Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 86 Strong Relationships, Taking Stock of Harvests

Then Chen Ming pulled the trigger.

The gun in his hand vibrated slightly, and the bullet fired took away Shen Yi's life.

Shen Yi's body instantly fell down like a building that had lost its support, his lifeless eyes staring directly at the damaged ceiling of the exhibition hall.

For some reason, this moment was deeply remembered in Chen Ming's mind.

After a few seconds after the body fell, Chen Ming exhaled slightly.

This should be regarded as his first time killing someone at close range with his own hands. Before, he had controlled a spaceship and used ship weapons to kill people, so there was nothing special about it.

Now that he was watching people die in front of him, Chen Ming felt a little bit of emotional fluctuations.

Of course, just a little.

It wasn't even as exciting as the Whispering Stone.

As for what Old Wu said just now about his concern after Lu De, Chen Ming basically has no feeling at all.

Anyway, he has a good mentality and is not burdened by many debts.

He's not even afraid of the military, so why should he be afraid of a group of lunatics who are completely unworthy of publicity?
Chen Ming didn't mean that there was no way out and no one could be saved. Even now, Zuo Jing had to consider the boss's situation if he wanted to trouble him.

Chen Ming temporarily put away all the thoughts in his mind, and at the same time inserted the pistol back into the holster.

He took a step forward, bent down, and reached into Shen Yi's pocket.

Immediately he touched a slightly hot mechanical creation, and at the same time a slight whisper sounded in his mind.

It seems that the ectoplasm stone installed inside this device also whispers.

Although Chen Ming felt a little pity, this was still a spirit stone anyway.

Moreover, the devices outside are also quite valuable. Maybe you can try to repair them if you take them back.

Chen Ming conveniently stuffed the device into the pocket of his protective suit and continued to fumble around the body.

The other pocket of Shen Yi's clothes also looked bulging.

Chen Ming dug around inside, and in addition to finding a remote control, he also found a special-looking box.

"What is this?"

Chen Ming placed the box in the palm of his hand and reached out to open it.

There is some soft material padding the inside of the box, which creates a groove-like space, which is just enough to put down the device Chen Ming just got.

Chen Ming tried it for a while and found that as long as he put the device in and closed the box, even if he held the box with his own hands, he would not feel any influence from the Whispering Stone inside.

Unexpectedly, Shen Yi had such a good thing, so Chen Ming put it away directly.

He continued to search, but found nothing of value except a terminal that he didn't know if it was Shen Yi's own.

So he stood up again and looked around. There was no one standing in the entire exhibition hall except him and Lao Wu.

All the people in Zuojiao were dead, and the others had at least one psychic pulse. It would really be a disaster if there were still people left standing.

Then the problem is coming.

Chen Ming looked at Old Wu next to him and asked: "Old Wu, did you just say that the outside has been blocked?"

"Yes, it has been surrounded by some ordinary guards. They are waiting for more professional people to handle the matter."

Chen Ming nodded, lowered his head and thought about how he could get out of here safely with this box and the device in the box when the exhibition hall was blocked.

Old Wu immediately saw what Chen Ming was thinking and said, "Xiao Mu, don't think too much."

"Look here, how many living people? How many dead people? There are more than a few hundred people in total, and everyone has taken a psychic pulse at least once. If the people coming later come, can you still search and investigate them without caring about their lives? They must be sent to the hospital first. ah."

"Your things are fine and there won't be any problems. We will have plenty of opportunities to leave later."

"It doesn't matter even if we get caught. We still have Lao Wu's connections who can get us out."

"I have just contacted him, and he can solve this kind of problem just by telling me."

Seeing Lao Wu's confident look, Chen Ming felt a little more relieved.

Unexpectedly, the boss was not only from Xinda Company, but also from the government.

Chen Ming couldn't help but ask: "What is the identity of the boss?"

Old Wu spread his hands and said, "You have to ask him yourself."

"Ok."

Chen Ming was not very surprised by this result.

"Then we are not in a hurry to throw ourselves into a trap. Let's go to the monitoring room first."

"Let's see if there are any people from Zuojiao that we missed. By the way, check how the surveillance equipment is doing now. If there is a record of our previous situation, it would be best to delete it."

"no problem."

Chen Ming took Lao Wu and followed the map of the exhibition hall he saw when he entered the exhibition hall and found the control room in the staff area.

The door to the monitoring room was ajar at this time. Chen Ming carefully pressed against the wall next to the door and looked inside through the crack in the door.

The monitoring room was also dark at this time, and there was no movement inside.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual inside, Chen Ming kicked open the door of the monitoring room.

He casually threw in a piece of cloth he had just picked up on the road to cover up the exhibits.

There was still no movement inside.

"Okay, there should be no danger, let's go in."

