Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 80 Psykers and Answers
The modification of the mule class has just been carried out for two days.

The boss contacted Chen Ming and asked him to come over.

Probably the boss has already dealt with the pirates and wants to return the pirates who can be exchanged for bounties to him.

After Chen Ming agreed to go there, he went back to the Iron Mine and made some preparations.

He plans to bring a handling robot he bought before.

The handling robot looks a bit like a spider. It is about the size of a person and has a strong load capacity. It can adapt to a variety of complex environments and can also receive simple instructions.

But Chen Ming tried the robot after he got it, and found that the robot could not be controlled directly through the panel.

But he actually didn’t expect much from the beginning, so it wasn’t a big problem.

Chen Ming bought three robots in total.

Now only this standard all-terrain transport spider-type robot has been delivered.

The other two exploration robots and guard robots are still on the way.

In fact, Chen Ming also wanted to buy a professional combat robot, but he couldn't find any for sale online, and there was no place to sell such a thing inside the space station, so he had to give up temporarily.

Chen Ming planned to learn some knowledge about mechanical body modification if he had the opportunity. Maybe he could transform some ordinary mechanical bodies into machines that could be used for combat.

When buying the robot, Chen Ming also bought a set of lightweight exoskeleton armor, which can be worn with light protective clothing to slightly ensure his combat effectiveness.

After all, although Chen Ming can control the spacecraft, his combat effectiveness is a bit low.

He can also modify it if necessary. It won't be too difficult to modify things like armor plates.

In fact, Chen Ming originally wanted to buy heavy powered armor, but like combat robots, there was no place to sell it, so he had to settle for the next best thing.

Generally speaking, the prices of the things Chen Ming bought were a little expensive.

The handling robot cost 40 yuan, the guard robot that has not yet arrived costs 60 yuan, and the exploration robot cost 70 yuan.

This is just the purchase price, and subsequent maintenance will also cost a lot.

Chen Ming's total assets of more than 4000 million before were now only over 3000 million.

Flowers fly quickly.

But at least the things I bought were real.

Robots and exoskeleton armor can indeed save Chen Ming a lot of trouble, and can also protect his safety, and the subsequent plans are also in place.

Speaking of which, Chen Ming rarely saw that few people on the Pirate Space Station bought this kind of robot.

But if you think about it, you can actually understand it.

Although manpower is definitely not as efficient as machinery, the cost is always lower than machinery.

And if you buy or display this kind of thing on the pirate space station, you may be targeted by some people.

After all, if you have money to buy this kind of thing, then the buyer's worth must be quite high.

Who doesn’t like fat sheep?

Chen Ming didn't care about this issue.

He often hangs around the maintenance shop, and the pirates will know his identity if they do a little research before they want to take action.

If they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be able to actually attack an employee of a pirate space station. Even pirate space stations belonging to different forces are related to each other.

If you attack pirate space station employees, unless the attackers stop going to most pirate space stations in the future, they will be picked out sooner or later.

Even if there is a fool, he must be a newcomer who doesn't understand the rules, and there is no way he can beat Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming doesn't worry much about safety.

The handling robot was started on the Iron Mine and after a brief debugging.

Chen Ming took it to Space Arm No. 2.

Although the No. 2 space wall was affected during the first two afterglow attacks, there was no internal damage, and various factories here are still running.

After going to the Afterglow Colony and seeing the Afterglow Factory covering one-fifth of the planet's area, Chen Ming no longer felt as shocked as before when he saw these roaring industrial equipment.

So Chen Ming didn't stay outside much and went straight into the boss's shop.

Once you enter the store.

Chen Ming saw Lao Wu, who had skipped work, squatting in the corner smoking a cigarette, holding a terminal in his hand and watching videos with a smile on his face.

When he saw Chen Ming come in and said hello, he waved his hand to leave him alone.

Chen Ming really didn't bother to care about him. The boss was already waiting for him.

In the room inside the hardware store, next to the boss, there were several metal boxes that looked like coffins stacked on top of each other.

Chen Ming looked carefully and asked his boss: "Are these the pirates from before?"

The boss nodded, took out his terminal, scanned a code on the corner of a box and showed it to Chen Ming.

The result of the scan is the pirate's information and his bounty.

"Are they dead?"

"Everyone else is dead. The leader should be close."

"Oh."

Chen Ming responded. He didn't know if the pirate leader would have thought of Chen Ming's lie to him before he died.

Do you have deep resentment towards him? But people are going to die, so what does it matter whether you hate him or not?

