I never expected that Chen Ming could fly.

He didn't expect that Chen Ming could locate his position so quickly in the chaos outside.

As the dull hammering sound that Chen Ming was very familiar with rang out, one of the assassin's calves was separated from his body.

The blood spurting from the severed limbs extended several meters behind the assassin who fell forward due to inertia.

After breaking the assassin's leg, the electromagnetic javelin bullet continued to embed deeply into the underground of the space station city.

Although the space station was originally designed to support the construction of a city, the strength and supporting capacity of the ground are quite strong.

However, the ultra-high penetration performance of the electromagnetic javelin modified by Chen Ming still allowed the projectile to easily penetrate into the ground.

It would take some effort to dig it out.

At this moment, the assassin who fell to the ground with a broken leg did not give up struggling. He picked up the pistol with one hand and tried to support his body with the other hand.

But in the next moment, the gun in his hand and his palm were completely smashed with another hammer blow.

The assassin's face was full of pain, but he still managed to straighten his upper body with the help of the elbow of his broken arm, and his other intact hand still wanted to reach towards his waist.

But Chen Ming would never give him any chance to resist.

The electromagnetic javelin's bullet once again shattered his remaining palm.

This time, the violent impact even pulled his arm and swung him around on the spot, causing him to fall face up on the ground instead of lying prone.

Blood was splattered all around the assassin, and he completely lost the ability to resist.

In his eyes, the only person left at this moment was Chen Ming flying in the sky.

There was also the electromagnetic javelin in Chen Ming's hand locked on him.

His last thought before he passed out was regret.

At this time, the bar's security guard, led by Glasses, finally drove to the scene according to Chen Ming's instructions.

They successfully subdued the assassin before he lost too much blood, bandaged him and stopped the bleeding, preventing him from dying.

However, the chaos caused by the gunshot just now has not ended yet.

After all, less than two minutes passed from the time the gunshots rang out until the assassin was dealt with by Chen Ming.

People from the space station administration didn't have time to arrive yet.

Moreover, the current chaos is not only caused by the assassin's shooting at the beginning, but also has something to do with Chen Ming.

After the gunshots rang out, many people saw Chen Ming wearing an obvious combat power armor and flying arrogantly in the no-fly zone of the space station.

He even used a weapon to cut a man into a stick.

This doesn't look like the chaos will be quelled quickly.

However, as the assassin fell unconscious, the gunfire subsided.

There are still quite a few brave people gathering towards the place where the accident happened.

After all, he is a person living on a pirate space station. Even if he is not a pirate, he is much braver than people in decent places when facing such things.

Moreover, several bar security guards wearing glasses were providing emergency medical measures to the assassin. They did not look like they were going to kill anyone, which made the onlookers even bolder.

I could vaguely hear people who had been drinking at the bar earlier spreading the news of what they had just seen.

Chen Ming, who was flying in the air, naturally became the main subject of discussion among the crowd.

Chen Ming also knew that he could not continue to attract attention in the sky, so he slowed down the output power of the jet pack and slowly landed around the people wearing glasses.

Seeing this, Glasses quickly stood up from beside the assassin, bowed slightly to Chen Ming and said, "Mr. Chen Ming, how do you deal with this person?"

After all, the assassin was obviously planning to assassinate Chen Ming, so he must have asked Chen Ming's opinion.

"Just hand it over to Boss Wu."

Chen Ming is not good at interrogation, so it is better to leave this matter to reliable people.

Relying on Chen Ming's power armor and the electromagnetic javelin in his hand, which is enough to serve as a small weapon on a ship.

The men with glasses quickly took the assassin and squeezed through the crowd outside, carrying the man to the bar's car.

But there was no time to leave.

A medium-sized shuttle with the Administration logo on it had already landed nearby.

Following it, a red and white medical shuttle with sirens flashing also landed nearby.

Because Chen Ming had informed the factory director and the boss in advance, people from the administration arrived at the scene about four minutes after the incident broke out.

That’s fast enough.

A team of guards wearing better equipment than before quickly came down from the medium-sized shuttle.

Several members of the guard team approached immediately.

They quickly drove away the crowd and set up a blockade, just like when Yu Hui deliberately released a ship to carry out a terrorist attack and caused the dock to be blocked.

Only Chen Ming and Yan Jing were left, and they felt uncomfortable so they just left.

A man who was probably the captain of this team came forward and asked Chen Ming, who was wearing power armor, "Is this Mr. Chen Ming?"

"It's me."

