Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 84 Attack
After leaving the black market.

Chen Ming originally planned to find a hotel to stay.

But as soon as Lao Wu heard what Chen Ming said, he said hello and ran away.
He looked like he wasn't going to find a decent place to stay tonight.
Chen Ming couldn't stop him and had no reason to stop him, so he simply didn't go looking for a hotel.

It took some time to take the space elevator back to the colonial space station and go back to live on the ship.

By the way, I also took over the two shaped charge anti-aircraft guns that had been sent to the temporary cargo storage center of the space station and sent them to the fighter's ship, planning to replace them after leaving the space station.

After settling this matter, Chen Ming didn't wander around on the space station and returned directly to the Iron Ore.

He took out the terminal and started checking the information about tomorrow's auction.

Although there is no overly detailed information, you can probably tell the condition of the lot just by looking at the brief introduction.

What will be sold at tomorrow's auction are basically weapons or spacecraft equipment that are experimental or testing in nature and have not been sold to the public.

They are available from different manufacturers. Such items should be sold to match the new armor-breaking class ship.

Chen Ming did see some things on the list that made him greedy.

As for the price, I can only say that the focus is on participation.

If Chen Ming is willing to put in a little blood, he should be able to take one or two lots.

But he didn't want to be penniless, so he had to wait until the time came to actually see it before making a decision.

Chen Ming quickly wrote down the list of auction items and closed the auction website.

Instead of rushing to rest, he went to the engine room.

Came to the side of the ectoplasmic stone that had now become a lie.

Although Chen Baitian didn't worry too much about the familiar figure he saw.

But now that he was free at night, Chen Ming recalled and found that the figure that seemed familiar to him seemed to be very similar to the man who was shot dead when he touched the Lie Stone.

He felt that this kind of thing still needed to be clarified.

So Chen Ming directly opened the address book and sent a communication request to his boss.

All colonies and space stations within the empire are covered by super-light communication technology, so it is not impossible to contact the boss.

The communication was quickly connected, and Chen Ming said directly: "Sorry to bother you, boss, there is something I want to ask you."

The boss said in a very casual tone: "I have a lot of free time every day, so I don't want to disturb you. What can I say to you?"

"My spirit stone has changed."

The boss's voice gradually became energetic from laziness, and asked: "Change? What change?"

"The pattern of my Whispering Stone has become more distorted, and the influence of the Whispering Stone has become stronger. When I touch it, I will also see an illusion. It is an illusion of a person being killed by a single shot."

The boss suddenly asked with a hint of curiosity in his tone: "What does that person look like?"

"A middle-aged man with a mustache, quite fair and thin."

"Oh, I thought it would be me or you."

Chen Ming asked with some confusion: "What do you mean?"

"It's literally."

"To put it simply, what you encountered is that there was some resonance between the ectoplasm stone and the dead pirate."

"resonance?"

"Yes, although you have seen relatively few ectoplasmic stones, you should be able to guess that ectoplasmic stones actually correspond to human consciousness to a certain extent."

"Human consciousness contains many things, such as personality, emotions, thoughts, desires, etc."

"For example, my 'gentleness' corresponds to the character of gentleness, and your 'whispering' corresponds to the characteristics that can make people feel crazy and irritable."

"Although they look different, both are actually very extreme, extreme tenderness, extreme whispering, or irritability."

"Do you understand me when I say that?"

Chen Ming digested what the boss said for a while and said: "Yes, the ectoplasm stone corresponds to the extreme consciousness of a person. Being gentle to the extreme is definitely not a good thing."

"Well, that's okay if you understand it that way."

"In short, the ectoplasm stone itself represents an extreme, and once something equally extreme appears next to the ectoplasm stone, it will have an impact on the ectoplasm stone with similar effects."

"I think it should be that the resentment or madness in the pirate's heart when he died resonated with the Whispering Ectoplasm Stone, so your Whispering Stone will change."

"By the way, this kind of situation will only occur when there is psychic energy. It doesn't matter how strong the emotions of ordinary people are."

