When he just woke up and his head was still a little groggy, he thought he was hallucinating.

But when he became more sober, he realized that what he heard was real, a heavy beating sound that seemed to come from the abyss deep underground.

And this beating sound was accompanied by a dangerous yet intimate spiritual energy fluctuation.

Chen Ming suddenly woke up and a thought flashed through his mind.

"What's going on?"

He quickly checked the time.

I found out that it is five o'clock in the morning on Earth.

Since he was the only living person in the institute and Xiaoshi was the only hamster who needed to rest, the living area was still pitch dark at this time.

This adds a bit of eerie atmosphere to the sound coming from deep underground.

Chen Ming was not frightened by such an environment.

The entire institute was shaking from the vibration caused by the beating sound.

He calmly turned on the lights in the living area and immediately tried to sense his Talking Stone, which was located underground and seemed to be at the source of the sound.

The Falsehood Stone, which he could clearly sense deep underground before, now seemed very vague to Chen Ming, as if there was a heavy layer between them.

There is a problem.

Chen Ming picked up Xiao Shi, who was lying on his pillow and looked half asleep, and stuffed him into his arms.

He stood up and walked towards the central hall of the institute.

After Chen Ming walked out of the living area, he also discovered that all the robots in various corners of the hall, which usually followed him from a distance whenever he made any movement, were silent.

Standing there as if he had lost control.

It seemed like something bad had happened at the institute.

Chen Ming shouted directly: "Brilliant!"

He waited for two seconds, but got no response.

"G3!"

Chen Ming shouted something else, but still got no response.

There was only the heavy sound and the vibration that came with it in his ears.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ming used his psychic power to contact Huihuang directly.

This time Huihuang responded very promptly: "Mr. Chen, is there anything going on so early in the morning?"

"?"

"Didn't you see what was going on at the institute?"

Huihuang noticed the emotions implied in Chen Ming's words and realized that something might have gone wrong on Chen Ming's side.

It immediately explained: "I still have work every day in other galaxies, and the institute will not remain closed 24 hours a day."

"Even if I wanted to, G3 would definitely not allow it, so I will only maintain the signal connection with the institute when you are awake and have a normal schedule."

"So I still don't know what's going on at the institute."

There was indeed nothing wrong with the term "brilliant", so Chen Ming did not dwell on it, and he did not have the time to dwell on it.

"Then take a look at what's going on here. And ask G3 if he's dead."

"receive."

But immediately, Huihuang said: "No, I can't access the institute's network now."

"G3 didn't give you permission?"

"No, there is no signal. The communication network has been disconnected or interfered with. I am still trying to connect."

Huihuang's words completely confirmed Chen Ming's guess, so he immediately said to Huihuang: "Don't try it, there are violent spiritual energy fluctuations here that interfere with the communication signal."

"Go find a way to inform your higher-ups. Something must have gone wrong at the institute."

Huihuang temporarily stopped communicating with Chen Ming.

Chen Ming was once again alone.

The dull beating sound that continued to echo inside the institute also made him feel a tightness in his chest.

And the sound of beating seemed to be gradually becoming consistent with Chen Ming's heartbeat frequency.

The feeling of vibration is becoming clearer and clearer.

There must be something right below the institute.

But as far as Chen Ming knew, there were only a few spaces for storing giant mechanical bodies under the research institute, plus the cloning research institute deep underground.

When the giant mechanical bodies jumped out before, Chen Ming saw that the place where they were stored had some supporting maintenance and repair facilities.

But obviously, these facilities are definitely not the source of the current strange heartbeat and psychic fluctuations.

Then the answer is obvious.

Something must have happened in the cloning institute.

It seemed like Huihuang had just told him two days ago that the Cloning Research Institute had cloned a creature with psychic powers.

And at that time he also watched the brilliantly preserved video.

Chen Ming saw with his own eyes the flesh and blood tissue with psychic powers being taken out from the chest of his clone.

Wait, chest? Heart?

When the deformed flesh and blood tissue was taken out, Chen Ming's attention was completely attracted by its distorted appearance and he didn't pay any attention to what it was.

At the same time, I didn't notice that its instinctive twitching at that time was actually more like jumping.

It was a deformed heart, not some ordinary deformed flesh and blood.

Chen Ming finally reacted at this moment.

What is beating underground in the research institute, making loud noises and violent vibrations, is the heart.

After thinking of this, an inexplicable panic suddenly enveloped him.

Chen Ming felt that he could not stay in the institute any longer and he had to leave immediately.

But just at this moment.

Huihuang contacted again and said, "We have sent a spacecraft to approach the institute, but the signal is still not connected, and we cannot contact you directly."

"I suggest you leave the institute first. As long as you don't fly out of the surface of the planet, the other afterglows will not attack you."

