He just needs to prepare a little and then he can go out and finish his own work.

After he finished his own work, he could follow He Gu directly to the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps . However, Chen Ming actually had nothing to prepare.

Anyway, he can get most of the things he needs by hand when he goes out, the main thing is to arrange the laboratory work before leaving.

This is also simple.

There are still many things that can be tested on the special catalyst produced by the catalytic core that he got before. Even if he goes out for ten days or half a month, it is absolutely impossible to finish the tests. He just needs to do this for the researchers in the laboratory.

After quickly arranging the work.

Early the next morning.

Chen Ming left the 14th Legion branch without taking anything with him, driving a frigate he had just casually built.

No one stopped him, and no one even asked him where he was going. The situation was completely different from when he first arrived. The 14th Legion just left him alone.

But this is not a bad thing. No restrictions are always better than having restrictions.

After the spacecraft entered the hyperspace, Chen Ming directly started the hyperspace channel jump engine and set the target location, the pirate space station.

He prefers to meet with everyone he knows before going on a long journey.

To avoid the situation where he or someone he knows dies suddenly and he will never see him again.

The spacecraft arrived at its destination quickly.

Landed steadily on the dock.

As soon as Chen Ming entered the repair shop, he saw a bald man teaching something to a few newcomers.

As soon as the bald man noticed Chen Ming, he immediately came over with a few newcomers to say hello.

The maintenance shop still maintains a staff of around ten people.

There is still no robot, and basically all the work is done by various fixed equipment, which is enough.

After learning from the bald man that the only surviving newcomer that Chen Ming had personally trained before was out on a mission today, Chen Ming did not stay in the maintenance plant any longer and headed all the way to the city in the center of the space station.

Arrived at the bar that Lao Wu often went to.

The security guard at the door opened the door for him respectfully as always.

Old Wu still sat in the corner of the bar as before.

Although it is early in the morning, the reason why Old Wu is here is definitely not because he suddenly got up early in the morning and was very diligent, but because he did not sleep all night.

You can tell from Old Wu’s red eyes.

However, Old Wu's mental state seemed to be okay, and he happened to be talking about something important on the phone, so there shouldn't be any problem.

Chen Ming did not disturb him directly, but asked the bartender for a glass of orange juice and a cup of refreshing tea and walked to Old Wu.

Before he even got close, Chen Ming heard Old Wu angrily saying into the phone, "The price has gone up? How much?"

"10%? Are you robbing me?"

A helpless voice came from the terminal: "It has increased by 10% now, and it may increase even more in the future. I really can't supply you with goods at the previous price."

"Don't talk nonsense."

"That's ridiculous. The price of raw materials had already started to rise last month. I should have raised the price last month."

"But I originally thought it was just a price fluctuation, and you are an old customer, so I continued to give you the original price for one month. However, the price of raw materials has not dropped this month but has increased. I really can't continue to pay that price, and there is nothing I can do."

"If you don't believe me, go check it out yourself. It's not like I don't know those things."

"Tsk, wait for me to go ask first, and then I'll tell you."

Old Wu hung up the phone.

Chen Ming happened to sit next to him.

After handing the tea to Old Wu, he said, "What's going on? I heard you say that the price of something has gone up."

Old Wu took a sip of tea and said with a depressed look, "Yes, the prices of various weapons in the market have been rising recently, and the prices of the materials behind them have also been rising, except for Old Bai's."

"Old White..."

"I can't just tell you it's the Fourteenth Legion's way when I talk to you about this kind of thing."

"Too."

"So that means the supplier has raised the price, so you want to ask me?"

"Yeah, I was going to call you, but I didn't expect you to come right here, so what do you say? There's really nothing we can do about the price increase."

Chen Ming didn't have much to say, as the price increase was within his expectations.

"It can be increased, up to 20%. If it's higher, forget it. I can find other people to use their connections to change the supply channel."

"It's the same with other manufacturers if they want to raise prices. We can let them raise prices a little bit, there's no problem with that."

"OK."

Old Wu raised his glass and drank with Chen Ming.

After finishing his drink, Chen Ming whispered, "A war is about to begin."

Old Wu kept his expression unchanged and filled Chen Ming and himself with another glass of wine. He looked around and asked, "What's going on?"

"We are going to have a war with the mechanical race. Although our Galo mainly borders Yuhui, there is also a part of the area bordering the mechanical race. Sooner or later, this side will become the front line."

Old Wu lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "I was wondering why prices have been rising so fast recently. So why did you come here this time..."

"I want to talk to you because I need to go out for a while and may not be able to take care of this side. If the war starts, no one can predict what the scale will be."

