Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 410 Crushed
Hearing the word "unknown", Chen Ming and the legion commander, who had just learned that Bai Ying's last direction was the Empire, immediately understood what had happened in the command center.

Without any unnecessary communication or inquiry, Chen Ming directly controlled the highest point to jump towards the direction of the front-line command center.

It took only less than a minute to return to the galaxy where the headquarters was located.

However, when Chen Ming arrived by driving the Supreme Point Jump, the sensors could only see that the Legion Space Station in the galaxy had been destroyed, and the surface of the planet surrounded by the space station had narrow and long crack marks that covered almost the entire planet.

The legion commander had already received follow-up reports from some external fleets, indicating that the culprit behind all this was a white shadow.

Although the white shadow appeared for a very short time, the damage it caused was horrific.

Not only what Chen Ming saw at this moment, even the signal base station located in hyperspace had been destroyed.

The signal network between the front and rear was cut off, and the command center had completely lost contact with the outside world.

The legion couldn't even contact the rear to provide reinforcements.

This is probably the most urgent situation the empire has faced in recent decades.

Chen Ming was just about to explain the situation to the legion commander and have them each deal with what was happening.

But before he could make any move, a flash of white light flashed in his perception.

next moment.

The highest point where Chen Ming was riding was cut apart by an external force.

From the bow to the stern, it was cut in half from the center, and then instantly chopped into three pieces by subsequent blows.

And this slashing force did not only act on the spacecraft, it also acted precisely on Chen Ming's body inside the spacecraft.

Chen Ming's body was split in two from the waist.

This sudden attack made him even less aware of the danger before he could even feel it.

His body was shattered before his pain nerves could transmit the pain of his body being severed to his brain.
The legion commander at the side let out a muffled groan, and the military uniform he was wearing was torn to pieces in an instant.

However, the legion commander was not cut in half like Chen Ming. Instead, his torn military uniform revealed a red mark on his skin that slanted from his left shoulder to his right kidney.

The legion commander's physical strength seems to have surpassed that of the battleship.

Although he was not really injured, he immediately realized Chen Ming's condition.

His face changed, and he quickly asked Chen Ming: "Are you okay?"

Chen Ming reached out to support his severed body to prevent the upper half from sliding to the ground. He exclaimed, "It's really fast."

Before, just by looking at the images of the white shadows and the actual damage they caused, he already felt that their speed was extremely fast.

I didn't expect that the speed would be even more terrifying when I faced it in person.

His thinking speed at this moment could not keep up with this thing at all.

He must liberate the speed of thinking that is normally limited for the convenience of life, and accelerate his thinking speed to a truly ordinary level.

This is the only way to react sufficiently.

While Chen Ming was using his mental power to stimulate his consciousness and speed up his thinking, he responded to the legion commander: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if this body is gone. Did you feel it just now?"

"I felt it. There were psychic fluctuations, but there was no actual physical contact. And I just saw its appearance clearly."

"Yes, it is confirmed to be a psychic spaceship."

As Chen Ming spoke, he released a large amount of liquid metal to stabilize the highest point which was collapsing like his body.

Then he used his spiritual energy on his body, trying to repair it.

But he suddenly discovered that the body tissue near his waist, where he was cut in half by the white shadow, had become extremely shriveled.

This happened to all the skin, muscles, and severed organs.

Look at the legion commander again.

The torn clothes on his body also showed signs of being corroded and broken by some force.

Logically speaking, this kind of blow that is powerful enough to cut off a battleship does not require any other force assistance. The cut marks left behind should be extremely smooth, and such broken gaps should not appear at all.

And take a closer look.

On the red mark left on the legion commander's body by the knife, a small layer of skin tissue had already detached from the body and was torn off by the legion commander.

Chen Ming immediately said: "The effect of this psychic energy is not only aimed at metal products, but also at other things, even life."

"This doesn't seem like simple corrosion..."

