Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 412: Reasons for Exceeding the Speed ​​of Light
The white shadow was split into two halves from a complete spaceship the size of a battleship.

Half of them self-destructed to remove the restrictions of space, while the other half continued to move deeper into the territory of the empire.

Shiro has learned that several powerful psychics are tracking it, so its subsequent actions will probably be more decisive.

Its target may be directly the capital of the Fourteenth Legion star field.

There are only three level 6 psychics in the Fourteenth Legion.

The legion commander who was supposed to be at the front line but is now following Chen Ming.

Qiu Bowen, who is currently in the Mechanical Star Region next to the Galo Star Region on the other side of the Empire, is organizing the final work of the Mechanical War.

There is another person that Chen Ming is not familiar with, who is currently guarding the capital.

The level 6 psychic said that he should be able to barely block the white shadow, but Chen Ming was not sure about the psychic's capabilities.

Moreover, not all level 6 psychics can withstand White Shadow's attack, let alone protect others from White Shadow's attack.

Hu Yi, who was a level 6 psychic anyway, was almost killed if he wasn't careful.

If that legion psychic gets a little too arrogant, something bad might happen.

In order to avoid something that Chen Ming absolutely does not want to see, he must find a way to stop the fleeing white shadow in advance.

"We have to keep chasing."

"How to chase?"

"I'll chase it by warping. With the help of the extreme distance warping and my psychic repair warping engine, I can barely keep up with its speed."

Hu Yi was a little surprised that Chen Ming would use this method, which he thought was a bit old-fashioned compared to Chen Ming's previous methods, and asked: "You made such a big move across the empire before, didn't you take the opportunity to... leave something behind?"

"It was left, but there were none in many places that Bai Ying passed by. Even if there were, it might not be possible to keep them in time."

"Then I'll do it."

The president nearby had just thrown away an empty medicine bottle. Looking at the pile of full medicine bottles on the ground, he seemed to be hesitant to say something, but he still took the initiative to step forward.

After all, there are only four of them here, and only he and Chen Ming are capable of stopping Bai Ying.

Although his mental energy was being consumed somewhat seriously as he was trying to blockade the galaxy and maintain regional stability in the space within the galaxy.

But he can still move around.

Moreover, the spatial spiritual power he possesses is indeed stronger than Chen Ming's overall.

The range in which Chen Ming uses spatial psychic energy is at most around him, or near those things that Chen Ming controls using basic psychic energy effects.

His psychic powers have no such limitations.

After all, he is a true space psychic.

Chen Ming can only be regarded as a psychic who forcibly seized Scarlet's power and relied on his own uniqueness and his relationship with the Phase Beast to master the combination of the phase powers.

Of course, it can also be said that the emphasis of his and Chen Ming's two kinds of spatial spiritual power is different.

His psychic power is more inclined towards overall, complete and comprehensive control of space.

Chen Ming's spatial psychic effect comes from the scarlet power. It is extremely aggressive and can easily tear space apart.

Moreover, half of Chen Ming's spatial psychic power comes from phase power, which is highly exclusive and is also very efficient in creating spatial isolation layers.

In these two aspects, the president cannot compare with Chen Ming.

But in other aspects, Chen Ming is relatively weaker than the president.

When it comes to the power of space, it still takes time to improve your control.

The current situation obviously does not give Chen Ming time to slowly master the situation, so he has to do it.

It has been many years since the president has exhausted his mental energy to the point where he needs to take medicine to maintain it.

Although he was a little tired, this long-lost feeling made his mind unbearably excited.

Hu Yi interrupted again and asked, "How do we chase her?"

"Didn't I answer this question when I took you to chase the white shadow before?"

The president glanced at Chen Ming and said, "Forget it, let's say it again."

"First, the mental power extends through the 'strings' that form the basis of space, saving mental power to the greatest extent..."

Hearing this, Chen Ming immediately became energetic.

Most of his knowledge of psychic powers has always come from himself and gaining knowledge through the Crimson Force.

For him, who had no knowledge of psychic powers before, all the knowledge, whether it was acquired through his own understanding, trial and error, or even forced upon him by Scarlet, was valuable.

But it's different for him now.

He could clearly sense that the knowledge he had gained could be modified at any time according to his own situation, but the psychic knowledge obtained from the scarlet was one-sided and extremely extreme.

Otherwise, the side effects of the powerful scarlet power would not be so outrageous.

So he couldn't miss the opportunity to learn something new.

Although it seems that if Chen Ming takes the initiative to ask, the president will not refuse to teach him.

But at other times, both Chen Ming himself and the president were very busy and did not have much time to work together, so Chen Ming could take this opportunity to learn more about how to master spatial power.

The president was performing the actual operation while explaining it verbally until the end.

"…Fix the spatial anchor point, and the rest will be easy."

His words trailed off.

Mental power suddenly rises.

Driven by mental power, the psychic energy fluctuations have located along the veins of space the white shadow that is madly heading towards the capital of the Fourteenth Legion star field.

The spatial anchor point that the president mentioned was nailed to the space where Bai Ying was at this moment.

The white shadow repeated the previous situation.

