Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 411 Abnormal Entropy, Abnormal Ship

White Shadow entered the empire's star region.

This is the most troublesome situation that Chen Ming least wants to see.

In particular, the location where Bai Ying entered happened to be the star field under the jurisdiction of the Fourteenth Legion.

There are many people in this star field that Chen Ming knows and is familiar with.

He immediately brought back the legion commander who was still outside, and without any hesitation, he controlled the spacecraft to make a maximum distance jump in the direction where the white shadow disappeared.

Beside him came the somewhat heavy voice of the legion commander in his mutated state: "We can't let it get away."

"I know."

Chen Ming responded briefly, picked up the terminal and contacted the Minister of Psychic Power.

In fact, when the White Shadow attacked and the 14th Legion lost contact with the front line, this news should have been passed back to the Empire.

However, under normal circumstances, this matter should not be under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Psychic Powers, but should be handed over to the people of the Imperial Military Department.

But Chen Ming is not familiar with the others, and the white shadow is definitely not something that can be dealt with by any warship or fleet currently owned by the empire. If they want to deal with this thing, it seems that they can only rely on psychics.

So he decided to contact the Minister of Psychic Powers.

The communication was quickly connected, and the voice of the Minister of Psionics rang out from the terminal: "Hello? Have you found any clues about the traces in the ruins I told you about?"

"We'll talk about this later."

The Minister of Psychic Powers was still unclear about what had happened in the 14th Legion, but Chen Ming didn't dare to say anything more.

He quickly avoided the meaningless topic and told the story of how he accepted the invitation from the legion commander to come and deal with the disappearance of Yuhui's evacuation fleet and discovered a mysterious white shadow.

Emphasis is placed on the origin of the white shadow, its combat power and its exaggerated speed.

After being destroyed once, the White Shadow was rebuilt into two smaller White Shadow spaceships, which were flying towards the territory of the empire.

And, his estimate of the damage that White Shadow might cause.

The Minister of Psychic Powers always attached great importance to what Chen Ming said in person. When Chen Ming was halfway through his words, he said, "I understand. I will arrange for a suitable psychic to stop him as soon as possible."

"Can you make it?"

"I will contact your president, he should be able to help."

"Row."

Just when Chen Ming was about to hang up the call.

The Minister of Psychic Energy suddenly said to Chen Ming: "This matter is not entirely a bad thing. It just so happens that the last matter has not been completely resolved."

"After all, the reputation of us psychics has been affected by the mass killings of brainwashed psychics. As long as we can do a good job this time, we can divert the attention of the people of the empire from the Zuojing incident to the current affairs of the mechanical race."

"Letting the people of the Empire see with their own eyes the threat posed by the White Shadow and the Mechanical Race will make it easier for us to do many things later."

When there are internal conflicts, transferring the conflicts to the outside is obviously the most effective method.

Especially when external conflicts are real and have a great potential to threaten the empire itself.

Chen Ming knew this.

"But we can't just let Bai Ying run around."

"Who said we let it go? I just said that the impact it brought us had these benefits. What do you think?"

"Oh, that's okay."

"..."

Communication ended.

The corps commander who had regained his human form and was putting on a new set of clothes borrowed from Chen Ming reminded him, "Luo Yi is talking to you about politics."

"I know."

Obviously after spending quite a long time together and the previous collaboration.

The Empire, or the Grand Archon himself and the Minister of Psionic Powers Luo Yi all had some additional thoughts and considerations about Chen Ming.

It is very purposeful for me to say something politically relevant today regarding the matter raised by Chen Ming.

The implication is also quite obvious.

Chen Ming is not a fool, of course he can hear it.

"But I don't like it."

The legion commander opened his mouth to say something, but his voice was obliterated by the effect of the spacecraft's jump at that moment.

The legion commander did not repeat what he said.

Because he knew that Chen Ming could see his lip movements clearly.

