The afterglow individuals responsible for manufacturing work are not allowed to contact the outside world, so Chen Ming has basically no way of controlling them.

There are also strict isolation measures inside and outside the material transportation and management departments.

Chen Ming didn't even know whether the strictness was directed at him.

In short, he has indeed infiltrated part of this place, but not completely.

It looks like this overall, neither good nor bad.

It can be said that there is no chance to actually come into contact with the new star level.

And it's not just a problem of difficulty in contact, Chen Ming also has other troublesome points to deal with.

Even if he successfully found an opportunity later and sacrificed some of the afterglow individuals he controlled, he still managed to contact the module of the battleship and connect to it.

But from Chen Ming's heartfelt feeling, controlling the battleship is far from enough.

Forced control will only cause damage to the Yuhui individual who helps Chen Ming control the battleship, and his own mental power will also be affected.

As far as Chen Ming knows, Yuhui's battleships, like the cruisers, are controlled by Alpha-class Yuhui.

However, the amount of real-time computing required by capital ships during combat is enormous, and individuals that have just reached the Alpha level are definitely not capable of this.

Only after it has been upgraded to Alpha level for a long time and its computing power has been greatly increased can it control the capital ship.

Even Huihuang currently seems unqualified in controlling the battleship.

Only the Alpha-level afterglow that Chen Ming controls and is located in the border star field between the afterglow and the mechanical clan may have a certain possibility, but it is only a possibility.

Battleships and cruisers are not at the same level at all.

At the cost of losing an Alpha-class Afterglow in exchange for a high probability of failure in controlling the Afterglow battleship, this is a huge loss.

So when Chen Ming had this idea, he was immediately discouraged by the high price.

And even if he wanted to indirectly control this new star by controlling the entire shipyard, the entire giant dock, it would not work.

Not to mention that the different areas inside the giant dock are also isolated.

For example, the size of the giant dock itself is larger than that of a battleship.

So now, Chen Ming can only give up this tempting idea temporarily.

First try to control the modules of the giant dock one by one.

At that time, whether to find a way to slowly and completely control the giant shipyard or to help Bai Quan, it all depends on the specific situation at that time.

Just when Chen Ming had this idea, he immediately rejected it.

Huihuang suddenly took the initiative to contact Chen Ming through the emergency contact information that Chen Ming had previously agreed with him.

Chen Ming immediately focused his attention on Huihuang and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I just received an order to remotely access a cloning research institute that is conducting experiments on your clones."

"The laboratory's cloning experiment has entered the final stage. Your clones have been cultivated to the end. I need your help to select the final individual suitable for implanting your spiritual nerve."

"oh."

Chen Ming replied calmly.

All I can say is that even if he didn't know about this kind of thing, he could guess that Yu Hui was definitely doing it.

But Huihuang added again: "Also, the laboratory successfully cloned a special thing with psychic power."

Chen Ming perked up now and asked, "Thing? Not a psychic clone?"

"No. A part of its clone's body tissue has mutated and has psychic powers. It is more like some kind of psychic creature."

Chen Ming couldn't quite understand what Huihuang was saying, but he immediately saw the image of the cloning research institute that Huihuang had previously saved.

He felt nothing for the bodies in the cold storage with his face pressed against them.

Although the scene of the autopsy almost made him lose his temper, as long as Chen Ming understood that it was just on his face, it was over.

However, when Chen Ming saw the deformed flesh and blood tissue being taken out from the clone's chest cavity and it was still beating slightly.

Chen Ming really couldn't hold it in.

He was impacted by the image, but also by a sudden and inexplicable emotion that arose out of nowhere.

It was as if this mass of flesh and blood was part of him.

Although strictly speaking this is the case, after all, it is a product of his genetic cloning.

But this deformed mass of flesh and blood that was still slightly moving did not seem to be of the same species as a normal human like him, let alone being close.

Chen Ming suppressed his inner emotions and asked Huihuang: "So where is this research institute?"

"It's underground."

As soon as Huihuang's words came out, Chen Ming subconsciously wanted to look down at the floor, but he immediately reacted and restrained the action.

