Three Gauss shells arrived above the research institute in the blink of an eye.

If there were no targeted measures, then these three Gauss shells, which were almost unaffected by resistance and even had the assistance of gravity acceleration, would definitely destroy the research institute completely.

At this time, Yu Hui didn't seem to have enough countermeasures.

The only ones that could possibly be of use were three giant mechanical bodies that had just completed their mission and were preparing to hibernate.

However, the giant mechanical body itself is extremely heavy. Even if it can jump, it can only jump a few meters high at most. It can basically only move near the ground.

It is simply impossible to block the Gauss cannon's shells with one's physical body.

Moreover, Gauss shells themselves rarely use magnetic materials.

Therefore, even if giant machines now use electromagnetic pulses to generate high-intensity magnetic forces for traction, it is basically unlikely to be effective.

Even if the shells fired by the rulers were really made of magnetic materials, it would be impossible for the giant mechanical body to pull the shells away in time. At most, it could slightly deflect the direction of the shells before they hit the ground.

But the ultimate speed of the Gauss cannon shell and the terrifying power it brought made no difference whether it hit the research institute head-on or somewhere next to it.

The result is the same anyway.

But at this time, Yuhui had no other means of protection.

Since they failed to stop the Ruler at the beginning, it seemed destined that the Ruler's shells would hit the research institute after entering the planet.

Danger is coming.

Chen Ming, who was still in the experimental area of ​​the institute, seemed to be about to become the only victim of the Gauss cannon.

However, what Yuhui, who was paying attention to these three shells, did not expect was that

The paralyzed Iron Ore nearby suddenly started to move on its own.

On the main control computer, which had been controlled by Chen Ming's psychic power for a long time and was infected by the persistence of psychic power, several commands that needed to be executed appeared for no reason.

At the same time, all the equipment on the Iron Ore that had just been destroyed by the final electromagnetic pulse explosion of a giant mechanical body was undergoing self-repair without Chen Ming's active control.

In the blink of an eye, the Iron Ore was moving again.

It flew over the research institute and blocked the Gauss shells.

And before the Gauss cannon actually hit, try to use the ship's ion pulse to destroy the Gauss cannon shells.

But the Gauss cannon's shell is simply a solid, high-quality "block of iron". It is not easy to destroy such a thing.

Even though ion pulses are pretty good for small weapons, they are still too weak for a large weapon's shell.

It has no ability to cause actual damage at all, and the impact caused by energy weapons hitting it can be said to be close to zero, and it can't even deflect the high-speed flying shells.

The Gauss shell, with its unstoppable momentum, deflected dozens of energy restraint bombs fired at it, and hit the Iron Ore that was blocking its path.

The Iron Ore's shield was shattered in an instant.

But Chen Ming's previous design and the peculiar situation where the Iron Ore is still autonomously repairing the spacecraft itself played a role.

The Iron Ore's shield did not shatter completely. Instead, after eight of the ten shield layers with different amplitude frequencies were shattered, the Gauss cannon's shells were successfully slowed down to a barely acceptable range.

Although the Iron Ore in mid-air also lost its balance and rolled and spun in the air.

The shield of the Iron Ore also underwent obvious deformation, which could cause the shield system to completely stop working at any time.

But at least it had taken the opportunity to change the direction of the force of the shell, causing the first shell to turn over the research institute and fly to an open space in the distance.

The solid shells splashed a lot of dust when they hit the ground, even covering the research institute from a considerable distance away.

Amidst the flying dust, the Iron Ore readjusted its attitude and flew over the research institute again.

It didn't even have time for a complete restoration.

The second Gauss shell arrived here right after the first one.

The Iron Ore blocked it once again, and its remaining shields were all shattered, but the shell of the second Fagus cannon still hit the hull of the Iron Ore with undiminished force.

The Iron Ore had no intention of dodging and simply relied on its hull to withstand the attack of the large weapon.

The once extremely solid Baiyun steel now seems somewhat fragile in front of Gauss shells.

The shield had already cushioned the impact and the shell had slightly deflected its direction, but it still caused damage to nearly a quarter of the spacecraft.

Even a corner of the spacecraft was completely shattered by the impact of the shell.

But at least the second shell was successfully deflected and landed in another direction.

Chen Ming is still safe now.

However, this period of safety did not last long, as the third and final Gauss cannon shell was about to arrive.

At this time, the Iron Ore could only barely hold up a fragile shield with only one layer.

It is already an exaggerated thing that its shield can be opened again after withstanding the attack of the large weapon Gauss cannon.

But it continued to stand in front of the Gauss shells without hesitation, using itself as a buffer, and risking the destruction of the ship itself to block the Gauss cannon outside the research institute and in front of Chen Ming.

