Space Arm No. 2, Boss’s Hardware Store.

The boss was expressionlessly having a video call with Hu Yi, another psychic who had arrived near the space station.

He had already learned the news outside the space station, and the explosions that occasionally sounded in his ears had subsided.

So he said to Hu Yi: "The fight outside is over, it's time for you to leave."

Hu Yi responded with some surprise: "Oh? Have you finished fighting? Judging from your reaction, it seems that the result is not good for me."

The boss continued to say to him expressionlessly: "Go and see for yourself."

"Hey, don't be so stern. You know I can't help myself."

"Why don't we just drink tea and chat here, without fighting or joining in the fun? We are all civilized people, there is really no need to fight."

The boss suddenly sneered and said, "Didn't they give too much?"

Hu Yi spread his hands and said, "It's somewhat related."

The boss was not fooled at all, and directly exposed Hu Yi's lie and said: "I think this is the most important relationship. I hope you think this is a profit."

"What? Can you give me more than that? It's not impossible if you can really turn against me on the spot."

The boss did not answer Hu Yi's question, but stated a fact: "Then did you know that the president plans to come to see Chen Ming in the next two days?"

Hu Yi was stunned and said uncertainly: "What?"

"Do you know that the government will definitely give Chen Ming special protection in the future? Especially within the empire."

"If you want to take action against Chen Ming, you will offend more than just me."

Hu Yi suddenly panicked, because Wu An didn't need to tell such lies that could be easily exposed. He quickly asked, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? Oh, you want to go by yourself?"

The boss hung up the phone and turned to look at the door of the hardware store.

Chen Ming happened to be standing there at this time, with a transport robot following behind him, and the robot's several mechanical arms holding a huge metal ball.

Just at the last second when the boss hung up the call with Hu Yi.

Hu Yi happened to see a bit of the situation at the store entrance through the video communication screen.

Chen Ming returned safely to the space station without any signs of injury on his body, and the familiar metal ball behind him made him feel a chill at this moment.

And when the communication screen disappeared, when Hu Yi recalled the scene just now, he suddenly felt a moment of palpitations.

He immediately left his current room and went outside.

Outside his room was a corridor made entirely of metal with several portholes.

Through the porthole, you can see the star in the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, as well as the flames of the violent explosion that had just occurred in the galaxy, which had not yet been completely extinguished.

It can be seen that Hu Yi is now on a spaceship, which is quite close to the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, but also remains in a position that cannot be detected by normal detectors.

Although it is still difficult to see the situation inside the galaxy clearly with the naked eye at this distance.

But this distance is enough to quickly enter the galaxy when necessary, allowing Hu Yi to maintain deterrence against his boss.

Just like Hu Yi just said, he really just wanted to maintain contact with his boss, have some tea and get this task done.

As long as he didn't move, the boss wouldn't be able to deal with the other Iron Psychic who was fighting with Chen Ming.

That's why they were actually video chatting and never out of each other's sight.

Of course, the boss has a wide range of connections and can get a lot of information firsthand without leaving home.

And he still doesn't know what the situation is like outside.

But after he came out, someone immediately handed him a document in silence and with a bad look on his face.

Obviously, this expression was not directed at Hu Yi, but because of what happened outside just now.

Hu Yi looked at the distant galaxy through the porthole again, then returned to his room and began to look through the document.

When he was halfway through reading, his expression changed drastically.

He originally thought it was just a normal defeat.

He never expected that a psychic would die today in an unknown small place on the fringe star field. If Wu An hadn't stayed here, no one would have known about this place in his life.

Moreover, he died at the hands of a new psychic who had only recently become a psychic.

The last scene of the video call with Wu An flashed through Hu Yi’s mind.

The metal ball held by the robot behind Chen Ming is probably the relic left behind after the death of the Iron Psychic.

Combined with what Wu An had just said about the president wanting to meet Chen Ming, he instantly thought of many possibilities, each of which would cause him trouble.

Hu Yi immediately swiped quickly on the terminal nervously, looking for anyone in his contacts who could help him.

Even if we don't solve the troubles, at least we have to let him confirm whether the troubles are real.

When the president's contact information appeared in Hu Yi's eyes.

He hesitated for a moment and did not click, but continued to scroll down and found the contact information of the person who hired him.

But when he called, there was only a busy tone and no one was connected.

Just when Hu Yi was on the phone.

War zone station.

Lieutenant General's office.

Lieutenant General and Tao Ying are both here, but Zhang Feng is not here at the moment.

The lieutenant general was looking at the terminal with several calls that could not be dialed out in a row and said, "The call cannot be made. The signal is blocked."