The brilliant place obviously refers to the underground of his research institute.

Chen Ming knew that there was something underground in the research institute, but he didn't expect that in addition to his spiritual stone, there was also a cloning laboratory underground.

This is important news for him.

Because the feeling that the mass of flesh and blood tissue with psychic fluctuations gave him, in addition to the instinctive aversion to such things as a human being, there was also a desire to actively contact it.

Chen Ming's feeling has saved him and helped him many times, so this time he chose to believe in this feeling.

Chen Ming immediately started thinking about how to go deep underground and find this mass of flesh and blood.

Huihuang added: "However, according to G3, the above-ground research institute and the underground research institute are separate, and need to be entered and exited from other locations."

“Here is the exact location.”

Brilliant marked a location on the planet's topographic map, some distance away from the institute.

Fortunately, it is not too far and not unacceptable.

But the more important point in Huihuang's words is...

"G3? It's here too?"

"Yes, it is monitoring you while also controlling this cloning laboratory, and its core is underground."

A cold light flashed in Chen Ming's eyes. He had not forgotten what G3 had done before.

Although his psychic powers allow him to control G3, G3's situation is special.

It was impossible for Chen Ming to put it on the same level as other afterglow individuals.

At the same time, he was not willing and not used to having other conscious beings that could be considered living beings become his slaves.

So it’s better for G3 to die. Out of sight, out of mind.

Or... Chen Ming was thinking whether he could give it a try. Is there any way to erase Yu Hui's memory and personality? Yu Hui is a life, not a rigid machine. They also have these abstract things, and they are stored in their core.

You should probably give it a try.

These thoughts flashed through Chen Ming's mind quickly, and then he remembered everything Huihuang said, and then asked: "Is there anything else?"

"Not yet. I am currently asked to leave the cloning institute."

"G3 is still reporting to the superiors about this organ tissue that has psychic fluctuations. What to do next must wait for the superiors' orders."

"If there is any special situation, I will tell you as soon as possible."

"Okay, keep paying attention. If you have time, find a way to help me research some information about your battleships. I can use it."

"clear."

Huihuang cut off private communication with Chen Ming.

Continue to start the overt work.

And one day later.

In the basement of the research institute, G3's ongoing investigation into psychic flesh and blood tissue has come to an end.

In its database, the report recording this mass of flesh and blood tissue had more than ten pages in addition to the previous two pages.

It can be said that its research on psychic flesh and blood tissue has reached the limit of what can be achieved with the equipment within the institute alone.

And it has now also confirmed the nature of this mass of psychic deformed flesh and blood tissue.

Judging from the data performance in all aspects, rather than the previous speculation, it is indeed a psychic creature, not a part of a psyker.

However, although G3 has confirmed that the psychic power of this psychic creature is a protective type of psychic power.

But so far, the specific psychic effects of this psychic creature remain uncertain, and it is also unclear what specific objects it can protect.

Because in order to confirm the specific effects of protective psychic powers, dangerous tests must be carried out.

This misshapen mass of flesh and blood had barely survived the toxic reagents and cryogenic freezing environment.

Any new stimulation would most likely kill it completely.

But at least for now G3 has confirmed that the toxicity of the reagents it uses and the extreme low temperatures are two objects that can be confirmed as objects of psychic protection.

As long as this deformed mass of flesh and blood tissue is re-cultivated for a period of time, it will have sufficient activity and vitality.

G3 can then extract samples from it and conduct acceptably dangerous tests.

Although it will still be difficult to get accurate results at that time.

Because this mass of flesh and blood with psychic energy fluctuations only has the most basic reflex movements, that is, the instinctive movements of the nervous system.

It has no self-awareness at all and cannot help with psychic testing.

But even so, G3 has absolutely no intention of leaving this to other individuals to study.

Once the research on such a cloned psychic individual yields results, this achievement will be epoch-making for Yuhui.

However, after he reported the data yesterday, it is still waiting for a response from the top management.

This matter is not ultimately decided by it.

