Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 245 Public Opinion
When Chen Ming put the bone sword on the table.

The boss recognized the essence of this thing at a glance and said: "A spiritual weapon made of psychic biological materials, confiscated?"

"Well, I found that if I carry two psychic weapons at the same time, I will have an uncomfortable feeling. The source is my weapon. I don't know what the situation is, so I came to ask you."

The boss reassured Chen Ming and said, "This is a conflict in the nature of psychic weapons. It's a normal thing. Don't worry."

"Generally speaking, only weapons made of materials with the same or very similar properties can be used together."

"Because when you use a psionic weapon, while your own psionic energy is amplified, it will also be tainted with some of the properties of the psionic weapon material."

"So when using a second weapon, the different properties of the two psychic weapons will cause your psychic energy to be disordered, so that's it. Generally, just prepare one psychic weapon."

"Use whichever weapon you have in your hand that works best for you. You should have to change it in the future."

"This sword doesn't seem to be suitable for you. The one Baiquan gave you is no longer suitable for you now. The material properties are not good enough. You must choose better materials."

"Speaking of this, you haven't gotten any psychic equipment yet, have you?"

Speaking of which, Chen Ming thought of one more thing.

Chen Ming felt that he could try to get a suit of psychic power armor for the prosthetic next time it was needed.

There is indeed nothing wrong with this idea.

But now I think about it, even if Yan Xiong's psychic properties are not compatible with him, there seems to be no problem if he just uses it once.

Otherwise, he will have to wait at least until the contribution points of the Purgatory Core in half a month and the contribution points of the Synchrotron Core in one and a half months before he can replace the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve that he needs now.

"Don't fuse several materials with different psychic properties together, especially don't come into contact with the human body, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

Chen Ming asked: "What type of psychic equipment?"

The boss pointed to his own body and said, "Just the clothes, armor and so on."

"I think it shouldn't be a luxury for you, it's just that you didn't expect to be able to do this."

Either selling raw materials directly or selling finished products made from raw materials, you will know which one is more profitable after just thinking about it.

Since he can produce a complete set of psychic power armor made entirely of psychic materials with the same properties, even all metal materials of different types can have the same properties.

The boss's words were basically a clear statement, and Chen Ming immediately thought of Yan Xiong again.

Even if there is a complicated process behind this, and there is no way to directly exchange power armor for contribution points, Chen Ming can still try to trade directly with other psykers.

Maybe by selling this, he could get the seeds of the Spiritual Enlightenment Nerve and the Fairy Spirit Tree in advance.

If someone really feels that power armor is inconvenient, he can also provide ordinary psychic weapons with the same properties as power armor to match the power armor, so that they will not have no combat effectiveness at all if they cannot wear power armor.

Chen Ming happened to remember that Bai Quan had said before that there were indeed people who specifically collected things that psykers could use and put them on the psyker contribution platform for others to redeem.

Biological armor actually contains some metal materials, so you can try it if you have the chance.

Chen Ming couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart when he heard this, and asked: "So what will happen if you do this?"

"It's not easy to tell you at the moment. This involves a more in-depth aspect related to spiritual energy. You will understand it when your spiritual energy develops to a certain level in the future."

This should be a good idea, but there is no rush now.

Use their contribution points to help redeem what he needs.

"It really is."

"Nothing, just remember to use materials of the same nature when making different parts of the armor."

"Row."

It's just that it's more troublesome for other people to wear power armor, unlike him who can just make it directly on their bodies.

Chen Ming pulled back his divergent thoughts and asked what his boss had just said: "So what happened to the armor made of psychic materials?"

"Remember, it must not be made of materials with different properties, even if it's even remotely good."

If that didn't work, Chen Ming could even modify the design to make the power armor wearable as quickly as possible.

Then if you take out this kind of psychic power armor, you should be able to get a lot of contribution points, right?

Besides, although Yan Xiong only produces psychic metal, and metal is not convenient for making clothes for daily wear, there is still no problem in making some body armor. Even going a little further, Chen Ming can use these materials to make power armor. .

Anyway, he is considered an insider now, so there should be no problem in exchanging these things internally.

The volume of power armor can be much larger than that of psionic weapons. With the same strength of psionic weapons, the size will obviously determine the final increase obtained by the psyker.

After all, the boss is still chatting with him.

He and Chen Ming didn't get along well, and Chen Ming was a little busy recently, so he always left Yan Xiong to Chaofan to deal with, and didn't pay much attention to it.

Chen Ming remembered that all the psychic metal materials made by Yan Xiong would be contaminated with his psychic properties, a property that was a bit close to "arrogance".