After Chen Ming admitted it, the captain said again: "The deputy director asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."

"We will help you block the news of this incident. Fortunately, it happened in this neighborhood and didn't spread out in time. It shouldn't cause too much impact. But please keep this matter confidential."

"Okay, thank him for me."

The captain pointed to the medical shuttle next to him and asked, "Do you need medical assistance?"

Chen Ming said without even turning his head to check on the assassin's condition: "Yes."

The captain greeted the doctor on the medical shuttle, then saluted Chen Ming and turned around to take his team members to deal with other matters.

They also need to confirm the assassin's circumstances along the way and everything that happened at the bar at the beginning.

Take a comprehensive look at the entire incident, write a report and submit it.

Then modify the report into a suitable form according to the arrangements made by the superiors.

After receiving the captain's signal, several doctors and nurses dragged the assassin onto their medical shuttle and urgently treated the assassin's injuries.

Broken hands and a leg are not minor injuries and cannot be treated without professional medical equipment.

The casual treatment that Yan Jing and the others had just given only stopped the assassin's bleeding temporarily. Without follow-up treatment, the assassin could die at any time.

Fortunately, the skills of the administration's own doctors were relatively reliable, and there were professional equipment on the shuttle, so the man was quickly rescued from the brink of death.

But what awaits him may be something more terrifying than death.

The captain then confirmed with Chen Ming whether he needed any other help, and after confirming that he did not need any, he let Chen Ming go.

Only one security guard who followed them out was left behind to work with the manager who remained at the bar to handle the matter.

I have to say that if you have connections with the higher-ups, it’s really comfortable to do a lot of things.

If Chen Ming didn't have these connections, then he wouldn't be able to take the assassin away safely, and he might have to go to the bureau with the people from the administration.

Fortunately, the hypothetical situation did not happen.

Chen Ming can still take the assassin, who has escaped from life-threatening danger thanks to the powerful medical technology of this era, into Glasses' car.

Together with a few security guards, I went to the boss's place.

When Chen Ming got in the car, he dismantled his power armor and sat in the passenger seat in casual clothes.

The driver, Glasses, kept peeking at Chen Ming through his peripheral vision and the rearview mirror next to him, but Chen Ming didn't care.

He just touched his forehead, where the bullet had just hit him.

There is not even a red mark left here.

His long-term training of psychic powers was meaningful after all.

In the beginning, he only mastered the abilities of [Repair] and [Renovation], but now he can skillfully use the ability of [Manufacturing] at will.

He is no longer the powerless little jerk he once was.

Of course, it was also because of the spiritual awakening nerve he absorbed.

But this is also the opportunity that Chen Ming found by relying on everything he has.

This sudden assassination was just a small episode for him now.

An hour later.

Chen Ming sat in his boss' hardware store, looking at the new star-level blueprint displayed on the terminal in his hand.

He was thinking about how to realize the value of this blueprint.

At this moment, the boss suddenly came out of the room inside the hardware store and said to Chen Ming: "The results are out."

"It is indeed the subordinates of those people in the war zone who have a grudge against you. However, it was not a premeditated assassination. It was just something the people in the war zone did privately."

"This guy is a spy. He has his own job, but he didn't need to go to work today, so he just found a place to kill time, and then he noticed you."

"Your name is still very noticeable in the war zone."

"And it seems that they have a bounty on you."

"So when this person saw your head, he couldn't help himself and wanted to take action directly."

"That's how it ended."

Chen Ming turned off the terminal in his hand and asked, "Is it an accident?"

The boss nodded and said, "It was just an accident."

"Then how should this matter be handled?"

"How else can we deal with it? Besides him having to die, there are many other people who have to go with him."

Chen Ming didn't quite understand and asked, "What do you mean?"

"What this means is that the people in the war zone have taken the initiative to expose all the people on the line related to him, so basically everyone on this line has to die."

"The war zone took the initiative to do this, so even if this incident is not an accident, it can only be an accident."

Chen Ming was even more confused after hearing this and asked, "Why do you say that? And don't they want me dead? Why would they be willing to lose so many people when the assassination failed? And they haven't made any contribution yet?"

"Because they took action where they shouldn't have."

The boss looked at Chen Ming, patted his chest and said, "You are now my protected person. If you go out, it will be your life or death."

"But if you are on my territory, no one can move. If you dare to move, you must pay the price. It's not just a matter of losing your life."

"Just like now, you are alive, and you have captured the person who assassinated you, and I have interrogated him and got the result, and it is on my territory."

