Several hours passed quickly.

Qianmian has left the captain's room.

Chen Ming was still lying on the sofa with his eyes closed, doing nothing.

After agreeing to help the president a few days ago, he has already started to distract himself by helping the president do things. He has to deal with all the galaxies in a star field that are highly suspected of dimensional infection.

Although he has the Yuhui core to assist him in doing these things and he doesn't need to check every place, he still has to be responsible for arranging tasks for the Yuhui core and coordinating tasks with the people in the Fifth Legion, which still requires him to spend a certain amount of time and energy.

It just so happened that An Wuping hadn't encountered any problems in the past few days except that he had to follow Zuo Jing around like a rat and constantly change spaceships.

In addition, it would take him another week to go to Cai Mo openly.

Now this situation of following the left path will only be slower and less efficient.

So Chen Ming planned to reduce the attention he paid to An Wuping appropriately, spend less time thinking about it, and do more other things.

For example, put it in the Fourteenth Legion's prosthesis to study the catalytic core that was delivered in the last two days.

Chen Ming found this thing very interesting.

After use, it can produce some unique and special compounds that may not be able to be produced with the current level of technology.

Depending on the external conditions in the experiment, the compounds produced by the catalytic core have a wide variety of properties.

Chen Ming can see the potential of this thing from these numerous compounds, so he is now mainly studying the properties of these things.

However, Chen Ming's idea did not come true.

Because An Wuping didn't stay at peace for long, Qianmian, who had left, suddenly returned to the captain's room and said to Chen Ming: "Can you help me?"

Chen Ming opened his eyes: "What are you doing?"

Qianmian took out a few colorful glass beads emitting spiritual energy fluctuations from his pocket and said, "Take a look at these."

"I saw it, and then what?"

"You should have figured it out, right? My psychic powers can replicate other people's abilities."

"These glass beads are the embodiment of the replica of spiritual energy. All you need to do is inject a small amount of spiritual energy and then crush them. You can then treat other people's spiritual energy as your own and control it with your mental power."

"The black mist before was the ability I copied from other people."

Chen Ming's expression remained calm as he asked, "So what?"

"So I want to trade other people's psychic energy for some of your psychic energy."

To be honest, Chen Ming was a little tempted. After all, the spiritual energy fluctuation effects of these glass beads looked very interesting, but he still refused and said, "I'm not interested."

"These glass beads are all derivatives of your spiritual energy. You have absolute control over these things. It shouldn't be difficult to recycle them."

"I don't want to change to something that has no guarantee, not to mention that the effect may not be good."

Qianmian shrugged and said, "Even if I say that I can't affect anything I give out as long as it's not within the range of my spiritual energy fluctuations, you probably won't believe it."

He thought Chen Ming's answer was normal. No psychic would want his psychic power to be stolen by others. After all, psychic power is the foundation of a psychic's existence. If someone studies it thoroughly and targets it, it will be easy for something to go wrong.

It always takes time for people to accept his psychic power of replica effect.

At least he just saw a hint of excitement on An Wuping's face. After a while, An Wuping will understand the value of his psychic power.

Besides, it is not necessary to exchange spiritual energy with An Wuping.

As long as you are by An Wuping's side when he uses his spiritual energy, the spiritual energy fluctuations that escape can also be transformed into the Heart Gathering Spirit Pearl, so there is no need to rush.

However, he came back to the captain's room not only to obtain An Wuping's psychic energy, he also wanted to find out what exactly happened in the space station and laboratory that An Wuping had visited.

They had sent out five psychics before, and the only one who came back alive was quite vague when he spoke, and after he found out that the higher-ups had suspicions about him, he disappeared and has not been found yet.

"How about this?"

Qianmian placed a handful of glass beads on the coffee table in front of Chen Ming and said, "I will use these things to buy intelligence from you."

"I want to know what you did there, what happened there."

"I'm not trying to hold you accountable. I'm just curious."

"Look, you sank three cruisers and blew up a space station because of you, but we haven't investigated yet, right?"

Chen Ming glanced ahead and said, "You guys blew up the space station, and aren't you well-informed? The government can intervene, but you don't know what happened on the space station? Don't you know what happened in the laboratory?"

"There are always people who deceive their superiors and hide the truth from their subordinates, so we need some indirect evidence."

Qianmian picked up a glass bead, flicked it on the coffee table a few times and said, "One piece of information in exchange for a Heart Gathering Spirit Bead."