So even if this kind of thing is not very compatible with other psychics, the effect alone should interest many people, right?

Although the manufacturing cost of psionic power armor is definitely higher than that of psionic weapons, the effects will definitely be more exaggerated.

"Indeed, no, but using psychic materials to make such a thing? Isn't it too luxurious?"

Now Chen Ming just thought about it briefly and did not continue to think deeply.

"This is different from the requirement for you to use two different weapons at the same time. The weapons can still be used if they are slightly offset, but the armor will definitely not work."

Now he is only Yan Xiong who can produce psychic materials of the same nature, so he really can't ask for too much.

Although he didn't ask what the consequences would be, Chen Ming did take note of the boss's warning.

After all, if the boss can be so serious, then the consequences will definitely not be what he wants to see.

After Chen Ming digested what his boss said for a while, he suddenly asked: "Do weapons and armor also need to have the same properties if they want to be used together?"

"Yes, but I think you should be able to meet this condition."

"Indeed, then I'm basically fine."

Chen Ming ended the topic he had just brought up and turned to another matter: "Boss, do you have any news about Hu Yi?"

"Hu Yi? You want to cause trouble for him, right? If I have any news, I'll let you know later."

"Thank you, boss, there is nothing else to do for the time being."

"Okay, go ahead and ask me if you don't understand anything."

Chen Ming ended the communication after thanking him again.

Wu An also put down the terminal.

However, Hu Yi next to him didn't understand what Wu An just said, and asked: "Chen Ming is so rich? Can he still be equipped with a complete set of psychic armor?"

Wu An glanced at Hu Yi strangely, shook his head and said nothing.

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While Hu Yi was confused.

Chen Ming also put down the terminal, thinking about how to use his two psychic weapons.

In fact, he can use two weapons, one as a fake and one as a main body, but the main body of the spiritual weapon beside the prosthetic can also be absorbed in disguise, so now he is not sure whether this is reliable or not.

It is not yet clear whether there will be conflicts if the prosthetic body is separated and each holds a psychic weapon.

If there is, you can still only choose one of the two weapons, but if there is not, then this matter will be interesting.

However, this idea is a bit metaphysical, and Chen Ming does not intend to consider it now.

Now let's consider the distribution of the two psychic weapons.

He actually prefers to let the prosthesis carry the bone sword. After all, the prosthesis needs to face more dangers.

A long sword with special properties made of pure psychic materials, and a psychic revolver purely used as a buff machine, it goes without saying which one to bring to dangerous situations.

But if Chen Ming changed the weapon for the prosthesis, Bai Quan, who gave him the revolver, would definitely be able to tell.

This Baiquan's face is a bit unjust. Is there any way to make a replica of the prosthesis later?

While Chen Ming was thinking about these questions, there was a sudden knock on the door of his room.

Bai Quan opened the door and walked in and said, "Okay, I have already spread the news that we were attacked, and arranged for someone to do something by the way."

"That black mist psyker, what I'm saying here is that you have already killed him. To avoid long nights and nightmares, you can just question him directly."

"By the way, you haven't repaired your spaceship yet, have you?"

Chen Ming shook his head.

Because the black mist psychic came directly to him, and his room was at the edge of the spacecraft.

It has always been a good tradition of the navy to use the crew quarters as the armor of the ship, and the space navy is also the navy.

Therefore, in the battle just now, what was damaged was basically the edge of the spacecraft, which did not affect the use of the spacecraft itself, so Chen Ming was not in a hurry to repair it.

And it just so happened that a new psyker arrived on the habitable planet behind and was captured by the surveillance camera.

Chen Ming's attention immediately went there, and the spacecraft naturally remained the same.

Bai Quan nodded slightly and said: "That's good, let's keep it as it is now. We have to go to the nearest galaxy with spacecraft equipment to do a damage assessment."

"Hurry up, it's best to get it within a day, otherwise it seems that the psychic energy fluctuations will dissipate, and it will be more troublesome to preserve some evidence."

"Is there such a place?"

"If a psyker commits a crime, it's hard to find a department to deal with it. Generally speaking, there is at least one department in each sector."

"I understand, but is there one in each star region?"

"Yes, although the probability of awakening psykers is not high, there will definitely be no shortage of them under the current population base of the empire. There is almost one per star region."

"You don't see many psykers in normal times. One reason is that the empire is large, and the other is because which psyker likes to come to the edge star field? Isn't the prosperous star field bad?"

