Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 85 The ensuing accidents and the final illusion of reality
When Lao Wu heard Chen Ming's question, he quickly explained: "I do know him."

"and then?"

"No, I just know him."

"I met him before when I was doing intelligence business. I knew he was from Lud Zuo Jing, and I knew that he had always just made money from Zuo Jing's name, and occasionally provided Zuo Jing with some information."

"I have no other interactions with him."

Chen Ming suddenly remembered what happened before and said, "I remember that you directly said that the pirate was related to Zuo Jing without even looking at the specific information about the pirate."

"Yes, I know that the pirate has a deep connection with him, but I really don't know anything else."

"He was very afraid of death when I met him in the past. There is absolutely no reason for him to go out and do this kind of thing for Zuo Jing personally. I also want to know why he would be so full that he could commit a terrorist attack."

Chen Ming stared at Lao Wu's face for a few seconds and chose to believe him.

Because in this way, the question that Chen Ming has been struggling with will indeed be answered.

That's why the pirate leader's biggest resentment is not about him and his boss, but about this person.

Apparently he gave the pirate leader wrong information and asked him to attack the caravan transporting goods to the boss's colony.

Then he summoned the boss to retaliate, that is, he asked Chen Ming to go over and bring him back.

Mustached Hu had a relationship with Lao Wu, and Lao Wu had been working in the maintenance shop for several years.

In other words, Mustache must have been working as an intelligence agent for many years, and such low-level mistakes as wrong intelligence should not be allowed.

This is the pirate leader who deliberately tricked him.

Although I don’t know the specific reason why Mustache did this, I’m afraid it is also related to this terrorist attack.

Maybe he was worried that the pirate leader would know something he shouldn't know, so he would be killed.

Of course, this is just Chen Ming's guess. I'm afraid I have to ask the person involved to find out the specific situation, but everyone is dead, so there is no point in asking these questions.

It's a pity yesterday. If Chen Ming had not rejected Lao Wu's proposal to meet the local intelligence agent yesterday, he should have been able to get to know him in advance.

Maybe Chen Ming could kill him with one shot at that time and fulfill the hallucination requirement of the Lie Stone.

But who would have thought...

Wait a moment.

Chen Ming was suddenly stunned. Isn't now the best opportunity to kill his mustache?
Everyone present fell down due to the psychic pulse. The terrorists only wanted to blow up the spacecraft, and the mustache also chose to hide in the crowd in order to hide himself.

As long as Chen Ming follows the spot where the mustache stood in his memory, it shouldn't be difficult to kill him.

Chen Ming's hand reached to his waist and pressed on the pistol that he had undergone extensive modifications.

He slowly pulled the gun out of its holster and turned on the safety.

Be prepared to leave once the aftermath of the explosion subsides.

But something unexpected happened immediately.

At the same time, the bomb exploded by the terrorist who had just been killed by the only guard who had not completely fallen.

Among the three remaining Luddite terrorists, one was killed by the explosion of his comrades.

The Zuojia terrorists probably installed something like a heart rate monitor on their body and connected it to the bomb.

If the person dies, the heart stops, then the bomb will be detonated.

Because of this, the second explosion occurred.

This time the explosion occurred even closer to Chen Ming. The violent shock wave blew past the support pillar where Chen Ming was leaning, and more debris and corpse fragments continued to hit behind Chen Ming.

After the shock wave passed, Chen Ming carefully poked his head out and found that cracks began to appear on the support pillars closest to the explosion.

The ceiling also looks shaky, and several nearby exhibition halls may collapse at any time.

At the same time, a worse situation emerged with the second explosion.

There was a power outage in the exhibition hall.

Although the first explosion shattered some of the lighting equipment inside the exhibition hall, but not all of it. There were always some lighting equipment that survived and provided lighting for the exhibition hall.

But now, after the power outage, the exhibition hall was completely plunged into darkness.

I could only barely see clearly what was going on inside the exhibition hall by relying on the light from the stars that had just risen outside.

Chen Ming took some time to adapt.

Suddenly, I noticed that the power outage was not just a power outage for the lighting system, but all the cameras in every corner of the exhibition hall had also stopped working.

And it was even earlier than the power outage. It seemed that it had stopped when the psychic pulse appeared.

Even if the cameras in this kind of public area are connected to the same line as the general lighting system, logically there should be a power outage detection device that can be activated when necessary.

But now it didn't happen. Chen Ming guessed that this was caused by Zuo Jing's people.

There should also be people from Zuojia inside the exhibition hall.

I'm afraid the surveillance of the scene happening now will be deleted later. It's no wonder that the mustache dared to come to the scene in person to carry out the task of a terrorist attack.

But monitoring the situation seems to be okay for Chen Ming.