Seeing that An Wuping didn't seem to be interested, he immediately added: "And a simple question you asked."

At this point, Chen Ming finally perked up a little and asked, "How can you guarantee that what you said is true?"

"I can't guarantee it. Even if I did, you wouldn't believe it. That's why I said it was a simple question."

"You are our partner now, and I hope you can continue to stay in the future."

"As long as it's something that doesn't involve our fundamental interests, there's no need for me to lie, right?"

Chen Ming sat up straight and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

"Let's start with something simple and build some initial trust between us. Did you destroy our underground laboratory?"

"It's me."

Chen Ming decisively admitted this.

Qianmian simply pointed at the glass beads on the table and said, "Which one do you want?"

There are about twenty glass beads on the table, with a total of more than a dozen different types of spiritual energy fluctuations.

"What abilities do these have?"

"Wouldn't you know if you just feel it?"

The spiritual energy fluctuations of the dozen or so Heart-Gathering Spirit Beads on the coffee table were very weak, so there was no conflict between them, but it did cause some interference to Chen Ming's choice.

Other than a rough sense of type, there's no way to figure out the exact effect and intensity.

However, the intensity of the spiritual energy fluctuations of one of the red and blue glass beads is obviously much higher than that of the other glass beads.

This is the entropy-controlling mind-gathering spirit bead left behind by Hu.

I just don't know whether Hu Yi stayed there voluntarily or was taken away by Qianmian passively.

Chen Ming himself has one Black Mist and one Hu Yi's Entropy Control, so he is definitely more interested in the others than the ones he already has.

However, after rational analysis, he still chose the black fog.

After all, if this thing is used effectively, it is indeed a top-notch spiritual power that combines attack, survival, and displacement.

Qianmian showed an astonished look on his face and motioned for An Wuping to ask questions.

Chen Ming thought about it for a moment, then asked Qianmian loudly, "What on earth are you doing in Caimo Star Region?"

“This is not a simple question.”

This is certainly not a simple question.

Because Chen Ming was sure that what was happening in the Caimo Star Region was definitely not just dimensional infection, but Zuo Jing was trying to take advantage of dimensional infection and had achieved certain results.

This was the basis for his discovery that Zuo Jing had conducted dimensional infection experiments, without a doubt.

Is it some kind of object related to dimensional infection? Or is it a person related to dimensional infection? Or is it pure research data? It is not clear at the moment.

So the key thing Chen Ming wants to figure out now is what exactly Zuo Jing has caused by the dimensional infection.

Why didn't Zuo Jing leave with their achievements? Instead, he stayed in Caimo Star Region, even though Caimo was completely surrounded by the Fifth Legion, and he didn't leave as if he was going to strangle them.

A large number of psychics belonging to the Zuo Jing must also be sent into Cai Mo.

Zuo Jing has always been a cult that cannot be put on the table. Although they have never been completely eliminated, they still disgust the empire in various places.

But they don't have the possibility to fight the empire in one star field for their entire life, let alone a star field in the heart of the empire.

Therefore, Chen Ming believed that there was most likely some task in the Caimo Star Domain that required Zuo Jing to persist for a period of time to complete, and it was a task related to dimensional infection.

They have to hold on for a while before they can leave with this thing, otherwise it cannot explain why they changed their previous style of hiding and chose to clash between Cai Mo and the Empire.

Although there has been no actual fighting so far, given the current situation, it is only a matter of time before a large-scale conflict between psychics occurs.

Therefore, what Zuo Jing is protecting now is the key to Zuo Jing's plan and the key that Chen Ming needs to destroy.

Of course Chen Ming knew that this was not a simple problem.

But he had to pretend to be stupid and ask, maybe he would tell her? Unfortunately, Qianmian was not fooled.

Then Chen Ming didn't continue to dwell on this issue.

Anyway, he already had a general idea, and he would definitely keep these guesses to himself.

There is no benefit in telling others about it except unnecessary vigilance.

Just keep asking other questions.

So Chen Ming just stared at Qianmian for a few seconds and asked another question: "How are the resources used by the psychics in your Zuojing distributed? How do you obtain them?"

"Oh? Temporary cooperation is also interested in those of us who have to join for a long time to obtain it? What? Do you have an idea?"

"Just asking."

Qianmian smiled and said, "We will regularly arrange missions to the bases in different star regions. Once the missions are completed, we will reward the bases and the psychics who carried out the missions. That's it."