"knew."

What Huihuang said coincided with Chen Ming’s thoughts just now.

Chen Ming immediately ran out of the research institute.

And since they were all leaving, Chen Ming might as well do a few things on the way out.

He didn't do much except touch all the equipment he could get his hands on and mark them all.

Including the institute's security system, various robots, and monitoring systems that he usually doesn't have access to.

It is not known whether these devices are used to protect Chen Ming or to protect the institute itself. They are spread throughout the institute and can be easily touched on the way out.

In this way, he can use his abilities to take these devices away at any time in the future.

As long as he could find a suitable colony, he could build a new research institute on the spot.

And since the entire process is also controlled by Chen Ming under the surveillance equipment, and now the research institute is isolated from external signals, no evidence will be left behind.

Besides, Chen Ming is just marking it now, which doesn’t mean he will take the things away now, so it will not have any impact at all.

To the extent that Chen Ming wanted to just give away the most valuable Qi Ling Nerve Extractor underground.

This is achieved by relying on his [Transformation] ability, which is the only way to transform that does not require him to completely master the relevant transformation technology.

When Chen Ming's modification ability is to only replace parts, and Chen Ming happens to have the actual parts to be replaced.

As for the modification ability, Chen Ming only needs to know which parts to replace to carry out the modification, without having to understand the more complicated internal technologies.

The same situation applies if we expand the concept of components to equipment.

Chen Ming can directly treat the existing spiritual awakening neural extractor as part of the ship's equipment and directly modify it to any of his spaceships with spare space.

Moreover, his psychic power is ineffective against any living thing. When transporting supplies, it will only take away the effective part.

So he doesn't have to worry that his psychic power will cause those "things" underground to spread.

But Chen Ming thought about it and decided not to do so.

Because it is not certain whether the underground monitoring equipment is still working.

Before the last day of Chen Ming's plan arrives, it is better to keep this critical ability that does not require spacecraft control equipment secret.

Let’s put the equipment issue aside for now.

He only has one life, but Yuhui definitely found more than one device from the ruins of another civilization.

Chen Ming quickly sorted out the thoughts in his mind and left the institute without any reluctance.

Including the time spent touching the equipment and running away, it took less than two minutes in total.

It can only be said that the security and monitoring systems of the institute are basically a complete set. If one place has been touched by Chen Ming, it is equivalent to the entire system being marked by Chen Ming, which is very convenient.

However, in just these two minutes, Chen Ming's sense of danger and panic became more and more intense.

He didn't dare to stay any longer and quickened his movements, putting on a set of protective clothing while running towards the dome door outside the institute.

At the same time, he also replaced the Buffalo-class with a military weapon he randomly picked from his own reserves.

With the Buffalo's spacecraft power grid almost overloaded, they barely managed to blow open the dome door that had no afterglow control and protection.

In the fierce air current, the Buffalo class took Chen Ming onto the spacecraft.

The spacecraft took off instantly, taking Chen Ming completely away from the research institute.

As the vibration of the ground disappeared and the heartbeat in his ears stopped, Chen Ming's chest tightness was instantly relieved to a considerable extent.

Now, the only thing left was the psychic energy fluctuation that gave him complicated feelings and still appeared periodically.

However, if it was just a fluctuation of psychic energy, it would be nothing for Chen Ming, who had been exposed to extreme psychic energy pulses such as the Liar Stone for a long time.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking about where the Buffalo class should go next.

He suddenly saw an engineering ship approaching in the distant sky with afterglow.

However, this engineering ship had no intention of attacking Chen Ming. It seemed that it just wanted to land at the research institute.

Chen Ming tried to send a communication request, but the psychic energy fluctuations near the research institute still interfered with the communication signal, and the range of interference was still very large.

There is no way to get in touch at all.

Moreover, the flight trajectory of this spacecraft is quite fixed and rigid. It should be relying on the automatic driving system inside the spacecraft. There is probably no point in contacting it.

I don’t know what the point of landing a spaceship that should have been lost to Yu Hui is.

And just when the engineering ship approached the research institute to a certain distance.

Suddenly, an electromagnetic pulse accompanied by a surge in psychic energy swept across the perimeter of the institute.

The Buffalo-class ship that Chen Ming was driving and the engineering ship he had just seen were both affected by the electromagnetic pulse.

Fortunately, Chen Ming reacted very quickly and repaired the damage to the Buffalo-class spacecraft in an instant. The spacecraft shook twice in the sky and then returned to normal.

But that engineering ship obviously did not receive such treatment.

Under the influence of the electromagnetic pulse, sparks burst out from all parts of the spacecraft, the engine also shut down, and it crashed directly next to the research institute.

Yu Hui’s engineering ship was of good quality, and the height of the ship when it fell was not too high.

