He had just heard of this word at a regular work report meeting of their Odan Star Region government not long ago.

Although it is a regular meeting to report on work, this meeting can be said to be held specifically for the issue of infection in this dimension.

Because some time ago, the propaganda about the recent outbreak of neonatal deformities in the empire was that it was an unknown infectious disease.

As a government official, the deputy director had heard that the specific situation was more complicated and terrifying, but he was from the Anti-Cult Bureau, not the Population Bureau or the Medical and Health Bureau, so he didn't care.

At this meeting, the Empire can be said to have thoroughly clarified the concept of dimensional infection and confirmed that it was related to the wave of neonatal deformities.

Moreover, the incident of a wave of deformed children caused by the previous dimensional infection, which had been sealed for decades and he didn't even know about it, was also brought up at this meeting.

This meeting even directly denied the excuse that the cloning ban was issued due to ethical issues, and clearly stated that the cloning ban was issued because cloning would lead to dimensional infection incidents.

He noticed at the time that many older officials or those who had been in long-term dormancy were not surprised when they heard the news.

Only someone like him who was relatively young and had never been in hibernation would be shocked after hearing the news.

Since their star region government brought this matter up in the open during the meeting, this was definitely the instruction of the Empire, and the attitude is very clear.

We must find a way to solve this dimensional infection, prevent it and kill it in the early stages.

In addition to their star domain government holding such a meeting, other star domains will definitely have similar actions. It can be said that the dimensional infection has been completely exposed.

It won't be long before some gossip spreads throughout the empire.

According to the meaning of this meeting, dimensional infection is likely to be a state that the Empire will maintain for a long time in the future.

Therefore, the head of government of their star region asked each department during the meeting that if any signs of dimensional infection were discovered, they must contact the psychic department immediately to handle the situation and cooperate in keeping confidentiality.

Just these things that happened in the meeting had left a deep impression on the deputy director about the dimensional infection.

And a few days after the last meeting.

The chief also suddenly brought the head of their star field's psychic department, whom he had met several times, to the Anti-Cult Bureau in private to meet with him, the deputy director and the director, and talk about the left path and dimensional infection.

From that time on, it was impossible for him to forget the concept of dimensional infection and the huge trouble brought by Zuo Jing.

So at this moment, the deputy director directly covered the audio port of the operator's terminal, waved his hand to the others in the room and said, "Everyone get out, and tell them to seal the recording in my hand. Only the director and I are allowed to use it."

The others immediately complied and left the room where the operator was working.

The deputy director immediately released the phone and said to Chen Ming, "The outsiders are all gone now, please speak."

"It seems that you also know about dimensional infection, so I will tell you directly."

"In your Odan-5 star sector, the Tal system, there is an ecological observation space station. A dimensional infection incident has broken out on this space station."

"Also, this space station is closely related to Lude Zuojing. It was a small-scale dimensional infection caused by Zuojing's cloning research on the space station. You should be able to find some interesting information there."

The deputy director had already manually searched for the galaxy on the terminal when he heard the name of the galaxy.

Soon he saw the information about a space station that had been quiet for a long time. At the same time, he also happened to find the information that Ye Lirong, the local star-level Minister of Culture and Tourism, was heading to this space station.

This discovery made him somewhat surprised and silent.

Because he still somewhat believed what the stranger on the other end of the phone said.

Originally, the deputy director could not directly confirm from Chen Ming's words that dimensional infection had indeed occurred, but Chen Ming did now demonstrate certain abilities.

He also accurately stated that the dimensional infection originated from clones and was closely related to Zuo Jing.

These two points allow him to basically choose to trust Chen Ming.

Because of this, after hearing that the minister of a subordinate department of a lower-level government was suspected of having connections with Zuo Jing, the deputy director felt a little uncomfortable.

It wasn't that he felt uncomfortable with Chen Ming pointing this out, but that he, as a deputy director of the Anti-Cult Bureau, felt uncomfortable hearing that a fellow official was involved with a cult like Zuo Jing.

However, he did not point this out directly now, but only asked: "Have you confirmed that the dimensional infection has broken out?"

The content he saw in the database flashed through Chen Ming’s mind.

It is currently known that the target of the dimensional infection is the stomach of the clones, and deformation had already occurred a week ago.