"It's useless if you don't like it. When you reach a certain status, everything you do will be related to politics."

Just as Chen Ming continued to quickly leap into the empire, the empire also entered a state of alert under Chen Ming's warning.

The two white shadow warships, which were like a pair of boomerangs and had obviously been reduced in size, were heading towards the capital of the Fourteen Star Regions.

However, its movement path did not directly lock onto the star region capital, but instead locked onto the nearest star district capital.

During the journey, whenever there was any planet with traces of human beings, the two white shadows would waste no time and deliberately change direction to approach.

Passing through the area on the planet's surface where electronic signals are most active.

This passage was certainly not just a passing by.

When the white shadows pass by the planets, they will use slashing and air thunder without restraint, just to cause the greatest damage to these places.

The star field of the Fourteenth Legion is the edge star field of the empire, because it can reach the front line of the war first.

It is also a prosperous star field, because whether it is a prosperous star field depends on the economy.

What makes the Fourteenth Legion strong is not only its military strength and war potential, but the logistics that can guarantee these two are what makes the star field a prosperous star field.

Therefore.

When the enemy attacked the empire's homeland and the legion star field.

The losses they cause both to the economy and to human lives will be quite heavy.

The white shadow only passed through a dozen star systems where legions of people were present.

On each planet, there were two deep cut marks and related explosion marks left on the surface of the planet.

The direct economic losses caused to the legion have exceeded the incident in the Caimo Star Region.

The loss of life is incalculable.

At that time, the trouble was at least confined to an industrial planet.

But when attacking, Baiying doesn't care what kind of planet the target is, especially when its target is directly heading towards the capitals of various star regions.

The final losses caused are incalculable.

The local fleet had no ability to resist the white shadow.

As long as they were slightly in the path of the white shadow, the entire fleet would become a piece of cosmic dust.

In just a few minutes, the number of ships lost exceeded six thousand.

It far exceeds the total losses suffered by the Empire and the Mechanical Race in the star field in more than a year of war.

In addition, psychics in different locations also suffered varying degrees of casualties.

At this moment, the legion headquarters alone has counted that four psykers of the legion have been killed while trying to stop the white shadow.

Three level 4 psykers and one level 3 psyker.

There was no chance of resistance.

Two level 5 psychics were also seriously injured and barely managed to survive.

This was also the case when the White Shadow was simply passing by and encountered a human planet on its way. It just attacked once and had no intention of staying in a certain place for a long time to completely destroy humanity.

Otherwise these people's losses would be even greater.

The damage Bai Ying suffered was close to zero, or almost zero.

Its combat capability was at least several generations behind that of the Empire's warships.

There is no military force that can effectively restrict or counter it.

But fortunately, the situation did not continue to get worse.

When the pair of white shadows attacked the nineteenth galaxy it passed through, it was also the third galaxy after it had just attacked a star sector capital.

Their movements suddenly stopped.

Although its speed has not slowed down, the distance it has traveled in space is zero.

In the cosmic environment near the two white shadows, two people in protective suits suddenly appeared, floating in the universe.

"Finally caught up."

The president's voice was transmitted to another person's ears through the intercom built into the protective suit.

Another person sensed the white shadow trapped in the solidified space and asked, "Is this the white shadow that Chen Ming mentioned?"

"Don't talk nonsense, solving it is the most important thing."

"I see, but why are there just the two of us?"

Although he said not to waste words, the president still explained: "Others are still in the process of moving in space, let's come here to restrict it first."

"understood."

As soon as he finished speaking, spiritual energy waves were released from his body, gathering towards the two white shadows that were trapped in this extremely tightly locked space.

But before the psychic energy fluctuations even touched that space, the president discovered that the area blocked by his psychic energy fluctuations suddenly began to tremble unnaturally.

The white shadow that was originally trapped in this locked area was covered by a sudden pink light, disappeared in this space, and appeared behind the two people.

Several slashing spiritual energy waves attacked instantly.