"So I want you and the factory manager to go back to the inner star field and avoid the limelight for a while."

Old Wu suddenly leaned back on the sofa and shook his head: "No, this is the most convenient place for me to do things. Old Wu's intelligence network and his colony are all built nearby. I can't go anywhere else."

"Lao Lu may be able to go out and hide, but I definitely can't."

Seeing this, Chen Ming did not force it, but just asked: "Then do you have the terminal I gave you before?"

Old Wu reached into his pocket and took out the terminal given by Chen Ming, then waved it in front of Chen Ming.

"Okay, then take this with you."

Chen Ming stretched out his hand in front of Old Wu, and some metallic liquid appeared out of thin air, gradually forming an ordinary-looking men's necklace and a wristband.

Old Wu took the two things and asked, "What is this?"

"The necklace can detect your heartbeat and carotid artery pulse."

"The wristband can detect pulse and has its own alarm device."

In addition to what Chen Ming said, this wristband actually has a device that Chen Ming learned from the president to detect surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations.

Once any aggressive psychic fluctuations are detected, the wristband will automatically pop out a protective film made of psychic metal to protect the wearer.

"I hope you don't need to use it. I'll send another set to the factory director later."

"By the way, you have to carry the terminal with you."

These things will be the cornerstone for Chen Ming to provide support when Old Wu encounters danger in the future.

Old Wu put on the glasses that Chen Ming gave him to protect him and asked, "Anything else?"

"Nothing else, just these three things."

"OK."

Old Wu tidied himself up and hid his necklace and wristband.

Chen Ming nodded with satisfaction and asked, "By the way, has the boss come back?"

"No, the hardware store is still closed, and I don't know when I'll be back."

"That's it, then."

Chen Ming's time here was a bit tight, after all, He Gu was still waiting for him.

So Chen Ming didn't chat much with Lao Wu and got up and left the bar.

I went to the factory manager again, chatted with him for a while, and gave him the same thing.

Chen Ming returned to the port.

Standing in front of his spaceship, he took out the terminal and called his boss.

The call was connected quickly.

The boss's voice came from inside: "Xiao Ming? Why did you call me when you have time?"

"I just happen to have nothing to do recently, and I have to go to the Fourteenth Legion Headquarters next, which may take some time. I wanted to find you at the space station, but you were not there, so I called you."

"Oh, then I'm still here at Hong Mo. I have some things to do here."

Chen Ming asked, "Is it still about Cai Mo?"

"The Caimo matter is over, and I've finished what I needed to do. The president wanted to talk to me about something, so I should be back in two days."

"You're doing well over there. The fact that you can go to the headquarters shows that the Fourteenth Legion has begun to treat you as one of their own."

"Well, it was He Gu from the Psychic Research Institute who invited me over."

"Psychic Research Institute?" The boss was a little surprised when he heard the name: "Have you almost developed your psychic powers?"

"That's not the case. He Gu just invited me to come over. The main thing is about the upcoming war. My psychic power can still be developed. It's not over yet."

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”

The boss sighed: "Your psychic power is outrageous. It can affect both machines and living things. I don't know how you do it."

Chen Ming said very modestly: "In fact, I feel that my psychic power is still in its earliest form, still based on controlling spaceships, but I think biological spaceships are also spaceships..."

"Stop, stop talking. I won't believe you even if you tell me. I want to see what new changes your psychic powers will have in the future."

“…”

"Actually, I'm also thinking about how to continue developing my psychic powers, but I don't have a good direction."

Chen Ming's words implicitly hinted at the boss to give him some guidance.

But the boss didn't do what Chen Ming wanted: "I can't give you any advice on this."

"Your psychic power development has already surpassed what I initially imagined. At the beginning, I can teach you the basics, but I can no longer give you experience in the future."

"You have to know that a psychic power is best understood by the psychic who has it, and only the psychic himself can best develop his psychic power."

"So the rest depends on your own development."

“Unless you go the official route.”

"That's still too early."

Chen Mingneng had just learned something new from the Scarlet Dimension and was waiting to use it to develop his psychic powers. How could he voluntarily give up the limit of his psychic power development now?

"I think I can continue to develop it, and then learn it systematically when I'm almost there. It seems like I have to figure it out on my own."

"Well, I wish you good luck. I look forward to seeing the day when you fully develop your psychic powers."

After chatting for a few minutes, the call was hung up.

The boss suddenly said to Chen Ming: "By the way, you said you were going to the headquarters because of the mechanical war, right?"

"right."

The boss was silent for a moment, then said, "Well... never mind, that's all. I'm hanging up now."

"ah?"