Chen Ming waved to Lao Wu and walked into the monitoring room first.

After entering, Chen Ming discovered that all the equipment in the monitoring room had been completely destroyed.

It was also destroyed by physical means. In addition to being blown to pieces by blunt objects, there were even signs of burning.

There were three people wearing exhibition hall employee uniforms lying on the ground next to them.

One is in a coma and the other two are dead.

The cause of death was blunt force blow to the head.

There happened to be a blood-stained hammer on the ground next to the unconscious man.

It seems that the situation should be obvious.

There was an employee in the exhibition hall named Lu Dezuo Jing. When Shen Yi made some moves, he jumped up and killed two ordinary employees with sneak attacks and weapons.

After killing someone, he did not leave. Instead, he passed out due to a psychic pulse in the middle of destroying the equipment.

The blood on the unconscious man's hands and face can help prove this conjecture.

Chen Ming naturally had nothing to say, so he shot Zuo Jing, who was unconscious on the ground, to meet his god.

Then he used the tools in the tool bag he carried with him to disassemble the scrapped equipment.

It has been confirmed that all storage equipment has been destroyed, and there is no possibility of technical repair.

Chen Ming tried his best to restore the scene and put away his tools.

As his eyes glanced at the fresh corpses on the ground, he suddenly realized something. The Zuo Jia who had just self-destructed over there was not unconscious due to the spiritual pulse, but the Zuo Jia here who was responsible for cutting off the monitoring did pass out.

This means that Zuo Jing definitely has the means to block psychic pulses like Lao Wu did, but he just didn't assign it to Zuo Jing.

Then this method...

Chen Ming suddenly raised his head and said to Old Wu, whose hands and feet were unclean in the cabinet next to the monitoring room, "Old Wu, do you know why those leftists were not unconscious just now?"

"Hey, you really asked the right person."

As Old Wu said, he quickly took a photo of a document with the terminal and stuffed the document back.

Turning around and facing Chen Ming, he said, "I heard, I heard, there is such a thing called a soul silencing device."

"It can be implanted into the human brain so that the person will no longer be affected by any psychic energy that directly targets the mind, including psychic pulses, but the implanted person will also permanently lose the possibility of mastering psychic energy."

"Those left-wingers may have had this thing implanted in their heads, but there's no way to verify it since their bodies were blown up, so I'm just guessing. It's hard to say whether it's correct or not."

Chen Ming nodded slightly and said, "What about you? Do you rely on this device? It's okay not to say anything if it's not convenient for you to say it."

Lao Wu did not hide this from Chen Ming, saying: "Lao Wu did it for me. I don't know what he did specifically, but in short, this kind of spiritual pulse has basically no effect on me. Oh, and Lao Wu did it for me." The same goes for Lu."

Chen Ming suddenly recalled what his boss had said before, that he helped Chen Ming cover up Chen Ming's psychic fluctuations, which should be achieved using similar psychic abilities.

"I understand."

It is currently known that the boss's psychic effects include understanding of a person's personality, protection against psychic pulses, and at most, an effect that masks psychic fluctuations.

Although there seems to be no connection between the three, Chen Ming still plans to write it down first, and maybe he can analyze it later to find out what the boss's specific spiritual power is.

Just when Chen Ming was about to go back to the exhibition hall and wait for the security forces outside to come in, Lao Wu suddenly picked up the terminal and said, "Lao Wu sent me a message."

He clicked twice on the terminal and played the voice message sent by his boss directly.

"Old Wu, I've told you what happened. You can just go out. Someone will come looking for you later. Just follow his arrangements and go immediately."

The boss's voice suddenly paused and then continued: "I can only say that Xiao Mu does have qualities that others don't have. It's really interesting."

When Chen Ming heard this, he looked at Old Wu with some confusion and asked, "What characteristics?"

Old Wu's face showed the same expression he had when he told Chen Ming that his boss had a bad taste: "Hey, guess what."

"Tsk."

Chen Ming glared at Old Wu, but Old Wu seemed not to notice, whistling and walked outside.

Chen Ming had no choice but to follow him to the main entrance of the exhibition hall.

Before Lao Wu went out, he hid in the shadows next to the door of the exhibition hall and waved to the outside.

After confirming that he was seen by the ordinary guards surrounding the exhibition hall outside, he walked out with his hands raised.

Chen Ming also followed him out of the exhibition hall while doing the same action.

As Chen Ming and Lao Wu approached the isolation belt pulled up by the guards.

Immediately, several guards climbed over the isolation belt and rushed over, trying to control them.

But immediately after, someone suddenly said to the guards who rushed out: "Stop, don't touch them."

A classmate who was probably in his early 50s, wearing a guard uniform and extremely strong, immediately climbed over the isolation belt and came to Chen Ming and Lao Wu.