The president immediately released a layer of space barrier around his body to block the slashing attack which seemed to be extremely close to space cutting.

But the psychic next to him suddenly moved, shifting his body several dozen centimeters.

The next moment, the psychic's body suddenly split into two from the left shoulder to the right ribs, and his internal organs instantly sprayed out from the severed gap.

The president couldn't help but say, "Is there something wrong with your brain?"

However, the psychic cannot hear what the president says.

Because the communication receiving function of the protective suit was also damaged in the previous slash.

After breaking free from the constraints of space, the white shadow did not continue to attack, but fled to the edge of the galaxy.

The president ignored them.

Because when he locked the space where the white shadow was, he also used his psychic power to block the entire galaxy and temporarily constructed this galaxy into an independent space.

Just like how he blocked an entire galaxy infected by Scarlet in order to prevent the Scarlet from leaking.

He temporarily pulled this space out of the normal universe. Although this area of ​​space was still in its original position, it could be said that it had lost contact with the normal universe.

He is a real space psychic, so it is not difficult for him to do this.

He temporarily sealed off the white shadow within this galaxy.

It would take Bai Ying at least ten seconds to summarize and react to the real situation of this space after repeated space jumps.

And just then.

A Supreme Point ship received special permission from the president and arrived at this temporary independent space.

The legion commander immediately sent the psychic, whose internal organs had been scattered several meters away, to the infirmary at the highest point.

Chen Ming, who was at the highest point, had just received the news that the president had successfully stopped Bai Ying. He had just driven the highest point to this space.
I found that the president was sent to the infirmary with a ball of something unknown.

Chen Ming rushed over immediately and saw a bloody mass of what was probably a human on the floor of the infirmary. The upper and lower halves of the body had been completely separated, and the internal organs had been completely displaced.

The trachea, left lung, esophagus, stomach, and liver were all cut in half, and even a small piece of the bottom of the heart was cut off.

But this thing still has one last breath.

Several Zerg tentacles immediately grew out of Chen Ming's left hand, and a large amount of life-sustaining fluid was secreted, wrapping the shattered body in a cocoon and protecting it.

A tentacle took off the helmet from the shattered protective suit.

Chen Ming asked with an expression that was not expected: "Hu Yi? Didn't you go into hibernation?"

Hu Yi, who had come with the president to stop Bai Ying and was still barely maintaining consciousness, spat out the blood and said, "How can hibernation be hiding from you and having fun everywhere?"

In fact, when the president dragged Hu Yi back, Chen Ming had already noticed the extremely familiar psychic energy fluctuations.

He even considered throwing Hu Yi directly into space.

However, although they had conflicts before, no matter what, Hu Yi had personally apologized, and Chen Ming was too lazy to pursue anything, so he should still save him.

He then continued to reinforce the cocoon that housed Hu Yi's body to prevent his body from moving around, making it easier for him to repair the damage to his organs later.

Chen Ming asked the president, "What's wrong with this guy?"

"That white shadow suddenly escaped from the blocked space and attacked us. I used the space barrier to block it, but he wanted to try using his entropy armor, and then..."

The legion leader who had just come to the infirmary door couldn't help but ask after hearing what the president said: "You like to act up?"

"Stop scolding me. I really want to understand how it works."

"How can you risk your life to try it?"

Chen Ming asked back speechlessly, and tore open the cocoon that was wrapped around Hu Yi.

Hu Yi's internal organs have all returned to their original positions, and all the damage to his body has been repaired.

Repairing the body of a psychic whose psychic powers do not strengthen the body is no different from repairing the body of an ordinary person.

As long as the spiritual nerves in the brain are not damaged, people will basically not die.

After Hu Yi landed, he moved around for a while and asked Chen Ming, "You didn't do anything weird to my body, did you?"

"I can't say it. Even if I don't want to do it, I still have to save you, right?"

