Chen Ming did not bother the president any further. He hung up the phone and returned to the underground of the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

Now there is only a mess here.

Although Chen Ming's main target along the way was the recipient.

However, the tracking process and the aftermath of the battle with Qianmian and Zhen still caused considerable damage to the energy tower.

There's nothing left to salvage from the power tower, so just leave.

But before leaving.

A large number of tentacles controlled by the Queen Insect grew on Chen Ming's left arm and extended out in all directions.

These tentacles invaded the body of the recipient, which had turned into a mountain of flesh, and devoured him.

Chen Ming's plan was obvious. He wanted the Queen Insect to eat the recipient and see if he could get some of his memories from the recipient's body, and also see if he could get more information about Zuo Jing.

Anyway, the recipient is dead, and Zuo Jing has lost the core figure with brainwashing ability. The Empire's suppression of Zuo Jing will definitely be more effective in the future. It will definitely not be a bad idea to get more intelligence to target Zuo Jing.

Just as Chen Ming asked the Queen of Insects to do this.

The little mental energy he had left was also used to protect the Queen Insect's mental energy.

Once there is a problem, we will immediately help the Queen Insect to cut off this part of her consciousness to prevent worse consequences.

After all, this is the body of the recipient. Maybe he left some tricks behind after his death, so it’s always better to be safe than sorry.

The tentacles proliferated inside the meat mountain, growing continuously and eating continuously.

When the Queen's tentacles had eaten half of the meat mountain and reached the center of it.

The Queen's tentacles suddenly stopped.

A tentacle twitched a few times in the center of the meat mountain, then twisted back and spit out a round thing in front of Chen Ming.

It was the head of a man with some signs of chaotic fleshing around the edges.

What was dug out from the mountain of flesh should be the head of the recipient.

Chen Ming didn't react for a moment to what was wrong with his head.

After all, the Queen of Insects reads memories mainly by devouring the brain, so it is quite strange that she spits out the entire head.

But the next moment, Chen Ming's expression became serious.

Because the face on this head is different from the face of the brainwashed psychic that Chen Ming saw through Thousand Faces' last remaining consciousness.

This is not the face of a brainwashed psyker.

Chen Ming immediately picked up the head, and his other hand turned into a tentacle and wrapped around the head, checking the condition of the head.

He felt extremely strong psychic fluctuations belonging to the recipient from this head, and also found a dead spiritual nerve inside the head that carried the recipient's breath.

But he did not find any signs of plastic surgery on the head, nor did he find any evidence that this head did not belong to the Meat Mountain or the recipient.

This is the original face of the recipient.

Judging from his age, he is probably in his forties, about the same age as Qianmian.

The brainwashed psychic in Qianmian's memory was also in his forties.

But at that time, Thousand Faces should have been less than 20 years old when he became a psychic and joined Zuo Jing. The brainwashed psychic at that time looked to be 40 years old just by appearance.

Then you have to be at least 60 years old or above.

This is not the right age.

The situation of the recipient does not match the brainwashed psychic from Zuo Jing in Thousand Faces' memory. They... are not the same person.

Chen Ming suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the Resentment Spirit Stone that appeared after Qianmian’s death.

This spirit stone of resentment did not resonate after Chen Ming killed the recipient, and it still caused hallucinations in Chen Ming's eyes when he held it.

And through the illusion brought by the spirit stone, she once again confirmed the appearance of the brainwashed psychic.

That brainwashed psychic is really not the recipient.

Wait, that's not right.

Chen Ming suddenly thought of another possibility.

A possibility that is very similar to what he has always done.

Chen Ming recorded all the data of the recipient's head in his hand, and threw the head back to the Queen of Insects, letting her eat it.

Soon, the memories of the recipient were transmitted back by the Queen of Insects.

From birth to adulthood to joining Zuo Jing.

From becoming the new generation leader of Zuo Jing to eventually fighting to the death with Chen Ming on Yunluoxing.

The recipient's memory is very clear, so clear that he can find relevant details of almost all the details, and naturally there is also the memory of his first meeting with the young Qianmian.

The actual duration of these memories is more than sixty years, not forty years.

There is an obvious gap between the recipient's physical age and his/hers.

The recipient's memory is obviously flawed.

There is only one possible scenario for such a memory that is inconsistent with one's age and yet allows one to remember all the details thoroughly.

That is, this memory is false, it is implanted by someone, or it is forcibly changed.

Chen Ming suddenly punched the power tower, shattering a large section of the wall.

The real brainwashed psychic is someone else, and he is hiding in a more secret place.

All he did was to solve the obvious problems.

