Chen Ming had no way of answering his boss's question. He could only answer vaguely based on his own feelings: "I'm not sure either."

"Just when I was about to stay away from that big heart, I suddenly sensed the ship spirit, and then this word popped up in my mind automatically."

"I only know that the ship spirit is symbiotic with me and was born from my psychic energy."

The boss thought silently for a while, and finally chose to believe Chen Ming's words.

He had already witnessed Chen Ming's talent in psychic powers.

So even though Chen Ming had not received systematic training and had never seen a ship spirit, he did not know of the existence of ship spirits.

After coming into contact with the ship spirit, it is discovered that the ship spirit is born from psychic energy, and it is very normal to find that it can coexist with psychics.

"Then let me give you a brief account."

"The ship spirit can be considered as another life for the psychic, and it is an existence that no one can take away."

"As you know, the ship spirit and the psyker are symbiotic, so it will instinctively protect the psyker."

"Since your ship spirit is not on the ship but on you, that means your ship is gone, right?"

"Your ship spirit should have done something."

Chen Ming's mind flashed back to the previous scene, and he responded, "Yes, my ship was lost in the previous operation of the 14th Legion, and it was indeed protecting me."

The boss nodded habitually and continued, "But the value of the ship spirit is more than that. It is also good in assisting ship control and enhancing the ship's AI."

"And it can also allow your spaceship to reflect the characteristics of your psychic power, which is the most critical point."

"Enhance AI? Embody traits?"

"That's right."

"I think it's easy to understand the concept of enhanced AI."

"Most ships above cruiser level are equipped with at least Delta-class AI, with the exception of Tachyon Technology's Storm-class."

"The reason why the ship spirit is called a ship spirit is not only because it comes from psychics, but also because of its spirituality."

"The ship spirit is a psychic creature. It has its own consciousness."

"Although the consciousness of the ship spirit is relatively simple, it is enough to make up for the lack of personality in the Delta-class AI core."

"As long as the ship spirits with simple consciousness can cooperate with the psychic and adjust the computing power of the rigid AI core according to the psychic's wishes, the effect will be very good."

"Moreover, the ship spirits and psykers are symbiotic, and there will never be a risk of the ship spirits betraying us."

"Of course, this effect is not important to you."

The boss was aware of the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power. No matter how well the ship spirit cooperated with the psychic himself, it could never be as comfortable as the psychic personally controlling a warship.

So the boss just talked about this casually and then answered Chen Ming's other question.

"As for the concept of embodying traits, it's quite complicated to explain in detail. Let me give you an example."

"Suppose there is a psychic who can control fire. If he possesses a ship spirit, and the ship spirit attaches itself to his spaceship, then the spaceship will exhibit the characteristics of fire in many aspects."

"Basically fire-related, such as improved engine efficiency, weapons with built-in flames, and spacecraft shields will also have similar effects."

"I just made this up. He's a fire-type psychic with relatively simple psychic effects."

"If it is another type of psychic with more complex abilities, the effects of the traits will be very different."

The boss couldn't help but imagine the future when he said this, "I am also very curious about what effect your ship spirit can have on your ship."

"Remember to let the ship spirit board in your new ship. The Highest Point should be very good with your ship spirit."

"wrong."

The boss suddenly realized the problem and said, "Didn't I just talk to you about the cloning experiment? I got off topic."

"I have already looked up information about the period of the cloning ban. I had some impression of these things, and after looking up the information, I basically remembered everything."

The boss sent a few documents to Chen Ming on the terminal and said to him, "The first cloning experiment that went wrong was a long time ago."

"I'm afraid you don't understand, so I'll tell you a premise that will make it easier for you to understand."

"Everything has a soul, but clones don't, because clones are beings without consciousness."

"But clones exist in the universe just like other living things, and anything that is alive can potentially acquire psionic energy. Humans will become psionicists, and other creatures will become psionic creatures."

"And the clones have the potential to be psykers, rather than psykers."

While Chen Ming was dealing with the flesh and blood in the passage in front of him, he also took the time to look through several documents given by his boss that seemed to be not confidential enough and could be taken out at will, while at the same time he had to listen to his boss's story.

Even though Chen Ming was doing three things at once, when the boss talked about this part, he still subconsciously asked, "What about the vegetative patients?"

"A vegetative patient also has consciousness, but it is very weak and cannot support the body to wake up."

