed the recipient of Zuo Jing before.

The recipient is the brainwashed psychic that everyone thought he was.

But in fact, he was just a psychic who was brainwashed by a real brainwashed psychic, except that his face remained unchanged.

But it's just a face, something that can be easily modified can't prove anything.

After a long-distance inspection, confirming that there was no danger nearby.

Chen Ming moved closer and reached out to touch the corpse, but was not affected by any scarlet power.

The power in the corpse seemed to be just lingering inside and would not actively spread out.

After thinking about it, a tentacle suddenly extended from Chen Ming's biological armor, and a sharp spike extended from the end. It scraped off some skin tissue from the corpse, absorbed it, and confirmed the genes of the corpse.

The genes of the corpse are then compared with those in the database.

Finally, we successfully matched the person who disappeared about ten years ago in the Empire's missing persons database.

Then it was gone.

There was nothing in him that could point to the brainwashed psychic.

After all, the person could be taken away by other left-wing elements and then finally converted by a brainwashed psychic.

Chen Ming was not discouraged.

He disposed of the body as he pleased.

The body is still deeply affected by the scarlet power, so it would not work to just burn or bury it.

So Chen Ming built a silent alloy coffin by himself, and then put a layer of solid phase medium on the outside, repeating the process several times.

Finally it was thrown into a hidden corner in the phase space.

At this point, the scarlet problem on the planet Gaia was completely resolved.

Including dealing with the scarlet on the satellite, the whole process took just over two hours.

but……

Chen Ming took a look at the planet Gaia below through the satellite in space orbit.

Except for the location of the fairy tree, the entire planet is now bare.

The speed at which the scarlet spread was so terrifying, even faster than the time in the Colorful Ink Star Domain.

Fortunately, the fairy tree is fine, and Gaia's consciousness is fine. Now there are signs of renewed vitality everywhere on the planet.

Previously, a large number of creatures hid deep underground under the influence of planetary consciousness.

The effect of scarlet on dead objects was not that outrageous after all. At least only a small part of the deep underground was infected by scarlet, and it was completely resolved in the cleanup just now.

Perhaps soon, the planet Gaia will return to its original state.

That means we have to start over again with climate change.

But it's not a big problem. Scarlet's impact on the climate is not that great, and there is no need to make up for what has already been done.

Chen Ming returned to the fairy tree again.

He reached out and patted the fairy tree, calming the fairy tree and Gaia's consciousness, and planned to go to the empire.

He hasn't forgotten that he asked the president for help first when he encountered problems here.

The president’s response was that they had also encountered the Scarlet Invasion and didn’t know what the current situation was.

But just before Chen Ming was about to leave.

He suddenly felt a special spiritual energy fluctuation under the fairy tree.

It was not the psychic energy fluctuation of the fairy tree itself, but a new psychic energy fluctuation in the soil under the fairy tree and between the roots that he had never felt before.

"This is……"

Chen Ming half-knelt on the ground, looking at the soil here which seemed slightly fresher than other places, and thought.

He still remembered what Tian Zhan had done here. After all, he had allowed it. But he didn't remember that what Tian Zhan buried under the tree was spiritual stone.

He reached out and gently tapped the soil under the tree a few times.

The roots of the fairy tree actively squeezed out the things buried beneath the roots.

It was still the pendant that Tian Zhan had buried before.

But the emerald green stone on the pendant has now transformed into a spiritual stone.

The emotion it contains is... hope.

Just by holding it in his hand, Chen Ming could feel a constant stream of power appearing out of nowhere in his body and consciousness.

Although this power is not much and is very weak compared to him, if this endless weak power appears in a desperate situation, it means hope.

If Chen Ming had not been able to find an opportunity to open the rift in the scarlet before, and was really dragged down to the point where his mental strength was completely unable to open the rift, then this spiritual stone would become his hope of turning the tables.

Although the actual situation is not that bad, it is enough to show the specialness of this spiritual stone.

This doesn't look like the spiritual stone produced by Tian Zhan's emotional fluctuations.

Because the previous situation on the planet Gaia did not seem hopeful no matter how you looked at it.

Tian Zhan almost died here.

So what is this...