"correct."

The boss put down the terminal, patted the metal coffin on top and said to Chen Ming: "I talked to this guy, and he said some interesting things about you."

"What?"

The boss's expression suddenly became serious, but he said with obvious curiosity in his eyes: "He said you attacked him with two Afterglow ships."

"Ah."

Chen Ming did not deny it, and directly explained with the excuse he had thought up before: "That was because I installed my own modified remote control system on the Afterglow Ship I grabbed."

"That's it."

The boss's expression did not change at all, and he continued: "He also said that one of your centurions withstood the self-destruction of a dram fuel ship and was unscathed."

"That's when I modified the Centurion with special armor and damping stance devices."

"Then how did you control their spaceship?"

"The virus program was passed on when communicating with them."

"Also, their engine was destroyed by you, but it suddenly returned to its original state in the blink of an eye, and the repair was completed in an instant."

"That's because they saw it wrong. I just asked the Afterglow ship under my command to use electromagnetic pulse to paralyze their engine. There was no damage."

The boss had amusement in his eyes and asked in a meaningful tone: "Really?"

"I think it should be true."

Chen Ming, I think, should make the boss calm down. The serious expression on his face instantly changed back to his lazy look.

"Xiao Mu, do you think I am a good person?"

Chen Ming said without thinking too much: "I think so."

It is true that the boss has never cheated him, but has helped him in many aspects, but Chen Ming still has some concerns in his heart.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Ming planned to ask directly: "But I want to know, when I first came to the space station, I had nothing and didn't understand anything, but you were already kind to me. Why?"

“I never believe in kindness without reason, and it’s hard to convince myself to accept it with peace of mind.”

The boss was a little surprised by his statement and explained: "My kindness to you is not without reason."

"why?"

"Um--"

The boss did not answer immediately. Instead, he thought for a moment and said, "Let me tell you this first, I am a psychic."

Chen Ming nodded calmly and said, "Oh."

"?"

"What's your attitude? Aren't you surprised?"

Chen Ming shook his head and said: "I know without guessing that you have a special identity. There are only a few specific identity possibilities. You said it yourself, and your performance also confirmed that you are not from the military or Xinda Company. "

"In the remaining possibility, if Xinda Company can respect you so much and arrange you in a place like this, you must not be a senior executive of another competing company."

"Then there are basically three choices: official people, members of an important force, or individuals with special status."

"You don't look like an official at all, so I exclude the first one."

"You can call on many resources of Sinda Company, and even have the authority to dispatch the patrol team's dock. Sinda Company should not hand over the patrol team's authority to people from other forces, so the second guess should be eliminated. "

"The possibilities are really running out. An individual who can be taken seriously by the company is, I guess, a psyker."

After hearing Chen Ming's ideas, the boss clapped his hands in approval and said, "Your brain is very good. Although the guess results are slightly wrong, the overall idea is indeed correct."

"Because Xinda Company did sell a small part of the space station to the forces I belong to, and also gave me part of the space station's authority."

Chen Ming could only say: "This is not something I can understand."

"really."

"Then can you understand another thing?"

"what's up?"

"It means that professionally trained psykers can feel the psychic energy fluctuations of other psykers."

Chen Ming's face under his helmet tensed up for a moment.

The boss's words not only surprised and shocked Chen Ming, but also made him fully understand the situation of his panel.

This panel was the embodiment of his spiritual power, and it just appeared in his mind in a way that he could understand.

Chen Ming had previously made a nonsense claim that he was a psychic, but he didn't expect it to be true.

If the panel is a reflection of psychic powers, then it was indeed the most correct choice he made not to go to the military outpost at the beginning.

Chen Ming took a deep breath, calmed down, and looked at his boss again.

As for the boss, when he saw that Chen Ming suddenly froze because of what he said just now, a smile appeared on his face as if he had succeeded in a joke.

"I knew from the moment I saw you that there would be nothing wrong with having a good relationship with you."

"Aren't you afraid that I am a bad person?"

"I'm a psyker."

"..."

This reason left Chen Ming speechless.

And at this time, Chen Ming suddenly realized that the reason why Lao Wu and the factory director treated him so well was probably because of the boss's psychic ability.

Chen Ming didn't have any special feelings about this.

Communication between people is to understand the general character of the person through some means, and then be willing to spend energy to get along and maintain each other in appropriate ways.

It's just that the boss and the others have replaced the means of understanding with faster psychic powers.And the relationship between people is two-way.