"Clones are completely different. They skip the normal life development stage and lack consciousness. Unless clones are just cloned genes to obtain embryos, and then reproduce through normal means, then there is no problem."

"Otherwise, it's just a mass of dead flesh, something without consciousness."

There was some disgust in the boss' tone when he spoke of clones.

"In short, if an unconscious being possesses rare spiritual power, it is like a piece of fat meat hanging on the roadside, which will attract some dirty things hidden in some corners."

"Something that you can understand as being similar to hyperspace, but something that we humans cannot enter."

"These things are a bit like the hyperspace spirits that a spaceship occasionally encounters when traveling in hyperspace."

"We have not yet been able to investigate the specific appearance of this kind of hyperspace spirit. At most, it will occasionally surround the hyperspace spacecraft and release interference waves to affect the efficiency of the engine."

"The Hollow Spirits are not dangerous to humans. At most, they are a headache. The ship can drive them away by releasing a blocking pulse."

"But the things in that space that unconscious clones would attract are not even on the same level of danger as living in hyperspace."

The boss gave a general introduction of the situation and began to explain to Chen Ming what had happened.

"According to the records."

"The first time the problem occurred in the cloning laboratory, the affected part of the clone's body was the eyes."

"And this effect is called dimensional infection."

Chen Ming interrupted and asked, "Infection? Isn't it parasitic? I thought it was something that escaped from that space."

"They are not parasites. They definitely cannot come out of their space at the moment. They can only influence us here by following the traces of spiritual energy."

"In fact, ordinary psionic creatures and psykers can also sense them, but any normal creature will instinctively resist when sensing them. Only clones will be unable to react."

"The affected clones will have distorted consciousness caused by those things in their body parts, becoming one life."

"At that time, the situation shown in the photo you sent over was almost the same."

"The eyes have the same deformity as yours... my heart, right? But the situation is more serious."

"The spread of this distortion is extremely terrifying. Ordinary people have absolutely no resistance and will be affected if they get close to it."

"All affected people's eyes will become separate, living entities."

Chen Ming put his hand on his chest and asked, "My chest also feels stuffy when I get close to the deformed heart. Is it spreading?"

"Yes, but you are a psychic, so you are naturally resistant to this kind of thing."

"But if it were an ordinary person, by the time they felt chest tightness, their heart would have already become distorted and jumped out."

"It was like this before. After the living eyeballs left the body, they scattered in all directions, affecting a very wide area."

"Whether dead or alive, anything with eyes will be affected."

"But can you imagine a habitable planet becoming full of flying eyeballs? Or the entire planet becoming part of the eye? Or even more."

"Just imagine the consequences of a dimensional infection breaking out in a prosperous star field. How many people and things would perish at that time, and the destruction caused would be unprecedented."

"We have been fighting Yu Hui for so many years, so we have a high tolerance for losses."

"But the Empire still banned all cloning experiments. You can see how terrible the negative impact is."

"Until the end, we only managed to successfully deal with the dimensional infection, and then blocked the news and banned cloning research."

Chen Ming asked curiously, "How did you deal with the dimensional infection in the end?"

"A psyker banished these things."

"exile?"

"You can think of it as driving them out of our universe and throwing all the infected things back to the dimension they came from."

"Yeah, probably."

The boss sounded a little uncertain when he said this, and it seemed that he was not very clear about the specific solution and situation.

But just the part that was said was exaggerated enough.

The boss's words clearly implied that at least one prosperous galaxy in the human empire had been infected by a dimension, and this galaxy, filled with distorted psychic creatures, had been thrown back by a psychic.

Chen Ming had no idea how powerful this psychic was.

However, at this moment, in addition to focusing on the psychic that his boss mentioned, Chen Ming was also thinking about another thing.

Chen Ming now understood the situation around him.

Fortunately, there is no one here at Yuhui, only a group of clones at most.

Therefore, the damage caused by this cloning experiment was ultimately limited to the small area of ​​the cloning research institute.

Then, humans should be able to use this method as well.

Find a few galaxies in the edge star fields that are poor in resources and far away from the prosperous star fields, and build a cloning research institute there.

With superluminal communication technology, we can remotely arrange robots and equipment for control. If problems arise, we can simply block the galaxy and find a way to deal with it remotely.

If the planet cannot handle it, it can certainly handle small satellites. It is certainly not difficult to build some research institutes on the satellites.