The shield, as thin as a cicada's wing, was shattered the moment it came into contact with the Gauss shell and had no effect at all.

The speed of the shells did not decrease at all. The third Gauss shell shattered the shield and hit the Iron Ore head-on.

A frigate was hit head-on by a large weapon with no protection other than armor. The result can be imagined.

But what the Iron Ore set out to do has already been accomplished.

Although the Gauss shells did not show any effect when they hit the shield, they were indeed affected and deflected when they hit the hull of the Iron Ore.

Ultimately, the shell ended up impacting the working area diagonally across from the experimental area with less destructive power.

The structure of the institute itself is quite solid.

The dome was smashed by the Iron Ore and the door was blasted open.

Now, the Gauss cannon's shells hit an area again after their power was weakened to a certain extent.

Under such circumstances, the institute still remained standing. The only damage suffered in the vicinity of the entire institute was some industrial equipment.

And the Iron Ore itself.

The Iron Ore had been completely destroyed after suffering a head-on attack from a Gauss shell, leaving only shattered debris scattered throughout the research facility.

At this time, Zhang Feng had already confirmed that the source of the positioning signal had disappeared, so retreating became the only thing they needed to do now.

The entire joint fleet covered each other and jumped away from here.

Leaving behind a large number of ship wreckage floating in space.

The Afterglow Fleet organized a smaller fleet to patrol the galaxy, and arranged for more ships to search other surrounding galaxies to prevent the Combined Fleet from taking other actions after the jump.

After the ships responsible for the battle left, a large number of Yuhui who were responsible for logistics work began to control various engineering ships to clean up the battlefield.

Recover the wreckage of the ship, search for the core that has not been destroyed, capture the human captives who escaped through the escape pod, and collect the bodies of the dead humans.

The latter two are bargaining chips that can be exchanged with humans later.

At this moment, G3 had just shifted his focus away from outside the research institute and back to Chen Ming, who was encountering frequent accidents.

It is obvious that the sudden severance of that nerve just now is not a normal situation.

It was Chen Ming who activated the Liar Stone and had an unknown effect on it.

Moreover, after Chen Ming fell into a coma, the iron ore ship outside started to move on its own, which made G3 quite confused at this time.

It must submit a complete and clear report on this.

Fortunately, it doesn't need to worry too much now. Other afterglows in space are unlikely to give humans a second chance to launch an attack on the surface of the planet when there has already been a precedent.

The only thing it needs to worry about is that Chen Ming might have actively stimulated his nerves just now, causing the final result of the use of this device to deviate, ultimately leading to his death.

So G3 immediately controlled the robot to begin a comprehensive and more detailed inspection of Chen Ming.

It needs to ensure that there is no problem with Chen Ming's body functions.

At the same time, he also wanted to confirm whether Chen Ming had really fainted, and whether he was the one who controlled the iron ore just now.

In addition, it also needs to confirm whether there is anything strange hidden on Chen Ming's body.

This is to avoid the possibility of the previous incident causing unexpected problems during the use of the device.

Soon, G3 confirmed that Chen Ming's physical condition was good and his brain waves were consistent with those of a coma person. Only his mental power fluctuations had quite obvious ups and downs.

However, this kind of fluctuation is normal when using psychic equipment, and there will be no problem as long as it does not exceed a certain peak value.

While confirming Chen Ming's physical condition, G3 also confirmed that in addition to the false talk stone, Chen Ming also had a spiritual stone of slightly lower quality hidden on his body.

This is actually the most unexpected point of G3.

Because it had never thought that Chen Ming would carry with him two spiritual stones with high-intensity negative effects.

One of them was not even carried with any safety measures, and was carried close to the body without paying any attention to the negative effects.

This also explains why Chen Ming's mental power has improved far beyond expectations during this period.

If a psychic carries this thing every day, he will either go crazy because of the mental pulses, or his psychic power will increase significantly because of resisting the mental pulses.

G3 is still quite suspicious that Chen Ming's spiritual stone has some special effects that he is not aware of.

Because before this, the detection equipment within the institute could not detect the existence of this spiritual stone.

That spiritual stone with a weak effect was placed in a box made of silent alloy and could not be detected.

There must be some special reason why this powerful spiritual stone was placed in the pocket of his clothes without being detected.

G3, as the responsible individual on Chen Ming's side, must investigate it thoroughly and give a reasonable report.

But all he could do now was to arrange robots to collect the fragments of the Iron Ore scattered throughout the research institute.

At the same time, he kept an eye on Chen Ming's physical indicators to prevent anything from happening suddenly to Chen Ming.