Overall, there is no big problem.

Moreover, the direction from which this engineering ship came was exactly the direction of the entrance and exit of the cloning research institute in the basement of the institute that Huihuang had told him before.

So Chen Ming went over and landed next to the engineering ship.

After confirming that there was no danger around, Chen Ming quickly got off the spaceship.

Before he felt the heartbeat and vibration causing chest tightness, he quickly contacted the engineering ship and then immediately returned to the Buffalo class.

The Buffalo-class ship took off again, and Chen Ming relaxed a little and looked at the situation of the engineering ship.

Just as he thought, there was no afterglow individual on the spacecraft, it was simply operating according to the set navigation plan.

And in the spacecraft's computer, Chen Ming found the only document.

It looks like this document is for him.

After all, Yu Hui knew his abilities and knew that he would definitely be able to get in touch with the spaceship.

As long as he has access to the spacecraft, he will definitely be able to see the documents.

As for the content of this document.

Basically just a bunch of bullshit.

He didn't explain the most crucial thing at all, which was what happened underground in the research institute. It was not as much as what Huihuang told him.

In short, what Yuhui meant was that the research institute is now in danger, but they currently have no way to investigate and rescue the area that is disturbed by the powerful psychic fluctuations.

Chen Ming can only find a way to withdraw himself.

Chen Ming knew that high-intensity psychic energy fluctuations would have an impact on Yuhui, causing redundant data to appear in their logic modules, and ultimately leading to Yuhui's death.

Therefore, Yu Hui had no way to rescue him and could only let him run away on his own. This situation was within his expectations.

What made Chen Ming feel a little uncomfortable was that the prison guards asked the prisoners to run to a safe place on their own.

In short, the retreat is inevitable. Chen Ming will not do something suicidal for no reason.

Continuing to stay at the institute would obviously be a suicidal act.

But having said that.

Chen Ming now wants to find out what exactly happened underground in the research institute.

Especially since he himself was the source of this incident, he wanted to find out the whole story even more.

Add to that the deformed heart that fell from his clone, and the psychic fluctuations that exuded a mixture of danger and closeness.

All of these are attracting Chen Ming to understand and deal with this matter.

And if Chen Ming continued to fly a little further in the direction from which the crashed engineering ship came.

You will definitely see the entrance and exit of the cloning research institute first, and then go outside to the place that cannot be affected by interference from the underground of the institute.

So no matter how you look at it, his subsequent actions will not bypass the Cloning Institute, and he will definitely witness the situation at the Cloning Institute with his own eyes.

Since that's the case, Chen Ming just went along with it.

He just took the spaceship that was delivered to his door.

After being quickly repaired through capabilities, the engineering ship took off again and caught up with the Buffalo class.

Before the second wave of electromagnetic pulses arrived underground in the research institute, it flew out of the area around the research institute and headed towards Chen Ming's target.

However, surprisingly, before Chen Ming saw the entrance and exit of the underground cloning research institute, the communication interference had disappeared.

These psychic fluctuations that interfered with communication signals seemed to exist only underground in the institute and did not affect the area near the entrance and exit of the institute.

Meanwhile, Chen Ming had just discovered that the communication signal had returned to normal, and brilliant communication was coming through.

It asked in a businesslike manner: "Mr. Chen Ming, how are you now?"

Chen Ming thought about it for a moment, and then said sarcastically: "If you think it's good that I was woken up by something you guys made before dawn, then it's good."

“…”

Huihuang knew that Chen Ming was not targeting him, so he was very patient and tried to appease Chen Ming.

Of course, privately it was still reporting to Chen Ming in real time the information that they had obtained from Yu Hui's investigation.

But it only took a few minutes, and what Huihuang knew was no different from before.

The most we know is that their top management has already arranged follow-up plans to investigate and deal with the cloning institute.

So Chen Ming took advantage of this time and quickly speeded up.

On the surface, he was trying to get away from the research institute as quickly as possible, but in fact he was trying to find the entrance and exit of the cloning research institute in order to prevent Yu Hui from running around once the communication was restored.

But there’s actually no need to look for Chen Ming.

Because he had just flown out for a short while, he had already seen a mass of extremely bright blood-red biological tissue suddenly appearing on the gray, uneven ground.

Although this mass of flesh and blood does not have any spiritual energy fluctuations, its current location and its sudden appearance here both indicate its specialness.

Then, underneath this huge mass of biological tissue, there is most likely a passage leading to the research institute.

When seeing this mass of flesh and blood.

Chen Ming took a few photos of it and at the same time completely confirmed the idea in his mind.

As expected, there was a problem with Yu Hui's cloning experiment on him, and it was most likely caused by the psychic-distorted flesh and blood tissue in the video that Hui Huang showed him a few days ago.