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment when he heard his boss's words, but the only sound on the terminal was the busy tone of the call being hung up.

Chen Ming was full of questions at this time.

Before, when they were talking about going to the headquarters at the end, He Gu also gave an inexplicable smile.

What does this mean? I don't understand.

never mind.

Chen Ming didn't think too much about it. He found He Gu in the address book and contacted him: "I'm fine now."

"Let's go, the spaceship will be here soon."

A few minutes later.

Chen Ming's spaceship docked with the destroyer brought by He Gu in the galaxy of the pirate space station.

Chen Ming met He Gu again.

After a brief conversation, He Gu personally arranged a room for Chen Ming.

It will probably take a long time to reach the destination.

Chen Ming was just about to go back to his room and lie down for a while.

But before he did that, he discovered a problem.

The destroyer he was on was heading in the wrong direction after entering hyperspace. It was not the direction to the headquarters of the 14th Legion.

So Chen Ming simply asked He Gu in front of him: "Where are we going?"

"Beinu Star Region."

"Bei Nuo?"

"Yes, let's go there and use the star gate to return to headquarters."

Chen Ming was somewhat surprised and delighted.

Being able to access the Star Gate was definitely good news for him, as it was his first time trying to ride on a Star Gate.

If he had the opportunity to get close to a star gate, he might be able to obtain the entire three-dimensional image of the star gate or even further control a star gate.

Of course, this is just a thought.

Although the 14th Legion is not so wary of him now, the situation is different in other places.

There was no way he would have the chance to encounter a facility as important as the Star Gate to the empire.

Of course, it would take time to get to Beiniu, so Chen Ming went into the room He Gu arranged for him to lie down, and then turned his attention to An Wuping.

At this time, the ship carrying An Wuping had stopped at a space station connected to the colony on the planet by a space elevator.

It was already morning, and although no one had come to ask An Wuping about it or urged him, it should be soon.

So Chen Ming made some final preparations.

He used the psychic energy that he had now deconstructed to transmit a spiritual nerve he had in his hand to An Wuping and implanted it into his brain.

Chen Ming also asked the Queen of Insects to help assimilate this spiritual awakening nerve.

So as to avoid people seeing that Qi Ling Shenjing and An Wuping are not compatible.

Then the Queen of Insects ate the Qi Ling nerve.

It was just like it had eaten up the condensed spiritual energy that Chen Ming had originally intended to use to build An Wuping's heart.

Of course, the Queen of Insects also created a new spiritual awakening nerve, just like before.

Eating is also a way of learning for the Queen Insect, so Chen Ming didn't say anything.

Although this is a bit of a drain on the Queen of Insects.

Creating a spiritual awakening nerve consumes a considerable amount of mental energy and a huge amount of biomass.

But at least the result was good. After absorbing the complete Spiritual Awakening Nerve, the new Spiritual Awakening Nerve created by the Queen of Insects looked no different from ordinary Spiritual Awakening Nerves.

Of course, Chen Ming was referring to the kind of spiritual awakening nerves sold to the outside world by various forces with psychic research institutes.

That is the kind that Baiquan personally certified as having a 0% chance of awakening psychic powers after implanting the spiritual awakening nerves.

It is not easy to produce the actual spiritual awakening nerves that can be used for implantation.

Although Chen Ming always had the feeling that if he gave the Queen Insect more time, or fed her a few more spiritual awakening nerves, it might really work.

But time is what An Wuping lacks right now, and Chen Ming also doesn't have many spiritual awakening nerves, so it's better not to do anything risky.

Moreover, the ordinary spiritual awakening nerves that the Queen of Insects can now produce are sufficient for camouflage.

After the Queen of Insects implanted the spiritual awakening nerve emitting its psychic energy fluctuations into An Wuping's brain again.

This spiritual nerve, which originated from An Wuping's psychic energy, was quickly transformed by the fused psychic energy fluctuations of An Wuping's body and completely merged with his brain.

Although this Qi-energizing nerve was still just a fake, it looked like there was absolutely no problem with it. He even took this opportunity to make a fake Qi-energizing nerve out of Chen Ming's other prosthesis.

This spiritual nerve implanted in another prosthesis was infected with Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations by the Queen Insect, and it perfectly matched the prosthesis without any deviation.

all is well.

Half an hour later.

As Chen Ming expected, someone knocked on An Wuping's door.

He controlled An Wuping to open the door, and he saw Liang Fei and Niu Xin standing at the door.

“Are we going to start?”

"right."

An Wuping nodded, followed Niu Xin off the boat, signed the port registration form, and boarded a shuttle boat.