Tao Ying, who was standing by the window and looking anxiously at the result, immediately turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

"I said, the signal is blocked"

Tao Ying immediately turned around, took out the terminal, looked down and asked, "Isn't the signal full?"

“It’s too easy to fake a signal.”

"What do you mean? Who dares to..."

Tao Ying suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words, his face turning pale.

There is no need to guess who is capable of blocking the signals of a lieutenant general's office in a war zone station.

She had been a little aggressive at first, but suddenly lost her momentum and asked tremblingly, "Why is it so fast?"

"You didn't dormant during the time you should have. Look, someone is here to take advantage of you."

"Besides, don't you think we've offended too many people? Who can be protected? Your family?"

The lieutenant general deliberately emphasized the word "family members".

Tao Ying immediately returned to his previous state, pointed at the lieutenant general and said, "What do you mean? Are you blaming me?"

The lieutenant general shook his head and put the pistol for self-defense on the table into the drawer of the table.

Without saying a word, he continued to drink his tea as if nothing had happened.

"Speak up, what do you mean?"

Tao Ying quickly walked up to the lieutenant general and slapped the desk.

However, at this moment, there were suddenly noisy footsteps at the door.

Tao Ying suddenly panicked again and subconsciously took a few steps back until she bumped into the sofa and stopped.

The next moment, the office door was opened.

A group of people from the internal military inspection team, wearing special uniforms, filed in, and each of them had a face as hard as iron.

The leader of the inspection team stepped forward and said to the two people in the room, "Lieutenant General Zhu Yijing, Lieutenant General Tao Ying, we have evidence of your private collusion with Lu De Zuojing. Please let us go."

Zhu Yijing finished his last sip of tea and took the initiative to extend his hands to the inspection team.

Tao Ying's face was pale. He swayed helplessly and then slumped on the sofa beside him.

He was then grabbed by the inspection team and forcibly taken out of the office.

A group of people walked between office buildings.

The road that the inspection team was going to take had been cleared in advance, and no one noticed the embarrassment of the two lieutenant generals at this time, which was considered to have saved them a little face.

While walking out of the office building and heading towards the location where the spaceship carrying the inspection team was docked.

Zhu Yijing suddenly asked the team leader: "Can I make a phone call?"

The team leader did not refuse directly. After all, reporting problems as soon as they occur is an option that can relatively reduce some of his own faults.

He has seen too much.

So he asked, “To whom?”

"My deputy."

"Zhang Feng?"

"Yes."

The team leader had a strange expression on his face. After asking for instructions, he said, "Okay."

He took out the lieutenant general's terminal that he had just confiscated and dialed Zhang Feng's number.

Obviously, Zhang Feng was not affected by the lieutenant general's affairs, and the lieutenant general knew the reason very well.

Soon, the call was connected, and the lieutenant general came up and asked directly: "Did you do it?"

Zhang Feng did not reply, but the lieutenant general seemed to have determined the answer.

"Okay, I understand. Just do what you want to do."

It seems that the lieutenant general does not intend to drag Zhang Feng into the water.

However, the team leader did not stop him. Anyway, the content of the communication would be monitored by someone, and words that should not be said would be blocked before being transmitted to the other side.

He doesn't need to worry too much.

Moreover, they did not find any violation of the rules by Zhang Feng.

It seems that all Zhang Feng has done over the years is to follow the lieutenant general.

Of course, everyone knows that what Zhang Feng did is definitely more than what is shown on the surface, but everything requires evidence.

All the evidence shows that Zhang Feng did nothing, so it is impossible for them to take him away for no reason.

Zhang Feng suddenly sighed and said, "I have actually been doing what I want to do."

"But a lot of times, I have to do things that I would never think of and would never do while doing what I want to do...very stupid things."

"Just like last time, he only needed to be a mascot there to get credit, but someone insisted that he perform well..."

It was clear who Zhang Feng was referring to and what he was referring to, which made the lieutenant general look at Tao Ying, who was too weak to stand up and had to rely on others to support him as he walked.

"People can't get rid of their emotions, so they become confused when they care about something."

"Also, I like laymen to guide professionals. There is a difference between civilians and military officers after all."

The lieutenant general said, and suddenly asked: "What do you think of me?"

The career of the lieutenant general is over, and he will basically have to spend the rest of his life in prison.

As the person who reported the lieutenant general himself, Zhang Feng knew this clearly, so he could now safely express his true thoughts.

"It's average, and it's even lower. You were the one who promoted me from the bottom, but you were also the one who threatened me with my family."

"And like you just said, there is a difference between civilians and officers. Let alone an officer, I'm not even a civilian now."

"So I feel gratitude and hatred towards you, but when all is said and done, that's it."