During this period, Chen Ming could also feel that whether it was his boss Lao Wu or the factory director, they were all people who could be trusted to a certain extent, and there would be no problem in getting along with him for a long time.

So it didn't really matter to Chen Ming that he could use his spiritual power to know whether he was a good person, and he didn't intend to dwell on it.

It would be better to say that if the boss was a psychic, many of Chen Ming's questions might be answered.

"I heard that the military has the ability to detect psykers? Is that how it works?"

"It's almost the same, but there are more professional methods."

"You don't have to worry about them. I blocked your psychic energy fluctuations as soon as I saw you. No one will detect your psychic energy fluctuations until they exceed a certain limit."

"Don't tell others that you have psychic powers, and don't tell others what kind of abilities your psychic powers have."

"I'm not stupid."

After Chen Ming finished speaking, he paused and took the initiative to bring up a topic that might be unpleasant: "Boss, since you want to be friends with me, a psychic, do you want to get something from me?"

The boss did not show any discomfort because of Chen Ming's question. Instead, he said quite frankly: "Being friends with a psychic is the greatest benefit in itself."

"Of course, I did have the idea of ​​pursuing other interests at the beginning, and I still do now, but interests and interpersonal relationships are not necessarily inseparable."

The boss said, extending his hand to Chen Ming.

"To make friends?"

Chen Ming thought about it briefly.

Putting his hand on his helmet, he took off his helmet and put it aside so that the boss could see his face.

Then he also stretched out his hand and shook it.

"Chen Ming."

A satisfied smile appeared on the boss's face.

"Wu An."

He suddenly patted Chen Ming on the shoulder and said: "I almost forgot about the benefits I promised you to help me bring people back. I can't think of anything suitable for you at the moment. Why don't you tell me yourself?"

Chen Ming said very simply: "I want to know something."

"No problem, you ask."

"What exactly is a psyker?"

"good question."

The boss repeated Chen Ming's question and answered: "It is a person who affects reality with his own will."

"There are many different types of psykers. I can't explain the specifics in a few words. It's probably something related to human existence."

"You'd better not know too much about it, and don't try to learn psychic powers."

"why?"

"Because you are a psyker who awakens naturally, not through other means."

"It is best for naturally awakened psykers not to be exposed to these systematic things. Although systematic learning can indeed make your psychic progress faster, it will also limit the upper limit of the development of your abilities."

Chen Ming was silent for a moment, digesting what the boss said, and asked: "Do you mean to let me explore by myself?
"Yes, how you came here before, how you come now."

"If you are really interested, when you reach the upper limit of self-development, I can help you contact a professional institution for a physical examination to determine the specific status of your own psychic abilities."

"it is good."

"Ah, by the way, although you shouldn't learn systematic psychic powers, there is still something you need to know."

"Psychics are people who influence reality with their will. Psionics are just tools to influence reality."

"that's it."

The boss said and patted Chen Ming on the shoulder. He didn't know who infected him and Lao Wu with this habit.

"Practice your psychic powers well. When you reach a certain level, you will understand your psychic abilities. Then come find me."

Chen Ming thanked his boss and said, "I understand, I have another thing to ask."

"Just say what you want."

"What is the spirit stone?"

The boss raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Chen Ming and asked, "Are you taking it with you?"

"No."

"Oh, that's just right. I have one here too."

The boss took out a stone from his pocket, which was covered with patterns like Chen Ming's ectoplasmic stone.

But it's not a twisted pattern like Chen Ming's Whispering Spiritual Stone, but some flowing water patterns that look very comfortable.

Chen Ming made this clear directly: "This one is different from mine."

"It's normal. There are different types of ectoplasm stones."

The boss held the ectoplasm stone in his hand and said, "Since you want to know the effect of the ectoplasm stone, I can show it to you now."

As the boss spoke, something invisible appeared on his body that Chen Ming was very familiar with.

He was so familiar with the fluctuations of psychic energy that it seemed as if they had always been by his side, accompanying him at all times.

But Chen Ming cannot control the fluctuations of his psychic energy by himself. This may be the disadvantage of not having systematic learning for self-awakening.

Chen Ming did not think about this for too long, because the spirit stone in the boss's hand suddenly changed.

The patterns on it lit up, and the warm white light enveloped the entire three meters surrounding the ectoplasmic stone.

Chen Ming, who was wrapped in white light, only felt a gentle and stable feeling rising from his heart.

Originally, all the anxiety about possible future developments and the unknown dangers he would face were completely wiped out in his mind.

The whole person was filled with unprecedented vitality.