"What people who complete missions can get is fixed. The extra things that are distributed to the base should be considered as funds. How much the people in the base can get depends on their ability."

Chen Ming had already imagined a scene where the psychics in the Zuojing base would fight each other for some supplies that had no reasonable distribution plan at all: "Are you really not afraid of losing the entire base?"

"If they are gone, it means they are useless. Just find another one. What the world lacks the most is people who cannot control their desires once they have a little ability. Such people are our potential members."

"By the way, what I just said is for our ordinary psychics."

"If it's you, as long as we can confirm that you really want to join us for a long time, then your ability is enough for us to train you specifically."

"You are worthy of our nurturing, just as we entrust you with important medicines."

"Okay, next one."

"OK."

Qianmian had always been very patient with An Wuping. After ignoring An Wuping's attitude, he asked, "What happened in the underground laboratory?"

"Although you blocked the space station's means of external communication, we still got some information after everyone on the space station died and some equipment was not maintained."

"It's a pity that the people over there seemed to be very scared. The tone and word order of their words were difficult to understand. They just said that a horrible monster appeared in the laboratory."

Chen Ming could have just said, "One of your psychics has multiple different psychic properties appearing in his body, and they have merged together to form a monster."

"And then I killed him, it's that simple."

Psychic Rampage Entity...

Qianmian said this subconsciously in his heart.

Following what Chen Ming said, I thought about the possibility of this thing appearing.

All I can say is that it is indeed possible.

They had previously analyzed that the psykers they had arranged to pick up and deal with the dimensional infection and the laboratory psychic beasts were in conflict with the psykers in the space station and the underground laboratory.

If they choose to harm others because of conflicts, it can indeed induce the psychics under the laboratory to become mind-wandering entities.

And judging from An Wuping's current performance, he does indeed have the ability to at least deal with a mid-term mentally rampaging entity.

No problem.

After giving Qianmian some time to think, Chen Ming spoke again: "Okay, it's my turn to ask."

He would have to think carefully about how to ask the second question.

His purpose is not to really join Zuo Jing, but to solve the troubles brought by Zuo Jing. This question should be asked in line with his purpose.

The first question can be asked something irrelevant, just to establish An Wuping’s character.

But the following question must be related to his purpose.

How should I ask so as to connect the topic with Caimo Star Region without alerting Qianmian?

Chen Ming was thinking about the connection between Zuo Jing, Cai Mo, the Odan star field space station and the underground laboratory.

He suddenly thought of something that seemed unrelated to the Caimo Star Region at first glance, but was actually definitely related: "What is the Mind Beast Project?"

Qianmian knew that Chen Ming must have come into contact with the Mind Beast that leaked from the underground laboratory, so he didn't think too much and said directly: "Since you have been to the underground laboratory, you should probably be able to see the mutual repulsion between dimensional infection and Mind Beast, right?"

"We need the Mind Beast to ensure safety while we conduct dimensional infection experiments."

"The Beast in the Heart Project is aimed at humans. It turns people into beasts, and uses a controllable beast-like madness to resist the madness from another unknown dimension."

When Chen Ming heard this, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind.

This is exactly what he wanted to hear. Qianmian finally gave him some valuable information.

Chen Ming didn't rush to think about the overall logic, but argued: "But I only see the threat of this thing, and I don't think that this kind of thing that can be swallowed by the monster can prevent dimensional infection."

"You have to believe the results of our long experiments. Our use of this thing is much more perfect than you think."

As Qianmian finished his words, thoughts began to surge in Chen Ming's mind.

He actually discovered these days that Qianmian is a person who doesn't like to tell lies.

It's just that he likes to tell half the truth, and sometimes the misleading effect of half the truth is more serious than a pure lie.

However, if Chen Ming himself knew the remaining half of the sentence, then that wouldn't be a problem.

Chen Ming could connect what Qianmian said with the information he knew about Zuo Jing and infer what Zuo Jing was doing.

The Beast Within program can be used to protect people.

However, the means to protect people from dimensional infection already existed before, which was to use materials that block psychic energy for isolation. It was a cheap, efficient, but dangerous means of protection.

At first glance, it sounds like there's nothing wrong with the Inner Beast Project being able to protect people.

But Chen Ming knew the damage that the Mind Beast Project would cause. Even just a few days ago, Zuo Jingdu had caused a large number of civilian casualties because of the Mind Beast Project.

Therefore, the results of this thing are absolutely impossible to mass-produce. It can only work on a few people and protect a few people from the impact of dimensional infection.