Its speed has not slowed down at all, but its position in the universe has not changed at all.

The space it occupies is locked.

At this moment, Chen Ming suddenly felt a force pulling at the space, and he immediately relaxed.

next moment.

He and his highest point were brought to the location of the anchor point by the president's psychic power.

Next to the highest point is the white shadow that is temporarily confined within this space.

The president didn't say much, but blocked the entire galaxy again to prevent Bai Ying from escaping again.

At this point, his mental strength is almost exhausted, and it all depends on the performance of others.

There were a few more people on Chen Ming's spaceship during this space movement. They seemed to be psychics who were asked by the Minister of Psychic Powers to bring with them.

Several people had received death orders from the empire, and with Chen Ming under great pressure, there was no need to waste time.

Just waiting for instructions from Chen Ming, the only one who can control this matter now.

Chen Ming also doesn't talk nonsense at all.

When the president brought him here, he once again used spatial power to control the locked white shadow, and he alone began to create all kinds of strange and distorted spaces layer by layer around the white shadow, imitating the previous method.

This makes it almost impossible to escape from this space due to the distortion of the complex spatial structure.

Unless Bai Ying can self-destruct once more, the threat posed by Bai Ying can be completely resolved with only a few subsequent psychics, whether it is the legion commander or others who follow up.

But Chen Ming did not directly order anyone to take action.

Because he was thinking about what had just happened.

It was about one of the two white shadows that split from the white shadow and exploded.

Chen Ming originally wanted to extract the fragments of the wreckage of the self-exploding Bai Ying, or to kill Bai Ying completely and obtain the wreckage for research.

So he did not stay for long at the place where Bai Ying exploded, but just built a ship to capture the wreckage.

However, when he was dragged by the president to catch up with the other half of the white shadow, the spaceship he left behind did not find any wreckage at the self-explosion site, and no fragments could be obtained.

Just like the induction air mines that Bai Ying had previously dropped inside those hostile Imperial spaceships, no trace was left after the explosion.

Unable to capture the wreckage, Chen Ming’s psychic power cannot be used, and he cannot confirm what the white shadow is.

Moreover, when the complete White Shadow was shattered at the beginning, its wreckage was all collected to form two smaller White Shadows, and there were also no wreckage fragments scattered.

If the white shadow here also has nothing left in the end, then Chen Ming might get nothing after this trip.

At most, he could only understand the general idea of ​​Bai Ying's ability, but he had no idea what the specific principles of this ability were.

The next time I face the white shadow of the mechanical clan, I will still have to deal with it in this time-consuming and laborious way.

Chen Ming glanced at his side.

There were seven psychics present, all of them were level 6 psychics.

But only he and the president can guarantee the stable restriction of one White Shadow.

But what if the mechanical clan sends three ships?

Who will deal with the extra ship?
What if the number is larger?
If we don’t figure out the principle, how will we deal with it next time?

He had to take some risks and do some tests. Chen Ming's thoughts were even more obvious at this time.

He could clearly feel that he was only one crucial clue away from completely figuring out what kind of power this white shadow possessed.

He said, "Let me try first."

Chen Ming used his psychic power to build several mechanical warships around him, and asked the Queen of Zerg to send several Zerg biological warships over.

No one had any objection to Chen Ming's behavior.

But the president's face was starting to turn pale.

Although the president is a level 6 psychic, he has the ability to at least destroy a galaxy.

However, blocking an entire galaxy for a long time, or even blocking two galaxies one after another, while ensuring the stability of the space within the galaxy, would still consume an enormous amount of energy.

Chen Ming didn't dare delay too long.

He quickly and proactively moved the spacecraft into the area covered by dozens of layers of distorted space.

His spaceship was slashed by psychic energy the moment it approached, and both mechanical and biological spaceships were shattered into pieces by this slash.

Chen Ming had no intuitive feeling before, but now that he was facing the slash personally under the restrictions of external conditions, he also confirmed that there were spiritual energy fluctuations of spatial nature in the slash.

And the process in which an extremely thin layer of almost undetectable special structure material instantly cut into the spacecraft like a blade, and then disappeared in an instant.

But that's not the point.

The key point is that Chen Ming discovered that there was a problem with the stability of the structural particles in the cut parts of the mechanical structure of the spacecraft he built.

This degree of stability is not the influence of spatial stability, but rather an other, familiar influence, which Chen Ming cannot remember the specific name of for the time being.

It is this influence that makes the severed structural layer of the spacecraft look unlike the new spacecraft that Chen Ming had just built with his own hands.

The structural particles inside seemed to have been violently disturbed and were moving at a very fast speed.

Similar situations also occurred in the biological structures of several other severed Zerg warships.

The biological structures near these slash marks shattered rapidly in a very short period of time and dispersed like burnt ashes.

This situation, combined with the various special phenomena Chen Ming had observed before, made him subconsciously re-examine the wreckage of the spacecraft he had previously encountered.

The repaired ones no longer have any problems, but he still has a lot of unrepaired spacecraft wreckage.

Chen Ming can try to observe the structural particle stability of each spacecraft wreckage.

Looking at these anomalies of unified form, Chen Ming made a bold guess.