At least if Zuo Jing deletes the video, he will also delete the record showing that Chen Ming is completely unaffected by psychic pulses.

At the same time, it can also cover up what Chen Ming wants to do next.

When the aftermath of the second explosion was about to end, Chen Ming briefly identified the direction inside the dim exhibition hall and prepared to leave.

But accidents often happen one after another.

Another psychic pulse suddenly erupted.

Although Chen Ming was also unaffected, the guard who barely got up just now collapsed completely.

And some other guards who showed signs of waking up fell into coma again.

Except for a few people from Lu De's left path who had prepared in advance, plus Chen Ming and Lao Wu, there was no one who was still conscious at the scene.

Chen Ming's eyes suddenly locked on the direction from which the spiritual pulse came.

Although the environment was relatively dim, he could see clearly what was going on there.

The mustache climbed up from the unconscious crowd around him, frowning and staring at the mechanical device in his hand that had begun to smoke.

This is where the psychic pulse comes from.

He originally didn't want to use the mustache a second time, but this time there was a guard among the guards who had an outstanding will among ordinary people, and the quality of the others was also somewhat beyond his expectations.

In order not to create extraneous problems, it is better not to save some things.

He stuffed the smoking device into his pocket, and when he thought everyone had fallen, he said to the two remaining terrorists who were still alive: "Get up, God is still waiting for you."

When the two terrorists lying on the ground heard the mustache's words, they immediately got up as if they had been stimulated by something.

Continuing to rush towards the armor-breaking destroyer, this is the crystallization of human technology.

Only one person with a mustache was left standing at a safe distance.

When Chen Ming discovered the destruction, he stood up from a squat, held the pistol and pointed it at the mustache. He moved slowly, preparing to shoot when he was close to a safe distance.

But as soon as Chen Ming took a step forward, Old Wu suddenly grabbed him and whispered, "What are you doing?"

"Kill him."

"Of course I can see that you want to kill him. Are your marksmanship good enough?"

Chen Ming hesitated for a moment. He knew his shooting skills very well. From ten meters away, he could only say that the shooting was random.

But Chen Ming didn't want to give up because of this and said: "I want to give it a try."

Old Wu asked with some confusion: "Is it necessary? Zuo Jing just wants to blow up the armor-breaking class. There is no need for us to take risks to help others protect the spacecraft, and we won't give you money."

Chen Ming retracted his steps back behind the load-bearing pillar, and said to Old Wu: "You should be able to guess the effect of my spiritual power, right?"

"Probably controlling the spaceship?"

"That's right, I can control all spaceships, even if only one of them is destroyed."

"Kill them, and I can try to contact the armor-breaking ship and control it."

"Did you just see the armor-piercing auction price? Seven hundred million, the lowest price."

Old Wu swallowed unconsciously. He knew very well what [-] million was, but he still said: "No matter how much money you have, it's useless if you can't get it. This is the capital of the Star Territory, how can you do it?" Is the ship leaving?"

"I don't need to drive away. As long as the spacecraft is controlled by me, it will always be under my control."

"As long as one day this armor-piercing ship really starts to operate...you should be able to guess what will happen then."

Lao Wu knew what would happen then without having to guess.

As long as the armor-breaking class is alone, or close to being alone, Chen Ming can directly let the armor-breaking class enter the hyperspace channel, and force it out of control unexpectedly by everyone.

The spaceship that has entered the hyperspace channel is not that easy to find. As long as you find a corner where there is no star, you can go out and squat, and you may not be able to find it for a lifetime.

Thinking of this, Old Wu couldn't help but said with emotion: "Psychics are really perverts."

Chen Ming ignored Lao Wu's perverted adjectives and said, "Okay, I won't talk nonsense to you anymore. I have to hurry up, otherwise I won't have a chance if he finds out or if the support troops from behind come."

Chen Ming lowered his body, preparing to take advantage of the dim environment to get closer to the mustache.

But Lao Wu suddenly pulled him back and said, "Wait a minute, I didn't say I wouldn't help you."

Chen Ming clicked his tongue, hid behind the load-bearing pillar, handed him the pistol and said, "Then you do it."

Old Wu seemed to have some sparkling eyes as he took Chen Ming's pistol, shook it, gestured to the empty space and said, "You have a very good taste in the retro style design."

"But I don't know how to use this gun."

He threw the gun back and said, "And I have it myself."

Lao Wu took out a pistol from his arms that was obviously more advanced than what Chen Ming had modified himself. There was a very tight-looking instrument on it.

He tapped the instrument lightly and said, "The automatic locking system will cost you at least 20 years in prison if you are caught. It cost me a lot of money to fix."

"Leave it to me."

Old Wu leaned out half of his body from the side of the load-bearing pillar and aimed at several Ludd left paths not far away.