Moreover, because Yu Hui himself cannot become a psychic, although he has studied psychic powers, he has not done so in depth, so they are very concerned about finding a way to control psychic powers.

They must treat this first cloned psychic product here with caution and seriousness.

Therefore, the top leaders of this Afterglow Star Region still need to contact the main force.

It was just like the previous encounter with Chen Ming, a psychic who had a profound influence on Yu Hui.

Therefore, the time required for preparation is naturally prolonged.

However, one day after G3 reported the matter, it finally received a reply.

At the highest level of the Afterglow Star Domain, several Alpha-class Afterglows that controlled the Kletka supercomputer directly sent orders regarding this group of psychic creatures.

"Reconfirm the situation of the psychic biological sample tentatively named 'Psychic Deformed Myocardial Tissue' and verify the accuracy of the data."

"Save a copy of the data of the entire cultivation process for yourself, restore the cloning environment, repeat the cloning experiment, and try to replicate the process of producing this psychic creature."

"The psychic biological samples are temporarily stored. Their activity must be guaranteed while they wait for subsequent units to receive them."

"This sample needs to be transported to a major star region for research."

"After completing Chen Ming's mission, the individual can apply to return to the main star field and join the research on psychic creatures."

Such a long list of commands is acceptable for the G3.

The replication experiment is something that must be done by an individual, and it is the individual who personally created this psychic creature, so the task will definitely fall on him.

And he would definitely not be able to avoid it when studying this psychic creature in the future.

So G3 took the order.

The deformed flesh and blood tissue, whose vital signs had stabilized yesterday, was isolated in a separate room in the Cloning Research Institute.

At the same time, G3 also moved a culture chamber over there, specifically to ensure its survival.

In addition, G3 also discovered in previous research that this mass of flesh and blood tissue seemed to have some instinctive behaviors, such as craving for nutrients to restore its previously damaged tissue cells.

So G3 stored large doses of mixed nutrient solution necessary for human survival in the incubator.

After all, it is transformed from a part of the clone's organs, and it will need everything that humans need. As long as the concentration is normal, there will be no problem.

After completing these tasks, G3 began to restore the process of the previous cloning experiment based on the data records and video records of the previous experiment.

Although the success rate of the experiment itself is very low, so low that it can be ignored.

The fact that the stem cells used to grow clones are not identical is an unsolvable problem.

So G3 didn't think the replica experiment would be successful, but it still did it normally and made two copies at the same time.

As one of the experimental materials, G3 used the DNA material left by Chen Ming when he lived in their factory some time ago to clone stem cells, which is the default configuration.

The other one was that it extracted extremely small amounts of deformed flesh and blood tissue cells, and after examination it was confirmed that these cells were identical to the cells of the normal Chen Ming clone.

Use ordinary cells from distorted flesh and blood tissue to clone stem cells, and then carry out subsequent experimental operations.

This can also be considered a means to increase the success rate.

The next step is not difficult, which is to differentiate all the stem cells of the two experimental samples into the heart organ.

At the same time, it is also strictly controlling the cultivation environment of the clones to be the same as before.

All that’s left now is to wait for the deformity to appear, and this experiment will be off to a successful start.

But among the batch of clones that produced this mass of deformed flesh and blood tissue, only that one clone had the problem of heart deformity.

The rest either developed normally or had problems elsewhere, which basically did not affect the heart.

Therefore, whether or not heart malformation will occur depends on probability.

Now, each of the two ongoing experiments has a standard of fifty clones as the final output.

Since G3 only needs to see if it can grow a deformed heart without having to fully grow the clone to maturity, it only takes a few hours to get the results.

However.

None of the first 100 clones showed any distortion during differentiation into myocardial tissue under the control of stem cell directed differentiation inducers in the cloning experiment process.

All of them completed the differentiation normally according to the original planned process, and can continue to the next stage of differentiation of the remaining body tissues at any time.

In other words, all the experimental products in this first batch were considered failures.

Their results can naturally only be processed by injecting all the reagents.

Of course, G3 still maintains a certain degree of attention to these waste products to avoid the same situation as before.