Well, since there is no news from the cloning institute now, and Huihuang also said before that G3 was also down there, it is very likely that something has happened.

The loss of an Alpha-class afterglow is a very rare occurrence in a non-large-scale battle.

Although G3 does still have the possibility of survival.

However, Chen Ming looked at the mass of flesh and blood tissue that had squeezed out of the underground passage on the ground not far away and was still growing, completely squeezing out the surrounding gray soil, and it seemed to have extremely strong vitality.

Chen Ming felt that there was not much hope.

The surface is so crowded, the situation underground must be even worse.

And it was this scene that made Chen Ming understand why cloning experiments were completely banned within the empire.

Now there is a high probability that Yuhui has lost an Alpha-level Yuhui.

But if it were on the human side, the loss would most likely be a senior research team.

Or even more than one.

Some research institutes may not be separate buildings, but share a building with other different research institutes, which will definitely cause greater harm.

But what exactly happens down there remains a mystery so far.

Just at this moment.

An engineering ship with afterglow appeared in Chen Ming's sight again.

Although this is an engineering ship, it is visible to the naked eye that a weapon is installed on the front side of the ship, and it is aimed directly at the location of the underground cloning laboratory.

After completely locking onto the target, the engineering ship opened fire.

Chen Mingguang could see with his naked eyes that there was a line in the engineering ship's gun barrel connected to the thing it fired.

Using the Buffalo-class sensor, Chen Ming clearly saw what the engineering ship had launched.

It is a steel nail as thick as an arm.

It was nailed straight into the deep ground.

It penetrated through countless soil and rock layers and entered the research institute.

Huihuang explained to Chen Ming appropriately: "It transmits a data beacon anchor point."

“After hitting, it can read the data inside all devices covered by its signal coverage.”

"The wired connection at the tail can help it resist the interference of the psychic fluctuations of the research institute."

“It is usually more valuable in the rescue of underground industrial facilities.”

"It is a test product that was just developed some time ago. I came up with the design idea."

"Currently, all planets in the star field that have underground workplaces have prepared this kind of thing."

Chen Ming said casually: "I guess it was the previous incident at the mining farm that gave you this idea."

"Yes."

Fortunately, Huihuang didn't make this thing before, otherwise if Yuhui came up at that time, he would have brought such a thing into his collapsed mining site.

Then Chen Ming's ability would be exposed in advance and all the plans would fail.

But this thing also has its disadvantages, because it is forcefully shot deep into the ground.

This means it is likely to cause damage wherever it hits.

If it is just for rescue, something that may cause secondary damage will generally not be used.

There must be more optimized products to be launched.

The reason why they are taking out something that is only in the testing phase now is probably because the current situation is very wrong, and Yu Hui urgently needs something like this to help them obtain information.

But Chen Ming felt that this thing seemed to have some potential for use as a weapon, and he could talk to Huihuang about it later.

Of course, now is not the time.

After the engineering ship fired the beacon into the research institute, it began to read data from various devices underground in the research institute.

And sent this data directly to the second responsible individual of the current research institute, namely Huihuang.

However, this process soon ended because the beacon was suddenly destroyed by something in the research institute.

But fortunately, the results of the investigation have already been obtained.

Huihuang also showed all those data files to Chen Ming.

It started with G3 cultivating a second deformed heart, then the hearts of other clones broke out of their bodies, and then the hearts of corpses began to show signs of life.

And the flesh and blood tissue that appeared in the room where G3 was finally installed connected the whole thing completely.

The situation is already clear.

An accident occurred during the experiment, and all of Yu Hui's stored clones became the breeding ground for these psychic creatures formed from deformed human hearts.

Chen Ming now understands better why the Empire has banned cloning experiments so strictly.

If this situation really happens, it is definitely not a problem of one scientific research building.

It's a problem for the entire research park, the entire city, or even the entire planet.

If the person dealing with this matter is slow to respond, the planet may be completely destroyed.

Moreover, these things are psychic creatures. Although it can be seen from the fact that G3 easily killed several of them with fire before, their individuals are relatively fragile.

But once the number increases or there are no targeted measures, it will be very terrifying.

Moreover, the number of psychics has always been relatively small, so it is impossible to take care of every place.

It is normal to not have enough time to deal with these cloned psychic creatures.

I'm afraid similar things have happened within the empire before.

And the final loss must be unacceptable.

As for what happened specifically during the period when the human empire was conducting cloning experiments, and whether it was the same as what Yu Hui was experiencing now, these two questions have not been answered for the time being.

But Chen Ming has already sent the photos he just took to his boss by modifying the storage module. If the boss knows about this, there should be a result soon.

As for now, Chen Ming asked Huihuang; "So what are you going to do?"

(End of this chapter)