He suddenly left the spaceship alone and appeared at a considerable distance from the spaceship.

In this place, he could clearly sense the relative position and distance between the white shadow and the spaceship, and he could also confirm the location where the white shadow was blocked through the spaceship's sensors.

After explaining to the few people still on the spacecraft that the test was still ongoing.

Chen Ming began to remove the spatial restrictions he had imposed on Bai Ying layer by layer.

At the same time, he used the ship's broadcast to say inside the ship: "President, please release the innermost restrictions."

The president didn't know what Chen Ming was going to do, but out of trust he still did what Chen Ming said.

The moment when all the restrictions on Bai Ying were released.

As expected, Bai Ying disappeared from the spot, rushed to the edge of the galaxy, and once again ran into the restriction circle set by the president.

At this moment, Chen Ming became excited because he finally discovered the key to Bai Ying's ability.

That is, there was something wrong with the trace of the white shadow he had just observed.

The position of the white shadow he perceived was faster than the position of the light transmitted to him at that time.

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with it. The propagation of light takes time, while perception acts directly on the white shadow.

The perceived position will of course come faster than the position seen by light.

And because its speed exceeds the speed of light, the attempt to determine its position through light is also intermittent and not continuous.

So slight deviations are normal.

But the speed of light is fixed, so the time it takes for light to travel to certain locations should also be fixed.

But when Chen Ming was conducting this test, the time it took for light to reach his location changed. It became faster and arrived at Chen Ming's location earlier than expected.

In other words, the light emitted from the white shadow exceeds the speed of light.

is it possible?

Theoretically this is of course impossible, but the existence of psychic power makes it possible.

Anything that is directly accelerated, especially on an astronomical scale, will cause drastic changes in entropy and temperature, because acceleration at this level will cause the particles inside the object to be accelerated as well.

But Hu Yi said that there was no normal change in temperature, only entropy was increasing randomly.

This shows that its acceleration is definitely not an ordinary acceleration, but an extremely unique acceleration.

Chen Ming had already seen the rusted hull on the cut surface, the old and shriveled internal organs inside his body, and the dead skin tissue on the surface of the legion commander's body that was cut.

After integrating these various abnormal situations.

Chen Ming could think of only one possibility regarding Bai Ying's ability.

Time is accelerated.

All abnormalities are caused by normal things coming into contact with the white shadow that accelerates time.

Baiying's time-acceleration psychic power cannot affect too many things. It can only affect itself and the things it touches.

That's why Chen Ming had seen such an existence before, whose speed had exceeded the speed of light, but could still have a physical impact on other things in the universe.

As for the release of inductive air mines, it is simply the application of spatial power.

It was just like that slashing blow that also had certain spatial and physical properties.

This is a spaceship that controls the power of time and space.

The psychic powers it possesses are simple and direct, but the effects are... a little special.

It actually speeds up its own time, and relies on its own powerful hardware to achieve the practical effect that is difficult to achieve today.

It has extremely strong survivability, powerful maneuverability, and destructive power that is not even on the same level as ships of the same level.

It had a devastating impact on the empire.

But at least Chen Ming has figured out the principle of Bai Ying's psychic ability.

Sooner or later, the method of restraint will be developed through the efforts of the entire empire.

The remaining white shadows still running around in the galaxy restricted by the president are no longer a threat.

Now the only thing left to consider is the mechanical race itself.

This time, the mechanical clan released Baiying as a reconnaissance pioneer. What kind of monster will they release next time?
After Chen Ming finished the test, he focused his mental power on his own psychic energy fluctuations. He imitated the way the president did in calling upon his mental power and began to call upon his own psychic energy.

Set up anchor points and cordon off spaces.

Lock the running white shadow under his control.

"You learned it so quickly?"

Chen Ming heard someone on the spaceship sigh, but he did not respond.

He was still trying to get closer to the white shadow.

But once he tries to get close, the slash with the power of space will directly hit him.

As expected, I can only kill Baiying first, and then consider the issue of control.

Chen Ming wanted to get rid of Bai Ying by himself, but he suddenly found that he seemed unable to get rid of Bai Ying easily.

He had no suitable means to solve it.

The most powerful attack method he currently possesses is the one that utilizes spatial abilities, which is indeed very useful under normal circumstances.

But it becomes a bit difficult when encountering an enemy that can resist the power of space distortion or can ignore the power of space distortion.

It just so happens that Bai Ying can ignore the force of space distortion.

Unless Chen Ming is willing to be more ruthless and directly tear the space apart.

No enemy can currently withstand the force of space being torn apart.

But the consequences of tearing space are extremely negative and long-term.

It would be the same even if Chen Ming used another means to destroy the enemy.

The Destroyer's attacks erase the essence of things.

This conflicts with Chen Ming's idea of ​​controlling the remains of Bai Ying.

The effects of the high-powered attacks he possessed were a bit too much.

It is indeed fine to use it as a lethal weapon, but Chen Ming now needs to find a way to preserve the remains of the weapon, so it is not so useful.

"Forget it, that's it."

Chen Ming contacted the Supreme Point again and asked other psychics to prepare for action.

(End of this chapter)