"What do you mean? Are you talking about me?"

"My physique is so strong that when I get hurt, my wounds heal quickly. The skin tissue that would have fallen off slowly over a few days falls off in a very short time, so it looks like this."

Chen Ming shook his head and said, "It's not just your side, I'm not sure yet, let's wait and see."

I feel like the judgment of the effect of psychic power is about to come out, but there is still something missing, and I still can't make an accurate judgment on it.

The legion commander had no objection to this. Sometimes speaking out wrong ideas may mislead others, and there was nothing wrong with Chen Ming's consideration.

And there are obviously more pressing matters now.

The white shadow disappeared again after it had just raided the highest point.

But apparently it still exists in this galaxy.

Without waiting for the legion commander to speak.

After repairing his body and the highest point, Chen Ming said to the legion commander: "I will go after the white shadow, you go and see what's happening at the headquarters."

"it is good."

The legion commander did not feel uncomfortable at all because of being commanded by Chen Ming and immediately agreed.

Chen Ming put his hand on his shoulder and used his psychic power to send the legion commander to the command center on the planet.

This way, he could focus all his attention on the white shadow.

At this time, the spacecraft's sensors could see the white shadow moving back and forth between the planet and the universe, tearing apart both the planet where the headquarters was located and the fleets between galaxies.

The core of the ship, with four diamond-shaped structures, was like two sharp boomerangs intertwined, destroying everything in its path.

However, I don’t know if it’s because the Empire removed all the mechanical units, which resulted in this white shadow being unable to contact the nearby mechanical units.

Chen Ming received news from the legion commander who had just arrived on the surface that the command center had not been destroyed yet. Obviously, Bai Ying did not attack the command center accurately.

And for some reason, after Bai Ying ran back and forth between the planet, the universe and himself several times, his speed was not as fast as before.

Even some warships could barely keep up with its speed and try to attack the white shadow.

However, the actual effect is obviously completely non-existent.

This white shadow looked like it was playing with the Imperial fleet.

No, this is not a joke, it's a test.

We have just speculated that this white shadow is most likely a reconnaissance spacecraft sent by the Mechanical Clan, and it must test the Empire as much as possible.

The content of the test will of course include the empire's fleet, border defense, reaction time, combat effectiveness, etc.

And assuming that the Mechanical Race has already taken control of Yuhui, then they must be aware of the many years of war between Yuhui and the Empire.

Then through Yuhui's understanding of the Fourteenth Legion's front line, they can indirectly learn about the Empire's information.

The data summary at the beginning of the test and before the test showed that the strength of the empire was far lower than expected. In order to test out more possible hidden means, it should be reasonable for the mechanical race to actively reduce its combat effectiveness.

Chen Ming roughly guessed the reason for the change in the white shadow, and immediately had an idea in his mind.

He couldn't let Bai Ying continue like this.

Not to mention testing him, he didn't even want to allow the damage that Bai Ying might cause to happen.

As for the means to deal with such high-speed spacecraft that cannot be effectively pursued, the only one is space capability.

Chen Ming's spiritual energy was released.

In a blink of an eye, it spread throughout the command center's planet and the vast space environment nearby.

Bai Ying has already reduced the speed to a level that is low enough for ordinary people to react with the help of the spacecraft's instruments and equipment.

How could Chen Ming not take advantage of this opportunity?

Following the trajectory of the white shadow perceived by psychic power, Chen Ming seized the opportunity and distorted an entire long and narrow cage-shaped space.

The moment the white shadow rushed into this space, its only way of retreat was blocked.

The white shadow did not seem to notice Chen Ming's movements at the first moment. It did not slow down at all and crashed into the edge of Chen Ming's distorted space.

After a brief delay, the white shadow's hull began to twist and deform due to the distortion of space.

The delay at that moment almost made Chen Ming think that he had encountered some new type of mechanical Leviathan.