"……That……"

Chen Ming waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I really don't care about the past, but I can't miss such a good opportunity, right?"

"Help me do things for five years, and then I will find a way to eliminate the influence of my psychic power."

The president standing by was also happy to see Hu Yi suffer a serious loss. He didn't think there was anything wrong with Hu Yi encountering such a thing.

The legion commander was not familiar with Hu Yi at all and didn't mind what Chen Ming was doing at all.

Hu Yi didn't argue much with Chen Ming. After all, he would be in danger today if Chen Ming was not there. He really had nothing to say to Chen Ming.

So he quickly changed the subject and said, "Wait, let's not talk about what happened before. I'm here to help after all. The white shadow hasn't been dealt with yet."

"Yeah, so what are you here for?"

Chen Ming's slightly sarcastic words made Hu Yi unhappy, but he didn't dare to talk to Chen Ming at all.

He could only explain honestly: "My psychic power is entropy control, you know. As long as I remove all the entropy from a space, I can create a space of absolute zero."

"In this kind of space, even light can be slowed down, and white shadows should be no exception."

"But my psychic power cannot restrain it. The process of reducing entropy takes time."

"We have to find a way to freeze it first, so we can create an area of ​​absolute zero."

"Is this so?"

What Chen Ming said was a question, but his actual tone was quite normal.

After all, he had used this trick when fighting the Jellyfish Leviathan.

He began to have the Purgatory Core of the Shining Civilization relic in his hand, which was able to achieve a similar effect.

Although it is impossible to achieve true absolute zero, after all, the Purgatory Core is just a device and has an upper limit on its output power.

However, as long as the speed of light can be limited, the movement of the jellyfish Leviathan can be limited.

Chen Ming didn't think of using this method at first when he was fighting with Bai Ying.

After all, entropy control itself takes a certain amount of time, and it may not be easy to use against a high-speed being like Bai Ying.

And there is no way to determine the specific effect.

In addition, the first wave of space restrictions did work. If the shattered White Shadow had not suddenly re-formed two new White Shadow spaceships, there would be no need to bring up this method again.

However, Hu Yi did not seem to understand what Chen Ming meant. Instead, he affirmed, "That's it. Isn't this a good idea?"

"Where did you learn it?"

"I thought of it myself."

"I told him."

Hu Yi and the president spoke at the same time, creating an awkward atmosphere in the infirmary.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and deal with it as soon as possible."

The president did not continue to embarrass Hu Yi. After all, Bai Ying had already discovered something wrong with this space when they were communicating.

"My mental energy is depleted very quickly. Blocking a galaxy will consume too much energy. We need to get rid of it as soon as possible."

"Wait, it consumes a lot?"

As Chen Ming spoke, he raised his hand, and a small hill of plastic bottles appeared out of thin air beside him.

Looking at the labels on the vials, these are all drugs used to restore mental strength.

"This……"

"My fairy tree has reached the period when it sheds its leaves. During this period of time, I just built a pharmaceutical production line."

"I don't need these medicines. I can recover much faster on my own than taking medicines."

"Boss, look..."

"Okay...but you can only resist it for a while at most. If you take too much, you will develop drug resistance."

The president picked up a few bottles of medicine and poured them into his mouth. He said to Chen Ming in a slightly unclear tone, "You take the lead, and I will cooperate with you."

"it is good."

Chen Ming has experience of destroying the white shadow once, so it is obviously the best choice for him to actively guide the use of spatial spiritual energy to block the white shadow.

Chen Ming also knew that the time he would use his spatial ability to block the white shadow this time would definitely be shorter than before.

So suddenly you have to seize the most critical opportunity.

At this time, Bai Ying truly discovered the abnormality in space, and the source of the abnormality was obviously the two people who had just arrived in the galaxy and the spaceship that had just arrived.

But Bai Ying's target at this time was the planets within the galaxy that were completely defenseless to it.