The reason is that Yu Hui only knows how to use the device, but not how it works . So when they encounter unexpected situations one after another.

For example, a sudden human attack forced them to activate their psionic equipment before it reached optimal levels.

For example, Chen Ming anticipated their methods and responded in advance, which resulted in them having to forcibly control Chen Ming and conduct experiments on him, rather than relying on drugs to put Chen Ming into a coma before conducting experiments.

For example, Chen Ming, whose mobility was restricted, still had the ability to use the spirit stone to fight back, which eventually led to an unexpected event in the device startup process.

After what happened, all Yu Hui and the others could do was wait and hope that the final result would be in their favor.

G3 arranged for the institute's robots to start cleaning up the wreckage of the iron ore around the institute and clearing the ruins in the work area.

While paying attention to Chen Ming's situation, he began to write the report to be submitted.

"The spiritual nerve extraction device was not activated at the highest point of spiritual energy fluctuation intensity. The actual success rate was reduced by 20% to 30%."

"Before Chen Ming wakes up, it is impossible to confirm whether the artificial ineffective spiritual awakening nerve has successfully absorbed Chen Ming's spiritual awakening nerve."

"But the equipment program is still in operation, and the subsequent reaction needs to be observed."

G3 finished writing the summary and then began to add more details to the report, also attaching the complex data recorded by the equipment.

And just now, when Chen Ming had fallen into a coma and his brain waves were completely calm, the Iron Ore moved on its own, protecting the research institute and Chen Ming's situation.

Currently, G3 is also collecting the wreckage of the Iron Ore for investigation, but like Chen Ming’s current situation, it will take time for follow-up monitoring.

G3 is observing Chen Ming.

Chen Ming, who was being observed, was having a hazy dream in a confused state of mind.

He dreamed of a chaotic steel jungle consisting of mechanical equipment, broken metal and a large amount of spacecraft wreckage.

He was wandering around like a lost traveler, inexplicably holding a cup of fairy leaf tea in his hand.

Chen Ming, who had no idea of ​​the situation, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and gradually quickened his pace as he walked through this steel jungle.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Chen Ming found a special open space in the steel jungle.

It is an open space of about 0.5 square kilometers, about the size of a cruiser.

And in the very center of this open space, there is a small hill made up of various spacecraft wreckage.

Chen Ming took a closer look and discovered that all the spaceship wreckage on the wreckage mountain were spaceships that he had personally controlled.

The relatively flat open space below the mountain of wreckage was actually the top armor of the Refraction-class ship that he had recently controlled.

However, as Chen Ming counted all the wreckage, he discovered that there was one ship missing from the wreckage mountain that he had personally controlled, the Iron Ore.

The wreckage of the Iron Ore did not appear here.

Although there were many spaceships that Chen Ming indirectly controlled through the Yuhui individuals, they did not appear here.

But the Iron Ore was his first ship, so this shouldn't happen, right? Chen Ming approached the mountain of spaceship wreckage with doubts and stood there thinking for a while.

However, before Chen Ming could figure out what was going on, a person who looked exactly like him suddenly walked out from behind the mountain of wreckage.

Her eyes were full of desire, as if she wanted to replace him.

If Chen Ming had not just seen from a distance that this thing that looked like a human was actually transformed from a giant, white, plump, worm-like nerve.

And the maintenance engineer Chen Ming in the present Chen Ming's memory had already been completely assimilated in the process of the present Chen Ming learning technology through memory.

Chen Ming almost thought that it was the maintenance engineer Chen Ming who had faked his death.

So when facing this monster that looked exactly like him, Chen Ming hesitated for a moment, then drove the complete iron ore that suddenly appeared in his dream and crushed it.

Chen Ming didn't know where the Iron Mine came from, nor did he know how he got on the Iron Mine.

But anyway, that's what he did.

And after he did that, the crushed meat suddenly turned back into the fat nerve it was before.

Although it was still in a crushed state, it began to move as if it were a living thing.

It broke down into the smallest pieces, which penetrated the armor of the Iron Ore like some kind of fluid and gradually stuck to Chen Ming.

At the same time, the nerves began to shrink gradually into normal size, along the palm of Chen Ming's hand, from the position where he used his ability to transport materials over long distances, and drilled into his body.

Chen Ming felt no pain or danger during this process.

The crushed nerve was like a docile dog, no longer looking like it wanted to eat people.

When the nerve completely penetrated into Chen Ming's body.

The dream suddenly ended.

Chen Ming immediately opened his eyes.

He subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his eye socket where the nerve had penetrated.