Chen Ming took the initiative to use psychic fluctuations to close his five senses, allowing his perception of mental power and psychic energy to reach its peak.

Then, he felt a strong breath of spiritual essence filling the area surrounding the fairy tree.

Tian Zhan's psychic power transformed Scarlet into the most essential thing of all psychic energy, the origin of spiritual essence.

These spiritual essences seeped into the ground and activated the power hidden in the pendant.

There was hope in this pendant, but it was very faint and it has only been released today.

There seems to be a lot worth talking about Tian Zhan's psychic powers.

That stone and pendant also seem to have a lot of stories.

"Um……"

Chen Ming thought about it and kept these things in mind.

He temporarily put away the spirit stone and disappeared from the planet Gaia in a blink of an eye.

After he left, the metal sky surrounding Gaia and several planets in the galaxy gradually disappeared.

The blockade of the wormhole space station connecting the Origin and Gaia galaxies was also quickly lifted.

The Gaia orbital space station received an order that the danger was lifted and everyone was able to leave from the escape pod.

Of course, a bunch of people immediately emailed Chen Ming to inquire about the situation.

But Chen Ming didn’t reply to any of them.

The first thing he did after leaving the Gaia galaxy was to come to the core star field of the former Mechanical Clan, now the territory of the Empire.

This is also the area where the core destructive force collapsed space, causing the space barrier of the normal universe to become extremely weak.

Scarlet is very chaotic compared to the normal universe and is not one-to-one.

As long as the repaired space barrier itself is stable enough, there will be little impact except for wear and tear over time.

Normally scarlet does not come out from the same location.

But despite the chaos, there is still the possibility of invasion through weak areas.

What's more, this time the scarlet invasion was caused by the brainwashing of psychics.

And there is one most important situation.

That is, the space barrier here was directly shattered by the destruction core, and the space barriers of three dimensions were shattered at the same time.

Therefore, this place can no longer be completely closed for a long time, and has become a fixed space corresponding to the Scarlet and normal universe.

Scarlet has already locked onto the Empire's location in the normal universe, and a dimensional invasion is only a matter of time.

This is what Chen Ming had already told the Empire last time.

So when Chen Ming came to this galaxy, the psychic energy fluctuations belonging to the president instantly enveloped him.

Chen Ming did not resist and allowed the president to use his psychic power to take him to a spaceship at the edge of the galaxy.

In the captain's room of the spaceship, the president, the head of the Imperial Psychic Department, and some other top psychics affiliated with the empire were all here.

Chen Ming glanced around and found that he didn't seem to know many of the empire's top psychics. At most, he knew their names and what they roughly looked like.

"How about it?"

"Not so good, have you solved it?"

"solved."

Chen Ming responded and asked, "What's the specific situation?"

"See for yourself."

By connecting the signal from the command room, Chen Ming could observe the situation of the entire galaxy from the captain's room.

When Chen Ming saw the images of the galaxy returned by the sensor, he saw at first glance that the core planet of the galaxy, which was once the core galaxy of the mechanical clan's star field, was now completely covered in scarlet.

Its appearance has also undergone tremendous changes.

The originally round sphere turned into a giant stomach that seemed to be filled with countless disgusting semi-digested things.

Several intestine-like flesh and blood are growing out from various parts of the stomach, constantly spewing out a dirty fluid that looks like a mixture of flesh and blood and bile that fills the galaxy while extending to different planets within the galaxy.

"My goodness, that looks a bit disgusting."

The president said, "It's better to be disgusting than the last time. Last time, I would have died if I had only seen one."

Chen Ming knew that the president was referring to the time when he personally encountered an eyeball infected by scarlet. If this planet was transformed into an eyeball instead of a stomach, then everyone within this distance would be affected by the scarlet.

However, Eyeball had caused trouble for him before and was killed by him, so it shouldn't happen again somewhere else.

"What is the damage?"

"Not much. We developed this place quite early, and basically everything from the remaining colony has been taken away."

"Most of those who stay here are researchers who are studying the three-dimensional rift."

"There were signs during this invasion, so there were only about twenty people injured, and no one died. All were sent into phase space, and the infection can be basically stabilized."

Chen Ming nodded and asked, "So now we have to solve that what-if situation first, right?"

(End of this chapter)