The shuttle did not take An Wuping to the nearest city.

Instead, it landed in the suburbs some distance from the city.

There is a huge manor here, which is the base of the association.

Each psychic is a guy who can make a lot of noise.

Places like the suburbs with open space and few people are really nice.

After getting off the shuttle, An Wuping continued to follow Niu Xin into the hospital of the base.

Although the society has always adhered to the style of allowing psychics to improve naturally, it certainly has all the necessary detection devices.

But Chen Ming still had to pretend.

Before lying down in the instrument prepared by the association, An Wuping asked Niu Xin beside him: "I heard that the Psychic Association has always had a laissez-faire attitude towards psychics, allowing psychics to develop on their own and will not conduct such physical examinations to avoid affecting the development of psychics."

"Yes. If you are worried that knowing the nature of your psychic powers will affect you, we can choose not to provide you with this report."

"You can continue to develop freely. Even if we have some of your data, we will never interfere."

"That's it, then."

An Wuping didn't ask any more questions and just lay down in the equipment.

The inspection process is lengthy.

It was not until five or six hours later that An Wuping was finally able to see the light of day again.

And Niu Xin also brought good news.

All the tests on An Wuping passed, confirming that everything An Wuping said was fine.

At the same time, the inspection of the Heart-Gathering Spirit Pearl left by An Wuping has been almost completed, and it can be confirmed that psychics can obtain the psychic effects of others through the Heart-Gathering Spirit Pearl.

After all, a face can't prove anything in this era, so Chen Ming can completely get rid of the suspicion of being involved with Zuo Jing again.

At this point, Niu Xin also formally invited An Wuping on behalf of the president.

Liang Fei happened to be nearby, and he explained the nature of the association and the possibility of joining two forces at the same time to An Wuping, who probably didn't know the true situation of the association.

Of course An Wuping agreed.

Later, Liang Fei also extended a formal invitation to An Wuping.

The result is of course the same.

It was also at this time that Chen Ming learned that Liang Fei's real name was Liang Fei.

Li Weiqi, who is still lying in the hospital, is actually named Li Wei.

To be honest, Chen Ming felt a little nervous when he heard these two names.

Why do these two psychics in the Odan star field also use the same pseudonyms as him?

Although it was a little awkward, it also made Chen Ming feel closer to them.

And after the detection is completed.

Chen Ming did not stay here for too long, because Liang Fei hurriedly took him away from the hospital of the society's base, and he wanted to return to the Odan star field.

Chen Ming asked in confusion, "Are you in such a hurry to go back? The medical conditions here should be better than those in Odan, right?"

"It's better, but not too bad. Mainly, there's something going on in Odan that requires us to go back."

"What is it?"

"Prepare for the Mechanoid War"

"war?"

An Wuping's identity obviously does not allow him to be involved in the war between the mechanical race, so Liang Fei explained the basic background to Chen Ming.

Then he said, "Although our Aodan Selenium Drum is not adjacent to the star field of the Mechanical Clan, and is separated from the Mechanical Clan star field by one or two edge star fields, the distance is still too close and we will definitely not be able to escape. The war is very close to us."

"Then I heard from my superiors that psychics can participate in this war... You may not know this, but psychics were restricted in previous wars."

"This operation allows psychics to join. Maybe there is some special meaning behind it."

"So I have to go back."

Chen Ming has heard from many people that the Empire will take some special actions against psychics in the Mechanical War.

It doesn't matter if I listen to one more.

And that's good.

He was still wondering how An Wuping would get involved in the war between the mechanical race.

It seems that as long as An Wuping follows Odan's arrangements, it won't be long before he can reach the Mechanical Clan star field.

An Wuping shouldn't have to think too much in the short term.

Chen Ming can pay more attention to the prosthesis of the 14th Legion.

Just after An Wuping followed Liang Fei out of the base.

Niu Xin, who was still at the base, looked at the shadow of the shuttle in the sky and said to the terminal in his hand that was contacting the president, "The person has left and went to Odan. I will synchronize the test results to you immediately."

"Is there anything worth mentioning?"

"have."

Niu Xin looked at the terminal and said, "We still haven't been able to find anything valuable in the shadow at the location of his heart. His heart is hiding his secrets."

The president said, "Everyone has secrets, what about others?"

"His genes are also quite special. Even in his human form, he is not a pure human. And after he enters the mutant state, his genes will also undergo new changes. It can be said that he is almost two different creatures before and after the mutation, but neither is human."

"It's not genes that determine whether a person is a human, but his consciousness. Is there anything else?"

"No, there is no problem."

"Then this is a good result. We can trust An Wuping."

(End of this chapter)