Chapter 263 Stomach



After Deputy Manager Chang’s body was completely devoured by the Queen Insect.

Chen Ming did not go out directly in front of Deputy Manager Chang, but waited in the room for a while.

He let the Queen of Insects eat the corpse not just to destroy the evidence, there was another reason.

After waiting for dozens of seconds.

Finally, there was some movement from the Queen of Insects.

It transmitted most of the memories extracted from the body of Deputy Manager Chang, whom it had just devoured, to Chen Ming's brain.

Extracting memories from the brains of living creatures is an innate ability of the Thorn Zerg, to which the Queen belongs.

In the past, the best effect of this ability was to allow the Queen Insect to understand the uses of some of the body tissues and organs of some creatures through memory after swallowing them, and at most she could only obtain some vague memories.

However, as Chen Ming made several in-depth repairs to the Queen, some basic abilities of the Thorn Zerg were greatly enhanced.

This of course includes the ability to acquire memories through swallowing.

However, since the Queen Worm's language ability has never been very good, even when she communicates with Chen Ming, she relies more on psychic power and synaesthesia of consciousness, so she cannot fully screen many contents in Deputy Manager Chang's memory.

As a result, a large number of memories belonging to Deputy Manager Chang suddenly appeared in Chen Ming's mind, which were extremely detailed.

Chen Ming could only select the useful ones by himself.

It’s not too troublesome.

Even if all the memories of an ordinary person's life were stuffed into Chen Ming's brain, it would be nothing to a psychic like him.

After quickly filtering out the useful memories.

Chen Ming discovered that Deputy Manager Chang was the same person he had known before. He actually did not believe in Zuo Jing. He was just using Zuo Jing to make money.

However, the main job of the personnel department of this space station is space station personnel management.

The supervisor is responsible for the management of left-hand personnel, while the deputy supervisor is only responsible for the management of non-left-hand personnel.

The difference between a person who is in charge of Zuojing on the Zuojing space station and a person who is not in charge of Zuojing can be said to be a world of difference.

Therefore, Deputy Manager Chang can only be regarded as a marginal figure on the space station and is not too important.

But his memory is still of some value.

Because there happened to be memories of the space station transformation process in it, it could be compared with the basic blueprint of the space station that Chen Ming found from the database in the underground laboratory on the planet to figure out the general situation of the space station.

In general, the space station is divided into five layers: the external personnel layer, the internal personnel layer, the core personnel layer, the isolation layer and the experimental center.

Chen Ming is in the external staff layer.

Deputy Manager Chang usually works at the internal staff level.

Of course, there is no clear separation between the internal staff and the core staff levels. Those who can stay in the internal staff level can generally also enter the core staff level.

The situation of the isolation layer and experimental center further inside can be figured out just by looking at the names of these two areas.

Chen Ming wants to resolve the issues on the space station next, so he must visit this place.

In Deputy Manager Chang's memory, in addition to the structure of the space station, there is another valuable memory.

It is about the situation of Minister Ye Lirong who just arrived at the space station during the day.

From his memory, Chen Ming learned that Ye Lirong had actually been to this space station several times before Chen Ming came.

Deputy Manager Chang is a management member after all, and he is always among the people who attend the reception.

Every scene of Ye Lirong coming over can be found in his memory.

When Ye Lirong came for the first time, he looked very nervous and left in a hurry after only a few hours.

When he came the second time, he looked much more relaxed and was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he stayed for more than a day before leaving.

When he came for the third time, Deputy Manager Chang happened to hear some news from other people.

It seems that it was because Ye Lirong received news that a large number of left-wing elements were arrested in the Qiyun Galaxy Industrial Colony in the Sulun-6 Star Zone of the Sulun Star Domain, which is Chen Ming's colony.

It just so happens that the left path on this ecological observation space station is connected to the left path on Chen Ming’s colony.

So he came here as soon as possible to determine the situation at the space station, and prepare for transfer as soon as possible if there were any problems.

There is indeed a connection. Chen Ming followed the clues from the colony all the way here.

But in fact, after Ye Lirong and his team had been nervous for a few days, they discovered that no one had come to investigate the space station, and there was no sign that anyone would come to investigate.

Even after the results of Chen Ming's colony came out and they were able to accept interviews, they still didn't come to investigate them.

So Ye Lirong and his team thought that the people in charge of the investigation had not discovered the connection between the space station and the colony over there, and they felt relieved.

This time, I came here at the same time as Chen Ming just because the experiments on the space station seemed to have produced some results.