Chen Ming noticed that the guards around him looked at him with respect, and his epaulettes were different from those of other guards. He should be their superior.

The guard's supervisor showed a friendly expression and said, "Are you two friends of Mr. Wu?"

"Correct."

He made an inviting gesture and said, "Please come with me."

Chen Ming and Lao Wu followed him into a police car, left the vicinity of the exhibition hall, and returned all the way to the General Security Bureau next to the government building.

He arranged a lounge for the two of them and left in a hurry.It seems that he has a lot to do after today's terrorist attacks on both sides of the space elevator and the exhibition hall.

Chen Ming didn't wait long in the lounge when someone sent two written transcripts.

The names written above are Mu Shuikong and Wu Pingan.

As for the content of the transcript, the summary is that Chen Ming and the two came to attend the auction as normal today, and then encountered a terrorist attack. They were lucky enough not to be injured. They were rescued by the police and were successfully rescued.

The seal of the General Security Bureau has been stamped on it in advance. As long as they sign their names, they can get out of this matter safely.

Old Wu took a quick look and signed directly.

Chen Ming looked at it repeatedly and signed after confirming that there was nothing deceptive about it.

After handing the transcript to the person who just sent it.

Chen Ming and Lao Wu successfully left the General Security Bureau.

There was no obstruction and no investigation.

It can only be said that the boss's face seems to be a little too big.

After coming out of the government campus where the atmosphere was somewhat tense and depressing.

Lao Wu suddenly stretched a long way and said to Chen Ming with "I'm very tired" written all over his face: "Where should we go next?"

"It will take a few hours for your test to come out. We can't waste any time now."

Old Wu obviously wanted to find a place to play.

However, Chen Ming didn't have much place to go, so he said, "Go on your own, I still have something to do."

When Old Wu heard what Chen Ming said, instead of looking for a place to have fun, he moved closer, put his hand on Chen Ming's shoulder and said, "Hey, I'm thinking about your 3000 million bounty."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's me, I'm worried about it too, this is 3000 million, it will last me a long time."

Chen Ming shook his head slightly, thinking that his money that was close to 5000 million before was now just over 2000 million, and he couldn't help but said: "Money is earned quickly, but it is also spent quickly."

"Old Wu, if you are short of money, I will give you a sum and treat it as a favor to help me deal with things today."

"Ah? Didn't I basically do nothing? And didn't you even reimburse me a sum of money?"

"The little money you spend for fun is not even a cent. I asked you to help me with some work and ended up asking you for a big health care. Isn't this a joke?"

Old Wu scratched his head and said, "Then just watch and give it."

"Row."

Chen Ming responded, then suddenly continued: "Old Wu, I'm actually quite curious about why you are short of money."

Chen Ming has never understood it. Old Wu obviously has a good relationship with his boss and factory director, so making money should be very simple for Old Wu.

But Lao Wu's performance has always been that he has no money, and he even had to cheat him for thousands of dollars when he just came to the space station.

There must be some reason here.

When Lao Wu heard Chen Ming's question, he said casually: "The main reason is laziness. When you have money, you are too lazy to move. When you run out of money, you will find ways to make money. It is strange that you can save money in this way."

What Lao Wu said would be no problem to an ordinary person, but to him it would not be considered a reason at all.

However, since Old Wu had no intention of elaborating, Chen Ming had no intention of exploring too much.

He and Lao Wu left separately at the gate of the government park.

Lao Wu went to find a place to have fun, while Chen Ming ran to the space elevator while waiting for the government's test report.

The space elevator was not damaged in previous attacks on the Left Path.

After all, this is the key passage between the space station and the colony. The personnel transportation elevators open to the public are only a small part, and other cargo transportation also relies on them.

If you don't arrange enough guards, you are simply putting your life in the hands of others.

The space elevator's own defense strength was sufficient, and the additional supporting guard troops arrived nearby immediately. Ludd's attack on the left path did not cause any waves at all.

So after order was restored here in the space elevator, the elevator was once again open to the public.

It's just that there are a lot more guards visible to the naked eye.

However, this did not affect Chen Ming's smooth journey back to the Iron Mine.

As soon as he returned to the Iron Mine, Chen Ming took out the Lie Stone.

The moment his hand touched the Lie Stone, the hallucination appeared in front of Chen Ming again.

But this time, everything in the hallucination was clear, and there was no longer the vague feeling before.

Including the spirit stone that fell out of Shen Yi's body, and the person holding the gun.

The person holding the gun is Chen Ming himself.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the scene when he shot and killed Shen Yi was replayed by hallucinations.

All of these hallucinations suddenly disappeared and merged into the Lie Stone.

The spiritual fluctuations that resonated with the Whispering Stone before the pirate leader died were completely assimilated with it and became a part of it.

