Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station.

Chapter 425 The Queen's Hand
One minute later.

The galaxy where the city planet was previously located.

Near a star in the galaxy, there is an asteroid that cannot even be considered a planet, but sits at the same table as Pluto.

Next to this asteroid, a large amount of sand-like substance suddenly emerged from nothingness and quickly gathered together.

The result was a space station that had lost more than half of its structure, but seemed to have barely repaired the gap.

Inside the space station, two nanorobots, Zhou Bo and Nano, were standing together in the main control room of the space station that was torn apart by Chen Ming's scarlet power.

The nanometers here are just as Chen Ming guessed before, they are the part that was left behind before the nanometers left the space station, or even earlier, and they have returned to their original state after self-repair.

Although it seemed that there were only two of them, all the survivors throughout the space station were watching this scene in the main control room.

After the space station completely left the dimension built by the shining civilization.

Nano was the first to speak: "Confirm that that part of my body has completely lost contact."

"The last news was that Chen Ming used the psychic power of the Scarlet Dimension to destroy his consciousness, and he failed to self-destruct."

"The effect of Chen Ming's psychic power is indeed limited, but a lot of information will definitely be leaked out, and there should be surveillance cameras left by Chen Ming in the galaxy. We must hurry."

"We have already lost many companions. We cannot continue to lose them."

"Yes."

Zhou Bo no longer has the confidence to question Nano as before, and he has returned the authority to Nano.

The reason he stayed here instead of watching like the other survivors was just to prove Nano was right.

Of course, the survivors still put business first.

As soon as they finished speaking, the space station sent a special communication signal towards the planet.

This signal received a response almost instantly.

The surface layers at the two magnetic field poles of the asteroid suddenly began to collapse as if affected by the sudden gravity at the core of the asteroid.

No, not a collapse, but a shrinkage.

The soil on the surface and the rock layers underground were collapsing towards the interior of the asteroid due to the sudden gravity.

When the soil and rocks were swallowed up by this collapsing force, a giant structure with an overall appearance of an oil lamp was exposed inside the asteroid.

The rib structure on the top droops slightly, semi-protecting the open structure in the middle. At the same time, such a structure can also allow it to be completely concealed by the structure of the asteroid itself.

When the rocks and soil were almost cleared away, the interior of the structure revealed something that looked very familiar to Chen Ming.

A singularity.

It is releasing a massive gravitational pull that will completely wipe out whatever is left of the asteroid.

Soon, the rib structure on top of the giant structure opened, and energy-concentrated light pollution appeared on the surface. The attraction of the singularity gradually stabilized, and it seemed that it would be possible to pass through it soon.

Arrived at the unknown location behind.

"So this is the special star gate you were talking about?"

Chen Ming's voice sounded on the super body.

At this time, the super body was hovering at a position not far from the star gate in the asteroid.

The surface of the super body is covered by a layer of nanorobots, which has a dual stealth effect on the physical and psychic levels.

What helped construct this layer of nanorobot covering was the part of the nanorobots controlled by Chen Ming's psychic power.

After Chen Ming asked this question, Nano immediately said: "Yes, by connecting the coordinates of here and the star gate of the destination, we can reach a new dimension we built from here."

"This new dimension is different from the one we used when we escaped from the space station. It's more...private."

"Hide there and don't come out until the Queen wakes up. This is what I judged to be the only way out when facing you."

"The other me has definitely regained control of the station and is moving forward with this plan."

Chen Ming nodded slightly and said, "Because of what you said, I changed my mind about directly starting from your space station through the dimension. I hope the situation later is worth it."

"I can't say whether it's worth it, but this is definitely an opportunity. It's up to you whether you can seize it."

Chen Ming did not comment on this.

He glanced at the space station outside, which was moving very slowly due to the time acceleration of the super body, and took this opportunity to ask, "So how strong is the Queen?"

"do not know."

"I only know that she is the most powerful psyker in our Shining Civilization, but no one knows how powerful she is."

"I suggest you really prepare yourself before you do anything..."