This means that the dimensional infection had already occurred a week ago, but since there was no large-scale distortion, it means that Zuo Jing has indeed controlled the dimensional infection, and the dimensional infection has not actually broken out.

"It's not accurate to say it's an outbreak. There are only some early symptoms at the moment. Zuo Jing has used some means to limit the infection in the dimension."

“How did they do that?”

"Do you mean that the Left Path created the dimensional infection, or that they restricted the dimensional infection."

“Both.”

Chen Ming immediately shared the information he had obtained from the underground laboratory database: "Regarding Zuo Jing's dimensional infection, you should want to know how they created so many clones, right?"

"This is because Zuo Jing's research on cloning technology has produced new alternative materials that are not controlled by the Empire. I can tell you the name of the material now. You can take the name and go to a laboratory with a background in cloning experiments to ask if they can make a substitute."

"But these are all new materials, so it may take time for them to verify them, and the results won't come out so quickly."

"It's okay, just keep talking, I'm taking notes."

Chen Ming took a look at the warehouse area of ​​the underground laboratory.

Some of his metal liquid also spread here, and he had found those materials in the warehouse area and obtained some samples, which he could keep as evidence later.

After reconfirming the contents of the database, Chen Ming told the deputy director the names of several materials.

The deputy director immediately handed the paper with the materials to a person waiting outside the door. After briefly explaining the task to the person, he returned to the room.

"I've already asked someone to verify it. Have you figured out how Zuo Jing suppressed the dimensional infection? As far as I know, the dimensional infection outbreak is extremely strong. If it happens in a densely populated place like a space station, one day is enough to destroy the entire space station."

"Indeed, under normal circumstances, one day is enough for a dimensional infection to break out, but Zuo Jing has deployed a large number of isolation membranes made of silent alloy on this space station to block the spread of dimensional infection."

"Silent alloy?"

"You don't need to know what this thing does. You just need to tell people the term truthfully, and they will understand. Your government should have psychics, right?"

"some."

When Chen Ming got this answer, he was basically certain that there would be no problem after he said what he had just said.

However, after thinking about what Zuo Jing was doing on the planet below besides the space station, he said again: "We must send professionals who can fight and at least protect themselves."

"Zuo Jing is not only conducting cloning experiments and dimensional infection, they seem to be doing some other experiments on the planet below the space station."

"I can only give a rough description of the specific effect. It is a kind of deformed human tissue that makes people feel good about it for no reason without the protection of the spiritual stone. Remember to explain my description in full to the psychic who is in contact with you."

"When people come, be careful not to let ordinary people get close to the space station and the planet."

Such a detailed description does not sound like it was made up, and it certainly does not explicitly state that he could go directly to someone to verify it.

So after combining what Chen Ming said before, the deputy director now completely believed Chen Ming.

"I see. If what you said is true, this would be a very important contribution. You should also be a psychic, right? I would like to ask about your identity. We will not mistreat anyone who has made contributions to the empire."

Chen Ming was quite surprised to hear this, but he decided to let someone investigate An Wuping's identity so he wouldn't expose it directly.

What others have investigated is definitely more believable than what he says himself.

Anyway, he has already done all the necessary preparations for his identity.

"It doesn't matter. If your people come, they will most likely know who I am. I won't waste my words.

"Also, in order to prevent Zuo Jing from sneaking into your Anti-Cult Bureau, I will make another call to the military in your star region in two hours."

"In three hours I will send this message to all the media I know. That's it. Bye."

"Wait a moment."

The deputy director suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Why did you think of our Anti-Cult Bureau first when you were asked about the dimensional infection incident?"

Why did they seek help from the Anti-Cult Bureau?

Of course it’s because Chen Ming knows what the president has been doing these days.

After the president confirmed from him some time ago that Zuo Jing had manually created and controlled the dimensional infection, he went to find the department in the empire that deals with such matters.

Cooperate with them to announce the news of dimensional infection among governments at different levels of the empire, and by the way, link the situation of Zuojing and dimensional infection together.

The president did not hide these things from him, but kept communicating them to him in real time.

So in this case, the Anti-Cult Bureau, which is specifically targeting Zuo Jing, is definitely the most important target for government departments to arrange work for.

If the deputy director of the Anti-Cult Bureau didn't know the connection between Zuo Jing and dimensional infection, then the problem would be even more serious than this space station being occupied by Zuo Jing.