"Maybe the pirate had some psychic talent, or maybe he had been exposed to psychic items. In short, the extreme emotions he had when he died affected your stone. That's probably it."

The boss paused for a moment, then continued: "Actually, what I can't understand is why the person you saw is not you or me, but the middle-aged man you mentioned."

"But this should be considered a good thing. It means that you can try to act according to the hallucinations you see."

Chen Ming asked in surprise: "Follow the hallucination? Why?"

"Hmm... How should I put it? The effect of your Whispering Spiritual Stone is also changing, right?"

"Yes, the effect is getting stronger."

"As long as you find that person and kill that person, the illusion will disappear, and the psychic energy that makes up the illusion will become part of the ectoplasm stone itself."

"This extreme resonance of consciousness will be completely unified, completely integrated into the spiritual stone, and continue to increase the intensity of the spiritual stone's effect."

Chen Ming glanced at the Lie Stone placed next to him, and he couldn't imagine what kind of tormenting power it would have as its effect continued to increase.

"Then this person must be real? Also, if the effect of the stone becomes stronger again, can you still continue to let me come into contact with the Whispering Stone as you said before?"

The boss answered Chen Ming's questions one by one: "As long as the effect of the ectoplasm stone is stronger, the contact time is shorter. As long as you don't carry it with you all the time, there will be no problem. You are a psyker."

"As for your question about whether this person is real, let me ask you, do you know this person?"

"do not know."

"Do you think you can construct a complete image of such a person just from your imagination? With all the details."

"No."

"Then it's over. This man was actually the person the pirate resented the most when he was dying."

"That's why I'm wondering why it's not you or me. I really can't figure it out."

"Forget it, as long as you follow his social network, you will definitely be able to find this person."

The boss told Chen Ming all the benefits of following the illusion, but Chen Ming still had some questions: "What if I don't do this?"

The boss was not surprised at all that Chen Ming had such an idea and said: "The power of resonance will gradually fade and will disappear completely after a period of time."

"At that time, your ectoplasmic stone will only have the enhanced effect produced by the resonance moment, and the additional part will dissipate as the illusion dissipates."

That means there are no actual disadvantages.

"I understand."

"Well, how to do it is your business. I am only responsible for watching the show... ahem... help you explain the situation in this regard and give you some suggestions."

"You can come to me if you have this kind of thing in the future. I still quite like doing this kind of thing."

"If you are looking for specific clues..."

Chen Ming immediately thought of a suitable person and said, "I can ask Lao Wu. He should know where to start."

"Yes, it's good to find him, so let's do it."

"thank you boss."

"Don't be so polite. If you have any questions, keep contacting me."

The communication is over.

Chen Ming threw away the terminal and prepared to take a rest.

Old Wu said during the day that he knew where to sell information here, so he must know one or two of the intelligence dealers here.

It shouldn't be a big problem to check the pirate's identity and background through an intelligence agent, especially if the pirate has turned into a corpse.

But Lao Wu ran out to have fun, so he can only ask before or after the auction tomorrow.

If he turns around and finds that this middle-aged man is easy to deal with, he will spend some time to find a way to deal with him.

When Chen Ming thought of this, he was suddenly stunned.

He found that he no longer seemed to have any objection to murder, even if he didn't know whether the other person was a good guy or a bad guy.

The indifference to rules in the surrounding environment is affecting him, and he is getting further and further away from the prosperous star field where rules and order coexist.

He is getting further and further away from the peaceful and stable life he once wanted.

But it doesn't matter.

Chen Ming suddenly strengthened his determination.

It was already difficult for him to return to the prosperous star field when he relied on his ability to obtain everything he had now.

If you want to stay in a place like the edge star field for a long time, you must not follow the rules of the prosperous star field.

He must not give up an opportunity to gain benefits because of some ideas within the rules.

Unless Chen Ming has someone he trusts enough and a coveted benefit at both ends of the road, he needs to consider the trade-off between benefits and people.