His purpose of passing through here was to attack the empire's colonies. Since his way out was blocked, it was a feasible way to give priority to completing his goal.

However, except Hu Yi, everyone present was not a fool. They could all think of the possibility that Bai Ying would ignore them and attack the planet.

When the white shadow moved again, several planets in the galaxy were already protected by a space isolation layer.

Bai Ying's surprise attack had no effect other than slowing down its own speed.

Chen Ming even seized this opportunity and put the first layer of distorted space around it.

The president immediately followed suit, and another form of space blockade was applied on the outer layer.

Even if Bai Ying has the ability to soften himself and escape from the distorted space, he cannot escape from two blocked spaces in succession in a short period of time.

Moreover, Chen Ming and the president had no intention of stopping. The two psychics who mastered the power of space just moved up layer by layer, using different space blocking methods to create more than a dozen layers of chaotic and extremely distorted space around the white shadow.

Not to mention coming out directly, even if Bai Ying wanted to use the previous method to teleport out, he would not be able to confirm the coordinates of the space in this chaotic space.

Hu Yi also followed up immediately after confirming that the space blockade was successful. This time, his entropy control ability successfully acted near the white shadow.

All particles in this area are losing their activity.

The temperature is gradually approaching absolute zero.

When this area truly reaches absolute zero, there is no need to maintain the space blockade.

At this moment, Hu Yi suddenly said: "Something is wrong. The entropy increase of this white shadow spacecraft is very abnormal. Its entropy growth rate is wrong."

"Get rid of it!"

The legion commander entered the mutation state again at this time and was sent into the blockaded space by Chen Ming.

He split open the dragon's mouth, and blue-white energy beams burst out of the mouth.

Under Hu Yi's precise control of entropy, this space close to absolute zero not only had no effect on the legion commander, but even further intensified the effect of the blue and white energy torrent.

The energy torrent bombarded the White Shadow's hull just like before.

Destroying its structure.

Once again approaching the core of the white shadow.

This time, before the energy torrent hit the core.

The core of one of the white shadows suddenly shattered and exploded.

A mechanical, lifeless but extremely powerful psychic energy wave swept across the surroundings.

In an instant, the numerous sieges set up by Chen Ming and the president were wiped out.

Another white shadow ship that was not considered the first target by the legion commander took this opportunity to escape again.

With the help of the aftermath of the psychic fluctuations of the white shadow's self-detonation, it broke through the blockade set up by the president at the edge of the galaxy and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Bai Ying's escape again made everyone a little annoyed and worried.

This was just a vanguard sent out by the Mechanical Clan for reconnaissance, but it was able to shake off the combined pursuit of several psychics several times.

If the mechanical tribe really marches forward in force, then...

Since Chen Ming had thought about this problem before, he pulled the legion commander back again without hesitation and controlled the highest point to make a jump.

Everything else can be discussed later; right now the primary goal is to deal with Bai Ying.

At the same time, he asked Hu Yi: "You just said that Bai Ying has a problem, right?"

Hu Yi answered honestly: "The output power of the spacecraft engine has an upper limit no matter how high it is. The efficiency of temperature increase also has an upper limit, and the speed of entropy increase is also the same."

"But the situation of the white shadow is not right. Not only is the efficiency of entropy increase strange, but also..."

"The speed of entropy activity is the temperature that is ultimately manifested. Do you understand?"

"Its entropy growth rate and activity have exceeded the temperature it should be showing."

"So what's the reason?"

Hu Yi asked with a look of "you ask me" and said: "How should I know?"

Chen Ming nodded slightly, thinking about Hu Yi's words and some details he had observed before.

The shrunken organs in his body, the rusted hulls he saw, and the changes in the legion commander's body...

These individual anomalies do not seem to have any direct connection when taken together.

Chen Ming couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment.

There is no choice but to continue the pursuit.

If he kills Bai Ying, he will be able to figure out what is going on with Bai Ying.

(End of this chapter)