Psychological issues, especially those involving the left and civilians.

The first person Chen Ming thought of who could help him solve the problem was naturally Bai Quan.

Bai Quan answered Chen Ming's call quickly as usual.

Before Bai Quan could ask Chen Ming, he spoke first: "Let me ask you something. If you need to sacrifice a group of people to achieve your goal, will you sacrifice them?"

Bai Quan was puzzled by Chen Ming's sudden and inexplicable question, but he still answered seriously: "If it's a battlefield, of course, why ask this?"

"Just asking, what if it's not a battlefield?"

"If it's not a battlefield, then it depends on the situation. It depends on whether what I do is consistent with my values ​​when I sacrifice a group of people."

Chen Ming gave an example: "Let's say there is a Zuojing space station that kidnapped civilians. If you dare to get close to them, they will explode. Would you sacrifice these civilians to kill these Zuojing?"

"meeting."

Bai Quan answered without hesitation: "As long as the goal I want to achieve is not for myself, I will not hesitate. Did something happen to you? Or did your president encounter any problems with Cai Mo?"

"It's just that something suddenly occurred to me, so I wanted to ask."

“…Is this true…?”

Bai Quan didn't believe that Chen Ming would think of such a question for no reason when he was staying in the branch honestly.

He could easily guess that Chen Ming must have been secretly using his spiritual power to do something, and then he happened to encounter a similar situation and came over to ask.

With the advancement of bionic technology today, it is not difficult to create a robot that looks exactly like a human by spending some effort.

As far as he knew, there were indeed people in the Empire who specialized in manufacturing and producing such bionic robots to keep them company.

Especially in prosperous star regions, such robots are not too rare.

Therefore, if Chen Ming's psychic power is used to control such a bionic robot and drive the spaceship himself, it would generally be impossible to tell the difference.

If he had not secretly had someone conduct an exact body scan and obtain hair samples for DNA testing when Chen Ming came to the branch, he would even have suspected that the Chen Ming in the branch was fake.

Chen Ming felt a little embarrassed for a moment when he heard Bai Quan's doubt.

The effects of his psychic powers had already been analyzed by others. In fact, Bai Quan was the first person to analyze the effects of his psychic powers from the clues of his actions.

Therefore, the concept of using psychic energy to create a mechanical clone must have been thought of a long time ago, and even the think tank that Bai Quan had arranged for him had thought of this idea in advance.

However, Bai Quan definitely doesn’t know anything about the Zerg.

But this was enough to make Bai Quan think that Chen Ming was causing trouble outside.

Of course, for Bai Quan, it doesn’t really matter what Chen Ming is doing now.

Anyway, the probability is that he was controlling some robot or some self-driving spaceship running around the empire, and then accidentally encountered something similar to what he just mentioned.

In recent times, there have been incidents related to Zuo Jing everywhere in the empire. It is impossible to guess where Chen Ming controlled the robot to go.

Although there is a main suspect, the Caimo Star Region, the situation there is also extremely complicated.

The main focus of the Fourteenth Legion is still on the war between the Mechanical Clan and Yuhui. Internal affairs are handed over to other legions to handle, so they don't pay much attention to it and don't understand it very clearly.

But no matter what, as long as Chen Ming doesn't violate the unwritten rule, it will be fine.

In other words, do not use psychic power to control things that do not belong to Chen Ming.

Even though Chen Ming is now clearly asking questions about this, and is obviously staying in the branch, controlling robots or spaceships outside, Bai Quan still believes that Chen Ming can stick to the bottom line that will reassure people.

Of course he can feel at ease as he pleases, but there will always be people who don't think so.

So Bai Quan has been trying his best to protect Chen Ming, and occasionally gives Chen Ming hints during class.

Of course Chen Ming is not stupid. He knows very well how powerful his psychic power is and how many people will be worried about it.

Fortunately, the effect of his psychic power can only be expanded through personal contact and indirect contact using the afterglow, otherwise there would definitely be more people who would try their best to restrict him.

So he has always been cooperative, at least the prosthesis in the 14th Legion is very cooperative.

All the afterglow cores brought by the prostheses to the Fourteenth Legion were clearly placed in front of Baiquan for supervision.

The only other fleet with a Afterglow Core was the small fleet that had been roaming around the Galo star field to earn pocket money.

Because Chen Ming was clear about what he did, Bai Quan was not worried about what Chen Ming was up to. He answered honestly, "Let me put it this way. In my eyes, even I am someone who can be sacrificed when necessary."