"coming."

Nami was interrupted by Chen Ming before she could finish her words.

Because the singularity in the special star gate had completely stabilized at this time, the space station also began to move, and the speed was quite fast, and it was obvious that it would soon enter the star gate.

Chen Mingting wanted to try to follow in, but he didn't.

He once again relied on the super body's time stream core to accelerate the effect of psychic energy, and distributed his mental power between the space station and the star gate by relying on the acceleration effect of the time stream core.

Once again, the space was torn apart, bringing Scarlet back to the normal universe and enveloping the space station.

This time, the survivors' target is right in front of them, and they can no longer avoid Chen Ming's tracking by escaping to that dimension.

But at the moment when the rift opened completely.

At the top of the special star gate frame outside the singularity that had just been stabilized, a presence appeared that made Chen Ming feel extremely dangerous.

In his mental perception, what gave him such a sense of danger was a clearly feminine nanomechanical severed arm.

Not even a complete person.

Chen Ming's expression was serious, but he was not surprised, as he knew what this was.

This is what Nano said, a countermeasure left by their queen before she fell into sleep, to be used to protect the survivors when necessary.

This is what is left of the most powerful psyker who ever ruled a powerful civilization.

This is the Queen's Hand.

This is the reason why Chen Ming did this.

Chen Ming wanted to take a bigger gamble.

Although the value of the survivors has been squeezed out through nanotechnology, more value can be squeezed out by placing the remaining survivors in this galaxy.

The Queen's Hand is a counter-weapon left behind by the Shining Queen, and only the master controller of the Survivor Space Station has the authority to awaken it.

And Chen Ming's spiritual power has the possibility of controlling it.

The moment the Queen's Hand appeared, it pointed its index finger in the direction of the space station.

It seems to be targeting those who are hostile to the survivors.

The moment the target was locked onto those scarlet cracks.

The Queen's hand opened up her slender fingers that shone with metallic luster and reached into the air toward the space station.

At this moment, a giant phantom hand made of psychic energy completely grasped the area torn open by the scarlet rift.

Like holding a piece of paper tightly, he crumpled the scarlet into a messy thing.

The space station separated by scarlet was not affected by this force at all.

It even moved towards the special star gate at a faster speed while the Queen's Hand was taking effect.

The scarlet crack held in the palm of the phantom created by the Queen's Hand was not crushed directly.

The scarlet power is being continuously released from another dimension into the normal universe. A heartbeat sounded from the palm of the Queen's hand.

The clenched hand loosened involuntarily.

But the next moment, the Queen's hand clenched again as if offended, and completely crushed the scarlet power back to the scarlet dimension.

The backlash of this force caused cracks to appear in Chen Ming's scarlet mechanical heart.

However, Chen Ming's attention was not on the scarlet at this time.

His attention was completely focused on the body of the Queen's Hand.

The super body he controls is also lurking in the shadows and getting closer to the star gate.

When the Scarlet Mechanical Heart was repelled by the Queen, the Queen's power was at its strongest at the moment when it acted on the giant phantom hand.

Chen Ming broke away from the super body and, relying on the aftermath of the time acceleration psychic effect brought by the time flow core, rushed towards the Queen's hand and touched it.

But just when Chen Ming wanted to rely on his own psychic power to control the Queen's hand.

"what?"

Chen Ming's spiritual energy penetrated into the Queen's hand, but was unable to exert its power on it.

The Queen's hand was still able to move freely, and she also noticed Chen Ming's presence.

The shadow of the giant hand that was originally clenching the scarlet rift disappeared, and the power returned to the Queen's hand.

The Queen's hand only made a slight wave and directly shattered the biological armor on Chen Ming's body.

Even the psychic shield he maintained around his body was penetrated by this powerful force.

It directly shattered most of his internal organs and bones.

Chen Ming spat out a mouthful of blood filled with internal organs.

He quickly used his spiritual power to repair his injured body.

During this process, his eyes were fixed on the direction of the Queen's hand, and he kept thinking.