"What about Tao Ying?"

“…”

Seeing Zhang Feng's silence, the lieutenant general sighed slightly in his heart, and then said: "Then answer me one last question. What are your plans for that person?"

Zhang Feng said without hesitation: "I will stay away from him, and it would be best if there is no connection between me and him in this life."

However, Zhang Feng's last words were cut off by the person who was eavesdropping and did not reach the ears of the lieutenant general.

The people from the Military Discipline Committee continued to escort people onto their spaceship, preparing to go to a higher-level military region.

However, there is only one military zone that is higher than the Star Domain Joint War Zone.

Imperial Central Military District.

at this time.

On the Pirate Space Station.

Chen Ming just had the robot drag the metal ball into the boss's store.

The boss was full of questions at first, but when he sensed a familiar psychic energy fluctuation emanating from the metal ball.

He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then he reached out and pressed the metal ball and said, "What's going on with you?"

Although he had just learned some news from the outside world, that was also information he got from other people.

Except for Chen Ming, everyone only saw the explosion that was enough to destroy the battleship.

There is no description of the specific situation inside the core after the explosion.

No one knows what happened in there.

So when Chen Ming dragged the ball over, the boss instantly had no idea of ​​the situation.

Then Chen Ming explained seriously: "He is mentally retarded. He absorbed the influence of my spiritual energy, and then..."

Then, in front of his boss, he manually controlled the metal ball to restore it to a half-crippled human form.

And when the Iron Psyker regained his human form, he began to instinctively absorb the metal objects around him again.

Chen Ming brought him back together.

The boss thought for a while and gave Chen Ming a thumbs up.

“Awesome.”

Chen Ming doesn't need to worry about what happens next.

Order on the station was almost completely restored when he returned.

His advance arrangements worked.

One of the two robots dispatched successfully restored the power system of a space arm, maintaining the power supply to some important equipment of the space station, but the price was that the space station was controlled by him.

Chen Ming believed that the company behind the space station must know this, but since no one brought it up, he didn't take the initiative to say it.

Another robot sent out to locate the hacker also successfully controlled the hacker.

Even though he had a lot of sophisticated individual equipment, he still couldn't defeat the robot assisted by Chen Ming's abilities.

With a stable power system supply and the hacker being caught alive, there are no problems with the internal network.

There are also data provided by Chen Ming that were deleted but records were left.

People from the Administration's cybersecurity department can also quickly locate left-wing elements that sneak into the space station.

The entire administration was mobilized.

Under the leadership of the deputy director, with the experience from the previous time, all the problems within the administration were quickly resolved and a martial law order was quickly issued.

It didn't take long before the chaos in the entire space station was completely suppressed. Although the losses were still huge, at least they would not continue to increase.

As for the Director.

The people in the space station didn't find him, but Chen Ming did.

The director boarded his cruise ship again, probably preparing to go back to where he came from and use his connections to smooth things over.

Then, he was sent back by Chen Ming himself in a spaceship.

Chen Ming didn't know what happened afterwards, but the factory manager would definitely inform him later and tell him what the company had found out during the interrogation.

On Chen Ming and the boss's side.

The boss simply confirmed that the metal ball was indeed the Iron Psychic himself, and asked Chen Ming about his plans.

After learning about Chen Ming's thoughts, he didn't say much.

The boss didn’t know what the equipment Yu Hui had delivered at the beginning was, but he was aware of Chen Ming’s situation during this period.

Therefore, he also knew about the existence of the Qi Ling Neural Extractor.

By the way, he also knew that the Empire had obtained the method of manufacturing artificial spiritual nerves and had successfully replicated it.

As for the function of these replicated artificial spiritual nerves, it is basically just for research.

But some of them can be sold to the outside world when the official research institutes under the empire that study spiritual awakening nerves are short of funds.

Of course, the effects of the implants vary from person to person after the rich people buy them.

Under normal circumstances, when this kind of artificial spiritual nerve is implanted in a non-psychic, it is actually completely meaningless except for slightly activating the mental power of the implantee.

This is like farming. You first build a rack on the ground, but in the end you find that there are no seeds to plant. Then the rack is of no use.

The awakening of a psychic still depends on the individual.

If psychic powers could be awakened by implanting an artificial psychic nerve, psychics would have been everywhere long ago.

But if it is a spiritual awakening nerve of a known powerful psychic, there might be a lot of people who would want it.

The metal ball was Chen Ming's own trophy, and he could do whatever he wanted with it.

Anyway, in the eyes of outsiders, the Iron Psyker was already dead when the explosion occurred.

However, Chen Ming was still willing to ask his boss how to deal with the steel psychic named Yan Xiong.