Chen Ming originally thought that the recipient was the source of the ever-expanding Zuo Jing cult. After all, a brainwashed psychic is consistent with the underlying logic of the cult.

However, the real brainwashing psychic is someone else.

Although the recipient can be considered a brainwashed psychic, he is incomplete, or in other words, he is a part that extends from the real brainwashed psychic.

To put it simply.

He is Zuo Jing’s real brainwashing psychic, who used his psychic powers to brainwash another psychic.

After his own memory was erased and he possessed most of the brainwashed psychic's memory, this psychic was actually transformed into a brainwashed psychic.

At least in his perception, he is Zuo Jing's brainwashed psychic.

It's enough to just have the memories of a brainwashed psychic.

The key point is that this psychic, the current recipient, after possessing the memory of the brainwashed psychic, actually became a new brainwashed psychic and possessed the psychic effects of brainwashing.

This is the most exaggerated part.

In fact, there is no essential difference between the recipient and An Wuping.

They are all psychics who use their own psychic powers to achieve long-distance control of an individual.

It’s just that Chen Ming relied on the Queen Insect’s level of biological technology, and his psychic control over An Wuping was absolutely stable.

The brainwashed psychics directly use the bodies of other psychics to carry out thorough brainwashing.

Use brainwashing to transform the psychic's consciousness into the same consciousness as your own, and control it in disguised form.

Chen Ming didn't even know if there was any possibility that this situation would happen again.

It shouldn't be the case. After all, if brainwashed psychics could be mass-produced, the empire would have been completely controlled by those mass-produced brainwashed psychics.

The situation of the recipient is probably a low-probability event. It is even possible that the recipient's own psychic effects tend to influence others mentally, so he is transformed into a brainwashed psychic.

A true brainwashed psychic should only control the high-ranking members of the Zuojing forces such as the Recipient, Thousand Faces, and Zhen.

But it is indeed possible for him to master the true power of the left path hidden deeper inside.

The threat from the left path has not yet been completely eliminated.

Who is supporting Zuo Jing?

Chen Ming was originally feeling happy about having solved the problem of getting rid of Zuo Jing's core figure, the recipient.

As a result, it wasn't long before new troubles and worries loomed in his heart.

It's still the kind of trouble that cannot be investigated or solved in a short period of time.

This is really...

Chen Ming sighed. After repeatedly confirming through the Queen Insect that there was no clue of the real Zuo Jing brainwashed psychic in the recipient's memory, he could only clean up.

Following the passage of the power tower, we returned to the surface.

Before reaching the surface, and about to step out of the half-collapsed power tower.

Chen Ming suddenly half-knelt on the ground again and started coughing violently.

He felt a sharp pain in his brain, not An Wuping's brain, but Chen Ming's own brain.

After the protective insect queen devoured the recipient and controlled An Wuping to come out from deep underground, his mental strength was once again close to exhaustion.

Even while his brain was hurting, Chen Ming could still feel An Wuping's abdomen also feeling a pressure from the inside out.

Apparently, this was because when he was fighting with the recipient just now, the dimensional-infected psychic energy fluctuations released by the recipient had already spread to the surface of the earth and formed a climate on the surface.

When he came up, these spiritual energy fluctuations naturally found him.

Fortunately, Chen Ming has nothing else but a very fast recovery speed of his mental strength.

He was quickly able to resist the effects of the dimensional infection and stepped out of the power tower.

Just as he saw the moment he walked out of the power tower.

A scene like hell appeared in his eyes.

Countless wriggling flesh and blood stick together industrial buildings, and countless flesh and blood monsters are wandering between the buildings.

When Chen Ming had just arrived, many of the industrial buildings in the industrial zone had temporarily stopped construction, but at least Chen Ming could still feel that the entire industrial zone was full of vitality.

And now, this vitality still exists, but it has become active to a pathological level.

If Chen Ming had come out a little earlier, he might have been able to hear the screams of these monsters as they walked with their intestines dragging all over the ground.

But now, all that's left of the entire industrial zone is the sticky noises of wandering flesh monsters.

Not only the industrial zone, but also the residential areas outside the industrial zone where employees settle down are experiencing the same tragic situation.

Even in some remote areas, large areas covered with blood and flesh have begun to appear.

The entire planet has fallen, and all places with living creatures look like this.

This apocalyptic scene deeply stimulated Chen Ming, causing him to feel a suppressed pain in his temple.

This was the first time he saw in reality the final fate of the leaked area after a large-scale dimensional infection leak.

It is more shocking than any photo or any record.