It’s a pity that Deputy Manager Chang’s rank is still too low. He only knows what experiments are being conducted on the space station, but he doesn’t know the specific content of the experiments, let alone the progress of the experiments.

Come to think of it, if Deputy Manager Chang really knew the content of the experiments being conducted on the space station, it would basically be impossible for him to stay on the space station.

How could a person who only got together with Zuo Jing for money not value his life?

If he knew that there was something dangerous like dimensional infection on the space station, he would definitely find a way to escape as soon as possible, so it is normal that he didn't know.

If you don’t know, then don’t know. It’s no big deal.

Anyway, Chen Ming didn't expect to find any valuable information from him. It would be great if he could confirm the new structure of the space station after the transformation and the reasons why Ye Lirong came here several times.

And there is a more important piece of information that Chen Ming also found from his memory.

The place where Ye Lirong rested.

That's it.

Chen Ming ended his exploration of Deputy Manager Chang's memory and stuffed all the remaining junk memories back to the Queen Insect. Maybe there were some valuable things in these junk that he hadn't noticed.

Keeping these memories doesn't take up much of his memory, so it's not a big problem.

Chen Ming took the computer from Deputy Manager Chang's room and walked out of the room.

Under the puzzled looks of the two guards, he went to the monitoring room located in the core personnel area.

The two people in the monitoring room were also a little surprised and puzzled when they saw Deputy Manager Chang.

However, Deputy Manager Chang is also a manager after all, so he was just confused by Chen Ming's attitude towards him.

Of course Chen Ming didn't give them any good look.

The Queen's tentacles pierced their hearts directly and killed them.

There may be a few ordinary people in the outer personnel layer of the space station.

But it is impossible that there are ordinary people who know nothing among the core personnel of this Zuojing Space Station.

After destroying the body, Chen Ming went to the equipment room which was also on the core personnel level and housed the observation equipment for the ecological observation space station.

This is also the room where a sub-control console that controls the partition device of the outer area of ​​the space station is located.

As for the main control console in the experimental center, that device can directly separate all parts of the space station outside the isolation zone.

The sub-device here can only separate the outer personnel layer of the space station.

Of course, this is enough for Chen Ming's current requirements.

Chen Ming soon stood in front of the door of the equipment room.

When he was in the monitoring room before, he could clearly see that there were only two people on duty.

So now he just pushed the door open and walked in, killing the two left-wing elements on duty in an instant.

After connecting Deputy Manager Chang's computer to the area isolation sub-console.

Chen Ming set up a timed trigger program for this thing.

As soon as the time comes, or he presses the button in advance, the sub-console will start up and the effect will be obvious.

After doing all this, Chen Ming left the equipment room again.

The peripheral layout work has now been completed.

There was only one thing left to do.

Chen Ming looked towards the interior of the space station.

Ten minutes later.

When Chen Ming arrived at the closed door of the isolation layer, he was suddenly stopped by someone.

"Deputy Manager Chang, what are you thinking of doing by staying up late at night?"

Chen Ming stood in front of the gate motionless and did not answer.

Because there was no one in his sight, the source of the voice was behind him, and it was a person who suddenly appeared without warning.

This shows one thing, that the person who came is a psychic.

It seems that it is impossible to go in directly.

Chen Ming did not hesitate and directly activated the signal blocking device that he had modified using the equipment from the distress signal management office.

The possibility of the space station communicating with the outside world was completely cut off.

Then he turned around with a stern face and walked towards the psychic who had just appeared with an expressionless face.

The psychic frowned and stood still, then asked Chen Ming, "What do you want to do?"

Although he was somewhat wary of Chen Ming who was staring at Deputy Manager Chang's face at this time, he could not be alert no matter how hard he tried when facing an ordinary person.

Even when Chen Ming walked in front of him, he did not react at all.

He was confident that he could subdue an ordinary person like Deputy Manager Chang with just a flick of his finger.

It was not until the moment Chen Ming waved his right hand slightly that his expression finally changed. At this moment, he felt the threat of death, and his face was full of fear.

But it was too late.

Being so close to Chen Ming, no psychic who was not of the physically enhanced type could react to his movements.

His right arm swung with explosive force, creating a thrilling sonic boom, and with terrifying speed and power, he punched the psychic in front of him in the face.

The entire head exploded instantly.

The headless corpse flew backwards under the force of Chen Ming's punch.

Blood spurted out like a fountain and hit the wall of the space station.

The corpse twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

“…”

Chen Ming looked at the damage caused by his fist and suddenly fell silent.

He knew that the beast in An Wuping's body, which he had spent a lot of time to create, possessed terrifying power.