"You are an exception. After all, you awakened in the edge star field, and your psychic energy also requires you to stay in this kind of place." "What about the boss?"

"Wu An is also an exception. His situation is... more complicated."

Bai Quan looked like he didn't want to say more, so Chen Ming didn't ask any more questions.

He actually asked the boss before why he came to a place like this, but the boss didn't want to say more.

There must be some story behind this, and Bai Quan was also involved.

Since the two parties involved don't want to talk about it, Chen Ming will definitely not take the initiative to get into trouble.

"Where are the coordinates of the place you mentioned?"

Bai Quan opened the terminal and pointed to Chen Ming a location on the star map and said: "Here.

Chen Ming glanced at the star map and asked, "Military region?"

"Of course it's the military area. It doesn't matter. I've already said hello in advance. Just go there."

"Row."

Chen Ming didn't waste any time. After confirming the coordinates, he directly started the Stardust-level jump engine.

A minute later, the Stardust class appeared in the destination galaxy.

However, it was useless just to arrive. Chen Ming continued to stay here for several hours to assess the damage.

It wasn't until Bai Quan got a damage assessment report that he was finally able to repair the Stardust class and set off for the destination again.

He originally wanted to jump directly over, but Bai Quan stopped him.

Bai Quan must have a reason for doing this, so Chen Ming didn't say anything and continued to let Stardust fly slowly in the hyperspace channel.

It was the morning of the next day.

Chen Ming had just finished washing when he discovered that Bai Quan was already sitting energetically on the sofa next to the repaired class area, looking at the report that was delivered even when he was away from home.

When Bai Quan noticed Chen Ming coming over, he immediately handed him a copy of the report.

When Chen Ming saw the contents of the report, he immediately understood the reason why Baiquan did not let him jump directly yesterday.

The contents of the report are very clear and concise.

Mainly due to the impact of the attack they received yesterday.

After all, Chen Ming and Bai Quan originally set out at this time to submit research materials and verify Chen Ming's ability to control the colony with Lou Wei. This was considered a secret operation.

But now that the accident happened, Bai Quan naturally revealed the matter.

And they also directly sent the officially certified damage assessment report and most of the video of the entire incident to the supervision department at the headquarters for them to intervene.

The reason is that Lou Wei believed that there was another incident to prevent Chen Ming from verifying his colonial capabilities.

At the same time, Bai Quan also used some small means to let people privately release the damage assessment report and some videos that would not reveal the effects of Chen Ming's psychic powers to help the outside world confirm that this was not false news.

And judging from today's report, external public opinion has certainly exploded.

It's no wonder that Lao Wu contacted him urgently last night and asked him something. The factory director also called him to ask how he was doing.

Although this news involves real psykers showing psychic abilities, ordinary people did not learn too much about the content in public opinion.

Just like the previous gambling agreement, most people only had a basic understanding of Bai Quan based on the previous negative public opinion about Bai Quan, and then gained an understanding of the gambling agreement after Bai Quan's public opinion reversed. , the specific content of the bet is not known to outsiders.

But that was enough, because among the people attacked by Zuo Jing this time, Bai Quan was a lieutenant general.

Left path, attack, lieutenant general.

Put these three keywords together and things cannot be small.

Although external news said that Zuo Jing was dealt with quickly, there were no casualties except Zuo Jing, and more than 300 Zuo Jing personnel died, and the fleet was completely destroyed.

But the suicide attack by a small left-wing fleet on a military warship carrying out a mission was a slap in the face of the Fourteenth Army.

Although it was the face of the entire Fourteenth Legion that was slapped outside.

But within the Fourteenth Legion, it was absolutely impossible to hit Bai Quan in the face.

The reason lies in what Bai Quan said to Chen Ming before.

Only the two of them and the people on Lou Wei's side knew the entire trajectory of their actions after they came out.

It is impossible for an ordinary person in Baiquan to risk his life to provoke a psyker.

Many people also know that Chen Ming and Zuo Jing have a grudge. Zuo Jing wants to get rid of Chen Ming quickly, and it is even more impossible for Chen Ming to do such a thing as luring a wolf into the house under such circumstances.

So who is the person who leaked the information about Chen Baiquan's whereabouts? Many people must have the answer in their minds.

Of course, there are also voices of doubt.

Some people also say that Chen Ming was afraid of going to the colony for actual testing, so he deliberately directed and acted such a show.

But it's not self-directed and self-acted. You can tell by watching the video released by Bai Quan.

Anyone with the ability can naturally see all the videos.

Of course, we can also understand that Chen Ming is really fighting for life and death.