The president said that when a planet is infected by a dimension, the number of people who can actually survive may be 0.01%.

But after experiencing it himself, Chen Ming discovered that the president had actually concealed some information from him.

Even An Wuping's body was being torn apart by the power of dimensional infection.

How can ordinary people resist this force?

A colony in a prosperous star field, even in this day and age, has a population of at least one billion.

Even... could there really be a thousand? Even if we count the psykers who made it to the planet and then evacuated safely, could there really be that many people? No one seemed to care.

Chen Ming looked up at the sky and could vaguely see the Fifth Legion fleet outside the atmosphere.

They did not make any rescue operations, nor did they try to eliminate the dimensional infection.

They just deployed their fleet and watched.

Death, it seems, is really just a number.

Chen Ming remembered that when the president took the initiative to talk to him about this matter just now, the president had the same attitude.

The president was usually willing to protect civilians, but when he said the estimated death toll, Chen Ming didn't hear any emotion from his tone.

Even Chen Ming has always respected civilians. When he concluded from the information about the surrounding environment that the entire planet had fallen and the number of survivors might be only one in a million, he felt nothing at all.

After all, it's just a string of numbers, how can you feel anything? But if you specifically learn about the actual situation on the planet, knowing that countless vibrant lives and countless harmonious and happy families on the entire planet have disappeared, you will naturally feel heavy in your heart.

For example, the middle-aged woman Chen Ming met before entering the Earth Core Furnace Power Tower.

The bag she was holding might be the relief supplies she collected from the material warehouse after the industrial zone in Yunluo Star stopped working. She was going to make dinner for her husband and children when she returned.

But now…

Only nothingness remained.

Chen Ming sighed and shook his head.

Prepare to find an opportunity to leave the planet to avoid being attacked by those flesh and blood monsters.

His mental state is not very good. The best way to evacuate the planet now is to steal a spaceship directly.

Although Chen Ming could see through the atmosphere that the Fifth Legion's fleet had blockaded the planet, it was obvious that they needed to check on the psychics who were leaving the planet in the last bit of time.

But once he's in space, he has various ways to escape.

And there should be someone who will not let him fall into the hands of the Fifth Legion.

Just as Chen Ming was looking around, trying to find a suitable spaceship.

He suddenly heard a strange noise.

Chen Ming turned around immediately.

His eyes widened instantly, but his pupils shrank a little subconsciously.

Because I saw that bag.

The bag that was taken away by the middle-aged woman was now hanging on the body of the flesh and blood monster that had just made the noise.

This monster was the person he had just seen.

She was dead and became such a monster after death.

Chen Ming lowered his head with a gloomy expression. He really couldn't bear to see this.

A small ball of plasma suddenly flew out from Chen Ming's fingertips, completely annihilating the flesh and blood monster.

At least this way, her body wouldn't have to continue suffering in this world.

Just when the plasma dissipates.

The bag hanging on the extended flesh and blood tentacle was not annihilated together with the others, but fell to the ground instead.

The food inside was scattered all over the floor.

Among the raw meat that had already grown some flesh and blood tentacles, Chen Ming saw a small gift box.

A piece of paper stuck on the gift box happened to be blown by Feng and fell in front of Chen Ming.

There was a line of words written on the paper.

“My 12th birthday gift from my mom (definitely better than my dad’s)”

Chen Ming's movements suddenly froze.

He took a deep breath, took two steps forward, and picked up the gift box.

After opening it, a delicate and small spaceship model was lying quietly in the gift box.

This is a model of a Storm-class spaceship.

It's clear this isn't relief.

But it was something that the family had already prepared.

On the birthday of my child at home, I used the excuse of going out to collect relief supplies to wrap up a gift and take it home.

The mother could no longer bring the gifts home to her children, and the children could no longer wait for their mother to return.

Chen Ming stared at the spaceship model in his hand for a long time with an expressionless face, put it back into the gift box, and put the gift box into the backpack he was carrying.

He closed his eyes.

A few minutes later, a ring-shaped plasma swept out from his body, turning everything left in the industrial area into dust.

Let these people be buried here.

Chen Ming opened his eyes again and looked into the distance.

There is more than one place on this planet where people live.

There are more places and more of the same thing happening.

Chen Ming witnessed with his own eyes the world being eroded by the dimensional infection, and witnessed with his own eyes the consequences of the dimensional infection.

This is the horror of dimensional infection.

Chen Ming sank slightly into the space of consciousness.

The breath emitting from the scarlet dimension was still constantly giving him power from the dimension. This power was really heavy.

A few minutes passed again.