But he never expected that even if he had not released the beast in his body, An Wuping's prosthesis alone could achieve this effect.

However, apart from some useless medicines, Chen Ming failed to find anything valuable.

Including anything that proves his identity.

Chen Ming didn't even know his name, nor did he know what abilities he had.

Even the spiritual nerves in the brain had been completely shattered by that punch just now.

At this moment, Chen Ming could only sense some spiritual energy fluctuations that were becoming weaker from the rotten flesh on his body and the blood bursting on the surrounding walls.

Wait a moment.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of a possibility. He raised his hand and let the Queen Insect's tentacles spread out again, covering the entire deserted passage.

The Queen Insect devoured the corpse and all the body tissues that were shattered by Chen Ming's punch.

Sure enough, there was a sense of satisfaction from the Queen of Insects.

It ate up the spiritual awakening nerves whose psychic energy fluctuations had not yet completely dissipated, causing its own psychic energy fluctuations to slightly increase.

Although it is not obvious, this is obviously the same as Chen Ming's previous situation. It is simply not fully digested. Once it is fully digested, the benefits brought by absorbing the spiritual awakening nerves will naturally appear.

It seems that the spiritual nerves will have one more place to go in the future.

The tentacles growing from the wrists gradually faded away.

Just as Chen Ming was about to continue walking into the space station, something suddenly fell out of the Queen Worm's tentacles and landed on the ground.

This is a stone the size of a little finger tip, covered with dark and twisted patterns that resemble the stiff limbs of a dying person and filled with psychic fluctuations.

Spiritual stone.

Chen Ming immediately picked up the stone despite the slight stinging sensation brought by the spiritual stone and the slight emotional fluctuations.

According to the feeling Chen Ming felt when he touched it personally at this time, the characteristic of this spiritual stone should be fear, which is consistent with the characteristics of the pattern on the stone.

But something seems wrong.

Chen Ming was sure that he did not find this thing when he was touching the corpse just now.

With his current psychic strength, it is impossible for him not to sense this thing when facing the corpse of a psychic.

Even if this spiritual stone was hidden in the body of the corpse, it would be impossible for him to have no perception of it at all. He would have to wait until the queen insect had eaten the corpse clean and spit it out before he discovered it.

So the question is, where did this spiritual stone come from?

Chen Ming frowned and carefully recalled what had just happened.

He suddenly realized that the size and shape of this stone seemed exactly the same as the yellow gem on the necklace worn by the psychic.

It seems that this spiritual stone was transformed from this gem, but the material has become the most common stone and these patterns have been painted on it.

After discovering this, Chen Ming once again recalled an earlier incident.

These were some of the things his boss had said to him when he first talked to his boss about the spiritual stone.

The boss said that any strong emotional fluctuations may lead to the birth of spiritual stone.

Because everyone actually has a certain degree of spirituality, just like psychics, it’s just a matter of how much.

This part of human spirituality will fluctuate violently with the emergence of extreme emotions. When a person dies during this violent emotional fluctuation, this emotional fluctuation that has reached its extreme will infect the surrounding objects.

Usually the object most likely to be infected is stone, so spiritual stone is called spiritual stone.

At that time, Chen Ming also asked a question, that is, whether psychics could manually create spiritual stones.

The boss didn't say it at first, but when Chen Ming's spiritual power had become much stronger than before, the boss explained it to him clearly.

That is, the spirituality of a psychic is controlled by the psychic himself. Without the natural spirituality amplified by extreme emotions and natural conditions, he cannot create spiritual stones.

There were some things that his boss didn't make clear to him before, but he understood them now.

That is, when a psychic dies in an extreme state of emotion, it is easier for him to infect the surrounding stones into spiritual stones than ordinary people.

The source of this spiritual stone is naturally the fear before death.

It is no wonder that when Chen Ming picked up the Fear Spirit Stone just now, there was a little more resistance from the Spirit Stone compared to the first time he came into contact with the Whispering Spirit Stone.

This is what was left inside the ectoplasm stone at the moment of the psychic's death.

If Chen Ming guessed correctly, if this spiritual stone was touched by other people, then other people would be able to see an illusion from this spiritual stone, an illusion of killing An Wuping.

It was just like the fantasy of killing Shen Yi that Chen Ming had when he saw the Whispering Spirit Stone.

As long as this goal can be achieved, the slight emotions hidden in this spiritual stone that cause resonance will completely dissipate, and this thing will become a resonant spiritual stone.

A magical idea suddenly came to Chen Ming's mind, but he couldn't do it for the time being.

He simply put away the Fear Spirit Stone and prepared to continue going deeper into the space station.