In the past, Chen Ming had experienced situations where his psychic powers were unable to control certain mechanical equipment.

For example, when facing the mechanical race.

When he was still very weak, he couldn't use psychic power to directly control the mechanical race in their psychic hive mind network.

Because psychic power would hinder the development of his strength, and the psychic power strength of the psychic hive mind network far exceeds what he once was.

In fact, the survivors' previous speculation was correct. Psychic power did affect Chen Ming's use of psychic power.

But it must be a spiritual power that is far stronger than Chen Ming's power.

So now Chen Ming always thinks that there is nothing in the world that can stop his spiritual power.

But the Queen's Hand appeared in front of him when his pride reached its peak.

He had no way of controlling this mechanical being whose psychic power far exceeded his own.

but……

His power still left scarlet marks of infection on the Queen's arm.

The hand seemed to examine the scarlet-affected wound for a moment.

But it didn't do anything about it.

It simply pointed its finger once again towards the scarlet fissure that had just been released but was beginning to expand again.

This time, what appeared at the edge of the scarlet rift was no longer a giant hand, but a humanoid shadow that contained all the psychic power left by the Queen's Hand.

The phantom's eyes were lifeless, but it stayed near the space station for a moment with great purpose, and then rushed into the scarlet rift the next moment and completely closed it.

The surrounding space was also forcibly smoothed and stabilized, and there was no possibility of reopening the cracks in a short period of time.

Before Chen Ming could see what would happen in the scarlet, he saw that the Queen's Hand, which was originally floating near the star gate, had lost the psychic power stored in it and turned into an ordinary nanomechanical arm.

And it was still being madly corroded by the scarlet color it had just been stained with.

Chen Ming quickly controlled the nanomechanical arm that had lost its power and erased the influence of the scarlet power on it.

Then he looked elsewhere and saw that the space station had also disappeared from its previous position, leaving only some residual space fluctuations on the special star gate.

The stargate was still there, but the singularity was now extinguished and no longer seemed to be able to open a passage to another dimension.

Chen Ming reached out and touched the star gate with some disbelief, and tried to control it.

However, he discovered that the way to activate this star gate was extremely special.

He can't start it on his own.

Even if Chen Ming's psychic power was there, he couldn't change the design problem.

If you want to use it, you must open another special star gate corresponding to it.

As for the location of the other special star gate...it is only in the new dimension that Nano mentioned.

The nanorobot that Nano left on Chen Ming suddenly spoke up: "Without the information of that closed dimension, it is impossible to orient the star gate. Even if you want to determine the coordinates of the other side of the star gate by studying the star gate, it will be useless."

"My goal has been achieved, and you have witnessed the Queen's power. Do you still have the confidence to win?"

Chen Ming's heart sank when he heard this.

He really didn't expect that the queen of the survivors would have such power.

Just the one arm left was enough to block his power.

But she was the queen of the Shining Civilization, a civilization that was incomparably more prosperous than the Empire.

She should have this kind of power.

So Chen Ming had nothing to say.

His power also had not reached its peak.

His battleship was still docked in the giant dock.

"Just the Queen."

As he said this, he glanced at the star gate, then at the nanomechanical arm in his hand, and he was not too discouraged.

After all, he had thought it through before doing this, and all the value he could get from the survivors had already been obtained from Nano.

All he was doing at the moment was gambling.

Everyone is happy if the bet wins.

If he lost the bet, he would just let go of some survivors who were not very powerful, so that they could report his power to the Queen.

But their understanding of his power was partial.

And even if they were all left behind, when the queen of the survivors woke up, she would be wary of the situation outside because no one would greet her.

It is even possible to be more vigilant than if you were aware of a misconception.

So no matter what the result is, it won’t make much difference to future development.

"The survivors? They are just stray dogs."

"As long as the star gate is still here, I will have people research a way to reach that dimension sooner or later, and this star gate will be activated sooner or later."

"Those who remain must either submit or perish."

(End of this chapter)