And just after the hallucination completely disappeared, Chen Ming discovered that he could completely block the crazy voices of the Lie Stone, and at the same time, he could choose to accept the influence of the Lie Stone on him at any time.

exactly.It's not that Chen Ming blocked the influence himself.But he can actually control whether the effect of this lie stone takes effect.

It seems that after Chen Ming realized the illusion of resonance, the Liar Stone was connected to him.

Able to control the Whispering Stone like he controls a spaceship.

This should be regarded as Chen Ming controlling it psychically.

It's just that Chen Ming still can't use psychic waves at will like his boss. It's only effective when controlling the lie stone.

Although the effect didn't seem to work, Chen Ming still felt that it was very good. At least this way, he could carry the lie stone with him anytime and anywhere.

And it’s not just Chen Ming’s control over the Lie Stone.

When he opened the panel, he could see that the name of the Lie Stone had changed again from [Ectoplasm Stone (False)] to [Resonance Ectoplasm Stone (False)].

The change in name also brought about changes in effect.

When Chen Ming controlled the Lie Stone to influence him again.

Not only was Chen Ming's mind instantly affected by the horrifying delirium, but his body also felt uncomfortable in an instant.

Tinnitus and dizziness, anxiety and fright, fear and pain, and a hint of uncontrollable madness.

Even if Chen Ming turned off the switch of the Lie Stone in an instant.

But the effect still lasted for a few minutes before returning to normal, and Chen Ming could feel that his mental energy had been consumed to a certain extent.

The effect of the Resonating Lie Stone is more powerful than before, and the effect of using it to exercise will definitely be better.

Chen Ming put away the lying stone.

Then he took out the device that was placed in the box with shielding function that he got from Shen Yi before.

Its name is [Portable Psychic Wave Generator (Destroyed)]

There is also a reminder on the panel that the number of remaining uses is 0/3.

Although it is slightly different from the psychic pulse device that Chen Ming guessed before, that is, the name is psychic fluctuation, the overall effect is still similar.

Like all other mechanical equipment Chen Ming has seen, it can be repaired and modified.

Chen Ming was a little surprised by the materials needed to repair this device.

Such a small generator uses more types of materials than all the equipment Chen Ming has ever seen that needs to be repaired and modified.

So Chen Ming took a curious look at the materials that could be obtained by dismantling it, and found that there were still a small amount of special-grade materials mixed in.

Although the device looks like a very ordinary mechanical object, it may have a complex structure inside that is far beyond Chen Ming's imagination.

But think about it, when Chen Ming dismantled the mechanical clan's psychic pulse generator before, he did dismantle some valuable materials.

Moreover, the size of the machinery family's equipment is countless times larger than this small device.

It makes sense that the materials used are complex and high-end.

Fortunately, the special materials used to make this device are not consumables that are affected by the number of uses, and Chen Ming does not need to repair them.

Although the demand for other materials is large, the requirements are not high.

As long as Chen Ming is willing to spend some time looking for it, he can even find all the materials needed for repair directly here.

But this matter is not urgent.

Not just because Chen Ming had other things to do in the remaining hours.

Also, if Chen Ming goes back, he can buy materials from the owner of the store that Lao Wu recommended before, and the price will be cheaper.

The overall price here in the capital is much higher than that at the space station.

And in addition to the restoration function, the functional description of the modification of this device also needs to be looked at.

Then Chen Ming discovered that the transformation of this generator was even more heavyweight.

Although Chen Ming had basically no knowledge of psychic energy and did not know the internal structure of the generator, a modification option still appeared on the modification panel.

Option to replace the internal ectoplasm stone.

His lie stone can be directly transformed into it without any consumption except mental power.

But such a Whispering Stone, which has no effect on Chen Ming at all, can cause large-scale coma of people in a large area.

If the Liar Stone, which can cause Chen Ming to have after-effects for several minutes, is put in and activated, Chen Ming estimates that the situation he encountered on Ruimu Planet will happen again.

This is not what he wants to see.

And Chen Ming actually has another idea now.

Since the Lie Stone cannot be stuffed in, if the boss's "gentle" ectoplasm stone is stuffed in, will the released spiritual pulse have the opposite effect?
I think maybe I can ask my boss about this when I get back.

Chen Ming still put the generator in the box that was also taken from Shen Yi for the time being, and dealt with it when he went back.

Chen Ming also took a look at this box. The name was [Psychic Blocking Box].

It should be something specially used to store ectoplasmic stones. After being dismantled, a material called Silent Alloy can be obtained.

Chen Ming has never heard of it, but it must be a special metal grade material that is higher than high-grade metal materials.

You can also ask a knowledgeable boss later.

After putting away the portable mind wave generator.

Then the main event is coming.

Chen Ming closed several panels in front of him.

Then he opened the panel of the armor-breaking ship he controlled.

(End of this chapter)