At that time, Chen Ming did not hesitate to exchange benefits for friends he could trust.

Chen Ming is an orphan. He has had very few friends since childhood, almost none at all.

So he will value the friends he already has, but what does other strangers have to do with him?
Killing this middle-aged man can continue to strengthen Chen Ming's ectoplasm stone, and in the hallucination, there is another ectoplasm stone in the middle-aged man's pocket.

If the middle-aged man is as real as the boss said, then there is a high possibility that this ectoplasm stone also exists.

And this spiritual stone is still an unknown spiritual stone.

There is a possibility that it is as gentle as the boss's ectoplasm stone.

A possible gentle ectoplasmic stone that could calm people and erase distracting thoughts in their hearts would not make Chen Ming give up because of the rules.

Chen Ming closed his eyes and gradually settled the thoughts in his mind.

Waiting for the arrival of the next day.

While Chen Ming was resting.

After Lao Wu had a good meal and drank some wine.

Following his previous experience of being here, he found a foot-washing center.

There is no shortage of places like this anywhere.

After all, the construction of a colony cannot be started from scratch with just one person. It must rely on large-scale population migration based on stated dividends.

These migrated populations are not necessarily high-quality populations.

There always needs to be some ordinary people to fill the gaps in the foundation.

When there are more people, competition will naturally arise.

Once a person cannot compete with others, his social status will naturally sink to a suitable place.

Even in the most advanced interstellar era, there will never be a shortage of people at the bottom.

So there will never be a shortage of places like Foot Washing City.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Lao Wu, who is full of garbage at this time.

Since Chen Ming said he would be reimbursed before, he was not polite.

Before starting the main meal, serious people also need to have a set.

Old Wu agreed at the front desk and found a recliner to lie down on.Just as he was about to close his eyes and enjoy it, he suddenly saw an acquaintance out of the corner of his eye.

A middle-aged man with a mustache walked to the other side of the foot-washing city surrounded by three people.

Lao Wu whistled directly and said: "Hey, is he so awesome now? Wasn't he the same before?"

The middle-aged man turned to look at the source of the sound and said with some surprise: "Old Wu? Why did you end up in a place like this?"

"Come over and do something."

The middle-aged man frowned slightly and asked, "What's going on?"

"This little thing has been done. I'll leave tomorrow."

The middle-aged man felt a little more relaxed and had no intention of chatting with Old Wu. He said as he walked, "Then I wish you a safe journey."

"Lend your auspicious words."

Old Wu actually wanted to ask this middle-aged man about the group of pirates that Chen Ming had killed before.

But Lao Wu felt that they came here to pay the bounty to these pirates, so it would not be good to directly ask people who have close contact with this pirate.

Moreover, Old Wu remembered that the relationship between this middle-aged man with a mustache and those pirates was not just about information transactions. The pirates' Lude ship was obtained from the middle-aged man.

If he brought up this topic and angered others who were related to Lu De Zuo Jing, this was not a situation Lao Wu wanted to see.

In the blink of an eye, the next day came.

Chen Ming met Lao Wu early in the morning outside the Colonial Development History Exhibition Hall, where the auction was about to be held.

After arriving, Chen Ming discovered that there were many security forces here, very many, which gave Chen Ming the feeling that there were even more security forces than at the government building.

It seems that they are all here to protect this auction.

Therefore, after the meeting, Chen Ming was not in a hurry to provide information for the time being. He would finish watching the auction first.

The identity and admission qualification review for the auction does not need to be conducted on site, and it is quite simple.

Just confirm on the auction website that there is money in the card.

Then just check whether the identity registered on the on-site verification website and the terminal can correspond, and nothing else is needed.

Although it is indeed very convenient and the identity protection of the auctioneer is also very good, the security of the auction seems to be a bit problematic.

But looking at it this way, it seems normal to have more guards responsible for security at the auction.

Chen Ming understood the brain circuit of the auction organizer.

Relying on his assets of just over 2000 million, he barely made it to the auction.