He had just killed a psychic in front of the gate that separated the two areas. Although he was killed outside the quarantine area, there was no need to worry about surveillance because the entire space station was completely isolated inside and outside.

But the sonic boom of his punch just now is likely to attract some people.

Anyway, the traces and the body have been dealt with, so as long as he leaves here, there will generally be no big problem.

Chen Ming transformed himself into the appearance of the psychic again, plugged a device that Chen Ming himself didn't know what it was used for into the control panel of the gate, and then directly used psychic power to open the blocked gate.

Behind the door is a small room with nothing in it, except for a monitoring device that is activated in each of the four corners of the room.

Chen Ming was about to step in, but suddenly stopped.

He just moved his right foot slightly forward into the room, then released some metallic liquid under his feet, and then closed the door again.

Chen Ming's expression relaxed slightly.

Because he found that even if he was in a room completely isolated by a silent alloy protective film, these silent alloys could not prevent his spiritual power from penetrating through and controlling the metal liquid in the room.

It's as if his psychic power does not directly control the things affected by his psychic power through the normal universe environment.

But in a more peculiar way.

This is normal.

After all, Chen Ming still hasn't figured out how his psychic power is able to transport materials across hundreds or thousands of light years.

His psychic power may also be controlled by similar means, so it will not be blocked by this silent alloy room.

Then Chen Ming felt relieved.

He stepped directly into the isolation layer.

There are slight differences in the structure of the isolation layer and the outer space station.

It is a special structure consisting of multiple silent alloy compartments, which wrap up the internal experimental center in irregular layers.

There are surveillance cameras leading to the interior of each room, and Chen Ming's every move at this moment must be under the surveillance of these cameras.

But no one seemed to react.

Obviously, even if Chen Ming was disguised as that psychic, he shouldn't go into the isolation layer at this time.

But the experimental center didn't seem to take any action.

No alarm, no announcement, no response.

And as Chen Ming walked deeper into the space station, he could feel a chill coming from deeper inside.

Something is not right, it seems something has happened inside.

After realizing this, Chen Ming immediately sped up his actions and continued to open the doors of the isolation compartments.

Until they reached the last closed door leading to the experimental center.

Chen Ming's movements finally slowed down.

He had connected a device to the control panel next to the gate, but he did not open the gate directly at this time.

Instead, he paused for a moment, adjusted his state, and then opened the door.

The moment the door opens.

What comes into view are those researchers, or former researchers.

Now their entire bodies were folded backwards from the stomach as if they were broken, their abdomens were violently torn apart, revealing the completely deformed stomachs of the corpses.

It's not quite accurate to call them corpses, because they are still moving, their lower limbs are moving under the control of these deformed tails, and the upper half of the body is dragging on the ground as if controlled by this stomach.

In addition, some researchers whose upper bodies seemed to be seriously infected by the dimension had completely lost their human form and turned into a string of rumens dragging outside.

As it moved, it left behind puddles of liquid of unknown nature.

The entire hall of the experimental center is filled with these "creatures", all of which are deformed stomach monsters made up of stomachs.

Along with these deformed stomach monsters, what caught the eye was the flesh and blood tissue that covered the entire environment just as it did before.

This weird and distorted feeling was extremely familiar to Chen Ming.

At the same time, his stomach was churning.

This is proof of dimensional infection and erosion. An Wuping's body has been marked by dimensional infection.

However, this familiar feeling was immediately suppressed by Chen Ming, but he still felt a trace of inexplicable nostalgia in his heart.

Of course, Chen Ming quickly shook this feeling off his mind. He didn't want to miss the dimensional infection. It was just because the previous incident left such a deep impression that he subconsciously recalled it.

Chen Ming took a deep breath, ignoring the disgusting smell of stomach acid and semi-digested food.

As the distorted tissue in the hall spread into the compartment whose door he had just opened, he stepped directly into the hall of the experimental center.

Those deformed stomach monsters that were originally at a loss seemed to have found their target in an instant.

One by one, they pointed their deformed stomachs towards Chen Ming.

A gaze coming from deeper within seemed to be focused on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming was not afraid at all.

He clenched his fists and took another step towards the experimental center.

In the past, he might have had to use all his skills when facing these things.

But now he doesn't need to consider whether it exists or not.

Chen Ming's body leaned forward slightly, and all his muscles were tensed.

At the same time, these deformed stomach monsters spit out disgusting liquid in his direction.

Chen Ming disappeared right where he was.

The power given to him by the prosthesis An Wuping allowed him to instantly appear in front of a stomach monster.

One punch smashed it in half.

(End of this chapter)


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