After uploading the results of this batch of experiments, G3 received a quick response.

The top management asked it to conduct experiments again until the materials stored in the institute were used up.

And additional materials will be delivered later, and they will also take away the psychic flesh and blood tissue as samples at that time.

The material itself does not take much time to prepare.

But it is a troublesome task to send the samples across the entire human empire back to the main star field of Yuhui, and to ensure the survival of the samples during the entire process.

So they still need some time to prepare.

G3 had nothing to say and continued to accept orders as usual.

In addition to continuing to monitor Chen Ming on a daily basis, conducting cloning experiments has become something it needs to do all the time.

It quickly replaced the nutrient solution and various additives in the culture chamber that had produced a bunch of waste products, and started the second batch of experiments.

Soon, of course, the result was a failure.

G3 did not have any extra thoughts. Apart from taking a look at Chen Ming who was holding a terminal, he continued to carry out the next experiment according to the command.

Until two days later.

Among the sixth batch of experimental samples, G3 finally waited for a clone.

And in his case, heart deformity appeared again.

The total number of clones created by G3 has exceeded five hundred.

In the end, including the first one, there were only two people with heart deformities, with a probability of 0.4%.

This is actually a very high probability.

But obviously this is just the probability of heart deformation, and the possibility of psychic power appearing is not that high.

The second individual with heart deformation did not show psychic fluctuations like the previous clone.

However, the cloning experiment is not yet complete.

The individual before G3 was cultivated to a nearly final stage before being abandoned.

During the cultivation process of the previous clone, it was believed that this clone could still be repaired, so when it was discovered that the heart was deformed, the first thing it did was to repair part of it through surgery, and then continue to cultivate it.

It was not until the clone was fully grown into an adult that it was confirmed that the heart deformity could not be repaired, so he was abandoned.

So now, G3 needs to continue to cultivate it in order to ensure the same process.

Wait, that's not right.

Just as G3 was about to continue to cultivate this deformed individual separately, it suddenly noticed a jump on the psychic energy fluctuation detector next to it.

The instrument detected psychic fluctuations.

And it was not the deformed mass of flesh and blood placed somewhere else.

The psychic energy fluctuations were coming from the heart in the incubator which had just completed the incubation stage and was currently only slightly deformed.

As an afterglow, G3 also felt a surge of excitement after a long time.

It immediately recorded the data of the cultivation process and prepared to report to its superiors.

However, suddenly another psychic energy wave came from another clone, and also from the heart.

The monitoring equipment in the other clone's culture chamber immediately displayed the scanned data.

This body had already started cultivation and had entered the final stage. It was originally intended to be used as a backup clone for Chen Ming's Qi Ling neural transplant.

His originally intact heart suddenly became strangely deformed.

Just as deformed as that mass of distorted flesh and blood.

Immediately afterwards, the third psychic energy fluctuation appeared, and the same situation occurred in another incubator.

Then the fourth, fifth, sixth...

The hearts of dozens of clones all showed signs of deformity, even though just a few seconds ago, their hearts were very healthy and intact.

G3 felt the danger in this strange situation.

It immediately cut off the power supply to the life support systems of all the culture chambers, injected a large amount of toxic reagents into the interior of all the chambers, and sent reporting information to the outside world.

However, cutting off the power did not do anything to the "things" that had already taken shape, and the toxic reagents did not have the effect they were supposed to have.

The deformed hearts were not affected at all.

Moreover, there seemed to be some kind of resonance between the increasingly frequent and dense spiritual energy fluctuations they emitted.

The fluctuations of psychic energy became more and more intense. The external communication equipment of the Clone Research Institute was seriously interfered by the psychic energy fluctuations, and G3's information could not be sent out at all.

It can only deal with this problem itself.

But in just a dozen seconds.

The hearts of these twisted and deformed clones seemed to be due to the fact that they possessed the same genes from Chen Ming, as well as the influence of the psychic fluctuations that were now resonating.

Their own heartbeat frequencies are also beginning to converge, from a chaotic array of varying frequencies to becoming unified.