So why doesn't the Empire do this?

Chen Ming knew that there must be a reason why the Empire did not do this, so he asked the question directly.

The boss responded quickly: "In fact, there was no cloning ban when we just dealt with the dimensional infection. The ban was issued about half a year later than this incident."

"Because after dealing with the dimensional infection, the Empire did have ideas similar to yours."

"However, all subsequent cloning experiments were affected, and all clones were deformed."

"After the dimensional infection was dealt with, the subsequent deformations were only deformations of the clone's body, and had no psychic impact, so the harm caused was relatively small."

"Guess why?"

Chen Ming's answer to this matter that he had no idea about was: "I don't know."

The boss obviously didn't expect Chen Ming to guess correctly. Before Chen Ming finished speaking, he said, "We believe that the things that caused the dimensional infection have roughly located the empire's position in the universe through the dimensional infection."

"So they can continue to exert influence on the entire empire. All unconscious clones will suffer. Fortunately, clones with psychic powers are a low-probability event after all, and are generally within the scope of what can be handled."

"But in addition to their effects on clones, their influence also affects the Empire's newborns on a large scale."

"Many newborn babies and even embryos have deformities."

"They are too fragile. Even if they have a complete consciousness, they will inevitably be affected by such a terrifying thing if they face it for a long time."

Chen Ming immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, and at the same time he suddenly understood what consequences Yu Hui's actions would have on them.

Chen Ming was about to ask how this sequelae was resolved, but the boss told him what he wanted to ask: "It was not until fifteen years after the incident that the position between our two spaces deviated as time passed."

"In another dimension, they lost their position in the empire, and the situation gradually eased."

"It is this fear of completely cutting off the future of humanity that leads to the existence of the ban."

"With Yuhui causing so much trouble now, we're afraid that there will be another large-scale decrease in the number of newborns."

"I will report this matter to my friends later. I don't know what will happen next."

"But we will definitely take big actions against Yuhui, which will never change. Otherwise, if Yuhui takes advantage of this, our demise will happen within a few generations."

"Your abilities have a more solid foundation with the afterglow, so you'd better take action as soon as possible."

Chen Ming tried his best to quickly digest this information that normal people would never be able to access in their lifetime. At the same time, he couldn't help but ask, "Are all the recorded documents written in such detail?"

The boss casually said, "Because now, in addition to talking to you, I am also talking to other people who know about this matter. It is always good to know more people."

"Uh...wait."

The boss suddenly thought of something and asked Chen Ming nervously, "Are you sure that Yu Hui cloned you?"

"right."

"That's a bit troublesome."

"According to subsequent investigation records, the consequences of the dimensional infection are spread throughout the empire."

"But the psychic who provided the genes for the clones at the beginning ran into some troubles later on."

"Those things might target you as the gene provider."

"There's nothing we can do about it. Your genes will definitely not be preserved when you get to Yu Hui's place. You can't stop Yu Hui from using your genes to commit suicide."

"But now that you know this, it's best not to go directly to the outer star regions when you leave Yu Hui. It's best to come back and I'll take you to see someone."

"who?"

"The person who threw the eyeballs into other dimensions is the president of our Psychic Society."

"good."

Chen Ming was very curious about the boss who took the lead in organizing such a force that obviously held a very important position.

But there are some things he still wants to say: "But I feel fine at the moment, there is no problem."

"Yeah, that's what the psychic thought at the time."

"Um...what happened next? Did he die?"

"Not really. He's still chatting with me now, and you can see him if you come back."

Chen Ming asked with some surprise and uncertainty: "President?"

"right."

Many thoughts flashed through Chen Ming's mind at once.

But before he could say anything, he was interrupted by an unexpected situation around him.

Just as he was chatting with his boss, he had unknowingly arrived at the door of the cloning laboratory.

And here, there was "something" waiting for him.

A "person" who is like a mannequin.

It has no skin on its body, and if you look closely you will find that all its muscle tissue is forcibly squeezed from cardiac muscle tissue.

Even the eyes were just a ball of flesh forced in there.

Chen Ming once again felt the tightness in his chest and that obviously distorted sense of "closeness".

But what really made Chen Ming feel dangerous was the research institute behind it.

Chen Ming took a photo and sent it to his boss, saying, "Boss, I have something wrong here. I'll talk to you later."

He needs to concentrate on solving the problem in front of him first.