Chen Ming calmed down, controlled An Wuping to enter the insect state, and flew some distance away from the industrial area.

The spaceships near the industrial zone have basically been wiped out, and the flesh monsters have already destroyed the spaceships.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have just left the spacecraft alone and used plasma to clean the ground.

So next, he had to go to the nearest aerospace airport, where there should still be spaceships left.

However, just before Chen Ming found the right direction, a shuttle suddenly arrived near Chen Ming at high speed.

The hatch opened, and a man in military uniform shouted to Chen Ming, "Hey! An Wuping! Are you interested in joining our Fifth Legion?"

"Your mental strength seems to be almost exhausted, right? Join us and we will take you away."

"Give me a quick reply. We don't have time to wait for you, unless you want to be buried with those monsters down there."

The person who spoke was a psychic, full of arrogance.

Chen Ming took a special look at the shuttle and the logo painted on it was indeed the Fifth Legion.

Since everyone inside and outside Yunluo Star is from the Fifth Legion, then since this shuttle can come here like this, it must be from the Fifth Legion.

But Chen Ming had no interest in the Fifth Legion.

The way they do things is totally inconsistent with his values.

Even if An Wuping couldn't even stand up now, Chen Ming was too lazy to pay attention to them.

Chen Ming landed beside the road and found a ground vehicle that had been hastily abandoned without even turning off the engine.

He drove the car directly to the airport, completely ignoring the shuttle of the Fifth Legion on the other side.

The psyker of the Fifth Legion sneered at the direction the car was leaving, closed the door of the shuttle, and drove the shuttle away from the planet.

Chen Ming drove alone towards the aerospace airport for about ten minutes.

The sky suddenly brightened.

Chen Ming immediately stuck his head out of the car window.

Outside the atmosphere, the main weapon of the offensive, the thermal pulse laser, has begun to accumulate energy.

A stream of red light swirled around the muzzle, and in the blink of an eye, a thermal pulse laser that could take away a cruiser, its shield and its ship, had already swept across the surface of Yunluo Star.

It won't be long before the gunfire reaches Chen Ming's side.

The battleships have already started to clean up the ground.

Chen Ming suddenly felt angry.

The Fifth Legion had just come over to ask him if he wanted to join, but he refused. So the Fifth Legion chose to clean up the mess? Did they treat him like a fool? Chen Ming didn't question it. Those people from the Fifth Legion who had cooperated with him before had nothing to do with the main fleet.

He chose to call the president directly: "President, why has the Fifth Legion already started?"

“Has it already started?”

The president asked back in surprise, and immediately went to confirm the news. He said to Chen Ming: "It was started by the Fifth Legion themselves. They said that their people have been evacuated. In order to prevent the dimensional infection from spreading further, they started it."

"When you knew there might still be people alive on the planet?"

Chen Ming's questioning made the president feel a little embarrassed.

He knew Chen Ming's situation and knew that since Chen Ming was willing to selflessly help him deal with the dimensional infection, it meant that Chen Ming must be a good person.

The Fifth Legion's current and previous behavior is clearly stepping back and forth on Chen Ming's bottom line.

But sometimes, they have to make some trade-offs.

So the president told Chen Ming the truth: "When facing dimensional infection, even I actually prefer to solve the problem as soon as possible. The threat of dimensional infection is too great."

"And for the Fifth Legion, apart from An Wuping, no one else is worth a second look."

The president was willing to reason and explain the pros and cons of a matter, and Chen Ming was actually very willing to accept it.

He has never been a pedantic person, but he had just witnessed an abnormal tragedy in the world, and then An Wuping was targeted by the Fifth Legion.

The combination of these two things made it impossible for him to suppress the anger in his heart.

But he couldn't reveal An Wuping's identity directly, so he could only hint at it and said, "But they seem to be shooting in the direction of the energy tower. Is An Wuping there?"

The Fifth Legion's behavior does seem a bit contradictory.

The president sensed this, so he simply said to Chen Ming: "Then I'll go ask."

A minute later, the president came back and said to Chen Ming, "They don't answer the phone."

at this time.

The flagship of the Fifth Legion fleet stationed in the orbit of Yunluo Star, an offensive-level command room.

The captain of this offensive ship and commander-in-chief of the fleet is Mr. Li.

That was the person who had been delaying time with Zuo Jing's fleet and making Zuo Jing run around in circles.

He was silently watching the offensive-level troops sweeping the Yunluoxing Star.

There was no emotion in his eyes, as if he was just giving an order to do a small thing.

His deputy next to him seemed to want to say something, but Li Sheng simply put his hand in front of the deputy.

(End of this chapter)