"For example, if I sacrifice myself now, I can get rid of the Mechanic, Zuo Jing or Yu Hui, I am willing to sacrifice myself now."

Bai Quan spoke openly and honestly, and Chen Ming also believed that Bai Quan would really do so. However, he was not Bai Quan, and he would definitely have different ideas when thinking about some things.

He wanted to rely on Baiquan's ideas as a reference for the dilemma he was facing now.

"What if it's not for this kind of goal, but a more personal goal? For example, you are not the government army that encircled and suppressed Zuo Jing in the past, but an ordinary person who has a grudge against Zuo Jing."

Bai Quan was more certain of his guess that Chen Ming was controlling some kind of robot to run around the empire and cause trouble for Zuo Jing, and said, "Is this question different from the previous one? Can't you put your personal goals on such a big goal?"

"Your goal is to kill Zuo Jing, and the goal of those who are besieging Zuo Jing is also to kill Zuo Jing."

"The same purpose, you put two things together and see if different ideas and processes will lead to the same result."

“If the outcome is the same, then do it.”

"If sacrifice cannot be avoided, then try to minimize the number of sacrifices."

"In the Empire, all human lives are equal, at least to a certain extent. We cannot sacrifice more people to save one person."

Chen Ming asked again: "What if the number of casualties among civilians caused by these two options is different?"

"What is the key to this operation? Rescuing civilians? Or eliminating Zuo Jing? There must be a main goal."

"If it's about eliminating Zuo Jing, then I can only say that it's unfortunate for the civilians and express my sincere apologies and compensation to their families. If it's about protecting the civilians..."

"I only have one thing to say: when it really becomes necessary, sacrifice is just a number."

Chen Ming asked the question he wanted to ask the most: "But who will take this responsibility?"

"Taking responsibility? Is that what you're worried about?"

Baiquan asked back.

After thinking about it, I found that this seemed to be a problem for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had indeed been a manager, but he was just an ordinary manager, managing only a few dozen people at most, and had never been really involved in the lives of a large number of people.

If he really had to take responsibility for the deaths of so many people, the psychological pressure would be much greater than directly killing the same people.

Chen Ming has killed people, but they were all enemies.

Not everyone has the mental capacity to cause the deaths of a large number of ordinary people who have no hostile relationship with them because of their own actions.

This situation made Bai Quan wonder what the situation was in which part of the empire that required Chen Ming to bear this pressure.

However, just like before, the empire is now in a situation where people are being besieged everywhere. It is hard to say in which star field or galaxy this is happening.

So Baiquan simply said, "You need to think carefully about who killed them. Was it you? Or Zuo Jing?"

"Tracing back to the source, was it you who caused this situation, or was it Zuo Jing who caused this situation? Who killed them?"

"As for responsibility, let me put it bluntly. In the example just now, unless you directly transformed into Zuo Jing and rushed into the space station to massacre civilians, otherwise it would have nothing to do with you if all these people died. You don't have to bear any responsibility at all."

“It’s that simple.”

Chen Ming already roughly understood what Bai Quan meant.

The confusion in his heart gradually dissipated, and he finally broke out of the vicious circle of self-blame.

Chen Ming relaxed a little and complained to Bai Quan: "It's a bit ruthless."

"A little bit, but that's my experience of surviving on the battlefield."

"Of course, now that I've come down from the front line, my mindset has changed. When I really encounter a choice question, I might get confused for a while."

"Oh, by the way, let me ask you something. How is Xinghai's teaching going recently?"

Chen Ming suddenly coughed dryly and said, "It's OK... um... I have something else to do, let's talk later."

When it comes to embarrassing topics, Chen Ming doesn't know what to say.

Cheng Xinghai had already started teaching him two days ago. It was fine at the beginning, but Chen Ming always felt something was wrong during the later classes.

No matter how he thought about it, it gave him a headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He has work to do now.

End of communication.

Chen Ming's mentality finally returned to normal.

He asked himself a question in his heart, what was the purpose of sending An Wuping out? It was to cooperate with the president, provide support to the president, help find the psychic who made him discover that Zuo Jing was also infected by the dimension, and then solve the huge trouble in Caimo Star Region.

And the purpose of his coming to this space station midway.

It was because Zuo Jing had ideas about him, and he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to try to sneak into Zuo Jing and try to disintegrate them from within Zuo Jing.