However, just before the instrument on the pistol completely locked onto the target.

On one side of the exhibition hall, several smoke bombs were suddenly thrown in from the window that had been shattered by the explosion.

Almost instantly, thick smoke completely covered the interior of the exhibition hall.

Lao Wu immediately retracted and lay on the ground, exposing half of his head and staring at the direction where the smoke bomb was thrown.

In the smoke, four heavily armed guards could be vaguely seen entering the exhibition hall.

But except for a few of them, no one else came in after them.It should be that these guards happened to be patrolling nearby, and they came to support as quickly as possible when encountering unexpected situations.

Chen Ming felt a little relieved when he saw this, otherwise if a large force really came over, he would probably have no fate with this armor-breaking ship.

When the four guards came in, they were in a position where they couldn't see Chen Ming and Lao Wu behind the load-bearing pillars. They could only see the only two people in the entire exhibition hall who were still moving.

Those two terrorists.

So the guards just opened fire.

The bullet passed through the smoke and accurately hit the two terrorists who were already very close to the armor-breaking level, killing them instantly.

The bombs on them also exploded like the two terrorists before.

The violent explosion left eye-catching scars on the armor-breaking dolomite armor placed next to it, and even several pieces of armor were completely shattered and fell off due to the explosion.

Although the scope of the explosion did not appear to be large, the actual explosion effect was somewhat larger than Chen Ming expected.

I don’t know what kind of explosives Zuo Jing and the others used.

In addition to the damage to the external armor, the armor-piercing support frame was also directly blown off, and it fell sideways to the ground with a loud noise.

The guard team that had just killed the terrorists was subconsciously attracted to the explosion and damaged armor-piercing class.

Ignoring the movement of the middle-aged man on the ground putting his hand into his pocket again.

And because the surveillance and power systems of the exhibition hall had long been controlled by Zuojiu people, the security team did not get information on how many terrorists there were before entering.

In addition, the moment the middle-aged man saw the smoke bomb landing, he found someone to lie down in a pile like before, blocking the others in front of him.

The security team didn't notice him lying on the ground when they first came in.

The combination of various factors gave the middle-aged man the opportunity to press the psychic pulse device that had the last number of activations left.

The third psychic pulse swept across the exhibition hall in an instant.

Although the intensity of this psychic pulse was much lower than the previous two times, it was still unbearable for ordinary people.

The four ordinary guards fell down instantly, and the exhibition hall suddenly became quiet again.

All that was left was the hiss of smoke from smoke bombs.

When Chen Ming saw this scene, he couldn't help but whispered to Lao Wu next to him: "Is the government's response so slow? How long has it been? Only four people came to support?"

"It's not that the response is slow, look at this."

Old Wu also whispered the same, and handed the terminal that he didn't know when he opened to Chen Ming.

The above is the news release website of the Star Territory Government.

In addition to the news about the attack on the exhibition hall, there is another urgent news queued in front of the exhibition hall.

An explosion also occurred in the space elevator quite close to the government building.

I'm afraid this was also done by Zuo Jing.

"No wonder support is so slow."

Chen Ming raised his head and glanced at the middle-aged man in the distance and said, "I seem to understand."

"Their target from the beginning was not the armor-piercing class ship. Otherwise, it would definitely be a better choice to wait until they are really close enough to the armor-piercing class before detonating the bomb, or turning on the psychic pulse."

"They turned on the psychic pulse in advance just to attract the government's attention and make the government's guard troops gather here at the exhibition hall."

"At the same time, we are attacking in the east and west, preparing to attack the space elevator."

"If the spacecraft blows up, the government will definitely only consider the space elevator, but if the spacecraft doesn't blow up, the government might have to worry a little bit."

"As long as the time difference is adjusted slightly, so that the time when the support troops arrive here matches the time when they are doing things in the space elevator, the support troops will be overwhelmed at once."

"But there seems to be something wrong with their coordination. They started attacking almost at the same time."

"So the guards basically didn't come to the exhibition hall."

After all, the government can still make immediate decisions about the value of a spaceship and a space elevator.

Chen Ming returned the terminal to Lao Wu and asked, "So our side has been temporarily abandoned?"

"Not necessarily. There will definitely be support, but the amount and when it will come are not certain."

Chen Ming nodded slightly and said: "In other words, we have a chance to do something now. Now this person is either unconscious, dead, or unable to come. It is unreasonable to miss it."

He tightened the gun in his hand and said seriously to Old Wu: "Old Wu, help me, don't kill that person directly, I have some things to do."

at the same time.

The middle-aged man also knew that the current situation was very unfavorable to him, just like Chen Ming.

He used the psychic pulse three times in a row, and twice, there were still people who did not fall after the psychic pulse.