Although it was only a moment, it was enough to show that the white shadow's armor could even withstand the force of space distortion for a short period of time.

Fortunately, it was not that terrifyingly strong after all, and was still restricted in place by the force of space distortion.

This allows Chen Ming to further release his spiritual energy and distort the space within the space cage.

The White Shadow warship, which was originally retreating, immediately collided with the distorted space that was constantly compressing its range of movement.

The hull was once again squeezed by the distortion of space.

But at this moment.

Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the armor and structure on the front of the white shadow that had been crushed by the distortion of space had all been restored to their original state.

The armor of the ship at the rear, which had just been affected by the space distortion range expanded by Chen Ming, was repaired almost instantly.

This time it was not the effect of psychic power, because Chen Ming saw countless extremely active nanorobots on the white shadow repairing it.

It almost achieved the goal of making the efficiency of repairing it equal to the efficiency of crushing it by space distortion.

It gives people a feeling that it can even continue to exist despite the distortion of space.

However, in the end, the efficiency of Baiying's nanorobots was still no match for the stable and continuous space distortion.

A large amount of Baiying's hull structure was shattered due to the distortion of space, and it seemed that it would be completely confined soon.

But Chen Ming always felt that things would not be that simple.

As his psychic power continued to work, the structure of the white shadow trapped in the distorted space suddenly changed drastically again.

But this change is not caused by the effect of space distortion.

Rather, it was a change that occurred on Baiying's own initiative.

All the rigid materials of the Baiying ship's structure were transformed into flexible materials, and "flowed" out of Chen Ming's distorted space like running water.

After flowing out, the white shadow rushed out in an instant like a ball of soft white gel.

In this process, the flexible structures return to rigid structures in a very short time.

It broke free from the limitations of Chen Ming's spiritual power and escaped from Chen Ming's tracking.

With such ability, unless Chen Ming chooses to directly tear the space apart and create a spatial fault, it cannot be restricted at all.

However, Chen Ming did not want to experience the consequences of tearing space again in a short period of time, in case the tearing of space failed to successfully trap Bai Ying.

Then Chen Ming will have to face two huge troubles at the same time.

The only thing that can be said is that it takes a little time for Bai Ying to convert the properties of the ship's materials.

If we seize this opportunity, we might be able to completely restrict it.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Baiying will give another chance.

Chen Ming looked in the direction where the white shadow fled and disappeared. If the white shadow really came for testing, then it should be back soon.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking this, he saw traces of a white shadow appear again in the galaxy.

As expected, it did not leave completely. It just circled back after getting rid of Chen Ming's control.

Continue to attack the Legion fleet groups within the system.

After instantly destroying a fleet of hundreds of spaceships, it suddenly rushed towards the planet of the legion's front-line command headquarters in the galaxy.

And attacked the headquarters with incredible precision.

Chen Ming was just beginning to worry about the situation with the legion commander when he noticed a grand and wild psychic energy fluctuation on the surface of the planet.

The trajectory of the white shadow that was originally rushing towards the ground suddenly stopped.

The next moment, the white shadow was repelled by some powerful force and flew backwards.

A new trajectory was formed, which was almost at an acute angle to the original trajectory heading towards the surface.

Even at the front part of this trajectory, a white shadow was rubbed on the planet's atmosphere, producing a dazzling flame. The flame gradually went out until the white shadow was knocked to the edge of the galaxy.

It seems that he was stopped by the legion commander.

Chen Ming thought so silently.

The white shadow that was driven back to the edge of the galaxy changed direction and rushed towards Chen Ming's highest point.

The distance within the galaxy is nothing to Bai Ying, and Chen Ming does not have much time to react.

But after Chen Ming was out of the scope of daily life and stimulated his own mental power, his thinking speed returned to normal and even strengthened.

He had time to react.

His spiritual power instantly created a distorted space near the highest point, and at the same time as the white shadow crashed head-on, it created a new cage space.