That's enough.

Chen Ming did not actively massacre civilians, but it was Zuo Jing who pressed the weapon's firing button. There was no need for him to blame himself for this.

You must know that once something goes wrong with Cai Mo, the even more serious consequences caused by the dimensional infection will likely affect the entire empire.

It is equivalent to sacrificing a small group of people in exchange for the survival opportunities of a larger group of people.

It can be said that this is too utilitarian.

But in Chen Ming's opinion, this is also the solution that can be made in the shortest time without causing the greatest losses.

If Chen Ming really feels bad, it would be enough for him to erect a monument for them and give some compensation to their families.

I believe the empire will not be stingy with these compensations.

Chen Ming let go of the pressure in his heart.

In reality, An Wuping, who was drifting in the cosmic environment, finally moved.

Magnificent colors instantly condensed into a plasma spear in his hand.

Even faster than before in the underground laboratory, he accumulated the energy gathered in the plasma spear to a level close to the intensity of his plasma light ball that destroyed his mind-destroying entity.

After resolving the trouble in his mind, Chen Ming even became more adept at controlling the Queen Insect's psychic powers and An Wuping's body.

now.

The rage in him reached its peak.

And this time it was not a disguise, but he really vented the anger that had accumulated in his heart due to his previous thoughts.

The gorgeous color of the plasma spear has gradually turned into pure white, which is the result of extreme energy concentration. It is also gradually covered by the Zerg keratin that Chen Ming has wrapped around the spear, allowing it to be held more firmly in his hand.

Just at the moment the spear was thrown out of Chen Ming's hand.

The shell covering the plasma collapsed because it could not withstand the terrifying acceleration, revealing the glow of the plasma once again.

I saw a flash of lightning across the galaxy.

The third cruiser from the left, along with its shield, was pierced from head to tail by the lightning.

At the moment the lightning penetrated the stern of the cruiser, it disappeared.

The colorful colors representing death completely enveloped the spaceship.

In just a few seconds, it was obliterated in the light.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming's depression was swept away.

He adjusted his posture and leaned against the biomass nozzle to head toward the destroyed space station, where only wreckage remained.

The space station had been destroyed and torn into pieces, and Chen Ming fell on the largest piece of the wreckage.

After rummaging around, they found the location where the escape pods were concentrated and tried to find anyone who was still alive.

Of course, he also knew that it would be impossible for anyone to survive if the entire station was destroyed.

He was just pretending and waiting for someone.

Soon, the people Chen Ming and others were waiting for arrived.

Qianmian, wearing protective clothing, floated out from the shadows of the wreckage of the space station.

His expression under the mask of his protective suit looked a little grim.

Because he had noticed that the high-strength Heart-Gathering Spirit Bead that he had just crushed, which had cost him a lot of effort to create, did not seem to have a very good effect.

The An Wuping in front of him did not look like his mind had been breached, but rather like he was in a rage due to his berserker disorder.

Is it that the rage disorder protects the mental loopholes from being disturbed to a certain extent?

Qianmian wasn't sure but he didn't show it.

He just threw a terminal to Chen Ming, on which a program for bidirectional voice-to-text conversion was running.

Chen Ming took the thing. He was now extremely calm in his heart, but he still continued to control An Wuping's body and showed a surging murderous intent.

The mental power that was supposed to only work on himself was overflowing crazily, and even the seeds left in the left path of his brain that were placed in the backpack he carried with him were completely dispersed.

Chen Ming even felt that a trace of psychic energy fluctuations from the brainwashed psychic on his body was completely destroyed.

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he sensed the psychic fluctuations existing in his consciousness.

He indeed did not notice that his consciousness was still affected by this special psychic fluctuation that had a bewitching effect.

Although there is no obvious feeling, only a very subtle impact.

But it seemed that it was this influence that made him confused just now.

This spirit was able to find the most vulnerable parts of his soul and magnify his spiritual weaknesses.

The death of civilians caused a hole in his heart even though he was friendly to civilians.

Chen Ming thought that what he just thought was really his own idea...

No, it should be considered as such.

Under normal circumstances, although Chen Ming would not feel too guilty about the deaths of a large number of civilians, he would still feel a little uncomfortable, but he would not react that strongly.

His previous reaction was simply magnified by the loophole in his mind.

A thousand-mile long dam can be destroyed by an ant hole. Any small problem may lead to a disaster at a critical moment.