As a result, all four of the men he had arranged in advance died on the way.

And his mission was not completed at all.

Not only did it fail to attract the attention of the guarding troops, it even failed to blow up the spacecraft.

The middle-aged man turned his head and looked at the armor-breaking class leaning on the ground in the distance, with a hesitant look on his face.

Then, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something that scared him, and his face was filled with fear.

He gritted his teeth and ran quickly to the spacecraft.

At the same time, he began to untie the bundle of explosives that was also tied to his body.

The middle-aged man quickly came to the bow of the ship and came to the location of the large load-bearing points sunk into the hull.

This is the weakest and most important place of the spacecraft.

Destroying this place is equivalent to destroying the spacecraft itself.

The middle-aged man held a bundle of explosives in his hand and wanted to climb up the outer edge of the armor-breaking level.

But just as he started to crawl, he was suddenly kicked in the side, and a sharp pain spread throughout his body.

The middle-aged man suddenly lost his balance, and the explosive in his hand fell out of his hand and fell to the ground.

He subconsciously reached for the explosive remote detonation button in his other pocket.

But he was immediately kicked by another kick.

Although the force of this kick was not as painful as the kick to his side just now, it was a very tricky kick that hit his knuckles and directly broke his phalanges.

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth desperately to endure the severe pain, and wanted to stand up immediately by using his still intact hand to support the ground.

But before he had time to do so, he felt a coldness on his forehead.

The middle-aged man's hair stood up and his whole body became stiff. He slowly raised his head and looked at the person who was pointing the gun at his head.

"Old Wu?"

Old Wu still had that smile on his face, but there was no smile at all at this time.

"Oh, what a coincidence, isn't this Shen Yi?"

"No wonder you called three of them last night. You want to have a great time before you die."

The middle-aged man Shen Yi never expected that Old Wu would appear here.

He said with a hint of pleading and a hint of threat in his tone: "You can't kill me. If you kill me, the explosive will detonate, and you and I will both die in this position."

"Not always."

Chen Ming's voice sounded as he came to Lao Wu.

Like Lao Wu, he raised his pistol and pointed it at Shen Yi's forehead.

In addition to controlling the armor-breaking level, Chen Ming also took over the explosive that Shen Yi took out and disposed of it.

The processing method is also very simple.

Control the armor-breaking level, open the hatch of the armor-breaking level, throw the explosive in, and then choose to dismantle it. What is left is some materials that make up the explosive.

Old Wu was a little surprised and said to Chen Ming: "It's done so quickly?"

"As long as you touch it, it's done. It's a very simple matter."

"Row."

Lao Wu withdrew his pistol, leaving Chen Ming alone to confront Shen Yi, or in other words, unilaterally coercing him.

He took out the terminal, clicked on it a few times and said, "I read on the news that the blockade outside the exhibition hall has been deployed. I'm just waiting for the space elevator to finish and the large forces to come and solve the problem here."

"We probably won't be able to get out, but at least we still have a lot of time."

"You decide what to do with him."

"Don't kill me, my..."

As soon as Shen Yi was about to speak, Old Wu kicked him mercilessly and said, "You still want to have an opinion after doing something like this, right?"

Chen Ming stopped Old Wu a little to prevent him from kicking him to death. He still had questions to ask.

Chen Ming continued to put the gun against Shen Yi's forehead, pressed his finger slightly on the trigger and said, "Let me ask you, who gave you your psychic pulse device?"

Shen Yi said as if he had grasped a life-saving straw: "It's my superior! He asked me to activate the psychic pulse device here in advance to attract the attention of the people on the other side."

"Who is your superior?"

"I don't know. They always contact me individually, and the identities they contact are false. I don't know who they are."

"It's all nonsense."

"No...no, you ask something else. I know everything else. Don't kill me. I can provide you with information."

Chen Ming ignored him, turned to look at Lao Wu and said, "He is from Lu De Zuo Jing, right?"

"Yes, if you can carry out such a task, you should be considered an insider."

"If you kill him, you will become enemies with Lu De Zuo Jing. This matter will never be hidden. Mu Shuikong's name will definitely be recorded by Lu De Zuo Jing on their list."

"That's it."

Chen Ming turned his head back and suddenly reached out to help Shen Yi, who was kneeling on the ground.

Shen Yilian showed a look of fear and relief. He seemed to think that Chen Ming was afraid because of Lu De Zuojing's reputation.

But what Chen Ming wants now is just to make Shen Yi's posture the same as the hallucination he saw when he held the Lie Stone.

After Chen Ming helped the man up, he put the pistol against Shen Yi's forehead and pulled the trigger with his frightened eyes.

"I'm not afraid of this now."

(End of this chapter)