It was as if the dozen or so hearts grown by the cloning institute, no, now dozens of them, suddenly had their blood vessels connected together.

Flesh, blood, and veins and arteries intertwined together to form a huge, deformed heart.

This scene gave G3 an indescribable sense of weirdness.

This was the first time in its life that it felt this emotion.

And it gets worse.

Suddenly, an unknown fault occurred in the institute's power system, and the entire institute's communication system was completely paralyzed.

The heavy heartbeat and the psychic energy fluctuations that followed the heartbeat echoed in the dark research institute.

The only thing that remained operational was the independent security line, allowing G3 to see everything inside the institute through surveillance.

Just then, G3 heard the sound of the glass of the incubator being hit.

The first deformed heart in the subsequent cloning experiment it conducted had begun to move on its own, violently and continuously hitting the culture chamber.

Its myocardial tissue was damaged by the impact, and a large amount of blood gradually dyed the liquid in the entire culture chamber red.

Even with night vision and thermal imaging, the monitoring system still has difficulty seeing the situation in the culture chamber.

All that could be seen was a twisted mass of monsters trying to break free of its cage.

Fortunately, the strength of the culture chamber is very high, and everything the newly cultivated deformed heart does seems to be in vain.

But then, the sound of flesh being torn apart was heard by G3.

Another clone whose heart was affected and deformed had his chest torn open, with flesh and ribs protruding out.

A twisted "psychic creature" emerged from it, identical to the psychically distorted flesh and blood tissue that was first discovered.

It has a stronger cell tissue structure than the deformed heart that has just completed differentiation.

Just one collision that caused a large amount of blood to spill left a conspicuous crack on the incubator.

G3 immediately activated the security system within the institute.

A large number of weapons suddenly appeared on several robots that were previously undergoing training work, and several fixed turrets were also revealed from different walls inside the institute.

Start cleaning the inside of the culture chamber directly.

Lasers, flames, bullets, and blood and flesh splattered in the vast, dark cloning laboratory.

These newly born distorted flesh and blood tissues are still very fragile. Even as psychic creatures, they themselves cannot withstand the firepower coming from all directions.

But if you look closely, you will find that some of the splattered blood and flesh are still moving.

They moved and seeped into the cracks of the isolation doors between different rooms in the institute.

It tends to completely block the direction of the room where G3 abandoned the abandoned clones, as well as the direction of the deformed flesh and blood tissue at the beginning.

G3 had no time to stop all the scattered flesh and blood.

In the freezer, signs of life began to appear on a large number of dead bodies.

There were even some clones that had died long ago and had been frozen for who knows how long, and their bodies showed the same condition as the clones in the incubator outside.

There was a bloody hole in the corpse's chest, and the heart inside was missing.

The only way to guess where they went was by looking at the blood stains left on the vent in the corner of the cold room.

G3 lost control of the institute almost in the blink of an eye.

This is true even if there are large numbers of armed robots.

Because at this point the hearts of all the clones in the entire culture room had broken through the body that was supposed to own them.

In the corner of the culture room that the robots cannot reach.

The muscle tissue of the torn and deformed heart began to aggregate, and granulation tissue adhered the fragments together.

A huge piece of meat that has lost its shape. No, it cannot be said to be shapeless.

Because if you look down from above, you can see a huge deformed heart growing on the floor of the institute.

The feeling just now in G3 has become a reality.

The huge deformed heart suddenly started beating again, and the moment it beat, a violent wave of psychic energy swept across the entire research institute.

All the active robots were shut down, wrapped, infiltrated, and shut down by the distorted flesh and blood tissue they were collecting.

The institute was completely destroyed.

And inside the most heavily guarded room in the entire institute, where the G3 Alpha-class core is installed.

I don't know when it started, but some blood gradually seeped into the originally smooth ceiling.

Blood dripped onto the Silent Alloy Box in the room that stored the Liar Stone and the Whispering Stone.

Then a mass of flesh and blood fell from the ceiling.

With a click.

With the sound of blood splattering, the squirming flesh swallowed the box.

The next moment, a drop of blood also fell on the core of G3.

(End of this chapter)