It was definitely not developed to protect the vast majority of people, but to protect some key figures.

This is the problem with Qianmian’s words.

He was telling the truth, but what he was hiding was the key.

If you really believed what he said, you might have missed the key point of the Mind Beast Project that Zuo Jing was doing.

So with this understanding, let's start from the earliest time...

The first one was Lou Wei.

Such a person who was brainwashed by Zuo Jing's psychic exploded and died in front of Chen Ming.

Although he didn't know why Zuo Jing wanted to kill Lou Wei in front of him, it was this scene of death that made him realize that Zuo Jing was undergoing dimensional infection.

Therefore, the dimensional infection is definitely related to the brainwashed psychics of Zuo Path, and the brainwashed psychics are definitely the key figures of Zuo Path.

Then this brainwashed psychic is most likely a victim of dimensional infection and a beneficiary of the Mind Beast Project.

This way the logic becomes smooth.

A brainwashed psyker from Zuojing who uses mind beasts to protect himself and dimensional infection to achieve his power.

And initial results have been achieved.

Chen Ming had never seen any psychic whose psychic power could be used over a vast distance, and in such a large area and without being noticed.

You have to know that for a normal psychic, the place where psychic fluctuations occur is where psychic power can be realized.

Except himself.

The source of the dimensional infection, that special dimension, does not completely correspond to the normal universe environment, but is inextricably linked to it.

It just happens to meet the conditions for transferring psychic energy to every corner of the normal universe.

Dimensional infection just takes time to expand after it occurs.

Then, as a brainwashed psychic who wants to use dimensional infection to gain power, he naturally needs to stay here.

The coordinates of the dimensional infection are locked at this place, and he can't leave at will.

Chen Ming still remembers the last recorded dimensional infection incident that the president experienced. The sequelae of the dimensional infection broke out half a year later.

This means that Zuo Jing may have started experiments on dimensional infection half a year ago, which coincides with what Qianmian said that they had undergone long experiments.

At the same time, it can also explain why so many people in the empire have been brainwashed by Zuo Jing and are secretly helping Zuo Jing.

Although Chen Ming still did not rule out the possibility that Qianmian's words were false.

But false words usually cannot explain things logically.

So Chen Ming can think that this is the truth.

It's no wonder that the president hasn't had any results in recent times. He has clearly arranged a large number of people to conduct a carpet sweep of the star field. Even if the number of people is not enough to sweep every corner, it should be possible that no substantial clues are found.

If that source was a single person, everything would make sense.

People can move and travel to various places.

While the dimensional infection is still breaking out and still affecting this person, the other dimension can always locate him.

That’s why there are several places with 100% distortion rate in the president’s investigation report.

Here's why.

Find that person, kill him, and Cai Mo's affairs will be completely over.

This is what Chen Ming will do next.

Chen Ming has completely understood the situation.

Next, he just needs to follow Qianmian into Caimo, and maybe he will have a chance to directly contact the brainwashed psychic.

No, you can only reach that person through Qianmian.

The president and the Fifth Legion haven't found the person for such a long time. It is very likely not because the person is hiding too well, but because he has the ability to hide and disguise himself.

The best way to reach that person is through Thousand Faces.

When the time comes, he will be able to use his psychic power to explode the brainwashed psychic. The destruction caused by excessive plasma will be fair to everyone.

It's not a loss to exchange An Wuping for an important figure in Zuo Jing.

After Chen Ming thought through Zuo Jing's matter thoroughly.

He suddenly thought of himself.

His psychic power had long ago determined that it was possible to transport objects across hundreds or thousands of light years, consuming only a negligible amount of mental energy relative to the distance.

Chen Ming had never figured out what it relied on. It was obviously not phase space, or something similar to the operating principle of a star gate.

Because both of them require a lot of energy to activate.

Now, after discovering the source of power for Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychic that allowed him to cover almost the entire empire, Chen Ming finally had a more reasonable suspect.

That dimension is the source of the infection.

The psychic powers of a brainwashed psychic will not carry anything related to dimensional infection when used, so it is normal that Chen Ming's psychic powers will not carry anything related to dimensional infection when transporting things through that dimension.

Of course, this is just speculation. Is this true? How does his psychic power work? Why can his control over An Wuping penetrate a closed environment made of silent alloy?

These obviously require explanation and time to verify.

But now Chen Ming still doesn’t plan to think too much about his spiritual power. He still has to deal with Zuo Jing first.

(End of this chapter)