Of course, the government’s psychic department must be responsible for dealing with dimensional infection.

No other department is capable of handling it.

But Chen Ming didn't have the phone number of the local psychic department.

The main reason is that the Empire has not announced the existence of psychics, and only people with a little status in the government and the military know about this psychic department.

So they don’t have a public phone number to call.

Chen Ming was too lazy to find someone to check and ask.

But since other government departments cannot handle it, this task will most likely fall on the Ministry of Psionics.

Government departments must be in touch with each other.

The government's psychic department is relatively independent and has a higher status than other departments. There is no need to conceal such news just because there is obvious competition between them.

Even if he concealed it, Chen Ming said he would pass the news to other people.

It is up to the government to decide whether to take the risk and take sole credit for the work, or just throw the matter out to others to handle.

Of course, no matter what, the responsibility for delaying the time when this space station was noticed, causing the initial outbreak of dimensional infection, and giving Zuo Jing more time to study, all lies on Chen Ming himself, so solving Zuo Jing and the troubles caused by Zuo Jing is still his task.

Even if Chen Ming has told this matter to others, it will not change.

But one thing is for sure, the problem has been solved, but it is none of his business what happens to the space station and the ordinary people on it afterwards.

There is a dimensional infection on the space station, and the most he can do is to deal with the source of the dimensional infection.

What should be done with those who have experienced the dimensional infection? What should be done with so many ordinary people?

These two questions.

Chen Ming doesn't have the time to first identify every civilian who is not in disguise from Zuo Jing's space station, and then find out and take care of those affected by the dimensional infection.

If the dimensional infection has really broken out completely, it will be fatal to ordinary people.

However, if the dimensional infection is only in the early stages, it will not be directly fatal to ordinary people, but it is too difficult to distinguish.

The most Chen Ming can do is to ensure that his next actions will not accidentally injure civilians, but it is impossible for Chen Ming to really take care of all civilians.

He is An Wuping now, not Chen Ming. An Wuping is not capable of protecting so many civilians...

Wait, it seems there is.

As long as he shows some of the Queen's abilities, he can rely on the Queen to produce a large amount of fungal blanket and some body tissues derived from Zerg units to cover the entire space station, creating the same effect as controlling everyone with liquid metal in the colony.

However, Chen Ming's original idea was that without the metal liquid, he would have no means to protect people on a large scale.

That's why he would take the initiative to call someone outside at a time like this.

It would take at least five hours to get to the nearest colony around this star region without warping.

For the government, the only ship with the ability to jump is the cruiser, but the cruiser is not so easy to dispatch.

Even if the army got the news, they wouldn't send cruisers to attack us immediately.

Currently, only the Fourteenth Legion in the Empire has the hyperspace channel jump system technology that Chen Ming has, so this is why Chen Ming gave the government departments five hours of leeway. These five hours are enough for him to finish what he needs to do.

But now he suddenly realized that he had the Queen's Fungus Blanket.

The situation is different.

Should he use the Queen's fungal blanket to protect everyone's safety? Chen Ming didn't have to think too long before he came up with the answer.

He is not a good person, at least not a good person.

It is definitely not a wise move to use one's own trump card to save people who have nothing to do with him.

Moreover, Chen Ming remembered that Bai Quan had actually hinted to him several times that his psychic power was too powerful, which made many people in the empire feel uneasy.

His psychic power has the ability to control the afterglow and the mechanical race. As long as he wants and takes action, he will be able to organize a force strong enough to fight against the empire sooner or later.

The Queen's Zerg are also, in a sense, quite excessive.

As long as the Zerg, which has been optimized several times by Chen Ming, is given enough time to develop, the threat to the empire will definitely not be small.

This means that if An Wuping exposes the Queen Insect's spiritual power, he might be treated the same way as him.

Chen Ming was sure of his answer and didn't think any more about protecting civilians. The most he could do was to protect Uncle Mao and he didn't need to consider anyone else.

"Mr. Psychic?"

The deputy director's voice on the phone, which had not yet been hung up, pulled Chen Ming back from his wandering thoughts.

"Where were we just now?"

"That's why you came to our Anti-Cult Bureau in the first place?"

“…”

The words that were in Chen Ming's mind just now could not be spoken directly to others.