After all, Chen Ming thought carefully about the idea of ​​buying and selling psychics' spiritual awakening nerves and felt that it was a bit strange. Moreover, extracting the spiritual awakening nerves would most likely lead to the death of the psychic.

Chen Ming didn't care about killing, but he still couldn't accept killing in this way.

After all, he is not Yu Hui, so it is impossible for him to think absolutely rationally about what is beneficial to him.

Just like when he destroyed the batch of powder needles used by the smuggling fleet.

Of course he knew how much money he could make if he sold this batch of goods.

But he didn't want to bear the consequences that would result.

It's the same now. He can't do this to his own kind.

If it was Yu Hui who had the spiritual awakening nerve, then Chen Ming would just pull it out, but he had to think carefully about the one on a human body.

So Chen Ming still hadn't made up his mind and asked his boss if he had any plans to take over.

But the boss doesn't really need it.

Although there were indeed conflicts between him and Yan Xiong, their conflicts were basically caused by Chen Ming and now ended because of Chen Ming.

He doesn't need to care too much about Yan Xiong.

However, after understanding Chen Ming's distress, the boss gave Chen Ming a speech introducing Zuo Jing.

There are only a few key words: cults, kidnapping, terrorist attacks on civilian facilities, smuggling, and frequent conversations with people about heart-to-heart matters.

And it clearly pointed out the fact that Yan Xiong and Zuo Jing were cooperating.

Then all Chen Ming’s psychological pressure disappeared.

He doesn't care how many times this kind of person dies.

Of course, he still didn't want to do such a thing as pulling out someone's spiritual nerves.

However, the boss also promised to help ask people who have grudges against Yan Xiong. Who knows who might be interested? If no one is interested, then Chen Ming might as well keep it.

A psychic will always be useful.

Moreover, if Chen Ming tried to replace all the metal on Yan Xiong's body, who had already lost consciousness, with metal materials that he had controlled.

Maybe he can get a psychic who is completely under his control?

The boss's words reminded Chen Ming of this possibility.

This is much more than what he could accept by pulling out someone's spiritual nerves.

However, what to do next depends on the specific situation.

When Chen Ming was talking to his boss about psychics.

The Sinda Corporation headquarters has also received the news from their pirate space station.

A board meeting was quickly organized.

This is a critical meeting as the company needs to adjust its overall strategic direction.

So all the directors had to come.

But when the meeting time came, there was still one person missing at the conference table.

The chairman looked around and said, "Wait for him. He is the most important person in this meeting."

Since it was an online meeting, others were not quite sure what the missing director was doing.

The director who had not yet attended the meeting was currently talking on the phone in his office at the branch company under his jurisdiction, and his tone was extremely agitated.

"I just gave him a sinecure that paid him a lot of money, and look what he did! Ah! Look!"

A middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the line: "Your brother-in-law is just like that. Please take good care of him."

"Didn't I tell you several times before? Don't be greedy. If you sit in that position, someone will come and give you money. Didn't I tell you that?"

"What did he do? He stole the property of the employees of the black company! He colluded with outsiders! He got involved with Zuo Jing! Which of these is something a human being can do?"

"But he doesn't know that's the left path."

"Would Zuo Jing write the word Zuo Jing on his face and tell you? He has no brains, right? Can he take that money?"

"But the main thing is that Chen Ming..."

"Isn't it even more fucking crazy to offend a psychic? Did the company say he was dead? Did they throw his file out?"

"Why have his supplies and his spaceship been left there untouched? Who gave him the courage to touch them? Huh?"

"He's looking for death, so why bother involving the company? And involving me!"

"The company is going to be investigated by the government because of this idiocy! Do you know how much we are going to lose?"

The person on the other end of the phone said unsurely, "It's just a branch office, right? What are you worried about?"

"you!"

The director was so angry that he laughed and his whole body couldn't help shaking.

"I have to be scolded by the chairman in the meeting, and I have to listen to your nagging when I come back..."

He took a deep breath, but still couldn't calm himself down. He could only hammer his desk hard and said, "I really am..."

But suddenly, the director calmed down and said, "Forget it."

He took out a drafted resignation report and a share transfer agreement from the drawer of his desk.

"I quit."

"Ah? You are not allowed to..."

"roll."

With a single word, the director ended the call.

He turned off all devices that could contact him, and then connected to the company's conference system.

When his projection appeared at the company's headquarters, he placed the report on the table and said, "This is my resignation report..."

I accidentally wrote something that shouldn't be written, and forgot to replace some special nouns, so a chapter was blocked

I posted it at around 9 o'clock in the morning. I didn't check it for a day and just found it now. 　　 　 (End of this chapter)