This time the white shadow was not fooled and just passed by.

At the moment of passing by, a slight space fluctuation appeared inside the highest point, and a missile-like object the size of a person was sent in.

Chen Ming instantly arrived at the location where the missile was dropped and reached out to touch it before it exploded.

This is a large tank-shaped object that is rapidly flashing pink and purple light. It is also the missile launched by Baiying, and it is also the source of the destruction of the warships that Chen Ming saw.

This missile is called [Induction Air Mine] and is not a purely psychic creation.

It was just sent here by psychic energy.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to analyze the effect and principle of this induction air mine.

What he had to do now was to immediately deal with the white shadow to prevent it from causing damage to more legion fleets in the future.

However, Bai Ying is more difficult to deal with than expected.

It brushed past Chen Ming's commanding heights and in the blink of an eye it was already quite a distance away.

Even though Chen Ming's mental power has spread throughout the entire galaxy, it is still difficult to lock its position in space.

Moreover, Chen Ming currently does not have enough means to hook and kill with one blow while protecting Bai Ying.

Using the Destroyer may result in Shiro being completely destroyed, and there is no way to control Shiro to investigate what is going on behind the scenes.

It can only be said that this is not a solution, he must find a way to give Bai Ying the finishing blow.

Chen Ming thought about it, picked up the terminal and contacted the legion commander: "Is there any way to kill Bai Ying?"

The legion commander said decisively: "Yes, but it runs too fast. I can only stop it for a while, but I can't restrain it."

"I'll control it, and you'll fix it?"

"Okay, take me there."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ming immediately contacted the legion commander with the help of the terminal carried by the legion commander and brought him to the highest point.

At this time, the appearance of the legion commander had changed dramatically.

He no longer has the appearance of an ordinary human, but has entered a mutant state.

The legion commander is indeed a psychic with a physical mutation.

In the past, Chen Ming felt that the legion commander's physique was a little too strong.

He had had some suspicions before, and when he was chopped by Bai Ying just now, he was basically certain that he was a psychic with enhanced or mutated body.

Now he had witnessed the legion commander using psychic powers with his own eyes.

The type of mutation that the Legion Commander's body underwent was a double biological mutation.

Chen Ming learned this concept from Liang Fei.

This double mutation is fundamentally more powerful than a single mutation.

It can integrate the advantages of both organisms and bring out their best together.

If Chen Ming remembered correctly, the Legion Commander's double mutant creatures were Behemoth and Galactus.

Chen Ming had learned about these two creatures from somewhere.

The Behemoth here is not the Behemoth in mythology, but an ancient dragon-like creature found on a giant habitable planet.

It has jet-black scales and sulfur-colored skin patterns, and roughly looks like a flying dragon walking on four legs, but without wings.

In this group of creatures named Behemoth, there is often a psychic creature who serves as the leader of the group, with powerful power to control fire and flesh.

The combat power of a single ordinary Behemoth is enough to compete with a destroyer, while a psychic Behemoth can at least destroy a cruiser.

Although at first glance this may not seem like much to say.

But the current Behemoth is the direction of the legion commander's psychic mutation.

The strength of the organism itself determines the upper and lower limits of its power to a certain extent.

Creatures like Behemoth are obviously superior to other creatures after becoming the power of psychics.

Creatures like Garethros have an ecological niche similar to that of Behemoth.

It's just that Behemoths usually live in groups, while Galactus usually lives alone.

It has snow-white fur and looks like some kind of humanoid creature, except that its torso and limbs are much thicker, especially its forelimbs, which are so thick that they can almost support the entire body alone.

This kind of creature is relatively rare, and almost all of the adult individuals are psychic creatures.

The psychic talents of their species are usually closely related to energy manipulation.

Therefore, their combat effectiveness is only higher than that of Behemoth.

It is common for a single organism to destroy a fleet.