But it doesn't matter now.

After Bai Quan's guidance, Chen Ming would no longer be restricted by any universal ethics or morals, at least in matters of this magnitude that involved the entire empire. Everything he did would only serve to achieve his goal.

Instead, his mind became stronger after this attack on his mental loopholes.

Qianmian was right in front of Chen Ming at this moment. Of course, he could also feel that Chen Ming was using the surging spiritual energy fluctuations to disperse the seeds in his brain.

However, at this point, the presence or absence of the seed mark has no effect.

Qianmian stretched out his left hand with a missing little finger, pointed at the collapsed space station under his feet and said, "We accept your pledge of allegiance."

"Soon the news of what happened on the space station will be on the table of local government."

"But no one will know that we have people on the space station, and no one will know that what you are doing is actually helping them."

"We will help you build momentum, and you will be a madman who kills indiscriminately because of berserker disorder."

"It's useless for you to be angry now. It doesn't matter how psychics conflict with each other."

"But once civilians are involved, or if they are massacred, it's hard to say whether you are still a psyker in the eyes of the Empire."

"You will definitely be on the Empire's blacklist. You will no longer be able to move freely in the prosperous star field with your identity."

"For you, even if your mental state has barely recovered to normal, what will happen next? What if your rage becomes more serious? What else can you do? You don't still think you can easily find our territory within the empire, do you?"

"For a berserker psyker in the Empire, the best possible outcome is to be a harmless guinea pig in a mental hospital."

It was obvious that Qianmian's words contained a lot of exaggeration.

But what he said about Zuo Jing is indeed correct.

Zuo Jing will definitely put the blame on Chen Ming for the small number of civilian casualties on the space station, and he may even use their hidden people in certain departments to put the blame on Chen Ming.

Chen Ming has a targeted approach.

Because he has a complete video of everything that happened here.

He also saved all the data in the space station's database, and the destruction of the space station did not affect his data preservation at all.

If you really want to pass on the blame, just hand over the video.

But Chen Ming didn't intend to do that.

He has more ideas.

Chen Ming continued his performance.

Pretending to suppress his anger to the extreme, he stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Qianmian's protective suit, relying on himself as a medium for sound transmission and said: "I have another choice, which is to kill you here."

Qianmian did not make any aggressive or rebellious moves.

After all, if An Wuping wanted to take action, he could just do it directly. There was no need to pull him aside and talk.

Moreover, An Wuping's violence has obviously been stimulated to the extreme. If he continues to be pushed too hard, it will be counterproductive.

So Qianmian relaxed his tone and said, "In fact, there is another option. We can cooperate temporarily, just for the next period of time."

"I know that your understanding of us is negative and you are unwilling to contact us, but you must understand that rage is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head."

"When you are in the empire, other people will have to consider what will happen after you become ill and be wary of you."

"But we are different. We have the means to completely cure rage."

"This is a fair deal. You contribute and we help you with treatment."

"Once you are cured, you can find a way to get plastic surgery, change your appearance, and return to the empire."

"In this day and age, if psychics like us really don't want to do this anymore, we can find a place to get some plastic surgery, hide away and not cause any trouble. Who can find us?"

Chen Ming did not become more angry, but instead loosened his hand, took a step back, lowered his head slightly, and looked thoughtful.

But he suddenly raised his head again and asked, "Your psychic power gives you the ability to change your face, so why don't you go and fix your little finger?"

Chen Ming pretended that he still needed time to think, so he temporarily changed the subject and brought up this question.

Of course, this is indeed what Chen Ming is more curious about.

Because before, when he was at the place where the Black Mist Psychic was captured, he saw that the Glass Bead Psychic also had a missing little finger and it had not been repaired.

It is obvious that modern medical technology can regenerate a finger easily. If that doesn't work, a mechanical finger will do the same.

So why doesn't this guy fix it?

Qianmian raised his left hand and looked at it, then said, "This has to be traced back to the past, which is not what we are going to talk about now."

"Think about it carefully. We still have time. You have to think about how many options you have now."

Chen Ming stopped looking ahead and leaned back against the wreckage of the space station.

Qianmian picked up the terminal that Chen Ming had just thrown away and put it back into An Wuping's hand.

He looked up at the pair of scarlet eyes on top of the tall body and said, "We are not as crazy as you seem."

"At least we have always been communicating with you in a friendly manner before, and it's the same now, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)