"The people who did this will have to pay the price. If they don't pay, I will go and ask them for it myself."

"But my only territory on the space station is this hardware store and that bar. Oh, and half of the repair shop, so this guy is just unlucky."

The boss seemed to be lost in thought. After a while, he added, "There is another reason. You are actually very special now."

"Someone special?"

"Baiquan is a special person, because he is an imperial major general, and a very special imperial major general."

Chen Ming nodded slightly. He had just learned from the factory director what was special about Bai Quan.

"Do you know how many people died when Baiquan was accidentally injured during the chaos in the 14th Legion some time ago?"

"Just a reminder, there were only five people with Baiquan on the spaceship where he had the accident."

Chen Ming thought about it for a moment and said, "I guess there are fifty."

"One hundred and thirty-two. All those involved in this matter need to bear this responsibility for their commander who was killed by Baiquan."

Although he had already made an estimate in advance, Chen Ming still felt that the number was a bit outrageous when he heard it.

Because these are not civilians outside, but people who definitely hold military positions within the 14th Legion.

“Human life is really worthless.”

“It’s worthless.”

The boss agreed with Chen Ming's words very much, and then said: "And now you are also a special person."

"Is that so? Is that second generation also a special person? "He is nothing. He is just an excuse for his family to force him to do something for their own benefit."

"Those who died because of him were either idiots who participated in it, or poor souls who were trapped in it and couldn't escape."

"That second generation can only be regarded as a pitiful ghost."

The boss suddenly changed the subject and said, "But you or Baiquan are different."

"If you have problems, you don't need to seek revenge yourself."

"As long as you show a little interest, someone will help you do what you should do."

"Like this matter now, even if I don't deal with it, there will be others who will help you make the people over there pay the price."

Chen Ming asked again: "Why is this?"

"Because some people in the empire already know you, and your abilities are of great value and significance to the empire."

"Some people will help you for their own benefit, but others will help you for the sake of the entire human race's victory in the war with Yu Hui."

"If I don't do this, someone else will do it, so I will definitely do it myself."

"There's just one thing you have to pay attention to."

"If you want to enjoy the help given to you by others, you will have to pay a price in the future"

"The people I just mentioned may just want you to make money for them, but for the people behind you, you may have something to do."

Chen Ming nodded in understanding, looked at the boss and said, "Boss."

"What is it?"

"What will it cost me if you help me?"

The boss paused for a moment, looked at Chen Ming and said, "To be honest, you have actually been paying the price all the time."

"alright."

Before Chen Ming could think about what the boss meant, the boss reached out and patted Chen Ming on the shoulder.

"If one day you really can't make it out there, just let out a howl on the street and I guarantee a bunch of people will give you a lot of benefits and beg you to go to their side."

"But if you have the chance, remember to come to my place."

Chen Ming thought about it seriously and said, "I don't think there will be such a day."

"That would be great."

"Okay, that's about it. It's just a little spy who suddenly had the urge to stir up trouble."

"You said before that you had something else to do, right? Go ahead and do it. I'll tell you if there's anything else later."

Chen Ming responded: "Actually, I planned to come to you after I found Old Wu."

"Like this? Fine, then. Go ahead."

Chen Ming took out his "Ming" and said, "It's about psychic weapons."

"I tried it before, and it really has a good effect on my spiritual power. When using spiritual power, I can clearly feel that the consumption of mental energy is reduced."

"But didn't you say before that you could embed the spirit stone into it?"

The boss quickly understood what Chen Ming meant and said, "I did say that, and then you found that your spirit stone was too big to fit into the gun, right?"

"right."

"This is easy. Just wrap the spirit stone with your mental power and squeeze it."

"Spiritual stones are usually only made of spiritual energy and ordinary stone materials, or some strange materials."

"You use your mental power to compress the spiritual energy inside it, and then wear away the ordinary material outside the stone to achieve the compression effect."

The boss took out his palm-sized gentle spiritual stone and exerted a huge amount of mental power on it in front of Chen Ming.

In the blink of an eye, all the water patterns outside the Gentle Spirit Stone dimmed, and the outer stone layer quickly turned into powder.

The boss blew a breath, revealing the spiritual stone inside which had been compacted to the size of a marble and covered with dense patterns.

“Like this.”

The boss put away the spirit stone and said, "Remember to pay attention to this. The stronger the spirit stone, the more mental power is needed to compress it. If you can't compress it all at once, you can do it in multiple times."