And if Bai Quan dared to report the matter directly to the supervision department, then it was impossible for Bai Quan to do it himself.

All kinds of factors are added together, and the situation becomes one-sided in an instant.

They relied on two documents and a video to force Lou Wei to issue a statement overnight, saying that it was definitely not their fault and that they would definitely cooperate with the investigation to find out who leaked the secret and caused the problem.

Lou Wei and the others took the initiative to give in, but they seemed to kick the ball back in disguise.

That's about it for yesterday, what happens next depends on today's situation.

Bai Quan's intention of not letting Chen Ming jump directly to the destination yesterday must have been to let the matter continue to ferment for a few days. As long as this matter is not handled well for one day, the pressure on all aspects will definitely increase day by day.

Who is the most anxious now?
Anyway, it's definitely not Chen Ming and Bai Quan.

After fully understanding the situation, Chen Ming asked Bai Quan next to him: "So how should we deal with this matter later?"

"We don't have to deal with it."

Bai Quan said as if the matter was over: "The trouble of assassinating the lieutenant general and the psyker lies with the opponent. It is the opponent who has to consider how to deal with it, but who dares to deal with this kind of matter in private?"

"Don't forget that the previous matter has not been completely cleared up yet. When these two matters come together, this is no longer something that can be solved by asking them to self-examine."

"Someone from the headquarters will come over to deal with this matter soon, so we don't have to worry about it."

"With such a big pot, a lot of people have to be taken out to investigate. All we have to do is watch."

"Oh."

Chen Ming nodded and asked, "Then how will they respond?"

"You have to ask them how they responded, but if I were here, I would not do anything about this matter. I would fully cooperate with the supervisor in the investigation and hand over the people who should be handed over."

"It was involved in Zuo Jing's affairs twice in a row, and one of them was directly related to my life. Anyone who has the idea of ​​​​taking a chance on it will definitely get bloodshed."

Chen Ming has experienced the previous things and probably understands the reasons. These are the rules within the system.

But there is one thing he still hasn't figured out: "Actually, I still don't understand why they want to assassinate us?"

Bai Quan asked: "Who said they want to assassinate us? How could they not know the rules after being around for so many years?"

"There are definitely people who just want to cause some trouble for us, make us sick, falsely accuse us of not being good at keeping secrets, etc., so they leaked our information to some people."

"It would be okay for them if they only attract ordinary left paths, because such left paths cannot threaten us at all, but they can disgust us."

"Zuo Jing must have been dealt with on the spot. Even if we don't deal with it, Zuo Jing will definitely rush up and deal with it himself. There will be no left for these Zuo Jing."

"Then they can argue with us about who leaked the secret. It's quite troublesome to think about it."

"But in the end, I'm afraid they didn't expect that the psyker from Zuojia would be attracted in the end, so the problem is huge."

"It's actually not difficult to find out who the person who leaked the information is. Only a few people may know, and each of these people is related to the person at the top of them."

"So I estimate that there will be results in this matter within three days, just watch."

"The results shouldn't disappoint."

Bai Quan threw away the terminal in his hand and was about to get up to prepare today's lesson plan when he suddenly sat down again and said to Chen Ming: "By the way, although we were delayed a little on the way, we should be almost there tomorrow night."

"It's the place responsible for testing your research data. Before handing over the data, we have to meet with Lou Wei. I'll tell them then."

"Row."

"Also, the results of Lou Wei's punishment came out yesterday. They were not included in the report. I will tell you now."

"Lou Wei received three disciplinary sanctions within our 14th Legion."

"One violation is illegally obtaining administrator rights of a simulation device, another violation is illegally using administrator rights to stop a formal recorded public battle, and the third violation is destroying your research data."

"The three violations and the Zuo Jing incident broke out later, causing him to be severely fined and directly lowered by two levels."

"I was sentenced to six months of compulsory labor and my monthly salary was reduced."

Chen Ming basically didn't listen to what he said next. After all, the punishment for wages and voluntary labor was not painful, and the main thing was the punishment of being lowered by two levels.

He remembered that Lou Wei seemed to be a major general before. If he lowered his rank by two levels, Lou Wei seemed to be a colonel now.

Although Lou Wei did not go to jail in the end, he was probably better off going to jail after falling from general level to school level.

This even means that Lou Wei is now on the same level as him.

Chen Ming is not yet a member of the 14th Army Corps, but an external temporary tactical instructor, with treatment equivalent to that of a colonel.

Lou Wei fell to the same level as him, no matter how you look at it, you will be happy.

(End of this chapter)