Chen Ming stopped.

He could feel the excitement, excitement and greed of the boat spirit in his mind, as well as the nervousness of Xiaoshi beside him.

However, Xiaoshi had shown the potential for psychic powers before, and the time it had spent in contact with Chen Ming's Liar Stone and Whispering Stone was almost the same as Chen Ming's, and it even had a large amount of fairy tree tea as a tonic.

Besides, when Chen Ming felt chest tightness before, Xiao Shi was not sleeping soundly, which also showed that Xiao Shi was special.

Therefore, Xiao Shi itself can actually be considered a psychic creature, but the specific effects of its psychic power are still unclear.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would not have been able to bring it down.

Now Xiaoshi can easily beat a normal adult male, and its nervousness is more instinctive.

Chen Ming tilted his head and rubbed the stone to comfort it.

He immediately kept his distance and activated the micro sensor he had modified on his power armor.

Similar to the sensors on a spacecraft, it can simply scan something.

And inside the deformed flesh and blood in front of Chen Ming.

He saw an Alpha-class core connected by flesh and blood, and the two spiritual stones he had lost.

The deformed flesh seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly opened its mouth, saying in an unclear voice: "You..."

However, Chen Ming did not dwell on why G3's core and his spirit stone were in this creature's body, nor did he give it any chance to talk nonsense.

When it uttered the first word, the flamethrower raised by Chen Ming had already spit out a fire snake in front of it.

The red flames instantly wrapped around the deformed flesh and blood, but the effect was not very obvious.

Because there was a spiritual energy fluctuation entwined in the deformed flesh and blood.

Although the words of the Distorted Flesh were suppressed by the flamethrower, it actually took a step forward in the flames.

A protective type of psychic power?

This thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and he suddenly frowned and covered his chest.

The ship spirit in his brain seemed to sense something, and took the initiative to leave the brain and go to the heart, protecting Chen Ming from the pressure exerted by the deformed flesh and blood face to face.

This means that Chen Ming doesn’t need to devote a large amount of mental energy to protecting himself.

After feeling that the chest tightness had eased a little, Chen Ming released his hands that were covering his chest and waved them slightly behind him.

At this moment, the deformed flesh and blood that seemed to have gained the upper hand opened its mouth: "No..."

It had just uttered one word when it was suddenly knocked to the ground by a robot that swooped down from behind Chen Ming.

Of course, the robot was also made by Chen Ming on the spot.

Originally, Chen Ming wanted to install some explosives and deformed flesh on it to make it explode, but after thinking about it, he realized that he would not get any good results if he exploded it underground.

So just installed some chainsaw blades and stuff like that.

Four mechanical arms equipped with saw blades swung at the fallen deformed flesh and blood body.

In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the two arms with deformed flesh were removed in an instant.

But in the next moment, a sudden electromagnetic pulse swept across the passage in front of the institute.

This is also the spiritual power of deformed flesh and blood.

However, Chen Ming's robot shook slightly, as if an electromagnetic pulse of such intensity was just a disturbance to it and did not completely paralyze it.

The power armor Chen Ming was wearing was the same.

This is because Chen Ming has just learned something new recently.

Some of what I got from Baiquan was considered a deposit, and was used for military technology to defend against electromagnetic pulses.

The military, whether it is the 14th Legion or the military in various star fields and star regions, their spacecraft shields are very poor.

Therefore, in many battles, they would choose to turn off the shield and use the spacecraft's armor to withstand the damage from weapons.

But armor cannot withstand things like electromagnetic pulses.

Therefore, the 14th Legion's technology in this area is very strong.

What Chen Ming got from Bai Quan was the most advanced anti-electromagnetic interference technology.

In the past, Chen Ming suffered from lack of education, skills and money. The equipment used in his spacecraft did not have the relevant technology.

It's different now.

With technology, we can always find a way to deal with this kind of problem.

Chen Ming did not lose his composure because of the physical and psychological effects, and in a blink of an eye he suppressed the deformed flesh and blood again.

The robot cut the distorted flesh into sticks in an instant.

But when the distorted flesh and blood saw that the situation was not right, violent arcs of electricity visible to the naked eye flashed on his body.

The terrifying power brought by high pressure cannot be withstand by the robot Chen Ming casually made.

In the blink of an eye, the robot fell to the ground with black smoke coming out.

(End of this chapter)