However, this feeling suddenly dissipated. The boss withdrew his psychic fluctuations and once again became the lazy ordinary person who seemed to be nearly middle-aged.

The boss stuffed the ectoplasm stone back into his pocket and said, "This is the effect of the ectoplasm stone."

"My ectoplasmic stone is 'gentle', which can bring this gentle and comfortable feeling to people after being stimulated."

"Generally speaking, the more powerful the spiritual energy fluctuations are, the better the effect will be and the wider the range will be."

"And it doesn't have to be activated by a psychic. Some special designs or materials with some energy properties can also be activated."

"This is actually the basis for the development of psychic weapons..."

The boss suddenly coughed dryly and said, "It's too far off topic. It's useless if you know this for now. By the way, what is the effect of your stone?"

"Whisper."

"Whispering... No wonder you didn't bring it with you. You can touch the Whispering Stone occasionally when you go back. It will be good for you."

"Is there anything else?"

Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "Yes, the Lourdes Church you mentioned last time."

"Oh, this one."

"It's a bit complicated to explain. It has to start many years ago."

The boss picked up the terminal and clicked a few times. He gave Chen Ming several books related to Lourdes, organized his language and said, "The Lourdes Church and the Lourdes Left Path are different."

"Lourdes are really just a normal church."

"It is a church that the imperial officials promoted the establishment of during the period of technological explosion before entering the space age because a large number of people were unemployed and needed to maintain social stability."

"You should know, right? The period of technological explosion is similar to the period after several industrial revolutions. Productivity has improved across levels, causing ordinary people to lose their jobs."

Chen Ming obviously knows the history of both worlds, and he is very clear about the negative effects of changes brought about by technological innovation.

Seeing Chen Ming nodded, the boss continued to explain: "The original intention of establishing this church is to use a virtual god to gradually and peacefully integrate the development of technology into those who feel that the existence and development of technology are wrong because of unemployment. in the worldview.”

"The church has good intentions. It uses faith to maintain people's normal lives and get through that period of technological innovation that is difficult for ordinary people."

"But later, a group of people appeared in the Lourdes Church and called themselves Lourdes Left Path."

The boss looked a little more serious when he said this.

"They firmly believe in the existence of God according to the church, but they believe that the church itself is not acting as God's spokesperson, but is distorting God's will."

"So this group of people became independent from the church, and even continued to do so under official strangulation, and have developed to this day."

"Luddite believes that all technology is man's blasphemy against God and is opposed to the product of all technology."

"I feel that only through strong acts of justice can these blasphemous things be defeated to a greater extent, and only through violence can human beings' arrogance and disrespect for God be eradicated."

Chen Ming couldn't help but ask after hearing this; "Then they are still using technology such as spaceships, and even modifying spaceships. Isn't this violating their teachings?"

"really."

"It is true that the first batch of Ludd Left Trails did not use any technology products after the technology explosion, but you have to think about how many years have passed since the technology explosion?"

“The development of Lourdes Left Trail to its current state is definitely not static.”

"Some of them are willing to get into trouble and use the technologies they hate most to attack and destroy cutting-edge technologies."

"To put it simply, they are a group of terrorists, and they are terrorists with beliefs."

The boss suddenly changed the subject and said: "Of course this is just the lowest executor."

"Anyone with a brain knows that the current senior management of Zuojing has taken advantage of these people who are either ignorant or forced by the situation."

"Their leader is definitely not a lunatic with an aversion to technology."

"It's definitely profitable in some ways for them to do this."

“It may even be that companies that develop cutting-edge technologies are privately supporting them to slow down the technological development of companies that compete with them.”

"But this is just my guess. Just listen to it and don't talk nonsense."

"That's about it."

Chen Ming nodded, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I understand."

He had absorbed too much knowledge in a short period of time and had to digest it.

But he has one last question.

Chen Ming's eyes turned to Old Wu, who had put down the terminal at some point and was eavesdropping and watching openly.

"Boss, I heard Lao Wu talk about you before. He said that you had a very evil interest, and you even stared at me with strange eyes at that time."

The boss's face suddenly showed some embarrassment that he had never seen before, and he said, "Well, let me keep this a secret."

"I can guarantee it's not some weird fun, and it won't have any negative impact on you,"

"it is good."

Chen Ming chose to trust his boss and controlled the transport robot he brought to bring several coffins.

"Then I'll leave first. I have to talk to the factory director about my future work arrangements."

"Well, come and sit down when you have time."

(End of this chapter)