"Also, during the compression process, you will also feel the properties of the spirit stone for a long time. I remember that your stone has a negative effect, right? You have to pay attention to this."

The boss glanced at Chen Ming's pistol and said, "When the spirit stone is affected by the psychic effect of the psychic weapon, the amplification effect of the psychic weapon on you will become stronger due to the amplification of the spirit stone."

"And the effect of the spirit stone itself will also be enhanced by the influence of the psychic weapon. This is a mutual influence."

"The spirit stone can decide whether to affect the enemy or provide a bonus to yourself based on its own properties."

"It would be best if we could find more spiritual stones and then choose the right ones to put on them."

"Generally speaking, I think you are more suitable for spiritual stones that can enhance your own power. Of course, you can choose spiritual stones with negative effects for self-defense. You can decide your weapon yourself."

"Anyway, if there is a better one, it doesn't mean we can't demolish it."

Chen Ming listened silently, and after digesting all the information, he asked, "Does this compression have any negative effects?"

"have."

"What is it?"

"If a spiritual stone that is too small is lost, it will be hard to find it."

“…”

The boss smiled and said, "Just kidding. The compression of the spirit stone has no effect other than consuming some of your mental energy."

"I will definitely tell you in advance if there are any bad consequences, right? I can't do this to my own stone."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "There is another problem. Baiquan registered a psychic census website for me."

The boss waved his hand casually and said, "This website is useless, just register it."

"This website will only be useful if you follow the official path and the government route. Otherwise, just pretend it doesn't exist."

"As long as you don't act against humanity, no one will come after you."

Chen Ming silently crossed out a line on the notepad in his mind, and then said to his boss: "There is one last thing."

"It's the supply of materials you mentioned before, boss. I need to confirm the specific method with you."

Chen Ming had already discussed with his boss the materials that would be needed, and had also said that the method of transportation would depend on himself.

However, if you want him to transport materials in large quantities over long distances, certain conditions must be met.

Chen Ming’s psychic power is not space teleportation.

Although it has a similar effect, it actually uses transformation to transport materials indirectly over long distances in this way.

Therefore, Chen Ming needed some blueprints of some object to which he could attach a large amount of the material to be transported without causing much impact on the properties of the material.

And when transporting materials, Chen Ming needs to concentrate the materials into the mechanical equipment under his control.

In this way he can have an influence on these materials.

For example, the warehouse of the Supreme Point spacecraft, or a warehouse on a pirate space station.

The pirate space station itself is a giant mechanical device, and Chen Ming can naturally control part of it.

Of course, Chen Ming hasn't done this yet. After all, to do so would be tantamount to stealing things and slapping the company in the face at the same time.

Chen Ming had no intention of completely breaking up with the company, so he definitely couldn't do such a thing.

But large-scale material transportation cannot be without the mechanical equipment controlled by him.

It is impossible for a cruiser-class spacecraft to be used specifically for Chen Ming as a material storage point.

So even though most things have been agreed upon in advance, it is still best to ask your boss about such critical questions.

Chen Ming briefly explained the specific situation.

The boss was obviously surprised when he learned that his psychic powers were no longer limited to the spaceship, and seemed very satisfied with Chen Ming's progress.

After thinking about it for a while, he said, "This is easy. My colony can give you several warehouses for you to control. It will also be convenient to transport supplies to my colony when the time comes."

"During this early stage of development, remember to contact me regularly and tell me what's going on over there. If there are any problems, I can help you fix them, and I can also transfer any missing materials to you right away."

"If you come across anything interesting later, you can tell me. The universe is so big, and you will always encounter many things that you will never encounter in your entire life in the empire."

Chen Ming agreed immediately: "Okay, I will definitely do that, and I will also have to provide the highest point data regularly."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it. I'll send you the contact information of that new guy, too. His name is Wang Qian."

Chen Ming registered Wang Qian, a former researcher at Tachyon Technology, current psychic of the Psychic Society and spacecraft designer, in his address book.

Then he put away the terminal.

In fact, the boss didn't need to tell him that he would definitely contact me frequently after he left.

In addition to the reasons he just mentioned for returning data, there are actually other reasons.

Chen Ming still clearly remembers the lonely journey of six months in which he could not use hyperspace and could only use the engine for interstellar travel.

It was a truly terrifying journey.

So Chen Ming knew that he had to keep in touch with other people, otherwise he would definitely have mental problems.

It would be the same even if those afterglow individuals were accompanying him.

They are not human after all.

Therefore, even if the colony develops in the future, its connection with people must never be severed.

(End of this chapter)