You have to know that even though the individual combat capability of the Thorn Zerg is only average, their real strength lies in the physical mutation-type psychic powers represented by their terrifying fertility and adaptability genes.

Chen Ming can use it to give An Wuping the power to explode stars.

Their individual strength is even stronger than that of the Thorn Zerg. It can even be said that these two creatures are not in the same dimension and appear on the same psychic.

The final effect was extremely terrifying.

The legion commander is the only physical psychic in the empire who has reached level 6 and is capable of destroying star systems single-handedly.

So at this moment, the legion commander looked like some kind of humanoid dragon-like creature.

Appearance is not important. When Chen Ming himself created a mutant form for An Wuping in the early days, it was extremely ugly.

The key is that the Legion Commander's form possesses enough power to destroy the White Shadow.

Chen Ming no longer limits the scope and effect of his own spiritual power.

He released almost all of his mental power and completely controlled the entire galaxy in his hands.

And the moment the white shadow was discovered, the spiritual power that filled the entire galaxy was stimulated, causing the space of the galaxy to be almost locked at that moment.

The white shadow was temporarily unable to move forward in this space.

And at the moment when space continued to flow, the space near the white shadow was distorted.

Although the distorted space cage can only restrict Bai Ying for a dozen seconds or even a few seconds.

But at a time like this, enough is enough.

The legion commander in a mutated state was sent by Chen Ming into a twisted space cage.

The corners of his dragon head's mouth cracked and opened nearly 100 degrees.

A concentrated beam of energy brewed deep in his throat, and he spit out a torrent of energy towards the white shadow.

The beam of this torrent of energy is more destructive than the tachyon spear and brighter than the light of the stars in the galaxy.

The extreme temperature flame dyed the originally dark background of the universe into blue and white.

The distorted space around it made the blue-white vortex-like flames attract the attention of all living people in the galaxy.

But what is truly powerful is not the blue-white flame at the edge of the energy torrent, but the impact of the energy torrent within the flame.

Bai Ying had nowhere to hide and was forced to withstand the torrent of energy.

The destructive energy destroyed the White Shadow's hull, and countless nanorobots were repairing the energy damage at an extremely exaggerated speed.

Gradually, the nanorobots' repair speed could not keep up with the speed of destruction caused by the energy torrent.

Bai Ying also had no spare energy to soften himself and escape from the constraints of Chen Ming's spatial power.

The armor of the white shadow spaceship was shattered and its core was directly bombarded by energy.

suddenly.

The core was shattered and the white shadow was torn into pieces.

It was smashed by the torrent into the corner of the restricted space created by Chen Ming, and bounced back by the edge of the space, flying everywhere.

The energy beam ejected from the mouth of the legion commander in the mutant state slowly converged, and wisps of white smoke floated from the corners of his mouth.

"Solve it?"

Looking at the drifting white shadow fragments, this thought popped into Chen Ming's mind, along with a hint of worry.

This is just a test by the Mechanical Clan, or even just a detection spacecraft released by the Mechanical Clan. There may be more powerful enemies waiting for the Empire in the future.

Chen Ming was just about to break free from the constraints of space and touch the broken fragments.

The legion commander suddenly shouted, "It's not over yet!"

The sound was transmitted through his body to the terminal that Chen Ming gave him, and also to Chen Ming's ears.

In the cage area where space was distorted, the shattered white shadows suddenly gathered together again.

The shattered core merged together, and the fragments of the ship roughly reconstituted the Shiro itself.

However, the white shadow suddenly split into two, each taking away half of the original white shadow's structure, and instantly underwent structural changes and readaptation.

In a blink of an eye, two smaller white shadows were formed.

Their speed is even more terrifying than the white shadow at the beginning, even though Chen Ming has tried to impose multiple restrictions using distorted space.

They also broke away from the distorted space like flowing water and escaped from Chen Ming's restrictions.

And the direction they fled.

It's the empire.

(End of this chapter)