There are still quite a few people in the Star Territory capital who can collect tens of millions of movable assets. When Chen Ming took Old Wu in, the large conference hall of the exhibition hall only had a few hundred people.

But it’s hard to say how many Chen Ming actually came in person.

Chen Ming quickly found the seat assigned on the auction website.

A formal list of items is placed at each person's place.

All of today's lots are listed above along with a detailed description of them.

Naturally, it includes a detailed introduction to the armor-breaking class spaceship that is the main auction item.

Moreover, in the conference hall, Chen Ming could follow the one-way glass wall next to it that had obviously been recently renovated, and saw the A-level broken glass wall behind it that had been placed in advance in the cleared exhibition hall next door.

The broken armor had a spear-like appearance and a sharp aura, which attracted Chen Ming's eyes deeply.

The next thing that attracted Chen Ming's attention was the biggest feature of the armor-breaking level.

Its "spear tip" is occupied by a large load-bearing point.

A large load-bearing point capable of mounting large weapons.

Generally speaking, only cruisers can support the radiation growth and energy consumption of large weapons.

If you want a destroyer to carry large weapons, these two problems need to be solved urgently, and it must be supported by a large number of new technologies.

The armor-breaking class ship now released by Xinda Company may have completely solved these two problems.

No wonder so many people are interested in this spacecraft.

Moreover, Chen Ming also discovered that this armor-breaking ship used relatively high-value dolomite steel composite armor.

Although this kind of material, which is largely derived from the mechanical family, is often a material often used by advanced spacecraft.

But Chen Ming remembered that when Sindar Company designed the spacecraft, it would try to control the proportion of high-grade metal materials used in order to facilitate mass production.

Now that this material is used in the armor of the spacecraft, which accounts for a very large proportion of the material, it can be seen that the company really attaches great importance to this armor-breaking class.

With this armor-breaking ship next to him, Chen Ming basically had no interest in the other items in the auction.

Even though the auction started soon, Chen Ming's attention remained on this armor-breaking ship, thinking about whether there was any way to get in touch with it.

However, Chen Ming had to give up this idea because of the isolation belts and the large number of security personnel beside the armor-breaking level.

But at least you can still watch it.

While Chen Ming was staring intently at the armor-breaking level, the items in the auction were being photographed one by one.

Two hours later, the auction finally came to the final lot, an armor-breaking destroyer.

But before the last lot is officially auctioned.

The auction opened the closed area next door where the armor-breaking items were housed, allowing those present to go and view the actual items of the armor-breaking items at close range.

Many people remained motionless, but many others got up and passed through the small door next to them and came to the next door.

Chen Ming and Lao Wu were naturally among them.

Both of their eyes were attracted by the absolutely violent large load-bearing point of the armor-breaking class.

But just as Chen Ming was approaching the armor-breaking level, he suddenly noticed a hint of danger around him.

Chen Ming immediately became vigilant and looked around at the crowd.

Among the crowd rushing towards the Armor-breaking level, Chen Ming suddenly saw that person.

In the hallucination caused by the Liar Stone, Chen Ming saw the middle-aged man who was shot in the head.

At this time, the middle-aged man's hand was reaching into the pocket of his formal velvet suit, as if he was holding something.

And when Chen Ming saw him, the vague sense of danger suddenly became clear.

Chen Ming's hand subconsciously reached to his waist, trying to touch the holster hanging on the protective suit.

But Chen Ming stopped before actually doing so.

Because once he pulls out his gun, he will definitely be beaten into pieces by the heavily armed guards around him before he has time to shoot.

Individual weapons produced with current technology are much more sophisticated than the civilian spacecraft weapons Chen Ming has seen. It will not be difficult to accurately hit the target in the crowd.

The same goes for the middle-aged man. Once he dares to do anything inappropriate, he will definitely be surrounded by the surrounding guards.

However, Chen Ming always believed that his sense of danger was not deceptive, so he quickly pulled Old Wu away from him and landed at the back of the team watching the armor-breaking class at close range.

Just when Chen Ming saw him and pulled Lao Wu to slow down.