So Chen Ming made up a random excuse and said, "Because I like the Anti-Cult Bureau, that's all."

Chen Ming hung up the phone directly and stopped wasting time.

At this time, all the valuable data in the database of the underground laboratory computer room had been obtained by Chen Ming.

On the other side, the metal liquid that was separated has also reached the laboratory's main control system. Chen Ming has been able to hack into the laboratory's system through physical hacking devices, bypassing all security and perfectly infiltrating the entire laboratory.

Except for the area to the north of the laboratory, which is an independent area, all the control systems of this area are within this area.

However, this area is connected to the laboratory. Since Chen Ming has now completely taken control of the laboratory, it is very easy for him to infiltrate it.

However, Chen Ming decided not to do so because the gate to this area was closed.

All visible gaps were filled with silent alloy isolation membranes arranged on the left. If he entered rashly, something he didn't want to see might happen.

At least let An Wuping finish solving the problems on the space station before dealing with the problems on the ground on the planet.

Anyway, he had already obtained enough clues from the laboratory database on the ground, so he no longer needed to continue investigating clues on the space station.

Investigation on the space station is just icing on the cake, there is no need for it.

Instead of wasting time investigating, it would be better to resolve the dimensional infection as soon as possible.

As for the clues that An Wuping needs to obtain.

As long as An Wuping takes forceful action on the space station, he can kill all the people on Zuo Jing who are related to the database.

Then just put some clues related to the ground laboratory that Chen Ming found in the ground laboratory into the database and give them to An Wuping.

Pretend that An Wuping has discovered that there is a laboratory on the planet and guide him to the ground.

By then, as long as the signal of the space station is blocked, when he comes to the ground, the people in the laboratory probably won't notice anything.

I have roughly thought of the plan to be implemented next.

Chen Ming didn't want to delay any longer.

He had been hiding the news about Zuo Jing for a long time. Clones were being produced on the space station every moment. Once something went wrong on the space station, they would be completely finished.

But there is one thing we need to think about before we really start working on the space station.

Those civilians on the space station.

Although Chen Ming has made it clear that he will not deliberately protect those people, it does not mean that he will completely ignore them.

It's not just Chen Ming who doesn't like killing people casually, he also doesn't like anyone killing people casually.

It is also because his next action is likely to cause problems in the security system of the entire space station.

If the dimensional infection in the center of the space station leaks out, it will probably cause big problems.

I'm afraid there won't be a single living person left on the space station.

However, Chen Ming quickly thought of a solution, which was to rely on the special structure of the space station which was very easy to disassemble.

Soon after Chen Ming figured out all the problems.

Deputy Manager Chang, who was sleeping inside the space station, suddenly felt a slight pain in his forehead.

He scratched himself drowsily, grabbed a few strands of hair, threw them away, and continued to fall into a deep sleep.

And those strands of hair were carried by the metallic liquid and flowed along the ground to other places.

A few minutes later.

Shi Shao suddenly appeared at the edge of the outer area entering the inner area.

He was not stopped and successfully walked into the space station, went into a toilet, and took out the hair with follicles.

After using the queen worm's body tissue to devour the genes from Deputy Director Chang in the toilet.

Shi Shao gradually transformed into Deputy Manager Chang.

After checking the bathroom mirror to make sure everything was fine, Chen Ming walked out of the bathroom with his new look.

After identifying the direction, he walked towards Deputy Manager Chang's room.

There was a guard at the door of Deputy Manager Chang's residence. When he saw Deputy Manager Chang walking towards the door, his face was full of surprise.

"Deputy Manager Chang, you are not..."

Chen Ming glanced at the security guard at the door with a cold face: "You didn't even know when I left, are you here to eat for free?"

The two guards immediately bowed their heads and apologized, "I'm sorry!"

After staring at the two guards for a while, until their hands and feet were shaking unnaturally, Chen Ming shifted his gaze and said, "Forget it."

He put his hand directly on the door and used his psychic power to control the door to open.

Of course, I pretended that the door was opened with a key card.

"Keep guarding."

Chen Ming turned around, gave some instructions, closed the door, entered the bedroom, and quietly dealt with Deputy Manager Chang.

Afterwards, the Queen Insect's tentacles proliferated rapidly in the room, drawing Deputy Manager Chang's body into the tentacles and completely devouring it.

(End of this chapter)