But as soon as he moved, he found that he was still lying on Yuhui's psychic device. Although the restraints on his hands and feet had been removed, he was still handcuffed with the shackles that came with the device and could not move.

The chapped lips told Chen Ming that he had been unconscious for at least four hours.

And everything on him that Yu Hui had not carefully checked before was also taken away.

The pistol, the Liar Stone, and the portable mind-wave generator equipped with the Whispering Stone that he carried with him were all gone.

But Chen Ming doesn't care about these material things now.

after all……

“I’m still alive.”

Chen Ming tried to struggle a few times, but found that he couldn't get free. At the same time, Yu Hui didn't seem to want to talk to him.

He simply tilted his head back and closed his eyes.

Concentrate on thinking about what just happened.

First of all, he was sure that the thick nerve that changed into his appearance in the dream must be the broken nerve that drilled into his eye socket before he fell into a coma.

The desire in its eyes after it turned into a human was directed at Chen Ming himself.

It could be some parasite that can take control of the body.

It could also be some kind of insect related to psychic power, with some special effect against psychic power.

After all, this device itself emits psychic fluctuations, and this nerve also emits psychic fluctuations.

So here comes the question.

What did the iron jungle he was in just now represent? What did the wreckage mountain in the iron jungle represent? What concept did it symbolize? Or was it his spiritual world?

Although Chen Ming is not clear about the specific situation now.

But he was sure that this iron jungle was most likely a place related to his psychic power and his brain.

Maybe I can ask my boss later.

When it comes to psychic powers, the boss definitely knows much more than him.

For now, Chen Ming plans to treat this steel jungle as his spiritual world for the time being.

It appears that the nerve first physically penetrated his eye socket and then his brain.

Entered his spiritual world and wanted to replace Chen Ming's existence.

The result was naturally failure.

It was completely crushed by the suddenly appearing Iron Ore, and was finally absorbed by Chen Ming.

But thinking about it this way, that nerve should still be in the brain, right? Chen Ming tried to call on his mental power to gradually radiate from his brain.

However, he did not feel anything unusual, nor did he find anything in his mind that did not belong here.

It is better to say.

Chen Ming felt that his mental strength had increased significantly, and his psychic power seemed to have also increased a lot.

And it's not just a temporary enhancement through various equipment, it's becoming stronger in a real sense.

It seems to be the result of that nerve being absorbed.

Chen Ming immediately checked his panel, which could most intuitively reflect the strength of his psychic power.

Then he discovered that the number of his controllable spaceships jumped from 4 to 10, more than doubling.

You should know that the number of controllable spacecraft is linked to Chen Ming's mental power.

Since the number of controllable spaceships has doubled, his mental power should also have doubled.

Chen Ming immediately thought of modifying something to test it out.

But when he was selecting his target, he discovered that the Iron Ore had disappeared from the list of spaceships under his control.

Was it demolished by Yu Hui? This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

Then he suddenly noticed that he seemed to be able to sense the remaining fragments of the Iron Ore.

It was on the planet he was on, inside a factory in a colony on the planet.

Although only the wreckage of the Iron Ore remained, and although it did not have any monitoring equipment to record the footage.

But Chen Ming directly saw the situation around the wreckage of the Iron Ore.

This should also be the effect brought about by the increase in psychic power strength.

These scattered fragments, totaling thousands of pieces, were divided by Yuhui into different places in the factory. However, they were in the same situation, that is, they were all surrounded by a large number of equipment.

Yu Hui seemed to be studying the wreckage.

Chen Ming took a quick look and found that the black box of the Iron Ore was still there.

He can even read the data directly with his brain.

This kind of reading would not have any impact on the device itself, so he did it directly.

Chen Ming skipped over a lot of useless data recorded in the black box and jumped directly to the time after he fell into a coma.

At this time, the Iron Ore was like a normal spaceship. After losing Chen Ming's remote control, it was paralyzed on the spot.

Unlike what Chen Ming expected, the three giant mechanical bodies did not directly dismantle the Iron Ore, but remained on standby in place.

Many robots in the institute rushed out at this moment to repair the institute's gate and the dome outside.

Everything seemed very peaceful, with no sign that the Iron Ore would be destroyed violently.

Except for the ongoing battle in space.

Although Chen Ming could not see the specific battle situation clearly, he could still see the continuous explosions that stretched across the entire front line.

There must have been a mistake on one side, which led to the one-sided situation in the battle.

As for who made the mistake.

Chen Ming understood when he saw the familiar Gauss cannon shells coming straight from space to the research institute.

This was launched by the 14th Legion when the possibility of rescuing Chen Ming was finally lost.

The shells used to take him out.

(End of this chapter)