The middle-aged man seemed to have noticed Chen Ming, but he was not looking at Chen Ming, but at Lao Wu.

Hesitation seemed to appear on his face for half a second, but it disappeared immediately.

Then he looked determined and clenched the hand hidden in his pocket.

next moment.

Something unexpected happened to Chen Ming.

A spiritual pulse wave that Chen Ming had experienced many times suddenly spread from the middle-aged people.

It swept past the people attending the auction, swept him, and also swept past the security guards on the periphery. It even penetrated the wall of the exhibition hall and swept through the people outside the exhibition hall.

Chen Ming could feel that the intensity of this psychic pulse was quite high. Although this level had no impact at all on him who was now accustomed to whispers and psychic pulses, it was absolutely unbearable for ordinary people.

Just as he expected, chaos and screaming instantly broke out in the exhibition hall, and people present fell down in droves.

The surrounding guards were completely unable to withstand the influence of the psychic pulse. They fell to the ground one by one and lost their ability to fight.

Only a few guards were still struggling, but they could not last long under the influence of the psychic pulse, and they immediately fell into a coma.

Old Wu also fell to the ground with a painful expression on his face.

But Chen Mingming was stunned for a moment when he saw Lao Wu, and then he pretended to be like this.

Moreover, before Lao Wu fell down, he pulled Chen Ming's trousers and asked Chen Ming to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. Obviously, he was not affected by the psychic pulse at all.

Although Chen Ming was curious about how Old Wu, an ordinary person who was definitely not a psychic, managed to resist the influence of psychic pulses.

However, he still fell down under Lao Wu's tugging, and mixed with him among the fallen people.

Almost all the hundreds of people in the entire exhibition hall collapsed quickly.

After a brief period of violent noise, the exhibition hall suddenly fell into silence.

Most of the people inside and outside the exhibition hall and nearby fell down due to the psychic pulse. Even if a guard sent a distress signal before falling, it would take at least a few minutes before the nearest support arrived.

During these few minutes, the exhibition hall was managed by the few people who were still standing.

But these people did not include the middle-aged man who caused all this.

He fell to the ground like the others.

But Chen Ming guessed that the middle-aged man was probably pretending to be comatose like him.

The other people who were still standing looked around to make sure that no one was still standing, and suddenly a look of enthusiasm and excitement appeared on their faces.

They suddenly started running, passed over the crowd lying on the ground, and rushed towards the armor-breaking class parked nearby.

Chen Ming, who was lying on the ground, whispered to Old Wu who was also paying close attention to the situation: "What do they want to do?"

"I think you'll know right away."

As Old Wu spoke, he carefully began to squirm on the ground, pulling Chen Ming to climb over to the support pillar next to him.

The attention of the few people still standing was obviously on the armor-breaking level, and no one noticed the two people next to them.

Just now, Lao Wu took Chen Ming and hid behind the support pillar.

The man at the front suddenly stiffened, with a bloody hole on the back of his head, and he fell to the ground suddenly.

Chen Ming slowly turned back and saw a guard leaning against the wall of the exhibition hall, the gun in his hand pointing forward.

His hands were shaking, obviously in great pain.

Just when he was about to fire a second shot, the fallen body that he killed suddenly exploded violently.

The violent shock caused him to completely fall to the ground and he could no longer stand up.

Along with the shock, surging air waves, smoke, and a large number of objects blown up by the explosion hit the support pillar where Chen Ming was hiding.

There were more miscellaneous things flying past Chen Ming.

"Fuck."

Chen Ming's heartbeat almost slowed down a beat.

Fortunately, he had noticed the danger before and deliberately fell behind the crowd, and Lao Wu also pulled him and hid behind the support pillar in advance.

Otherwise, he would definitely be affected by the bomb now.

Wait, Lao Wu pulled him in advance?
Chen Ming pinched Lao Wu, who was lying next to him pretending to be dead, and said, "Is this the fucking Lud Left Path? You'd better explain to me what's going on."

(End of this chapter)